International Boy Shorts:#NSFW(HKLGFF 2023)

Movie Name: The Death of Oso
Language: Spanish(English Subtitles)
Category: III
Duration: 25 Mins
Director: Cristian Sitjas
Cast: -
Story: Saul’s beloved dog, Oso has died, but he doesn’t have the money for individual cremation. He is fixated on finding enough money so he can get Oso back. However, he will have to cross limits he didn’t even plan.

Movie Name: State of Mind
Language: German(English Subtitles)
Category: IIB
Duration: 4 Mins
Director: Donald C. Shorter Jr.
Cast: -
Story: BDSM can be a pathway to spiritual transformation when practiced in ways that are safe, sane, and consensual. The film highlights the intimacy and beauty found through the experience of power exchange in BDSM/leather/fetish/kink.

Movie Name: Solid
Language: Japanese(English Subtitles)
Category: IIB
Duration: 13 Mins
Director: Iwasa Hiroki
Cast: -
Story: A man with an injured finger visits the protagonist’s apartment for the first time. The two men start having sex but gets interrupted in the middle of the act.

Movie Name: Exalted Mars (MARS EXALTÉ)
Language: No dialogue
Category: III
Duration: 18 Mins
Director: Jean-Sébastien Chauvin
Cast: -
Story: A sleeping man dreams of a city at dusk. Or is the city dreaming of him?

Movie Name: Big Sur Gay Porn
Language: English
Category: III
Duration: 12 Mins
Director: Ryan A. White
Cast: -
Story: Cult filmmaker Tom DeSimone revisits the production of a lost gay film and resurrects youthful adventures on the California coast.

Movie Name: Gods of the Supermarket
Language: French(English Subtutles)
Category: III
Duration: 8 Mins
Director: Ryan A. White
Cast: -
Story: Through a “net found footage” in tribute to the mainstream representation of the male body, our cultural obsession with unrealistic beauty standards is put into question.

Movie Name: Picking You Up
Language: Spanish(English Subtutles)
Category: IIB
Duration: 9 Mins
Director: Jose Provencio
Cast: -
Story: A secret has caused Carlos an existential conflict about what is done in the sauna he goes to every weekend.