POUT Film Festival

Andrew Steggall’s deft and delicate drama about a teenage dreamer who falls for the rough beauty of a local boy while staying in France.

Lush retelling of the story of lesbian monarch Queen Christina of Sweden, combining period drama with a deeply personal love story.

Tommy Knight (The Sarah Jane Adventures, Waterloo Road, Young Victoria) stars in this light-hearted drama as Henry, a teenager struggling with his sexuality in 1986.

A sweepingly romantic adaptation of Timothy Conigrave’s best-selling memoir, an impassioned love letter to his partner, John Caleo.

An offbeat Canadian coming-of-age drama with surrealist tendencies, featuring the voice of Isabella Rossellini as a talking hamster.

Alex, a gay paramedic meets Nik, a sexy young Spanish boy who he takes under his wing but soon discovers his caring instincts comes with a dangerous price.

A night in a gay sauna turns into a fight for survival. Two men must over-come prejudice and join forces in taking down a horde of towel-wearing zombies.

Sir Ian McKellen and Stephen Fry come together for the first time to produce this London based thriller.

Lee Chang-dong (Poetry) produces this offbeat drama about a policewoman who becomes protector of an abused teen in a town riven by corruption and alcoholism.

When an elderly woman sees a vision of Jesus on the swimming trunks of a young African man, she believes God has sent her a sign.

After misbehaving at school it’s time for young Jack to confess to his mother, but the solution to his “problem” is not like anything he could have imagined.

Nathan tries to clear up a misunderstanding with his hearing impaired boyfriend through a type-to-talk service. Will the middle man be able to fix the situation or will Nathan have to find another way to communicate?

22-year-old David has a shameful secret: he’s been sleeping with his sister’s husband. Leon Lopez’s indie gay drama details the fallout.

Two teenage boys hit on a novel way to counteract their sexual inexperience.

'Cool kid' Drew is James’ sexual fantasy, but Drew is also James’ bully. In a single moment, James faces off against both Drew the bully and Drew the fantasy, but is it enough to reclaim his dignity?

Two young men and a boy roam the overgrown English countryside, seeking to escape a deadly virus.

Short film following an aging author’s sorrow over the death of his long-term partner.

A tragic event brings together a Brazilian lifeguard and a German tourist in Karim Aïnouz’s hypnotic melodrama.

In a toilet of a Manchester nightclub, two young men (Shameless’ Jody Latham and Skins’ Liam Boyle) catch each other’s eye and reveal their feelings to one another.

When a government official comes to inspect Richard and Martin’s relationship for visa approval, it is clear that all is not as it seems.

Two men enter Sir John’s Trouser Bar but little do they know the adventure that await them inside.

A young man is wracked with confusion after an incident guides him on a mission of self-discovery.

As dawn creeps across London, two lost outcasts meet in the darkness, more afraid of themselves than each other.