Open Recess(2016)

Hi, It’s Your Mother(en)

Mum's calling, and Lisa isn't pleased. "Hi, It's Your Mother" is a shocking tragi-comedic stop motion short about family and blood(y) ties.

Flow(en)

A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.

Moments: Six(en)

A serial killer and the detective who tracked him down find themselves in an unexpected stalemate.

The Human Factor(en)

When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security man is brought in to investigate.

MORE(ja)

Yuri, Moeko, and Ai are best friends from high school. Though their twenties were about to end, they believed their eternal world would remain forever. In spite of their will, some misfortunate events such as love, betrayal, memory, regret, and one book with its secret exam their friendship. Those girls get lost in the unveiled story, which is filled with meeting and parting. Scattered life = scattered story will move on any further? A little journey begins now.

To R(en)

A boy and a girl coming from different worlds fall in love. When summer is over, they will face the shackles of their normal routine and discover what binds them and what breaks them apart.

Fire!(en)

Firefighters ring for help, and here comes the ladder cart; they hitch a horse to it. A second horse-drawn truck joins the first, and they head down the street to a house fire. Inside a man sleeps, he awakes amidst flames and throws himself back on the bed. In comes a firefighter, hosing down the blaze. He carries out the victim, down a ladder to safety. Other firefighters enter the house to save belongings, and out comes one with a baby. The saved man rejoices, but it's not over yet.

Die Lage(en)

documentary

Girlfriends' Getaway(en)

Set in Trinidad and Tobago, the comedy which is described as Waiting To Exhale meets The Hangover, Girlfriends’ Getaway is about four friends who take a trip to the Caribbean to celebrate two of their friends’ birthdays. One thing leads to another and they get into a bit of trouble.

LIFE(en)

Elina's boyfriend left her for her best friend. The girl takes a bottle of wine and decides to remember the last best moments of her life.

The Main Celebration of Life(ru)

In Russia, the attitude to death is paradoxically irrational – we all seem to live forever. Entrepreneur Sergey Yakushin is the only reasonable "madman" who conducted a funeral "revolution" in his native Novosibirsk. Yakushin himself turned around to face death after being diagnosed with late-stage cancer 15 years ago. And they gave me a year of life.

Sur les routes éternelles de Samarkand(fr)

During the exhibition Splendors of the Oases of Uzbekistan at the Louvre, a journey to the mythical city of Samarkand, a fabulous tapestry of civilizations.

Tom Dollar(en)

As an Iranian prince is killed just before signing a deal giving mining rights to an uranium mine to the USA the CIA, fearing that the same will happen to his heiress, princess Sania, tasks agent Tom Dollar with the mission of discovering who's behind it.

The Dark Side of the Moon(da)

A man has been in prison for sixteen years after killing of his wife. Now he seeks to create a new life, where he only finds warmth and fellowship with Turkish immigrants. He will also try to come to terms with the daughter who hates him. Denmark's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986.

Saving Marriage(en)

A landmark court decision in Massachusetts allows gay people in that state to marry - forcing activists, legislators, and ordinary people to reconsider how they view same-sex relationships.

The Hikers(en)

While hiking through the Montana mountains, two couples find out more about each other than they care to know. But after this journey, their lives will never be the same! Written and Directed by Jamie C.V. Strong

새 엄마의 선물 떡(ko)

Seong-jin decides to go on a trip with her girlfriend Yu-mi for her stepmother Hye-jin, who is lonely after her father passed away. She sees the sea, cooks meat at the pension, and has fun. She sings and plays at the pension karaoke, when a power outage occurs, and Hyejin and Yumi's bodies change. Yumi and Hyejin comfort each other saying they will be fine soon, and decide to keep it a secret from Sungjin. Seong-jin keeps skipping over Yu-mi, who has her Hye-jin's soul, but Hye-jin, who enters her Yu-mi's body, is uncomfortable. Seeing the two of them, immature Yu-mi, who entered Hye-jin's body, flirts with her, and Seong-jin is embarrassed to see her stepmother like that.. Will Hyejin and Yumi be able to return to their own bodies?

Pinky & Mole(es)

Black Easter(en)

Ram Goldstein and three of the world's top geniuses are commissioned to compete against other elite scientists in a race to create the first matter transfer machine. Ahmed Amir is financing the program at his technology institute. While engineering the project, Ram discovers time travel. However, he also uncovers that the institute is a shield for an extreme terrorist group with the intentions of using the technology as a weapon. Ram's friends are held hostage and he is forced to complete the machine. Meanwhile, Ahmed makes plans to travel back in time to kill Jesus and prevent the resurrection. Before Ram can escape, Ahmed hijacks the machine and sends a military team, led by Brandt, to kill Jesus. Their interference causes all hell breaks loose and mankind is thrown into an apocalypse. With no time to spare, only a genius with no faith and a man who lost his hold the fate of the world in their hands.

