Boys Shorts – A Gay Life (HKLGFF 2016)

1.Mother Knows Best
Sweden / 2016 / 13 mins
In Swedish with English Subtitles
Category: IIA
Director: Mikael Bundsen
A mother gives her teenage son some friendly advice in the car on their way home from meeting his boyfriend for the first time. Their casual conversation ultimately leads to revelations that will change their relationship forever.

2.Bittersweet
USA / 2015 / 5mins
In English
Director: Allen Martsch
Jason accidentally sends a romantic candy gram to his crush, Armando, and rushes to retrieve it before the other boy discovers his feelings.

3.The Orchid
Spain / 2016 / 3 mins

In Spanish with English Subtitles
Director: Ferran Navarro-Beltran
A man has something important to tell his son, but can only get through to his voicemail.

4. The Glory Hole
USA / 2016 / 4 mins
In English
Director: Daniel Maggio
A heartwarming story of how two men meet one evening 22 years ago in San Francisco at a glory hole.

5. Sign
USA / 2016 / 15 mins
In American Sign Language
Director: Andrew Keenan-Bolger
A short film that tells, through vignettes, music, and sign language, the story of a relationship between Ben, a hearing man, and Aaron, who is deaf.

6. Pick-Up
USA / 2016 / 20 mins
In English
Category: IIA
Director: Joshua Alan Rogers
Jesse Ritter has been living with a secret. What begins as a quiet evening driving for Pick Up (the latest car service) turns into a life changing journey filled with conversations about life, sex, stigma, and guilt, as Jesse falls for one of his passengers and is forced to confess the truth.

7. Alzheimer’s: A Love Story
USA / 2016 / 17 mins
In English
Category: I
Director: Amanda Le, Monica Petruzzelli
Alzheimer’s: A Love Story follows Greg and Michael as they struggle with a disease that is actively eradicating the memory of a beautiful relationship 40 years in the making.

8. We Could Be Parents
Sweden / 2016 / 15 mins
In Swedish with English Subtitles
Director: Björn Elgerd, David Färdmar
Erik’s boyfriend Marely left him. Now, the last chance for Erik to get him back is to make this movie to explain, that the only reason he sold sex was so they could afford to become parents one day.