Boys on Film 11: We Are Animals

August tells the story of two former lovers, Troy and Jonathan, who reunite after a long ago painful breakup. After spending several years in Spain, Troy returns to Los Angeles and decides to phone Jonathan and meet for coffee. A seemingly innocent rendezvous turns into an attempt to revive passions past. Only this time it's not that simple as Jonathan has a new beau, Raul, and is trying to make the right decision a second time around.

Two ex-lovers meet after years a part and examine the painful break up and what they should do now.

Eight gay shorts culled from top film festivals - A cross-section of some of the best recent gay shorts culled from top film festivals including Slamdance, Outfest, Frameline and more. Included are the award-winners BEDFELLOWS, CURIOUS THING, MY NAME IS LOVE, and STEAM. Whether inspired by a poem about teenage longing or a melange of interviews with gay men in New York, the shorts collected here share one thing in common: they were among the crowd favorites at film festivals across the country.

Facing thirty, Elliott realises he has skewered the potential of every relationship that has come his way. The weekend his brother shows up on his doorstep and a bizarre neighbour begins spying on him; Elliott is driven to the edge in this uneasy psychological tale of obsession. Directed by the winner of the 2011 Iris Prize, Eldar Rapaport, who has since gone on to direct feature films, including the beautiful August.

Two men trapped inside a steam room without a way out are trying to make sense of the situation and each other until a devastating revelation. Moving between anxiety, reflection and fear, two strangers try to make sense of their predicament...stuck in a steam room. Heat increasing, they need to get out but can't find the door. What is this place and how did they get here?

Elliot Tittensor (TV s Shameless) stars as Daz in headlining film PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT, a gripping British film debut that sees him woo a young lad in an underpass, only to be threatened with a break-up the following morning. Passive and submissive roles are tackled and tugged in gay graffiti tale VANDALS and Icelandic grapple-fest WRESTLING, while POSTMORTEM, MY NAME IS LOVE, and Iris Prize winner STEAM look at promising encounters that turn awry. Rounding out the collection are HEIKO, an alternative ode to foot fetishes, BREATH where 12 year old Erik swims out to sea to make a daring move on his best friend s father, and the crème de la crème from this collection TREVOR, which won multiple prestigious awards from Sundance, Teddy Berlinale and even The Academy Awards (Oscar) for Best Short Film.

Two friends, Björn and Hampus, decide to move in together. If one ignores the fact that the two men are completely different, theirs is a close relationship. Being in love with your best friend and, in spite of this, or because of it, arguing to the point where it becomes unbearable.

Knut is a middle aged, lonely man, in desperate need of company. Mirza is an illegal immigrant, in need of every help he can get.

It's late night in a burger bar in Wales...

The successful short film compilation series continues with six outstanding films focused on school and college-age youth.

A middle-aged couple is tenting in the forest. Bjørn seems more used to the setting than Lars, but they are both influenced by the nature surrounding them.

Collect your holy water, lock the doors and turn off the lights as BOYS ON FILM presents THEY COME AT NIGHT, MOSTLY bringing together the best scares from the first 13 volumes of BOYS ON FILM. From home invasions, tentacled monsters and seductive cowboys to a nightmare at the end of the world. This collection features some of the most terrifying and blood-curdling gay short films from this world and the next.

After moving house with his estranged family, troubled teen Damien Wilson becomes convinced there is something lurking at the end of the corridor. After people begin to mysteriously vanish, he teams up with 2 friends from high school to discover what is hiding inside his house.

On Halloween 1997, two estranged teen skaters embark on a surreal journey through their memories, dreams and fears.

Lonely schoolgirl Desma is determined to win the school science competition and beat her arch-rival, Celestine. When Desma discovers an incredible creature, an insect-boy endowed with a pair of moth-wings, she thinks victory is hers. But can Desma ignore her attacks of conscience and condemn the vulnerable moth-boy to win a competition? Or will she forfeit her dreams of glory and suffer another humiliating loss to Celestine? An enchanting short film about human connection, ruthless ambition and entomology.

A troubled young man at a mental health institution gets a quiet new roommate. The pair become close friends, bonded over a mutual threat that may or may not be real.

Jonah dreams of being able to fly away from his life in the housing commission. But after an encounter at the local skate park, he finds his wings in an unexpected way.

