The Man Who Loved Flowers (2019)

Bleach

Damien, a 16-year old swimmer, clashes with his Coach at practice. In parallel, Damien plays with his younger brother at a hotel waterslide, but his erratic behaviour shows something hidden beneath the surface. Bleach explores the confusing moments following trauma and abuse, and how big each small step can be.

On My Way

Winter storm’s night. In his last breaths of life, Jules (35 y/o) imagines himself at home, taking one last look at his daughter. As he gaze around, he notices Sara (9 y/o) is immersed in reading a comic book. Jules feels that he doesn’t have much time left. He knows this moment with Sara will be his last, and it will be short. Too short. But all he wants, is to take his time.

Tempo

A different family breakfast. He spills milk, she picks it in the air. She catches the roasted bread as it jumps up from the toaster...

The Day Began Yesterday

Orlando and Saul meet by accident. The first one is a self-confident young man, university gymnast who avoids that his HIV-positive status defines him; while Saul, on the opposite, is insecure and barely understands what having an active sexual life means. The meeting will result in a new way of seeing life, one without fear where sex is an encounter and not a way of getting away from others.

Deafman Glance

A somber, menacing woman washes white dishes and a gleaming carving knife, pours milk into a glass, and then slowly attacks first one young boy and then another. Not a word of dialogue is uttered.

Mon chéri

On a hot summer‘s day, lonely Franklin is invited to play with other kids for the first time since moving to a new village. But when the children stumble across a recently moved-in house and observe his mother, things take a drastic turn – and Franklin once again has to play a role that he is not meant for…

Larry

Larry lives behind a window. He can see you through the glass. Will you be Larry's friend?

Terrible Things

Amidst the dead uninhabitable world of the future, the shelter of a forgotten country cottage affords a lone wanderer opportunity to acknowledge the lingering strands of her own humanity.

Montsouris Park

On a beautiful autumn day, in Montsouris Park in Paris, Jacques and Nathan are looking for interesting people to shoot their documentary. They chance upon Pierre and Martin, two odd dodos about to have an unusual experience.

Radikals

A young rookie from a bizarre chicken-dance group faces a heckler after being the worst dancer at a performance -- leading him to a series of strange events that reveal what the group does to their weakest link.

Dancing in the Corner

After the fall of communism in 1989, colour TVs are no longer a luxury good in Poland. The screens in many Polish homes are beginning to look more like the reality outside the window. But is reality truly colourful?

Sauna Day

Sauna Day invites you into the world of Southern Estonian men who go to the dark-intimate space of a smoke sauna after a hard day's work. Beneath their tough exteriors lies a desire for connection, veiled in secrecy.

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.

Alazar

In contemporary Ethiopia, a farming community's exodus is disrupted when the patriarch of a prominent family disappears from his grave. Tessema, his son, begins to question the church's divine explanation, forcing him to launch his own investigation.

My Senses Are All I Have to Offer

Lourdes and Lana met telepathically using “sensory pills”, a technology that allows access to other people’s sensations from a distance. After months of relationship, Lourdes decides to visit the country house of her parents, Vicente and Carl, and introduce them to her girlfriend.

Lollygag

A woman recounts her sensual yet macabre childhood memory about the boy next door.

The Letter Men

"The Letter Men" is based on the real love letters written by Gilbert Bradley to his sweetheart, Gordon Bowsher during WWII. Exchanged between 1938 and 1941, the letters were uncovered in 2017 and represent the largest known collection LGBTQ love letters from that time period. Using text from the actual letters, "The Letter Men" follows the two men as their fight to keep their love alive in the face of war and loss.

The Kaleighs

The Kaleighs is a short horror-comedy film created by Ayşe Erbaş and starring Kaleigh Sislen. A young woman is eager to help an injured person she finds in the woods, but soon discovers something much more sinister and otherworldly when taking shelter in an abandoned house.

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.

Un amor

Upon settling in the countryside village of La Escapa, Nat accepts a disturbing sexual proposal by neighbour Andreas, paving the way for a self-consuming passion.

You Like That

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

Grey Matter

An aging, small-town liquor store owner and his two friends, confront a local man who has been transformed into a cat eating, mold-monster.

Firsts

On the eve of Chinese New Year, Steven, a closeted Chinese international student living in New Zealand oppressed by the expectations of his parents, plans to lose his virginity to a stranger that he meets online.

Wren Boys

On the day after Christmas, a Catholic priest from Cork drives his nephew to prison.

Dog Food

When Declan loses his dog and best friend, Ralphie, his life starts to unravel.

A Gift for and from the Shallows

After waking up alone by a backwoods lake next to a ring buried in the shore line, business man Jeff Sinclair is faced with not knowing what he did the night before or the story of whose ring he took.

One For The Road

After a long night at the bar, a small town bartender and her long-time customer are convinced to help a pleading mother. They embark on a mission to help her two children. In the process they confront their fears about the mysterious evil town of Salem's Lot.

Kieselchen

A pretty mouse, gray as a pebble, comes into money, builds herself a cabbage house and looks around for a man. As she likes to sing herself, she wants him to have a nice voice. She doesn't like sheep, frog and rooster, so she gives her favor to a tomcat. One day, when he gets to lick her blood, his appetite overcomes him. She manages to escape - and they have lived in enmity ever since.

Baby Shark

This treatise on teens behaving badly takes three separate approaches to its theme. In the first story, a hottie skater boy asks a bored, young heterosexual couple to sexually indulge him. In the second story, a boy/girl couple contends with a nerd who clings to the boy after class each day. In the third and final story, an attractive young guy puts the moves on his identical twin brother's girlfriend.

Rå

Rå is the story of an initiation. Sixteen-year-old Linn longs to be admitted to her father’s community of hunters. She has long been familiar with the rules of the hunt but has yet to prove herself.

Barrio Boy

A secretly gay Latino barber quietly falls in love with a handsome stranger over the course of a haircut during a hot and sweaty summer afternoon in a macho Brooklyn hood.

Mi Unico Hijo

A young man must choose between his mother's plans or to follow his lifelong goal as a session musician.

Tyger

Charles really needs to pee, but he's pretty sure there's a tiger waiting in the bathroom.

Lethargy

After receiving an anonymous threat regarding intimate photos shared on social media without her consent, the inner world of Ágatha, a lonely young woman, undergoes a profound shift and turns against her.

Ovary-Acting

A harried thirty-something woman is forced to decide whether she wants to be a mother after unexpectedly giving birth to her reproductive organs at her sister’s baby shower.

H.B.

A family runs to the house shelter, but not all will make it in.

Cured

A young woman, possessed by a demonic entity, encounters a doctor with a very unusual method for performing exorcisms.

Europe by Bidon

Biodun is Nigerian. In this animated documentary, he tells the story of his journey on foot from Lagos to Paris, how he survives with a container (un bidon) and thanks to his courage. With his amazing patter, he transforms the events into extraordinary adventures.

The Second Time Around

A waitress, while closing a café on a rainy night in London, is confronted by a mysterious older woman.

Headcase

In her reach for fame, wannabe influencer Kylie finds herself having to lurk in the shadows after a cheeky hit-and-run threatens to derail her coveted brand partnership.

All That You Love

Travelling-Salesman Alfie Zimmer dreams of publishing a book about the graffiti he's encountered on his travels, but when the voices in his head start to get the better of him, he leaves the decision to go ahead with the publication up to fate and he may or may not come out alive.