Altered Innocence (Firm)
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Desire Will Set You Free takes you deep into the free-spirited, drug-fueled, queer-paradise of contemporary Berlin. Ezra, a struggling American writer, meets Sasha, a Russian immigrant escort, and he introduces him to his world of clubs and parties, a dizzying and vibrant hedonistic underground. As they journey together through Berlin's layered history and unique subcultural landscape, their relationship begins to take a new form and inner desires...
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A stunning, dream-like odyssey through a beautiful and otherworldly Helsinki over the course of one evening, CONCRETE NIGHT follows the impressionable 14-year-old Simo as he keeps his soon-to-be incarcerated brother company. The official Finnish submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film captures the pain and joy of youth through exquisite, eye-popping black-and-white cinematography.
3) Stop-Zemlia
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Ukrainian
Appears on list
Description
Introverted high school girl Masha sees herself as an outsider unless she's hanging out with her two best friends, Yana and Senia, who share her non-conformist status. While trying to navigate through her last year of school, Masha falls in love in a way that forces her out of her comfort zone.
4) Baby Bump
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this magical realist coming of age story, eleven-year-old Mickey House is frustrated with his changing body - most notably, the over-sized ears sprouting out of his head. A loner at school with an overbearing mother who still treats him like a child, Mickey finds his only solace in selling urine to his classmates for drug tests.. Like a Walt Disney film directed by David Lynch, this outrageous and hilarious Polish import wowed audiences at the...
5) Queercore
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Started in the 1980s as a fabricated movement intended to punk the punk scene, Queercore quickly became a real-life cultural community of LGBTQ music and movie-making revolutionaries. From the start of the pseudo-movement to the widespread rise of pop artists who used queer identity to push back against gay assimilation and homophobic punk culture, QUEERCORE: HOW TO PUNK A REVOLUTION is just that: a how-to-do-it guide for the next generation of queer...
6) Violet
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A Grand Prize Winner at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival, VIOLET tells the story of 15-year-old Jesse who bears witness to his best friend's seemingly random murder at the mall.. A carefully calibrated character study in the tradition of Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park, filmmaker Bas Devos' meticulously calculated debut explores the process of coping in the midst of senseless violence.. Shot partially on 8-perf 65mm film by acclaimed cinematographer Nicolas...
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
Español
Description
One of the best trans films you've likely never heard of, Antonio Giménez-Rico's landmark 1983 documentary explores the lives and loves of a group of six transgender women living in Madrid in the years following Spain's transition to democracy. But more than that, it's a loving portrait of a culture finally emerging from the shadows after being hidden for far too long. Antonio's portrait of these women gave them the freedom to portray their own stories...
8) Madame
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A family saga based on private archival footage, MADAME takes us onto an intimate journey where Caroline, a flamboyant 90-year-old grandmother and her filmmaker grandson Stéphane explore the development and transmission of gender identity in a patriarchal environment. Promised to a domestic life in the 1920s, Caroline manages to free herself from the clutches of a forced marriage and becomes a successful businesswoman, defying the social rules of...
9) My Best Part
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
Nicolas Maury (CALL MY AGENT, KNIFE+HEART) stars in this Cannes Official Competition coming-of-age dramedy as Jérémie, a hypersensitive struggling actor with an uncontrollable green-eyed monster on his back. Grappling with personal loss, a love life in shambles, and a faltering career, Jérémie turns to his clear-headed mother for support (ten-time César Award nominee Nathalie Baye) in this auspicious, often touching, directorial debut.
10) Violet
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Nederlands
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jesse bears witness to his best friend's seemingly random murder at the mall. The film explores the process of coping in the midst of senseless violence. There is a sophisticated mosaic of loss, the permanence of trauma, and the tumult of youth.
