The Call (UK) Amir a prospective university student struggling with their sexuality, calls switchboard for advice and connection at three crucial moments. With each phone call, we see Amir take steps on their own personal journey towards self-acceptance. It shows some of the vital work helpline volunteers undertake daily, but also explores contemporary themes surrounding LGBTQ+ culture unravelling truths about the community from a wide range of topics. This short film was made to raise awareness of Switchboard’s new 0800 number showing the breadth of support the charity offers. Regreso A Xanadu (Spain) [Return To Xanadu] A young man caught in the vortex of addiction and chemsex through fleeting encounters and endless nights. His friend Marcos seeks to intervene directly, confronting him with the reality of his actions and their consequences. Other friends choose to distance themselves, feeling unable to handle the weight of the situation. The guy goes to another night of chemise party ...
Amir a prospective university student struggling with their sexuality, calls switchboard for advice and connection at three crucial moments. With each phone call, we see Amir take steps on their own personal journey towards self-acceptance. It shows some of the vital work helpline volunteers undertake daily, but also explores contemporary themes surrounding LGBTQ+ culture unravelling truths about the community from a wide range of topics. This short film was made to raise awareness of Switchboard’s new 0800 number showing the breadth of support the charity offers.
A young man caught in the vortex of addiction and chemsex through fleeting encounters and endless nights. His friend Marcos seeks to intervene directly, confronting him with the reality of his actions and their consequences. Other friends choose to distance themselves, feeling unable to handle the weight of the situation. The guy goes to another night of chemise party where his body eventually gives in. Xanadu is a term used to refer to a place of luxury, mystery, or exuberance.
A cult manages to create a deadly, zombie like disease that wipes most of the world's population. A man by the name of Azrael, who left the cult right before, and Rowan, an ex-therapist, form a loving relationship not built to last. Azrael became infected with this disease before he fled and has been waiting out his time left. As each day passes, Azrael becomes more and more sick while Rowan takes on the responsibility of caring for him. This was a very odd film.
Two men get married in secret and live together in the suburbs of Bangkok. Last day before their relationship ends, Today is just like an ordinary day. This mostly silent film just shows us two men (a couple ) just going about their daily chores and living without speaking a word to each other, since their last day together as a couple. It was kind of boring to be honest.
Charlie, an Asian Canadian young man is in love with Zach, his Caucasian best friend. Zach does not feel the same way because he is not attracted to Charlie. Zach likes this guy Liam, whom Charlie also likes but thinks that he may not be into asians. Using the dating app Banana, this short film shows the struggle Charlie has to navigate the online dating scene while concealing feelings for his best friend and wondering if guys not being into asians is just preference or racism?
A handsome 20-something gets ready for a date with a boy that he fooled around with years ago as a child. The sudden call from this guy makes him go down the memory lane where he remembers how he met this boy when he was 8, slept together and pretended to fool around sexually with each other and eventually just fading out. More of a monologue with some visuals of a guy going about his business.
A lonely man lives in a hotel in a village in France. He tries to go on with his life but ghosts come to his room to tell him who he really is and how to get out of his tortuous lethargy. I am not sure I fully understood the film. The ghost like figure that comes in kisses this man, but is he himself, or some ex or his imagination. Quite an odd film IMO!
After millennia of separation, Lucifer invites Michael to a seemingly innocent game of chess, which becomes a deeply personal meditation on the nature of good and evil, the love they once shared and their ultimate place in the world. A very odd film where the leads even share a kiss but I really did not understand this one. Was this about love lost between them or pain sifted through a filter of philosophical debate, moral inquiry and, finally, romantic despair. Odd!!
One night John and Alex hookup talking about what is the limit for TMI. When John asks Alex to stay over, he initially refuses but when he tells the reason why, it is one of the most bizarre secrets. John still wants him to stay and he probably wants to see for himself. I cant decide what's more surprising - the shorts bizarre premise, or how tender and sweet it's executed. The short is more like a fairytale than an outright horror.