Tough, but diva fabulous, Leo, an aspiring drag superstar, is stuck working in a fish cannery in Alaska. He and his twin sister are trapped in the monotony of fist fights and fish guts. Out of necessity, Leo learned to fight back, which catches the attention of the local boxing coach. When a new boy moves to town and wants to be his sparring partner, Leo has to face the real reason he's stuck in Alaska.

The misadventures of the gay experience come to life in this variety of award-winning shorts—from awkward threesomes to dubious dating etiquette to the trials and tribulations of shopping excursions.

Leo's dreams of being an international drag superstar are hard fought working in a fish cannery in Alaska. Alaska Is A Drag is preceded by the short film "The Kweenz of Kelston", about group of transgender students as they compete in an inter-school talent quest.

A Russian Literature professor at the University of Havana is ordered to work as a translator for child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when they are sent to Cuba for medical treatment. Based on a true story.

A father fears the sexual awakening of his disabled son, a teenager living with Down syndrome, and struggles with the notion of letting him grow up.

Thomas, a Danish gay man, is unable to adopt in his home country. He visits a friend in Brazil to explore the possibility of bringing home a child. Eventually he meets Maria, a poor woman who is willing to give away the child she is carrying in exchange for money. As he waits for the child, Thomas takes care of Maria, and their relationship develops in a way he did not expect

The biggest Brazilian historical festival of all time. The great cast of the 1973 Phonogram (now Universal Music) meets in three nights to protest against the curtailment of freedom of expression in those dark years of the dictatorship. With the images rescued in 2005, revealing exciting moments, containing the incredible presentations, it brings a team of all greatness and the opportunity to understand the path that Brazilian music has taken to the present day.

Summer, sexual awakening and first self-confidence. The young heroes in these short films are discovering first love. They don't care whether their friends, parents or siblings have imagined something else. You take the first step - on the sports field, on the theater stage, in the boarding school or in the middle of a family celebration. Applause for the youngest hero in gay film history ...

Jørgen lives abroad, but every summer he comes back to Denmark with his wife. He invites, as usual, his neighbours and their teenager son,Thomas, for dinner at his place. Only, this time there is a strange tension in the air between the adults. After dinner, Jørgen and Thomas go to the beach for a walk. They discover that both have secret problems, and the fact they cannot talk about them is creating great stress. As they disclose their secrets to each other, a friendship starts. But through the course of the next two summers their relationship develops in a way they would never have expected.

A hot young hustler finds himself in uncharted waters when he spends the night with a client who's far from the "johns" he's used to servicing.

Collect your holy water, lock the doors and turn off the lights as BOYS ON FILM presents THEY COME AT NIGHT, MOSTLY bringing together the best scares from the first 13 volumes of BOYS ON FILM. From home invasions, tentacled monsters and seductive cowboys to a nightmare at the end of the world. This collection features some of the most terrifying and blood-curdling gay short films from this world and the next.

Inspired by the alarming increase in real-life tragedies involving high school bullying and suicide, Teens Like Phil tells the story of a gay teen, Phil, and his former friend, Adam, who brutally bullies him.

In this alternate history fable set in the 1980s AIDS Crisis, a closeted young man is thrust into the midst of an anti-government coup and finds that the animal within is stronger than the monsters that oppress.

C.J., bored out of his mind one night, uses a hookup app to meet Hunter.

BOYS ON FILM X is the tenth volume in the world’s most successful short film series. A young man goes through a series of encounters that will change his life forever, an unearthly beauty will put a relationship at risk, a friendship is questioned as a secret is revealed and a young boy haunts a village long forgotten. All boundaries will be broken as BOYS ON FILM X promises to take it further than ever before, showcasing some of the most sexy, unique and brilliant filmmaking from around the world. These eight new short films have been showcased in some of the world’s biggest festivals including Frameline Film Festival, Iris Prize Film Festival, Outfest and the BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.

Corey's obsession with mama trauma is validated after Nelson spends a morning with his formerly favorite mother-in-law.

After convincing his husband to retire their old lumpy futon, Nelson is forced to come out in a spectacular way while shopping for a new bed at Drowzy's Mattress World.

The misadventures of the gay experience come to life in this variety of award-winning shorts—from awkward threesomes to dubious dating etiquette to the trials and tribulations of shopping excursions.