In partnership with filmmaker Lauren Tabak and writer/consulting producer Barry Walters, we dive into the music career of Sylvester, starting from church choir in South Central LA to his early years in San Francisco. It follows his ascent to stardom through his evergreen, international hits "Dance (Disco Heat)" and "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)". Through his groundbreaking career, Sylvester blew open the doors for queer visibility and gender fluidity in mainstream music, leaving a legacy that continues to influence today's pop music.
A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.
On the occasion of a dance competition a young ballet dancer is in a foreign place. Alone in his hotel room loneliness overpowers him, until he meets a stranger on the run.
When a children's entertainer finds that a video of him masturbating has gone viral online, his life is thrown into chaos. Amid the fierce public backlash and media scrutiny he is forced to confront the wrath of the anonymous online haters to defend and redeem himself.
Two guys whose love lives are a wreck look forward to finding ladies on the high seas. Unfortunately, they've mistakenly been booked on a gay cruise.
Interviews with naval and military cadets in Russia explores such topics as male-bonding, hazing, patriotism, brotherhood and alcohol abuse.
Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef’s older brother, the legendary Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. Two young poachers, more boys than men, kill a gamekeeper when they are caught illegally hunting. Panicked, they retreat into a forest that grows steadily more forbidding and deadly as their fear for the future—and guilt over their action—mounts. Loosely based on hundreds of oral folk tales and legends that haunt the woods of Czechoslovakia, Vlácil’s contemporary updating artistically underscores the relationship between man and nature, crime and punishment, isolation and society, and guilt and memory.
Every day Paul crosses a canal that separates the Amsterdam city center from the north side, where his lover Christiaan lives and waits for him. A dear routine for both - until one day Paul meets Claire, who starts seducing him into her very own universe, the Hotel Paradijs. Claire makes Paul the audience of her own play: a play where the roles are reversed and into which Paul is undeniably drawn.
A high school student learns the meaning of love at an underground Manila movie theatre.
Six high school students, Will, Charlie, Bartok, Todd, Stevie and Linda, are handed invitations to a party by the school’s mysterious and enigmatic new student, Saddler. However, once they enter Saddler’s house, they are each somehow magically transported to a different room, where Saddler reveals their innermost guilty secrets and desires through the use of black magic and exploits them in an attempt to resurrect his mother, a three-hundred year old witch.
On a hot work day, two mechanics are at each others throats. What can they do to work it out?
Léo fantasizes about his weather forecaster. His obsession may be realized when he meets Luca. The night they spend together will take them through both desires and doubts that last into the early morning hours.
A witch informs a teen that he'll become a warlock on his 18th birthday.
Even though he's been living with Fouad for three years, Malik is going to marry Halima. Since Fouad doesn't accept this marriage, which would imply a total upheaval of their everyday life, Malik makes him promise not to attend the wedding, which will take place in his parents’ village. As the ceremony approaches, the pressure builds. Will Malik choose to save face in front of his family and the wedding guests or will he choose to save the relationship with the one he loves?
This collection of shorts focuses on the array of relationships boys have. Each film illustrates that there is no "norm" and how these boys are "No Ordinary Joes". Includes: Fruitcake (2003); George's Date (2005); Investigaytion (2004); No Ordinary Joe (2005); Porcelain (2004); Same Difference (2002); Spokes (1996); Work It Out (2001).
This compilation is a slice of life showing us the dramatic side of shorts and a darker side of the rainbow. These 5 films deal with death in one way or another and illustrate a real perspective of what life deals us sometimes. Includes: Blessing (2003); Our Father (2004); Quintessence (2003); The Invitation (2004); The Last Secret (2001).
The Whale Tattoo follows Joe who returns to the small Norfolk fishing town where he grew up to confront the past. Haunted by death, trauma and unfulfilled love, he soon learns the disturbing truth about the river running alongside the house his estranged father still lives in.
The dramatic story of Egon Schiele in his own words, celebrating his remarkable artistic achievements but also debating the controversies around his work.
Diary sketches of a young gigolo of Arab origin who is confronted with experiences and impressions in the big Parisian world that overwhelms and confuses him.