Category: Drama

The first season of ‘After Forever’ is now available on Dekkoo

Co-created by Emmy-nominated TV writer and playwright Michael Slade and actor-writer Kevin Spirtas, the moving series After Forever follows Brian and Jason, a 50-ish gay couple living in New York City who appear to have it all… until they don’t.

When Jason dies unexpectedly, Brian must face the grieving process. Suddenly, he’s forced to think about his own future – and ultimately his own mortality – without the love of his life.

Winner of six Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Digital Drama Series, After Forever is a funny, heartbreaking, heartwarming and ultimately empowering series that will resonate with audiences of all ages and sexual identities as it explores relationships, healing and new beginnings.

The first season of After Forever is available on Dekkoo now. The second season will premiere in August. Watch the trailer below.

Short Film Spotlight: The Least Untrue

From writer-director Gabriel Shanks, The Least Untrue is a 15-minute drama about two gay men who meet under very unusual circumstances.

Nicholas Michaels stars as Caleb, a young guy with “closeted movie star” good looks who is headed to his boyfriend Ben’s apartment. As Ben is gone, picking up take-out for the two of them, Caleb lets himself inside using a spare key from under the doormat.

He gets a major surprise when the next person to walk through the door is not Ben, but Ethan… Ben’s husband, played by Nathanial P. Claridad.

Realizing they’ve both been duped by the same man, the pair begin to stew in the awkward and sometimes hostile energy of the room. After sharing some basic information – and a violent revenge fantasy involving a particularly spiky paperweight – they begin to discuss Ben’s weakness for good kissers… and that’s when things take an even more unexpected turn.

Watch a short trailer for The Least Untrue below. The full short is now streaming on Dekkoo.

Queer Classics: We Were One Man

Years ahead of its time, We Were One Man is a period piece, originally released in France in 1979, that dared to depict a budding romance between two men.

From director Philippe Vallois, the film tells a story of gay love between two soldiers. Guy (Serge Avedikian), a peasant farmer, is trying to live a simple life during the turmoil of World War II. He lives in a small farmhouse outside a sleepy village in France, where he has almost no friends.

Everything starts to change when he stumbles across Rolf (Piotr Stanislas), an injured German soldier. The simple, naive Guy brings Rolf home and nurses him back to health. While convalescing, a relationship slowly builds between the two men.

Soon the pair are frolicking naked in the woods and swimming in the stream. Thin, boyish Guy is a contrast to the blond, hard bodied Rolf. The passion that stirs between them that becomes hard to deny. As their connection grows deeper, they find a happy escape in one another, content to be sheltered and loved… until the war asserts itself back into their lives.

We Were One Man is now available on Dekkoo.

‘The First Fallen’ is a profoundly moving 1980s period drama from Brazil

Set in 1983 The First Fallen stars Johnny Massaro as a young biologist who returns home from studies abroad and starts to feel that there is something wrong with his body.

This is the beginning of the AIDS crisis – when the first wave of the epidemic hit Brazil. Lives will change, friends will be lost and gained and the future is suddenly uncertain.

With energy, humor and righteous anger, director Rodrigo de Oliveira (the award-winning filmmaker behind Tu Me Manques) creates a drama full of powerful performances, vibrant color and dramatic craft.

Partly entertainment and partly a work of cinematic activism, The First Fallen takes audiences on an emotional journey, offering up a powerful ode to the victims of the AIDS crisis and the community of solidarity and support that formed during those terrifying early days.

Watch the trailer for The First Fallen below. The film is now available on Dekkoo.

Short Film Spotlight: All the Awards I Never Gave You

A 16-minute short film from director Caio Scot and screenwriters Lucas Drummond and Mel Carvalho, All the Awards I Never Gave You takes place entirely in one public restroom during a prestigious awards ceremony in Brazil.

Lucas Drummond and Matheus Campos star in the film as two young actors on the rise. When they unexpectedly reunite in the bathroom, they find that their feelings for one another are far from resolved.

The two promising young men soon try to come to some kind of an understanding while struggling with the fact that they’re forced to keep their relationship a secret from the public and the film industry that employs them.

Scot, Drummond and Carvalho’s previous short film, 2019’s After That Party earned the trio a great reputation on the international film festival circuit – screening at over 60 different events and picking up nine different awards.

Watch the trailer for All the Awards I Never Gave You below. The full short film is now available to stream on Dekkoo.

Body language is used to provocative ends in the sensual gay drama ‘Easy Tiger’

In Easy Tiger, a brand-new gay drama from Belgium, much of the story is told through body language – expressing deep desires in a way that words cannot.

Easy Tiger tells the story of a psychologist whose seemingly perfect city life is upended by an unexpected moment with a client, a deaf man who awakens a desire deep within him.

Their charged encounter has a ripple effect on the psychologist’s life. His inescapable desires for his male client force to look at who he does not want to be in order to find out who he actually is.

French and English are used sparingly throughout the film, but its narrative largely unfolds through International Sign Language as director Karel Tuytschaever explores physicality and the body itself as a storytelling device.

With this unique approach, Easy Tiger is a uniquely inclusive feature that aims to provide, as much as possible, the same experience for both hearing and non or partially-hearing viewers.

Watch the trailer for Easy Tiger below. The film is now streaming on Dekkoo.

Now Available: Subways

In Subways, writer-director-star Dane Harrington Joseph tells the story of a disgruntled young man who is coping with the taboo feelings towards his half-brother and the tragic loss of a young friend to whom he made a special promise.

Unable to properly handle his feelings, he lashes out toward anyone in his path. When a violent encounter with a coworker leaves him forever scarred, he plummets into a depression that only humor, truth and fulfilling his promise to his departed friend can lift him out of.

With a cast of over 100 and music by some of the LGBTQ+ hip hop scene’s most luminary indie artists, Subways, subtitled “A Requiem in Five Stages,” is a moving drama which chronicles one young gay man’s journey through tragic twists, taboo longing and the darkness of depression.

Watch the trailer for Subways below. The film is now available on Dekkoo.