This Place (2022)

"Coming Out Party" is a celebration of love, life and freedom as seven gay and lesbian comic storytellers share their personal stories of "coming out" to family, friends, and co-workers, and living "out" and proud. Features: Rene Hicks (World Comedy Tour 2002), Sabrina Matthews, John Riggi (“The Dennis Miller Show”), Dan Renzi (MTV’s “The Real World”), Jackie Beat, Terry Sweeney (“Saturday Night Live”), and Bob Smith.

Saša, a Belgrade University law student, tells her parents that she and her boyfriend Stefan are moving to Canada. That same night Saša and Stefan suffer a car accident. Saša wakes up in hospital and meets Stefan's charming and clever sister Lana, a photographer living in Paris. Stefan remains in hospital to recover. Saša finds out that her mother Lila is having an affair. Her father, a well-known judge, desperately tries to keep the family together. Lana becomes Saša's closest friend - a person able to prove that life is sometimes a mere game. In the midst of historical and family chaos, Saša gets involved in a love relationship with her boyfriend's sister.

부유한 부모님과 친구들 사이에서 남부러울 것 없는 일상을 보내는 고등학생 도미닉. 그러나 도미닉은 자신도 예상 못한 일로 세상으로부터 거리를 두게 된다. 그렇게 방에 틀어박혀 컴퓨터만 하던 도미닉은 ‘수어사이드 룸’이란 가상의 공간을 알게 된다. 2012년 폴란드영화상 올해의 발견.

서로 다른 인생의 시기에 놓여 있는 세 명의 여성들에 관한 이야기. 밀물과 썰물처럼 오가는 시간에 따라, 왔다가 떠나는 사랑에 따라, 그들의 자아 찾기 여행은 계속된다. 여덟 살 메이는 언니 징이 밴드의 아코디언 연주자 디에고와 키스하는 장면을 우연히 목격하면서 첫사랑의 쓴 맛을 본다. 다른 시공간에서는 릴리가 알츠하이머 병과 젊은 날의 덧없는 기억과 투쟁한다. HIV 바이러스에 감염된 릴리의 오랜 친구 옌이 자신의 삶을 포기한 채 망연자실하고 있을 때, 혼란에 빠져있던 십대 소녀 디에고는 점점 커지는 가슴을 동여맨다. 영화제 소개글. 2008 베를린국제영화제 파노라마 부문 공식 초청작. 2007년 베를린국제영화제에서 최고의 퀴어 영화에게 수여되는 ‘테디상’을 수상한 를 감독한 제로 추의 최신작이며, 아시아 퀴어 영화가 세계적으로 주목을 끌고 있는 지금의 경향을 두드러지게 한 작품 중 한 편이기도 하다. 영화는 징, 디에고, 메이, 릴리라는 네 명의 레즈비언의 삶을 옴니버스 형식으로 엮으면서 이들이 자신의 진정한 정체성을 찾아가는 과정을 따라간다. 첫 번째 에피소드. 시각장애인인 징은 여덟 살 난 동생 메이를 돌보며 살아간다. 그러던 어느 날 디에고를 만나 사랑에 빠지지만, 메이 역시 디에고를 좋아하게 되면서 자매 사이의 오해와 갈등은 심해진다. 두 번째 에피소드. 애인 오션과의 관계를 유지하기 위해 게이 친구인 옌과 위장결혼을 한 릴리. 나이를 먹어 오션은 세상을 떠난 지 오래지만 알츠하이머로 투병 중인 릴리는 오션이 살아 돌아오기만을 기다리고 있다. 세 번째 에피소드. 시간은 또 다시 거슬러 올라가 디에고의 어린 시절. 젊은 날의 릴리가 어린 디에고와 우연히 만나게 된다. 시적인 영상미와 고전적인 멜로드라마가 잘 어울리는 작품이다.

When Molly, the 21 year-old sister of Maarten, departs the family home, she leaves her older brother with empty nest syndrome. But it also opens up new opportunities for him, such as the possibility to explore his love for Arthur, a closet gay. Molly and Maarten wrestle with their personal relationships and also their relationship with one another, but fate nevertheless seems determined to strike them both down.

Lukas, 20, is a prisoner in his own body. As a pre-op transgendered person, he is constantly finding himself trapped in uncomfortable, compromising positions. His best friend, Ine introduces him to the gay scene in Cologne where he meets the confident and gorgeous, Fabio. The two develop a romantic relationship that tests the boundaries of love. ROMEOS forgoes stereotypes and conventions to offer an honest and humorous examination of the most basic of human conditions: friendship, sex, and love.

A vivid, dynamic Southern coming-of-age drama, takes place in the transitional space between high school and college, when life seems to be all questions and no answers, and the future is scarily wide open. Set in and around a Charleston, SC Baptist church, weaving through this ensemble piece are three main characters - Brea, an introspective pastor's daughter experiencing debilitating doubt, the hyperactive Laura, Brea's best friend and a devout believer, and Tim, the open-hearted son of a single father, confronting his homosexuality for the first time. Tensions and buried feelings abound, as colleges are chosen and adults behave badly, as Brea, Laura and Tim attempt to hang onto what they have, all the while yearning to break free.

