Sleepless Knights (2012)

Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach works dead-end jobs to support his sister and her son. Questioning his life, he paints, surfs and hangs out with his best friend, Gabe. When Gabe's older brother returns home for the summer, Zach suddenly finds himself drawn into a relationship he didn't expect.

Set during a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.

10대 후반 프랭키의 삶은 무료하고 그의 집안은 암울하기만 하다. 유일한 낙은 집 근처 바닷가에서 친구들과 어울려 다니는 것뿐. 어느 날 또래 소녀를 만나 친구 사이가 되지만, 그녀와 가까워질수록 자신의 성 정체성에 대해 혼란을 겪게 된다.

Two brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual.

Gabriel rents a room in Juan’s House. They work together in a Woodwork place. Gabriel is a very quiet guy and has a little daughter. Juan is a party boy who has a lots of girls around. Inadvertently the sexual tension starts to grow between them. It opens a new hidden forbidden world they have to deal with.

인권운동가이자 정치인이었으며 그의 시대로부터 지금까지 수많은 이들에게 희망의 이름이 된, 하비 밀크의 생애 마지막 8년의 이야기. 1970년, 40세 생일을 맞이한 뉴욕의 평범한 증권맨 하비 밀크(숀 펜)는 스스로에게 솔직하지 못했던 지난 인생을 뒤돌아보며 애인인 스콧(제임스 프랑코)과 함께 자유로운 분위기의 샌프란시스코로 이주하기로 결심한다. 그곳에서 작은 카메라 가게를 차린 밀크는 편견 없는 마음과 유쾌한 성품으로 많은 이들의 친구가 되고, 동성애자들에 대한 일상적인 편견과 폭력으로 고통받는 이웃들을 보며 게이 인권운동을 시작한다. 인종, 나이, 성에 상관 없이 모두가 평등한 권리와 기회를 누리는 사회를 꿈꾸던 그는 3번의 실패 끝에 샌프란시스코 시의원에 당선되는데...

The holidays get overly festive as Olaf "Gunn" Gunnunderson, an out-and-proud gay college student, crawls back into the closet to survive the holidays with his parents. But when his boyfriend, Nathan, shows up at their doorstep unannounced, Gunn must put on a charade to keep the relationship a secret. With pressure mounting from all sides, will Gunn come out before the truth does?

전 세계 전 시대를 통틀어서 가장 대중적인 소재인 삼각관계. 게다가 화려한 맨해튼 사교계의 모습까지. 이 영화는 분명 게이드라마 마니아들의 취향을 저격한 영화임에 틀림없다. 첫 맛은 달달하고 끝 맛은 씁쓸한 순도 높은 카카오 초콜릿 같은 로맨스를 바라는 관객들에게 추천한다. (2016년 제16회 퀴어영화제)

When Tyler Davidson brings his college buddy Chase home for the summer holidays a secret is revealed that threatens to tear his perfect family apart.

Four interwoven stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.

한 번도 오르가즘을 느껴본 적 없는 섹스 테라피스트 소피아. 그녀는 성적으로 좀더 개방된 관계를 시도해 보려는 게이 커플 제이미와 제임스를 상담하던 중 ‘숏버스’라는 언더그라운드 살롱을 소개받는다. 비밀스런 모임이 이루어지는 이곳의 수많은 사람들은 예술, 음악, 정치 그리고 관계에 대해 서로 나누고 소통한다. 제이미와 제임스 사이에 새롭게 등장하게 된 모델 세스, 진정한 관계를 찾아 방황하는 세브린, 놀랍도록 솔직하고 과감한 경험을 하게 되는 소피아 등 숏버스를 찾는 외로운 영혼들은 서서히 해답과 희망을 찾아가게 되는데….

사이먼은 평범한 삶을 사는 고등학생이다. 사랑하는 가족이 있고 친구들이있다. 다만, 자신이 게이인 걸 아무도 모른다는 것뿐. 남들과 다를 바가 없지만 게이라는 이유로 남들이 자신을 다르게 볼까 마음 한 켠에 고민을 안고 다닌다. 게이임을 숨기고 학교 생활을 이어가던 사이먼은 교내 게시판을 통해 학교에 커밍아웃하지 않은 게이가 또 있음을알게 된다. 사이먼은 익명의 학생 블루에게 메일을 보내 자신도 게이임을 처음으로 밝힌다. 사이먼은 블루와 메일을 주고받으며 가까워진다. 교내 수 많은 남학생중 블루는 누구일까?

