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How does a political science major and The Mac Neil/Lehrer News Hour intern end up a homeless hustler? The Good American begins as German expatriate Tom Weise winds down his ... [+]

How does a political science major and The Mac Neil/Lehrer News Hour intern end up a homeless hustler? The Good American begins as German expatriate Tom Weise winds down his illegal 15-year stay in NYC. Fast-talking and feisty Weise is the co-founder of both rentboy.com, currently the reigning escort/hustler web site, and the notorious sex/sex work positive Hustlaball. Weise candidly shares his ambivalent reflections on different HIV treatments, finding love, his business partnerships and the disparity in sexual and social mores between Germany and the United States. Prolific documentary filmmaker Jochen Hick (Life/Sex in L.A., Cycles of Porn) continues his exploration of LGBT subcultures. Generously laced with hot clips of the notorious Hustlaball, it also features cameos from and interviews with Cece Peniston, Chi Chi La Rue, Victor Steel and Bruce Villanch. Although Hick pulls his punches in this unconventional rags-to-reinvention tale, the energetic, enigmatic Weise and his stable of bare-bodied, beautiful stars, make this enormously entertaining viewing. [-]

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Maxi (Javier Cámara, La mala educación) of Casa Xantarella in chic Chueca, is hot for a Michelin rating – and even hotter for Horacio (Chilean superstar Benjamin Vicuña), an Argentinean ... [+]

Maxi (Javier Cámara, La mala educación) of Casa Xantarella in chic Chueca, is hot for a Michelin rating – and even hotter for Horacio (Chilean superstar Benjamin Vicuña), an Argentinean ex-soccer star. However, Maxi’s lovelorn and lustful maitre d’ Alex (Lola Dueña, 20 Centimetros) has also set her sights on Horacio. A chef on the verge of a culinary breakthrough, Maxi doesn’t seem to have any secrets (besides recipes) in his closet. Fantasies of gastronomic greatness and redemptive romance collapse like a soufflé when Alba and Edu, Maxi’s real children from a sham marriage, reappear in his life... As grieving Edu challenges the nearly visible limits of Maxi’s patience, can Ramiro the sous-chef get it together before the Michelin Man arrives? Nacho G. Velilla serves up a queer Bella Martha in this blend of haute cuisine, high camp and higher-strung hets in his appetizing debut. Garnished liberally with awards and nominations (notably a Goya for Best Actor for Javier Cámara), Velilla’s refreshingly light sauté of complex personalities with spicy issues is leavened by its unconventional couplings and portrayal of an all-too-human gay dad. [-]

Dancers Avi and Daniel choreograph an ephemeral affair in the transitory city of Tel Aviv. Gambling with Eros they wrestle each other in a dance of withholding and surrendering. ... [+]

Dancers Avi and Daniel choreograph an ephemeral affair in the transitory city of Tel Aviv. Gambling with Eros they wrestle each other in a dance of withholding and surrendering. [-]

A young gay man confronts his sexuality, his inner demons and his fears on Yom Kippur – day of redemption. ... [+]

A young gay man confronts his sexuality, his inner demons and his fears on Yom Kippur – day of redemption. [-]

Yesterday: the Jerusalem pride parade was cancelled because of violent religious opposition. Tomorrow: a small pride event is set to take place despite the danger. Tonight: a young woman is ... [+]

Yesterday: the Jerusalem pride parade was cancelled because of violent religious opposition. Tomorrow: a small pride event is set to take place despite the danger. Tonight: a young woman is going to cross the lines. [-]

In The Other War, three Tel-Aviv women navigate the complicated world away from the combat zone. Quiet and thoughtful Eli is head over heels for the gorgeous Naama, a free ... [+]

In The Other War, three Tel-Aviv women navigate the complicated world away from the combat zone. Quiet and thoughtful Eli is head over heels for the gorgeous Naama, a free spirit and non-conformist. Meanwhile, Eli’s sister Galit frantically attempts to plan her wedding, just two weeks away, though her groom has been called to service during the second Lebanon war. Eli is trapped between the desire for freedom and individualism, embodied in Naama, and the need for conformity and loyalty, even in dire times, embodied in Galit. First-time director Tamar Glezeman sees these two characters as fictional representation of the opposing viewpoints regarding the demands of Israel as a nation. [-]

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Inspired by Selwyn’s stand-up comedy, Lizzy the Lezzy is an animated series of real-life stories based on her experiences living as a lesbian in Israel, whether it be coming out ... [+]

Inspired by Selwyn’s stand-up comedy, Lizzy the Lezzy is an animated series of real-life stories based on her experiences living as a lesbian in Israel, whether it be coming out of the closet, looking for love or swearing at straight men. [-]

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John Greyson once again dazzles the senses and challenges the intellect with his new experimental documentary, a remarkably complex and moving rumination on AIDS activism, St. Teresa of Avila and ... [+]

John Greyson once again dazzles the senses and challenges the intellect with his new experimental documentary, a remarkably complex and moving rumination on AIDS activism, St. Teresa of Avila and Gertrude Stein, all plaited into an avant-garde opera featuring a singing albino squirrel. Greyson intercuts interviews with heroic AIDS activists Tim McCaskell (founding member of AIDS Action Now, Toronto) and Zackie Achmat (Treatment Action Campaign, South Africa) with a surreal narrative in which Gertrude Stein abducts the two men to Niagara Falls, where their fictional counterparts sing atonal arias originating from Stein and Virgil Thomson’s Four Saints in Three Acts. Heady stuff, indeed, yet Greyson also finds room for a campy countdown of the Top 100 AIDS Songs. Greyson’s radical politics and outré aesthetics are in full flower here: The Queen’s Throat author Wayne Koestenbaum opines from his piano bench, Stein and Thomson leaf through an issue of Vanity Fair, Bono leads a parade of celebrity do-gooders and a candy-coloured cascade of pills rain down over the afflicted. Music provides solace, as Greyson’s fantasia on art and activism posits the disarming question: would we need opera in a world without tragedy? [-]

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Dismayed at the corruption and hypocrisy of the Bolshevik Revolution leaders, a group of educated and idealistic sailors instigate the notorious Kronstadt Uprising of 1921. They establish a workers’ paradise ... [+]

Dismayed at the corruption and hypocrisy of the Bolshevik Revolution leaders, a group of educated and idealistic sailors instigate the notorious Kronstadt Uprising of 1921. They establish a workers’ paradise where the homoerotic and the homosocial coexist peacefully, luxuriating in the languid days of chores and exercise regimens, and nights of steamy passion – before its bloody and inevitable suppression. From the agit-prop theatre of The Blue Blouses to Jascha Ephraim’s evocative score, Cary Cronenwett masters the details and devils in this imaginative re-enactment of an historic event. Conducting a cast of hundreds of trans men, he magnifies the connection between class struggles and gender oppression, in the most original docudrama since John Greyson’s Lilies. Putting the gay back in Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin, Cronenwett lights a powder keg of possibilities in his magical and magnificent treat for beefcake connoisseurs, film and history buffs and lovers of men (sometimes) in uniform. Like Chant d’amour and Querelle, Maggots and Men headlines a glittering programme examining competing brands of masculinity. [-]

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A one-minute documentary portrait about a woman’s transformation into her burlesque alter-ego, Nat King Pole. ... [+]

A one-minute documentary portrait about a woman’s transformation into her burlesque alter-ego, Nat King Pole. [-]