Johnny 2016

Johnny 2016

Johnny 2016
19min | Short, Drama | 10 July 2016 (USA)

Storyline:

A lonely and conflicted older man named Sam hires a young male sex worker named Johnny to spend the night with him in a motel room and be his first sexual experience with another man. Sam has spent his entire life trying to outrun his sexual attraction to other men. A devoted husband and father, Sam has carefully constructed a life he hoped would make him happy. But the harder Sam tries to force himself to be the man he believes he should be, the harder it is for him to resist becoming the man he’s secretly always been. As it turns out, Sam is not the only one with a secret, and the intimate night the two men share forces Johnny to come face-to-face with a haunting moment from his past that he thought he’d left behind. JOHNNY is a story about finding the strength and courage it takes to accept responsibility for the choices you have made and the person you have become.

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XY Anatomy of a Boy 2009

XY Anatomy of a Boy 2009

XY Anatomy of a Boy 2009

XY Anatomy of a Boy 2009
29min | Documentary, Short | June 2009 (Denmark)

Storyline:

Can you be a virgin, gay and into girls? This film is an intimate study of six homosexual boys. In the changing room some of the uncertainties and embarrassment’s of youth emerge, such as the tale of hunky Peter, romance and the naff value of losing your virginity during a Disney movie.

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Lilting 2014

Lilting 2014

Lilting 2014
1h 23min | Drama, Romance | 8 August 2014 (UK)

Storyline:

In contemporary London, a Cambodian-Chinese mother mourns the untimely death of her son. Her world is further disrupted by the presence of a stranger. We observe their difficulties in trying to connect with each other without a common language as, through a translator, they begin to piece together memories of a man they both loved.

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Tomcat 2016

Tomcat 2016

Tomcat 2016
Kater (original title)
2h 4min | Drama | 24 November 2016 (Germany)

Storyline:

Andreas and Stefan lead a happy and passionate life: Together with their beloved tomcat Moses, they live in a beautiful old house in Vienna’s vineyards. They work as a musician and as a scheduler in the same orchestra and they love their large circle of friends. An unexpected and inexplicable outburst of violence suddenly shakes up the relationship and calls everything into question – the blind spot that resides in all of us.

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My Fair Son 2009

My Fair Son 2009

My Fair Son 2009
Wo ruhua si yu de erzi (original title)
1h 32min | Drama | 12 May 2009 (USA)

Storyline:

A father and son attempt to reconcile after years of estrangement in this tender drama from gay Chinese filmmaker Cui Zi’en. Ray was raised by his grandfather, and spent much of his youth railing against his traditional father’s middle class lifestyle. Upon enrolling in art school, Ray strikes up a relationship with another student, and the pair quickly becomes lovers. When Ray’s father discovers the two young men in bed together nude, he begins to better understand what it really means to be homosexual. But things get complication when Ray meets Bo, one of his father’s top employees, and falls hopelessly in love with the outwardly straight professional. Bo is engaged, and by becoming involved in a homosexual relationship he not only risks his professional livelihood, but persecution in his personal life as well.

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Vive L’Amour 1994

Vive L'Amour 1994

Vive L’Amour 1994
Ai qing wan sui (original title)
1h 58min | Drama | 18 November 1994 (Italy)

Storyline:

The film focuses on three city folks who unknowingly share the same apartment: Mei, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her current lover; and Hsiao-ang, who’s stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.

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