Written from personal experience, 'Out!' focuses on the honest, painful, often awkward and sometimes funny, conversation that so many of us have to have when telling our parents we’re not who they expected us to be.
Out! (2020)
Coming out can be difficult… Coming out to your parents can be worse.
Written from personal experience, ‘Out!’ focuses on the honest, painful, often awkward and sometimes funny, conversation that so many of us have to have when telling our parents we’re not who they expected us to be.
The moment conversation dries up, and the truth comes tumbling out.
Official Selection at:
London International Short Film Festival
Film Pride – Brighton and Hove Pride Film Festival
Fastnet Film Festival
Queerbee LGBT Film Festival
Written by Paul G. Sloss
Starring Pauline McLynn and Paul Sloss
Directed by Ben Hull
DOP Jonathan Stow
Imdb user:
For many reasons, a surprising film. For minimalism, game of tension, for admirable performance of Pauline McLynne, for the atmosphere and fantastic dialogue. But, especially, for the so familiar aspects from many families.
A man, his mother at dinner. The absence of his sister. And the authoritarian lady fixing all the details. His confession and her absolutely surprising reaction to the words of her son.
The force of this splendid short film is result of its high realism. Because a mother knows. Always. But her silence, so wonderful explained in film remains the great heart of the hope and noble expression of love. I feel each reaction of the character proposed by Paul Sloss as mine. And that makes things heavy and easy. Short, just a great film.
