Nine more award-winning short film favourites from the hugely popular Boys On Film canon, from four different continents and celebrated film festivals including Cannes, Sundance, Outfest, Frameline and many more.
Boys will be boys in Pascal Alex Vincent s FAR WEST and CANDY BOY, where a farmyard and an orphanage get a gay makeover. GO GO REJECT sees Flashdance obsessive Daniel aims for the stars, as SWEAT has Holby City s David Paisley infiltrating a bath house with unexpected results. Meanwhile, love proves to be timeless when LAST CALL unites past and present, but TWO YOUNG MEN, UT hints at an uncertain future. Looking back on the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, BLOKES focuses on the sexual awakening of a peeping Tom. Two more young boys; a confused JAMES and mute DAVID, both reach out for an experienced hand, but will they find what they are looking for?
Alex (Inés Efron, Amorosa Soledad, Glue) is a 15-year-old with a secret. What she hides is something that has driven her family to the windswept outer-reaches of the Uruguayan shoreline. Her father, Kraken (Ricardo Darín, Nine Queens) wants what is best for his daughter, yet knows she cannot go on living the life she leads. For Alex is intersexual, yet all she wants is to be left alone, to be herself.
Before long an old family friend, who is also a plastic surgeon, is invited to stay at their isolated cabin, along with his teenage son Álvaro (Martín Piroyansky). As Alex realises the disturbing ramifications of the visit, she develops a relationship with Álvaro that is far from conventional…
Highly acclaimed and the subject of much debate, XXY is the intimate coming-of-age portrayal of a teenager torn between the love of her parents, her own personal desires, and the daunting, inevitable path into adulthood.
Based on murders that took place between 1962 and 1979 in New York city, Cruising follows the story of police detective Steve Burns (Al Pacino)as he tries to solve a number of brutal murder cases in the gay community. Cruising received a multitude of publicity when it was released due to the censorship row that surrounded it.
Set in the summer of 1984 – Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners. But there is a problem. The Union seems embarrassed to receive their support. But the activists are not deterred. They decide to ignore the Union and go direct to the miners. They identify a mining village in deepest Wales and set off in a mini bus to make their donation in person. And so begins the extraordinary story of two seemingly alien communities who form a surprising and ultimately triumphant partnership.
Beautiful People is not your average family sitcom because the Doonans are not your average family.
The show is the story of a dream, the dream that one day Simon would leave suburban Reading and move to London to be with the beautiful people. In fact he moved to New York to become the creative director of Barneys, an uber-chic fashion store, and to write the memoir on which this hugely exuberant comedy is based. It has song, dance, jokes, bitch-fighting, drunken hairdressers, black posh spice dolls, exploding baked bean cans causing death and a soundtrack featuring Dannii and Kylie Minogue, Sophie Ellis Bextor, The Pet Shop Boys, Sam Wood and Dan Gillespie Sells of The Feeling.
Mum and Dad drink homemade wine, Simon hangs out with his best friend Kyle, better known as Kylie, working on dance moves to 90s floor fillers; his sister Ashlene wants to look like Heather Small and "hang with the hood", whilst his aunty Hayley is blind, feisty and eating nuts. Gran meanwhile used to be the nicest woman in the world and has now turned very nasty.
Boys On Film 2 contains nine award-winning short films: Cowboy, Lucky Blue, Weekend In The Countryside, Kali Ma, Bramadero, Love Bite, The Island, Futures & Derivatives and Working it Out.
Cowboy - Dir. Till
Kleinert (Germany)
An estate agent goes to investigate a prime piece of property in the countryside
whereupon he encounters a mysterious farm boy. A mutual attraction develops, albeit
uneasily, and the pair indulge in a bout of passion amongst the haystacks. Meanwhile,
out among the corn fields, a horrifying fate awaits them...
Winner, Iris Prize Short Film Festival, Cardiff
Lucky Blue -
Dir. Håkon Liu (Sweden)
A balmy summer night. A camping site somewhere in Sweden. The grand emotions,
the shy teenager, the first love, caravans, karaoke and a bird… This is
the story of a boy who, in spite of his insecurities and fears, finally finds
the courage to express his love in his own special way.
