Male Shorts: International V2

After the death of his mother, Emilio is not prepared to manage a cursed inheritance, the promiscuity of his desires and the discovery of a love. At 18 years old, he will be puzzled when he realises that fate sometimes hangs on something as fragile as the flight of a dove.

In Ethiopia, in a small country school, children have a lesson on the Millennium Development Goals. But one of the pupils, Tiya, is distracted, she doesn’t listen. She is staring at the window. Outside, some children are playing rugby... Abderrahmane Sissako's contribution to 8 (2008).

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.

It’s instant chemistry when Benji encounters Jake at an airport departures gate. Their on-going relationship unfolds through intimate trips to Amsterdam, revealing a complex power dynamic.

The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside.

Two strangers have an awkward post coital encounter.

When a trans guy is faced with difficult life circumstances, he has to find a new way to express old feelings.

In 1971, a young woman moves from the French countryside to Paris and begins a passionate love affair with a feminist leader.

Catalão, Brazil, 1984. The rural region of Batalha dos Neves is made up of large crop pastures, a few farms and divided in half by the São Marcos River. Antonio lives alone and isolated taking care of his small farm until the day he encounters Marcelo, a lonely motorcycler who suffers an accident crossing the region. Antonio takes care of Marcelo’s wounds. The two fall in love and live a story that transforms, destabilizes, and causes ruptures in each of them.

A man's dying wish is for the people in his life to participate in a 450-mile charity bicycle ride through Northern California.

Janosch, an interpreter, is called to help during a police deployment at the Port of Hamburg. A young African woman has barricaded herself in a container ship and threatens to commit suicide. In order to get her out, Janosch promises to help her, an offer which bears unexpected consequences.

Yair Takes care of his sick mother. She develops dependence upon him while his boyfriend asks him to move in.

When sixth-grader boy Qiu is bullied in school for having gay dads, his stepfather Howard, a flamboyant Jazz trumpet player, must confront his own nightmares of childhood bulling before he can provide his son a feeling of security.

After being discovered trying to escape, a woman must survive the night with her abusive girlfriend.

A young man recently released from prison attempts to rebuild his life after the death of his mother.

A troubled "twunk" ventures down a destructive path, searching for a solution to his problems and a way to ensure his sister's continued support.

After the death of his wife, a man moves from Mississippi to a run-down Hollywood apartment, where he meets someone new.

Marguerite and Coline fall in love at their local swimming pool, where they kiss for the first time. The stopwatch starts and there already is not much time left. Hold your breath depicts five pictures, five memories, five phases of their story.

A young man unravels color-soaked memories of love, faith, and violence—and the horrific night that forced him to choose between survival and himself. As past and nightmare begin to blur, he struggles to reclaim his story from a world that demanded he repent for who he has always been. Based on true events and marking the feature directorial and screenwriting debut of Bella Thorne and starring Jason Parks, COLOR YOUR HURT is not just a thriller, but an act of witness.

In this short film the audience is confronted by one young man and his reaction to text messages received from other guys on different gay dating apps. It explores communication between gay men today and the use of dating apps.