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Burnout Syndrome (Thai Series)

True to its title, this show tries to capture burnout not as some big dramatic collapse but as this slow, draining exhaustion that quietly eats away at relationships and how you see yourself, and honestly it makes the characters feel really real. The pace is slow on purpose, and everyone here is flawed and full of contradictions, nobody's simple. It uses this messed up boss and employee dynamic to sneak in some pretty smart commentary on society. The story digs into toxic work culture, mental health struggles, and how money ends up running our lives whether we like it or not. And yeah, there's a love triangle thrown in too, because of course there is. This one runs ten episodes, each around 45-55 minutes. Jira's twenty eight, broke, and struggling to make it as a painter. Nothing's going right for him, his art isn't selling, he's got no steady job, and he's basically on the edge of falling apart. His best friend Ing does what she can, finding him odd jobs an...

Gay Short Films : 35

All these are quick short films, most about 2-4 minutes.

100 crushes chapter 6 - They (Canada) - A bad animation introducing concept of addressing as pronouns rather than ‘he’ or ‘she’.

By way of love (USA) - A man discovers his lover has found another prompting him to enact upon a deeper, darker side of human nature.

Cruising Electric (USA) - A commercial for a cruising game Based on Al Pacino’s film.

Dunkin Love (USA) - A musical interlude between a trans and a man

Europe is Our Playground (Spain) - Suede music With a naked main jungle

Franz (Dominican Republic) - No dialogue. A naked man reliving his past love in dreams.

Golden Age of Hustlers (USA) - Interviews with Bambi Lake and archival projections from San Franscisco’s queer community in the 1980s.

Kahanne Bez Mežaў (Byelorussia) - 2 couples - one gay and one straight. Their delicate romance.

Maricón (Spain) - A young, aggressive-looking man wakes up at 3:00 a.m., lights a cigarette, throws on his clothes and goes out for the hunt.

Straight White Men (USA) - An experimental short that deals with stereotypes.

Último beso, El (Spain) [The Last Kiss] - After the break-up, he heartbroken lover gets his last kiss in a way that wasn’t expected by anyone.

Flames of passion (UK) - A doctor falls in love with a man in a train station after finding a photograph.

Ti sposerò (Italy) - A really great fantastic video showing a gay couple in love from their journey of love to wedding.

Homobros (USA) - A very cute parody of machismo, brotherhood and hombres. Brilliant !!

Honeypot (USA) - A restroom hookup leading to a dancing performance.

Ties that bind me (UK) - Two guy stalking about working out together, while one of them secretly comes out.

Verfuehrung von Engeln, Die (Germany) - A young man cruises through the nightly city. He meets all kinds of people and they all end up in a dim night club.

Work it out (Australia) - On a hot work day, two mechanics are at each others throats. What can they do to work it out?

Jie (China) [Boundary] - A man reliving past to explore boundaries of gay life. Yawn !

L'escale...1938 (France) - A musical where a young priest meets a sailor.

Concerning the events on the bridge (USA) - A brother wants to film his gay brother jumping off the bridge when he cries in pain after the fall.

Compañía (Spain) - In today’s world of rush and racket, keeping the balance between independence and solitude is difficult, for anyone.

Dickson experimental sound film (USA) - A film from 1894 with a man playing violin and 2 men dancing. The film was created to demonstrate a new Thomas Edison machine, the Kinetophone.

First kiss (USA) - A few couple, gay and straight, are brought together for their first kiss with each other.

Just friends (Canada) - A video exploration the theme of ‘Rejection’ in the world of dating. Lets be “just friends”

Oil (UK) - Through the mists of a Sunday morning hangover Richard looks back at a failed relationship.

On all floors (UK) - Stuck in an elevator, when people stat confessing, including a story about a man sleeping with a horse.

Time for change (New Zealand) - An animation film about who will be left standing on a old clock tower. Super brilliant !!

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