A Particular Friend

Ylan(fr)

Love, sex, heterosexual, homosexual ... But then people think of gay sexuality, their meetings? Is there a way to love more than another? This is the first thread of the film Bruno Rodriguez-Haney, for which he also signed the BO and scenario. This film, based on the novel of the same name (Edilivre-APARIS Editions) takes us to the heart of reality. love between people of the same sex is good! A story told with humor, but also with great sensitivity.

Split Second(en)

When a young woman is shoved out of a cafe moments before a grenade is detonated by the very man who commits the attack, she struggles with the guilt of survival as she attempts to uncover the reason why her life was spared when so many others were taken.

The Merry Man(en)

When a recently divorced man loses custody of his daughter, he finds comfort in a children’s book character in a magical book his daughter has left behind.

Haus(en)

A displaced black queer boy finds refuge in his city's underground Kiki Ballroom scene.

Perfect Endings(pt)

Like the perfect ending of a great film - that is the way filmmaker João describes the end of his 10-year relationship with Hugo. Despite breaking up, they remained best friends. However, reentering the dating scene brought a whirlwind of emotions, revealing that reality can’t be controlled like a movie script.

She Never Had A Home For Me(en)

Hannah, an aspiring young actress, has dreamed all her life to make it big in America. When this dream doesn't come true, she must learn to live life back home again and heal past relationships.

İmkânsızlar(tr)

Headphone Silence(sv)

Some people take a short break.

The Blind Owl(en)

Ricky is a young man who takes care of his sick mother. His father hovers at the edge of the picture, so Ricky provides for himself and his mom through prostitution, running errands, and acting as a caregiver for a blind man. Through the course of the film, Ricky befriends Janey, a young woman he finds beaten by her ex-boyfriend, and Trenn, a mysterious young man in trouble with the law. The three of them navigate a dark and confusing world. It uses many of the actors who have come to constitute the Dar A Luz company, including Tony Torn, Tom Fitzpatrick, Juliana Francis, and Tom Pearl. It will disappoint those who approach it looking for a film analogue of the “faster and louder” aesthetic that critics have used to characterize much of Abdoh’s stage work. The Blind Owl does use a variety of techniques reminiscent of his stage direction, giving it an unusual theatricality.

Crossed Wires(en)

A misunderstanding leads to sombre consequences as two flatmates recall very different turns of event from the previous night.

Two Memories(en)

Henry and Marion have a lover's quarrel and part in anger. They do not reconcile, and ten years pass without contact. Marion becomes a society girl and spends her time at parties with her friends. Henry has become very ill and wishes to see Marion one more time. He writes asking her to visit. When she recieves the note, she laughs and tosses it on the floor, but, later, on a whim, decides to take all her drunken friends with her to visit him. When they arrive, Marion finds Henry dead, clutching her portrait in his hand. She sends her friends away and falls to her knees in remorse. Mary Pickford's debut!

Vertiges(fr)

Clara, 15, feels a strangeness she can not express and who will lead her to commit an irreparable act.

Yalla(es)

Mufid, a 14-year-old boy plays football with his friends in an area guarded by a military drone. He misses a shot and makes the ball disappear behind a hill. He doesn't want to go looking for her, but there's no choice.

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.

Bad World(en)

Based in Jacksonville, Oregon in the year 1992, life changes for the worst. People start going crazy, violent, cannibalistic, tearing the world apart. We follow Erin, a quiet young teenager through a post-apocalyptic world. Facing struggles not even your worst enemy should face. Mystery and menace have taken control of their lives. From getting ripped apart, broken down, hurt and scared. Erin and Jacob always find their way back to each other.

ela cerra os olhos(pt)

Vacío(es)

This drama, centered on a homosexual man, studies the consequences of the loneliness and misunderstanding that we continually face. On any given day in the life of Martín, his almost lost battle against anxiety will take a turn when his conflicts with family and friends show him that the existential emptiness that he already feels as part of him is not reason enough to as defeated.

La Nueve(es)

A young man accompanies his mother to a nursing home where he meets don Manuel, a World War II veteran.

At Home(he)

Alex and Gershon are both playwrights and lovers. Although Gershon is older and they are not both sucessful, they manage to maintain a long term relationship.

The Miseducation of Cameron Post(en)

Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling “same sex attraction.” Cameron befriends fellow sinners Jane and Adam, thus creating a new family to deal with the surrounding intolerance.