Sweet 15

Better Than Chocolate

July 1999 •English

Not long after moving into her own place, Maggie finds herself with two unsolicited roommates: her recently divorced mother, Lila, and her young brother. The timing is especially bad, considering Maggie has fallen hard for an attractive woman, Kim, only hours before they move in. What could be a nonissue becomes increasingly complicated -- since Maggie's family is unaware of her sexual orientation, and Maggie is not open to sharing that information.

Eismayer

October 2022 •German

Vice Lieutenant Eismayer is the most feared trainer and model macho in the Austrian Military and lives as a gay man in secret. When he falls in love with a young, openly gay soldier, his world gets turned upside down.

Silver Haze

March 2023 •English

23-year-old Franky is a nurse who lives with her large family in an East London borough. Obsessed with a thirst for revenge and a need to assign guilt for a traumatic event that happened 15 years before, she is unable to build any meaningful relationship until she falls in love with one of her patients – Florence. They escape to the coast where Florence lives with her more open-minded patchwork family. There, Franky finds the emotional shelter to deal with the grudges of the past.

Eleni

September 2011 •Greek

When Helen is bored, horrible things happen around her.

Loved Girls Wear Short Shorts

Invalid date •English

A bright bubbly short film about coming of age, queer puppy love and girlhood in Singapore, following Bunny - who meets Jyn, a cool yet kind non-binary teen, and realises the world isn't as terrible as her mother makes it out to be.

Flirts

October 2008 •French

New Year's Eve. A group of friends, all around 18 years old, get together for a party. Ties of love and friendship are formed and broken off. At the frontier between carelessness and seriousness, their true natures come to light.

Every romance ends like this

March 2024 •Portuguese

Unlucky in love and writer Bandaged searches for a moral of the story that explains why his romantic experiences never end in "happily ever after." The conflict worsens when... Ops, better not give any spoilers!

Dream Girl

November 2016 •English

Humans use technology to improve their lives, to forge connections, to create time that doesn’t exist, to replace real interactions. When we devise a second version of ourselves on social media, do we lose a piece of our true selves in the process? Do our digital connections threaten our real life relationships? What happens if the filtered characters we’ve imagined take on a life of their own?

Misplace the rabbits

September 2021 •Spanish

A foreboding glimpse into the life of a girl under pressure from her parents concerning her eating behavior and childish tastes. Ignoring the family festivities, her parents ditch her for a day, leaving her in the care of a neighbor. The girl will regress to the events that have hurt her. "Rabbits have been a symbol of childhood ever since Lewis Carroll's portray of a certain elusive character, but it is in the interpretation of each psyche that it takes a more perpetual shape. In my analysis of its symbolism, the rabbit expresses a female childhood at an age close to puberty, along with the desire to leave the bonds; perhaps a virginal consciousness that remains in the symbol of rabbits to this very day." Laura Maria Isabel Ruiz Ocadiz.

Moriqueta

May 2024 •Spanish

Lucas is a 19 years old deaf animator who explores life through his sketchbook. He encounters a handsome young man at his favorite library, leading him to seek a creative way to communicate with him. He chooses to set aside his beliefs and insecurities to ask him out on a date.

Caín

October 1987 •Spanish

Your Caresses

November 1969 •German

Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.

For People in Trouble

June 2023 •English

When two people meet one night in London, their relationship blossoms and fractures, intertwined with impending societal collapse.

La Jetée

February 1962 •French

A man is sent back and forth and in and out of time in an experiment that attempts to unravel the fate and the solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world during the aftermath of WW3. The experiment results in him getting caught up in a perpetual reminiscence of past events that are recreated on an airport’s viewing pier.

Black Sesame Soup with Tofu Pudding

December 2021 •English

What's on your menu? Ho and Fung explore the intracices of Chinese dessert as their friendship blossoms into romance. Their happiness, however, is short-lived. Feeling unaccepted by those around them, the couple embark on an increasingly perilous journey featuring hallucinations, jaywalking and unorthodox conversion therapy. Will their love triumph in the end?

Goodbye Jerome!

December 2021 •French

Having just arrived in paradise, Jerome sets out to find his wife Maryline. In the course of his search, he sinks into a surreal and colorful world in which no one seems to be able to help him.

Desert Hearts

October 1985 •English

While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexpectedly attracted by a carefree, spirited young woman named Cay.

Harold and Maude

December 1971 •English

The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.

Close Your Eyes and Hold Me

July 1996 •Japanese

Tenderly played Japanese love triangle between a man, his girlfriend and a transvestite hooker

Dark Satellites

December 2022 •German

A snack bar owner smokes with his Muslim neighbor in the stairwell of their apartment building at night. Her husband is his good friend. They draw closer to one another as the nights go on and look out over the city to the dark satellites, the brutalist concrete buildings on the outskirts of the city - relics of the GDR past. A security guard watches over Objekt 95, a satellite town with a residential complex which many foreigners call home. While on patrol at night, he gets to know a young Ukrainian woman who fled her home country when the war broke out. He wants to protect her, while his friend, the “old security guard”, radios to him from an abandoned Russian barrack night after night. A woman from the train cleaning service drinks in a train station bar after her night shift. There, she meets a hairdresser. The two of them become friends and spend many nights together in the station. Every night, her desire grows even greater for this woman who is exactly as lonely as she is.