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Cal (2013) by Christian Martin
Set in the economically depressed England of today, Cal is a startling sequel to the hit 2009 film, Shank.
Interview by Pip Ellwood of 
What was your intention when you set out to make the film?
Buffering is a 180 change of direction. A comedy is not only hard to write but enormously challenging to get right tonally. I think we’ve ended up with a good example of a hybrid of the two – a drama and a comedy – a dramedy if you like! The material could so easily have pulled me back towards drama and indeed I found it difficult to go in the other direction but Darren (my co-writer) was a good helmsman navigating these un-chartered waters for both of us. When you start to look at how ridiculous life can be it becomes easier to commit ideas to paper and subsequently a script. 
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Human Warmth (2013) by Christophe Predari
Human Warmth (2013)
6.6
Antoine has a desire. His passion and his love is so overwhelming that he has to stay close to Bruno. He loves his warmth and he needs it. But as with any relationship, soon comes the time of detachment and what will happen if Antoine s body stops responding?
It portrays a break up with one of the parties involved not wanting to give up and making a last attempt at keeping his lover or maybe just trying to get break-up sex. Either way their confrontation is intercut with some sort of dream/fantasy sequence where they are naked in the woods and engage in physical contact that feels like a performance art version of sex. It’s one of those cases many would label as artsy-fartsy. I found it intriguing but wasn’t grabbed emotionally.
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Human Warmth (2013) by Christophe Predari
Antoine loves being close to Bruno. He loves his warmth. He needs it. But comes the time of detachment, when the body stops responding. Director: Christophe Predari Stars: Thomas Coumans, ...
Home from the Gym (2014)
In this beautifully shot, wordless scenario, a young man returns from the gym and undresses with a quiet, existential air. Director: Robert Hawk ...
I Am Syd Stone (2014)
A Hollywood heartthrob returns home to rekindle an old closeted relationship. Director: Denis Theriault Stars: Alyse Hand, Gharrett Patrick Paon, Fonya Irvine ...
Tonight It’s Me (2014)
A hot young hustler finds himself in uncharted waters when he spends the night with a client who's far from the "johns" he's used to servicing. Director: Dominic Haxton ...
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Holy Water: Kickstarter Video by Sebastian LaCause
Hustling creator Sebastian LaCause opens up about his personal connection to his latest project, Holy Water – a short film about a gay priest at a crossroads of identity and self-acceptance.
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Holy Water: Kickstarter Video by Sebastian LaCause
Hustling creator Sebastian LaCause opens up about his personal connection to his latest project, Holy Water - a short film about a gay priest at a crossroads of identity and ...
Hustling (2011–2012)
Since working as an adult film star and escort since his early twenties, Ryan Crosby, aka Rod Driver, has had a pretty easy life when you think about it. But ...
I want to create a film with social impact. The cultural trend known as Social Impact Entertainment is deftly defined as; the use of entertainment to have a positive impact on society and communities. People intentionally trying to affect change and using entertainment as the delivery system for that change. I want this film to ignite positive momentum toward fighting HIV related stigma and homophobia that many within the community feel in their homes, schools and by society at large. My film explores one priests struggle with not only his sexuality but also the dark consequences of not knowing your value. The priest in my film represents many gay men in our community. He is someone who has spent a lifetime denying large parts of himself in order to feel worthy. He is someone who has spent a lifetime not loving himself and not knowing his value.
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Who am I – Being religious vs. being gay (2019)
A gay themed film about the fight between religion and sexuality.
Director/Writer: Jirka Cerny
Stars: Miguel Barroso, Jirka Cerny, Gabriel Horn
Many people are afraid to come out due to their religion and society around them.
This presents also the major obstacle for the main character, who struggles with his homosexuality.
However, you cannot fight the person who you are.
One day, Bastian decides to date a guy and that changes everything.
Did you have problems with coming out because of your religion?
How did you deal with that?
Being gay has nothing to do with religion. If someone is gay, this person cannot be changed to be straight just because of religion.
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This film was done in 48 hours during a KinoDynamique in Vienna with 0 budget.
Everyone who worked on the film got to know each other only 24 hours before the film was made.
