A Trip to the Desert

Sociedade do Caos

July 2024 •Portuguese

Afterparty

July 2024 •English

Three friends wake up from the best night of their lives, only to find that their friend is dead.

In Sickness & In Health

November 2019 •English

When a woman is given the worst news of her life, she is faced with a decision: tell her family, or spare them and carry the burden herself.

Prisoner C33

May 2022 •English

Reading Gaol, England, 1896. Prisoner C33, starving and thin, unable to wash properly, is a brilliant writer, husband and father of two, once the most beloved artist in Victorian London. His real name is Oscar Wilde.

Tobey

November 2017 •English

Isolated in rural England, a teenage girl is forced to confront the recent death of her mother.

Simon’s Quest

October 2018 •English

Story about Simon, a gay werewolf, who must come to terms with his condition in order to start dating again, or else condemn himself to a life alone.

Alike

November 2015 •

In a busy life, Copi is a father who tries to teach the right way to his son, Paste. But - What is the correct path?

Love Me Anyway

January 2014 •English

Love Me Anyway is a sun soaked drama about a filmmaker falling for a dreamy surfer, a man trying to save his marriage and a young wife exploring the greener grass of an extramarital affair with another woman.

Civilized Eagles

August 1927 •Spanish

The love story between a peasant woman and her employer.

Blueberry Fields

October 2016 •Russian

After a chance meeting with a girl, a nameless boy becomes her lover and guardian angel. Together they avenge the girl’s rape, fleeing into the woods in an attempt to escape the modern world and civilization. They commit more crimes, killing encountered people at random, until the third character comes into the story, changing the dynamic of the lovers’ relationship. It’s an emotional story of passion, violence and the impossibility of running away from oneself.

Closets

October 2015 •English

It's 1986, tormented teenager Henry is struggling with his sexuality and abusive home life. Henry sits in his closet contemplating suicide. In a flash of light he is transported to 2016 where he meets teenager Ben — now occupying his room 30 years later.

You Can't Escape Lithuania

November 2016 •Lithuanian

After his star actress, Indre, murders her mother, rich-kid filmmaker Romas plans her escape from Lithuania. His Mexican boyfriend Carlos helps them reluctantly. On the road, Romas begins shooting an improvised experimental film. As events take an unexpected turn, their secrets, memories and emotions make this journey wilder than any film Romas could have imagined.

Elefante

May 2011 •Spanish

Manuel is stuck in a monotonous job, has only one friend that he cannot stand, and his family despises him. Everything will change when the doctor diagnoses him with a rare disease - Manuel is going to turn into an elephant.

Shared Rooms

May 2016 •English

A romantic comedy that brings together three interrelated tales of gay men seeking family, love and sex during the holiday season.

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

July 2018 •English

Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling “same sex attraction.” Cameron befriends fellow sinners Jane and Adam, thus creating a new family to deal with the surrounding intolerance.

The Falls: Covenant of Grace

September 2016 •English

This third and final film of the Falls trilogy revisits former Mormon missionaries Chris and RJ, six years after they first fell in love and were disciplined for it, as they formulate a plan to be together at long last.

The Gift of Tears

November 2012 •Portuguese

A princess and a hunter. An iconographic journey immersed in Lusitanian fantasy.

My Little Boy

January 2007 •German

Berlin, 1934. Many men are forced to live their hidden homosexuality. Erich, a photographer, has an appointment in his photo studio with Wolfgang, a Nazi soldier, with whom he shares a loving, tumultuous, and passionate relationship. For both of them, this should not be a problem, but appearances deceive.

Stout-Hearted

October 2007 •German

Felix is secretly in love with Ralph. This doesn't seem to be the biggest problem. But Felix is 15 and Ralph his 34 years old soccer coach. They meet every day in an ambush. One day Felix mother finds out and Ralph has to decide between feeling and reason.

Voyage

December 2013 •English

A young psychiatrist ventures into a lone voyage to fight his depression. While at sea, he records stories of people departed from this world prematurely, while what awaits him on the shore is the ultimate irony of life.