Behind the Lens (2024)

Drifting Boat

An elderly Chinese immigrant woman strongly desires to return to her hometown in China.

Sunflower

After being sexually assaulted by a well-respected professor, a reclusive Chinese American girl who grew up in an abusive family struggles to find her voice while her mother tells her to be silent.

Paper Airplane

While falling in love with a reclusive homeless musician, a drug-addicted Chinese school girl regains her appetite for life and makes peace with herself.

He Took His Skin Off for Me

A simple, domestic love story about a man who takes his skin off for his girlfriend, and why it probably wasn't the best idea...

Aban + Khorshid

Inspired by true events, Aban + Khorshid is an intimate portrait of two lovers, glimpsing into the world in which they met, moments before their execution for being gay.

Brace

On his first foray out onto London's thriving gay scene, newly single Adam meets Rocky, a handsome and mysterious drifter, with whom he shares an instant and undeniable chemistry. From the outset, Rocky is eager to reveal more of himself than Adam is ready for, and so the two maintain an uncomfortable pact of silence. As the pair grow closer, something has to give, and the truth about Rocky is explosively revealed. As the dust settles, the men are left to decide whether they can find acceptance in each other, by facing the truth about themselves.

Intruders

In the aftermath of a deadly haunting in a small suburban home, a sinister omnipresent entity proceeds to cause havoc in the private lives of a young boy, an unsuspecting teen, and an absent-minded inspector.

The Last Night

When a French speaking Canadian couple hire a Russian speaking male prostitute for a ménage-à-trois to spice up their sex lives, the results are not as they expected.

Motorcycle

Raised by an overprotective mother and having recently moved from the city, 17 year old Wojtek tries to fit in by taking part in a local motorcycle competition.

Flares

After a near-death experience, a person floats in a mysterious space, gradually being reborn by reconnecting with the sensations of their body.

Divebomb

With his career in jeopardy a journalist begins to question the nature of his friendship with a senior journalist.

Sessizlik

The dance of nature, sound and time around an old man.

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, and that the actress will reclaim her when she returns.

First Came The Silence

Claire, eleven years, carries with it a big secret. But neither her daddy nor anybody else will ever know. Except perhaps Eric, playing her boyfriend, who is not afraid of Uncle Etienne.

Alone with Mr. Carter

In 1997, the year Ellen DeGeneres comes out, John is a boy who dreams of becoming a cop. He wants to confide in his neighbor, Mr. Carter, that he is secretly in love with him. Time is of the essence as the 65-year-old heterosexual detective is moving away forever.

Michelle

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Tenez

Before a crucial tennis championship, Leo encounters his former coach, who physically abused him nearly ten years ago. Leo, who has been struggling with mental health problems since then, threatens to spiral out of control, caught between the tennis court and the gambling halls.

For People in Trouble

When two people meet one night in London, their relationship blossoms and fractures, intertwined with impending societal collapse.

Roy

Trapped in a lonely existence, reclusive widower Roy passes the days by cold calling strangers from the phone book, looking for brief moments of companionship. But when he accidentally calls adult hotline worker Cara, an unlikely friendship is born that will help them both rediscover the joy of life.

The Devils

Father Urbain Grandier’s unorthodox views of sex and religion make him a polarizing figure in 17th-century France. His outspokenness has amassed a passionate following of nuns and a respected reputation for protecting the city of Loudon from corruption. Grandier’s influence is then undermined following a sexually repressed nun’s accusation of witchcraft.

What They Say

They thought she had the perfect life; wealthy and privileged, an honor student with her whole life mapped out. What they didnt know was what lied inside of her; pain and anguish; tearing at her until there was nothing left. Lost and alone, the young woman (Heather Dorff), finds solace in the form of a glistening blade, splitting her skin deeply. Her self-indulgent mother and obnoxious sister (Kelsey Zukowski), are completely oblivious to her inner-turmoil. She has long since become numb to the world around her, getting that sensual release, as the razor cuts deeper, watching the blood drip, is all that matters. As soon as the last drop falls, the calm is stripped away from her with it. How far will she go to silence the hunger that now consumes her? Will she be able to regain control of her life, body, and sanity?

My Brother Juan

Ana is a 6-year-old girl who goes to therapy. Through games and drawings, she tells the psychologist about her family, specially about her older brother, Juan. She describes what he is like, how he feels about her, how they play together. But soon, it will be revealed that things are not always exactly what they seem.

Metrotopia

A brief visual journey through the subways of major world cities. Without narration, Marker captures anonymous gestures, repetitive rhythms, and the unique atmosphere of underground urban spaces. A sensory meditation on modern life, the homogenization of environments, and the quiet beauty of places in transit.

Végtelen percek

On a summer afternoon, someone drips coffee, someone feeds a pigeon, someone kills a wasp, someone dies, someone runs away, someone copies, someone listens to the radio, someone makes a phone call, someone... And there may be some correlation between these things. Based on János Szántai's short story.

The Algerian War!

In a single static shot a man is threatened with death at another's gunpoint.

Time & Again

Eleanor and Isabelle meet again, sixty years after their relationship break up...

Something Blue

Alice and Mary were classmates in the county town high school. After graduation, they’ve separated: Mary went to college, while Alice felt in love and stayed in the grange. They meet at Alice's wedding, but Alice receives her friend reservedly: she reckons herself as a victim, and Mary as the symbol of the life she has been deprived of.

BOB

A girl invites a costumed stranger off the street to her older sister's dinner party. The mysterious man simply called 'Bob' seems friendly enough - What could possibly go wrong?

Sea Pilgrim

A meditative film on Brazilian sailor Tassio Azambuja.

Cremaster 5

Cremaster 5 is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The last film in the series, Cremaster 5 represents the moment when the testicles are finally released and sexual differentiation is fully attained. The lamenting tone of the opera suggests that Barney invisions this as a moment of tragedy and loss. The primary character is the Queen of Chain (played by Ursula Andress). Barney, himself, plays three characters who appear in the mind of the Queen: her Diva, Magician, and Giant. The Magician is a stand-in for Harry Houdini, who was born in Budapest in 1874 and appears as a recurring character in the Cremaster cycle.

You Like That

Lost in a hypersexual digital world, Joshua dreams of the kind of love he’s only read about in classic literature.

Eid Mubarak

A privileged six-year-old Pakistani girl embarks on a mission to save her beloved pet goat from being eaten on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Azha, only to learn the meaning of sacrifice.

Estepario

Ernesto goes through one of the hardest tests in his marriage. The situation has led him to live in a different way.