Gigola

It's 1963 and Paris is sizzling with sex. The stylishly butch Gigola spends her days roaming chic cafés, taking on the criminal underclass, enticing pretty femmes away from their pimps, breaking hearts and making enemies along the way. Her evenings are spent in famous lesbian cabaret bar Chez Moune, picking up rich older women who keep her flush. Based on the long censored novel of the same name, Gigola captures a little known chapter in Parisian history in which eroticism defied conventional morals. Starring a host of renowned faces of European cinema, including Rossy De Palma (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), Eduardo Noriega (Open Your Eyes, The Devil's Backbone), Marisa Paredes (All About My Mother, The Skin I Live In) Thierry Lhermitte (The Dinner Game), Marisa Berenson (I Am Love) and introducing Lou Doillon, daughter of Jane Birkin, as the eponymous Gigola.

Sasha

A perfect watch for a Valentine’s night in, Dennis Todorovic’s sensitive and eloquent tale of love and passion enveloped in a musical milieu echoes the brilliance of Chris Kraus’ ‘Four Minutes’ and the Academy-Award winning ‘Shine’. Sasha, confronted with the everyday prejudice of his homophobic family, struggles with his urge to come out. When his beloved piano teacher and local celebrity Mr. Weber plans to leave the city, the young man is heartbroken. The only person in whom he can confide his feelings is his best friend Jiao. After a failed audition, Sasha swears never to play piano again, but a consoling and heartfelt telephone call from the illustrious Mr. Weber changes his mind – resulting in a passionate love affair. All secrets are exposed with Sasha's family proving to be more understanding of his predicament than he first thought... Extras: Behind the scenes Featurette Deleted Scenes

Jamie and Jessie are not Together

Taking inspiration from films like 500 Days of Summer, And Then Came Lola and Kissing Jessica Stein, Jamie and Jessie Are Not Together is the perfect anti-date movie, with songs! From the director of cult hit Hannah Free, join Jamie and Jessie for a ride filled with laughs.Jamie is moving from Chicago to New York in two weeks, hoping to become a Broadway actress. Her best friend Jessica is bummed, because she thinks she is in love with Jamie, so as moving day gets closer, she tries to make Jamie jealous by dating other women, with hilarious results.

Yossi

Returning to the role that won him TFF's Best Actor award in Eytan Fox's Yossi & Jagger in 2003, Ohad Knoller gives another extraordinary performance as Yossi, a closeted gay man living a solitary existence in Tel Aviv. A workaholic doctor, Yossi has his quiet world shaken when a middle-aged woman walks out of his past and into his examination room. Their brief but emotionally charged reunion unnerves Yossi enough to make him spontaneously leave Tel Aviv. On the desolate roads of southern Israel, a chance encounter with a group of lively soldiers ignites Yossi's desire to awaken from his emotional slumber.

Stud Life

JJ is a Black Lesbian 'Stud' who works as a wedding photographer with her best friend, Seb, a pretty white gay boy. Their clients are wild, weird and wonderful and like many of them JJ and Seb are both looking for love in the wrong places. So when JJ falls in love with the beautiful and mysterious Elle, this long term friendship is tested for the first time as JJ has to choose between her hot new lover and her best friend.JJ's decision to give her relationship a proper chance leaves Seb with a lot of extra time on his hands and he finds himself having to reject the constant flirtatious advances of their local drug dealer, Smack Jack, who turns up when Seb least wants to see him. Jack is sweet hearted and knows all the right people, but his one true love is Seb - he just needs to find a way to make Seb feel the same! Instead Seb is too busy lusting after his web-fantasy, the straight-acting 'lad' known as Manchester Joe, who he found when surfing the web.When JJ and Elle hit hard times and Seb realises Manchester Joe isn't all he is cracked up to be, there is one last decision JJ has to make; does she put mates before muff?Set in East London, Stud Life is a sexy, young and cool gay romance revealing a unique a slice of British urban life.

Getting Go: Go Doc Project

College boy Doc (Tanner Cohen, Were The World Mine) is obsessed with a well-known NYC go-go boy (Matthew Camp). He befriends his hunky crush with the intention of shooting a documentary about what it's like to live in his skin. But as they grow closer, flirtation blurs the line between subject and filmmaker until a steamy night together solidifies deeper feelings. Cory Kruekeberg's explicit directorial debut explores the thrill and danger of getting exactly what you wished for.