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Miller & Son (2019) by Asher Jelinsky
Miller & Son (2018)
MILLER & SON is a character-driven drama that looks at the dilemma between social acceptance and authenticity. The family auto shop of MILLER & SON represents everything that Ryan has known and loved: her father, her community, her passion for cars, even her destiny to inherit the shop. Ryan compartmentalizes her femininity from her life at the garage, managing to find a livable compromise between her daytime and nighttime worlds. When an unforeseen event forces her worlds to converge, Ryan must confront her conflicting identities.
The film asks what we risk when we express our authentic selves, and what we gain. Similarly, it asks what it means to be a parent when your child’s identity seems to reject the life you lead and provide. MILLER & SON touches on universal themes of family and belonging within the specific setting of a family-owned auto shop in rural America.
Miller & Son premiered in Clermont Ferrand earlier this year, which was followed by selections at the Palm Springs ShortFest, SIFF and BFI London. The short has gone onto win two major prizes; the BAFTA Student Film Award and the Student Academy Award (qualifying for the 2020 Academy Awards). Jelinsky already has two new projects in development, a first feature dealing with a transgender love story and a sci-fi series about the relationship between humans and the environment.
Director Bio
Asher Jelinsky is a Los Angeles–based director and writer originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. Jelinsky earned an MFA in Directing at the American Film Institute Conservatory and holds BA degrees with honors in Media Studies and Public Health from Pitzer College. Their latest film Miller & Son was nominated for the Grand Prix at Clermont-Ferrand, shortlisted for the BAFTA Student Film Awards, and won both the jury and audience awards for Best Narrative Short at the Ashland Independent Film Festival.
SELECTED FESTIVALS
Student Academy Awards – Winner, Gold
BAFTA Student Film Awards – Winner, Best Live Action
Cannes Lions Young Director Award – Winner, Gold
Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival – Nominee, Grand Prix
Venice TV Award – Nominee, New Talent
BFI London – Official Selection
Palm Springs International Shortfest – Official Selection
Seattle International Film Festival – Official Selection
Maryland Film Festival – Official Selection
Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival – Official Selection
AFI Fest – Official Selection
Outfest – Official Selection
Ashland Independent Film Festival – Winner, Best Narrative Short (Jury & Audience Awards)
Nevada City Film Festival – Winner, Best Performance Jesse James Keitel
North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Festival – Winner, Best Long Form Dramatic Short
FilmOut San Diego – Winner, Outstanding Artistic Achievement
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SENTINEL (Excerpt): Molly Griffin
Creative Team: Danielle Russo (Choreographer/Director), Molly Griffin (Performer/Collaborator), Jenny Lai (Costume Designer), Luke Ohlson (Filmmaker), and Marc Witmer (makeup designer).
7/19/2018, MANHATTAN/BROOKLYN
Molly Griffin performed on a Brooklyn-bound Q train crossing the Manhattan Bridge. On May 20, 2017, a 24-year old lesbian woman was beaten unconscious in an anti-LGBTQ attack on the same Q train route. Homophobic slurs over a seat that she and her partner occupied escalated to a violent assault resulting in a concussion and broken eye socket when finally pulling into DeKalb Station. Molly’s performance sought to honor the strength and dignity of the survivor while simultaneously addressing her own experiences living off the Q Line where she and her partner have been combatively targeted.
