The Terrorists 2011

The Terrorists 2011

The Terrorists 2011

The Terrorists 2011
Poo kor karn rai (original title)
1h 43min | Documentary | 12 February 2011 (Germany)

Storyline:

Two men are in a fishing boat talking. One feels more than one sees that the seawater around them is warm and smooth, teeming with brightly-colored fish. By night, the rubber plantation also comes across as enticing and full of secrets, until lurid reminders of the bloody massacre flash up. This film arose from of a state of shock – about the news, about the subsequent repression in the authoritarian kingdom but also about the debilitating passivity that followed the pro-democracy Red Shirt uprising. It is a radical personal assessment in 17 episodes. An angry protest in the form of a diary, where sexual resistance and erotic fantasies are juxtaposed with thoughtful rummaging through the director’s family album, creating a confusing pamphlet. As a young boy in the 1970s, Thunska was already forced to flee Bangkok for the south with his mother.

Continue reading

A Bigger Splash 1974

A Bigger Splash 1974

A Bigger Splash 1974

A Bigger Splash 1974
Not Rated | 1h 46min | Documentary, Biography, Drama | 10 April 1975 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

When David Hockney’s beautiful lover, Peter Schlesinger, breaks up with him, it leaves David a complete emotional wreck. An artist, he suddenly finds himself unable to create anything, and is awash in depression and loneliness. After a time, David is able to find inspiration in his backyard swimming pool, and he begins a portrait of it. This unique docudrama presents a semi-fictionalized account of the story behind one of Hockney’s most popular paintings.

Continue reading

Teorema 1968

Teorema 1968

Teorema 1968

Teorema 1968
Not Rated | 1h 38min | Drama, Mystery | 27 November 1968 (West Germany)

Storyline:

A strange visitor in a wealthy family. He seduces the maid, the son, the mother, the daughter and finally the father before leaving a few days after. After he’s gone, none of them can continue living as they did. Who was that visitor ? Could he be God ?

Continue reading

Red 2020

Red 2020

Red 2020

Red 2020
32min | Short, Drama

Storyline:

In rural Pennsylvania, a teenage couple’s — James and Lizzy — relationship is interrupted by Aaron, the guy James almost hooked up with four months ago. Red explores being queer in conservative towns during hard times with empathy rather than disdain.

Continue reading

Struggle 2010

Struggle 2010

Struggle 2010

 

Struggle 2010
1h 34min | Drama, Romance | 2010 (Canada)

Storyline:

Struggle is the story of Darren, a young gay man, who arrives in Toronto seeking a new life. Running out of money, and with nowhere to live, he quickly falls in with a group of gay rent boys. Complicating matters for himself, he falls in love with Steve, one of the group. Steve already has a boyfriend. While desperately trying to avoid becoming a prostitute himself, Darren’s loneliness and infatuation with Steve eventually sets him on a downward spiral with tragic circumstances.

Continue reading

Boy 2012

Boy 2012

Boy 2012

Boy 2012
TV-14 | 48min | Drama | 29 September 2012 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

“Boy” tells the story of an invisible member of our society, an undocumented Filipino cleaner. He has no name. Moving continuously from one location to the other, he is living between being seen and being invisible, between his life with his boyfriend, an erotic dancer, and his role as financial provider of his family back home. All this changes when his boyfriend auditions for a dance company and one of his employers commits suicide. A charming photographer shows interest in him. He wants him as a model for a photo series.

Continue reading

Beat 2018

Beat 2018

Beat 2018

Beat 2018
TV-MA | 1h | Drama, Thriller | TV Series (2018)

Storyline:

Beat works as a promoter in Berlin’s most famous techno club and does not miss a party himself. The european secret services recruit him as an undercover insider. Soon, he discovers the shocking extent of corruption in his close network – as well as his personal limits.

Continue reading

Rope and Boys 1987

Rope and Boys 1987

Rope and Boys 1987

Rope and Boys 1987
Nawa to otoko-tachi (original title)
1h | Drama | 1987 (Japan)

Storyline:

Yuji is an university student living with his older brother. When he runs into an old acquaintance on the street, the two begin an affair and Yuji ends up getting drawn into the world of S&M clubs, where men put up elaborate and decadent shows for their customers.

Continue reading

Jay 2019

Jay 2019

Jay 2019

Jay 2019
14min | Short, Drama | 11 August 2019 (USA)

Storyline:

Jay, a 13-year-old Taiwanese boy, is fascinated by his toned and athletic older brother. In order to get close to him, Jay feigns an interest in basketball so that his brother will practice with him. Steadily, Jay’s fascination develops into an attraction—one with which Jay is forced to reconcile after his brother brings home a girlfriend.

Continue reading