This is the second vertical AI BL drama I've sat through, and honestly I went in knowing better. I had it on while I was doing cardio at the gym, and what struck me was just how much the plot echoed the last one I watched. Same step brother romance angle, same mystery girlfriend showing up near the end, same extra guy pining after one of the leads. Genuinely the only thing going for it was the runtime, the whole thing wrapped up in forty five minutes flat. The setup kicks off with Finn moving schools because his mom just married into money. He finds out his new step brother Aiden goes to the same place, and he's warned to keep his distance from him. Their first run in at school is rocky, just like you'd expect, but there's this odd pull between them neither can shake off. Finn keeps telling himself not to read into it because Aiden's straight and openly homophobic. Things shift when some kids start bullying Finn and the student council president, Ryan, steps in to ...
Best friends Beto and Daniel spend most of their time together. Daniel struggles with his gender identity just to hide his feelings for Beto. To be himself he has to overcome his fear by showing Beto what he truly feels.
Plan Q (France)
A curious guy hooks up online and asks the man to leave soon after. Only then we realize that he has a wife and its time to be "straight" again.
Two sixteen year old boys, Marcos and Johannes, spend their days racing, wrestling, hanging out, watching videos and playing hide-and-seek at nights. A closeness develops between the two of them, which soon starts to become a calamity to their friendship. Bore!
Danny Wylde (USA)
Discover the art of being a former porn star in this intimate portrait of Danny Wylde.
Toti, a Young college student will do anything in order to get the man of his dreams. With the help of his best girlfriend, he'll find out that within him there are few lines separating man from woman, past from present.
Bobbycrush (USA)
Bobby Stone is 13 and in love. Problem is that he's in love with his best friend Dylan and Dylan doesn't feel the same way.
Family tensions slowly erode on finding out possible sexuality of their older son leading to a tragedy that could have been avoided. A child’s-eye view of the tension and tragedy which he doesn't understand. A brilliant and beautifully made film.
Red Dress (Georgia)
A mother's acceptance for her son's cross dressing after a huge riot takes place in Tbilisi for LGBT rights.
After emigrating from Israel, Noam, a young transgender artist, is now happily living in New York with an older woman, but things change when an old friend/flame from Tel Aviv comes to town for a visit.
Sotana Para Dos (Ecuador)
Forbidden love between a priest and his sacristan. The priest has to officiate mass of his lover while his pain deepens as he learns the reasons why he was killed.
Two old high school friends run into each other in Central Park and catch up on their lives making up lies.
Phoria (USA Documentary)
An intimate portrayal of five transgender people assigned female at birth.
L.A.F.S (Philippines)
A quick silent short of 2 boys chance meeting over working out and their growing affection for one another.
Taha, a ten years old, is involved in a play in which children imitate their parents' roles. Living with his divorced mother, Taha understands new things about his mom by playing her role.
The Confession of Father John Thomas (Australia)
When you're a penis AND a priest, it's bound to cause some conflict. Adult animation shows what happens when God listens in on Father performing confession.
Erasmo is bored of his relationship with Manuel, so he invites a third person to fill the void. What the couple does to the third person is a shocking twist.
Il Barbiere de Siviglia (Italy)
An insignificant gay barber shop owner dreams of being a successful fashionable diva hair stylist who is able to satisfy all of customers' expectations who want to feel like million bucks.
An OCD gay twenty-something meets a struggling actress at an S&M-themed party. This film was remade as Straight Up, reviewed here on my blog. I knew it while watching this short that the subject felt very familiar.
The Gay in the Attic (UK)
A young man is desperate to bring his new girlfriend home for the night, despite a dark secret that lurks at the top of the stairs.
A former military officer makes a film about a man he encountered in Tanjong Rhu, a secluded cruising ground. Based on a true incident in 1993 about how police led an operation and arrested 12 gay men.
Check Mate (USA)
A 17 year old boy struggles to keep a relationship with his only friend who is closeted and homophobic. Back to today, the old man remembers his past.
Three youngsters go on a road trip to Seville that will change their lives forever.
In my shoes - stories of youth with LGBT parents (USA)
In a time when LGBT families are debated and attacked in the media, courts and Congress, from school houses to state houses, five young people give you a chance to walk in their shoes - to hear their views on marriage and what it means to be a family.
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