Duration: 92 minutes
Thursday, November 11, 2021, 17:00 Cinematheque 1 – Tickets
Angelos At Christmas
Director & Script: Fotis Zampetakis
Producer: ARTemis Productions
Cast: Dimitiris Georgalas, Marios Nousias
Greece, 2021, 18 min, Albanian, Modern Greek with English subtitles
It is Christmas Eve. Angelos, a mysterious 50-year-old man, observes a young boy singing the carols in the streets of Athens. He convinces the child to go with him in his car towards an unknown destination.
The Night Train
Director & Script: Jerry Carlsson
Producer: Frida Mårtensson
Cast: Erik Nilsson, Khalil Ben Gharbia
Sweden, 2021, 15 min, English, French, Swedish with English subtitles
Oskar is on the night train, heading home after an interview in Stockholm. With a long night ahead of him, he makes eye contact with Ahmad. For the first time he meets the gaze of someone who feels the same desire as he does.
HUGO: 18h30
Director: Simon Helloco, James Maciver
Script: Simon Helloco
Producer: Alexis Diop
Cast: Julien Branellec, Thomas Blanchard
France, 2021, 13 min, French with English subtitles
Hugo, a young actor is asked to improvise a story where he’s the actor and the director at an audition. He unfolds a tale that explores sex, disease and self-emancipation.
As the Crow Flies
Director & Script: Michael Søndergaard
Producer: Naja Falhof Aastrup
Cast: Lasse Steen Jensen, Viktor Flarkell
Denmark, 2021, 18 min, Danish, Swedish with English subtitles
The closeted small-town delinquent Mathias is shaken by the arrival of a charismatic Swedish ornithologist who is passing through to study the local birdlife. When Mathias’ friends catch the two young men in an intimate moment, it leads to a violent confrontation.
Ulrichs 1867
Director & Script: Sven Niemeyer
Producer: Sven Niemeyer
Cast: Ricardo Urbina, Mark Philip, Nicolas Köhler
Germany, 2021, 10 min, German with English subtitles
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895), was a lawyer, journalist, publisher, writer, pioneer of sexology and is known as the “first open gay man” and “first LGBTQ+ activist” in Germany. At the German Juristentag in Munich in 1867, he publicly called for the impunity of same-sex sexual acts for the first time in a speech, which led to tumultuous scenes among the audience and his speech being broken off.
Even if many things have changed since then, there is still a long way to go.
As Simple As That
Director: Luciana Bitencourt
Script: Felipe Cabral
Producer: Felipe Cabral, Luciana Bitencourt, Luciana Duque
Cast: Dida Camero, Charles Fricks, Pablo Pêgas
Brazil, 2021, 19 min, Portuguese with English subtitles
Suspecting that her son is gay, Joana shares her doubts with her husband. To her surprise, the boy’s father knows much more about the subject than she imagined. So why was she the last to know?