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
Newly restored in 4K, David Buckley's landmark excursion into bisexuality, 70s relationship politics, and the historical importance of gay bathhouse culture is celebrated in his 1975 film Saturday Night at the Baths. When struggling pianist Michael lands a job at the legendary Continental Baths in NYC, his wife Tracy encourages him, even emphasizes how special this institution is. Michael however struggles with his own homophobia yet at the same...
12) The Erlprince
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Polish
Description
An exceptionally gifted teenage boy is about to start studying physics at a university specializing in the theory of parallel worlds. He has an extraordinary mind and a wounded soul, which his mother, who steers his life, seems incapable of healing. Then a Man appears in their lives and, as the Boy passes from the hands of the Mother into his care, a new order is established. Their torturous road forms a bond between the three central characters,...
13) Knife+Heart
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Paris, Summer 1979. Anne (Vanessa Paradis) produces third-rate gay pornography. After her editor and lover Lois leaves her, she tries to win her back by shooting her most ambitious film yet with her trusted, flaming sidekick Archibald. But one of her actors is brutally murdered and Anne gets caught up in a strange investigation that turns her life upside-down. Shot on 35mm and featuring a killer retro score from M83, KNIFE+HEART is an ultra-stylish...
14) After Blue
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
In a faraway future, on a wild and untamed female inhabited planet called AFTER BLUE, a lonely teenager named Roxy unknowingly releases a mystical, dangerous, and sensual assassin from her prison. Roxy and her mother Zora are held accountable, banished from their community, and forced to track down the murderer named Kate Bush. Haunted by the spirits of her murdered friends, Roxy sets out on a long and strange journey across the supranatural territories...
15) John From
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Portuguese
Description
15-year-old Rita spends her summer days flooding the balcony of her apartment, gossiping with her best friend, and avoiding her ex-boyfriend. After Rita visits an exhibition on Melanesia culture photographed by her older handsome neighbor she develops a crush that propels her into a world where fantasy and reality collide in modern day Portugal. Directed by one of the country's leading auteurs in gorgeous 16mm, JOHN FROM is a truly original, enchanting...
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An aspiring joker moves to Gotham City to make it big, but ends up grappling with her gender identity while forming an anti-comedy troupe and combatting a fascistic caped crusader. Helmed by writer/director/editor/star Vera Drew and using her own life experiences as a basis for the film, THE PEOPLE'S JOKER is a deeply personal journey that's as much documentary as it is parody.
17) Tiger Milk
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Best friends Nini and Jameelah are 14 years old. Summer has begun and Berlin is their playground. Sticky lipped and heavy-eyed from drinking tiger milk; a mix of passion fruit, milk and brandy, they flirt and use their innocent charm for fun. This summer, It's going to happen - sex and true love with Nico and Lukas. But when Jameelah's family is threatened with deportation back to Iraq, the two girls realize that their friendship is more important...
18) Grand Jeté
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Deutsch
Description
**Warning:** This film contains sexual content that may be upsetting and/or offensive to some viewers. Nadja (Sarah Nevada Grether) is an aspiring ballerina with the scars to prove it. A masochistic pursuit at her dream career has left her body battered, a map of the tumultuous torture dancers withstand on a daily basis. Working now as a dancing instructor for children, rather than as the dancer she always wanted to be, she decides to visit the adult...
19) Stop-Zemlia
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Ukrainian
Description
Hanging out with friends, smoking too much, spinning bottles and kissing, making mistakes, playing, refusing to accept, dreaming with open eyes - life as a teenager can be overwhelmingly beautiful and difficult at the same time. Introverted high school girl Masha sees herself as an outsider unless she's hanging out with her two best friends, Yana and Senia, who share her non-conformist status. While trying to navigate through her last year of school,...
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
14 year-old Logan is in the middle of middle school, crushing on a boy, daydreaming of another self, and waiting to see a mountain lion. An Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival and Executive Produced by Gus Van Sant, Altered Innocence proudly presents a brand new version of Cam Archer's angst-fueled experimental classic Coming-of-Age film WILD TIGERS I HAVE KNOWN.
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