Nikita, a gay teenager who falls in love with the most popular boy at his school. Observing their relationship is a rebellious outlaw character who lives by her own rules.
Director: Ksenia Ratushnaya
Guy (28) and his best friend Joy (31) are enjoying the gay pride parade to the fullest, when their bliss is abruptly put to an end by a deadly shooting. Fleeing the scene into the safety of Guy’s home, they take in a fellow pride parader, Dan, who seems in shock. With the shooter still on the run, they enter a night full of sex, drugs and paranoia.
A Sunday like any other in a Russian community in France. A reserved young man must overcome the cowardice of the one he loves in secret.
Director: Rémi Bigot
A businessman makes a regular arrangement with a Ukrainian prostitute, despite the youngster’s involvement in a controlling street gang.
Director: Robin Campillo
Set one evening in present-day Moscow, 16 year-old Pyotr is baited by an ultra-nationalist group known for their violent abductions and attacks bolstered by Russia’s LGBT propaganda law, but Pyotr has a dangerous secret.
Stars: Alex Ozerov, Max Rositsan, Juliana Semenova
The film follows a young man who is drawn into the dark, sexual underbelly of New York City’s gay club scene. Aleksandr (Masó) is a young Russian immigrant alone after the tragic death of his mother. He turns to drugs and renting his body to wealthy men to deal with his loss. Aleksandr finds himself torn apart with a new personality making its way to the surface.
Directors: Pau Masó, David Damen
The story of Rudolf Nureyev’s defection to the West.
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Writers: David Hare (screenplay), Julie Kavanagh
Stars: Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann, Adele Exarchopoulos, Sergei Polunin, Olivier Rabourdin, Raphaël Personnaz
Egor Korshunov (40) is a Siberian forest guard who works in a local environmental company, fighting fearlessly against poachers in taiga. Egor is a great family man, respected by his fellow villagers. He and his wife Natalia are expecting a second child. Unexpectedly, Egor finds out that he has terminal cancer and has only two months left to live. No traditional medicine or shamanic magic can save Egor. Finally, left with no other options, he decides to take the last desperate step. He attempts to completely change his identity in order to fool the oncoming death, just like Zhamba the drake, the hero of a legendary ancient Siberian epos, did.
A group of Pontian Greek immigrant teenage dreamers dwelling marginalised in the notorious and lustreless wild suburbia, witness the city’s repulsive face and an unrelenting world defined by prostitution, drugs, and inevitably, loss.
Director: Constantine Giannaris
SPASIBO is a short-film made in reaction to the homophobic law in Russia, which came into force the 17 of march 2012 in Saint Petersbourg. Today, the law is extended on the entire Russia.
A transsexual who survives prostituting herself in Paris, returns – with her two male lovers in tow – to her family home in the countryside to look after her dying mother. Director: Sébastien Lifshitz Stars: Stéphanie Michelini, Yasmine Belmadi and Edouard
Father (Andrej Shetinin) and Son (Alexei Nejmyshev) live together in a rooftop apartment. They have lived alone for years in their own private world…
Drama, Rusia, 2003, Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
