A documentary film about AIDS and one unconventional woman's efforts to educate her small, Southern community. DiAna DiAna is a local hairdresser who transformed her beauty parlor into a center for AIDS and safe sex information.
"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 lack of support from the communities and family.
A successful but also hedonist young man gets afflicted with HIV by accident, eventually being abandoned by everybody around him. He becomes a problem for society until meeting another unfortunate person like him.
Another sensitive, thoughtful, and elegantly crafted film from home-grown McGee that speaks calmly to us of an alarming truth. Even in outports and relatively small Newfoundland communities, young people are vulnerable to becoming infected with HIV. The story centres on Trudy Parsons who was 20...
Absolutely Positive is a dramatic short film that follows four characters, all from different walks of life, as they get tested for HIV. It shows the events of why they decide to get tested, the thoughts that run through their minds as they wait for their results, and how they decide to live their...
Extremely rare Cuban documentary reveals rockers that find liberty by injecting themselves with the HIV virus, at a time when this was almost synonymous with a death sentence.
Malawian Short film, the first in the 'Letters From The Future' film series based on stories of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Filmed on location in Lilongwe (Malawi) co-directed by Khama Mbaula and Bright Makina. Shot entirely on a handycam at a 20$ budget, no professional equipment was used to make this.
This short film recounts Santiago's conflict in wanting to reveal something personal to his best friends and discovers that they themselves carry a lot of discrimination towards people with HIV. Between being able to accept his diagnosis and seek the acceptance of people around him, Santiago will...
“Je suis” highlights violence against women but also their strength and their hope of getting out of it, through a cross-dialogue between 7 women all played by the talented Annabelle Lengronne.
In the bustling city of Porto Alegre, stories intertwine in a scenario full of emotions and dilemmas. Priscila, Júlia, Joca, Guilherme, Leonardo, Maurício, and Bernardo face their anxieties and dilemmas, and the narrative unfolds in a web of interpersonal relationships marked by encounters and...
Kevin, a black social worker starts a gay mens support group. As a group they discuss such issues as HIV testing, relationships, AIDS, and sexual risk taking among black gay men.
The compelling story of Todd Coleman, a 22-year-old gay man with AIDS, and those who cared for him during the last weeks of his life. Todd, his lover, doctor, nurse, social worker and two volunteers reveal the human realities and the importance of practical support, friendship and unconditional...