International Film – Page 2 – Discover great gay stories.

‘M/M’ is a provocative, psychosexual drama about desire, identity and obsession

Matthew (Antoine Lahaie), a young Canadian, has just moved to Berlin. He’s arrived looking to make a fresh start, but feels the isolation of living in a strange, new city.

When he meets the alluring Matthias (Nicolas Maxim Endlicher), he finds himself completely entranced. Beautiful and charismatic, Matthias is everything Matthew wants to be.

Soon Matthew’s interest escalates, becoming a full-blown obsession. He begins to transform himself to embody the object of his desire. When Matthias gets into a motorcycle accident, the opportunity seems too perfect. Matthew does everything he can to literally become Matthias and usurp his life.

While in a coma in the hospital, Matthias’ waking life, his dreams and his memories all begin to blur. It becomes impossible to tell where reality ends and the artificial begins.

A surreal riff on Single White Female from provocative filmmaker Drew Lint, M/M employs striking visuals to tell an entrancing and unnerving story about loneliness, narcissism and queer psycho-sexual obsession.

Watch the trailer for M/M below. The film is now streaming on Dekkoo.

The lead actors bare it all in the experimental, sexually-charged romantic drama ‘He Loves Me’

One young gay couple’s fragile relationship is put under a microscope in director Konstantinos Menelaou’s experimental, sexually explicit romantic drama He Loves Me.

Having navigated numerous ups-and-downs – from simple arguments to major infidelities – the unnamed couple travel to a remote Greek beach where they attempt to commune with nature and restore the heart and sexual spark of their relationship.

With exquisite cinematography and almost no dialog aside from dreamy, poetic voice-over, He Loves Me straddles a thin line between narrative drama and cinematic art piece.

Lead actors Hermes Pittakos and Sanuye Shoteka bare both their bodies and souls for this romantic, voyeuristic and sexually explicit rumination on modern gay love.

Watch the trailer for He Loves Me below. The film is now streaming on Dekkoo.

Short Film Spotlight: My Name is Love

Love and Sebastian (Adam Lundgren and Jonas Rimeika) meet each other by chance during a romantic summer night in Sweden.

Though the two men share the same secret, their encounter is going to cause severe consequences for both of them as their innocent flirtation soon turns into a dangerous liaison.

From award-winning Swedish filmmaker David Färdmar, the director behind Are We Lost Forever and No More We, both of which are also currently available on Dekkoo, My Name is Love is an unsparing 20-minute short film explores the dark side of anonymous sex.

Originally released in 2008, the film screened at LGBTQ+ film festivals all around the globe and earned numerous awards. It also earned controversy over its hard-hitting subject matter. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.

Watch a clip from My Name is Love below. The short film is now available on Dekkoo.

A budding young writer attempts to shake off the torment of lost love in the Canadian drama ‘Seek’

A homegrown feature film from Canadian first-time director Eric Henry, Seek centers around Evan (Adrian Shepherd-Gawinski), a shy young journalist with two dreams: to become a staff writer at a newspaper and to reconnect with the hunky model he can’t get out of his head.

Evan’s big break comes when the editor of Toronto’s leading newspaper hires him to write a feature story about the characters that populate the town’s nightlife. Enter Hunter (Ryan Fisher), the city’s top gay party promoter, who agrees to give Evan a behind-the-scenes look at the world of lights, music, sexy guys and talented drag performers.

But as Evan moves closer to his dreams, he is unable to see Hunter’s true motivation for helping Evan with his story.

Featuring an alluring local Toronto cast, Seek explores the diversity of desire and the mistake people make when they don’t see the beauty standing right in front of them.

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

Dekkoo Exclusive: Some Nights I Feel Like Walking

A long night of chance, camaraderie, and cruising plays out in Some Nights I Feel Like Walking, a sexually-charged coming-of-age drama from Filipino director Petersen Vargas.

Set in a bustling corner of Manila where the nights are sleepless and desire hangs in the thick, humid air, the film follows Uno (Jomari Angeles), a twinky street hustler, and Zion (Miguel Odron), a rich teen looking for a new home. The two share a brief encounter in a bus terminal, but end up going their separate ways.

Two years later, the young men meet again as hustlers booked by the same client. Captivated by the allure of Uno and his ragtag band of brothers, who look out for each other and make a quick buck when they can, Zion thinks he may have finally found his new chosen family, until the night takes a tragic turn that will change the course of their lives forever.

With kinetic camera work that glides across grimy, intimate spaces, Some Nights I Feel Like Walking draws viewers into a hypnotic cinematic experience, telling a tender story about queer belonging while never shying away from the gritty realities of life on the streets.

