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UNCONDITIONAL

By Bryn Higgins

By Bryn Higgins

With: Harry McEntire, Madeleine Clark, Christian Cooke
UK 2012, 92 min
Original Language: English

 

Slamdance, Frameline, Edinburgh, Munich

 


Seventeen year-old twins Kristen and Owen are so wrapped up in their own world that they’re misfits in the real one. As Liam comes along Kristen falls for him, but Liam starts a romance with Owen and offers him unconditional love. The only condition: Owen must take his sister’s identity and become a new “Kristen”.

LOVE ACTUALLY... SUCKS!

By Scud

By Scud

Hong Kong 2011
Original Language: Cantonese with English subtitles

Philadelphia Q-Fest, Chicago

 

 

Love is life, life as it is. Not every love story is a fairy tale. After a dramatic wedding feast, unusual love stories unfold towards unexpected endings. Inspired by real life cases, LOVE ACUTALLY… SUCKS is about love that gone bad: a brother and sister in love but caught by the mother, a married painter falls for his young life drawing model of same sex, an intimacy between a dance school teacher and his rich but senior student, a lesbian couple one of which has role-play paranoid, a dreadful love triangle ending with the girl being beheaded…LOVE ACUTALLY… SUCKS celebrates love that no one care but actual life is love, love as it is.


ROMEOS

By Sabine Bernardi

By Sabine Bernardi

With: Rick Okon, Maximilian Befort, Liv Lisa Fries
Germany 2011, 94 min
Original Language: German with English subtitles

Berlinale (In Competition), Guadalajara, Rainbow Honolulu (BEST FEATURE FILM AWARD), Seattle, Galway, Montreal, Oslo Gay & Lesbian Skeive Filmer (QUEER YOUTH AWARD), Queer Lisboa (In Competition), Mix Copenhagen, Taipei Golden Horse, Chéries-Chéris (GRAND PRIX)etc.

 

 

Handsome 20-years-old Lukas moves to the big city. Full of the zest for life, he meets the macho-driven Fabio, who seems to personify everything he wants to be. The attraction between both gradually develops, but how much are they up to risk for their feelings, when Lucas has to reveal his identity?

AMPHETAMINE

By Scud

By Scud

With: Byron Pang, Thomas Price, Linda So
Hong Kong 2010, 97 min
Original Language: Cantonese and English with English subtitles


  Berlin International Film Festival - Panorama (competition)


A lonely fitness trainer has attached a passionate executive and fatefully fallen in love. The young men believe their love can bridge anything, even their difference in sexuality. It turns out that the addiction to love proves more fatal than the drug they apply for the purpose of love.

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STRAPPED

By Joseph Graham

By Joseph Graham

With: Ben Bonenfant, Nick Frangione, Paul Guerrier
USA 2010, 95 min
Original Language: English

(on behalf of TLA Releasing)

Adam, a young hustler, wanders into an old, labyrinthine apartment building and cannot find his way out. A chameleon who can change his persona to match anyone he meets, Adam encounters several sexually-charged men who lead him on a journey of the soul.

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IS IT JUST ME?

By J. C. Calciano

By J.C. Calciano

With: Nicholas Downs, David Loren, Adam Huss
USA 2010, 93 min
Original Language: English
(on behalf of TLA Releasing)

  Detroit Independent FF (Best Film)


A witty, feel-good romantic comedy about a sexually-frustrated young man, his hunky go-go boy roommate and the man he meets in an online chatroom. Romance turns to chaos when a case of mistaken identity upsets his chance for true love.

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BLACK FIELD

By Vardis Marinakis

By Vardis Marinakis

With: Sofia Georgovassili, Christos Passalis, Despoina Bebedeli
Greece 2010, 104 min
Original Language: Greek and Turkish with English subtitles


Awards: Sevilla (Silver Girandillo Award and Best Actress), Hellenic Film Academy Award (Best Cinematography and Sets), Mumbai (Special Jury Award for Technical Excellence), Cinema Tous Ecrans (Youth Jury Award), InsideOut Toronto (Best Film)
Fesivals: Karlovy Vary, Puchon, Chicago, Palm Springs (New Voices/New Visions), Miami (In Compeition), Seattle (Contemporary World Cinema) etc.


1654, Ottoman Empire, Greece. A Turkish Warrior arrives heavily wounded at a remote Christian female monastery and is nursed by Anthi, a young nun under the oath of silence. They fall in love against all odds. But Anthi is tormented by a dark secret. The two lovers escape in the nearby forest, where Anthi's secret is revealed: She is, in fact, a boy…

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BLIND COMPANY

By Alkinos Tsilimidos

By Alkinos Tsilimidos

With: Colin Friels, Nick Barkla, Gloria Ajenstat
Australia 2009, 97 min
Original Language: English


  Melbourne IFF, World Film Festival Montreal


Geoff Brewster is seeing out his final days at the family’s isolated, coastal shack – walking the beach and recording confessions to his estranged wife, Sally. When his Porsche driving nephew, Josh, arrives unannounced, a tense game ensues with shattering consequences.


"This is film at its best. A must see. Colin Friels and Nick Barkla wreak naked, embarrassing, honest emotional havoc. Blind Company is a major work." Larry Clark

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PERMANENT RESIDEnCE

By Scud

By Scud

With: Sean Li, Osman Hung, Jackie Chow
HK 2009, 115 min
Original Language: Cantonese with English subtitles


  HK IFF, Taipei IFF, FebioFest Prague


Shot in Israel, Japan, Australia, Thailand and mainland China, PERMANENT RESIDENCE is the life story of a man who indulges in thoughts of after life and passionately falls in love with a straight guy.

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ADAM'S PARTY

By Santiago Lapeira

By Santiago Lapeira

With: Sergi Bitan, Rodrigo Garcia, Pedro Maria Atxa
Spain 2009, 92 min
Original Language: Catalan with English ST


 



A young actor, who has made his coming-out and decided to live his homosexuality, becomes writer of best sellers. He is about to get married with the man of his life, when the ghost of a serial killer that lived in San Francisco in the 70’s appears...

BEAUTIFUL CRAZY

By Chi Yuarn Lee

By Chi Yuarn Lee

With: Amiya Lee, Yi Chiao Liao, Angel Yao
Taiwan 2008, 98 min
Original Language: Mandarin with English subtitles

Mannheim-Heidelberg (Special Mention Award), Tokyo (Wind of Asia Award), Taipei (In Competition), Rotterdam Hong Kong GLBT, Torino GLBT a.o.

 

 

Xiao-Bu finds herself in a cat fight with Angel, Amy sleeps with Xiao-Bu’s boxer boyfriend, and Angel kisses Xiao-Bu... Three young girls fall in love, feel hurt, forget and have experiences which decide their future.

 
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