First Time

Red Star

December 2020 •French

Adel is a 57-year-old man. He dedicates all his time to his local soccer club, and gets by doing temporary work. Then he learns that he is no longer eligible for the government’s low income benefit.

Perhaps

July 2021 •English

Our story follows the tumultuous relationship between Mike, a mechanic, and Nancy, an escort his friends got him for his birthday

4 Moons

March 2014 •Spanish

Four interwoven stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.

Walls

February 2015 •English

What is left behind of the relationship of Nora and Kai is a wall full of memories. Nora is just about to take down the photographs, when Kai suddenly appears to get the rest of his stuff. His appearance is obviously too much for Nora especially when he starts helping her to take down the pictures. The more they empty the wall, the more they are reminded of their precious time together and their love for each other. While getting closer and closer again, Nora finally finds a way to open up, to tear down the wall in her head and to reveal her secret, the true reason for their breakup.

Barotraumer

Invalid date •English

Fifteen

September 2017 •Arabic

On a hot summer day, a taciturn teen boy makes his way through the hustle of Cairo — with a baby in tow. His arrival at a hospital reveals the turmoil beneath his muted expression, in this stark and compassionate examination of trauma.

Creatura Dada

September 2017 •English

Six regal Indigenous women relish in an opulent feast. This dazzling and sumptuous fantasia is a vivid celebration of their majesty and power and a signal of new beginnings.

Idiot Fish

October 2022 •French

On the road to vacation, Jimmy and Guillaume put their relationship back into play. Jimmy becomes a lost hitchhiker, Guillaume a lonely driver. They will play not to know each other anymore, play to meet and seduce each other again. Until a third player joins the game.

9th Floor to the Right

October 2022 •French

One evening, in his apartment in Paris, Lorenzo is getting ready to receive Marvin for the first time, a boy he really likes. Marvin shows up at the door with Thomas, a homeless man he met on the street in need of a shower. Lorenzo doesn’t dare say no.

Sweet Water

February 2023 •Portuguese

João and Pedro are cousins who meet for the first time since their childhood. They're dealing with the inheritance of their grandfather's farm, which is about to be sold to an industrial sugar mill. While they sort out the matter, forces of nature beyond their control will unravel unfinished issues between the pair.

The One Time Thing

August 2016 •English

A Good Samaritan unknowingly hooks up with a girl dating a boxer, but things get tense when he comes home early from training.

The Plague

November 2017 •English

In a surreal and dystopian world, teenage siblings Julie and Julian take refuge in a secluded forest cabin to avoid becoming infected by a mysterious and deadly plague. When a stranger comes in need of help their lives are changed forever.

Connection

May 2021 •English

The biggest boxing fight of 1960 takes an unexpected turn with the help of a powerful twin connection.

Would You Look at Her

September 2017 •Macedonian

A hard-headed tomboy spots the unlikely solution to all her problems in an all-male religious ritual.

Account Rendered

July 1932 •English

A crime film directed by Leslie Howard Gordon...

I Spy

October 2012 •English

Kyle's 13. He's a good kid, naive but curious. And on a camping holiday with his family he'll learn what growing up is all about... quickly! Led astray by his older cousins' and convinced to play their version of I spy, he will see things he never dreamed of.

Temperance

October 2007 •English

Three characters from various regions in the Middle East seek to find peace of mind by challenging their contrasting political and personal identities before an act of senseless violence brings them together.

Nayantara's Necklace

October 2015 •Hindi

Set in Mumbai, Nayantara's Necklace explores the friendship between Alka and her new Dubai-returned neighbour Nayantara. As their friendship grows, Alka finds herself wanting to be more like Nayantara. But what Alka doesn't know is the price that she might have to pay for this obsession of hers.

The Last Dream

May 2017 •English

In a future where people have lost the ability to dream, a company has made a business out of recycling precious fantasies of the few that can still produce them. A model employee, Khalil, is one of the top performers until one day, his dreams are no longer to the liking of the company.

The Visitor

November 2016 •English

Georgia and Olivia are in love. When it's time to meet Olivia's religious family, Georgia discovers that Olivia's world is filled with silent rules that threaten to pull them apart.