Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo (Théo et Hugo dans le même bateau) (2016)
A France Movie
Theo and Hugo are two young gay men who meet one night during a gay orgy
at an underground sex club in Paris, France. After building a special
connection, they meet outside the club where they realize they had
unprotected sex. During the next 90 minutes, we follow them as they
leave the club and get to know each other during bicycling and walking
in northeast Paris, visiting a hospital after one of them learns he is
HIV positive where they get tested and discuss treatment. They ride the
Paris Metro subway, encountering an elderly woman on the subway and then
interact with counter server in a kebab shop, before stopping at one of
theirs apartment. The action of the film is set entirely in real time
as it begins at 4:27 am and concludes at 5:59 am.
No Touching at All (Doushitemo furetakunai) (2014)
A Japan Movie
On the first day of Shima's new job he met a man with a hangover in the
elevator. That was his first meeting with his new boss, Togawa. Though
Togawa seemed rude and cross, Shima was drawn to the kindness beneath
his rough facade. Both men harbor a painful past but unlike Togawa, who
was open with his feelings, Shima seems unable to move on. Based on the
manga with the same name by Yoneda Kou.
THE BLUE HOUR is a sexy supernatural love story about a bullied loner,
Tam, who finds solace in the arms of Phum, a boy he meets at a haunted
swimming pool. Phum reveals that his family's land has been stolen and
the new found lovers imagine a perfect life together on the disputed
land. Haunted by a ghostly presence, Tam struggles to stay connected to
reality. An official selection of the Berlin International Film
Festival, THE BLUE HOUR is a dark atmospheric tale of love and distress.
I Am Happiness on Earth (Yo soy la felicidad de este mundo) (2014)
A Mexicos Movie
Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, mixing the
objective reality with the processes of the artistic creation. The story
he is filming flounders with his daily life, until his world is trapped
in the lens of his camera. Confused, always alone and in front of a
screen, now become a transfigured reality, but at the same time a
measurable, controllable and manipulable one, he listens in loop to a
song: one of those songs you sing or repeat as a prayer and forcing you
to remember, believe and convince yourself.
Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school.
John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a
minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years to
laugh in the face of everything life threw at it - the separations, the
discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses - until
the only problem that love can't solve tried to destroy them.
Simon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends and all of
his classmates: he's gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must
face everyone and come to terms with his identity.
