Ephemeron(2022)

Prayers for Bobby(en)

Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much less understood, Bobby finally came out to his family.

Eddie and the Cruisers(en)

A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader — Eddie Wilson — may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band's never-released album.

The Albatross(en)

A ship sets sail on an epic voyage through malignant natural and supernatural elements from which one man alone survives. An adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustrated by19th Century wood engravings which are animated by scratching directly into the surface of color filmstock. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with its message of ecological redemption has a curiously contemporary resonance, but it is at the level of the mythic that the poem has lasting relevance; for this epic tale of extraordinary events simply mirrors the struggle that each human being faces on their own in his or her life. -VDB

Hollywood Lucifer(en)

Black Mirror(en)

A nameless drifter navigates a barren landscape punctuated by satellite dishes, radio towers and droning airplanes. Stopping periodically in anonymous hotel rooms, she makes attempts to connect to an unidentified second party.

Neon(en)

An unexpected encounter with his past prompts a young man to choose between his sexuality and his faith.

Dandanko(ja)

A short scene of a mother and her little son playing ball games on a set of steps together.

Oblio(it)

The Great Metaphor(en)

What does a bankrupt poet with no desire to live have to say about life?

Queerpanorama(en)

A gay man impersonates men he has had sex with and brings this new persona with him to his next hook-up. Only by pretending to be someone else can he be truly himself.

Dying to Come Back(es)

At 78 years old, Manuela buys a camera and AR glasses.

Ride or Die(ja)

Rei helps the woman she's been in love with for years escape her abusive husband. While on the run, their feelings for each other catch fire.

Matcha & Vanilla(ja)

A lesbian couple in conservative Japan must fight to stay together when one of them is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Sad Temptation(ko)

A closeted middle aged man named Suh Moon Gi is unsatisfied with his wife Suh Jung Hye. He meets a young homosexual employee Shin Joon Young at his company and falls in love.

Incubator(en)

A mother takes her son’s education into her own hands.

Sharon and the Vege Plot(en)

A put-upon lady-rabbit called Sharon is left perturbed by a potential plot against her vegetable garden. When Sharon's suspicions put more and more on edge, her obsessions put her own safety and love life at stake.

Longing Nights(en)

Aitana, Pierrick, Rita and Jorge are all in their twenties and all look for ways to make their nights in the city of Madrid a little less lonely. Aitana is a sweet girl trapped in a men’s body; Pierrick is a cute French gay; Rita doesn't much care about her partner, Carolina, and walks through life with no expectations; Jorge is trapped in a relationship with no future: the one he has with Maria. Set against a background of drugs, sex, multiple partners and differing sexualities, Longing Nights follows the individual stories of these young people. A candid portrait of four relationships highly loaded with eroticism from beginning to end. Four stories told without no borders between fiction and reality.

Sho(kn)

Upcoming Short Film

Hair(en)

Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.

Far from Heaven(en)

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.