“This last year and a half in the Age of Trump has added a new level of stress that is hard to fully express. I cannot imagine what people of color, immigrants, and other minorities are experiencing. My relationship with New York City and its inhabitants has changed. I feel much more alert and on guard. Reading and firsthand experiencing this sort of violence has caused me to be much more aware of when I hold hands with my girlfriend; where and when we can act like a couple…
What felt most important to me was the act of claiming and taking space. As a queer woman, I often feel that I do not have the right to physical space. So many people actively looked away when we were filming. People can be very quick to disengage with things happening around them in the city; the ‘bystander effect.’ No one intervened when this woman was knocked unconscious, left with a broken eye socket and stitches. When my girlfriend and I were chased down the street by a man screaming physical threats at us, no one stepped in to try and help. And, she and I ride the Q train every day to get home. Here was a woman beaten unconscious because she was gay and taking up space. We were rattled.” (Molly)
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Querelle (1982) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Querelle (1982)
6.8
The plot centres on the handsome sailor Georges Querelle (Brad Davis), who is also a thief and serial killer. When his ship, the Vengeur, arrives in Brest, he visits the Feria, a bar and brothel for sailors run by the madam Lysiane (Jeanne Moreau), whose lover Robert is Querelle’s brother. Querelle has a passionate love/hate relationship with his brother; when they meet at La Feria, they embrace, but also punch one another slowly and repeatedly in the belly. Lysiane’s husband Nono tends bar and manages La Feria’s underhanded affairs with the assistance of his friend, the corrupt police captain Mario.
Querelle makes a deal to sell opium to Nono, and murders his accomplice Vic. After delivering the drugs, Querelle announces that he wants to sleep with Lysiane. He knows that this means he will have to throw dice with Nono, who, as Lysiane’s husband, has the privilege of playing a game of chance with all of her prospective lovers. If Nono loses, the suitor is allowed to proceed with his affair. If the suitor loses, however, he must submit to anal sex with Nono first. “That way, I can say my wife only sleeps with assholes,” Nono says. Querelle deliberately loses the game, allowing himself to be sodomized by Nono. When Nono gloats about Querelle’s “loss” to Robert, who won his dice game, the brothers end up in a violent fight. Later, Querelle becomes Lysiane’s lover, and also has sex with Mario.
Luckily 
for Querelle, a construction worker called Gil murders his coworker Theo, who had been harassing and sexually assaulting him. Gil is also considered to be the murderer of Vic. Gil hides from the police in an abandoned prison, and Roger, who is in love with Gil, establishes contact between Querelle and Gil in the hopes that Querelle can help Gil flee.
Querelle falls in love with Gil, who closely resembles his brother (they are played by the same actor). Gil returns his affections, but Querelle betrays Gil by tipping off the police. Querelle had cleverly arranged it so that his murder of Vic is also blamed on Gil.
In parallel there is a plot line concerning Querelle’s superior, Lieutenant Seblon (Franco Nero), who is in love with Querelle, and constantly tries to prove his manliness to him. Seblon is aware that Querelle murdered Vic, but chooses to protect him. Near the end of the film, Seblon reveals his love and concern to a drunken Querelle, and they kiss and embrace before returning to Le Vengeur.
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The Graffiti Artist (2004) – A film By James Bolton
The Graffiti Artist (2004)
6.1
About director:
From 2002–2004 Bolton was the driving force behind Other Voices Film Fund, which he created to assist independent filmmakers in producing and distributing their work. Bolton’s feature-film debut, EBAN AND CHARLEY (2000), won Best Dramatic Feature at the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. His second feature, THE GRAFFITI ART IST (2004) premiered at Berlinale Panorama, and his third feature, DREAM BOY (2008), had its world premiere at the Berlinale, and won the Grand Jury Award for Best screenplay at Outfest Film Festival in Los Angeles and the award for Best Feature Film at the Iris Prize Festival in Cardiff.
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Half a Person (2007) by Adam Santangelo
Half a Person (2007)
3.8
Two twenty-something best friends take a road trip from their rural Canadian home town, to the big city of Toronto. Alex (Nigel Smith) is straight, introverted, and desperately single. His best friend, Mark (Michael Majeski), is charismatic, irresistibly sexy, and in a “committed” gay relationship, yet harbors a dark and self-destructive side.
