Lio Mehiel

A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.

Amanda Ogle is a woman living in her aging Toyota Camry on the streets of Seattle. When her car is stolen and impounded, she’s thrust into a relentless legal battle against an indifferent system. What begins as a fight to reclaim her car evolves into a deeply human story of resilience, dignity, and the power of one woman’s voice in the face of systemic failure.

Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety, unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for their son’s suicide note.

A couple's harrowing last encounter takes on a strange new life as an urban legend.

When Alex discovers an injured dog on the side of the road, their night takes a turn for the unexpected. Through their journey into the night, Alex has to face the work it takes to let someone in.

A queer couple takes to the bedroom to process a sexual assault through role play, until things fall apart when they forget their floral safe-word.

As a couple moves in together, full of hope and worry, their day is unexpectedly interrupted by the ghosts of former relationships.

After welcoming her baby, Ruby, home, the tightly scripted world of lifestyle influencer Jo starts to unravel. As increasingly sinister happenings mount, Jo is plunged into a waking fever dream where everyone is a threat and nothing is what it seems.

Ifa, a cowboy navigating identity and survival, and Ellie, a mosaic artist bound to a fading ranch, journey across the badlands, forging a volatile connection where devotion and betrayal begin to blur.

A portrait of Reyzl, a queer woman who is earnestly seeking romance on dating apps that she can not hack. Lacking any strategy to vet a perfect match, Reyzl decides to date whoever the algorithms choose. Catastrophe ensues when Reyzl's first online date turns out to be an appalling disappointment. When an unexpected opportunity for intimacy presents itself a second time, will Reyzl have the courage to open herself up and grasp it?

A contemporary tale set in an urban, queer community that follows Mia as she explores emotional and physical intimacy.

During the worst drought on record, a wealthy pregnant woman living out an escapist fantasy falls in love with a younger woman starting her life over.

The year is 1987. Before moving out of his childhood home, a guarded, young gender-queer person must share his true identity with his father. Bayberry is the name of the house, our story, and the young man who serves as your guide in witnessing this coming out moment between father and child. He will accompany you as you are surrounded by the characters' contradicting painful memories and hopeful visions of the future.

Over the course of a single hectic day in New York City, three people from Feña's past are thrust back into his life: his foreign father, his straight ex-boyfriend, and his 13-year old half-sister. Having lost touch since transitioning from female to male, Feña must navigate the new dynamics of these old relationships while tackling the day-to-day challenges that come with living a life in-between.

A poetic exploration of identity and self-discovery, using visual symbolism to depict a woman's transformation into a man. With the help of her inner manifestation, “The ice man”, she sheds her old skin and embraces her true identity.

On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Two queer exes reunite at a party.

As played superbly by Lío Mehiel in Bec Pecaut’s deeply affecting drama, Mad wrestles with turbulent emotions while recovering from top surgery at home with their partner and mother.

A casual late-night Tinder date turns macabre when Trey asks Olivia to stop smoking. Fueled by addiction, a desire to dominate, and the dissociative drug GHB, Olivia decides to prove that smoking does, indeed, kill.

An unnamed figure picks up a young man in his car. As the two drive together, and settle into an austere rental house in the country, the details of their arrangement become guttingly clear.

In Entre Amigxs, co-directors Lío Mehiel and Robert Nachman spotlight five trans and gender expansive artists living in Mexico City, compiled from Super 8 footage, 16MM film, and camcorder clips of moments between friends. Translated as Between (queer) Friends, the film engages with the individual journeys that contribute to a sense of collective freedom, exploring a community forging a space for themselves outside the dominant paradigm – through art, community, queerness, and living beyond labels.

A young, gender-queer person returns home to find his family has left, and the house has been sold. Perhaps they would still be there if he had come home as the Jane they all know.

The year is 1987. Before moving out of his childhood home, a guarded, young gender-queer person must share his true identity with his father. Bayberry is the name of the house, our story, and the young man who serves as your guide in witnessing this coming out moment between father and child. He will accompany you as you are surrounded by the characters' contradicting painful memories and hopeful visions of the future.

The year is 1987. Before moving out of his childhood home, a guarded, young gender-queer person must share his true identity with his father. Bayberry is the name of the house, our story, and the young man who serves as your guide in witnessing this coming out moment between father and child. He will accompany you as you are surrounded by the characters' contradicting painful memories and hopeful visions of the future.

A freshman girl sneaks out to counsel her senior friend. His actions make her question the boundaries of "friendship."

Two queer exes reunite at a party.