The Male Gaze: Nocturnal Instincts
Mar 15 2021
•2h 38m
•Drama, Romance
Strap yourself in for an exhilarating journey into darkness with these five award-winning short films from across the globe that delve into heart-pumping escapades varying from the intensely erotic to the ultra-violent to the warm-inside feels. The night has never looked so inviting. Segments: After Dawn [Passée l'aube] (2017), Poof (2018), Spiral (2018), Night of Love (2018), Floating Melon [浮果] (2015).
Cast
See allTijmen Govaerts
Clément (segment "After Dawn")
Piotr Biedroń
Pawel (segment "After Dawn")
Alexander Abdallah
Karim (segment "Spiral")
Gabriel Omri Loukas
Yonatan (as Omri Loukas, segment "Night of Love")
Recommendations
See allAl Berto
Portugal, 1975. A time of rough changes. A young gay artist trapped in a small seaside town ran by communist winds. Al Berto, the writer, embodies an entire moving generation. He and his friends exude youth, eccentricity and hope for the future - but right after the fall of Portugal's dictatorship system, the country is not yet ready for his love story.
Detective Knight: Independence
Detective James Knight 's last-minute assignment to the Independence Day shift turns into a race to stop an unbalanced ambulance EMT from imperiling the city's festivities. The misguided vigilante, playing cop with a stolen gun and uniform, has a bank vault full of reasons to put on his own fireworks show... one that will strike dangerously close to Knight's home.
Shamshera
Set in the 1800s, the film is about a "dacoit" tribe who take charge in fight for their rights and independence against the British.
Sabotage
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.