International Queer Film Festival “Merlinka" 2011 - Belgrade

After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what’s expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.

Not everything that goes on at school is a game.

A young couple needs some place to have intimacy, so they use Arturo’s grandmother place when she is not there; but Carlos has a problem: he can’t do it in front of the pictures of dead relatives. His boyfriends makes fun of him, but some months later he is the one who feels the pictures’ gaze.

A man sings in the shower and has a daydream that his life is an opera. His singing conjures up both a satyr and the moon who gives him questionable advice on romance. Set to the music of Rossini with new inspired from several sources.

Can love rescue what sex destroys?
Tim and Julian are deeply in love but the gay couple can’t have sex with each other. When you can’t sexually satisfy the person you love is this enough reason to quit a long relationship? We give the answer! On a weekend trip to the sea the queer boys want to spend some time together away from the pulsating city of Berlin where they live. This trip ends with two cakes in the sand. What, if two people love each other but can’t live with each other?

Flamuri, a man in his thirties lives a routine life and tries to integrate into Kosovan society, which is not easy, because most people have a very conservative attitude towards his homosexual orientation. One day he decides to break his routine with something spectacular.

A comedy about a conservative Southern mom who discovers that her only son is gay. Determined that he won’t go through life alone, she sets out to find him a husband.

Anthony, an eager small-town newcomer to San Francisco who is dealing with an abusive ex-lover, strikes up an unlikely friendship with Gavin, an underaged runaway and homeless street hustler who has a turbulent history of his own.

Film festival judge Zachary Wellsʼ handsome one night stand turns out to be a student competing for a scholarship Zach must award. Mysteriously, Danny Reyesʼ entry has the same title as Zach’s film that won the festival years before.

Branko lives with his girlfriend and they work together in a supermarket. His friend and colleague Mare, seems to be much more than that. But, will Branko leave his girlfriend for Mare?

Panic in the orphanage! The children are mysteriously falling ill and Candy Boy, the most valiant of the orphans, investigates. But the arrival of a new orphan complicates our hero’s inquiries.

Two men are at lunchtime to have fast sex in the car, out of the city.

Narrated in the style of an old children’s fairy tale but set against the modern-day backdrop of New York City, follows the adventure of 20-something Bobby as he returns to the gay bar where he got his heart broken for the first time. Upon meeting and spending the night with an attractive stranger named Jonathan, Bobby dreams about what a lifetime relationship with him could be like. The dream takes us on a thirty year journey of ups and downs in life and love. But what will happen when Bobby wakes up to reality in the morning?

A melodic massacre featuring two bigoted old ladies, a couple of love-struck lesbians and a chorus line of gruesome glittering zombies.

A rainy night, Ursula crosses a lush forest. Stops before the gate of an old cemetery and break the chains that keep her from entering. In his right hand holds a shovel, on the left, a heavy suitcase.

A street flyer leads to a surprising discovery.

After coming out to his parents and wanting to change, teenage Jason takes what he believes to be a cure for being gay.

Two women – in the prime of their lives – are sitting on the therapist’s couch. When the lights go off. What the therapist tries for months, is achieved by a sudden incident in the dark.

We Were Here is the first documentary to take a deep and reflective look back at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco. It explores how the City’s inhabitants were affected by, and how they responded to, that calamitous epidemic. Though a San Francisco-based story, We Were Here extends beyond San Francisco and beyond AIDS itself. It speaks to our capacity as individuals to rise to the occasion, and to the incredible power of a community coming together with love, compassion, and determination.

An ex-con returns home to the Bronx after three year in prison to discover his wife estranged and his teenage son exploring a sexual transformation that will put the fragile bonds of their family to the test.

Junk is a subtle, melancholic portrait of a confused companionship in its dying moments. Jack and Tat live on the streets and move from place to place looking for fun and money. Under pressure from Jack, Tat returns to his home town in search of cash. Having not seen his family for a long time, he is forced to face the misery of his past. But with Jack losing interest in him and his hurtful behaviour testing the limits of Tat’s patience and love, he has no other choice. As Jack’s behaviour becomes more dangerous, Tat makes one last ditch attempt to bring a sense of stability to their lives, with sad and frustrating consequences.

Teenager Ivo is constantly bullied by Sandro, his high school classmate. Their troubled relationship seems irreconcilable until an unexpected encounter changes everything.

Gur and Yuval will stop at nothing to make enough money for a fresh start in Berlin. As they approach their goal, the tension is growing between the two, until an unexpected event causes Gur to question both their plan and their relationship.

A psychologist, Sebastien Huberdeau, pushes a young boy to tell why he wanted to commit suicide. What he discovers will go beyond his expectations.

Two young men –one sighted, one blind – see the world and their bodies in different ways. Unexpectedly, they find a connection beyond the visual in the collision of taste, touch and sound. The connection is sensual, and within it they each find something new.