Como Nos Ven (2024)

Capote

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".

The English Patient

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.

Being John Malkovich

One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.

Touched

What happens when two profoundly lonely men who are strangers, one older and gay, and the second younger and questioning, take one last chance at making a sincere human connection? Based on true events in the life of the writer/director.

A Different Tree

An eight-year-old girl tries to build a relationship with her absent father through a class-assigned family tree.

Stray

Set in a parallel universe where the sexual bias favors homosexuals, Eric, a struggling heterosexual, admits himself into a straight conversion camp. What begins as a cure to his deviant lifestyle, becomes a journey of self acceptance.

Andromeda

In a near future when androids are the new working class, one 'Andromeda' will be the breakthrough for human-level artificial intelligence. Through the love and care of a child, this android is given the gift of a heart and the promise that one day she will become real. But her transformation is dangerous, and there are those who will do anything to have her destroyed.

Thaw

While working on a remote farm for the winter, two friends begin to switch genders.

Last Summer

A park bench plays stage to the meeting between two people - Emma and Ben. Here we see them in present day and we learn that they once spent three years very much in love.

Never Me

“Never Me” is a student film about Serafina, a 16-year-old girl who endures the tribulations of attempting to receive an abortion in her home state of Texas after the overturn of Roe v. Wade. The story explores the importance of friendship and family as they journey through love and loss. Serafina treks a narrow path, but in the end became closer to those who matter most and gained a newfound respect for adulthood.

AIRBAG

In Timothy Leong's debut short film, Howie and his daughter, Jane, get into a fight on the roof of a parking garage. When Howie gets stuck at the exit, his anger targets the people around him.

Beautiful Bunkers

Artemis has lived 15 years in a Cold War Bunker living on food pills and working on paper work that is delivered through a pneumatic tube. Her only communication with the outside world is through a CB radio. Her daily routine is interrupted by her fear of what may have happened to her childhood friend Linda, who has ceased communication for the last several days.

The Male Gaze: First Kiss

The Male Gaze is a new series of releases from New Queer Visions that showcases short LGBTQ films from across the world. The first instalment, First Kiss, brings together five shorts that are based around men experiencing romantic and/or sexual interaction with other men for the first time. It takes in films from Sweden, Indonesia, USA, Australia and France giving a rounded look at how similar experiences are depicted across the world. The films are: Naked [Naken] (2013); Pria (2017); Walk With Me (2018), One Night Only (2018); Michel's Mouse [Tapette] (2016).

Dogville

When a beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters, and, in return, Grace agrees to do odd jobs for the townspeople.

A Normal Guy

Daniel got lucky tonight: this time he is not going home alone again. But is that enough to pull him out of his reality?

Clair de Lune

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Ladyboy

Kristian, who is a transvestite, still lives at home with his mother Emma, because she loves him just the way he is. Life as a transvestite offers many humiliations from the outside world, but with his mom, Kristian feels that he can be himself. Until one day when Emma meets the alcoholic Søren, who does not have the same tolerance...

Like a Brother

An unspoken conflict is affecting the relationship between two brothers. Will Simon and Robin find the courage to talk about their issue?

Driving Mr. Blue

Driving Mr. Blue is a short film exploring the emotional aftermath of a breakup. It examines the question, "Was it all for nothing?" through a character seeking refuge in dark spaces, where TV becomes a temporary escape from pain. The film delves into how loss can unravel a person’s sense of self and portrays the raw emotions that arise when coping with the end of a relationship.

Neon Lights

In 2053, amidst a devastating pandemic, an old gravedigger from Elementar Corporation insists on burying his wife with just a shovel, rejecting the corporation's new burial technology, the "Cube Of Miracles." Conflict arises when a young gravedigger armed with the "Cube of Miracles" challenges the old gravedigger's traditional methods at the cemetery. The film explores the clash between tradition and innovation, delving into broader themes of man versus machine in a society grappling with AI and automation.

A History of Violence

An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.

Bad Education

Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.

All Work No Play

Mixes fiction and documentary to tell the story of Marc Helt and his first sexual experience with other men, as a healing ritual after a violent hate crime.

