List of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender-related films of 2016

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This is a list of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender-related films released in 2016. It contains theatrically released cinema films that deal with or feature important gay, lesbian or bisexual or transgender characters or issues and may have same-sex romance or relationships as an important plot device.

Films

Title	Director	Country	Genre	Cast	Notes	Ref
Almost Adults	Sarah Rotella	Canada	Drama	Elise Bauman, Natasha Negovanlis		[1]
As You Are	Miles Joris-Peyrafitte	United States	Drama	Owen Campbell, Charlie Heaton, Amandla Stenberg		[2]
Being 17	André Téchiné	France	Drama	Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila		[3]
Below Her Mouth	April Mullen	Canada	Drama	Erika Linder, Natalie Krill
Center of my World	Jakob M. Erwa	Germany	Drama	Louis Hofmann, Jannik Schümann, Svenja Jung, Sabine Timoteo, Inka Friedrich, Nina Proll
CrossRoad	Leon Lopez	United Kingdom	Short, drama	Marc Kibo Rovira, Katie Collins, Ashley Campbell, Calum Ewan Cameron	aka Crossroad
Daddy's Boy	Daniel Armando	United States	Drama	Al Miro, James Koroni, Jonathan Iglesias, Joe Lopez
Dawn	Jake Graf	United Kingdom	Short, drama	Nicole Gibson, Harry Rundle
Don't Call Me Son (Mãe só há uma)	Anna Muylaert	Brazil	Drama	Naomi Nero, Daniel Botelho, Matheus Nachtergaele		[4]
Esteros	Papu Curotto	Argentina  Brazil	Drama			[1]
First Girl I Loved	Kerem Sanga	United States	Drama	Dylan Gelula, Brianna Hildebrand, Pamela Adlon		[2]
G O'Clock	Mitchell Marion	United Kingdom	Short, drama	Mark "Kibo" Rovira, Phillip Weddell, Leon Lopez
The Gemini	Nyo Min Lwin	Myanmar	Drama	Okkar Min Maung, Nyein Chan Kyaw, Aye Myat Thu
The Handmaiden	Park Chan-wook	South Korea	Drama	Kim Min-hee, Ha Jung-woo, Kim Tae-ri			Henry Gamble's Birthday Party
Hurricane Bianca	Matt Kugelman	United States	Comedy	Bianca Del Rio, Willam Belli		[1]
I Love You Both	Doug Archibald	United States	Comedy-drama	Doug Archibald, Kristin Archibald, Lucas Neff		[1]
Il diario	Paolo Sideri	Italy	Drama	Chiara Pasquini, Giulia Carrara, Cristina Amoroso		.[5]
Independence Day: Resurgence	Roland Emmerich	United States	Science fiction	Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe, Jessie T. Usher		[6]
Inside the Chinese Closet	Sophia Luvarà	Netherlands	Documentary
The Intervention	Clea DuVall	United States	Drama	Clea DuVall, Alia Shawkat, Cobie Smulders, Natasha Lyonne, Jason Ritter		[2]
Jesús	Fernando Guzzoni	France  Chile	Drama
Jonathan	Piotr J. Lewandowski	Germany	Drama	Jannis Niewöhner, André Hennicke, Julia Koschitz		[1]
Kiki	Sara Jordenö	Sweden  United States	Documentary		Teddy Award winner for Best Documentary	[4]
King Cobra	Justin Kelly	United States	Drama	Garrett Clayton, Molly Ringwald, James Franco
Last Men Standing	Erin Brethauer Tim Hussin	United States	Documentary			[1]
Liebmann	Jules Herrmann	Germany	Drama			[1]
Little Men	Ira Sachs	United States	Drama	Greg Kinnear, Paulina Gracia, Jennifer Ehle		[4]
The Lives of Thérèse	Sébastien Lifshitz	France	Documentary	Thérèse Clerc	Winner of the Queer Palm
Lovesong	So Yong Kim	United States	Drama	Riley Keough, Jena Malone		[2]
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures	Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato	United States  Germany	Documentary	Debbie Harry, Fran Lebowitz, Robert Mapplethorpe		[2]