Winner, Best Short Film, Gothenburg Film Festival
Weekend In The
Countryside - Dir. Mathieu Salmon (France)
Pierre is invited to go on a weekend trip to an old country house belonging
to best friend Marc. The property is overrun by Marc’s frighteningly unruly
dogs. Marc assures Pierre that they are harmless, but when Pierre rebuffs Marc’s
sexual advances, the canines turn nasty.
Official Selection, São Paulo and Istanbul Short Film Festivals
Kali Ma - Dir.
Soman Chainani (USA)
When an Indian mother finds out her son is the victim of a vicious homophobic
bully, she delivers her own brand of vigilante justice. Part electric action
thriller, part exhilarating comedy, ‘Kali Ma’ finds the secrets that
divide mothers and sons and the love that brings them together.
Winner, Best Short Film, Rosebud Awards
Bramadero –
Dir. Julián Hernández (Mexico)
The beautiful and erotic Bramadero finds Hassen and Jonás on the outskirts
of Mexico City. Away from it all, they’ve found a spot where they can seduce
one another and merge into one; where sex becomes desire, desire becomes love,
and only death will separate them.
Official Selection, Frameline, Seattle and Toronto LGBT Film Festivals
Love Bite -
Dir. Craig Boreham (Australia)
Noah and Gus hang out and smoke weed after school. As the munchies kick in,
Noah feels compelled to share a secret desire that has been tormenting him.
An uncomfortable Gus thinks he knows what’s up. He has no idea...
Official Selection, Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival
The Island -
Dir. Trevor Anderson (Canada)
A filmmaker with a vivid imagination considers, with the help of animation,
a piece of fan mail he received. What if all the gays in the world were put
on an island?
Official Selection, Newfest and Frameline Film Festivals
Futures &
Derivatives – Dir. Arthur Halpern (USA)
A group at the law firm is caught off guard when asked to produce a presentation
for an important client. They subsequently hire a bookish temp to pull an all-nighter.
Not only does the temp finish the power-point presentation, but he leaves behind
a trail of magic that will change the perceptions and sensibilites of the office
staff forever.
Official Selection, Brooklyn Film Fest, LA Shorts Fest, ReelHeART
Working it Out
– Dir. Tim Hunter (Australia)
Marcus and Peter go to their local gym for their usual workout, which is disturbed
by a buff and handsome man called Jeremy. The pair bicker over the sexy Jeremy,
accusing one another of either cheating or being all-out paranoid. In the end,
though, Jeremy will have his way...
Entertaining Mr.Sloane is a 1970 black comedy directed by Douglas Hickox and based on the 1964 play of the same title by Joe Orton.
Keth (Beryl Reid) is a lonely, middle-aged woman living in the London suburbs with her ageing father Kemp (Alan Webb). When she meets the attractive Sloane (Peter McEnery) sunbathing on a tombstone in the cemetery near her home, she invited him to become her lodger. Soon after he accepts her offer, Kath seduces him and despite the age gap, Sloane encourages the flirtations. Kath's successful and closeted brother Ed also falls for the charms of the enigmatic Mr. Sloane and decides to make him his chauffeur, clad in a leather uniform much to Ed's delight. Only Kemp distrusts the mysterious Sloane and accuses him of being involved in an old, unsolved murder.
Boys On Film explores the darker side of romance with a collection of edgy, controversial and scintillating short films that have wowed film festival audiences the world over, including the Oscar-winning 'The New Tenants' starring Vincent D'Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket) and 'Mirrors' starring Xavier Dolan (Heartbeats, I Killed My Mother).
When you are a tall strapping man who dresses like a woman for a living, finding a pair of sexy but durable shoes can be worth your weight in gold. Lola (Chiwetel Ejiofor)--a drag queen also known as Simon--finds her shoe salvation in straight-laced Charlie Price (Joel Edgerton), who has inherited his father's shoe factory. Unable to pay the bills making traditional loafers and wingtips, Charlie agrees to make Lola a pair of kinky boots that turn out to be so fabulous the pair end up going into business together. They face a few obstacles, such as the bawdy union workers who aren't too keen on taking orders from a drag queen who's more of a man than they are. Then there's Charlie's posh real estate girlfriend, who wants to convert the factory into pricey condos. While the movie doesn't provide any real surprises (or even any scenes as suggestive as its title might suggest), the film (which is loosely based on a true story) is highly entertaining that will delight fans of both comedy and shoes.
Not technically gay cinema, but still good fun and plently of camp humour
