Shortbus

Shortbus follows a diverse group of New Yorkers navigating love, sexuality, and emotional disconnection, all orbiting a bohemian salon where anything goes. Sex therapist Sofia struggles with her own inability to orgasm, while a gay couple faces relationship tensions and a dominatrix hides her loneliness. Director John Cameron Mitchell crafts a tender, explicit, and surprisingly heartfelt portrait of human vulnerability and the desperate need for genuine connection.

• All sexual acts in the film are completely unsimulated.
• Director John Cameron Mitchell crowdsourced characters via workshops over two years.
• The film features a real New York City salon as backdrop.
• Actor Justin Bond performs as themselves, a real-life cabaret legend.
• The opening sequence features the national anthem played unconventionally.

• It's just like the sixties, only with less hope.
• I've never had an orgasm. Not once in my life.
• Everyone in New York is looking for something they can't have.
• You can't fix what you can't see.
• This is where all the people who got lost come to be found.