Pierre Emö
2021
Only the Fire
Christophe Pellet
Mireille Perrier, Stanislas Nordey
At the end of June in Paris: Mireille accompanies his friend Thomas, a solitary and restless being, during a walk to Père Lachaise. Thomas is very agitated, worried. He confides to Mireille that he wishes to be cremated in the event of death. In September: after a period of holidays, Mireille returns at her home. She and his friends do not any more manage to contact Thomas. After investigation, Mireille learns that Thomas died in August, only. As he has no family his body was interred in the square of the needy of the new cemetery of Thiais. Mireille wants to honor the last wills of his friend, but the law is strict: to dig up the body and cremate it, the services of the city hall have to have the signature of a member of Thomas's family. Mireille learns that Thomas had a younger brother, Melchior. But But the young man, marginalized, abandoned for years by his older brother, refuses to sign the licence to dig up.
Only the Fire
Masking Threshold
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Ethan Haslam, Johannes Grenzfurthner
Conducting a series of experiments in his makeshift home-lab, a skeptic IT worker tries to cure his harrowing hearing impairment. But where will his research lead him? "Masking Threshold" combines a chamber play, a scientific procedural, an unpacking video, and a DIY YouTube channel while suggesting endless vistas of existential pain and decay. Glimpse the world of the nameless protagonist in this eldritch tale, which is by no means for the faint of heart.
Masking Threshold
Les fantômes
Alexandre Vallès
Andre Schneider, Judith Magre
Nicolas Wolf, an Austrian who's just inherited his grandmother's Parisian flat, is shaken with fear as an unexpected nightly visitor refuses to leave. But no-one but Nicolas seems to be able to see the menacing stranger.
The Ghosts
Aujourd'hui, rien
Christophe Pellet
Pierre Emö, Sergio Daniel Ramirez
The writers Cesare Pavese and Jean-Luc Lagarce had a tragic destiny. The first committed suicide after a sentimental disappointment and the second died of AIDS. Sex holds a central place in their diaries.
Aujourd'hui, rien
Darkroom - Tödliche Tropfen
Rosa von Praunheim
Bozidar Kocevski, Heiner Bomhard
Lars, a male nurse from Saarbrücken, moves to Berlin with his lover, Roland. They begin to renovate an apartment and their happiness seems almost complete. What Roland doesn’t know is that, while secretly checking out Berlin’s night life, Lars is also experimenting with a deadly poison.
Darkroom
While the Unicorn Is Watching Me
Shanti Masud
Nicolas Maury, Yohan Campistron
On a chilly Sunday morning, a man awakens to the mischievous stare of a unicorn that seems to have come straight out of his dreams. Carried along by an early morning sensuality, his fantasies transform his lonely apartment into a garden of delights, in which this young creature can freely reap the fruits of his desires.
While the Unicorn Is Watching Me
RubiX
Rubis Collective
Pierre Emö, Guillaume Wayne
Jo, a sailor with an off-duty liberty pass, walks by a gay population at the seashore. His encounter with Cuir takes him into a dream-like universe, where the faces of the men he saw under a bridge become his deepest fantasies, all in a place of freedom and promiscuity: the RubiX.
RubiX
Lemon Taste
Nicky Miller
Jorge Benavides, Pierre Emö
This short film is a sexual fantasy and romantic fiction, where John becomes voyeur of a cruising moment, which grows into a fantasy erotic quintet trip. Like a juicy acid lemon taste that turns their sexual drive on. John is going out from the factory suddenly a strange sensation of unbreathing drive takes him. He arrives in a hidden street where he can watch Cliff cruising here. Attracted by Cliff he starts to observe him behind the wall.
Lemon Taste
Tearoom Tracks
Marc Martin
Pierre Emö, Mickaël Extatis
Urinals have always had a bad reputation. Bringing colour and life to these long-gone meeting places in the shadow, that was my challenge. I wanted to restore their disturbing share of sensuality. For generations of men who were looking for adventures with other men, public toilets were privileged places for meeting and recognition.
Tearoom Tracks
