Swallowed (2022)

The discovery of sexuality through the eyes of a group of teenagers.

Duffer, an intense and bizarre study of obsession that is by turns beautiful and disturbing, tells the story of a teenage boy torn between the womanly charms of a kindly prostitute, and the sadistic attentions of an older man. Both whimsical and disturbing, with a quirky sense of the grotesque, Duffer is a film that defies easy comparison.

Georges, a wealthy Parisian, has a mistress who wants to marry him, but he has no intention of divorcing his wife, the source of his money. The mistress, meanwhile, has a jealous boyfriend, so when Georges dumps her, two people are angry with him. Add Georges' wife, who suspects the affair. The mistress calls Georges to say she's coming to tell his wife everything, so Georges asks Maurice, a stranger who's passing by, to pose as his wife and scare off the mistress. In this farce, nothing goes as Georges plans.

Two gangsters, fighting for influence in the city, decide to get suitcases filled with money and drugs. Meanwhile, another criminal group has the same purpose.

Jannis, a cute, young gay man, and his adorable mute boyfriend, Patrick, infiltrate a circus to shoot an undercover documentary exposing an underground political conspiracy responsible for a recent spate of assasination attempts. When Patrick meet Mo, a young woman whose sensitivity to sunlight forces her to live by nigh, Jannis' jelousy threatens the entire project. Only Patrick's unwavering devotion to the man he loves will help save the day and reveal the truth of who is behind the conspiracy.

Seven short films in which gay youths and young men negotiate society, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. In several, teen boys come out, perhaps first to a close friend - how will the friends react? For some youths, coming out risks violence. In two films, love is thwarted - by mother, in one, and by immigration, in another. The collection includes "Summer" (Great Britain), "Night Swimming" (USA), "Running Without Sound" (USA), "Out Now" (Germany), "Œdipe N+1" (France), "Hitchcocked" (USA), and "The Bridge" (Australia).

As a child, Michael Stock was sexually abused - by his own father. 25 years later he is still looking for inner peace. In conversations with his family and friends and his own reflections, he paints an ever clearer, if contradictory picture of what happened and of the consequences for each of the family members. Old family films seem to show a happy family - excerpts from Michael's first feature film hint at his extreme adult life, overshadowed by his lifelong trauma. Yet in spite of the intense drama, the film doesn't have an atmosphere of anger and hatred but rather a surprising air of hope and love of life. Michael's aim is not to accuse the "perpetrator" but to understand. In the end, he takes his video "Postcard" to his father. With the camera running, he confronts him with his past.

Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is homosexual.

Seven short stories about growing up gay in America and searching for true love. In order: A Christmas Story; Going Gay; History; Sunday; He Was Perfect; Staying Together; A Little Drama.

A closeted gay detective and his partner chase a serial killer who targets male prostitutes.

Straight is the story of a messy love triangle between two men and a woman. Nazim (Eralp Uzun) is a hot young Turkish guy involved in petty crime. He goes out each night with his buddies, cruising for girls and dealing drugs in a seedy city square populated with hookers. None of his buddies suspect that on many of those nights he ends up in the arms of men. Since he met David (Florian Sonnefeld) on the street, his hetero façade is rapidly crumbling. His friends seem to pick up on the new vibe and wonder what’s up. David is from a bourgeois Jewish family and slumming it. He hangs out on the street pretending to look for drugs, but what he really wants is Nazim. Their first hookup is alternately hot, tender and filled with guilt. Nevertheless, their affair develops in secret against all odds. Further entangling things is David’s Polish-German girlfriend (Beba Ebner), who is revolting against her strict Catholic upbringing by going out with this punkish Jewish boyfriend.

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.

After a group of teenagers discover one of their friends lying dead on a river bank on one of the hottest days of summer, a story of jealousy, insecurity and peer pressure gradually unfolds. Group leader Caesar is able to magnify - out of all proportion - the small grievances that each of Jessie's friends bear towards her and transforms them into a general and pervasive hatred that leads ultimately to her horrible, senseless killing.

Frédérique's mother has died recently leaving her the family stud farm. She's never met her father, doesn't even know his name. But she finds it on the back of an old photo. She sets off for Paris. She stays with her gay dancer pal Marc. Marc and friends decide to go to their favourite gay bar... but it's men only. So Frédérique becomes Frédéric, an effeminate gay boy... Frédérique follows her father. Pierre Arroux is an art curator - and gay. She introduces herself to him, but as Frédéric. So while Frédéric is quite an awkward young man and an embarrassment to his father, Frédérique is secretly meeting with her old boyfriend now living in Paris..

