Movies: Aids

"Panic Bodies is a 70-minute, six-part exploration of the ways we experience the body's betrayals: disease, decline and death. The film is a panorama of emotionally charged recollections of strange relatives and estranged siblings, staged recreations...

Hans and Beate are a happy couple. They have two cute children and are well off financially. Furthermore, Hans is on his way up another rung on the career ladder. Everything looks good. There is only one small but; Hans has a male lover - and suddenl...

A docufiction that reveals the obstacles faced by AIDS victims during its worst period when it was a new and deadly disease. Interviews with famous Brazilian personalities and anonymous people about the disease’s pandemic all over the world, their op...

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"....

You may not recognize the name Ralf König, but you probably recognize his art. One of the most commercially successful German comic book creators, he is best known for books like “SchwulComix (GayComix)” that offer a twisted take on queer culture. E...

As Sid returns home from his lover Andrew's funeral, he flips on the radio to find the DJ announcing Andrew's call in request for the song from weeks before his death....

A Japanese PSA about AIDS...

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A recording of a play about the intangible impacts AIDS has on a community. This is a moving, beautifully photographed combination of theater and documentary that captures the incredible excitement of live theater and intensifies the power of the pla...

Dr. Goryu plans to create a cure for an incurable disease and get revenge on the medical world that has treated him poorly. However, due to a mistake, he creates a sexually transmitted deadly virus, and he himself becomes infected. If he infects othe...

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A mini documentary about the untold contributions lesbians made during the A.I.D.S epidemic....

"Prelude to an Announced Death" (5', 1991) is the artist's final work, completed shortly before his demise. It is one of the rare moments in which França's work in video assumes a quasi-documentary character. Set against a dramatic rendition of "La T...

A diverse program of films and videos by various artists who challenge conventional representations of gender, family and sexuality, curated by Tom Kalin for Drift Distribution....

A powerful story of loss, stigma, friendship, and being alive! "I will speak, I will speak!" tells how five HIV-infected men and women from Zambia (Lusaka), Russia (Moscow), the USA (San Francisco), Cambodia and England brave life while infected with...

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...

A 13-year old girl is infected with the AIDS virus following a bad blood transfusion. She then becomes the unwilling pawn in a battle between two politicians over government investments to prevent the spread of the virus....

A finished, but never released drama directed by Jess Franco....

Set in 1987, Odd Girls is the story of a young separatist lesbian who finds herself in the unexpected position of caring for a gay man dying of AIDS. Debbie finds herself battling ignorance, discrimination and her own political and personal views, wh...

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. ...