THE PINK LENS

Starring: Sebastian Silva, Jordan Firstman, Catalina Saavedra

Director: Sebastian Silva

Country: Mexico

UK Release: 15th September 2023 on VOD, released by MUBI

Follows social media celebrity Jordan Firstman as he starts a search for filmmaker Sebastian Silva who went missing in Mexico City. He suspects that the cleaning lady in Sebastian's building may be involved in his disappearance.

Starring: Anamaria Marinca, Alina Serban, Samson Selim

Director: Goran Stolevski

Country: North Macedonia

UK Release: 7th October 2023 in cinemas, released by Focus Features

A queer woman is forced to raise her partner's daughter who herself doesn't want to be a mother. (Awaiting a trailer)

Starring: Amrit Kaur, Nimra Bucha

Director: Fawzia Mirza

Country: Canada

UK Release: 7th October 2023 at the BFI London Film Festival

Azra is ripped away from her happy queer life when her father dies while holidaying in Pakistan. And as she tries to resist conservative norms, Azra finds herself drawn into conflict with her mother, whose own coming of age – shown in flashbacks – was defined by feelings of rebellion.

Starring: Joshua Tonks, William Tippery, Jay Clift

Director: Alexander McGregor Birrell

Country: UK

UK Release: 8th October 2023 on VOD, released by Cinephobia/Bounty

A handsome stranger appears at a young thriller writer’s cabin deep in the American wilderness. Mysterious, intriguing, attractive and terrifying, has he found the perfect inspiration for his new book or are his darkest fantasies about to come to life?

Starring: Zachary Quinto, Lucas Gage, Judith Light

Director: Rightor Doyle

Country: USA

UK Release: 10th October 2023 on VOD, released by Sony Pictures

A deeply repressed man, the uninhibited young man that gives him a happy ending, and all the lives they ruin along the way.

Director: Stephen Kijak

Country: USA

UK Release: 23rd October 2023 on VOD, released by Universal

An intimate portrait of actor Rock Hudson, one of Hollywood’s most celebrated leading men of the 1950’s and ‘60’s and an icon of Hollywood’s Golden Age, whose diagnosis and eventual death from AIDS in 1985 shocked the world, subsequently shifting the way the public perceived the pandemic. The film examines not only Hudson’s cinematic and cultural legacy but takes a rare and sometimes heart-breaking look at his private life through interviews with close friends and former lovers.

Starring: Thibaut Cattelin, Jules Bahloul, Benoît Rischewski, Anton Cisaruk

Director: Théodore Tomasz

Country: USA

UK Release: 23rd October 2023 on VOD, released by TLA Releasing

During a road trip with his two best friends, Noah, a young introverted engineer, meets “bad boy” Lohan, with whom he will share the last 7 days of his trip. The two boys are going to experience a real roller coaster of emotions. But after so much experience and after multiple sentimental rebounds, Noah will have to face the reality that not everything is always so rosey.      

Starring: Sofía Otero, Patricia López Arnaiz, Ane Gabarain

Director: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren

Country: Spain

UK Release: 27th October 2023 on VOD, released by Curzon

During a summer in a village house linked to beekeeping, an eight-year-old trans girl and her mother experience revelations that will change their lives forever.

Starring: Chris Carson, Cardi Wong

Director: Jason Karman      

Country: Canada

UK Release: 30th October 2023 on VOD, released by Peccadillo Pictures

For high school senior Jake, life’s pressures weigh heavily on his adolescent shoulders. If it’s not his father’s insistence he makes the basketball team, it’s his girlfriend making it abundantly clear she is ready to take their relationship to the next level. She’s even got the condoms to prove it. But when Aleks, a basketball-loving, out and proud cutie pie moves into the house across the street, Jake’s interest in shooting hoops and losing his virginity suddenly skyrockets. This is not quite what his father and girlfriend had in mind...

Starring: Tim Roth, Jordan Oosterhof, Conan Hayes

Director: Welby Ings 

Country: New Zealand

UK Release: 13th November 2023 on VOD, released by Peccadillo Pictures

Seventeen-year-old Jim is a small-town boxing hero who carries the hopes and dreams of his father Stan on his shoulders. But when he becomes aware of his strong attraction to Whetu, a feisty gay Maori teenager ostracised from the local community, Jim starts to see the limitations of his world, and understand what he and Whetu must do to break free.  

Starring: Colman Domingo, Chris Rock, Jeffery Wright

Director: George C. Wolfe

Country: USA

UK Release: 17th November 2023 on VOD, released by Netflix

Biopic of gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin who organised the 1963 March on Washington.

Starring: Gerhard Liebmann, Luka Dimić, Julia Koschitz

Director: David Wagner

Country: Germany

UK Release: 20th November 2023 on VOD, released by Peccadillo Pictures

Inspired by true events, David Wagner’s acclaimed drama Eismayer tells the story of a secretly gay military officer whose tough façade conceals a clandestine double life. Sergeant Major Charles Eismayer is known and feared as the toughest training officer in the Austrian Armed Forces, ruthless with recruits and unwavering in his discipline, order and machismo. But when he unexpectedly starts to fall in love with Falak, a recruit who unashamedly embraces his homosexuality, Eismayer’s closeted existence is shaken to the core as he is forced to reconcile his fiercely masculine identity with desire for another man.

Starring: Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Carey Mulligan

Director: Emerald Fennell

Country: UK

UK Release: 17th November 2023 in cinemas, released by Warner Bros

A student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's sprawling estate for a summer never to be forgotten.

Starring: Israel Ogalbo, Dean Miroshnikov, Moran Rosenblatt

Director: Nitzan Gilady

Country: Israel

UK Release: October 2023 in cinemas and VOD, released by Peccadillo Pictures

Guy and his best friend Joy are enjoying the gay pride parade to the fullest, when their bliss is abruptly put to an end by a deadly shooting. Fleeing the scene into the safety of Guy's home, they take in a fellow pride parader, Dan, who seems in shock. With the shooter still on the run, they enter a night full of sex, drugs and paranoia.

Starring: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal

Director: Andrew Haigh

Country: UK

UK Release: 26th January 2024 in cinemas

A screenwriter drawn back to his childhood home enters into a fledgling relationship with a mysterious neighbor as he then discovers his parents appear to be living just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.

Starring: Fantasia Barrino, Colman Domingo, Halle Bailey, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Taraji P. Henson, Elizabeth Marvel, Danielle Brooks

Director: Blitz Bazawule

Country: USA

UK Release: 26th January 2024 in cinemas

Musical adaptation of Alice Walker's novel about the life-long struggles of an African American woman living in the south during the early 1900s.

Starring: Jack Davenport, Josh O'Connor, Susan Wokoma

Director: Julia Jackson

Country: UK

UK Release: TBC 2024 on VOD, released by Sky Cinema

Charming teen, an aspiring musician teams up with the son of a rock star to try and win the school talent show.

Starring: Max Pelayo, Reese Gonzales, Eva Longoria

Director: Aitch Alberto

Country: USA

UK Release: TBC 2024 in cinemas

Mexican teenagers Aristotle Mendoza and Dante Quintana explore their friendship while struggling with racial and ethnic identity, sexuality and family relationships in 1987 El Paso, Texas.

Starring: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Quim Gutiérrez, Charlie Vauselle

Director: Robin Campillo

Country: France

UK Release: TBC 2024 in cinemas

Thomas lives in a military base on colony of Madagascar. His parents and their circle, Gradually becomes aware of politics both territorial and sexual while finding an outlet for his imagination in the exploits of crimebuster Fantômette.