October 9th 2014 Archives - Big Gay Picture Show

Starring: András Sütö, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Ádám Varga, Lajos Ottó Horváth
Director: Ádám Császi
Running Time: 105 mins
Release Date: October 9th 2014

Land Of Storms centres around a promising yet troubled and angry football player, Szabi, played with high-quality brooding by Andras Suto. No longer enjoying the beautiful game, Szabi moves back to Hungary to the house he inherited from his grandfather. When he starts to renovate the house, which has become very tumbledown and rotten due to vandalism and lack of care, he meets a young man called Arun (Adam Varga) who lives nearby. Szabi and Arun begin to work on the house together and as they get to know each other, a deeper relationship starts to blossom.

Eventually the extremely religious and intolerant locals, never keen on Arun’s relationship with this newcomer, start to understand that there’s something more than friendship between the two. Add to that the appearance of Szabi’s German friend and possible lover Bernard (Sebastian Urzendowsky), and a three-way dynamic begins to unfold, which the locals don’t like at all. [Read more…]

Starring: Carlos Echevarría, Emiliano Dionisi, Nicolás Armengol
Director: Rodrigo Guerrero
Running Time: 70 mins
Release Date: October 9th 2014

This tale of a modern-day sexual encounter starts with an online flirtation between Fede, a young gay man, and an older gay couple whose relationship is several years old. They flirt on webcam and MSN Messenger, teasing the viewer and each other with a little nudity and eventually decide to meet up.

Fede goes around to their flat and they have dinner together. It’s a very relaxed and unrushed sexual encounter that shows the characters taking a little time to get to know one another, which is nice to see rather than just jumping into bed together. As they talk, the relationship between the older men opens up, as does Fede when talking about himself, and both the characters and the viewer understand a little more about how neither side’s situation is as perfect as it seems from the outside. [Read more…]

Land Of Storms (Iris Prize Festival 2014 Review)

The Third One (Iris Prize Festival 2014 Review)