Memories of a Penitent Heart	Cecilia Aldarondo	United States	Documentary
Moonlight	Barry Jenkins	United States	Drama	Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Naomie Harris		[7]
Mother Knows Best (Mamma vet bäst)	Mikael Bundsen	Sweden	Drama	Alexander Gustavsson, Hanna Ullerstam		[4]
The Ornithologist	João Pedro Rodrigues	Portugal	Drama	Paul Hamy
Other People	Chris Kelly	United States	Comedy-drama	Jesse Plemons, Molly Shannon, Bradley Whitford		[2]
Political Animals	Jonah Markowitz	United States	Documentary			[8]
Rara	Pepa San Martin	Chile  Argentina	Drama	Julia Lubbert, Emilia Ossandon, Mariana Loyola, Augustina Muñoz		[4]
Sauna the Dead: A Fairy Tale	Tom Frederic	United Kingdom	Short, fantasy, horror	Tom Frederic, Kumar Muniandy	aka Sauna the Dead
Spa Night	Andrew Ahn	United States	Drama			[2]
Strike a Pose	Ester Gould Reijer Zwaan	Belgium  Netherlands	Documentary		Documentary profile of several gay dancers who performed on Madonna's 1990 Blonde Ambition Tour.	[4]
Take Me for a Ride	Micaela Rueda	Ecuador	Drama			[1]
These C*cksucking Tears	Dan Taberski	United States	Documentary, short	Patrick Haggerty		[9]
Teenage Cocktail	John Carchietta	United States	Drama			[10]
Theo and Hugo (Théo et Hugo dans le même bateau)	Olivier Ducastel Jacques Martineau	France	Drama	François Nambot, Geoffrey Couet		[4]
Tomcat (Kater)	Händl Klaus	Austria	Drama	Philipp Hochmair, Lukas Turtur	Teddy Award winner as best LGBT-related feature film	[4]
Trouser Bar	Kristen Bjorn	United Kingdom	Short, fantasy	Denholm Spurr, Scott Hunter, Hans Berlin, Ashley Ryder, Zac Renfree, Craig Daniel
Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things	Mark Kenneth Woods, Michael Yerxa	Canada	Documentary			[1]
The Untamed	Amat Escalante	Mexico	Drama
Uncle Howard	Aaron Brookner	United States  United Kingdom	Documentary	Howard Brookner, Aaron Brookner, Jim Jarmusch, Sara Driver, Tom DiCillo, William S. Burroughs	Exploration of the legacy of filmmaker Howard Brookner	[4]
Weekends	Lee Dong-ha	South Korea	Documentary			[4]
Who's Gonna Love Me Now?	Tomer Heymann Barak Heymann	Israel  United Kingdom	Documentary	Saar Maoz		[4]
You'll Never Be Alone	Álex Anwandter	Chile	Drama	Sergio Hernández, Antonia Zegers, Gabriela Hernández, Andrew Bargsted
Zona Norte	Monika Treut	Germany	Documentary			[4]

References

1. Inside Out Film and Video Festival, 2016.
2. "The LGBT films of Sundance 2016". Out, January 21, 2016.
3. Debruge, Peter (14 February 2016). "Berlin Film Review: 'Being 17'". Variety. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
4. "Films 2016". Teddy Award.

5. http://www.cinemagay.it/film/il-diario/

   — cinemagay.it

6. Chapman, Glen (June 27, 2013). "Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman return for Independence Day 2". Den of Geek. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
7. Nordine, Michael (11 August 2016). "'Moonlight' Trailer: Barry Jenkins' TIFF-Bound Drama Is a Life in Three Chapters". IndieWire. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
8. Stephen Farber (June 8, 2016). "'Political Animals': LAFF Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
9. "Gay Country Superstar Patrick Haggerty Is Still 'Cryin' Those Cocksucking Tears'". Vice, July 29, 2016.
10. Collis, Clark (March 10, 2016). "SXSW: Exclusive Teenage Cocktail teaser has masks, money, and mayhem". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 27, 2016.