[Pictured: Love Lies Bleeding]

By John Cooper

John Cooper is the emeritus director of the Sundance Film Festival, a role he stepped into this summer after serving as Festival director from 2010 to 2020. He originally joined Sundance Institute in 1989.

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LGBTQ+ films have been a staple of the Sundance Film Festival for decades — since the Institute’s inception back in the early 1980s, actually. But why?

The answer may not be what you think. Although it was a founding goal of Sundance Institute to be inclusive on every level of support for artists, the actual practice of showing diverse work has been a very organic and natural progression. When I think back to the original concept for both the Institute’s labs and the Festival itself, as laid out by our founder Robert Redford, the idea was to support the most original and interesting work possible. 

It is understandable that examples of these films usually came from other cultures, other belief systems, other points of view — the stories not being represented in mainstream Hollywood films. They found a home at Sundance, not just because they represented the “others,” but because they were, by nature, good and fresh and exciting. In turn, as the Festival grew, we discovered there was an audience hungry for them.

In the late ’80s and early ’90s, during the earliest years of the of the Institute, we saw titles like Parting Glances by Bill Sherwood, Longtime Companion by Norman René, Desert Hearts by Donna Deitch, even Hairspray, which was not considered a gay film but was obviously infused with John Waters’ queer point of view, pop up on the Festival slate. Famous British experimental filmmaker Derek Jarman came to Sundance in 1992 with Edward II, the same year Gregg Araki brought the The Living End to Park City.

It was educator and film academic B. Ruby Rich who coined the name “New Queer Cinema” as she moderated a panel at the 1992 Festival under the cheeky title “Barbed Wire Kisses.” After that, it was evident that a new energy from the independent film world had ignited, and those anomalies were becoming a formidable new wave.

In the years that followed — all the way up to the present, in fact — most of the best queer films had their world premieres in Park City. What once was specific to an artful counterculture developed into films that spanned all genres and styles. Queer films peppered every category and section of the Festival. We were seeing a reinvention or reclaiming of romances, thrillers, family dramas, short films, and, of course, the classic coming-of-age stories. Today’s acceptance of LGBTQ+ themes has changed and matured with most recent titles premiering like Call Me by Your Name, Pariah, and The Miseducation of Cameron Post.

This leading edge was not just reserved for fiction: Documentaries as well sprang up with previously unheard storylines, covering everything from activism to AIDS to alternative families. From The Times of Harvey Milk (1985), Absolutely Positive (1991), Paris Is Burning (1991), and Silverlake Life: The View from Here (1993) to more recent titles like Larry Kramer: In Love and Anger (2015), This Is Not Berlin (2019), and Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen (2020), the Festival has exposed factions of different lifestyles and cultures yet unseen by most of America.

The history of Sundance’s work nurturing and presenting stories from and about the queer community is deep and resonant. This June during Pride Month, I am proud to look back at the legacy of support for queer work from Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival. I am proud of the Institute’s leadership and staff, who have made it all possible for decades. Let’s respect the past as we lust for a better, more equitable future.

Below, see a long list of LGBTQ+ feature films that have screened at the Sundance Film Festival since its inception in 1985. As you scroll through, you’ll find links to where you can stream each project in the U.S. (when available).

1985

Before Stonewall (Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg) [WATCH]

The Times of Harvey Milk (Rob Epstein) [WATCH]

1986

Parting Glances (Bill Sherwood) [WATCH]

Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch) [WATCH]

Going Down (Haydn Keenan) [WATCH]

1987

Anne Trister (Léa Pool)

Beyond Therapy (Robert Altman) [WATCH]

Waiting for the Moon (Jill Godmilow)

Working Girls (Lizzie Borden) [WATCH]

1988

Chuck Solomon: Coming of Age (Marc Huestis)

Nobody’s Wife (María Luisa Bemberg)

Signed: Lino Brocka (Christian Blackwood) [WATCH]

1989

Apartment Zero (Martin Donovan)

1990

Identity Crisis (Melvin Van Peebles) [WATCH]

Longtime Companion (Norman René)

Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman (Lisa Leeman)

1991

Absolutely Positive (Peter Adair) [WATCH]

City of Hope (John Sayles) [WATCH]

The Enchantment (Nagasaki Shunichi)

