Description: Two estranged friends take an emotional and eventful road trip from Los Angeles to Chicago, facing their complicated past along the way. The journey leads to confessions, contradictions, and conflicts as they struggle to reconcile their past and connect with each other. Their road trip becomes an exploration of male friendship, intimacy and a search for one’s identity along the American landscape.
Description: PRAXIS peels away the layers of narrative even as Brian, the film’s axis, struggles to create his true self. Brian, a writer on the verge of a breakdown, is aided by Joe and an elusive woman as he sifts through the fragments of his persona to discover his true core. Fighting against fear and the indifference of society, his quest reflects the myths of Proteus and meaning in the universe.
Description: Awash in the noise of memory and morphine, Darwin King is unable to project himself into a future that is increasingly finite. Now with the funding for his movie collapsed along with the rest of the economy, all that is left to do is reflect on the life and project he’ll never complete.
Description: New forms of sex and love emerge in the first American film to ever win the Teddy jury prize at the Berlin Film Festival, OPEN. Not science fiction, but American reality OPEN brings together a cast of real intersex, pandrogynous, and trans people to create a revealing look at the pioneers of the new human experience, and the emerging possibilities for humanity at the dawn of a new millennium.
Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was left in a critical condition after being head butted in an apparent unprovoked attack in Manchester’s gay village.
The victim was reportedly attacked by a man who approached him and head butted him. The victim fell to the ground and was left unconscious. He went into cardiac arrest shortly after the assault.
He was attacked near to the Void Club on Richmond Street very close to Canal Street at 5:30AM on Sunday monday.
A statement from VOID left on their Facebook profile said,
As you may be aware there has been an incident at the entrance to void on Richmond street.
We would like to confirm this was not a customer from kiki/void and the individual was involved in an incident in the car park on Richmond Street.
He was given medical attention by VOID door staff, it is now being dealt with by GMP.
A report from Manchester’s police force describe the attacker as an Asian man in his late 30s early 40s.
He was wearing blue jeans, a black t-shirt and wore brown boots.
A motive for the attack is not clear and police aren’t treating this as a hate crime as of yet.
Detective Sergeant Phillip Marsh of GMP’s City of Manchester Team said,
“This horrific and random act of violence has left a man in critical condition in hospital. The motive for the attack is not clear but do we believe it was a completely unprovoked attack on an innocent man.
“I urge anyone who saw the assault or has information about who is responsible to come forward and speak to police.”
Anyone with information should contact police on 0161 856 4402, 101 quoting the incident number 688 of 24/07/16, or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.
Description: Inspired by real life events in 1997, the film questions whether a young, gay drunken man’s decisions during a San Francisco encounter with future serial killer Andrew Cunanan could have saved the lives of five men, including fashion icon Gianni Versace.
Description: A lesbian artist fails to come out to her best friend of 10 years. A few drinks and some sexual tension leads the two friends spiraling towards a blurred line in their relationship. Only Further complicated by one of their neurotic boyfriends.
Description: Luna Park is the home away from home for the stars of a popular gay porn company while on location. Christi, Luna Park’s mute caretaker, gets his own personal peep shows by hiding in the closets of the residents and watching the actors in their off camera arousal. When Christi gets caught spying on the hunk du-jour, his sister decides to send her streetwise minion Maxwell to clean things up.
Description: A sun soaked drama about a gay filmmaker falling for a dreamy surfer, a man trying to save his marriage and a young wife exploring the greener grass of an extramarital affair with another woman.
Description: When a dancer loses his partner, he goes to the studio to work out his grief. What happens next will break your heart. Last Dance is a dance short film from OutliciousTV and CODECdance
Description: For the minister’s son, Brandon, this is a summer of awakening and acceptance of his homosexuality. For his father, this is a challenge to his roots in the bible.
