A set of six short films that give different perspectives on gay life, all in different genres – realistic, sexy, horror, crime and one surprising comedy.
The films in this mix come from USA, Germany, France and a Swiss/Colombian production.
Duration: 90 minutes
Director: Zach Siegel
Script: Zach Siegel
Producer: Allison Tate-Cortese, Kyle Smithers, Cookie Walukas
With: Michael Sturgis, Patrick Reilly
United States, 2023, 11 min, English with no subtitles
Festivals:
Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2023
Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival
If Alex sleeps over, he’d have to tell his hookup something about himself that’s usually a dealbreaker.
Director: Hakim Mao
Script: Julie Debiton
Producer: Thierry Lounas, Claire Bonnefoy
With: Domhall Herdman, Arturo Giusi-Périer, Sayyid El Alami
France, 2022, 24 min, French with English subtitles
Festivals:
Festival Chéries-Chéris 2022
Queer Wave 2022
On the road to holidays, Jimmy and Guillaume replay their first meeting. Jimmy becomes a lost hitchhiker, Guillaume a lonely driver. They will pretend they don’t know each other, in order to play to meet and seduce each other again. Until a third player joins the game…
Director: Jorge Cadena
Script: Jorge Cadena, Li Aparicio Candama
Producer: Yan Decoppet, Gabriela Bussmann
With: Eudes Rosado, Leon David Salazar, Rubén Barrios
Switzerland, 2022, 15 min, Spanish with English subtitles
Festivals:
SXSW Film Festival 2023 – Special Jury Award Narrative Short
Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2023
Locarno Film Festival 2023
In the north of Colombia, a group of queer activists use extravagant performative actions to denounce the disastrous exploitation by the country’s largest coal mine.
Director: Mike Donahue
Script: Jen Silverman
Producer: Evan Jonigkeit
With: Adina Verson, Michael Braun, Dana Delany, Dylan Baker
United States, 2022, 16:07 min, English with No subtitles
Festivals:
Tribeca Film Festival 2022
Cannes Short Film Festival 2022 – Jury Award for Best Short Feature
Sundance Film Festival 2023
Troy has loud sex. Troy has loud sex 24-7. Troy shares a wall with Thea and Charlie. Troy is ruining their lives… or is he saving them? A darkly comedic tale of New York neighbours, the ways in which we become interwoven with the lives of strangers, and the unexpected consequences of unasked-for intimacy.
Director: Pierre Menahem
Script: Pierre Menahem
Producer: Mathilde Delaunay
With: Hervé Lassïnce, Pierre Moure
France, 2022, 15 min, French with English subtitles
Festivals:
Cannes 2022
Telluride Film Festival 2022
Guanajuato International Film Festival 2022
A high mountain hamlet, early summer.
Felix comes down from the pastures where he’s guarding his cows and finds his old mother lying unconscious on her bed. Shaken, he runs off.
He drives a few miles in the valley to the house of a young man who just contacted him on a dating app.
Director: Julian Dieterich
Script: Julian Dieterich
Producer: Julian Dieterich
With: Cino Djavid, Luc Schneider
Germany, 2023, 6 min, German with English subtitles
Festivals:
Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2023
GAZE Dublin International LGBTQIA Film Festival 2023
Fringe! London Queer Film and Arts Festival 2023
Two young men meet in the forest to have sex.
While they wait for one to piss on the other, a tender conversation about loss, violence and a shared past unfolds. Both are looking for comfort in the fetish.
Creators in attendance. Q&A session after the screening.
A feature documentary filmed over 21 years, follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie’s epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis including the
Winner of the Best Film award at the 2010 TLVFest, this is one of the most powerful films you’ll see this year. Director Mladen Djordjevic
21yo Dylan is a day laborer and a farm hand who works hard to support his family and be a father figure to his younger