Love Lies (Arturo Ripstein)

Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston) [WATCH]

Poison (Todd Haynes) [WATCH]

1992

Caravaggio (Derek Jarman) [WATCH]

Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies) [WATCH]

Edward II (Derek Jarman) [WATCH]

The Hours and Times (Christopher Münch) [WATCH]

The Living End (Gregg Araki) [WATCH]

Swoon (Tom Kalin) [WATCH]

Vegas in Space (Phillip R. Ford) [WATCH]

Where Are We?: Our Trip Through America (Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein) [WATCH]

Young Soul Rebels (Isaac Julien) [WATCH]

1993

Inside Monkey Zetterland (Jefery Levy)

Naked in New York (Daniel Algrant)

Nitrate Kisses (Barbara Hammer)

Orlando (Sally Potter) [WATCH]

Silverlake Life: The View From Here (Peter Friedman, Tom Joslin) [WATCH]

Three of Hearts (Yurek Bogayevicz) [WATCH]

1994

Cancer in Two Voices (Lucy Massie Phenix)

Closing Numbers (Stephen Whittaker) [WATCH]

Coming Out Under Fire (Arthur Dong) [WATCH]

Fast Trip, Long Drop (Gregg Bordowitz)

Go Fish (Rose Troche) [WATCH]

Grief (Richard Glatzer)

Heart of the Matter (Gini Reticker, Amber Hollibaugh)

Totally F***ed Up (Gregg Araki) [WATCH]

1995

Ballot Measure 9 (Heather MacDonald) [WATCH]

Black Is… Black Ain’t (Marlon Riggs) [WATCH]

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (Maria Maggenti) [WATCH]

A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (Michelle Parkerson, Ada Gay Griffin)

Priest (Antonia Bird) [WATCH]

Strawberry and Chocolate (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabio)

Super 8 1/2 (Bruce LaBruce)

Wigstock: The Movie (Barry Shils)

1996

Bound (The Wachowskis) [WATCH]

Celestial Clockwork (Fina Torres)

The Celluloid Closet (Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein) [WATCH]

Cutting Loose (Andrew Young, Susan Todd)

Everything Relative (Sharon Pollack) [WATCH]

Female Perversions (Susan Streitfeld) [WATCH]

Frisk (Todd Verow)

Hollow Reed (Angela Pope) [WATCH]

Hustler White (Bruce LaBruce)

It’s My Party (Randal Kleiser)

Johns (Scott Silver)

Late Bloomers (Julia Dyer, Gretchen Dyer) [WATCH]

Midaq Alley (Jorge Fons) [WATCH]

Stonewall (Nigel Finch) [WATCH]

Tender Fictions (Barbara Hammer)

Trailer Camp (Jenni Olson)

1997

All Over Me (Alex Sichel)

Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith) [WATCH]

Finished (William E. Jones)

Hide and Seek (Su Friedrich) [WATCH]

Kiss Me, Guido (Tony Vitale)

Licensed to Kill (Arthur Dong) [WATCH]

Love! Valour! Compassion! (Joe Mantello)

Out at Work (Tami Gold, Kelly Anderson)

Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer’s End (Monte Bramer)

Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) [WATCH]

Slaves to the Underground (Kristine Peterson) [WATCH]

Someone Else from Queens Is Queer (Richard Elovich)

When the Cat’s Away (Cedric Klapisch)

1998

Baby, It’s You (Anne Makepeace) [WATCH]

Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss (Tommy O’Haver)

Bocage, the Triumph of Love (Djalma Limongi Batista)

Divine Trash (Steve Yaeger)

The Hanging Garden (Thom Fitzgerald) [WATCH]

High Art (Lisa Cholodenko) [WATCH]

Martín (Hache) (Adolfo Aristarain)

The Opposite of Sex (Don Roos) [WATCH]

Out of the Past (Jeff Dupre)

Party Monster: The Shockumentary (Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato) [WATCH]

Relax… It’s Just Sex (P. J. Castellaneta)

1999

Beefcake (Thom Fitzgerald) [WATCH]

Edge of Seventeen (David Moreton) [WATCH]

Get Real (Simon Shore) [WATCH]

Happy Texas (Mark Illsley) [WATCH]

Jawbreaker (Darren Stein) [WATCH]

