TOGA SA METRO(2025)

Factory Talk(en)

Factory Talk is an intergenerational conversation about identity, sexuality and masculinity in a rural factory. Through the clanging of metal they make small talk, but as the gripes and grumbles testify to better times, the questions rising on the factory floor are of more than just nostalgia.

Dead End(az)

"Dalan" is a film that tells about dead-end life situations that anyone can get into. In the film, several intertwined stories are built around the main plot line - the betrayal of a young wife to her despotic husband.

Shuttlecock(en)

Carl is forced to confront his idea of masculinity when an obsession with a mysterious member of his badminton club spirals out of control.

Hysteria(en)

After Theo Caputo and Jared Radcliffe’s Dads both die in a motorcycle crash- following a rest stop robbery gone wrong- all the pair are left with is the burden of responsibility. Responsibility towards their family, friends, and their community. Jared, wishing to recreate the cult of personality that surrounded his father, founds the Angels of Radcliffe- a youth biker movement hell bent on reclaiming their diesel fueled “birthright”. Theo, wanting nothing more than the return of the family he’d once known, decides to join. All of this changes as Theo’s childhood best friend, Kian, moves back to town (following his mother’s victory in hard-fought custody battle). Theo & Kian’s connection goes deeper than just friends, but Theo- being afraid of what might happen to Kian if the Angels found out- keeps the true nature of their “connection” between the two of them.

Blackrock(en)

In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.

OFF DUTY(pa)

It's an ordinary winter's day when disillusioned Police Inspector Azaad Singh is tasked with delivering a very important file to his superior. Traversing expanses of rural and urban Punjab along the way, he reckons with the state's past and present realities, and faces an untimely existential crisis as a result.

Bruiser(en)

After his father gets into a fight at a bowling alley, Darious begins to investigate the limitations of his own manhood.

Days Without(ru)

After a chaotic episode with his wife, Russian-Estonian worker Nikolai is left alone with their one year old daughter, Sophia. As time goes by, he begins to doubt his abilities as a father and furthermore, if he will ever see his wife again.

The Royal Hotel(en)

After running out of money while backpacking in a tiny, male-dominated town in the Australian outback, two friends resort to a working holiday at the Royal Hotel. When the locals' behavior starts crossing the line, the girls find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.

Panchos(es)

A Gentleman(en)

During the final games of his high school basketball season, Tom Irvin is faced with an encounter of sexual misconduct. An affair that leaves Tom losing grip with reality and struggling to regain his self-identity.

Fireflies(es)

Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico. There his nostalgia and melancholy are confronted with new friendships, while he starts to rediscover his own desires.

Boy´s Games(es)

Jaime and Pablo explore and work on their identity by telling us about their experiences and participating in a masculinity theatrical laboratory where we will discover the conflict that led them to question their masculinity. This conflict forced them to question the games they taught us as boys, proposing different games where we learn to care for the people we love.

Wild Youth(nl)

Wild Youth is an ode to being young. A sensitive and intimate story of the first experiences of losing one's childlike innocence, questioning the imposed "masculinity" and (re)discovering yourself in the function of others.

star born brutal(mk)

cellular memories, schizophrenia, and emancipatory masculinity.

Keep Off the Grass(en)

A short drama that centers around Sunny Cooper, an 18 year-old amateur football player who's struggling to come to terms with his sexuality.

Dirty Laundry(en)

A day in the life of the boss' right hand man (Daniel Kors) drifting through life one job at a time.

ANIMA(es)

Two young writers in the task of writing a screenplay about a bullfighter, question his relationship with the bulls. This leads them to discuss masculinity and what a man is.

Rocky Road On Channel Three(en)

A man has a life-changing encounter with an otherworldly ice cream truck.

Balloon(en)

In the brutal battlefield of junior high, Sam has always tried to stay below radar — but all that changes when he discovers he has super powers.