DAY 5 | Sun, July 26 (Mon, July 27) | 7th Show | 12.30 AM
A package of seven narrative short films about ‘boys’ who will be boys!
IONUT AND CALIN (Ionuț și Călin) Director: Sorin Poamă 18 min / 2018 / Romania / Romanian
Ionut and Calin have recently broken up. When they accidentally meet again, their feelings resurface, along with the tensions that drove them apart.
JAY Director: Szu-Wei Chen 14 min / 2019 / Taiwan, USA / Chinese
Coming-of-age story of Jay, a Taiwanese teenager, who is fascinated by his athletic elder brother. In order to get close to him, Jay feigns an interest in basketball so that his brother will practice with him.
THE LAST ROMANTICS (Os Últimos Românticos) Director: João Cândido Zacharias 12 min / 2019 / Brazil / Portuguese
Two young men share different points of view of the same sexual encounter in a public space.
DEPARTURE (別來無恙) Director: Eddie Chen 17 min / 2019 / Taiwan / Chinese, Japanese
In order to return the passport after break up, Tien and Fan meet up in a Sushi pub. After few drinks, the conversations go from awkwardly to vividly, however they both know that they can never go back.
MANKIND Director: Layke Anderson 13 min / 2019 / UK / English
Will is a restless young man yearning to leave love and the Earth behind. When his partner Evan discovers he has submitted himself to be part of a controversial experiment to colonise Mars, he tries in vain to talk him out of it.
THE CURSE Director: Dave Berenato 7 min / 2018 / USA / English
While at a Halloween party, preparing for the online hookup of a lifetime, things get a little weird after Kyle bumps into a witch in the bathroom.
MATT Director: Ori Ravid 13 min / 2019 / USA / English
Matt invites Matt over for drinks, a movie, and a night that will mean much more for one of them than the other.