Corners and Other Things That Fade

Agustín, a 70-year-old retired baseball player with a serious heart problem, faces a strong dilemma: whether or not to return to the baseball field.

I Am Yet to Make You a Love Song

Greg and Alessandro are in the bedroom, looking at one another. The feeling of guilt and nostalgia of that moment may forever mark their lives, but it's only a gateway to allow love to walk freely amongst them. They look at one another. They feel one another. They love one another. Regardless of the unrevealed pictures or the unwritten songs.

Joy Boy

Based on a true story, Joy Noy revisits pivotal moments in the life of Jonny, a young man caught between his conservative family, an evangelical church and his emergent sexuality.

Fish Out of Water

Lexi, a struggling young mom, has an opportunity to reconnect with her estranged family after she's approached by her now-sober father with news of her mother's failing health.

The Sin By Which They Fell

After committing a gruesome act of violence, the fallen angel September reflects on their relationship with Rowan, the human who came to their aid.

Family Outing

A young man is surprised by what he discovers in his first trip to the baths.

Kiem Holijanda

When teenager Andi discovers a card of a Dutch porn star in the bedroom he shares with his brother, his obsession to get a phone and access the X-rated content means he doesn't notice that his brother has chosen this day to say goodbye to him.

Mankind

A restless young man wants to leave love and the Earth behind.

Self Destructive Boys

Self Destructive Boys is a direct stare into masculine interaction as we follow three boys in their mid-twenties, António, Xavier and Miguel testing the limits of their sexual flexibility.

Kanarí

Vala and Benni are on the road and struggle to find a mutual purpose in their new destination.

My Little Boy

Berlin, 1934. Many men are forced to live their hidden homosexuality. Erich, a photographer, has an appointment in his photo studio with Wolfgang, a Nazi soldier, with whom he shares a loving, tumultuous, and passionate relationship. For both of them, this should not be a problem, but appearances deceive.

The Sin of Those Who Love Us

Something unexpected brings Vitor back to the house where he was born. His return awakes ghosts from the past and a war long ago locked within this family.

Sing

Quiet 10-year-old Zsofi has just changed schools. Feeling out of place at first, she is quickly admitted to the school’s famous choir and befriends her popular classmate Liza. Soon, they have to stand up united against their choir master, who isn’t quite the friendly and inspirational teacher they first thought she was.

Alone, But Not Forever

Yamin and his struggles with loneliness and isolation. His little brother, Dhamin, helps him to find some solace through their shared love of drawing. However, Yamin still feels the need to leave and find his own way in the end. It's a touching story about the power of connection and creativity.

Small Talk

When an old friend enters her hair salon, a local hairdresser tries to talk to him about his life since their departure while cutting his hair, unaware of his dark secret.

Roberto

15 years have passed and Roberto is still in love with his neighbor, but she prefers to hide ashamed of her body. With his art and an old clothesline as the only way of communication, Roberto has a plan to push his beloved for face her monsters at once.

Mr. Pregnant

A short about going CowboyMode.

2 Weeks

When 20-something-year-old Tanya begins to realize she’s asexual, the highly charged sexualized world she lives in as an actress and partner begins to fall apart and feels more and more like an unbearable nightmare.

Boy Scouts

Year 2000, in a province in the North, Anirut and Ram are young boys in Grade 3 who rarely talk to each other at school, have come to join the Boy Scout camp together for the last time in their lives. Entering this camp makes Anirut and Ram discover their identity upon which both of them must decide whether to keep this identity or let it pass over time.

Myosis

Myosis is the constriction of the iris which decreases the diameter of the pupil. It is an unconscious phenomenon which can be triggered by an intense light, fear, or the effect of epiphany.

The Awakening

Bill Williams, a poor inventor with a large family, suddenly comes into great wealth through the sale of an invention. Sudden affluence turns his head, and he changes at once from the plodding mechanic of the dingy shop into an ultra-fashionable man of the town.

Breakfast Wine

In Ireland they say it takes just three alcoholics to keep a small bar running in a country town. But what if you’ve only got two?