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Drink me (2015) A film by Daniel Mansfield
Drink Me (2015)
3.8
Gay-themed vampire drama written and directed by Daniel Mansfield. James (Emmett Friel) and Andy (Darren Munn) are a couple who seem to be living the perfect life. But when Andy loses his job, the pair take in handsome lodger Sebastian (Chris Ellis-Stanton). The newly unemployed Andy soon comes to suspect their room-mate of being the skull-mask-wearing serial killer terrorising the surrounding neighbourhood, but is confronted with evidence suggesting Sebastian could be guilty of even more sinister crimes…
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1981 (2018) – Nittonhundraåttioett
1981 (2018)
5.5
Sweden, 1981. Married couple Ivar and Pal set out for a gay sauna hoping to try out something new and add some zest to the partner stereotype. They head for an establishment that operates by the motto: “What happens in the sauna, stays in the sauna”. They both hope they’ll leave the place just as besotted with each other as they were when they arrived. 1981 is a film which blends explicit eroticism with fragile love in a tale of everyday life and the kind of excesses one should only treat oneself to once in a while.
CREW
Director: Dawid Ullgren
Producer: Isaac Inger
Script: Anton Nyberg
Dop: Josua Enblom
Editor: Robert Krantz
Composer: Minna Brolin
Sound: Simon Smars
Production Design: Elias Kahn Nyström
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FATHERS (2016) – Thai film about Gay parenting
Fathers (2016)
5.8
Phoon and Yuke have been a couple for 13 years. They also have an adopted son, Butr, whom they took in as an abandoned child. When Butr is old enough to start school, Phoon and Yuke are faced with his questions: who is my mom, and where is she? In Thailand, too, rainbow families do not have it easy, and often find themselves torn in the face of huge challenges – a set of circumstances that director Platphol Mingpornpichit depicts in a beautiful, touching way.
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Jumper by Justin Anderson
Nominee Film Selection (Best Creative Direction)
Australian International Fashion Film Festival 2015.
aifff.com.au
A short film by British fashion designer, Jonathan Saunders. JUMPER, directed by Justin Anderson, tells the story of a bourgeois European family whose lives are invaded by an enigmatic visitor. Set within a 20th century modern villa, his presence creates an unnerving effect.
Inspired by David Hockney’s ‘swimming pool series’ and the 1968 Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film ‘Teorema’, Saunders’ signature use of colour runs as a theme throughout from the deep blue of the water to the piercing green of the grass through to the actual clothes themselves. Everyday objects are used as accessories, and the actors are clothed in key Jonathan Saunders pieces. Film is something Jonathan is fiercely passionate about and often uses as a starting point for a collection and in this instance the collection was the starting point for the film.
The intensity with which it is shot nods towards Saunders use of texture, print and colour, in fact colour itself narrates the story. The film focuses on a middle class family of four each member having their own colour palette and regular place at the dining table, they are sat eating in silence giving the impression of something visceral, whilst a visitor watches them from outside. The visitor represents something different for each member of the family
We see a quick succession of close up vignettes of figures in the bedroom. The cutting is fast and one character is exchanged for another depicting the visitor and each member of the family. It is the same scene, same framing and same action with interchangeable characters and is edited in such a way as being deliberately confusing as to who is who. Mother, father son and daughter are all lost in a melee of ambiguity. The visitor is very much the elephant in the room.
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THE ONES WHO HATE CHRISTMAS (2018)
Los que odian la navidad (2018)
7.6
Tell me something cool about Christmas, but actually cool…
A Christmas gay short film by Roberto Pérez Toledo, starring David Laguía and Adrián Panadero
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The Wierd Friends (2014) film by Roberto Pérez Toledo
Los amigos raros (2014)
6.2
A group of youg people. in cemetery. memories, confessions, details, facts – all parts of a portrait. a special portrait. like the friendship as link between so different people. in many scenes – the feeling to see a documentary. in essence, a piicture discovering, step by step, its colors. a beautiful film. bitter and, in special manner, hopeful. because it is poetic and realistic and obscure and honest and cruel and precise and bizarre and about its public. a film about life. starting from a death. and the traits of a young man. reflected by the words of his friends.
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Herculanum (2016) gay short film by Arthur Cahn
Herculanum (2016)
Herculanum begins with a man anxiously looking at his phone outside the apartment of man, who we learn, he is meeting for the first time. It may not be entirely obvious but it’s clear from conversations about online profiles that this is an encounter initiated through a modern dating app. Writer/Director/Actor/Editor Arthur Cahn explores, through a simple premise, the beginning of a romance.