샌프란시스코에서 에이즈가 처음 발병한 이후, 에이즈가 미친 영향에 대해 깊은 눈으로 들여다보는 최초의 다큐멘터리다. 이 엄청난 유행병에 지역주민들이 어떤 영향을 받았는지, 그리고 그들이 어떻게 대응했는지를 천천히 살핀다. 샌프란시스코를 배경으로 한 이야기를 통해,"

As he has done countless times before, Cris (Archie de Calma) is riding the jeepney bus along the Elliptical Road bordering the Quezon Memorial Circle. Suddenly a robbery begins and he finds himself being held at knife point. As his life passes before his eyes, he asks the question, what could I have done in the past to save me from this? "Circles" tells the story of Cris' life in the days leading up to the robbery. As a trader at Quezon Memorial Circle, he deals with all levels of Filipino society. From fruit sellers to student protesters to male hookers all lives intersect at the park and it's historical landmarks. As brave and creative as Pablo's past features ("Doubt", "Bathhouse") and shot gorilla style on a shoe string budget,"Circles" promises to be all things to all gay people: entertainment, fable and erotica.

Between Gennevilliers and New York, Omar and Emmanuel go to great lengths to prove to each other they're no longer in love.

The film tells the touching story of Alfredito, a sacristan in a country church: in a long flashback he talks about his life and his deep love for his mother and for the Virgin Mary, both 'beloved mothers' (madres amadísimas). From the discovery of his sexual identity to his first love, from his military service to his move to the big city, his personal experience traces the history of Spain, from Franco's dictatorship to the achievement of democracy. A baroque melodrama where the protagonist's homosexuality and religious belief together form a single devotion, passionate and unwavering.

German photographer Daniel Bert, who comes to Istanbul to do photo shoots, meets Can, who is a zenne at a nightclub, and Ahmet, who comes from a conservative eastern family.

In this erotic drama from Hong Kong, a young couple's marriage is beginning to grow stale as they become disenchanted with one another. Both husband and wife find themselves attracted to other people, and he begins having an affair with a beautiful and sexually adventurous photographer. What he doesn't know at first is that his wife is also exploring infidelity -- with the same woman.

Loosely based on the dark tales of HP Lovecraft, "Late Bloomer" is a compelling and humorous journey through a young boy's first sexual education class.

Alex is in love with her best friend, Vicki, her mother has dissapeared and she sets fire to things in her spare time. Vicki comes from an abusive home and wants Alex to run away with her. Alex is a bit of a nerd and a teachers pet, so takes advantage of this by trying to seduce her drippy school teacher. Alex watches as Vicki, unable to escape her terrible homelife and an psychological wreck, sets alight to herself and burns to death.

Lifelong friends Danny and Mark, both seventeen, struggle with the awkwardness of saying goodbye the night before Danny leaves for university in the city. Mark will stay behind to work on his father's farm, hoping someday to buy some land of his own.

흥미로운 6개의 스토리가 정교하게 연결되어 서로 꼬리의 꼬리를 물듯이 구성된 퍼즐조각과 같은 이야기. 여섯 시대, 여섯 공간의 주인공들이 사실 모두 같은 사람들. ‘윤회사상’을 바탕으로 구름이 하늘을 흘러가듯 영혼도 여러시대를 흘러 각 다른 시대적, 공간적 배경 속에서 그 시대의 문명을 경험한다. 1849년 태평양 항해, 샌프란시스코로 향하는 배를 탄 애덤 어윙은 항해 중 큰 병에 걸리고, 그를 치료하던 동승객 의사에게 의지한다. 그러나 그 의사의 살해대상자가 되면서 생존을 위한 싸움과 모험을 하게된다. 1936년 벨기에, 방탕한 생활로 곤경에 처한 젊은 천재음악가 로버트 프로비셔. 그는 유명 작곡가의 비서로 지내면서 걸작 ‘클라우드 아틀라스 육중주’를 작곡하지만 유명작곡가의 음모로 저작권을 두고 협박을 받고 파멸하게 되는데...

A film about love and gender. This documentary is set in the New Marilyn night club in Tokyo, Japan - where the hosts are transgender men. They can only make their living as hosts in a nightclub with other wannabes like them. The young women who come there often have relationships with them but the underlying fear is whether such a relationship can withstand the pressures on a girl to get married and have children. All three boys deal with this in different ways. These three hosts, the Shinjuku Boys, take us into their lives.

A dimwitted thug encounters a strung-out, suicidal young woman and an unlikely relationship develops as they work together to make a break for new horizons.

Hunky Daniel couldn’t have it better – great parents, a successful career as an investment banker, and the beautiful Jen as his fiancée. A seemingly perfect life… but there is one temptation that may derail his best laid plans for the straight-and-narrow: he has a thing for Tommy, a charming former college classmate who is now openly gay.