The Lesbian Film Archive
College Films
College is a place of exploration, a place away from parents and the constraints of high school, which makes it a perfect setting for lesbian films. In these films, the characters navigate friendships, relationships, and one college reunion, and one murder plot, all with varying success.

Two college aged best friends grow apart as they explore different paths in their senior year, as Mackenzie (Elise Bauman) comes out and Cassie (Natasha Negovanlis) attempts to break up with her long time boyfriend. Funded by a kickstarter, Almost Adults tracks what it is like to be growing up and discovering new aspects of your identity.

Jackie Kirk (Sarah Stouffer) is a former child actress, who just wants to attend college as a normal student. Instead, she quickly becomes involved with her professor, Catherine Stark (McAtee). Bloomington depicts Jackie and Catherine navigating their questionable relationship alongside challenges like preferential treatment for a scholarship, Jackie returning to acting, and their age gap.

A lesbian twist (and more twists to come) on Strangers on a Train, two college students (Agnes Bruckner, Madeline Zima) vow to kill each other's enemies. In Breaking the Girls, the girls in question seduce and betray each other in turn, desperate to come out on top and stay out of jail.

Cat is photographer and student in college, who is awkward around her fellow students. Cat processes the trauma in her life, such as her ill mother or a homophobic bully, through her camera lens. When she voyeuristically becomes interested in April (Faye Sewell), the two girls become friends. Quickly, romance blooms between girls as they learn to trust themselves and each other.

A group of college friends, made up of lesbians and their token straight friend, reunite for one the bris of the new baby to Katie (Stacy Nelkin) and Victoria (Monica Bell). After the bris, the group of women take a vacation together which reignites long term arguments and crushes, and attempt to solve these issues and form new, deep bonds. Overtly political and funny, Everything Relative is invested in depicted lesbian friendship at its messiest.

In a rare film about lesbians with disabilities, Margarita with a Straw is a sweet, trans-national coming of age film. Laila Kapoor (Kalki Koechlin) is a student and musican with cerabal palsy studying at Delhi University, who recieves a scholarship for a semester at NYU. While there, she meets Khanum (Sayani Gupta), an activist who is blind. Despite problems, the girls begin a secret relationship, that continues to grow as time passes.

While at a shiva, Danielle (Rachel Sennott) cannot get a break, confronted by well-meaning but pushy adults about her plans after college, her sugar daddy she has been lying to, her ex-girlfriend, and vegetarianism. Cringing and clever, Shiva Baby is a claustrophobic horror movie dressed up for a funeral, a satisfying anxiety attack of a film.

Nhi (Chi Pu) and Tu (Gil Le) were best friends at the age of 10, until they were separated because of distance. Yêu takes place when the girls find each other again as university students, now grown up and ready to explore their feelings toward one another.