The Source (Chuck Workman) [WATCH]

Splendor (Gregg Araki)

Trick (Jim Fall) [WATCH]

Yusho-Renaissance (Hiroyuki Oki)

2000

Beau Travail (Claire Denis) [WATCH]

The Broken Hearts Club (Greg Berlanti) [WATCH]

But I’m a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit) [WATCH]

Chuck & Buck (Miguel Arteta) [WATCH]

Could Be Worse! (Zachary Stratis)

The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato) [WATCH]

Groove (Greg Harrison) [WATCH]

I.K.U. (Shu Lea Cheang)

Nuyorican Dream (Laurie Collyer)

Oi! Warning (Dominik Reding, Benjamin Reding)

Paragraph 175 (Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein) [WATCH]

Psycho Beach Party (Robert Lee King) [WATCH]

Punks (Patrik-Ian Polk)

A Question of Faith: Blessed Art Thou (Tim Disney)

Songcatcher (Maggie Greenwald) [WATCH]

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (Rodrigo García) [WATCH]

Urbania (Jon Shear) [WATCH]

What’s Cooking? (Gurinder Chadha) [WATCH]

2001

101 Reykjavík (Baltasar Kormákur) [WATCH]

The Confusion of Genders (Ilan Duran Cohen)

The Deep End (Scott McGehee, David Siegel) [WATCH]

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell) [WATCH]

Hey, Happy! (Noam Gonick) [WATCH]

History Lessons (Barbara Hammer)

L.I.E. (Michael Cuesta) [WATCH]

Lost and Delirious (Léa Pool) [WATCH]

Our Lady of the Assassins (Barbet Schroeder) [WATCH]

Possible Loves (Sandra Werneck) [WATCH]

Princesa (Henrique Goldman) [WATCH]

Scout’s Honor (Tom Shepard)

Southern Comfort (Kate Davis) [WATCH]

Stranger Inside (Cheryl Dunye)

Together (Lukas Moodysson) [WATCH]

Trembling Before G-d (Sandi Simcha Dubowski)

2002

Britney, Baby, One More Time (Ludi Boeken)

The Business of Fancydancing (Sherman Alexie)

By Hook or by Crook (Harry Dodge, Silas Howard) [WATCH]

Cherish (Finn Taylor) [WATCH]

The Cockettes (David Weissman, Bill Weber) [WATCH]

Daddy & Papa (Johnny Symons) [WATCH]

The Execution of Wanda Jean (Liz Garbus)

Family Fundamentals (Arthur Dong) [WATCH]

Karmen Geï (Joseph Gaï Ramaka) [WATCH]

Lan Yu (Stanley Kwan) [WATCH]

The Laramie Project (Moisés Kaufman) [WATCH]

Love in the Time of Money (Peter Mattei)

Lubov and Other Nightmares (Andrei Nekrasov)

Miss 501 (Jules Karatechamp)

On_Line (Jed Weintrob) [WATCH]

The Slaughter Rule (Alex Smith, Andrew Smith) [WATCH]

Smokers Only (Verónica Chen)

That’s My Face (Thomas Allen Harris)

XX/XY (Austin Chick) [WATCH]

Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón) [WATCH]

2003

AKA (Duncan Roy)

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (Nancy Kates, Bennett Singer) [WATCH]

Camp (Todd Graff) [WATCH]

Die, Mommie, Die! (Mark Rucker)

The Education of Gore Vidal (Deborah Dickson)

The Event (Thom Fitzgerald) [WATCH]

Girls Will Be Girls (Richard Day) [WATCH]

Laurel Canyon (Lisa Cholodenko) [WATCH]

Madame Satã (Karim Aïnouz)

The Mudge Boy (Michael Burke)

Party Monster (Fenton Bailey) [WATCH]

Prey for Rock & Roll (Alex Steyermark)

Soldier’s Girl (Frank Pierson) [WATCH]

State of Denial (Elaine Epstein) [WATCH]

Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke) [WATCH]

2004

Brother to Brother (Rodney Evans) [WATCH]

Carandiru (Héctor Babenco) [WATCH]

D.E.B.S. (Angela Robinson) [WATCH]

Easy (Jane Weinstock) [WATCH]

Eulogy (Michael Clancy) [WATCH]

