Movies: Hiv

Five young people. Five minds. Five particular universes. An intersex, a boy living with HIV, a college student, a raped girl and a participant in the Blue Whale game. The violent hour: 4:48 am, when lucidity and desolation meet. They are powerful ni...

"Out in Silence" is one of a few films dealing with the HIV and Aids epidemic in the early 90's among the Asian American community. Filmed in New York, Guam and Hawaii, portrait of two people and how they are dealing with issues of homophobia the lac...

Daily spleen, drunkenness among friends, conversations and the passage of time: the video diaries composed by Lionel Soukaz chronicle the early 1990s, the comet tail of those never-ending winter years and the nightmare of the AIDS years. But edited t...

A love story between two young men, separated after one of them contracted a highly stigmatized disease. Years later, the guy who abandoned his former lover due to that illness comes back in need of love and acceptance, which he failed to provide in ...

A short remake of Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice where instead of a cholera epidemic it's the "Acquired Dread of Sex" (ADS) epidemic....

Five gay Black men who are HIV-positive discuss how they are battling the double stigmas surrounding their infection and homosexuality....

At the age of 21, Nicolás decides to get his first HIV test. The uncertainty about the disease will affect the relationship with his family and his sexual life during the weekend he awaits the results....

One of the earliest documentaries to deal with AIDS....

Xulia was getting treatment at a rehab center back in 1985, when something happened that changed her life. Years after that, she published 'Imperfect Future', a memoir turned into a book. This short film is a dive in what's left of all that....

Rayen is a young theater student who has recently been infected HIV. She lives her illness in silence, as does her new gay friend: Manuel. Everything begins to get complicated when her ex-boyfriend Fiodor reappears after two years of absence and trie...

An exploration of the interconnected experiences of queerness and illness, this film navigates personal and collective journeys through medical spaces, sexual violence, and survival, displays the profound impact on body and identity....

Saar is an HIV positive gay man living in London, where he found refuge from the religious kibbutz where he grew up in Israel. Ever since he was diagnosed with HIV, Saar has craved his family's love, while they struggle with fears and prejudices....

Made during the last months of actor Kurt Raab, who died of AIDS in 1988. Raab, who had worked in both theatre and film, most notably with Fassbinder, was in the process of making a series of video sketches for a new production when he learned that h...

Joy Belmonte and Boy Abunda Originals present A Trilogy of Love Stories that features gender sensitive short films dedicated to the memory of Bernardo Bernardo who stars in one of the short films. The three short are Young Love (starring Lorenzo San...

Thabo, Thabiso and Moalosi are young, attractive and deal openly with their HIV status. Nearly a third of the population in Lesotho is HIV positive....

Identities attempts to describe the importance of silence in communication, of those moments when someone is making up or remembering what he is going to say. A silence that compels us to question the maxim "silence is death"....

An exploration concerning the act of revealing to a potential lover that one is seropositive to HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS....

On the night of the opening of his new exhibit, a queer artist who has just gotten out of an abusive relationship makes a connection with another troubled soul....

A cautionary tale about sex and consequences. What's the likelihood of five guys living in different cities but linked to each other by one individual with the HIV virus?...

Linda and Kenya narrate their testimony about being women and living with HIV in a time where stigma, negligence and androcentricity force them to start an activism that is still present in their community....