Maria Rusche

Two unpopular queer girls in their senior year start a fight club to try to impress and hook up with cheerleaders so they can lose their virginities before graduation.

Through interviews with her partner cum archivist, Florrie Burke, this delightful homage celebrates the life and love of iconic lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer and the deep imprint that she made on the world.

After an electric one-night stand, two New York millennials draw up a friends-with-benefits contract to avoid the pitfalls of their past relationships

College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.

After witnessing a violent crime, Elizabeth faces a dilemma, to bury what she knows or speak out. In the days that follow Elizabeth struggles to come to terms with the burden of responsibility and new challenges at work.

Georgica, a seemingly bizarre story of a woman who spends the summer stealing the sperm of young, attractive male life guards by planting condoms where they frequent, stalking them at night and then retrieving the sperm from the used condoms to inseminate herself. It is only after we expose Sophie's past that we start to realize, maybe she's not so crazy after all.

It's Halloween night and Renee is madly in love with Jim. On their way to a party, Jim detours to a haunted house where Renee is forced to confront a terrifying situation.

Recently released from prison, Beth is working with her public defender to get her son back from her sister, who was awarded legal custody while Beth was incarcerated for ten years. Soon after, Beth forms an unlikely alliance with Jess, an idealistic young protégé of the public defense team, who decides to take on Beth's cause whether she likes it or not.

When Sue's cousin Genelva visits her from Suriname, they go out to a fancy club with Sue's two best friends. After having an unpleasant encounter with the club's bouncer at the door, the course of their night changes completely.

The film is set to the theme of love and loss. Two women find themselves completely drawn to each other but one fears the consequences from society in 1978.

After some time apart, Andrew hopes a game of catch will help him reconnect with his father.

The Pink Detachment is an update of “The Red Detachment of Women” (1964), a Model Opera from China’s Cultural Revolution. Here the protagonists are an accident-prone worker and a ballerina-manager who has the tools to alleviate the worker’s problems. At the center of the piece is the color equation, Red + White = Pink, from which multiple parallel meanings emerge. The first is the old term “pinko,” meaning a watered down Communism, or a liberal with uncommitted Red sympathies. The second is a proposal to solve future crises in meat supply by re-valuating hot dog and sausage production as a solution, by integrating ‘undesirable’ portions of pig with the ‘desirable’ portions, embodying perfect equivalence in consumable form. And the third is pink as femininity – not as a ‘natural’ fleshy softness, but rather a synthetic, engineered (and potentially violent) hybridity.

Follows a group of teens who overcome societal bias and through inclusive fashion design and friendship.

Jules, a nomadic, independent singer-songwriter, travels from city to city, playing gigs for anyone who will listen. She doesn’t have much, just a guitar in the backseat of her beat-up Ford Taurus, which often serves as a hotel room when she can’t scrounge up enough to get herself a real bed. She’s used to bumps in the road – disgusting gas station bathrooms, cash shortages, homesickness – and has grown accustomed to her solitary lifestyle. When her solo tour makes a stop in a quaint town, she anxiously invites her ex-girlfriend, Phoebe, who’s attending medical school nearby. Jules and Phoebe reconnect almost instantly, and Jules is suddenly faced with everything she’s been missing. Five Song Tour asks, simply, how do we balance the pursuit of creative passion with the need for stability, the comfort of home, and the universal desire for human connection?