01 Mar 2024
Outstanding Young Performers
Shawn and Lisa try to pitch their short film script at a party full of young creatives.
Aban + Khorshid
Inspired by true events, Aban + Khorshid is an intimate portrait of two lovers, glimpsing into the world in which they met, moments before their execution for being gay.
Top Billed Cast
Mojean Aria Aban
Bobby Naderi Khorshid
Hamid Nayini Guard #2
Arash Rahdari Guard #3
Homayoon Doroodian Execution Guard #2
Similar movies
Outstanding Young Performers Outstanding Young Performers Show Me Love 
Show Me Love 23 Oct 1998
Show Me Love
Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.
One in a Thousand 
One in a Thousand 03 Dec 2020
One in a Thousand
Set in a community of project houses, Iris, a young woman with a tough past, meets Renata and feels immediately attracted to her. A tender coming of age story about friendship and first love in a hostile environment.
Cocoon 
Cocoon 13 Aug 2020
Cocoon
In the heat of a shimmering Berlin summer, Nora spends her days as a third wheel to her older sister Jule and her best friend Aylin. When Romy comes onto the scene, a friendship blossoms. Nora instantly falls for her, opening up a whole new world and unexpected summer of love.
The Supporter 
The Supporter 10 Nov 2011
The Supporter
The Supporter is a short film that provides an insight into Swedish supporter culture. Through its main character Axel we are drawn into a world of dependency, affirmation and violence. Hooliganism is an ever-present phenomenon, reported on daily in the media. We see how a more organized criminality blends in with families with children and ordinary fans. And all the time we ask the question: 'how close is this violence to ourselves?'
Kiss of the Spider Woman 
Kiss of the Spider Woman 26 Jul 1985
Kiss of the Spider Woman
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills their lonely nights by spinning romantic fantasies drawn from memories of old movies.
Never Met Picasso 
Never Met Picasso 28 Nov 1997
Never Met Picasso
Still living at home with his avant-garde actress mother, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, aspiring painter Andrew decides to enter a contest in hopes of winning a six month stay in Kenya. Though things aren't great for Andrew, neither are they wonderful for his lesbian friend Lucy who constantly bickers with her lover Ingrid. Lucy complicates Andrew's life when she introduces him to the suspicious-looking, enigmatic Jerry.
Paulownia 
Paulownia 15 Oct 2019
Paulownia
Three boys experience self discovery at a skate park. [Made by director Hugo Esposti in his second year at Bournemouth University on the BA Hons Film course.]
Angels Of Our Past 
Angels Of Our Past 04 Jan 2018
Angels Of Our Past
A father and sons solitary life in hiding is threatened by a visitor from their past.
Veracity 
Veracity 31 Jul 2015
Veracity
Veracity is about a popular African American student, Olivia, who is outed by her friends after she acts on feelings for a new girl at her high school...
Resurrection Slope 
Resurrection Slope 19 Jan 2013
Resurrection Slope
In 'Resurrection Slope' A young boy at the brink of adolescence takes a harrowing journey through a mystical dreamworld, confronting his emerging questions of individuality and gender. Through splintered fantasies of his reckless, fading beauty of a mother and cruel, alcoholic father, he performs a holy ritual that will one day form into a defiantly singular adult persona.
Luciano 
Luciano 21 Nov 1965
Luciano
A sensationalist television show unravels the sordid story of Luciano Fernández and analyzes the possible motives that led him to murder a child. (Inspired by a real event that occurred in the forest of Verrières, Paris, on May 27th, 1964.)
Wild Grass 
Wild Grass 28 Jul 2019
Wild Grass
After all his unhappy experiences Aytug come to the turning point of his life. Either he refuses the life which society offers for him and will end his life, or choose to live as he wants and stand out against society's norms of ideal gender role.
My Friend Jaime 
My Friend Jaime 17 Aug 2013
My Friend Jaime
This short film tells the story of Dani, a young boy who shares a close friendship with his friend Jaime. Their relationship changes when Dani realizes he feels something more. Following these events, the lives of both experience an unexpected twist full of strong emotions.
Sugar 
Sugar 03 Aug 2017
Sugar
After a defeating first year of college, a young woman enlists the help of a friend to participate in a baking competition, only to find fulfillment in unexpected ways.
Stone Mansion 
Stone Mansion 26 Jun 2004
Stone Mansion
An affluent black couple deal with the envitability of a white mob coming to kill them during the 1921 Oklahoma race riots.
Balls 
Balls 15 Feb 2013
Balls
22-year old Teun has to move back home. His house-mates have organized a farewell dinner for him. What starts as a social gathering, emotions are running high soon.
Man of Pa-Aling 
Man of Pa-Aling 05 Aug 2017
Man of Pa-Aling
"Manong ng Pa-Aling", directly translated as "Man of Pa-Aling", is the incredible story of man's natural relationship with the ocean. And amidst physical frailty, and of his age, Manong decides what he will do next after retiring from his only known profession, to be a fisherman.
Aed (Garden) 
Aed (Garden) Aed (Garden)
In the idyllic beauty of a small town renowned for being serene , Merle's backyard is her sanctuary-a place of life, peace, and control. But when her husband Kalev's secrets begin to surface, including a missing girl and a chilling discovery, Merle's world spirals into chaos. As suspicion grows, Merle embarks on a dangerous quest to protect her sanctuary at any cost. In this gripping thriller, the garden becomes a twisted metaphor for survival, where beauty flourishes amidst decay, and the line between nurturer and destroyer vanishes.