As director Marlon Riggs explained, “Tongues United was motivated by a singular imperative: to shatter America’s brutalizing silence around matters of sexual and racial difference.” Quickly becoming a flashpoint in public debates around race, sexuality, and public decency, Riggs’ masterful experimental documentary clearly accomplished this goal. Movingly poetic, erotic, angry and beautiful, Tongues Untied destroys longstanding myths surrounding what it means to be a black gay man.

The Italian summer of 1983 was hot in so many ways. Bookish Elio’s (Timothée Chalamet) summer takes an unexpected turn when his father invites American graduate student Oliver (Armie Hammer) to their gorgeous villa to assist in archaeology research. At first Elio and Oliver seem to have little in common, but the soon develop a passionate bond. The final instalment in director Luca Guadagnino’s “Desire Trilogy,” Call Me By Your Name is a visually rich examination of young love and loss.