As of May 29, 2023, some of these films have articles, and some do not. For the existing articles, there may be improvements available from other language Wikipedia articles. There is additional opportunity for collateral improvements: major performers in and crew for the films may not have Wikipedia articles or even Wikidata items, and there may be linked articles that can use attention or creation. The latter is particularly true for the documentary on George Platt Lynes.
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This film won the 2023 SIFF Official Competition Grand Jury Prize.[1]
Synopsis
An eight-year old child, assigned male at birth, strives to identify as a girl while on a trip to a family gathering. A sympathetic great-aunt becomes an ally.
This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding Basque article: eu:20.000 especies de abejas. In particular, it lacks the plot.
This film won the Golden Space Needle Audience awards for Best Director (Maryam Touzani) and Best Performance (Lubna Azabal).[1] This film made the shortlist for the 95th Oscars International Film.[2]
Synopsis
A woman and her closeted gay husband run a caftan store in the medina of Salé, Morocco. They hire a young man as an apprentice who is attracted to the husband.
The official website touts this "as the first feature to successfully crowdfund on TikTok".
Synopsis
Twinkie, a heretofore closeted lesbian who is an adopted Asian American, is a junior in a predominantly white high school. She rebuffs her best friend, Egghead, a nerdy, straight senior boy who is about to graduate, when he tries to kiss her. Twinkie comes out to him, and Egghead reluctantly accepts this. When Twinkie comes out to her parents, however, they become upset and reject her. Twinkie decides to run away for a few days to see the lesbian DJ that she has been corresponding with over social media, and recruits Egghead to drive her father's car. While on the road trip, she meets Jess, a bisexual woman who is also Asian American, and they develop an acquaintance. The DJ rebuffs her over the phone when Twinkie and Egghead reach the performance venue. Egghead has grown into being an ally, and brings her back to her new acquaintance on the way back home so that Twinkie can realize that there is a spark with her new friend.
A documentary about George Platt Lynes, a gay man at the nexus of the 1930s and 1940s gay scene in NYC and a photographer who created a significant body of work concentrating on male nudes.
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John Stevenson (He was in the last ménage à trois with Wheeler / Wescott, Lynes was the first. This wikilink is to a disambiguation page, & this particular person does not appear to be listed there.)
Lynes, started bookstore in NJ then sold it six months later & went back to Paris on sale money;
Went to Wheeler & Wescott, then living in Gil France / French Rivera?
Lives beyond his means; suffers from depression because he is in a deeply homosexual town where homophobia is also rampant; misses friends in New York.
1948 returns to NYC; out-of-style by then
Relationship with Laurie Douglas
After 1948, meets & befriends Alfred Kinsey
1954 arranges to give his negatives to the Kinsey institute
1955 went to Paris for final time, returns & is hospitalized, & discovers he had lung cancer & had metastasized to his brain.
In his later years, Lynes destroyed a lot of his early work, particularly his fashion work for which he did not want to be remembered.