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Gay Short Films : 104

Dante vs. Mohammed Ali (Netherlands)
Twenty-year-old Wolf wants to dance, write poems and be the sweetest near Alexander. But he is living in the boxing village of the Netherlands. When he has to fight against his best friend Alexander during a weekly match, he refuses. A rematch is confirmed, which brings Wolf’s feelings and emotions to a boiling point. He tries to convince Alexander to join him leaving the village, but his overly romantic message runs into a wall.

O Beijo do Príncipe (Brazil) [The Prince's Kiss]
A Gothic Horror retelling of "Sleeping Beauty", in which Frankenstein's hunchbacked assistant falls in love with his master's latest monstrous creation, and tries to bring it to life through a true love's kiss. A silent weird film, can be avoided.

Midnight Love (Thailand)
Content, the son of a film company owner, falls in love with Cop, a handsome guy who is looking for a job position as a security guard. Though they are different in both social status and roles, they are about to learn to know each other, and unforgettable friendship is going to begin.

Jeny303 (Colombia)
A composite work intertwining two portraits. On the one hand there is jeny, the feminine alter ego of a transgender millennial dealing with a heroine addiction. On the other hand there is the 303 building, an iconic modernist architecture in a public university in Bogota. Just 6 minutes but I didn't get it.

Stormy Honeymoon (Vietnam)
A newlywed gay couple cannot enjoy their marital bliss. They struggle with their jealousy, self-doubt, and communication barriers. When an old school friend of one the guys returns in pic, the husband stars having self doubt, only to realize he had nothing to worry. The narrative is carried by cheerful jokes, playful flirting, and enthusiastic performances.

Instinct (Germany)
Instinct is a queer metaphysical love story that weaves itself through real and imagined sexual encounters across darkrooms, forest cruising zones and highway shoulders. While trusting the energetic attraction of bodies towards each other, the film asks: what does it mean for a queer body to actively (un)learn what it might assume about another body's sex, gender, and desire? Extremely odd film with full nudity.

Warsha (Lebanon)
Warsha follows Mohammad, a Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut. One morning he volunteers to take on one of the tallest and notoriously most dangerous cranes in Lebanon. Away from everyone's eyes, he is able to live out his secret passion and find freedom. An impressive photography and solid performance by the main actor. A touching and beautiful tribute to the resilience and poetry of those who hustle on a daily basis.

Verde Limão (Brazil) [Lime Green]
About to enter the stage for the final time, a drag queen revisits all the scars that make up her Carnival. The last show of a drag queen. Memories , slices about youth, the show and the final. All - more suggested in colorful, kitsch, nostalgic manner. A film about oldness and prices to be yourself, about faith and show world and about happiness. Short, touching, and very artistic.

Le Variabili Dipendenti (Italy) [The Dependent Variables]
In a dark, velvety theatre there is a first kiss between Pietro and Tommaso. When the lights come back on, however, the two students have different expectations of what might follow. Memories of our first crush at school or our first kiss burn themselves into our minds as the world of sex and love opens up before us. But these experiences are also confusing, scary and uncertain. Beautiful short film.

Straight To Normal (India)
One fine evening, two best friends Martin and Hari meet up for a cup of coffee. Suddenly Martin confess to Hari about his desire to have an affair and that too with Hari. Initially Hari refuses but it turns out it's because he really loves Martin and doesn't wanna have just a sex affair. This film explores the alpha male mentality in a fun and compelling way with desires and secrets.

Take a Walk on the Wildside (Canada)
A look at 'Wildside', one of Toronto's first cross-dressing stores. This short film was so endearing, with a fascinating lead, a lady in 60s running the story and her clientele. It is heartwarming to see the clientele she gets and he interactions with them and hw its a one stop shop and a safe place for many people. 

Reviving the Roost (Canada)
An animated ode to a popular Edmonton gay bar that closed in 2007. An Indian guy, a gay man, remembers the Roost bar that closed in 2007. But through animation, he talks about internal homophobia within community, racism, sexism, moving to a large city where there is even more segregation within the queer community. An interesting though provoking commentary.

Ecosexual (Portugal)
Ecosexual is a poetic monologue about loving and making love with nature. It presents the male body as erotic object and as thinking, feeling subject. Through the senses of taste, touch, smell and sight, the protagonist loses himself in a communion with the natural world. Full on hard cock throughout. 

Roomies (Spain)
A soft porn short of 10 minutes about two roommates going all out in sex with everything on display for us.

Butterflies in Berlin - Diary of a Soul Split in Two (Italy)
Told via animation it is a story about Holocaust and gender identity together. Alex moves to Berlin in 1933, during the Weimar Republic period. Looking for his place in the world and his sexual identity, he becomes the first out-of-surgery transsexual in History. That happens unfortunately during the National-Socialism rise, a social disruption that turned the capital of sexual freedom in the most repressed country of all times.

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