Herculanum is as much about the space between words as it is the words themselves. I spoke to Arthur Cahn about his multi-role production process whilst Herculanum was playing at this year’s BFI Flare film festival.
Arthur Cahn is a French director and actor known for the shorts THE RAPTURES (2012), DINOSAURS IN THE DISTANCE (2015) and HERCULANUM (2016), Telerama Press Prize at the Clermont-Ferrand ISFF.
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The Legacy of Brendan Burke
Brendan Burke was a remarkable young man. Growing up in a hockey family, with a sports icon as a father, he was probably destined to make his mark in hockey. And he did, but in a way few could have predicted. He decided to tell the world he was gay — a courageous move in a sport where no player, current or former, has ever come out. Brendan Burke’s life was tragically cut short, but his legacy lives on.
The Legacy of Brendan Burke
The Fifth Estate episode (season 36, episode 9)
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DescriptionOne hockey family’s painful loss and the politics of gays in sports.
Show: The Fifth Estate
Season number: 36
Episode number: 9
Air date: November 26, 2010
Brendan Gilmore Burke (December 8, 1988 – February 5, 2010) was an athlete and student manager at Miami University for the RedHawks men’s ice hockey team. The youngest son of Brian Burke, former general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs and of the US Olympic hockey team, in November 2009, he made international headlines for coming out, advocating for tolerance and speaking out against homophobia in professional sports. Burke’s coming out was widely praised and supported by sports news outlets and fans, generating multiple discussions about homophobia in sports, and in hockey in particular. He was viewed as a pioneer in advocacy against homophobia in hockey, described as “the closest person to the NHL ever to come out publicly and say that he is gay.”
Burke was killed in a car crash on February 5, 2010. Following his death, Burke’s memory and contribution to LGBT awareness in hockey was honored by several hockey teams. The “Brendan Burke Internship” was later established in his honor by USA Hockey for his work in hockey management and a documentary entitled The Legacy of Brendan Burke aired on CBC Television in November 2010. Burke’s death was the catalyst for the formation of the You Can Play project, a campaign to end homophobia in sports.
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Truth (2013) by Rob Moretti
Truth (2013)
5.0
After a chance encounter over the internet, Caleb (Sean Paul Lockhart), who suffers from borderline personality disorder, meets and falls head over heels for Jeremy (Rob Moretti), and soon the line between love and lies blur. Struggling to keep his past a secret, including his mentally ill mother, Caleb slowly succumbs to his darker side. A sudden turn of events finds Jeremy held captive, until Caleb’s quest for the truth is revealed.
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Give Me Your Hand (2008) by Pascal-Alex Vincent
Give Me Your Hand (2008)
Donne-moi la main (original title)
5.5
Give Me Your Hand (French: Donne-moi la main) is a 2008 French-German drama film directed by Pascal-Alex Vincent. The soundtrack was composed by electronic/post rock band Tarwater.
By ROD ARMSTRONG
Exploring the conflict and camaraderie between twin brothers, Pascal-Alex Vincent crafts an elliptical, sexy and beautifully shot debut film. Antoine (Alexandre Carril) and Quentin (Victor Carril) are magnetic yet insular siblings who hit the road from France to Spain for their mother’s funeral. Little about their past is revealed; these are boys who live almost exclusively in and for the present.
Of course, there are differences between them — Antoine is more garrulous and has a fetching scar above his left eye while Quentin is taciturn and spends much of his time drawing. Various glances and actions by both hint at jealousies, rivalries and perhaps unacknowledged attraction in their relationship, but they seem mostly content in each other’s presence.
To quench their bursting libidos, there are a couple of no-strings-attached sexual encounters, but the event that creates a potentially irrevocable rift occurs during a brief stint on a farm when Quentin has a tryst with a handsome male migrant worker. A subsequent betrayal by Antoine leads to their separation as the film builds to the subtly delineated moment when the twins find each other again, renegotiate their relationship and begin to consider their futures.
Give Me Your Hand is almost entirely shot out of doors, and Vincent depicts a nearly feral quality to the brothers’ actions and activities. What results is something expressionistic rather than character-driven, sensual in all senses of the word, and almost mythic in scope.
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