Love, sexual identity, acceptance, and love beyond gender. Cinobo celebrates Pride Month with a collection dedicated to people who dared to live their truth, no matter the cost. Films that transport us to a cinematic universe that’s a little more colorful, a little freer, a little queerer. Will you join us?

Pride Month: Queerness Saved Me

Normal

This year’s most unexpectedly tender film gives us an outrageously sexy Alexander Skarsgård, erotic scenes unseen in cinema until now, BDSM, and powerful, big-engine motorcycles. A love letter to those who feel more at home in the passenger seat.

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A shy man’s chance encounter with a mesmerizing motorcyclist draws him into a BDSM relationship as a submissive. An experience that will irrevocably change him.

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Best Screenplay - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2025
Nomination for Outstanding British Film of the Year | BAFTA Awards | 2026
Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay | BAFTA Awards | 2026
Nomination for Outstanding British Debut | BAFTA Awards | 2026
Best Film | British Independent Film Awards | 2025
Best Actor Award (Harry Melling) | Thessaloniki International Film Festival | 2025

Pillion

In one of Almodóvar’s early triumphs, a dark erotic triangle becomes entangled in games of violence and obsession, spiraling toward a tempestuous finale. The film that shattered the boundaries of Spanish cinema in the 1980s.

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After an uncertain breakup with Juan, successful porn filmmaker Pablo meets Antonio and embarks on a brief sexual relationship with him. When Juan decides to write to Pablo, Antonio inserts himself into their correspondence, having developed a violent obsession. Pablo is terrified by this turn of events, yet simultaneously enters a new phase of creative inspiration while working on a play about his trans sister.

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Teddy Award for Best Feature Film | Berlin Film Festival | 1987

Law of Desire

The great revelation of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival came from Belgium with a wonderful and tender debut that had no traces of didacticism and trailed the internal physical conflict that determines the coming of age of a young child.

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15-year-old Lara is determined to become a professional ballerina. With the support of her father, she is thrown into the ultimate battle. Her indignation and impatience grow as she realizes that her body does not meet the requirements of classical dance, because she was born a boy.

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Golden Camera | Cannes Film Festival | 2018
Queer Palm | Cannes Film Festival | 2018
Un Certain Regard Award for Best Actor (Victor Polster) | Cannes Film Festival | 2018
Audience Award | San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2018
International Competition | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2018
Nominated for Best Motion Picture | Foreign Language | Golden Globes | 2019

Girl

Honored at Athens International Film Festival, Cannes and a host of international film festivals, Saim Sadiq's explosive directorial debut sets fire to prejudices and gender stereotypes, speaking of the liberating power of love.

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As the happy patriarchal Rana family longs for the birth of a boy, the youngest of the men in the family sneaks into a love dance theater and ends up falling in love with a dynamic and ambitious trans starlet. Their forbidden love story slowly illuminates the whole family's desire for sexual revolution.

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Queer Palm | Cannes Film Festival | 2022
Jury Prize - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2022
Sutherland Award (Honourable Mention) | London Film Festival | 2022
Best Screenplay | Athens Film Festival | 2022

Joyland

Oscar winner Sean Baker's fifth feature film was shot entirely on iPhone 5s, thrilled Sundance and Athens Film Festival, and cemented the director's name as one of the great hopes of independent American cinema with its emotional generosity.

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On Christmas Eve, Sin-Di, a transsexual who has just gotten out of prison, meets her best friend. The latter tells her about the rumor going around that while she was incarcerated, her boyfriend and pimp was cheating on her. Determined not to let the betrayal go unanswered, Sin-Dee will drag her friend through the streets of Los Angeles in search of the man who cheated on her and broke her heart.

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Official Selection - Nest | Sundance Film Festival | 2015
Official Selection - International Competition | London Film Festival | 2015
Independent Camera Award | Karlovy Vary Film Festival | 2015
Best Supporting Actress (Mya Taylor) | Film Independent Spirit Awards | 2016

Tangerine

In his third feature film, the hitherto enfant terrible of French-language cinema Xavier Dolan delivers a baroque melodrama of epic proportions about the entropic power of love and the complex journey of transition, full of color, music and emotion.

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A young philologist suddenly announces to his partner that he wants to dress in women's clothes, but he does not want to divorce her under any circumstances. Against all social norms, the two will fight to stay together.

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Best Actress (Suzanne Clément) - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2012
Queer Palm | Cannes Film Festival | 2012
Best Canadian Feature | Toronto Film Festival | 2012

Laurence Anyways

A moody journey full of tension, love and hate in constant succession, portrayed in absolute aesthetic freedom and a frenzied camera lens, in yet another stylistic marvel by Wong Kar Wai that touches upon the unpredictability of life.

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A gay couple goes to Argentina on vacation. At some point in their trip they break up. Not having the necessary money to return home, one of them starts working as a doorman at a bar while staying in a small room. One day his ex-partner, who spends his nights out with various people, visits him injured and bloody. While taking care of him, he loses his job but manages to get another one as a dish-washer at a Chinese restaurant. There he meets a young man from Taipei who is traveling the world.

