Together, apart

Set of gay short films on the fragility of relationships.

The Whiz Kids
Freunde
Germany | 2001
German version with Czech subtitles | 21 min
dir.: Jan Krüger
Two sixteen-year-old boys (shy Johannes and edgy Marco) spend their days racing, hanging out, watching videos and playing hide-and-seek with each other. The two young main actors swing between cool distance and great intimacy, while the camera persistently follows their strange friendship.

Night swimming
USA | 2005
English version with Czech subtitles | 18 min
dir.: Daniel Falcone
Otter is a small-town teenager, Amber is much older, owns a jeep and has an attractive girlfriend and doesn’t care too much about Otter. Once Amber’s car breaks somewhere in the middle of nowhere and they have to spend a night in the forest. Otter maybe doesn’t know yet what he feels for his friend.

Beginners!!
Anfänger!
Germany | 2004
German version with Czech subtitles | 29 min
dir.: Nicholas von Wackerbarth
“Hey, man, it itches like hell! David slept here last night. First he tried to come on to me… then he gave himself a wank on my mattress! Now, it’s full of fleas! My cock itches like hell! Damned pervert! I got red dots on my cock, man! Red dots! When I catch this guy, I’ll cut my name in his face!” Robert’s best friend thirsts for revenge. Together they try to find David, “that faggot”.

*Hello, Thanks *
USA | 2005
English version with Czech subtitles | 7,5 min
dir.: Andy Blubaugh
Wearing interviews and off the cuff commentary with re-enactments and text. Hello,Thanks tells the story of filmmaker Andy Blubaugh’s year in the personal ads, looking for romance but having his true love affair with the words themselves.

Pause
Spain | 2004
Spanish version with Czech subtitles | 12,5 min
dir.: Vincent J. Gavara
Sunrise. Near the rooftops, lives cross and slip through the windows of an apartment building, sharing privacies, instincts, lust, desires, fears, glances and skin trembling with excitement. The bewilderment, the confusion, the irrational emotion - and life goes on anyway...

Rugburn
Canada | 2005
English version with Czech subtitles | 13 min
dir.: Trevor Anderson
The story of young indebted painter Geoffrey Thorpe calling the collections agency, which has been recovering his debt for some time. Surprisingly enough, his ex-lover, Dwayne, answers the phone. Since Dwayne is the one who makes Geoffrey’s heart miss a beat, he is the last one Geoffrey would want to be dealing with at a collection company.