Garden (Ruthie Shatz, Adi Barash)

Freshman Orientation (Ryan Shiraki) [WATCH]

Harry and Max (Christopher Munch)

In the Company of Women (Gini Reticker, Lesli Klainberg)

Love by Mistake (Gerardo Chijona Valdez)

Love in Thoughts (Achim von Borries) [WATCH]

The Raspberry Reich (Bruce LaBruce)

Saved! (Brian Dannelly) [WATCH]

Second Best (Eric Weber) [WATCH]

Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette) [WATCH]

Touch of Pink (Ian Iqbal Rashid) [WATCH]

Until the Violence Stops (Abby Epstein)

2005

The Dying Gaul (Craig Lucas) [WATCH]

The Education of Shelby Knox (Marion Lipschutz, Rose Rosenblatt) [WATCH]

Forty Shades of Blue (Ira Sachs)

Happy Endings (Don Roos) [WATCH]

Inside Deep Throat (Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato) [WATCH]

The Joy of Life (Jenni Olson) [WATCH]

Lackawanna Blues (George C. Wolfe)

Loggerheads (Tim Kirkman) [WATCH]

Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki) [WATCH]

Palermo Hollywood (Eduardo Pinto) [WATCH]

Pretty Persuasion (Marcos Siega) [WATCH]

Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (Dan Klores, Ron Berger) [WATCH]

Saving Face (Alice Wu) [WATCH]

Strangers with Candy (Paul Dinello)

Twist of Faith (Kirby Dick) [WATCH]

Unconscious (Joaquín Oristrell) [WATCH]

2006

All Aboard! Rosie’s Family Cruise (Shari Cookson)

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (Auraeus Solito) [WATCH]

Beyond Beats and Rhymes (Byron Hurt)

Forgiving the Franklins (Jay Floyd)

Kinky Boots (Julian Jarrold) [WATCH]

Puccini for Beginners (Maria Maggenti)

Quinceañera (Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland) [WATCH]

small town gay bar (Malcolm Ingram)

Songbirds (Brian Hill)

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (Freida Lee Mock)

2007

For the Bible Tells Me So (Daniel Karslake) [WATCH]

Life Support (Nelson George) [WATCH]

The Nines (John August) [WATCH]

Protagonist (Jessica Yu) [WATCH]

Save Me (Robert Cary) [WATCH]

Smiley Face (Gregg Araki) [WATCH]

Tuli (Auraeus Solito)

A Very British Gangster (Donal MacIntyre)

2008

Be Like Others (Tanaz Eshaghian) [WATCH]

Derek (Isaac Julien) [WATCH]

The Guitar (Amy Redford)

Half-Life (Jennifer Phang)

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (Rawson Marshall Thurber) [WATCH]

Otto; or, Up with Dead People (Bruce LaBruce) [WATCH]

Pretty Bird (Paul Schneider) [WATCH]

The Recruiter (Edet Belzberg)

Savage Grace (Tom Kalin) [WATCH]

Towelhead (Alan Ball) [WATCH]

2009

Dare (Adam Salky) [WATCH]

Humpday (Lynn Shelton) [WATCH]

I Love You Phillip Morris (Glenn Ficarra, John Requa) [WATCH]

La Mission (Peter Bratt) [WATCH]

One Day in a Life (Stefano Tummolini)

Sergio (Greg Barker) [WATCH]

Spring Breakdown (Ryan Shiraki) [WATCH]

2010

8: The Mormon Proposition (Reed Cowan, Steven Greenstreet)

Grown Up Movie Star (Adriana Maggs) [WATCH]

Howl (Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein) [WATCH]

I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino) [WATCH]

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (Tamra Davis) [WATCH]

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg) [WATCH]

The Runaways (Floria Sigismondi) [WATCH]

The Taqwacores (Eyad Zahra) [WATCH]

Undertow (Javier Fuentes-León) [WATCH]

Zona Sur (Juan Carlos Valdivia) [WATCH]

2011

!Women Art Revolution (Lynn Hershman Leeson) [WATCH]

Becoming Chaz (Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato) [WATCH]

Circumstance (Maryam Keshavarz) [WATCH]

Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (Madeleine Olnek) [WATCH]

A Few Days of Respite (Amor Hakkar)

