OUTshine Film Festival

A Holy Mess (En Underbar Javla Jul)

Friday, April 22nd @ 8:00 pm

STAFF PICK INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Partners Simon and Oscar, both 27, have bought a house with their friend Cissi. The place needs...

A Holy Mess (En Underbar Javla Jul)

Sunday, April 24th @ 1:00 pm

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Partners Simon and Oscar, both 27, have bought a house with their friend Cissi. The place needs renovating, but one...

Akron

Saturday, April 23rd @ 5:30 pm

SCREENING COMMITTEE'S PICK Benny and Christopher, 18-year-old freshmen at the University of Akron, meet at a football game, exchange phone...

Alena

Thursday, April 28th @ 9:00 pm

Alena’s life is far from simple. The minute she arrives at her new high school, Filippa and some of the other girls devote their time to...

Arianna

Saturday, April 23rd @ 7:00 pm

SOUTHEAST PREMIERE 19 year-old Arianna struggles with her body, sexuality and identity. The film begins with Arianna explaining that she was...

Baby Steps

Friday, April 29th @ 7:00 pm

Danny, a Taiwanese-American man, longs to have a baby with his American partner Tate, but their attempts at surrogacy, while successful, are...

Blush

Thursday, April 28th @ 6:45 pm

FLORIDA PREMIERE Seventeen-year-old Naama enjoys drugs, alcohol and hanging out with like-minded friends . Her activities are an escape from...

Carmin Tropical

Saturday, April 23rd @ 9:00 pm

Mabel, a singer, returns to her hometown Juchitan in the South of Mexico, where traditionally many transsexuals, known as muxe, live....

Chemsex

Monday, April 25th @ 7:00 pm

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE In hidden basements, bedrooms and bars across London, Chemsex is a documentary that exposes frankly and intimately a...

Clambake

Saturday, April 30th @ 2:45 pm

The year was 1984. A handful of women innkeepers in Provincetown gathered together to figure out how they could entice summer guests back...

Closet Monster

Saturday, April 23rd @ 10:00 pm

SCREENING COMMITTEE'S PICK SOUTHEAST PREMIERE Closet Monster tells the story of Oscar Madly, a creative and driven teenager who hovers on...

Daddy’s Boy

Monday, April 25th @ 9:00 pm

STAFF PICK EAST COAST PREMIERE Four young men leave boyhood behind and shed more than just their clothes and inhibitions in Writer/Director...

Danny Says

Tuesday, April 26th @ 6:45 pm

STAFF PICK SOUTHEAST PREMIERE Danny Fields was a ‘faggot’ (his words) who dropped out of Harvard law school to move to New York, with...

Departure

Tuesday, April 26th @ 7:00 pm

SOUTHEAST PREMIERE An English family prepares the sale of their holiday home in the South of France. Over one week, the teenage son, Elliot,...

Downriver

Friday, April 29th @ 9:15 pm

James has served time for his involvement in the suspected drowning of a young boy in a river years earlier, although the body was never...

Fair Haven

Saturday, April 30th @ 5:00 pm

Fair Haven follows a young man, James, who returns to his family’s farm after a long stint in gay-to straight conversion therapy. He comes...

Fatima: Queen Of The Night (FÁTIMA Y EL PARQUE DE LA FRATERNIDAD)

Friday, April 29th @ 7:00 pm

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Fatima: Queen of the Night takes us from 1980s Cuba to the present day as she reflects on her entire life. The film...

Fatima: Queen Of The Night (FÁTIMA Y EL PARQUE DE LA FRATERNIDAD)

Sunday, May 1st @ 7:00 pm

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Fatima: Queen of the Night takes us from 1980s Cuba to the present day as she reflects on her entire life. The film...

First Girl I Loved

Sunday, April 24th @ 7:30 pm

Anne, 17, is a headstrong, cool nerd. While covering a softball game for the high school yearbook, she becomes infatuated with the star of...

Flatbush Luck

Saturday, April 23rd @ 7:45 pm

SNEAK PREVIEW Two hunky cousins from Flatbush, former Wall Street hotshot Jimmy and his buttoned-up cousin Max work for the phone company....

Front Cover

Saturday, April 23rd @ 9:45 pm

Front Cover follows Ryan, a gay New York City fashion stylist, who rejects his Asian upbringing. He is given an assignment that could change...

Girl Gets Girl (De chica en chica)

Saturday, April 23rd @ 7:30 pm

EAST COAST PREMIERE Inés lives a charmed life chasing the American dream in Miami with her beautiful girlfriend. But Inés's whole world is...

Girl on Girl

Saturday, April 23rd @ 5:15 pm

SNEAK PREVIEW Girl on Girl highlights the emotional consequences of feminine lesbian invisibility, the phenomena in which, due to their...

Girls Lost

Friday, April 29th @ 9:00 pm

Kim, Bella, and Momo are inseparable friends brutally persecuted in school. After another bad day, the girls get drunk and decide to taste...

Hunky Dory

Saturday, April 23rd @ 5:00 pm

SOUTHEAST PREMIERE After his psychotic ex disappears, Sidney, a bisexual dive bar drag queen, is forced to look after his 11-year-old son...

I Love You Both

Sunday, April 24th @ 3:00 pm

EAST COAST PREMIERE Twins, Krystal and Donny, 28, have been codependent their entire lives, still living together in a converted one-bedroom...

I Promise You Anarchy (Te Prometo Anarquía)

Sunday, April 24th @ 7:00 pm

Best friends and lovers Miguel and Johnny have known each other since childhood. They spend their time skateboarding with their friends in...

International Male - Men's Shorts Program #1

Monday, April 25th @ 6:45 pm

MEN’S SHORTS PROGRAM Take a trip around the world (no passport needed) as we bring you inside many customs, cultures and worldly views in...

IT’S LADIES NIGHT! - Ladies Shorts Program #2

Tuesday, April 26th @ 9:00 pm

STAFF PICK LADIES SHORTS PROGRAM #2 …and the feeling’s right! So enjoy these various peeks inside the lives, loves and struggles of the...

Kiss Me, Kill Me

Sunday, April 24th @ 7:45 pm

Influences of Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock are evident in this sexy gay twist on classic L.A. film noir. After confronting his...

Love Is All You Need?

Saturday, April 30th @ 7:30 pm

In many eyes, homosexuality is still viewed as a mortal sin. But what if the tables were turned and heterosexual couples were the ones...

Made in Bangkok

Saturday, April 23rd @ 3:00 pm

SCREENING COMMITTEE'S PICK EAST COAST PREMIERE Morgana is a Mexican transgender opera singer with a relentless determination to fight...

Me, Myself and Her (Io E Lei)

Friday, April 29th @ 6:45 pm

Marina is beautiful, sexy, funny, and a successful restauranteur. She’s independent, self-confident and curious and has no doubts about...