Contradictions

The film is an adaptation of the novel Samar Habib by Ismåeel Walieddin. author of Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations. The main character, Ahmad, leaves rural eastern Egypt for the city hoping to become economically self-sufficient, gets an apartment for his parents, and obtains a law degree. He and his family are refugees from a town occupied by the Israeli army, Ismaåilia. Ali, the owner of the Malatily Bathhouse, offers to let him stay there for free. Ahmad encounters several characters there, including Naåeema, a prostitute who he becomes obsessed with, and Raouf, a homosexual man.

A reunion between a mother and her pregnant daughter, who need a moment to recognize themselves and to understand that they will live together again in a new situation for both of them. An exercise made by the author during her second trimester at the London Film School, inspired by the painting "La Coiffure" by Edgar Degas.

Boyfriends Hampus and Adrian are in a destructive relationship. When Hampus finally works up the nerve to call it quits, he finds himself relieved. Adrian, however, is not quite ready to say goodbye. Examining the final week of a gay love affair, award-winning short film director David Färdmar begins with the end.

Ryan meets Nathan and they fall in love over the course of their first date. It's only later, as their relationship progresses, that Ryan starts to wonder: is my boyfriend who I thought he was? Am I who I thought I was? They experience joy and pain together, trying to overcome the painful fear of whether or not you can truly know another person.

Scott gets a visit from Connor which brings his past back to haunt him, but will it change his future?

An honest, genuine writer discovers the painful truth of a handsome and charming yet manipulative and toxic love interest.

Ryan is a popular member of his community. He’s charming, helping and a social butterfly but Ryan has a secret.

A Jewish New Yorker is bedridden patriarch dying of lung cancer, confesses for the first time to son that he was always attracted to men. Despite his long-lasting marriage and faithfulness to wife.

Two young men - one sighted, one blind - see the world and their bodies in different ways. Unexpectedly, they find a connection beyond the visual in the collision of taste, touch and sound. The connection is sensual, and within it they each find something new.

The dramatized illustration of the invention of the bow-and-arrow through a romantic triangle foregrounded by the bloody conflicts between the Cave Dwellers and the Shell People.

In a post-trauma search for truth, Shon Sun’s path winds through a mysterious jungle where the line between past and present fades.

Maurice, a reticent young homeless man, somehow manages to get by in Brooklyn; he spends his nights in parked cars until he finds himself at Bizarre, an underground club renowned for its burlesque shows. Maurice is fascinated by the club’s playful revues celebrating self-determined sexuality and creative otherness, and the two female club owners both adore him. He soon becomes a part of their self-selected family, and begins to bond with introverted Luka. But Maurice turns his back on Luka’s growing affection. Running away from his true emotions he drifts aimlessly through the city. He tries to find his feet at a boxing club, where he meets Charlie. Unable to withstand the pressure of his repressed feelings, Maurice unleashes a mounting foment of emotions, pervaded by tenderness and menace.

The tragic story of two people fighting to break down the walls which stand in the way of communicating...

A 13-year-old Afghan refugee hustles around in a refugee camp when she experiences her period but has no access to sanitary napkins.

A very rich and lonely dying man discovers the sperm he sold to help get through college has resulted in three children. He is determined to get this dysfunctional group together - whether they like it or not.

Rufus, the priest, can't forget the first time he heard rap music.

A young man, having just finished making love, casually tells his lover that it was his first time having sex to which his lover reveals a tendency that not only ruins his after-sex glow but may change his life forever.

Busy discussing the details of her wedding on the phone, Alicia orders a coffee to go. As fate would have it, she unexpectedly bumps into her ex-boyfriend there.

A flat tire leaves Elanio and his brother Mirlo, two female traffickers, stranded in the middle of nowhere. While Elanio seeks help, Mirlo, surprisingly, meets Alondra, a young village girl who is willing to help them if they take her to Mexico City.