Watch the trailer for Some Nights I Feel Like Walking below. The film is now streaming exclusively on Dekkoo.

Dekkoo Exclusive: A Night Like This

A Night Like This, the charming feature debut from director Liam Calvert, follows two seemingly mismatched men who cross paths on a chilly Christmas eve in London.

Lead actors Alexander Lincoln (star of In From The Side) and Jack Brett Anderson share a palpable chemistry as Oliver, a brash British entrepreneur, and Lukas, a struggling German actor.

Both out alone at the pub, drowning their respective sorrows, the two men decide to spend the night out together after an initially awkward meeting. What follows is a revelatory evening of bar-hopping, deep discussions and uncomfortable truths as these potential young lovers not only get to know each other but come to a better understanding of themselves in the process.

Evoking the endearing, chatty charm of Before Sunrise and Weekend, A Night Like This explores the ways opposites attract – and how human connection can provide much needed warmth on an otherwise cold winter night.

Watch the trailer for A Night Like This below. This brand-new Dekkoo Exclusive is now available!

A tragic incident alters the life of a young dancer in the powerful gay drama ‘Why Not You’

Thomas Prenn stars in the stirring drama Why Not You as Mario, a sensitive young dancer who finds difficulty in the day-to-day life of his small Italian village. At a local festival, he reunites with Lenz (Noah Saavedra), a former childhood friend who left town long ago.

Mario quickly becomes fixated on Lenz, who is now living out his dreams as an actor in Rome. Inspired, Mario decides to follow his friend to the Italian capital. When they meet in a gay bar, the night takes a tragic turn. Escaping unharmed, Mario’s life will be forever altered by the incident and the loss that follows.

The debut feature of writer-director Evi Romen, Why Not You is a challenging character drama, following a disoriented young man who senses that he must find a place for himself in an often violent and unforgiving world.

Watch the trailer for Why Not You below. The film is now streaming on Dekkoo.

Short Film Spotlight: Utopia

Thomas and Julien, two boys from different social backgrounds, decide to meet in person after first connecting over the internet. Together, the pair embark on a dreamy adventure through the Parisian suburbs.

Lost among architectural projects, they begin an on-going conversation about the concept of utopia, and begin to nourish ideas about what their own personal utopia might look like.

Lead actors Pierre Elliott and Romain Poli deliver tender performances as two romantic young men who form a much-needed connection in this 22-minute short film from director Manfred Rott, originally released in 2012 to great acclaim at queer film festivals around the globe.

Gorgeously shot on 16 millimeter black and white film, Utopia is quietly moving and feels timeless in both vision and theme.

Watch a teaser trailer for Utopia below. The short film is now available on Dekkoo.

‘Block Pass’ is a sensitive, deeply felt and quietly profound queer motocross drama

A breathtaking drama that was shown during the Critics Week at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Queer Palm award, Block Pass, director Antoine Chevrollier’s first feature-length film, explores masculinity and sexuality in rural France.

Sayyid El Alami and Amaury Foucher star as Willy and Jojo, best friends who share a joint passion for motorcycles. Jojo is a skillful young driver who is well on his way to becoming famous in the local racing scene while Willy is there primarily for moral support, helping his closest friend to live his dream.

When Jojo’s secret desires are revealed, his fast track to fame begins to crumble. The two friends soon find themselves embarking on a rocky journey that neither of them wanted while navigating grief, toxic masculinity and unspoken desires along the way.

Sensitive, deeply felt, quietly profound and featuring impressively authentic performances from the young ensemble cast, Block Pass is a queer coming-of-age sports drama that establishes Antoine Chevrollier as a notable up-and-coming filmmaker.

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

Short Film Spotlight: One Day This Kid

As told by filmmaker Alexander Farah through a deftly composed array of small yet pivotal moments, the 17-minute short One Day This Kid follows a first-generation Afghan-Canadian man as he struggles to come to terms with being gay against the disapproval of his immigrant parents and takes steps toward establishing an identity of his own under his father’s shadow.

Inspired by the work of renowned artist David Wojnarowicz, the film uses gorgeous cinematography and emotional precision to tell the story of one gay boy growing up in a society that rejects him at all costs.

Delicate and poised, yet deeply powerful, this is the kind of heart-wrenching storytelling that should not be missed. Marking Farah as a filmmaker to watch, the film won the Narrative Short Competition at the 2025 South by Southwest Film Festival and has earned great acclaim at some of the world’s most prestigious cinema forums, including TIFF, the AFI Fest, Slamdance, Festival du Nouveau Cinema and many more.

Watch a teaser trailer for One Day This Kid below. The short film is now streaming on Dekkoo.