A teenager adores his sailor friend. He dreams about the exotic countries, marvelous starry skies and the inevitable homesickness that would bring his friend back to him. In a colorful series of mythical referential images, his fragile dreams get so unreal, that the enthusiasm for seeing his friend again turns into anxiousness.
Short about a camping trip for scouts where a boy falls in love with his best friend and causes tension in the scouting group.
Director: Bavo Defurne
Chile, 1986. Luchito masturbates while he contemplates Manuel, his 16-year-old neighbor, whom he can see standing by a window. Manuel discovers his sexuality. The window turns into an erotic cinematographic world that awakens a curiosity in Luchito, with disastrous repercussions for Manuel
A young man meets a stranger for an experience that will change his life forever.
Director: Hong Khaou
Stars: Jonathan Keane, Chris O’Donnell
A man sits at his computer and logs onto the interactive game “Caught Looking.” He watches as he guides his virtual self through passages, in black and white. He considers but passes on opportunities with rough trade, a teen boy, a threesome, sex in a public toilet, and the kitsch of retro 50’s muscle mystic in the Grotto of Tiberius. He sends his virtual self back to a pair of sailors, whom he films in 8mm. Then he meets a young man, a Tunisian named Karim. The man at the computer screen is interested. His ironic and self-mocking commentary ends; his tone changes. What will happen with Karim? Has our virtual voyeur been caught looking?
Julian is a melancholic teenager on holiday at the family cottage. Parents, brother, lakeside, and a world that seems out-of-place. Coming-of-age in Summertime.
A public swimming pool is transformed into a utopia where sexual orientation and gender binaries does not matter. A mixture of a short and a music video, a hybrid that connects the emotions of a short with beats and lyrics of the music. The film is an appeal for acceptance of your own and others sexual identity. Directed by Kai Stänicke (Germany)
Verona is the story of two young lovers separated by their rival fraternities. Set in a small college town wherein young men are groomed for corporate success in All-American hyper competitive fashion, Verona presents the fate of star-crossed lovers in a society that condemns the very nature of their love.
A homage to Jean Genet’s film _’Un chant d’amour’ (1950)_ , two prisoners longing for human contact and affection, a transcendent friendship in a simple act of sharing a cigarette in this short film by Sam Scott Schiavo.
I can’t move on. I wish I could. But I’m caught in the thought of what could have been, losing my grip on reality.
Director: Kai Stänicke (as Kai Stanicke)
The Morning After a drunken night out Harry’s (Joshua Berg) world is turned upside down when as he awakens to discover a naked man, Thom (Luke Striffler), in his bed. stunned and confused he tries to make sense of his repressed desires.
Director: Bruno Collins
H.G. (Corey Sorenson) living a happy and openly gay life in New York must return to Iowa to help his alcoholic father save the family farm. He no longer feels he is a member of his family tribe but digs into the work along side his father and a hired hand, Ryan (Lachlan Neiboer), who has his own set of problems raising his younger brothers and sisters following the death of their parents. He comes out to his high school sweetheart, Dawn (Taylor Gwynn) who raises a ruckus at the nrews and outs him to the whole town, forcing his father to take to his bed with a bottle. Alone one night in the most desolate part of town he runs into Ryan and discover the farm hand is not exactly the ladies man people think he is.
Dark Intentions is the game Bree and Benjamin play with unsuspecting frat boys. The price to party can be deadly.
Alex has a crush on her brother’s friend, Jesse. But Jesse likes Alex’s brother, Taylor. Alex knows something is up with her brother. Caught in an awkward position, Taylor takes Alex and Jesse to his favorite spot.
Samir Jagot is film director based in Rajkot who has directed an award winning short film Samanjas, which gives message to the people that short film which gives message to the people that One does not need only organs of body to live but attitude towards life.
WATER | VATTNET is a short coming-of-age film about family, loneliness and sexual identity. It examines the confusing period of adolescence and the first homosexual feelings of a young boy in a refreshing, open and stylish way.
Director: Marco van Bergen
Randy has a huge crush on hunky co-worker Jack, but Ray can’t figure out if Jack is gay – until Jack discovers a GAYDAR gun that could change everything.
Premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2010, screened at Cork International Film Festival 2011. “In My Queer Samsara, I set out to discover what is perceived, a stereotype, and to dig vertically down from that stereotype in order to uncover an underlying feeling about who we really are beneath the appearance in relation to that moment.” “My Queer Samsara is a critical look at a constructed social identity that hides underneath it a gnawing want; a need to ‘go back home’
