Russian & GLBT

On their first anniversary, Vera comes home to discover her boyfriend Tim in bed with another man.

This documentary, open and courageous, examines the challenges of lesbian motherhood in Russia. The film focuses on the first stage of parenthood, along with the decision of giving birth to a child in a same sex family, and a consideration of the options available to a lesbian couple in Russia. The two women welcome the audience (with the future baby's point of view) into their world, emotions, dreams and hopes.

Alex is creating a databank of dreams, claiming he knows how to digitise the dream-image. It is just a self-publicity ploy and he is soon woken up to the reality of corruption and state terror by an ex-convict Lubov.

A man invites a call girl to his place. He pays in advance for 10 hours of her time. He tells her about his ex-wife and happiness he once had. Her story is very similar to his. Why couldn't they keep their love? Can they return to their previous lives?

The secluded investigator Faina is trying to solve a case of a disappeared girl. Everyone has given up on finding her, but she keeps going, feeling that the girl is still alive.

The story takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia. Two Russian schoolgirls suffer crash in natural love. Once they've met each other and fall in love. But once they've found that they are sisters...

Two teenage girls, Janie who is American and Lana who is Russian, fall in love after meeting at a t.A.T.u concert and are swept into a dangerous world of obsession, drug abuse and murder.

A delightfully outlandish comic offering where everyone will find a delectable bit.

Veselchaki is a movie centered on a Moscow nightclub owned by Rosa; he performs as part of the drag revue in the club. The movie starts with five cross-dressing men sharing their stories with a reporter. The movie is a comedy-drama from a Russian writer. It is thought provoking, has complex and funny characters, and is worth watching!

Three young friends have all they need for a sterling life besides money. The pursuit of them leads guys to Natella Antonovna. She'll show them luxury life. Unless, one surprise is going to turn up...

This is an interesting yet bizarre little tale of a fictional experiment performed during the Stalin-controlled years in the USSR. The main character is changed from a woman into a man. This is part of a larger plan to change more women into men and have a stronger work-force/army, etc. It's a very in-depth character study of the main character, who tries to fit into a world that she (now 'he') doesn't really understand, especially since she's now a man - Stalin dislikes the results of the experiments and has the scientist killed. The main character then goes off to live a life as a simple, unknown everyday Soviet, but is inexplicably drawn into larger and larger schemes (somewhat reminiscent of "Forrest Gump" in that way). (s)He has run-ins with different important characters, including his ex-boyfriend from his days of being a woman, as well as going on a demented quest for the nurse with whom he possibly fell in love after the operation - However, he is trapped in his life as an important Soviet married man, and in the end makes a huge sacrifice for his country (unwillingly), and the movie goes from there to an ending that is possibly happy, yet still somehow incredibly depressing.

Coming out and love story between two lesbian girls from different cities.

In the summer of 2005, two guys came up with the idea to organize an unprecedented event - a festive lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people's parade through the streets of Riga, the capital of Latvia. Following the example of similar LGBT parades in Western cities, they decided to call it 'Pride'. Little did they know that their good intent would spiral into a chain of inconceivable events lasting several years. The great emotion stirred up would dramatically divide Latvian Society; the persons involved would be showered, in turn, with human excrement and holy water. Families would be torn apart, jobs lost, and a pastor expelled from the church for free thinking. They could not have imagined that crowds of Western 'reinforcements' would flock to support both sides or that Jesus, the Devil, patriotism and human rights would all be used in the rhetoric surrounding the topic, and that the media would eagerly report it all. In the end, could it be that the victims of this hostility were all those involved, because for someone, somewhere it was beneficial to set us against one another? Kaspars Goba worked on this film for five years. The extensive footage collected over the years enables the spectator to get an extraordinarily deep insight into the opinions and life stories of the individuals on both the Pride and NoPride fronts. The astonishing unearthing of Pride in Riga as shown in Kaspars Goba's work, from its inception in 2005 through to the announcement that Pride would not be held in Riga in 2010, enables the viewer to consider these events from a different perspective. One can contemplate the role politicians play in manipulating people's ideals, and also ask: what is the price of democracy in Latvia?

On the same day, Andrei's wife Nina asks for a divorce, his colleague Natasha tells him she's attracted to him, he's assigned a new project under the direction of Philip (a well-dressed, authoritative, and even arrogant stranger who keeps touching him), and he fights a gang of homophobes to protect a young gay man, Oleg. The next day, Philip takes Andrei away from the office on an odyssey into a space that is charged with spirituality and homoeroticism. Philip is no businessman, and the disclosure of who he really is forces Andrei into a series of choices that involve Natasha, Nina, belief, and love.

Madina in a trance for a loved one commits a crime, goes to prison, and then in the women's prison. Many of the women prisoners to "break" obstoyateltstva. Ho, there are those who, even in extreme situations can maintain their dignity and independence.

Film showing the lives of openly gay men in Russia, from those living in the prison system to those working to change that country's legal stance on homosexuality.

Nine Russian lesbians and gay men give us an idea what gay life in Russia is like in these honest interviews. They discuss growing up, coming-out, forming a community and the political climate in which they live.

"Intimate Parts" is an ironic melodrama about middle-class Muscovites. Each of them has a personal secret, hidden from others - the "intimate part". The main character, a scandalous photographer Ivan, juxtaposes himself to others. He is convinced that people are born to be happy; and happiness is freedom to stay true to one's self. The real question is: how safe is it to let your inner self out?

He is overly intelligent. He is genius. And he's just trying to make his life a little bit better in an new era post-communist Russia.