Aditya, a young personal assistant in a renowned Hindu ashram for a charismatic spiritual leader, is torn when he develops romantic feelings toward a new innocent recruit named Chandra and realizes that his Guru has also developed a strong attraction toward the new disciple. Where and how will this end? Story is simple but it's the visual treatment of the film that makes it very special and beautiful to watch.
Philosophy student Ping just moved to Germany, when caught in the 2020 lockdown. Feeling lost and lonely he resorts to online hook up apps to stay social at a distance. But one hook up might make him doubt everything that matters. He meets someone online and pays them a visit. An epiphany and an unknown liquid add up to a special evening. A weird film but interesting at the same time.
A 35-year-old gay independent artist who lives in the Boa Vista neighborhood, in the center of Recife. He is inside the house, alone, without contact with his family and trying to face a deadly threat. He tries to escape the danger that is surrounding his home. An exercise of horror genre with the gear of the coronavirus pandemic, mixed with the anxiety of the quarantine period and homophobia lurking. This was really short but different and interesting.
A young man, Malik, and his boyfriend live in a neighborhood unfriendly to gay people. In their quest for a freer life, they decide to leave quietly at night. However, Malik's older brother finds out about it and he alongwith his gang, tries to stop them, putting their plan in peril. The film is about them chasing the happy gay couple. But in a twist when the brother finally sees them together, he realizes that they bth are in love and lets them go. What a compelling short story about a young Arab who, living in a Parisian suburb ghetto, has to escape from his family and friends only because he is gay.
Sam finds a tag belonging to a dead person in the sands of Fire Island which stirs up memories. When he was younger, he had an unforgettable love affair with Bobby who suffered from AIDS. Sam brings the tag to the engraved address, a crematorium in New Jersey. As Sam connects with a stranger also in mourning, he learns his memories hold the true answer to understanding grief. Based on a true story!!
George is estranged from his mother, and one day a surprise visit from her brings old conflicts to the surface. Arguments heat up and emotions flare, but the family rancor turns into an outrageous situation. As old conflicts are reignited, their flames become a fascinating show for a stranger, who just happens to have spent the night over. This was a very weird short film with some dance performances inter spread. I couldn't tell if the son is imagining all this or was it supposed to be real.
Ítalo meets a man in an abandoned warehouse for what he assumed to be an ordinary hookup. However, the encounter gradually awakens a deep darkness in his heart, and bloodshed soon follows. Supernatural/horror genre for gay films. An extremely strange ilm that I just did not understand on what really happened there.
Newly married to Maria, Ciro begins to suspect his wife was unfaithful at her bachelorette party, leading him to question the meaning of their marriage and his own identity. Just as Ciro is lost in confusion, Maria appears before him, unaware that an unexpected love triangle is secretly beginning. Ciro is himself having a gay affair with his close friend.
To keep Monty’s mind off the loss of his mother, Dale and Stacey take him for a drive into the night, uncovering more than just grief and pain. Dale and Monty have been estranged for a while and there is some homoerotic sexual tension/love between them. What starts as a well intentioned search for release upturns past demons. A weird gothic-ish short film, that I fully didn't get!
A happy couple's life gets disrupted because one of those who works as a photographer also likes to virtually flirt with hot men online and that understandable make the other person not trust his partner. Through drama and using concepts of polyamory and social media, it sheds light on a contemporary issue that permeates the ways we relate, love, and challenges both old and new conceptions of “love.” The film shows an honest crossroads that can occur in monogamous gay relationships.
This film is just under 45 minutes from 1988. Told from a girl Maggie's perspective who runs away form home in village to come to Tel Aviv, and finds home with other homeless teenagers, most of them gays and trans. The film tries to depicts the life of Israeli outcasts, gay teenage boys, in their escapist world, who go around in dress, parting and performing but also living in commune. Despite their frequent feuds, they give Maggie a sense of belonging that she has never had before.The film is about Maggie reinventing herself with this group of misfits.
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