Paths to Love

The path to love or romance is rarely smooth. These films show it can be memorable, funny, traumatic or even all of these things. Laugh or cry, but learn from others.

Strictly over 18s only.

My Almost First Time

An idyllic beach and an older man’s memories of trying to lose his virginity. From Festival friend, the late Charles Lum.

  • Director-Producer-Screenwriters

    Charles Lum, Todd Verow

  • Sint Maarten-USA 2021. 4min

Firsts

When 21-year-old virgin Steven hooks up with an experienced older man online, intimacy is as important as sex.

  • Director-Screenwriter

    Jesse Ung

  • Producer

    Elanor McKenzie

  • New Zealand 2021. 17min

Stockholm

Fragmented memories of a sexual encounter, filtered through an alcohol haze, lead to some dark and difficult conclusions.

  • Director-Screenwriter

    Tom Wright

  • Producer

    Darius Shu

  • UK 2021. 10min

Virgin My Ass

How far would you go to educate your sexually inexperienced best friend and what does it mean for that friendship?

  • Director-Producer-Screenwriter

    Adar Sigler

  • Israel 2020. 16min

Fisherman

A fisherman discovers unusual bounty in a lake, in this lyrical and wet sexual fantasy made real.

  • Director-Producer-Screenwriter

    Nicky Miller

  • Germany 2021. 10min

It Is Not the Brazilian Homosexuals Who Are Perverse But the Situation in Which They Live In

Two chatty Brazilian gay men get naked and share tales of living on the edge in Berlin.

  • Director-Producer-Screenwriters

    Leandro Goddinho, Eduardo Mamede, Paulo Menezes

  • Germany 2021. 12min

Tomorrow Then

Demà ho deixem

When a lover returns from a holiday in Amsterdam, his reunion with his boyfriend is a little strained.

  • Director-Screenwriter

    David Moragas

  • Producers

    Marta Cruañas, David Moragas

  • Spain 2022. 15min

Total running time 84 minutes

Contains scenes of graphic sex. Strictly over 18s only.

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