공항 수하물 노동자로 일하며 음악의 꿈을 키우던 이민자 출신의 아웃사이더 파록 버사라. 보컬을 구하던 로컬 밴드에 들어가게 되면서 프레디 머큐리라는 이름으로 밴드 퀸을 이끌게 된다. 시대를 앞서가는 독창적인 음악과 화려한 퍼포먼스로 관중들을 사로잡으며 성장하던 퀸은 방송에서 외면을 받을 것이라는 음반사의 반대에도 불구하고 무려 6분 동안 이어지는 실험적인 곡 보헤미안 랩소디로 대성공을 거두며 월드스타 반열에 오른다. 그러나 독보적인 존재감을 뿜어내던 프레디는 솔로 데뷔라는 유혹에 흔들리게 되고, 오랜 시간 함께 해왔던 멤버들과 결별을 선언하게 되는데...

마이애미에 살고 있는 샤이론은 리틀이라고 불리는 작고 마른 흑인 소년이다. 내성적이고 말수 없는 그는 반 아이들에게 놀림과 괴롭힘을 받기 일쑤. 어느 날 아이들의 괴롭힘을 피하려던 리틀은 후안의 창고로 들어가고, 그와 가까이 지내게 된다. 그는 마약 중독에 감정 기복이 심한 엄마보다 자신을 있는 그대로 받아들여주고 지지해주는 후안에게서 많은 것을 배운다. 10대 청소년이 된 샤이론은 유일하게 자신을 무시하지 않는 친구 케빈에게 애틋한 감정을 느끼지만, 그를 괴롭히는 패거리는 둘 사이를 갈라놓는데...

The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the brutal reality of the rural south of the United States in the late 1970s.

뉴욕대학에서 음악공부를 하고 싶은 평범한 고등학생 에릭은 여름방학이 시작되자 어린 시절부터 함께 지낸 여자 친구 매기와 함께 유원지 식당에서 파트 타임으로 일을 하게 된다. 그곳에서 오하이오 주립 대학에 다니는 게이 대학생 로드를 알게되면서 로드와 에릭은 서서히 가까워지고 에릭은 점점 자신이 게이일지도 모른다고 생각하는데..

이성애자인 룸메이트와의 홈파티에서 많이 취하게 된 러셀은 파티가 끝난 후 게이클럽으로 향한다. 영업 종료시간을 얼마 앞둔 그곳에서 운명의 상대 글렌을 만난다. 원 나잇 스탠드로 끝날 거라 생각했던 만남은 전혀 다른, 특별한 것이 되어간다.

단지 친구 사이의 ‘마티아스’와 ‘막심’이 뜻밖의 키스 이후 마주한 세상, 그 시작을 담은 이 순간 뜨겁게 빛나는 우리들의 드라마. 너와 나의 드라마는 지금부터

문란한 성생활을 즐기는 파티 보이 크리스찬과 그의 이웃집에 이사온 순진한 몰몬교 청년 선교사 아론의 사랑 이야기. 아론을 꼬시고 말겠다며 친구들과 내기를 했던 크리스찬은 순수한 아론을 점점 진심으로 사랑하게 된다. (바다공원님 제공)

프랭크 블레드소와 18살 조카 베스는 가족의 장례식에 참석하기 위해 맨해튼에서 사우스캐롤라이나주 크릭빌로 자동차 여행을 떠난다. 이 여정에 프랭크의 연인 왈리드가 느닷없이 동행한다.

