Testing Limits (Shorts Block)

Queer desire can feel like an unstoppable force at times. It drives us to test friendships, push boundaries and flirt with danger. Sleek, sexy, thrilling, these short films dance on the knife’s edge of desire, following protagonists whose love, lust and passions push them towards confrontation and the inevitable fallout. 

Pakka

Four gay Indian friends share an unbreakable bond on a Dutch cricket field. But when one agrees to an arranged marriage in India, their chosen family begins to unravel.

Iniyvan Elumalai / Netherlands / 18m

Writer: Iniyavan Elumalai, Maaike Hasselaar, Jessie Tiemeijer

Producer: Daniel Dow

I Prefer You Flawed

Ash and Cleon’s messy night out escalates to an argument after an offhand comment about opening up their relationship. An intimate confrontation over one claustrophobic night forces them to ask, is this fight about staying together, or finally being seen?

Nayan Sharma / UK / 17m

Writer: Nayan Sharma

Producer: Matthew Deeley, Anil Kaygili

Little Miss Fortune

A young journalist must find a story before midnight or lose his job. Luckily, he stumbles upon two of the most unhinged besties in Belfast.

Conor Toner / Ireland / 10m

Writer: Conor Toner

Producer: James Hall

Country: Ireland

Runtime: 10’

Simon at the Nightshop

A middle forty-something middle class man falls in love with a local cashier, but unspoken assumptions about class and power sour desire into obsession.

Thanasis Tsimpinis / Belgium / 15m

Writer: Thanasis Tsimpinis

Producer: Eby Kadima Kassanda

Country: Belgium

Runtime: 15’

CHASER

A trans woman on a night out crosses paths with a charming stranger, but he may not have her best interest at heart.

Jesse Williams / UK / 10m

Writer: Jesse Williams

Producer: Lucy Maughan

Country: UK

Runtime: 10’

Guille, 28

After chatting with Guille on a dating app, Mario meets him in-person and brings him home to sleep together. But the man in his home is not Guille.

Miguel Alcalde de la Fuente / Spain / 17m

Writer: Miguel Alcalde de la Fuente

Producer: Miguel Alcalde de la Fuente

Upon Starvation

In the city’s crowded buses, Vivek survives by pickpocketing closeted men and exploiting their desires. His emotionally detached worldview is upended when one of his victims returns, seeking not revenge, but intimacy.

Saurav Mahind / India / 16m

Writer: Saurav Mahind, Tejas Shende