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On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship, and the pressure to create something great before time runs out. In 1992, Jonathan Larson performs his rock monologue Tick, Tick... Boom! in front of an audience at New York Theatre Workshop, accompanied by friends Roger and Karessa Johnson. He describes an incessant ticking noise he hears in his head, and begins telling about the week leading up to his 30th birthday and his desire to become a successful musical theater composer. Jonathan juggles work at the Moondance Diner in SoHo with preparing for a workshop at Playwrights Horizons of his musical Superbia. He has a party at home with friends, including his former roommate Michael, who left acting for advertising, his girlfriend Susan, a dancer-turned-teacher, and fellow waiters Freddy and Carolyn. While alone later, Susan tells Jonathan about a teaching job at Jacob's Pillow and asks him to come too. Jonathan visits Michael at his new Upper East Side apartment, celebrating his financial success and higher quality of life from their old apartment. Ira Weitzman, the Musical Theatre Program Director at Playwrights Horizons, asks Jonathan to write a new song for Superbia, as the story needs it. This troubles him, as his idol, Stephen Sondheim, told him the same at the ASCAP Workshop some years ago, but he can't come up with anything and he only has a week. Jonathan tries to get his agent, Rosa Stevens, to invite Sondheim to the workshop, but eventually just cold-calls Sondheim and others. He watches PBS's Sunday in the Park with George with Michael and Susan, and afterwards Michael asks him to join an advertising focus group to earn extra money. Susan also pressures him again to move with her, although he feels his career is just starting in New York. The next day he imagines the Diner full with Broadway stars. Carolyn tells him Freddy, who is HIV-positive, has been hospitalized, adding to Jonathan's anxieties as many of his friends have already died in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He walks down Broadway to Playwrights Horizons for the start of rehearsals for Superbia. Susan, frustrated by Jonathan's indecisiveness, breaks up with him. To get money to hire a full band for the workshop, Jonathan attends the advertising focus group. Making a good first impression, he considers a corporate future, but realizes he would hate it and deliberately sabotages it. Michael criticizes him for being in a financially unstable theater career, while Jonathan claims with his impending 30th birthday that he is getting too old to be successful. After finally getting an encouraging call from Rosa about his industry invites, he plans to write the new song the night before the workshop, but his power gets cut off before starting. Heading to a swimming pool to cool off, he pictures sheet music lines on the pool floor and finally comes up with the new song, which he writes out by hand. At the workshop are friends, family, and industry professionals, including Sondheim. Karessa brings down the house with the new song, 'Come to Your Senses,' and Jonathan imagines Susan singing it. He receives praise but no offers to produce Superbia. Rosa tells him he must keep writing, hoping that something will succeed, but he will likely face more rejection. Discouraged, Jonathan runs to Michael begging for a corporate job and perceived stability, but Michael changes his mind after seeing the workshop, encouraging Jonathan to continue in musical theater. When Jonathan accuses him of not understanding what it's like to be running out of time, Michael reveals he is HIV-positive. Finally grasping his career obsession has cost him his relationship with Susan and jeopardized his friendship with Michael, Jonathan wanders through New York before finding himself at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Hopping a fence to a piano, he reflects on his friendship with Michael and the sacrifices he must make, affirming he will continue his musical theater career. He and Michael reconcile. On the morning of Jonathan's 30th birthday Sondheim calls, congratulating him on the workshop and wanting to talk more about Superbia, lifting his spirits. Holding his birthday party at the Moondance Diner, attended by his friends, he is relieved to hear Freddy is to be discharged from the hospital. Susan gifts him blank sheet music paper to help in his career, promising to see 'the next one.' She narrates that the 'next one' was Tick, Tick... Boom!, before he returned to working on a previous project, which became Rent. She reveals he died of an undiagnosed aortic aneurysm the night before Rent's premiere Off-Broadway. He never experienced the success he desired, but his work lives on. In 1992, Jonathan performs the final song from Tick, Tick... Boom!, watching his friends and family in the audience, including Susan in the back.

A woman living in New York City falls in love with her gay best friend and becomes pregnant with his child. As they navigate their complicated relationship, they must confront societal expectations and their own conflicting desires.

