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Short Films

Short Films

For decades, LGBTQ+ film festivals have offered amazing short films that rarely have a chance to break out to larger audiences. We're deeply proud of the fact that we have one of the largest collections of gay-themed short films anywhere in the world. Scour out selection below and take a chance on some emerging talents in the gay film world.

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Short Films
  • Uninhabitable Ones
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    Uninhabitable Ones

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    A contemporary dance company is about to debut The Uninhabitable Ones (Inabitáveis), its newest performance that addresses black homosexuality as its theme. Running parallel to the rehearsals, the choreographer builds a friendship with Pedro, a black boy who doesn't identify as a boy.

  • Reel
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    Reel

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    It is the last day before Victor has to move to another city with his parents. So he and his best friend Robert do all the things they liked to do together so much: skateboarding, spraying, hanging out. But something is different this time.

  • Swingin'
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    Swingin'

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    When sixth-grader Qiu starts getting bullied in school for having two gay dads, he takes action to prove to the world that, unlike his parents, he is straight and manly. Meanwhile, his stepfather, a flamboyant trumpet player, must confront his own nightmares of childhood bullying before he can pr...

  • So Close Away
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    So Close Away

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    Based on true events that made major headlines in Bulgaria, this intense thirty-minute short film, shot in stark black and white by director Dimitris Georgiev, follows two criminals as they attempt to break out of prison. One of them is seeking revenge, the other is following his heart.

  • The Long Ride

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    Zack is an up-and-coming actor with lots of talent, but very little luck. After a long and uncomfortable day, all he wants to do is relax on his long train ride home. Determined to get a seat, he decides to “make a scene.” 'The Long Ride' is a clever short film about a fake break-up turned all to...

  • Freefall
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    Freefall

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    After Ivan is diagnosed with ALS, his relationship with his boyfriend Lucas becomes challenged – especially when he begins to lose control over his own body. 'Freefall' is a moving new twenty-minute tearjerker from visually gifted short filmmaker Krit Komkrichwarakool (Plantonic).

  • The Short Films of Manu Roma

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    Get to know the work of up-and-coming Spanish filmmaker Manu Roma with these three electrifying short films. 'The Virgins' follows two inexperienced men who must take over acting roles in a gay short film. 'Bones' follows a 20-year-old who is obsessed with losing weight and his virginity. Finally...

  • The Swimming Trunks

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    During a seaside vacation, ten-year-old Remi finds himself becoming increasingly fascinated by Stephane, the father of one of his friends. This confusing new feeling proves quite powerful. Nobody seems to know what Remi is going through...least of all his handsome new crush.

  • Eyeshadow
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    Eyeshadow

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    Mirna and Pablo start a friendship framed in reflections about identity, loneliness and death during the 1990s in Chile. From writer-director Manu Morales Contreras, Sombra De Ojos is a story about fellowship and the HIV/AIDS crisis inspired by the literary works of Pedro Lemebel.

  • Ticking Boxes
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    Ticking Boxes

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    Matt, a stereotypical hetero cis white male, feels he has life figured out. All he has to do is keep following the status quo. This all changes, however, when he meets Ryan and the illusion of his idyllic life begins to crumble. Ticking Boxes is a tense new nine-minute short film from director Ro...

  • Let's Meet Again At The End Of The World

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    After a year apart, hopeless romantic Adam runs into his ex-boyfriend during a seaside vacation. Thoughtlessly entangling himself in a week-long romance, Adam must decide whether to rekindle their flame or break free from the tumultuous relationship once and for all.

  • The PhD
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    The PhD

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    A romantic dinner turns into a ludicrous disaster when Bruno, an anxious psychology student, has to lie to his control-freak boyfriend about what really happened during his PhD's entrance interview earlier that day. A short, 20-minute comedy-drama from French director Maxime S. Girard.

  • Mary
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    Mary

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    Single, thirty-something Aaron abruptly wakes when Jane, his sister, arrives early to help finish packing their deceased mother's home. He scrambles to hide the evidence of his wild night. When his one-night-stand turns up on their doorstep a few hours later, long held grievances are brought to t...

  • Pretty Things

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    A gay single dad and his offbeat 8-year-old daughter struggle to come to terms with his fabulous past life, which he’s kept hidden from her for years.

  • Amphora

    Movie

    Roberto, a mature widower, and Félix, a young photographer, explore a complex attraction to each other. In the process, they face anxiety, their fear of abandonment, and the emotional paralysis that drowns them.

  • Skogen
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    Skogen

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    A middle-aged couple is tenting in the forest. Bjørn seems more used to the setting than Lars, but they are both influenced by the nature surrounding them. A love story.

  • Eva
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    Eva

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    Gabriel, a shy boy, decides to resort to the services of Eva, a transgender prostitute. He isn’t able to make love with her. Then, their meeting takes an unexpected turn, and becomes an unusual first time.

  • Thirty Candles
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    Thirty Candles

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    In this homage to the John Hughes classic, a newly 30-year-old man finds unexpected comfort in his secret crush when everyone at the office forgets his birthday.

  • French Touch: Between Men

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    Featuring a series of stimulating short films from France, this new collection showcases stories about men who are all facing a precipice of deep change in their lives – as well as the male figures who brought them there.

  • Griffica
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    Griffica

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    Examining a psychological clash between two queer men with differing backstories, writer-director C.J. Arellano's clever new horror short follows a gay man who suspects that his coffee-loving boyfriend may be a demon in disguise.

  • Come Back My Love

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    A short horror/fantasy film from Lebanese writer-director Ralf Bou Chaya, 'Come Back My Love' follows a man who has been tortured by grief ever since the disappearance of his lover. To cope with this intolerable loss, he starts acting out in increasingly self-destructive ways - seeking in others ...

  • Yours Mine Ours

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    When a man in a loving relationship reconnects with a special someone from his past, he experiences turmoil as old feelings begin bubbling up to the surface. Yours Mine Ours is a brand-new Dekkoo-Original Short Film from writer-direct-actor Ben Baur.

  • Próprio

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    Fernando is a teenage boy living in the traditional countryside of São Paulo. With the insurmountable peer pressure to lose his virginity, he ends up engaging in a sexual encounter with an older man he met online. The hook up doesn't go as expected.

  • If I'm Good
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    If I'm Good

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    A touching short film from director Jonathon Pawlowski and screenwriter Madison Hatfield, If I'm Good tells the story of a widower who explores his attraction to a younger man – all while struggling to cope with the recent loss of his husband.