International Panorama

Beautiful Something  Beautiful Something  R
Joseph Graham
US / 2015 / Color / 92mins

One night under a full moon in Philadelphia, the lives of four men intersect through euphoric sex and desperate emptiness. Brian is an award-winning poet whose ink appears to have dried up. A beautiful aspiring actor, Jim finds drama in every crevice of his life; Bob is a talent agent trying to connect the past with the present; and Drew is a renowned artist who seems to be in love more with a sculpture than his lover and muse.

Daddy  Daddy  R
Gerald McCullouch
US / 2015 / Color / 89mins

With a confident swagger and foxy gray hair, Colin believes he is the ultimate daddy – the mature man with money, intellect, and sex appeal. By his side (literally, as his next door neighbor) is his best friend Stew with whom he shares everything except for his fascination for younger men. When college intern “T” shows up with a charming smile one day, Colin is immediately hooked. Despite initial resistance from T, they soon fall under each other’s spell. Stew suspects T's real intentions...

Drown  Drown  R
Dean Francis
Australia / 2015 / Color / 93mins

如同宰制在人類靈魂中的恐懼、恐同、競爭、忌妒以及殘暴等悲劇式寓言。改編自廣受好評的舞台劇本,描繪在知名雪梨海灘背景下,所上演...

Four Moons  Four Moons  R
Sergio Tovar Velarde
Mexico / 2014 / Color / 105mins

“Four Moons” sensitively depicts the phases of life through four stories, taking us on four journeys, from childhood to old age. A fragile boy develops a crush on his homophobic cousin. A college student falls in love with his former childhood friend, and their first attempt at male-on-male sex is pure comical awkwardness. Two longtime lovers enjoy their seemingly perfect gay life with financial security and enviable dinner parties, only if one of them can quit his sexual addiction for good. Finally, the story turns to a retired college professor who contemplates the elusive lifetime desire of a relationship with a hunky hustler he meets at a sauna.

Guidance  Guidance  PG
Pat Mills
Canada / 2015 / Color / 80mins

Desperate to prove that he isn’t an alcoholic, a homosexual, or a loser, David gets a job as a high school guidance counselor by faking his resume and lying about his past. During his counseling sessions with the students, he smokes with them and even offers them vodka. Everything he says to the students is obviously inappropriate yet also oddly appropriate. Quickly his approach spirals out of control, and long-hidden wounds surface, demanding everyone to take a closer look in the mirror.

Hide and Seek  Hide and Seek  R
Joanna Coates
UK, US / 2014 / Color / 83mins

In an isolated English cottage, four young people (two men and two women) move in together as an experiment to challenge social conventions and to push themselves beyond the limits of their comfort zones. All rules they have ever learned are thrown out the window. In their world, the only rule is that everyone is to sleep with every other person. Each person is free to love anyone else, regardless of their gender. As their inhibitions fade, they reach a harmonious co-existence, but the durability of their utopia is tested by the arrival of an outsider who has different perspectives on life.

Naz & Maalik  Naz & Maalik  PG
Jay Dockendorf
US / 2015 / Color / 86mins

Naz and Maalik have decided to take their friendship to the next level. But sharing their love for each other with the rest of the world isn’t going to be easy, for they are young, gay, black, and Muslim, living in New York. One day, they are approached by someone trying to sell them an illegal gun, and that sets off a cascade of events as they try to hide their sexual orientation. Over the course of one afternoon, their love for each other is tested in the face of racism and religious profiling.

Sand Dollars  Sand Dollars  PG
Israel Cárdenas, Aura Amelia Guzmán
Dominican Rep / Mexico / Argentina / 2014 / Color / 80mins

Every afternoon Noeli, a young Dominican girl, goes to the beaches with her boyfriend to scam tourists. Anne falls pray and hopelessly in love with Noeli, who will do anything to leave her country. While Anne possesses the power and money, Noeli has her youthful body as a bargaining chip for that coveted visa. With her sight firmly on France, Noeli requests more and more money from Anne to support herself and a young man she calls her brother. As the date to leave for France draws nearer, each woman’s mask is slowly peeled off, leaving each to confront her love and loneliness.

Stories of Our Lives  Stories of Our Lives  PG
Jim Chuchu
Kenya / 2015 / Black and White / 62mins

The country is Kenya. The theme is gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex. The characters are high school students, farm workers, researchers. The stories are dramatizations of real-life events in the country where laws stigmatize and criminalize homosexuals.

Summer  Summer  PG
Colette Bothof
Netherlands / 2014 / Color / 86mins

The summer is sultry in a village where everyday life is dominated by the humming power plant. Sixteen-year-old Anne and her friends pass time, day after day, by biking through roads that lead nowhere. Until a stranger enters town.