S1.E1 ∙ Insurgency

Mr. Gay Syria follows two gay Syrian refugees who are trying to rebuild their lives. Husein is a barber in Istanbul, living a double life between his conservative family and his gay identity. Mahmoud is the founder of Syria's LGBTI movement and is a refugee in Berlin. What brings them together is a dream: to participate in an international beauty contest as an escape from their trapped lives and an answer to their invisibility. Will the dream come true or will the refugee crisis and the harsh consequences of being gay in the Muslim world shatter it to pieces?

This short Making Of film is simply fantastic. I'd almost watch it over the full movie. The behind the scenes are so powerful. Shows the struggle the girls had along with their coach during the Grabbing scene awful and powerful esp since it was so true not long ago in modern times. Really a perfect addition to the main story.

A radical utopia far from the rigid gender rules in competitive sports.

His name is synonymous with treason, but this cinematic documentary shows that Benedict Arnold's heroic contributions to American Independence far outweigh his later change of allegiance.

After her untimely death, a scientist from Bangkok cryo-preserves his daughter's brain. Scandal swirls around the family as they struggle to grieve a child that, in their view, is suspended between death and reawakening.

"American Dirge" is a cathartic journey of a man traveling through two battered souls - the American back country and his own.