16 year old, Noam, auditions for a school play despite his parents disapproval. From the moment he steps onto the back stage of the theatre, he falls in love. He falls in love with its lights, colors, sounds and its sense of freedom. Above all, he falls in love with Shay, who is also competing for the main role.
It is the early 1980's. Ten-year-old Rasmus is tired of his parents never listening to him and decides to run away from home. But before leaving he records a cassette tape with different advice on how to handle life. His mother is pregnant and he plans to leave the tape for his unborn brother.
It's about a girl and a boy separated by an unbreakable glass.
An office clerk as seen during her daily routine - all the little vibrations of her face. And a man, impatiently waiting for her, beyond the windows.
In this alternate history fable set in the 1980s AIDS Crisis, a closeted young man is thrust into the midst of an anti-government coup and finds that the animal within is stronger than the monsters that oppress.
Ellis, a fourteen-minute film directed by JR and written by Academy Award winner Eric Roth, tells the elusive story of countless immigrants whose pursuit of a new life led them to the now-shuttered Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital. Following its opening in 1902, approximately 1.2 million people passed through the facility, where the Statue of Liberty can be seen from the windows. Languishing in a sort of purgatory awaiting their fate, many were never discharged.
A schizophrenic pickpocket scours the underground trains at the command of his inner demons. But when an accidental score reconnects him with a long-lost love, he must test his strength and defy the voices in his head. In the end, the quest for love proves the most meaningful endeavor of all, and the final cure for his sickness.
Mysterious and eerie details regarding a young woman's murder start to unravel as a seemingly mundane day is not what it appears to be.
How would you react if you discovered your best friend is gay?
Against the backdrop of simmering racial tensions within her rural English town, the life of eleven-year-old Hannah changes forever when she meets a boy from a mysterious and forbidden world.
A heart-broken alien dreamer from the moon transitions into adult life in Los Angeles like any other 20-something.
Facing thirty, Elliott realises he has skewered the potential of every relationship that has come his way. The weekend his brother shows up on his doorstep and a bizarre neighbour begins spying on him; Elliott is driven to the edge in this uneasy psychological tale of obsession. Directed by the winner of the 2011 Iris Prize, Eldar Rapaport, who has since gone on to direct feature films, including the beautiful August.
August is a carefree boy who likes to discover the world and to play outside with his best friend Lize. One day, he encounters the seamy side of life and suddenly Lize doesn't want to see him anymore.
A film about a man walking a paper-thin line between hopelessness and euphoria, testing and pushing the boundaries of conventions and impulse.
A young boy away at boarding school struggles when his mother and father split up.
In a fancy villa, a young man and a nude youth cruise each other but never touch.
Part of BFI collection "The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome."
An artist takes a plaster cast of a nude male's body. Part of BFI collection "The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome."
A group of Spanish friends meet a girl who speaks English called Rachel. Victor is one of them but his English is not good enough to talk with Rachel.
A girl is captivated by the romantic myth of a beast on a moor - but a real beast is closer than she realized.