Conchita: Unstoppable

Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncover the truth behind his former idol.

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

Todd Haynes

Cast

Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Toni Collette

Invited by the conductor Premil Petrovic to stage Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, a musical theater work from 1912 based on the poems of Albert Giraud, LaBruce transposed a strange and tragic episode of true crime onto the composition. Complementing the original atonal score is a narrative about a trans man who is outed by his gir...

Runtime

51m

Cast

Susanne Sachße, Maria Ivanenko, Paulina Bachmann

Fred Martinez was a Navajo youth slain at the age of 16 by a man who bragged to his friends that he 'bug-smashed a fag'. But Fred was part of an honored Navajo tradition - the 'nadleeh', or 'two-spirit', who possesses a balance of masculine and feminine traits.

Runtime

1h 5m

Director

Lydia Nibley

A young teacher in Zurich in the 1950s falls in love with a transvestite star but is torn between his bourgeois existence and his commitment to homosexuality. He joins a gay organization that is eventually seen as the pioneer of gay emancipation in Europe.

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Stefan Haupt

Cast

Matthias Hungerbühler, Sven Schelker, Babett Arens

Tonoin Kei, a musical genius, becomes the new conductor of Fujimi, clashing with the group's leader, Morimura Yuuki, who is unaware of Kei's feelings for him.

Runtime

1h 27m

Cast

Shōta Takasaki, Yusuke Arai, Sayuri Iwata