When a woman discovers that the man she has fallen in love with still believes in Santa Claus, she is faced with a decision: should she accept his belief or reject it?

When a man comes out as gay to his best friends, they struggle to come to terms with his sexuality and their own attitudes towards homosexuality.

The 10 Year Plan is a romantic comedy about two best friends, Myles and Brody, who make a pact to be together if they are still single in ten years. As the ten-year mark approaches, they find themselves both single and decide to give their plan a try. However, their journey to true love is filled with hilarious mishaps and unexpected obstacles.

Set during the Vietnam War, 'Burning Blue' explores the secret relationship between two U.S. Navy pilots, as they navigate love, homophobia, and the pressures of military life. Their forbidden love puts their careers and lives at risk, leading to heartbreak and tragedy.

In Maybe... Maybe Not, a man named Axel deals with his sexual identity and explores his relationships with both men and women. With comedic twists and turns, Axel navigates the complexities of love and friendship.

A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.

A bisexual man enters into a fake relationship with a woman while he explores his attraction to men. As he grapples with his own identity, he finds himself drawn to a football player and confronts the challenges of being closeted. The film delves into themes of friendship, love, and self-discovery.

In the small town of Oakton, Halloween takes a deadly turn when a masked killer begins targeting its residents. As the body count rises, a group of stoners must uncover the identity of the murderer before they become the next victims. With a mayoral election in full swing and pumpkin carving contests underway, the town's Halloween festivities turn into a fight for survival. Halloweed is a thrilling horror-comedy that explores themes of friendship, deception, and the dangers of small-town life.

Six friends (three men, one gay and a woman) gather together in Jason's house outside Beirut for his birthday. Each of them has a very difficult family situation. During a long, intense night, eating, dancing and talking seriously, the young people make an ideal pact of love and friendship in the name of freedom, of a dream, of the hope for a better future. As in a new Decameron, modern rebels against the oppression, traditions, sexism and homophobia that permeate their society. But the violence of the real world breaks in on their splendid isolation. The first Lebanese gay movie, which was censored in its country of origin. This film combines different genres and styles: a Bollywood style format full of songs, choreographies and colours, but also a powerful melodrama, alternating moments of comedy and dramatic elements. A manifesto of liberty and emancipation, with a cast of actors as stunningly beautiful as fashion models.

Both Joey and Mike are faced with breaking boundaries that previously limited them. There's a first time for everything.

Pageant is a documentary that follows a group of individuals competing in a beauty pageant for female impersonators. The film explores their personal journeys, the challenges they face, and the friendships that develop throughout the competition. It delves into the themes of identity, gender expression, and the power of performance.

Two friends, Björn and Hampus, decide to move in together. If one ignores the fact that the two men are completely different, theirs is a close relationship. Being in love with your best friend and, in spite of this, or because of it, arguing to the point where it becomes unbearable.

A socially-anxious college student makes multiple attempts to ask out the bookstore clerk that he has a crush on.

Stani grows up in the wastelands. Far away from the next city and a gay youth group he discoveres his identity. During nights he meets other men at hidden places, who seek the same as him – until he gets to know a boy named Johannes.

After narrowly avoiding a school shooting, a young teacher begins to suspect death has more sinister plans for him.

Queer My Friends portrays a very important chapter of Kang-won’s life: his coming out as gay and the changes he goes through from the eyes of his best friend Ah-hyun. This 30s coming-of-age buddy film draws how these two from such different backgrounds grow up together by questioning, exploring, and, of course, fighting each other. While Kang-Won struggles to embrace his sexuality, nationality, and identity, Ah-hyun asks herself what it means to find oneself and accept others for who they really are.

Pietro, a young selfish male, is kicked out of home from his girlfriend Laura, tired of being put in second place to football and friends. After an exhausting search for a room to rent, Peter goes to live with Omero, a friendly man whose homosexuality goes unnoticed by Pietro.

When John and Leo reconnect after ten years apart, John surprises Leo with a one-way ticket to Polynesia and an enticing -- or maybe ridiculous -- offer.