Set in 1988 Beijing in the months leading up to the Tiananmen Square disaster, this film tells the story of Chen Handong, a successful middle-aged businessman with deep Communist party connections, who falls passionately in love with Lan Yu, a boy from the countryside. The two men gradually become lovers, but their relationship is shattered by Handong’s infidelity.

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Struggling freelance writer Rachel Rosen flees New York City after another traumatic breakup with her capricious girlfriend Reggie and arrives at her parents’ home in San Diego, where she is greeted by her PFLAG mom who just wants to see her daughter settle down with a nice girl. Rachel reluctantly allows her mother to set her up with Christine, by all appearances a typical California girl. Soon, Rachel and Christine are moving in together. But, Rachel’s friends and family fear that she will ruin the relationship, knowing that Rachel still has feelings for her ex-girlfriend. Daily Variety calls Lesnick a “budding talent,” and describes the film as a “Woody Allen trifecta reconfigured into sharp-witted lesbian comedy.”

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A young Brazilian transvestite dreams of leaving the streets to find love and respectability as a woman in Milan, but learns the fairy tale is imperfect.

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