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Tao Se

As with the two previous films in his “PEONY PAVILION” trilogy, director Yonfan once again found the inspiration for his new film from an opera by the Chinese poet and dramatist Tang Hsien-tsu. Set in Hong Kong in the present, the current film uses the story of a love affair with sado-masochistic and transsexual elements to explore themes of desire, suffering, innocence and seduction. The film’s main character is a good-looking young estate agent ...

Tapage nocturne

The filmmaker Solange has a young daughter and a husband with whom she sleeps with from time to time. But that's neither enough for a film nor a life. Solange wants more: she has an affair with Jim, a bisexual actor. But Jim is not the only one. Sometimes she needs two or three affairs even in one single night. It is on her sexual odyssey that she encounters Bruno, who seems immune to her arts of seduction and whose little humiliations inflam...

TÁR

Talented conductor Lydia Tár has established herself in the male-dominated world of classical music. When she arrives in Berlin as the first woman appointed to conduct a major German orchestra, she is at the peak of her career. Between commitments and concerts on both sides of the Atlantic, she is preparing for a much anticipated recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. But a shadow suddenly falls over this charismatic figure; her performance on the...

Tea And Sympathy

Surprising as it may seem, in the light of the screen’s Production Code, which generally compels evasion of the more delicate sexual in American films, Robert Anderson’s fine play about a schoolboy and a teacher’s wife, TEA AND SYMPATHY, has been given a strong and sensitive screen rendering by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (…) Fortunately, for this production, producer Pandro S. Berman employed the pricipal actors in the original stage play to re-enact th...

Teaches of Peaches

Seamlessly weaving together exclusive archival gems with dynamic tour footage, this documentary captures the transformative journey of Canadian Merrill Nisker into the internationally acclaimed cultural powerhouse that is Peaches.

Teddy Kurzfilmrolle 2011

The Teddy Shorts screen als those movies, which are competing for the TEDDY AWARD 2011 for best short film. This year these are: LA DUCHA, TOMORROW EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT, BLOKES, PORNO MELODRAMA and SPRING.
(To find more information about these films, click on the film title to get directly to the filmpage in the archive.)
 
LA DUCHA
A couple spends their last morning together in the bathroom. One of them is about to leave the country. The...

Teddy Kurzfilmrolle 2012

The Teddy Shorts screen als those movies, which are competing for the TEDDY AWARD 2012 for best short film. This year these are: ZUCHT UND ORDNUNG, A LAZY SUMMER AFTERNOON WITH MARIO MONTEZ, EROTIC FRAGMENTS NO. 1,2,3, THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY, LOXORO, THE BLESSED, THE WILDING, AS THEY SAY, GREEN LASER and 7 DEADLY KISSES.
(To find more information about these films, click on the film title to get directly to the filmpage in the archive.)
 
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Teeth

A teenage comedy laced with sex and gore that tells of the horror of becoming an adult. The story revolves around a young high school student. When the innocent Dawn begins to feel her libido awakening she vehemently seeks refuge as a member of the local celibacy group. Her participation in a puritanical campaign sets her positively apart from her step-brother Brad, whose demeanour at home is becoming increasingly provocative. But Dawn's pledg...

Temblores

When Pablo arrives at his family’s house outside Guatemala City, everyone is already waiting tensely for this beloved brother, son and husband to appear. Everyone at the clan’s villa is horrified: Pablo has fallen in love with another man, Francisco. In doing so, he is calling into question all the values by which this deeply religious evangelical family lives. In spite of resistance from his relatives, Pablo moves in with Francisco, who is close...

Terminal Norte

 

Test

It’s 1985. The location is San Francisco, America’s ‘gay mecca’. Introverted Frankie is an understudy in a prestigious modern dance company. Todd, an established dancer in the troupe, is openly homosexual. When one of the dancers falls ill one day Frankie is asked to stand in and Todd helps him to prepare. Could the illness be the ‘gay plague’ as they are already vilifying Aids? Ignorance, repression, panic, fear, prejudice and open homophobia ar...

