Lan Yu 2001
R | 1h 26min | Drama, Romance | 22 November 2001 (Hong Kong)
Storyline:
A young, gay student has a relationship with an older, successful businessman. The handsome playboy-businessman must choose between his comfortable, yet closeted straight life, or an honest, yet subversive life with the student.
Mary Lou 2009
Tamid oto chalom (original title)
35min | Drama, Musical, Romance | TV Series (2009– )
Storyline:
A musical series composed of songs by Israeli singer Tsvik Pick tells the story of a boy named Meir. Meir’s mother, stage name Mary Lou, is a talented singer and a great Tsvik admirer. One day, however, he suddenly leaves Meira and his father without explanation. The boy sets out to look for her and firmly believes that one day they will meet again. In addition to Tsvick Pick’s songs, he is accompanied during his search by Shuli’s best friend. The last part of the triangle of young people is Gabriel.
Funny Boy 2020
1h 49min | Drama | 10 December 2020 (USA)
Storyline:
Explores Arjie’s sexual awakening from a young boy to a teenager who falls in love with a male classmate, just as political tensions escalate between the Sinhalese and Tamils in the years leading up to the 1983 uprisings.
Charming but timid college student Mando is your typical hopeless romantic. He meets Barry, an out-and-proud basketball star who is practically a prince from a fairytale. The only thing spoiling Mando’s happy ending is the fact that Barry already has a boyfriend. To move on, Mando goes out with liberated architecture student Krisha and the two become lovers. One fateful day, Barry walks back into Mando’s life. Now, he needs to choose – will it be mind over heart or heart over mind?
Alice Júnior 2019
1h 27min | Comedy | 17 September 2020 (USA)
Storyline:
Alice Junior is a fiction feature film, a teen comedy that tells the story of Alice, a 17 years old teenager transgender (with a lot of personality!), that moves from Recife, a big town from Northeast of Brazil, to a fictional small town called Araucárias do Sul, from South of Brazil. Do you remember your first kiss? I bet you do. And it would turn into a good story? So imagine the first kiss of a transgender teenager, who leaves the big city and moves to a conservative small town in the south of Brazil, and is registered in a school that seems to have come out of the dark ages. All of it because of the perfumer Jean search, Alice’s father, for the aromatic essence of the legendary Imperial Flower, exclusive of the region. This is the story of Alice Junior, a transgender girl full of life, who wants to give her first kiss, but first, she just want to be who she really is.
His Mother’s Eyes 2011
Les yeux de sa mère (original title)
1h 45min | Drama | 23 March 2011 (France)
Storyline:
Torn apart by ambition? An investigative writer’s next target is a famed anchorwoman, whose daughter travels from Spain after attending the daughter’s father’s funeral. A boxer is training for a fight under the watchful eyes of his parents.
Mani 2020
Not Rated | 16min | Short, Drama | 17 October 2020 (Switzerland)
Storyline:
This is the story of a day in the life of Mani, a 12 year old boy, who is in love with his family’s personal driver, whom he finds out is having a secret affair with his mother.