Verzaubert

The Verzaubert film festival takes place every year in April. Last year, because now we can talk about last year, It took place as well for a week-end in November. Only one week-end with an attractive program. I thought nevertheless that it was too American and I focus with the short movies. It is called the propaganda night and It took place in the Sony Center on Potsdamer platz. The theater was full, a mix of all kind of people interested in gay cinema. Steam rooms, sex chats, coming out, dirty magazines, ex lovers and always mothers who know it all ... . The first short is a story of two men in a steam room. Nothing unusual with that and you expect what will happen. Except that minutes after, there is no door to exit. The second shows the challenge for two straight men who apply for the same job in a call center where they have to show their capacity of being good at gay sex phone. That is their chance to make money. The third short explained what we lived when we were younger (or at least some of us) : being a young boy, not leaving in a big city, being dependant of parents who don’t really understand Then arrives JAMES, Teeny in the Irish province who can confides to nobody that he is different … Yet simplier, our young hero has it in the U.S. of the 80s, of an era without DVD nor Internet. Thus here with the dirty magazines. But does it please mom? After the pause, we enjoyed going to Finland where mother knows best that her son does not need a girlfriend. From Finland, we travel to Spain where two ex-lovers meet again. This happened to all of us and we know that an old flame can be reactivated but is it the right choice ? This was Pasajero (my favorite, ye could feel everything in those minutes). Then a Greek guy wants to tell his family the truth about his story but he must drink, eat and listen so much before finding the strength. We ended with a cold weather in Finland where two not-so-young-anymore buddies, to fight the cold and the boredom, decide to fuck together. Steam rooms, sex chats, coming out, dirty magazines, ex lovers and always mothers who know it all ... Enjoy a long night filled with fantastic short films from all over the world.