Gun Hill Road (Rashaad Ernesto Green) [WATCH]

Kaboom (Gregg Araki) [WATCH]

The Ledge (Matthew Chapman) [WATCH]

Old Cats (Sebastián Silva, Pedro Peirano) [WATCH]

Our Idiot Brother (Jesse Peretz) [WATCH]

Pariah (Dee Rees) [WATCH]

Red State (Kevin Smith) [WATCH]

Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (Matthew Bate) [WATCH]

to.get.her (Erica Dunton)

Uncle Kent (Joe Swanberg) [WATCH]

We Were Here (David Weissman, Bill Weber) [WATCH]

2012

About Face: Supermodels Then and Now (Timothy Greenfield-Sanders) [WATCH]

Excision (Richard Bates Jr.) [WATCH]

For a Good Time, Call… (Jamie Travis) [WATCH]

How to Survive a Plague (David France) [WATCH]

The Invisible War (Kirby Dick) [WATCH]

Keep the Lights On (Ira Sachs) [WATCH]

Love Free or Die (Macky Alston) [WATCH]

Me @ the Zoo (Chris Moukarbel, Valerie Veatch) [WATCH]

Mosquita y Mari (Aurora Guerrero) [WATCH]

My Best Day (Erin Greenwell) [WATCH]

My Brother the Devil (Sally El Hosaini) [WATCH]

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (Terence Nance) [WATCH]

That’s What She Said (Carrie Preston) [WATCH]

Young & Wild (Marialy Rivas) [WATCH]

Your Sister’s Sister (Lynn Shelton) [WATCH]

2013

C.O.G. (Kyle Patrick Alvarez) [WATCH]

Concussion (Stacie Passon) [WATCH]

Fire in the Blood (Dylan Mohan Gray) [WATCH]

God Loves Uganda (Roger Ross Williams) [WATCH]

Interior. Leather Bar. (James Franco, Travis Mathews) [WATCH]

Kill Your Darlings (John Krokidas) [WATCH]

kink (Christina Voros) [WATCH]

Pit Stop (Yen Tan) [WATCH]

Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin) [WATCH]

The Truth About Emanuel (Francesca Gregorini) [WATCH]

Valentine Road (Marta Cunningham) [WATCH]

2014

52 Tuesdays (Sophie Hyde) [WATCH]

Appropriate Behavior (Desiree Akhavan) [WATCH]

The Case Against 8 (Ben Cotner, Ryan White) [WATCH]

Drunktown’s Finest (Sydney Freeland) [WATCH]

The Foxy Merkins (Madeleine Olnek) [WATCH]

Jamie Marks Is Dead (Carter Smith) [WATCH]

Lilting (Hong Khaou) [WATCH]

Love Is Strange (Ira Sachs) [WATCH]

My Prairie Home (Chelsea McMullan) [WATCH]

The Overnighters (Jesse Moss) [WATCH]

The Skeleton Twins (Craig Johnson) [WATCH]

Through a Lens Darkly (Allen Harris) [WATCH]

To Be Takei (Jennifer Kroot) [WATCH]

2015

The Amina Profile (Sophie Deraspe) [WATCH]

Dope (Rick Famuyiwa) [WATCH]

Grandma (Paul Weitz) [WATCH]

I Am Michael (Justin Kelly) [WATCH]

Larry Kramer in Love & Anger (Jean Carlomusto) [WATCH]

The Mask You Live In (Jennifer Siebel Newsom) [WATCH]

Nasty Baby (Sebastián Silva) [WATCH]

The Royal Road (Jenni Olson) [WATCH]

The Summer of Sangaile (Alante Kavaite) [WATCH]

Take Me to the River (Matt Sobel) [WATCH]

Tangerine (Sean Baker) [WATCH]

Ten Thousand Saints (Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini) [WATCH]

Tig (Ashley York, Kristina Goolsby) [WATCH]

2016

As You Are (Miles Joris-Peyrafitte) [WATCH]

Author: The JT LeRoy Story (Jeff Feuerzeig) [WATCH]

Film Hawk (JJ Garvine, Tai Parquet) [WATCH]

First Girl I Loved (Kerem Sanga) [WATCH]

The Intervention (Clea Duvall) [WATCH]

