Looking for Simon (2011)

Thaddeus Mackenzie, a wealthy lawyer, learns that he is dying and decides to sell all of his property and visit his old friend Allen Hayden. Allen is a struggling artist with a passion for life who once survived by working the streets, but now is romantically involved with Eva, a wealthy European gallery owner living in L.A. Thaddeus implores Allen to find Jamie, a young street hustler that Thaddeus had once tried to rescue. Allen returns to the streets to face the dark corners of his past where he must choose between what he left behind and the uncertainty that lies ahead.

The story begins with an experiment. A filmmaker in the country of Georgia posts an ad inviting youth to audition for her film. Facing the camera, the hopefuls confess their struggles and dreams. These raw interviews unfold seamlessly into cinematic slivers of Georgian life.

Nueva Zelanda /// Adaptación de una novela de Witi Ihimaera. Un empresario de éxito empieza a alejarse inexplicablemente de su mujer y sus hijos. La razón es que mantiene una relación amorosa con un joven actor. Sin embargo, su nuevo tipo de vida tropezará con las tradiciones familiares. El hecho de que su familia esté muy vinculada a la cultura maorí, que desaprueba la homosexualidad, llena su vida de obstáculos.

17-year-old Eric follows his parents to immigrate to Canada and is thus forced to confront different emotional and cultural problems. He must not only adjust to the new environment, but also come to terms with his homosexuality. Standing at the brink of adulthood, he encounters a series of potential romantic interests - his handsome cousin, a schoolmate, a middle aged lawyer and finally a kitchen helper. They represent different stages in Eric's development, from infatuation, sex, love to a sense of responsibility.

Cal, de veinte años, regresa de Francia a Gran Bretaña después de recibir la noticia de que su madre está enferma. Su ciudad natal, Bristol, se enfrenta a tiempos económicos difíciles, con pobreza, crimen, disturbios y saqueos. No es un regreso a casa cálido. Su madre enferma sigue siendo obstinadamente homofóbica y no quiere tener nada que ver con Cal, ahora abiertamente gay. Su tía Jane, que ahora vive en una casa en ruinas, apaga sus penas con alcohol financiado por la asistencia social e intentos perturbadores de seducir sexualmente a su sobrino. Navegando a través de este nuevo paisaje, conoce a un joven estudiante que necesita su ayuda. Sin embargo, su acto de bondad lo pone en contacto con un proxeneta narcotraficante sin principios y una carrera contrarreloj para hacer las paces con su madre y salir de la ciudad lo antes posible. Una intensa historia de una familia sumida en la pobreza, rabia y perdición, pero que aún busca amor, respeto y aceptación.

At an elite private Border School four students form a clique to sneak out of school after hours to meet, drink and play. By trying to escape the golden cage which their wealthy parents have stuck them in, they search for the Extreme. In the course of time their excessive games grow more and more violent and soon they turn against the weakest of the group.

Friends and family gather around the death bed of Gavin, where they assist in the dying man's suicide. But though Gavin's pain has been laid to rest, the grief felt by everyone there has only begun, and Walking on Water compassionately follows the attempts of Gavin's closest friends Anna and Charlie to recover from their loss.

Marc, un adolescente solitario, está secretamente enamorado de Olaf, un vecino de su misma edad. Sueña con tener una relación con él y la oportunidad se le presenta cuando ambos coinciden en una excursión.

Set in Sicily in the 1930's, Aurelio Grimaldi's feature debut chronicles the harsh story of twelve-year-old boy, Aclà, sold into slavery by his destitute parents to work in the underground Floristella sulfur mines. Overworked and underfed, Aclà toils from Monday to Saturday in the steamy, candle-lit labyrinths. Repeatedly beaten and abused by his "owner" and with constant threats of being raped, Aclà plots his escape to the sea...

Perhaps the most ebullient “musical” you’ll see this year, Marc-Henri Wajnberg’s singular documentary/fiction hybrid follows a group of street children in the Congolese capital.

Un ejército infantil se enfrenta a un anciano por la posesión de unas tierras en las que ellos solían jugar, pero que él quiere cerrar para su uso privado.

If the scorpion could see and the viper could hear, there would be no escape". The viper is deaf and the scorpion can't see, so it is and so shall be, the same way the countryside is peaceful and the city bustling and the human being impossible to satisfy. Lacrau demands the return "to the curve where man got lost" in a journey from the city towards nature. The escape from chaos and emotional void we call progress; matter without spirit, without will. The search for the most ancient sensations and relationships of mankind. The amazement, the fear of the unknown, the loss of basic comforts, loneliness, the meeting with the other, the other animal, the other vegetable. A dive looking for a connection with the world. Where beginning and end are the same, but I am not.

En 1939, José Garcés, vencido y prisionero en el campo de concentración de Argéles (Francia), consigue mantenerse con vida aferrándose a sus recuerdos. Sobre todo al recuerdo de su primer amor, Valentina, la hija del notario, una niña rubia y angelical que se convirtió en su imposible ideal y a la que nunca debía olvidar. Ambos tuvieron una historia de amor en un pueblo del norte de España hacia 1911. José Garcés a los 12 años era un niño lleno de vitalidad que duda entre ser héroe, santo o poeta, y que inventa lo que sea necesario para estar con Valentina, pese a las amenazas familiares y a la sombra inquietante de los padres de la novia. Mosén Joaquín, profesor del niño, es el único en comprender la fuerza de su pasión.

Alejandro Gerber Bicecci's "Vaho" (Becloud) tells the story of three childhood friends, Andres, Felipe, and Jose, and their lives in a dusty, run down corner of Mexico City. The boys were inseparable until they witnessed a tragedy that haunts them to the present day. The tragedy shaped each boy differently, and had a profound effect on their lives.

Gay man in Soho tries to come to terms with new reality after 9/11.

In Paris, in 1942, on a Thursday, the Parisian police herded together some 13,000 Jews for deportation to German territory. In this story, Paul (Christian Rist) is a teenager who tries to prevent this from happening. At first he attempts to save two elderly Jews, but they are resigned to their fate and comply with the order to assemble. For a short while, he is able to keep Jeanne (Christine Pascal) from joining them, but, after a long and strenuous day, she finally escapes from him he is too tired to chase after her.

An Air Force officer returns to his father, son and remarried wife in Vermont after 17 years in Vietnam.

The screen story of four teenagers, on whom the horrors of war had left an indelible mark. Their relatives’ deaths and their yearning for fighting the Nazis led them, one way or another, to a sea cadet school that had been opened on Solovetski Islands at the start of the war. This film tells of men’s friendship, the boys’ first baptism of fire, and the victory…

Jay, un profesor de escuela homosexual, es brutalmente asesinado. Antes de que su familia se entere del terrible suceso, un productor de televisión es informado del crimen y propone hacer un reality show que gire en torno al siniestro acontecimiento. ¿Accederá la familia a exponerse ante las cámaras? ¿Podrá la muerte convertirse en entretenimiento para miles de espectadores?

Surreal tale of a 14 year-old boy who dreams of escaping the loneliness from an unhappy home & sexual abuse (from his mother's boyfriend who is also his school swimming coach). One day his back mysteriously sprouts feathers and he can metaphorically fly away from it all.