Coming Out

A diverse collection of stories about growing up homosexual in the Mormon religion. A close look at the culture surrounding Utah's Gay community, both positive and negative, told by active and non-active families of the LDS Faith.

Vic realizes she must come out when her friends, Jen and Kylie, start pushing her to date a man. One hiccup, Vic is terrified of coming out and tells her friend Ruth she plans to go full les in hopes her friends figure it out on their own. In her crusade, Vic tries out iconic lesbian looks and embraces every lesbian stereotype on the planet in hopes of avoiding the inevitable.

Quirky comedy about deaf identity - a deaf teenager reveals a personal secret to his hearing mother. Why does he have ‘dirty’ magazines and videos hidden in his room? What will his father say when he finds out? The unexpected revelations question whether family life will ever be the same again.

A mockumentary about coming out straight in a gay world.

In this short documentary in the city of Barcelona, ten people from different places tell us their stories about “coming out”, an experience so particular to the LGBTQ+ community but which can be very different for each person.

Follow the personal journeys of Rachael, a 21 year-old lesbian living in California, coming out to her estranged father; and Nevin, a 20 year-old African American collegiate all-star athlete in Ohio, coming out to his college rugby team.

Andreas Hübner is an unfriendly official who interviews immigrants wishing to stay in Germany. One morning an Adolf Hitler moustache appears on his face. All efforts to remove the fascist identifier fail and Andreas ends up alone in a field asking God for help. The answer arrives in the shape of a yoghurt carton with a 1945 sell-by-date.

Charlie and Mitch arrive at Charlie’s mother’s home to come out of the closet as stoners. But Charlie's fear of being exiled drags out the process—until somebody is caught with their pants down.

Made with self-turned personal archives, Super 8, 16mm, and video, performance capture, photographs found on glass plates. Digital editing. A film poem, to try to express a single memory through the palimpsest made of the multitude of images collected over the years.

The artist merges an audio recording of when he “came out” to his parents with a self-recorded sexually explicit video clip.

A range of gay men and women discuss the personal issues they faced when 'coming out'.

Tells the story of two best friends, Lukas and Chris. They have trouble expressing their feelings about each other. Due to their insecurities, they both seek advice online anonymous chat room. In this chat room, they get advice from the person they’d least expect.

Joe has been meaning to share his secret for weeks but his nerves continue to get the better of him. Now, after pressure from his impatient boyfriend, Joe is forced to face his fears. Coming out is a comedy about the emotional prison that secrets create.

125 employees of the Catholic Church come out as queer! In the exclusive ARD documentary, believers in the service of the Catholic Church in Germany dare to go public together. People who identify as non-heterosexual talk about fighting for their church - sometimes at the risk of losing their jobs as a result. There are priests, religious brothers, parish assistants, diocese employees, religion teachers, kindergarten teachers, social workers and many more who report intimidation, denunciations, deep injuries, decades of hide and seek and double lives. The Catholics report a system in which pressure, fear and arbitrariness leave employees uncertain as to what exactly happens when they stand by their sexual orientation or identity. The investigative documentary listens to those who live their faith every day and are nevertheless degraded by the church as an institution.

After one's untimely death- A group of friends learn what it is to live - and to love.

Kati leaves her hometown - a small provincetown in northwestern Germany - to live in the city of Hamburg. Being about 18 years old she has just finished school and seeks her freedom away from home. She knows she loves women but never dared to live accordingly. In Hamburg she soon finds a lover and a good friend, too, and the strength to face the narrow-minded people at home. After struggling with it for some time she returns for a visit to tell at least her mother and best friend.

Yo is a gay college student who doesn't have the courage to come out to his friends and family.

A young woman asks her brother to videotape her confession. The brother thinks this is all a joke and unnecessarily ridiculous. The woman nevertheless insists on proceeding on telling on tape what she's been hiding to her family including her brother all along. She is coming out.

Max has a date with a woman, and is invited to her appartment. However, he has a secret to tell her...

Joel has finally made up his mind, or so he thinks. Tonight he's going to tell his parents, but is this the right moment? How should he do it, and what should he say?