Opening Night 2023
14m | Drama, Romance, Short | Release date: October 14, 2023 (United States)
Storyline:
A high school teenager navigates the final minutes before his first stage performance, which includes experiencing his first kiss – unfortunately, in front of a live audience. Despite his rising anxiety, he finds comfort in a fellow classmate as they share a romantic moment.
The Senator 2024
O Senador (original title)
1h 26m | Thriller | Release date: June 20, 2024 (France)
Storyline:
Renan is hot, young, handsome, and entangled in an illicit affair with an influential, closeted right-wing senator. When he falls in love with Victor, a journalist determined to expose the senator’s hypocritical life.
Waking Up in Vegas 2023
15m | Short | Release date: October 26, 2023 (Netherlands)
Storyline:
One late summer afternoon, the two friends play football and go swimming in the nearby stream. As always, Aaron takes off his clothes and jumps into the stream, whilst Yael suddenly struggles to be naked. When Aaron also mentions that he finds Yael beautiful, the mood changes. Yael cannot handle the emotional openness of his best friend and rejects him. The tension continues through the rest of the afternoon and finally escalates into an argument. Back home, Yael walks past Silas’s room and sees him crying in front of the mirror. Moved by his brother’s emotional behaviour, Yael realises that he made a mistake rejecting Aaron and drives to his house to apologize. The two boys reconcile and manage to create a new intimacy that gives Yael the opportunity to get one step closer to himself.
Shadows In Mind 2023
1h 29m | Thriller | Release date: June 28, 2023 (United States)
Storyline:
Simon, an LGBTQ crisis hot-line operator, is becoming increasingly cynical over the frivolous calls he keeps receiving. It’s all complaining and no actual crisis. Until one night when a young man named Danny calls in saying he is going to kill three other people before killing himself. Simon gets Danny to unravel his story of betrayal, the dark web and dangerous relationships.
The First Kiss 2023
El primer beso (original title)
14m | Short, Drama, Romance | Release date: June 23, 2023 (Spain)
Storyline:
Andi is a teenager living in a small commuter town. No one knows that he is gay, except his older brother. Today is a special day because he is going to Madrid where he has a date with a boy his age whom he has met online.
Body of Christ 2023
Mi primera comunión (original title)
11m | Short, Comedy | Release date: April 22, 2024 (Spain)
Storyline:
With the school bullies hot on his heels shouting “faggot”, Pablo finds a half-open church that he does not hesitate to enter. The grandeur of the place is nothing compared to the beauty of the altar boy he finds giving communion to the parishioners, Sebastian. As if moved by an unknown energy, Pablo approaches to receive his first communion from his hands. By placing the host on his lips, Pablo feels the call, the awakening of his sexuality that moves him to become an altar boy to be closer to the divine young man.
Aaron, a hopeless romantic, finds himself reliving the same day after an awkward but intense encounter with the mysterious Trevor. His excitement at the opportunity for a do-over soon turns sour as Aaron suspects Trevor may be the cause of his time loop. Aaron’s relentless pursuit of love forces him to confront his own insecurities and the blurred boundaries between infatuation and self-destruction. Groundhog Day meets Vertigo in this cyclical tale of cosmic fuckery, Nicholas Giuricich’s first feature delves into the desire for connection and the heady allure of toxic relationships. Can Aaron break out of this cycle, or is he destined to live out his life stuck in the same patterns?