A day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking and deflowering virgins.
Gustavo idolizes his older brother Paco and his punk, "Frikis" bandmates. When word reaches the Frikis of a potential reprieve from the effects of the economic crisis, they do the now unthinkable: deliberately inject themselves with HIV to live at a government-run treatment home. It's there that they create their own utopia to live and play music freely.
In the heart of Memphis, Tennessee, a determined college student named Ari is on the path to earning a BCBA degree. Regrettably, her world spirals out of control when she meets Chris, a charming yet troubled young man. As their relationship deepens, Ari is caught in a whirlwind of betrayal, drama, and heartbreak, especially when her closest friend, Stacey, turns against her. Through the pain and turmoil, they reveal a powerful truth: ho, Hurt People, Hurt People.
Gabriel Drolet-Maguire, a designer living in Montreal, takes us into their artistic world to discuss their HIV diagnosis. This is a timely and hopeful look at past and present day HIV/AIDS activism in Quebec.
“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.
Caleb, a South Florida teen, loves his camera, his weed and his grandmother. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when he's exposed to HIV. While he waits three months for his results, Caleb finds love in the most unlikely of places.
When fifteen year old Mercy faces the unimaginable, her courage and resilience come to the fore. What could have been the end of her story is only the start of a new journey.
Tyler, a young gay man who is HIV positive, must deal with the demons of his past when he is confronted by a mysterious woman.
Five Sydney-based youngsters navigate life, experience friendship, seek love, delve into their sexuality, and face the challenges of being a part of the LGBTQ+ community.
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 their relationship before.
Trey feels small. He is gay, HIV-positive and lonely in NYC. All around him are hulking, powerful men, intimidating and challenging him everywhere he looks. Throughout his day, he obsesses over how to get BIG - and his insecurities keep him trapped in a cycle of trauma and abuse.
One morning Leonardo Galicia wakes up with a dull pain and an intense fever. After a pandemic experience that made him aware of his mortality, the last thing Leonardo expected was an HIV-reactive result. The illness caused by the virus takes its reins over Leonardo's body and forces him to take an indefinite break while recovering in a hospital. There, he meets a mysterious young man, Augusto. By sharing common talks, hopes and dreams, the two will find refuge in each other´s arms.
Orlando and Saul meet by accident. The first one is a self-confident young man, university gymnast who avoids that his HIV-positive status defines him; while Saul, on the opposite, is insecure and barely understands what having an active sexual life means. The meeting will result in a new way of seeing life, one without fear where sex is an encounter and not a way of getting away from others.
Stonewall veterans (including prominent trans activist Sylvia Rivera) and HIV-positive New Yorkers take up residency on the Hudson River piers as cranes raze vacant buildings for a new skyline.
A chronicle of five friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS.
A poignant look into Britain's 40-year struggle with HIV/AIDS, told through the stories of some of the earliest HIV patients, healthcare workers and activitsts.
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 thirty years later with Stéphane Gérard, they are also a tribute to Hervé Couergou, the beloved partner at the center of all the filmed scenes. Slowly, in conversations between couples and friends, the dandy spirit and intimate confession overlap. What emerges is a portrait of a way of dealing with the times and their pain, which, beneath the act of commemoration, seeks to inscribe a living presence.
Roma is Russian-Armenian. He is studying to be a lawyer but does not want to be a lawyer, he tells his parents that he goes to college, but he works in a pizzeria, he tells a friend that he likes Natasha, but this is not true. Once he meets Lesha, and everything in life takes on meaning: study, friendship, relationships with relatives and friends. Everything in life becomes important with love.
The story of Shafay, a HIV-positive man who doesn't know how he contracted the virus.
The main character is the star of a popular TV series about doctors, actor Yegor Rumyantsev. Having achieved great success, he becomes an egoist and does not notice the feelings and experiences of those around him: he does not come to the shooting, leads a promiscuous sex life and deceives people. One day, Egor finds out that he has HIV. Rumyantsev's brother Lev is a mediocre and unlucky actor who runs a program about useful handicrafts on the cable channel "Ant-TV". Leo has a pregnant wife with two young daughters. He has no prospects for making money and moving up the career ladder until he gets a chance to replace his brother Yegor in the series.
Teacher and human rights activist Josimar falls in love with Luís but needs to delve into himself and understand himself in a new context of life and identity after receiving news that shakes him.
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