Meanwhile, daughter Eunice (Camilla Souza), who is lesbian or queer, has fallen in love with another woman and is contemplating moving out of the family home. Wellington’s superstitious wife Tércia (Rejane Faria) thinks that she might be cursed. Family patriarch Wellington (Carlos Francisco) hopes that his son Deivinho (Cícero Lucas) will become a soccer star. In this drama written and directed by Gabriel Martins, the Brazilian working-class Martins family is trying to navigate life after a right-wing president of Brazil is elected. Leonardo Feliciano/Courtesy of Sundance Institute Marte Um (Mars One) (Lifetime’s 2015 Whitney Houston biopic Whitney barely hinted at the relationship.) Directed by Kasi Lemmons and written by Anthony McCarten, I Wanna Dance With Somebody’s cast includes Naomi Ackie as Houston, Nafessa Williams as Crawford, Ashton Sanders as Bobby Brown, and Stanley Tucci as Clive Davis.
This Whitney Houston biopic is expected to not shy away from the legendary singer’s queerness now that her longtime best friend-slash-personal assistant, Robyn Crawford, confirmed in a 2019 tell-all book that she and Houston indeed had a closeted love affair. In theaters AugI Wanna Dance With Somebody Other out cast members include Bowen Yang, Harvey Fierstein, Dot-Marie Jones, Ts Madison, Miss Lawrence, Guillermo Diaz, Jim Rash, Amanda Bearse, and Peter Kim. Eichner, who co-wrote the Bros screenplay with director Nicholas Stoller, is the first openly gay man to co-write and star in a major studio film. Not much of the Bros plot has been revealed so far, but we know that Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane are playing the two central characters, who are committed to trying to have a romance with each other. This groundbreaking comedy from Universal Pictures is the first major-studio film to have a cast of all openly LGBTQ+ stars. Great Freedom won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and is Austria’s entry for the 2022 Academy Awards category of Best International Feature Film. During his time in prison, Hans becomes intimate with his cellmate Viktor (Georg Friedrich), who’s serving a life sentence for murder. In this drama set in post-World War II Germany, homosexuality is illegal, and Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski) is arrested and imprisoned many times over several years for being gay. Out in theaters, digital, and VOD on February 11, 2022
Written and directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka, Catch the Fair One won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.
She stars as down-and-out queer boxer Kaylee Uppeshaw, who goes on a dangerous quest to get revenge on sex traffickers whom she suspects have kidnapped her missing sister. Real-life boxer Kali Reis makes her feature-film acting debut in this brutal crime thriller. Written and directed by Megan Park, The Fallout had its world premiere at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival and took home multiple awards. Vada also becomes romantically attracted to schoolmates Mia Reed (Maddie Ziegler) and Quinton Hasland (Niles Fitch), who hid in a school bathroom with her during the shooting. While coping with this trauma, Vada grows distant from her gay best friend Nick Feinstein (Will Ropp), who has become an activist against gun violence. Out Januon digital and VOD in theaters and premiering on Starz in February 2022Īfter experiencing a mass shooting at her California high school, queer student Vada Cavell (Jenna Ortega) tries to hide her depression. Directed by John Carluccio, Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back won the Metropolis Award for documentaries centered in New York City at DOC NYC in 2019. In this lively documentary about Maurice Hines, the gay entertainer talks about being out for his entire career his sometimes-turbulent relationship with his younger brother, Gregory Hines and what it was like to be a gay adoptive parent before it was legal in most states. These movies include a groundbreaking rom-com from Billy Eichner, a new Whitney Houston biopic, and a documentary about a transgender woman who participated in a pioneering trans research study.īelow, read up on some of the most anticipated queer films expected to premiere in 2022. Queer cinema is more diverse than ever, with 2022’s slate of forthcoming films depicting LGBTQ+ characters in a variety of genres. Main image: Bros star and co-writer Billy Eichner.