A Curtain Raiser & Other Shorts 2007
A Curtain Raiser & Other Shorts 2007
Un lever de rideau et autres histoires (original title)
Not Rated | 2h 12min | Drama, Romance | 12 September 2007 (USA)
Storyline:
DVD release of seven short films by François Ozon originally produced between 1993 and 2006. A Curtain Raiser, X2000, Bed Scenes, Little Death, Truth or Dare, A Rose Between Us, Victor.
Wonder 2019
Wonder 2019
TV-MA | 16min | Short, Drama, Family | 20 July 2019 (USA)
Storyline:
WONDER tracks the events that transpire when Sammy encounters a heroic drag queen and secretly starts dreaming of trick-or-treating as a female Super Hero for Halloween. Confused and fearful of these unfamiliar feelings, Sammy begins to question his gender in relation to the world around him, and how this secret will affect his relationship with his blue collar, single father, Frank.
Daddy 2019
Daddy 2019
Short | 1 October 2020 (USA)
Storyline:
After the death of his wife, an 80-year-old man checks into the Plaza Hotel to celebrate their first anniversary apart, hiring a male escort to take her place.
Looking for Langston 1989
Looking for Langston 1989
R | 45min | Biography, Drama | 1 October 1989 (USA)
Storyline:
A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.
The Beep Test 2017
The Beep Test 2017
La Course Navette (original title)
17min | Short, Drama, Sport | 17 March 2017 (Canada)
Storyline:
Wojtek is a mysterious new student at school. This is why he is a prey designated for Thomas and Philippe, two students in search of entertainment. Not finding the words in front of his assailants, Wojtek will go back to his physical education course to express the substance of his thoughts.
Soft Like Me 1996
Soft Like Me 1996
26min | Short | 18 March 1998 (USA)
Storyline:
On a secluded prairie farm, adolescent boys labor in wheat fields for a sexually predatory warden and his farmhands, who threaten to feed them to a voracious beast if they ever disobey. The newly arrived Linus instantly catches the warden’s eye, and begins to receive secret visitations from a mysterious girl. The other boys tell Linus the legend of a special boy who fled the farm and became a glorious angel that will one day return to free them all. When Linus asks the girl if she is the angel, her answer is enigmatic. After the warden’s favorite boy dies, Linus is poised to become the next victim. The girl reappears and promises to help him escape, but with hope comes punishment.
