Gay International Mix 1

Director: Can Merdan Dogan
Script: Can Merdan Dogan
Producer: Erkan Taskiran
With: Mustafa Kırantepe, Deniz Görkem Kaya
Turkey, 18 minutes, 2023, Turkish with English subtitles

Hüseyin, a family man, is forced to share a bed with his brother-in-law Fırat, who is visiting them. The weather is unbearably hot and Hüseyin’s “longest night” begins.

Director: Jérémy Piette
Script: Jérémy Piette
Producer: Emmanuel Chaumet
With: Paul Lemarchand
France, 26 minutes, 2023, French with English subtitles

It’s the end of summer and it’s time for Arthur to leave his friends. Wishing to stay on the beach forever, the melancholic teenager who is in love, will unintentionally summon nocturnal creatures that might help him turn the page.

Director: Bese Komáromy
Script: Bese Komáromy
Producer: Gábor Osváth
With: Zsolt DérKey, Dániel Pásztor
Hungary, 18 minutes, 2023, Hungarian with English subtitles

Late at night, a young male model arrives at a photographer’s apartment, and as soon as he invites him in, the cat-and-mouse game begins. The realistic, queer setting soon turns into a more allegorical fever dream, where words hurt on a physical level.

Director: Jonah Weinstein
Script: Jonah Weinstein
Producers: Gene Goldstein-Plesser, Hannah Welever, Molly Rose Heller, Maria Fernanda Diez
With: Jonah Weinstein, Yair Ben-Dor
USA, 12 minutes, 2023, English

Noah and Jonah are gay Jewish husbands and new parents to a baby boy. When Noah and Jonah’s parents arrive at their home expecting a traditional bris for their grandson, Noah and Jonah are forced to reveal that they had something very different in mind for their son: no circumcision.