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Worldly Affairs

Dig in to our delectable buffet of international men’s short films — a sexy smorgasbord of flirtation and fantasy, longing and love.

In Scaffolding, two neighbors in a Spanish apartment building barely exchange words, until construction work forces them to share a balcony. Across the English Channel, Best finds two chaps having a quickie and revealing a world of fraught relationships. Underwater we go in Mum, as a deaf swimmer tries to attract a guy he has his eyes on. In Das Phallometer, an absurd immigration screening in a sinister country turns both comic and poignant in a few deft strokes. To Greenpoint, Brooklyn: Barrio Boy features a young Latino barber whose taboo romantic fantasies about a handsome customer must remain a private voiceover only we can hear. Good Morning is the touching and funny breakfast-table encounter between a Canadian man hung over from his 30th birthday party, and the adorable 17-year-old stranger crashing in his apartment. In Wandering Clouds, Mexico’s poetic writer-director Julián Hernández choreographs the lyrical catapults and plunges of two divers, as a teenager watches longingly from afar. And at a fast food joint in Wales, Burger eavesdrops on the banter of its working-class customers, who by turns flirt, threaten, strut, compete, and somehow coexist.

Short films showing in this program:

Burger

12 mins

Late night in a burger bar: Gay and straight, male and female, couples, singles and friends are observed by filmmaker Magnus Mork in this short drama filmed on location in a Cardiff burger bar.

Das Phallometer

7 mins

The phallometric tests were used in the Czech Republic until recently in order to verify the homosexuality of asylum seekers, who reported homosexuality-based persecution in their home country as grounds for asylum. This short tells the story of a young guy whose sexuality will be tested through this method in a satirically way.

Scaffolding

14 mins

Eduardo, a snob publicist who lives cranky most of the day and David, a shy student of literature are neighbors in a building under construction. After 6 months of hardly a greeting a scaffold intercedes between them causing unexpected reactions in each.

Wandering Clouds

14 mins

They dance in the water. They are like wandering clouds. But not for an homophobic spectator.

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Running Time
79 mins
Section
Short
Program Note Writer
Peter L. Stein
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