Claus Bender Mortensen stars in the 1987 Danish film Friends Forever [Venner for altid] as shy 16-year-old teenager Kristian, who moves to a new Copenhagen neighbourhood and is struggling to adjust in his new school. […]
Director Stefan Schaller’s 2015 German film Shed My Skin [Aus Der Haut] stars Merlin Rose as teenage German boy Milan, who falls for his best friend truly, madly, deeply, and thus finds he is gay […]
‘Love Knows No Borders’. A Place to Be is a beautifully handled gay Mexican tearjerker from 2017. Set against the background of a broken US immigration system, writer/ director Tadeo Garcia’s 2017 Mexico/ US romantic […]
The 2024 coming-of-age romantic drama film Young Hearts daringly but delicately tells the story of a Belgian boy who is thrown into emotional turmoil when he instantly falls in love with his new neighbour Alexander, […]
Luca Guadagnino’s 2024 film Queer is a gruelling endurance test, despite a 100 per cent committed performance by Daniel Craig as tormented gay William Lee, and stunning studio artwork re-creating 1950s Mexico City. Italian director […]
Writer/ director Mikko Mäkelä’s provocative 2024 UK/ Finland/ Belgian co-production film Sebastian stars Ruaridh Mollica as Max, an aspiring young writer in London, who begins living a double life as a sex worker to research […]
Basil Dearden’s 1954 Ealing Studios British Eastmancolor film Out of the Clouds is a high-flying, old-fashioned Grand Hotel-style multi-story drama set in a fog-bound London Airport of the day. Director Basil Dearden’s 1954 Ealing Studios […]