Midnights with Adam (2013)

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?

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

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..

알제리 전쟁이 한창인 60년대 프랑스. 청년들은 전쟁을 피하기 위해 결혼을 하고, 학생들은 무엇이 옳고 그른지 치열하게 고민을 한다. 기숙학교에서 만난 프랑수아와 알제리인 세르주는 우정 이상의 감정을 갖고 가까워지지만 프랑수아는 소꿉친구인 메이테에게도 마음을 두고 있다. 지독한 성장통을 겪는 청년들의 삼각관계를 시골 마을의 목가적인 풍경과 함께 그린 멜로드라마. (2012년 제7회 시네바캉스 서울)

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.

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.

한 젊은 정비사가 이성애자인 절친들에게 자신이 동성애자임을 고백한다. 그의 커밍아웃을 받아 들인 절친들은 괜찮은 남자를 찾아 주기로 결심한다.

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?

Steven spends his school days longing for all-star athlete John. But John has a gorgeous girlfriend, and Steven is still in the closet about being gay. The only one who knows the teenager's secret is his friend Linda. After a curious run-in with John in a public restroom, Steven starts to wonder if the jock is straight after all. When they start a romance, it threatens to expose the truth about both of them.

Pim lives in a run-down house in a dead-end street somewhere on the Flanders coast, together with his mother Yvette Bulteel. Life here smells of cold French fries, cheap cigarettes, vermouth and stale beer. As a kid, Pim dreams of a better life, imagining princesses and beauty queens. But when Pim turns sixteen, he begins dreaming of Gino, the handsome boy next door, instead.

The Male Gaze is a new series of releases from New Queer Visions that showcases short LGBTQ films from across the world. The first instalment, First Kiss, brings together five shorts that are based around men experiencing romantic and/or sexual interaction with other men for the first time. It takes in films from Sweden, Indonesia, USA, Australia and France giving a rounded look at how similar experiences are depicted across the world. The films are: Naked [Naken] (2013); Pria (2017); Walk With Me (2018), One Night Only (2018); Michel's Mouse [Tapette] (2016).

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.

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.

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)

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...

독실한 크리스챤 집안에서 자란 바비는 자신이 동성에자라는 사실을 숨기며 변화를 강요하는 어머니. 외면하는 가족들로부터 고통을 받는다. 있는 그대로의 자신을 받아 들이지 못하는 부모와의 갈등으로 인해 주인공은 결국 극단적인 선택을 취하게 되면서 결말은 파국으로 치닫게 된다. 그 비극적인 결말 끝에 자신의 잘못과 편견을 인정하고 게이 인권운동을 하게되는 어머니의 깨달음과 성적 소수자들을 위한 희망이 숨어있는 영화

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)

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.

16살 사춘기 소년 후베르트는 엄마에 대한 불만으로 가득하다. 자신을 이해해주기는커녕 제멋대로 행동하는 엄마에게 진절머리가 난 후베르트는 그의 연인 안토닌과 함께 자유로운 독립을 꿈꾼다. 하지만 엄마의 눈에 후베르트는 그저 철없는 사춘기 소년으로만 보일 뿐이다. 어느날 엄마는 상상치도 못했던 아들의 비밀을 전해 듣게 되고, 방황하던 후베르트는 결국 기숙학교에 강제 입학하게 되는데...

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

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.

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

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.

Matei lives with his grandfather in Romania. His parents have gone to work in Italy. After arguing with his grandfather, he leaves. A poignant, beautifully shot film on the illusions and disillusionments of childhood.

“My best friend, Anna, asked me if I would mind taking her fifteen-year-old son Itvan to Berlin with me. I accepted immediately.” An elegant, refined man in his forties sets off with Itvan on a long, enjoyable journey, his Winter Journey. They cross snowbound Germany by car. As the man drives the boy through cities and countryside, Itvan discovers the past and the vast job of reunification now underway. Poetry and culture are also part of the journey, which is accompanied by classical German music. When their paths cross with the man's former lovers or the journey provides unexpected encounters, Itvan also gets to know more about the man's own life. When they finally arrive in Berlin, their ways must part. Itvan watches the man leave, taking the melancholy of his existence with him. However their journey together has created an unbreakable tie between the two men. Itvan will never be the same again.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Matthew is a boy who just left school. He is handsome and athletic and believes himself to be gay. He retains a friendship with only one school friend, Phil, who has stuck by Matthew despite hostile reactions from his peers. As their relationship grows more intense, Phil's girlfriend Sharon and his classmates become vindictive and aggressive. The two friends find themselves ostracized by both friends and family and decide to run away.

Jay is the name of the two protagonists in the film, one is living, the other dead. The living Jay is producing a documentary of the dead Jay, a gay teacher who was brutally killed. As Jay recreates and examines the life of his subject, his own life is affected when he unravels his subject's hidden life and secret love.

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.

A troubled young boy finds his rooftop escape jeopardised by the girl he pines for.

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.

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.

15-year-old Moritz lives in a posh area of Hamburg, but his parents did not care about it. The teenager suffers from ridicule of his classmates and finds refuge in his dreams and playing the saxophone. Only when he joins a band and began performing there Moritz pulled out of the vicious circle, and finds love with new friends...

Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who has been unable to bear children. To fill this void in their lives, he feeds and clothes abandoned children, raising them in his mansion as if they were his own. As would never be the case in real life today, in this fantasized story set in 1925, no one objects to this behavior, and they live pleasantly and enjoyably together. Things grow considerably more animated when a stage magician places his very attractive daughter in the colonel's household, which stirs a lively romantic interest from his boys and from the great man himself.