Told via flashback, this raw, emotional drama chronicles the events that led a 22-year-old Czech Gypsy to prison. Marian was born to an alcoholic father and a terrible mother. As a result he is sent to a government orphanage where he is labelled a problem child for his inability to speak Czech. Life in the orphanage is devoid of love and offers only minimal physical comforts. Sometimes life there is brutal. His one bright spot was the time he first spent with a kindly and encouraging teacher who inspired in him hope for a better future. One day something goes wrong and the teacher is forced to punish Marian who retaliates by stabbing her. Marian is a teen by the time he is released from a juvenile reformatory. He falls in love for the first time, but because it is a foreign emotion, he doesn't know how to deal with it. By this time, the cruelty that has marked his life in institutions seems to have fated him to be a criminal and for Marian there can be no turning back.

Set in Prague during the years leading up to World War II, this family saga tells the story of a cobbler named Vincenc Bursik (Vladimir Mensik), who uproots his clan from the country to the city, only to suffer the loss of his wife and the failure of his shoe business within months. When his daughter moves away to go live with a wealthy businessman as his mistress, Vincenc is left to take care of his two sons, who spend their days in a secret garden vying for the affections of a teenage girl.

Every kid wants to be cool and fit in - life's a blast even when you're different. When Mo's reflection is revealed, he sees a body that doesn't quite resemble any of his peers. Here, he tells the tale of his youth, growing up on the south shore of Long Island, New York

A young Jewish boy travels europe in search of the grave of his Great Grandfather who was killed by the Nazis in the War.

Andrés and his son Pedro live in a working district of Caracas and hardly ever see each other. While Andrés fills his time doing different jobs, Pedro wanders the streets playing with friends and learning from the violent atmosphere around him.

A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. His father however is a member of the "Stasi", the secret state police. The father not only hinders his son's relationship with the girl, but he arranges for his son, after finishing school, to become a Stasi spy himself.

Môj pes Killer is a one-day drama portraying eighteen-year-old Marek living near the Slovak-Moravian border with his dad and his racist friends. However, Marek's best true friend is his dog. His life is shaken up when he discovers the secret of his lost mother Marika.

Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to encroach on the townsfolk his fantasies and reality begin to merge.

The story takes place in a small village on the beach of Sea of Azov at the beginning of 1960s. Adolescents passionately dream of love about which they have heard from their elder experienced friends. 16 year-old Ignat is the first to find out what the real feeling is. His love for an adventuress who pretends to be a singer from capital becomes destructive.

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.

A group of boys, roughly seven to eleven years of age, go skinny-dipping in a river near their small Mexican town one afternoon and there find themselves the butt of an old vagabond's practical joke, the man stealing all their clothes from them. Humiliated about having to walk home in the buff, the tykes decide to get even, declare war. Yet, as the generations battle it out, a mutual respect develops, the depth of which is evident once the man has a heart attack during one of his romps with the kids. Will the boys' older pal recuperate so that they can engage in one final battle.

In 1939, José Garcés is in French prison camp after the defeat of Spain's Republicans. To entertain and inspire his fellow prisoners, he tells the story of becoming a man in 1919, the year he realized that learning to live is the same as learning to die. His stiff and demanding father loses a fortune in German war bonds, takes a job in Caspe, and leaves José on his own in Zaragoza to finish high school while apprenticing in a pharmacy. José courts his beloved Valentina via letters, becomes intimate with Isabel, a maid he meets in a cinema who shares his ideas of free love, and comes under the influence of El Checa, an anarchist and gentle teacher who leads a doomed revolt.

A contemporary evocation of Judas Iscariot trying to escape from his own guilt after betraying his best friend. He wanders into a forest and lost in himself, meets a mysterious young man. The young companion will accompany him on this path of repentance and penance and help him deal with his feelings, understand his guilt and cope with he has done. This is the story of the last three days of a repentant.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the Lesotho highlands, a 15-year-old boy tends his family's flock of sheep alone through the winter. His younger brother might have to quit the village school to help him. And two girls attempt to maintain their unique friendship when one of them goes off to attend a better school and the other stays in the village. Over the span of two years the film accompanies four teenagers in an isolated mountain village on their path to adulthood - a path between individuation and tradition.

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

The story takes place in the summer of 1995 outside of Gothenburg, Sweden, during the rise of Neo-Nazi violence that was sweeping across the country. The film "John Hron" is the true story about a teenager, his friends and family. John is caught up in defense of a student being bullied in school. As the conflict with the bully escalates it soon causes strain between John and his friends.