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Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 1997
Audience Award | Arizona International Film Festival | 1998
Best Actor | Hong Kong Film Awards | 1998

Happy Together

A delirious, '80s-inflected, exploitation romance drama, Rose Glass' ("Saint Maud") second feature ("Saint Maud") is both dreamy and nightmarish, talking about love, revenge, bodies, violence and lust. Kristen Stewart and (apocalyptic) Katie O'Brien are given their all in the film - soul and body.

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Jackie is determined to make it as a bodybuilder and heads to Las Vegas to enter a competition. On her way, she passes through a small town in New Mexico where she meets Lou, the reclusive and low-key manager of the local gym. Lou's father is an arms dealer and holds the reins of a criminal syndicate. Jackie and Lou fall in love. But their relationship triggers a series of violent chain reactions.

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Official Selection | Berlin Film Festival | 2024

Love Lies Bleeding

A perfect example of entertaining and, at the same time, political cinema, that highlights issues of solidarity and activism, in the footsteps of "The Full Monty", a proud example of the proverbial ability of the British to manage bittersweet stories.

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A group of London activists made up of gay men and women arrives in a small Welsh town where they will be joined by a handful of striking miners and their families, who stubbornly resist the neoliberal Thatcher policy of that time.

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Queer Palm | Cannes Film Festival | 2014
Nominated for Golden Globe | Golden Globes | 2015
Outstanding British Film | BAFTA Awards | 2015

Pride

A sweet embrace to an unknown world, the one that every young person must discover when coming out of their shell. A supernatural growth of the need for emancipation in one of the most beautiful European films of recent times.

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A shy young girl leaves her religious parents behind, in a small west coast town in Norway, in order to study at one of Oslo's universities. One day, while she is in the university library, she experiences an intense and unexpected seizure, which resembles those caused by epilepsy. Equally unexpected is the attraction she feels for a beautiful fellow student, which seems to respond to the magnetic presence of the lonely, strange provincial girl.

Thelma

Tina Romero takes her father George’s zombie legacy and injects it with color, chaos, and fresh life in a wildly entertaining horror-comedy that lives for the drama - and the gore. Starring Katie O'Brien from Love Lies Bleeding and Jack Haven from I Saw the TV Glow.

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When a zombie apocalypse erupts in Brooklyn during a massive warehouse party, an eclectic crew of drag queens, club kids, and bitter rivals must put their drama aside and use their unique talents to battle the brain-hungry undead.

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Audience Award | Tribeca Film Festival | 2025

Queens of the Dead

The Oscar nomination for Best International Film and the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes 2022 are just two of the multiple awards won by the second film by Belgian Lukas Dhont, who, after "Girl", composes a fragile, sensitive and sublimely moving ode to loss and diversity.

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The very strong friendship of two thirteen-year-old boys is abruptly interrupted when they become the object of ridicule from their classmates. After a tragic event that will shock everyone, healing the wounds will become a slow and painful process towards acceptance.

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Nomination for Best International Film | Oscars | 2023
Grand Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2022
Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film | Golden Globes | 2023

Close

The reinvention of the Greek family in an improvised and playful paradise of youth, overflowing with glitter and soul. Silver Alexander Award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival for the feature debut of Nikos Pastras, which was discussed as few others in summer cinemas of 2023.

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The Bastards have left the city alone. In the countryside, their new home only smells of summer. Five girls and five boys live here, now, for the present. No one gets near here, here all of them keep watch, kiss each other, play dead. They are still kids. They are your kids. They are our Bastards.

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Silver Alexander - Film Forward | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2022

BASTARDS

Zacharias Mavroeidis manages to look the Greek historical past in the face and open-heartedly, without didacticism, with a modern and refreshing gaze. Audience Award at the Thessaloniki Festival and two unforgettably moving performances by Michalis Sarantis and Thanasis Papageorgiou.

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Aris, a thirty-year-old businessman on the verge of bankruptcy, moves into the house of his late grandfather, Aristides, who was a retired Greek Army officer. He soon reunites with childhood friends and a former colleague of Aristides. Trying to live up to his name, Aris gradually takes on the role of his grandfather.

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Audience Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2019
Youth Jury Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2019
Best Screenplay | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2020

Defunct

The film that re-established Chan-wook Park's popularity on a scale similar to that of "Oldboy". An erotic thriller during the era of Japanese-occupied Korea that magnetizes the audience due to its amazing visual work that turns it into a true celebration of the senses.

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In 1930s Korea, during the Japanese occupation, a young girl (Sook-Hee) is hired as a maid to a Japanese heiress (Lady Hideko) who lives a lonely life on a large estate in the countryside, with her domineering uncle (Kouzuki). But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket who has been hired by a fraudster to seduce the heiress, steal her property and have her locked up in a madhouse. Things seem to go according to plan, until Sook-Hee and Hideko "discover" an unexpected connection between them.

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Vulcain Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2016
Best Non-English Language Film | BAFTA Awards | 2018