Category: Drama

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.

Jason T. Gaffney’s ‘Out of Body’ is a wildly inventive supernatural gay romance

From writer, director, actor and overall Dekkoo-favorite Jason T. Gaffney and co-writer Suzanne Brockmann comes the new supernatural comedy-drama Out of Body.

Malcolm (Kevin Held) has always had feelings for his best friend Henry (Gaffney), but it’s going to take some extreme measures to bring those feelings out into the open.

When a demon escapes from an orb that’s been imprisoning him, he takes possession of Malcolm’s body, leaving his spirit in limbo. As Henry is the only person who can communicate with Malcolm’s lost soul, the two embark on a valiant quest to get Malcolm’s body back, vanquish evil and maybe even find love along the way.

Out of Body is a wildly inventive and fast-paced film that gleefully upends the traditional gay romance.

Watch the trailer for Out of Body below. The film is now available to stream on Dekkoo. Jason T. Gaffney’s other new project, the Dekkoo-original comedy series Marriage of Inconvenience, is also available now.

Season One of the Dekkoo-original series ‘Peckham Mix’ is now available

In the new UK-based Dekkoo-original series Peckham Mix, we quickly learn that crime doesn’t pay… but maybe revenge does?

Josh’s life has been in freefall. His fiancé, Spencer, recently dumped him for a new guy who drives a fancy car, shattering all of Josh’s hopes and dreams for their future together. Devastated, he made an attempt to take his own life.

Now all patched up, he’s reluctantly looking for a new place to live. He finds a seemingly acceptable situation with Rex and Connor, a mysterious couple who are in search of a new roommate after their last one was caught stealing cars.

As the new trio get to know one another, Josh becomes fascinated by his new roommates’ bizarre 1:00 AM excursions. Encouraged to live a little and enjoy the sweet taste of revenge, Josh joins them on one of their outings, hoping to change his life for the better. The night, however, proves far more exciting – and dangerous – than he ever could have imagined.

Watch the trailer for Peckham Mix below and catch up on all the crazy criminal activity in this brand-new, four-episode Dekkoo-original series.