Our Children

Based on true events, celebrated director Joachim Lafosse's intense, multi-layered dissection of an unorthodox family unit created an unprecedented buzz at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, and won Emilie Dequenne the prestigious Best Actress Award. Our Children was critically heralded as one of the top art-house world cinema films of 2012 and Belgium's official entry for the 2013 Academy Awards. Young and full of life, Murielle (Emilie Dequenne, Rosetta) has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir (Tahar Rahim, A Prophet). A wedding soon follows, and the happy couple quickly set about preparing to make a family. However, with family come ties, and none come as tight as that between Mounir and his adoptive father (Niels Arestrup, A Prophet, Sarah's Key). As Murielle continues to bring new life into the family, frictions between Mounir and Doctor Pinget reach boiling point. Helpless to extract her husband and children from the wealthy nest that Doctor Pinget has provided for them, Murielle is drawn into an unhealthy family dynamic. There is only one way out of this nightmare, and for Murielle all sense of reasoning begins to abandon her. Special Features: Interview with the Director Joachim Lafosse

You and the Night - Limited Edition Set

Around midnight, a stylish young couple and their exuberant transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will be The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen. Each comes with their own dark and impassioned secrets, unravelled in sequences and flashbacks, in a night that will stay with you long after. Writer-director Yann Gonzalez' sensual and erotic debut played to critical-acclaim during Critics' Week at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, and stars former international footballer, Eric Cantona and cult legend, Beatrice Dalle (Betty Blue) in this kitsch ode to love and lust. With electrifying music by M83, helmed by Anthony Gonzalez, You And The Night evokes the style and substance of Almodovar, Ozon and Lynch.

Embrace of The Serpent

“Before he can become a warrior a man has to leave everything behind and go into the jungle guided only by his dreams. In that journey he has to discover completely alone, who he really is. Some get lost and never come back”Karamakate, a warrior shaman and last of his tribe, transcends the worlds of men and seeks truth through their dreams. He alone knows how to find the mysterious and psychedelic Yakruna plant; for some it has life-saving properties, for others it is a commodity waiting to be exploited. Two scientists, in two different times with very different agendas enlist Karamakate on their individual quests in an epic adventure into the heart of the Colombian Amazon to find this mythical plant.This Oscar nominated film is seen through Karamakate’s eyes and bears witness to the effects ofcolonialism, religion and the exploitation of rubber, that affect indigenous traditions and the environment to which they are inextricably linked.

Girls Lost

Kim, Bella and Momo are three geeky fourteen year old girls struggling within the high school world of teenage angst and sexual confusion. They discover a curious plant growing in their greenhouse hideaway that has mysterious magical qualities that transforms the girls temporarily into boys. Not only does their gender change, the world around them, and their response to it, is profoundly altered. Kim, as a boy, becomes infatuated with Tony, a rough petty criminal that lives on the edge, and at the same time Momo falls in love with Kim. This entanglement of confused sexuality asks us who loves who and why and does gender really matters when it comes to love?

Who's Gonna Love Me Now?

At the age of 21, Saar Maoz is kicked out of his Kibbutz for not being ‘religious’. Cutting all ties with his family, Saar flees to London and embraces the freedoms of London life in the 90s. Then one day the highs of his new-found freedom come crashing down around him. With no family of his own, Saar seeks solace in the arms of the London Gay Men’s Chorus. Suddenly life has a new meaning.

Body Electric

The summer is coming and Elias has been dreaming of the sea a lot. In the factory where he works, his responsibilities increase as the holiday season approaches. After one more night working overtime, Elias and the workers decide to go out and have some beer. That is when new encounters and desires open up to his horizons.

Mixed Messages

London dyke Ren navigates the treacherous terrain of the Berlin queer scene. From speed-dating to bondage, meditation to menstrual cup mishaps, each unfortunate adventure adds to Ren’s confused love CV until the only way out is to send a few mixed messages of her own.One year single on the Berlin queer scene – how hard can it be? This sharp witted and cringingly awkward comedy of ill manners shows the flipside to the hipster image of Berlin.

Boys On Film 17: Love Is The Drug

Zavvi - Het huis van de popcultuurLaat je bedwelmen en betoveren door de nieuwste korte gayfilms van over de hele wereld in BOYS ON FILM 17. Ontdek verborgen verlangens tijdens een logeerpartij, word verliefd op de klusjesman en laat je verleiden door een vreemdeling op het strand terwijl je ontdekt waarom LOVE IS THE DRUG.Titels inbegrepen:ALEX EN DE KLUSJESMANMR SUGAR DADDYSPOILERS (Iris)TELLIN' DADBOYSHOLE (Iris)HAPPY EN GAYPEDROKISS ME SOFTLYSpeciale kenmerken:Director's Introduction voor SpoilersThe Making of Kiss Me SoftlyTrailers voor Alex and the Handyman, Hole en Happy & Gay

Beach Rats

Winnaar van de Sundance (Dramatic) Best Director Award, Eliza Hittman tweede speelfilm keert terug met een aangrijpend onderzoek van onderdrukt seksueel verlangen in hyper-masculiene omgeving.  De Britse nieuwkomer Harris Dickinson bruist van energie als de enigmatische Frankie, een virulent macho tiener uit Brooklyn.    

Mario

Wanneer Leon lid wordt van Mario's voetbalclub, ontstaat er onmiddellijk spanning tussen hen; beide spelers zijn getalenteerd, gedreven en bereid te vechten voor hun plaats in het eerste team. Wanneer het paar bij elkaar in een flat komt te wonen, slaat de spanning van de concurrentie om in seks. Naarmate hun relatie intensiveert, wordt het paar onafscheidelijk, maar Mario is wanhopig om hun liefde voor zijn teamgenoten te verbergen. Als geruchten over hun relatie de ronde gaan doen, worden de jongens gedwongen een keuze te maken: hun carrière of elkaar.

