Other Voices Other Rooms (1995)

Jamie Gangel vive no subúrbio londrino e costuma fugir da escola para cabular os jogos de futebol. Ele é vizinho de Ste Pearce, um rapaz popular e atlético, que frequentemente apanha do pai alcoólatra e do seu irmão mais velho. Notícias sobre a violência sofrida por Ste sensibilizam a mãe de Jamie, Sandra, que o acolhe em sua casa, e o rapaz passa, então, a dividir o quarto com Jamie. Durante a estada de Ste na casa dos Gangel, os dois rapazes desenvolvem sentimentos um pelo outro.

A história é sobre Damien, o filho de um soldado, que vive no sudoeste da França com sua mãe médica, enquanto o pai está em missão na África Central. Damien é gay e sofre abuso de um menino em sua escola, Tom, cuja mãe adotiva está doente. O quadro vai tornar-se ainda mais problemático quando a mãe de Damien decide acolher Tom sob seu teto...

Zach abandona o sonho de estudar artes plásticas para cuidar de sua família desestruturada. Entre um trampo num diner e o sobrinho de 5 anos, Zach mal encontra tempo para se dedicar ao que mais gosta: grafitar e surfar. Tudo muda quando Zach conhece Shaun, um escritor gay de 30 e poucos anos, com quem passa a surfar. Quando a paixão transborda para além das ondas do mar, Zach descobre o desejo e terá de aprender que é possível conjugar responsabilidade, amor e ambição.

Los Angeles, Christian (Wes Ramsey) apenas queria sexo e diversão. Jamais imaginaria encontrar o Mormom Aaron (Steve Sandvess), por quem acabaria se apaixonando profundamente. O religioso acaba mostrando a Christian que o amor esta onde menos se espera. Eles se entregam um ao outro, mas acabando separados pela família de Aaron.

As férias vão começar para Olaf "Gunn" Gunnunderson (Keith Jordan), um estudante universitário que tenta esconder dos seus pais que é gay. Os pais tentam empurrar a sua namoradinha de adolescência, Abby (Hallee Hirsch). Mas, quando seu namorado, Nathan (Adamo Ruggiero), aparece em sua casa sem avisar, Gunn faz de tudo para manter o relacionamento em segredo. Com a crescente pressão por todos os lados, Gunn vai continuar mentindo ou enfrentar a verdade?

Aos 17 anos, Simon Spier aparentemente leva uma vida comum, mas sofre por esconder um grande segredo: nunca revelou ser gay para sua família e amigos. E tudo fica mais complicado quando ele se apaixona por um dos colegas de escola, anônimo, com quem troca confidências diariamente via internet.

Dois jovens se envolvem e uma história de amor sensual se desenvolve rapidamente entre eles, porém, ambos precisam esconder esse amor da comunidade extremamente religiosa da década de 1970 em que vivem. Especialmente Nathan (Stephan Bender), que tem de enfrentar seus demônios e a violência que prevalece dentro da sua própria família.

Um registro dos anos 1960, em Villeneuve, sudoeste da França, durante a guerra da independência da Argélia. Entre dúvidas sobre a adolescência, a sexualidade e a política, um grupo de amigos vai ingressando, cada qual à sua maneira, no mundo dos adultos. Henri, um jovem argelino, é enviado à cidade para completar seus estudos e acaba trazendo aos colegas a dura realidade da guerra. François e Serge são desafiados pela agressividade de Henri, enquanto a bela Maïté se sente atraída por ele.

Um adolescente sem rumo nos arredores do Brooklyn luta para escapar de sua vida sombria em casa e navegar por questões de auto-identidade, enquanto equilibra seu tempo entre seus amigos delinquentes, uma nova namorada em potencial e homens mais velhos que ele encontra on-line.

Nos subúrbios de Buenos Aires, Gabriel acaba de alugar um quarto na casa de Juan, com quem trabalha numa marcenaria. Gabriel é muito quieto e tem uma filha pequena. Juan é um cara festeiro com muitas namoradas a disposição. Tímido e reservado, Gabo está relutante com os sinais e investidas de Juan. Seus sentimentos parecem estar no lugar, mas a atração entre os dois é inegável. O que começa como uma relação sexual casual, logo se transforma em um relacionamento íntimo e terno, que é tão doce quanto desolador.

Harvey Milk era considerado dessa forma pelas multidões que o acompanhavam. Capaz de cativar e mobilizar massas, Harvey foi o primeiro homossexual assumido a ser eleito a um cargo público nos Estados Unidos. E também uma das figuras mais vibrantes da política conservadora americana.

After a night of drinking, Adam Hutcherson stumbles out of the closet to his three straight buddies. A disruption to their dynamic which they now must try and overcome through alcohol, Tinder dates and forgiveness.

Este é um filme baseado na história verídica de um jovem homossexual, que aos 20 anos suicida-se. A sua mãe, Mary Griffith, sabedora da sexualidade do filho acredita "curar" o filho com base na religião e terapias, para quatro anos depois (1979) Bobby lançar-se de uma ponte.

Ned e Conor são pessoas completamente diferentes, com personalidades como água e vinho. Um é uma estrela do rugby super popular do time, o outro é considerado um perdedor por todos. A contragosto, eles são forçados a dividir um quarto em sua escola e, inesperadamente, formam uma amizade improvável.

Um rápido e dramático drama romântico sobre um jovem banqueiro de investimentos bem-sucedido de Manhattan que vive a vida encantada prestes a se casar com a mulher dos seus sonhos que, um mês antes de seu casamento, conhece e inesperadamente se apaixona por um homem carismático de seu passado.

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.

Tyler (Derek James) e Chase (Charlie David) são melhores amigos desde os tempos de faculdade. Tyler convida seu amigo para passar o verão com sua família e desfrutar da casa do Lago. Em meio a noites de conversa, churrascos e partidas de golfe, Tyler não imagina que o seu melhor amigo Chase guarda um segredo.

Quatro histórias sobre amor e auto-aceitação. Um menino de onze anos se esforça para manter em segredo o afeto que sente pelo primo. Dois amigos de infância se reencontram adultos e iniciam um relacionamento que se complica quando um deles sente medo de ser descoberto. Um longo relacionamento entre dois homens é abalado com a chegada de um terceiro. E um homem de idade com família que é obcecado por um prostituto e tenta levantar o dinheiro para pagar a experiência.

O último trabalho do incansável, criativo e provocativo Xavier Dolan, canadense (“Eu Matei Minha Mãe” e “Laurence Anyways”) segue um homem aflito que visita os pais de seu amante morto – apenas para descobrir que eles não tinham conhecimento da orientação sexual de seu filho.

O jovem Eric, de 17 anos, começa a despertar para sentimentos que até então desconhecia. Durante as férias no verão de 1984, ele e sua melhor amiga Maggie começam a trabalhar no refeitório de um parque de diversão. Enquanto que todos pensam que ele e Maggie namoram, Eric começa a se relacionar com o colega de trabalho, Rod.

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

In Paris, in 1942, on a Thursday, the Parisian police herded together some 13,000 Jews for deportation to German territory. In this story, Paul (Christian Rist) is a teenager who tries to prevent this from happening. At first he attempts to save two elderly Jews, but they are resigned to their fate and comply with the order to assemble. For a short while, he is able to keep Jeanne (Christine Pascal) from joining them, but, after a long and strenuous day, she finally escapes from him he is too tired to chase after her.

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.