Until This Day(en)

As Anna and her girlfriend Mia spend their last hours together before Anna sets off to leave Milwaukee to join the Peace Corps, Mia is troubled by her departure.

Walter and Wendy(en)

The Yearning(en)

Two lonely people notice each other. A yearning so big it might destroy me. It has always been there and always will be. Walk, walk up that hill. Climb, climb up that train.

SHRED(en)

A group of queer Latinx skaters struggle with crippling mental health and societal expectations in Southern California. In their local skate community, they find cathartic release, chosen family and mastery of empowerment.

172 Days(id)

A young woman with a troubled past turns to religion as she seeks purpose in life — and a chance at finding true love.

All Work No Play(da)

Mixes fiction and documentary to tell the story of Marc Helt and his first sexual experience with other men, as a healing ritual after a violent hate crime.

Sergeant(sr)

One night in Belgrade, a young guy meets a man for casual sex. By morning, different expectations can bring a new light on this chance meeting.

Nine Lives(en)

Lust and dysfuntion come full circle in this collection of nine steamy scenes exploring gay life, sex, addition, drugs and HIV/AIDS as revealed by a latino pool boy, a television writer, a meth dealer and others. As one affair leads into another, the connections betwen the characters reveal the secrets each one holds.

Girls Love(zh)

Two roommates living in an all-girl dormitory. They fall in love with each other.

Son of Kashmir: Burhan(ur)

The movie is based on a true story about Kashmiri militant, Burhan Wani, who fought against Indian forces before he was killed in combat.

Zalamero(es)

Zalamero (Flattering) is, among other things, a summer movie about Martin's summer. Martin wants it all; all the girls, all the boys, all the sun hours, all the nights, all colors T-shirts. He wants to be the main character of all summers. Why decide just for a thing? OMG, Flattering boy, you want it all.

All Kinds of Love(en)

After his commitment-phobic husband divorces him, a stuck-in-his-ways gay man tries to start over. When he becomes accidental roommates with a younger hip nerd who is as romantically challenged as he is, sparks fly. “All Kinds of Love” is a feel-good comedy about people trying to follow their hearts, whether it involves an intergenerational romance, a middle-aged interracial throuple or an artistic trans man looking for love in all the wrong places.

Jude(en)

Jude addresses the transformation of an Orthodox Jewish Rebbetzin (Rabbi’s wife) in a British Synagogue to a single, non-binary person coming to terms with their parenthood, religious identity, sexuality and gender, using the Internet as a way of forging new possibilities for their existence and self-expression.

The Sea We've Never Seen(en)

David’s friend from college comes to visit him in LA, but his flight back to China has been canceled due to the pandemic. During the time they live together, David has a secret that he doesn’t know whether or not he should tell.

Steam!(en)

In this queer musical about wanderlust (and lust), a tourist steam train conductor steps out on his boyfriend with a dangerous outlaw. Featuring original music and actors who sing live from 10,000 feet above sea level.

Resident Alien(en)

At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an Englishman in New York. Nossiter's camera follows Crisp about the streets of Manhattan, where Crisp seems very much at home, wearing eye shadow, appearing on a makeshift stage, making and repeating wry observations, talking to John Hurt (who played Crisp in the autobiographical TV movie, "The Naked Civil Servant"), and dining with friends. Others who know Crisp comment on him, on his life as an openly gay man with an effeminate manner, and on his place in the history of gays' social struggle. The portrait that emerges is of one wit and of suffering.

Mata Hari, Agent H21(fr)

Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and a spy, instead falls in love with him and blows the cover.

Birthday Time(en)

Tom, a married closet case and parent who trolls gay bars for sex on the sly, is placed in charge of his friend's teenage son. And the boy wants a kiss. Or more. What to do?

Boys to Men(en)

A four-part anthology film dealing with homosexuality from the young to the old. Crush, detailing the budding relationship between two 16-year old boys, who bond over their outdoor sports. The Mountain King, details a young street hustler who makes a play for a straight man on a deserted beach one afternoon. . Lost is a look at a day in the life of a young man who is first seen engaging in unsafe sex with a random partner,. The Confession, a dying Catholic asks his partner of 35 years to send for a priest, even though the partner is greatly opposed to such a request. ~ Jason Clark, Rovi

I Remember(en)

Set and shot chronologically in natural light over one hour at dusk, I REMEMBER materialized out of this sense of intangible loss and a desire to hold on to memories that, however fleeting, give our lives meaning.