새로 이사 온 아이, ‘미카엘’. 파란색을 좋아하고, 끝내주는 축구 실력과 유난히 잘 어울리는 짧은 머리로 친구들을 사로잡는 그의 진짜 이름은 ‘로레’! 눈물겹게 아름답고, 눈부시게 다정했던 10살 여름의 비밀 이야기가 시작된다!

Sex, politics and American culture are mixed into a combustible combination in Now & Later. Angela is an illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across Bill, a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in. Through passionate sex, soul-searching conversations ranging from politics to philosophy, and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview. As their affair heats up, the course of Bill's life begins to take an abrupt and unexpected turn.

The supermarket clown Ulrik is dreaming of becoming a stand-up comedian, the handicapped Amnesty girl Kristin is in love with Alexander, but does not dare to tell him, and Maya is to be deported from the country because she is a "consumed" mail order bride.

Graying Spaniard Daniel has a healthy budget for indulging in the finer things in life. Daniel's favorite luxury is playing sponsor to younger men amid the lights and sights of Madrid's gay club scene. After Daniel shares a night with handsome Bulgarian emigre Kyril, he finds himself consumed with an insatiable lust for the charismatic foreigner. But, as their relationship takes shape, Daniel's latest conquest reveals his own manipulative tendencies.

뉴욕 대학의 친구 사이인 빌(Bill Gambini: 랄프 마치오 분)과 스탠(Stan Rothenstein: 미첼 휫필드 분)은 UCLA대학 장학생으로 선발되어 뉴욕으로부터 자동차를 타고 캘리포니아로 가던 중 알라바마주의 마을을 통과하게 된다. 그곳의 한 식료품 가게에서 물건을 사던 빌은 깜빡잊고 참치통조림 한개의 값을 지불하지 않고 나온다. 뒤늦게 차안에서 그 사실을 발견하지만 곧 뒤따라온 경찰에 의해 체포된다. 빌은 자신이 참치를 훔친 혐의로 구속된 줄 알았으나 보안관은 그들이 식료품 가게 점원을 살해한 혐의로 체포되었다고 알려준다. 세 명의 증인이 분명히 빌과 스탠이 범행을 하고 달아나는 것을 목격했다는 것이다. 재판을 위해 변호사를 찾던 중 빌은 어머니의 소개로 사촌형 비니(Vinny Gambini: 조 페치 분)를 변호사로 위임한다. 약혼녀인 리사(Mona Lisa Vito: 마리사 토메이 분)와 함께 빌과 스텐이 수감되어 있는 마을로 찾아온 비니. 전형적인 뉴욕 사람인 이들은 남부지역인 알라바마가 낯설기만 한데. [스포일러] 교도소에서 비니를 만난 빌은 사촌형이 변호사가 된지 6주밖에 안되었으며 재판을 위해 법정에 한 번도 서본적이 없다는 것을 듣고 불안해 한다. 재판장을 만난 자리에서 자신이 경험 많은 변호사라고 거짓말을 하는 비니를 판사(Judge Chamberlain Haller: 프레드 그윈 분)는 의심스런 눈으로 바라본다. 드디어 재판은 시작되고 법정 경험이 없는 비니는 변호는 커녕 법정에서의 기본 절차를 몰라 법정 모욕죄로 판사에 의해 매번 구속 당하게 된다. 리사의 보석금으로 그때마다 풀려나오지만 재판은 갈 수록 불리한 상황으로 전개된다. 결국 리사의 재치있는 도움으로 본격적인 변호를 펼친 끝에 세 명의 검찰측 증인이 잘못 목격한 것임을 차례로 밝힌다. 범죄는 비슷한 차를 타고 같은 시각에 가게로 들어온 또 다른 두 명에 의해 저질러진 것임이 판명되었고 검사의 고소 취하에 따라 빌과 스탠은 풀려나게 된다.

A gay Brit living in New York is deprived of his immigration status, and risks losing his family and life in the U.S. He marries his lesbian best friend to remain in the country and stay with his family, but things get complicated when he meets the love of his life and is forced to make an impossible choice.