The Book Of Gabrielle

Gabrielle is writing an illustrated guide book on sex called 'How To Do It.' At a book signing she meets Saul, an established male writer who is straight. She both loves and hates his work which has seeped into her secular Jewish life from childhood. The more Gabrielle tells him about her book the more he wants to know about her life; the relationship with her younger girlfriend Olivia and her determination to stop using my penis in sex . As her book takes form, is Saul jealous or desirous? Their friendship is tested as is Gabrielle's relationship with Olivia. The film muses on how we write, how we draw. And the nature of story and what it makes us do.

Tom Of Finland

AWARD-WINNING filmmaker DOME KARUKOSKI brings to screen the life and work of one of the most influential and celebrated figures of twentieth century gay culture. TOM OF FINLAND is the beautiful and thrilling true story of Finnish artist TOUKO LAAKSONEN and his journey to international success.Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds post-war Helsinki rampant with homophobic persecution, and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhabitations. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.

I GOT LIFE! (AURORE)

Single, out of work and feeling sidelined, soon-to-be grandma Aurore (Cesar Award Winning Actress Agnès Jaoui) is dreading growing old. When she bumps into an old flame – the gorgeous Doctor Totoche - despite the odd hot flush, Aurore starts to feel sexy again and decides to embrace middle aged life. She takes a new job, has laughs with friends and finds romance in the arms of an unsuitable lover. And when a chance school reunion brings Aurore and Totoche back together, with it arrives a new hope, that life really can begin at 50. A smart and joyous observation on women, motherhood friendship and relationships, I GOT LIFE! is an empowering film for women made by women, celebrating a renewed sense of life for women of a particular age. Special Features: Interviews with Blandine Lenoir Writing I Got Life! Feminism in Film Monsieur L'Abbé - A Short Film

Boys On Film 18: Heroes

BOYS ON FILM comes of age with ten uplifting and powerful tales recounting the lives of everyday heroes fighting for their own identities and the right for us all to be ourselves. This selection includes the powerful docudrama The Colour Of His Hair starring Josh O Connor (God s Own Country), the breath-taking Egyptian animation Half A Life, An Evening, the touching sequel to An Afternoon (from Boys On Film 14), and Iris Prize 2017 winner, Mother Knows Best.TEN SHORT FILMSDANIEL (UK, 2015, 14 mins) Directed by Dean Loxton. Starring Henry Garrett (Poldark)BUDDY (The Netherlands, 2015, 12 mins) Directed by Niels BourgonjeHALF A LIFE (Egypt, Indonesia, USA, Netherlands, 2017, 12mins) Directed by Tamara ShogaoluUNDRESS ME (Sweden, 2013, 15 mins) Directed by Victor Lindgren.THE COLOUR OF HIS HAIR (UK, 2017, 23 mins) Directed by Sam Ashby. Starring BAFTA-nominated Josh O Connor (God s Own Country)SILLY GIRL (UK, 2016, 5 mins) Directed by Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling). Starring Clara Baxendale (My Mad Fat Diary) and Jason Barker (A Deal with the Universe).AN EVENING (Denmark, 2016, 10 mins) Directed by Søren GreenAIDS: DOCTORS AND NURSES TELL THEIR STORIES (UK, 2017, 26 mins) Directed by Alejandro MedinaIT S CONSUMING ME (Germany, 2012, 3 mins) Directed by Kai Staenicke (B. Golden)MOTHER KNOWS BEST (Sweden, 2016, 13 mins) Directed by Mikael Bundsen

Discreet

From the acclaimed director of I Want Your Love and Interior. Leather Bar comes an eerie and powerful thriller that offers a disturbing insight into the dark heart of Trump s America. Filmmaker Alex lives in a van. He sets up his camera in rural areas in the US, in the no-man s land near highways. During a visit to his mother, she shares with him a well-kept secret from his childhood, a secret that threatens to unravel him. Feeling desperate and unstable, Alex is determined to right the wrongs of his past and, through his confusion and increasingly tenuous grip on reality, confront a looming shadow that he has been running from all his life.

Nina

Nina, a teacher in her mid-30s struggling to have a child, looks for a surrogate mother. It would seem that with her husband, she has found an ideal candidate, yet Nina falls for the woman who could have given birth to her child.

Tehran Taboo

In their desperate search for freedom and happiness, four young people from Tehran, Iran are forced to break the taboos of a restrictive, islamic society.

Just Friends

Zavvi - Het huis van de popcultuurYad is eindelijk weer thuis na een leven van studeren en feesten in Amsterdam. Tot ongenoegen van zijn moeder neemt hij genoegen met een baan als hulp in de zorg voor Ans, een bejaarde vrouw, en dan ontmoet hij haar knappe kleinzoon Joris.De vonk van wederzijdse aantrekkingskracht is er meteen, en een passionele romance begint! Maar met Yad's ouders die zeuren over zijn carrierekeuzes, en Joris' moeder die worstelt met de nasleep van haar scheiding, zal de ware liefde een kans hebben om op te bloeien?

1985

A closeted young man goes home for the holidays and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.

Boys On Film 19: No Ordinary Boy

As BOYS ON FILM reaches the end of its teenage years we take a look at those unique boys; the boys who make the world a better and more exciting place. The boys who will go one step further and always impress. The boys who are not always what they seem…