That Man: Peter Berlin

Known as “the Greta Garbo of gay porn cinema”, legendary Californian photographer, filmmaker and self-made man Peter Berlin is regarded by his fans as a male sex icon. He achieved fame – and notoriety – in the early 1970s when he made two wild 16mm films – NIGHTS IN BLACK LEATHER and THAT BOY. Almost overnight, Berlin had conquered both the hearts and fantasies of gay men all over the world. Behind the public figure and the obvious pseudonym lies a ...

The Advocate For Fagdom

Visitors to the Berlinale are well acquainted with the work of Canadian underground director Bruce LaBruce. Co-directed with Rick Castro, his feature film debut, HUSTLER WHITE, which told the story of a rent boy working on Santa Monica Boulevard, screened at the Berlinale in 1996. Bruce LaBruce also showed his gay zombie horror film OTTO, OR, UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE – at the festival in 2008. Bruce LaBruce freely admits that “most of my films are sexua...

The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela

Raquela, who is transsexual, dreams of being with a heterosexual man from a western country. Raquela lives in the Philippines and works as a prostitute. She spends her spare time surfing the internet for suitable candidates. Yet time and again, her hopes of being carried off into a rosy future in the arms of a strong hero are shattered. But then, when Raquela lands a job working in front of a webcam for a pornographic website, things begin to loo...

The Attendant

A young white man visits a gallery of old master paintings. When the museum closes, he stays behind, arousing the sexual fantasies of an older black museum attendant. In one of these fantasies, the 19th-century painting ‘The Slave Trade (Slaves on the West Coast of Africa)’ by French artist François-Auguste Biard metamorphosises into a group of leather-clad gay men. With an activist’s commitment, Isaac Julien takes a look at the sexual and racis...

The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

In an intimate way Genesis P-Orridge tells the story of his relationship with Jacqueline Breyer alias Lady Jaye. En passant one gets an insight into their personal gender-concept of “pandrogeny” and the beginnings of British industrial-music.
This is a love story, and a portrait of two lives that illustrate the transformative powers of both love and art. In warm and intimate images captured handheld, Losier crafts a labyrinthine mise-en-scene of in...

The Brandon Teena Story

A young man arrives in Falls City, a small town in rural Nebraska, at the beginning of December 1993. 20-year-old Brandon Teen ais a stranger to this town but his friendly manner and youthful charm soon win him friends among his peers. The town’s young girls are particularly attracted to him and he has no difficulty finding a girlfriend. However, only three weeks later, on Christmas Eve, Brandon is brutally beaten up and raped by two of his friend...

The Bubble

Sheikin Street is one of Tel Aviv's hippest and chicest areas. Sheikin Street's fashionable shops and galleries give it the appearance of being on another planet to the rest of the Middle East. The inhabitants of this peaceful soap bubble manage to keep an oblivious distance from the conflict all around them. Among them are three young Israeli flatmates: Lulu and a gay couple named Noam and Yali. Lulu works at a Body Shop, Noam at a recor...

The Celluloid Closet

THE CELLULOID CLOSET is both a history of lesbian and gay images, a study of how Hollywood has shaped our views of masculinity and femininity and a feast for cinéphiles everywhere. Beginning at the birth of film and examining how filmmakers and actors have put gays on the screen to the present day, the film builds up a kaleidoscopic portrait from an early Edison clip of two men dancing together right through to PHILADELPHIA and the recent New Que...

The Countess

Europe at the beginning of the 17th century. Countess Erzebet Bathory is considered to be the most powerful woman in the land – beautiful, intelligent, and unwilling to accept the right of men to change the rules of this world as they please. At a party she meets a much younger man, Istvan. The two fall passionately in love with each other. But their happiness is short-lived: Istvan’s father, Count Thurzo, forces his son to stop seeing Erzebet and...