Speechless 2012
Wu yan (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 32min | Drama | 30 March 2012 (UK)
Storyline:
A guy is found by the police swimming naked. He can’t, or refuses to, speak and is sent to a hospital. Since no diagnosis can be made, he will be transferred to a mental hospital, when his male nurse decides to take another route. Slowly the reason for his speechlessness becomes clear. Together with the nurse’s girlfriend and a female friend of the silent stranger, their history is explained.
Staying Vertical 2016 UNCENSORED
Rester vertical (original title)
Unrated | 1h 38min | Comedy , Drama | 3 November 2016 (Hungary)
Storyline:
Filmmaker Leo is searching for the wolf in the south of France. During a scouting excursion he is seduced by Marie, a free-spirited and dynamic shepherdess. Nine months later she gives birth to their child. Suffering from post-natal depression and with no faith in Leo, who comes and goes without warning, Marie abandons both of them. Leo finds himself alone, with a baby to care for.
Daddy’s Boy 2016
1h 18min | Drama | 3 March 2016 (USA)
Storyline:
In front of the hot lights of a porn set and behind the closed doors of a burlesque studio, four young men leave boyhood behind and end up shedding more than just their clothes and inhibitions.
L’ennemi naturel 2004
1h 37min | Drama | 8 December 2004 (France)
Storyline:
A young nebbish but knowing police inspector sent on a French commune to investigate the death of a teenage boy must contend with the unfriendly locals who are either prejudiced against him or reluctant in helping him solve the case.
Noches de espera 2013
Noches de espera (original title)
Unrated | 1h 10min | Drama | 8 February 2013 (Spain)
Storyline:
Aitana, Pierrick, Jorge and Rita are all in their twenties and all look for ways to make their nights in the city of Madrid a little less lonely. Set against a background of drugs, sex, multiple partners and differing sexualities, Noches de Espera (aka Longing Nights) follows the individual stories of these young people. A candid portrait of four relationships highly loaded with eroticism from beginning to end.
Agonie 2016
1h 33min | Drama , Thriller | February 2016 (Germany)
Storyline:
On the 3rd of October a twenty-four-year-old student from Vienna kills his lover and chops up her corpse. Her torso is found in a dumpster, other body parts and the head are missing. There is no clue about the motive of the murder. A silent chronology of the events.
Thanatos, Drunk 2015
Zui sheng meng si (original title)
1h 47min | Drama | 7 August 2015 (Taiwan)
Storyline:
They live in an old house on the fringe of Taipei City: Rat and his elder gay brother Shanghe. Two brothers look for jobs to survive while search for themselves and long for a foothold in life. The younger works at market where he meets a mute woman who gets up to all sorts of craziness. The elder is attracted to a nightclub dancer and finds himself drawn into shifty business. With the rhythm of their wanderings, the film observes its protagonists: lives in limbo, without fixed coordinates, and evolves into panorama of a society that does not appear to welcome its next generation.
The Man in the Lighthouse 2007
Ang lalake sa parola (original title)
1h 48min | Drama , Romance | 3 September 2007 (Philippines)
Storyline:
Mateo is a lighthouse caretaker dating a teacher Suzette. The small town they are in is trying to increase tourism. Jerome stumbles across Mateo and Suzette having sex, whilst he is on holiday from Manila. A local a gay man, who pays local teenage boys for sex, talks to Mateo about the negative aspects of being gay in the Philippines. According to local legend, a lighthouse fairy seduces desirable men who then never marry. Mateo’s relationship with Jerome leads to self reevaluation.
Al Berto 2017
1h 53min | Drama | 5 October 2017 (Portugal)
Storyline:
It’s the summer of ’75 in Sines, Portugal. Al Berto, the writer, embodies an entire moving generation. He and his friends exude youth, eccentricity and hope for the future – but right after the fall of Portugal’s dictatorship system, the country is not yet ready for his love story.
