SHORTS PROGRAM
WHERE THE BOYS ARESide-splitting, touching, and engaged, this shorts collection looks closely and hopefully at gay men’s lives in crazy times.
Total Running Time – 89 minutes
Daddy Issues
Director: Matt Campanella, Stephanie Chloé Hepner
Year: 2022
Country: USA
Running Time: 5 Minutes
A young dom receives an unexpected client into whipping, choking, and Bridgerton in this brisk and barbed comic short.
Come Clean
Director: Sal Bardo
Year: 2023
Country: USA
Running Time: 13 Minutes
A touching look at a young man struggling with OCD as he white-knuckles his way through a Grindr hookup and makes a mess of things.
Nothing Special
Director: Mikko Makela
Year: 2023
Country: UK
Running Time: 14 Minutes
When a one-night stand turns emotional, a filmmaker’s and a moviegoer’s ideas of romance are challenged in this interrogation of happy endings in queer stories.
Empire
Director: Thaís de Almeida Prado
Year: 2023
Country: Brazil
Running Time: 4 Minutes
The crown jewels of the empire rise and fall in this subversive and highly symbolic satirical short.
Fire at the Lake
Director: Pierre Menahem
Year: 2022
Country: France
Running Time: 16 Minutes
A cowherder finds his mother’s lifeless body and flees their mountain hamlet to meet a young man from a dating app.
Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival
Testing
Director: Andy Reid
Year: 2022
Country: Canada
Running Time: 9 Minutes
When a gay man suspects he has an STI, he discovers that the clinic doctor is an older man that he recently had sex with.
Blond Night
Director: Gabrielle Demers
Year: 2022
Country: Canada
Running Time: 16 Minutes
Unhappy in housing for adults with autism, Victor (neuroatypical actor Patrick Dorneval) avoids its Friday disco, goes for a walk, and meets a sex worker.
Stay Lost
Director: Chris Coats
Year: 2023
Country: USA
Running Time: 12 Minutes
An aimless young man’s life takes a wild turn after he meets a nomadic musician. Starring out queer actors from White Lotus and Love, Simon.
