Ballroom (2003)

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.

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?

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

Set in the beautiful high Pyrenees in south-west France, Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father, a pilot, is on a tour of duty abroad with the French military. At school, Damien is bullied by Thomas, who lives in the farming community up in the mountains. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them while his mother is ill in hospital. Damien must learn to live with the boy who terrorised him.

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?

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.

A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.

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)

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)

Set in the Clapham district of south London, England, the film is inspired by true events. The paths of several men intersect during a dramatic thirty-six hours in which their lives are changed forever.

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...

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.

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.

The contemporary story of a priest who launches a centre for troubled youth in a small parish. He is a good priest and is well-liked by his congregation, which remains unaware of his complicated past.

얼마 후면 곧 아빠가 될 한 경찰관이 게이인 동료에게 끌리게 되면서 삶이 흔들리기 시작한다.

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.

Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the mysteries of women.

After 10 years and two children together, Philippe and Marion, finally decide to take a honeymoon Holiday in Venice. At the train station, a abandoned bag filled with money will bring them to a different journey. A journey of doubt where reality never quite lies where it seems, leading from separation to reconciliation.

Three homeless teenage rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer.

A nun and a spirited prostitute convert an ambulance into a bordello on wheels.

First love and the fickleness of adolescence is the theme in this charming drama. The story follows a pretty blonde French youth who is sent with his classmates to an English seaside resort for the summer to study English. It is there that he first meets and "falls in love" with a girl, but when the girl spurns him for an older teenager, his attentions and affections are soon shifted to him. A touching and sensitive tale.

Marie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced some years previously, she has some vague egalitarian notions about friendship with her students and leaves her door open to them. One of her protégés is found beaten up just outside her door, and an emergency physician comes by to treat her. When her daughter starts seeing someone she doesn't much like, and she begins having a brief affair (her first since the divorce) with the ER doctor, she begins to reconsider her policy.

Everything starts when a journalist François decides to investigate the world of working class people. He gets into the lives of Claude, a worker and his wife Lily who has left him.

Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...

A young man from a small Kazakh village migrates to the big city. Initially sure of himself as he travels by bus and train, he meets a young woman he feels he could easily fall in love with. Later, in the city, he sees her again by accident and realizes that he already has lost his heart to her.

14살 때 교통사고를 당해 10년 동안 혼수상태에 빠져있던 요시이(니시지마 히데토시)는 어느 날 갑자기 기적적으로 깨어난다. 10년이라는 세월 동안 그의 가족은 뿔뿔이 흩어져버렸고, 깨어난 그를 찾아온 사람은 가해자와 아버지의 친구인 후지모리(야쿠쇼 코지)뿐이다. 요시이는 후지모리의 도움을 받아 새로운 생활을 시작하게 된다. 하지만 그가 진정으로 바라는 것은 사고 전처럼 온가족이 함께 모여 화목하게 사는 것이다. 소식을 들은 가족들이 하나둘씩 그를 찾아와 곁에 머무르지만, 잃어버린 10년은 쉽게 회복되지 않는다. 시간을 잃어버린 청년이 느끼는 존재에 대한 불안감을 절제된 롱테이크와 롱쇼트로 표현해냄으로써, 손쉬운 감동보다는 적극적인 사유를 요구하는 작품. 극적인 소재를 다루면서도 오히려 특별한 사건이 일어나지 않는 일상을 무덤덤하고 담담하게 그려내고 있다. 1999년 베를린영화제 출품작. 이 작품은 감동보다는 사유를 요구하는 구로사와 감독의 의지를 드러낸다. 다작을 생산하는 감독으로 알려진 그는 독특한 작가성을 인정받고 있는 반면, 계속되는 실험 지향적 성향을 우려하는 목소리도 적지 않다. (2015 한국영상자료원 - 구로사와에서 구로사와까지, 일본영화의 절대강자들)

Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the new strip, the playboy begins to live it out. Unfortunately, the new strip deals with murder.

Marc runs a psychotherapy course at a large country house belonging to his wife Colette. His clients are depressed and his job is to cure them of their neuroses.

A love story between the pets hairdresser and accountant - both with significant life history.

Ten years old Phil who is living with his mother and likes skateboarding with his friends has fallen in love with a girl of his age.

The Tunisian born hero of the film decides to break with his disorganized yet habit-ridden life in Paris, and sets off to discover his homeland, which he left at 6 years old, and to rekindle the memory of his mother, who died when he was a child.

It’s summer, on the beach of this little town in Brittany, a man is building a sand castle. A few people watch him. We will be told the story of three of them: a boy, Jumbo, aged 9; François and his sister Zaza. All of them had to deal with the death of somebody they cherished.

Agostino is a 13-year-old boy on vacation in Venice with his widowed mother. When a local stud seduces her, jealous Agostino joins a local group of juvenile delinquents out of protest. They force him to face his budding sexuality..

Cocada and Nego are two boys in their early teens living in a small town in Pernambouc, Brazil. Cocada and Nego are half-brothers who live with their mother, stepfather and eight other siblings in a ramshackle house where the children are often left to care for themselves as their parents work. Filmmakers Jean-Pierre Duret and Andréa Santana spent some time with Cocada and Nego, and Puisque nous sommes nés is a documentary that offers a look at their lives as they struggle with poverty and dream of a happier future.

Philippe, 25 ans, débarque un matin à Arcachon, où vit sa soeur. C'est un jeune homme qui n'a pas d'attache et à qui on se confie facilement. Il est saisonnier et travaille dans la restauration. Betty, 20 ans, est une jeune mère pleine de vie et de tendresse pour son fils, Damien, 5 ans. Ils vivent encore dans la cellule familiale et les relations entre Betty et son père sont conflictuelles. Damien est perturbé par cette ambiance. Sa mère trouve du travail, quitte le foyer familial et acquiert de l'indépendance. Betty et Philippe se croiseront...