The King of Escape

A film about tractors, aphrodisiacs and forbidden love from Alain Guiraudie, the Cannes Award Winning director of Stranger By The Lake.Armand is a gay tractor salesman and not the sharpest tool in the shed. When he rescues Curly, the daughter of his greatest rival, the two embark on a mad chase through the forest pursued by a very angry father with a gun. Totally unknown to Armand, however, is the bizarre sexual frenzy he's ignited in the other men in town, with him as the object of their desire...Hilarious, daring and outrageously controversial, King of Escape is a riotous French sex comedy about raising cocks in rural France.

The Shiny Shrimps

Matthias Le Goff, an Olympic champion, makes a homophobic statement on TV. His punishment: coach the Shiny Shrimps, an amateur gay water-polo team. They have only one thing in mind: to qualify for the Gay Games in Croatia.

Broken Sky

A chance encounter in a club spins a young gay couple into an erratic, dangerously decaying orbit. Exhibiting breathtaking command of the medium, director Julian Hernandez presents a near-wordless love triangle between three gorgeous young men.Special Features:None listed.

Margarita

To the outside, Gail and Ben have it all - two successful careers, a beautiful house, lots of vacations and an amazing nanny for their teenage daughter, Mali (Finn's Girl star, Maya Ritter). However behind the facade, bad investments have the family disconnected, resentful and just about broke.At the centre of this drama is Mali's young lesbian Mexican nanny, Margarita. Unknown to her employers Margarita has been working for the family illegally for the past six years but despite all this she is passionate, resourceful and devoted to them. She is the nanny, the housekeeper, the cook, the maid and even the repair woman. Margarita is well aware of their financial issues and has been stretching resources in creative ways.But life is not all work for Margarita, the shy law student Jane is clearly in love with her but is hesitant to bring their relationship out from the closet.When Gail and Ben decide that the best way for them to save money is by firing Margarita they set off a chain of events that lead to her deportation. Heart broken, Mali withdraws from her parents, forcing them to take an honest look at themselves.The well-meaning couple, now desperate to keep Margarita in the country, come up with a scheme to keep her around. But on the eve of her departure, Jane arrives with one proposition that could change everything.The closing film of the 2013 BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and from the directors of Finn's Girl, comes this warm, funny and loving family drama, looking at issues around race, class and immigration.

Theo & Hugo

Théo and Hugo encounter each other’s bodies one night in a Paris sex club. Wanting to know more about each other, they leave the club and drift down the deserted streets of nocturnal Paris. Suddenly they find themselves confronted by a sense of reality that wipes out their freedom and lends each step an existential helplessness. Do they want to know more about each other? Will their trust be rewarded? What are their expectations? Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau (Drôle de Félix, Born in 68) deliver their most ambitious film yet, displaying a consummate sensitivity in bringing us closer to two men as they strive for intimacy in spite of being stalled by their insecurity.

Boys On Film 21: Beautiful Secret

Psst! We hebben een geheim... wil je het horen? De serie Boys on Film wordt 21 jaar. Dat betekent dat we ons moeten gedragen, volwassen dingen doen en ons settelen, hè? Nou, raad eens? We besloten wat tijd uit te trekken voor we opgroeiden en reisden naar Sydney en vervolgens naar New York, via Roemenië, Canada en Zwitserland, om de beste cinematografische juweeltjes op te duiken die we konden vinden voor uw kijkplezier. We hadden een geweldige tijd met alle jongens die we onderweg tegenkwamen. Wil je ze ontmoeten? Oh, en wat betreft opgroeien? Dat kan wachten tot we dertig zijn!

The Man with the Answers

Victor, een Griekse ex-duikkampioen van begin 20, woont met zijn grootmoeder in een kustplaats in Griekenland. Hij mist zijn triomfdagen en is het beu om in een meubelfabriek te werken. Plotseling verandert zijn leven door de dood van zijn grootmoeder. In een oude stoffige auto begint hij aan een road trip naar Duitsland. Op de boot naar Italië ontmoet hij Matthias, een avontuurlijke jonge Duitser, die op weg naar huis is.Matthias haalt Victor over om hem mee te nemen en terwijl ze naar het noorden rijden, dwingt Matthias hem om uit zijn comfortzone te komen en de echte redenen achter zijn reis te onthullen. Victorx27s gespannen karakter botst met de meer vrijgevochten Matthias. Wanneer hun reis ten einde loopt, door de onvoorspelbare wendingen van het leven, zullen hun vragen dan de antwoorden vinden waar ze zo naar verlangen?