Kiki (Sara Jordenö) [WATCH]

Lovesong (So Yong Kim) [WATCH]

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato) [WATCH]

Other People (Chris Kelly) [WATCH]

Plaza de la Soledad (Maya Goded)

Spa Night (Andrew Ahn) [WATCH]

Suited (Jason Benjamin) [WATCH]

Tickled (David Farrier, Dylan Reeve) [WATCH]

Uncle Howard (Aaron Brookner) [WATCH]

Viva (Paddy Breathnach) [WATCH]

2017

Axolotl Overkill (Helene Hegemann) [WATCH]

Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman) [WATCH]

Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino) [WATCH]

God’s Own Country (Francis Lee) [WATCH]

The Little Hours (Jeff Baena) [WATCH]

This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous (Barbara Kopple) [WATCH]

The Wound (John Trengove) [WATCH]

2018

And Breathe Normally (Ísold Uggadóttir) [WATCH]

Assassination Nation (Sam Levinson) [WATCH]

Believer (Don Argott) [WATCH]

Bisbee ’17 (Robert Greene) [WATCH]

The Catcher Was a Spy (Ben Lewin) [WATCH]

Colette (Wash Westmoreland) [WATCH]

Dark Money (Kimberly Reed) [WATCH]

Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (Gus Van Sant) [WATCH]

The Happy Prince (Rupert Everett) [WATCH]

Hearts Beat Loud (Brett Haley) [WATCH]

A Kid Like Jake (Silas Howard) [WATCH]

Lizzie (Craig William Macneill) [WATCH]

The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan) [WATCH]

Seeing Allred (Roberta Grossman, Sophie Sartain) [WATCH]

Skate Kitchen (Crystal Moselle) [WATCH]

Studio 54 (Matt Tyrnauer) [WATCH]

Tyrel (Sebastián Silva) [WATCH]

We the Animals (Jeremiah Zagar) [WATCH]

White Rabbit (Daryl Wein) [WATCH]

2019

Adam (Rhys Ernst) [WATCH]

The Art of Being (JB Ghuman Jr.)

Ask Dr. Ruth (Ryan White) [WATCH]

Before You Know It (Hannah Pearl Utt) [WATCH]

Brittany Runs a Marathon (Paul Downs Colaizzo) [WATCH]

Halston (Frédéric Tcheng) [WATCH]

Jawline (Liza Mandelup) [WATCH]

This Is Not Berlin (Hari Sama) [WATCH]

To the Stars (Martha Stephens) [WATCH]

Velvet Buzzsaw (Dan Gilroy) [WATCH]

Where’s My Roy Cohn? (Matt Tyrnauer) [WATCH]

2020

And Then We Danced (Levan Akin) [WATCH]

Boys State (Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss) [WATCH]

Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen (Sam Feder) [WATCH]

Ema (Pablo Larraín) [WATCH]

Falling (Viggo Mortensen) [WATCH]

The Fight (Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman, Eli Despres) [WATCH]

The Go-Go’s (Alison Ellwood) [WATCH]

I Carry You With Me (Heidi Ewing) [WATCH]

Jumbo (Zoé Wittock) [WATCH]

Kajillionaire (Miranda July) [WATCH]

La Leyenda Negra (Patricia Vidal Delgado) [WATCH]

Mucho Mucho Amor (Cristina Costantini, Kareem Tabsch) [WATCH]

Nowhere Inn (Bill Benz) [WATCH]

Shirley (Josephine Decker) [WATCH]

Uncle Frank (Alan Ball) [WATCH]

Welcome to Chechnya (David France) [WATCH]

Whirlybird (Matt Yoka) [WATCH]

2021

Am I OK? (Tig Notaro, Stephanie Allynne) [WATCH]

The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future (Francisca Alegria) [WATCH]

Framing Agnes (Chase Joynt) [WATCH]

Girl Picture (Alli Haapasalo) [WATCH]

Marte Um (Mars One) (Gabriel Martins) [WATCH] 

My Trip to Spain (Theda Hammel)

Sirens (John Duigan) [WATCH]

Something in the Dirt (Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead) [WATCH]

We Met in Virtual Reality (Joe Hunting) [WATCH]

2023

Ed. note: This story was originally published in June 2020 and has since been updated.