Skin To Skin Talks / Dir. Pradeep Mahadeshwar / Ireland / 2023 / 12m “The dark skin alien landed in the unknown, unfamiliar and unique landscape from the infinite darkness…” Completed as part of the artist’s residency at IMMA, Skin To Skin Talks explores themes of alienation, otherness and outsiderness using abstract imagery, prose and sensation-invoking techniques to reflect on the intersections of race and sexuality. Behind My Drag Queen / Dir. Leonardo Oliveira / Ireland / 2023 / 14m This short documentary tells the story of Chantelle Perez, a Brazilian drag queen who discovered a new life for herself in Ireland through the art of drag. Three Wishes / Dir. Will McConnell / Ireland / 2022 / 10m Three teenagers, wandering the streets of Belfast at night, ask themselves what they would do if they had three magic wishes. Daisy: Prophet of the Apocalypse / Dir. Venus Patel / Ireland / 2023 / 20m A radical trans street preacher and her followers prophecy the end of the world with salvation only for those who denounce heterosexuality. Men must be women! Women must be men! All sexual intercourse must be interracial! PRAISE HER! Late Bloomers / Dir. Sam Ahern / Ireland / 2023 / 9m Sue and Ellie share an unspoken love that is gradually transforming into something much deeper, sweeter and more meaningful. Often when we are the ones closest to the truth, we are the very last people to see it. New Threads / Dir. Elspeth Vischer / Ireland / 2023 / 6m Imaginative and informative, New Threads combines archival and contemporary footage of Belfast with first-hand accounts of lesbian lives in the Troubles to imagine invisible queer women in the light of day. Portaloo / Dir. Michael David McKernan / Ireland / 2023 / 9m In the queue for portaloos at a music festival, two young women discover that the electric feelings between them could be more than just friendship.
GAZE returns to Cork LGBT+ Pride Festival with a selection of our most heartwarming and eye-opening queer cinema. Our feature festival pick this year is Corey Sherman’s Big Boys, one of the most lovable, smart and authentic gay comedies in years. Following fat queer kid Jamie (Isaac Krasner) on a supremely awkward and enlightening camping trip as he grapples with a newfound attraction to his cousin’s boyfriend, Big Boys is a coming-of-age comedy sure to delight gays of all shapes and sizes. There’s a delightfully diverse mix in our Irish shorts selection with rekindled romances and tender first loves, a reality-bending odyssey into a new queer religion, and experimental documentaries bringing marginalised voices to the forefront of Irish queer culture. Featuring two short films screened by our 2024 partners Queer Spectrum Film Festival—Skin to Skin Talks and Daisy: Prophet of the Apocalypse — this block brings some big and beautiful ideas about Ireland’s forgotten past, challenging present, and fantastical future.
BIG BOYS Run Length: 1hr 30m Country: USA Year: 2024
Director: Corey Sherman Writer: Corey Sherman Producer: Connor Capetillo, Corey Sherman, Allison Tate You will smile, you will cry, you will laugh, you will dance in your seat - you will fall in love with Big Boys. Cory Sherman’s coming-of-age tale is simply one of the most lovable, smart and authentic gay comedies in years. Excited 14-year-old Jamie heads out for a camping weekend with his pain-in-the-ass brother Will and their cool beloved older cousin Allie. While Will tries to cajole Jamie to double date the girls from the campsite, Jamie has become oddly transfixed by Allie’s kind, handsome and bear-ish boyfriend, Dan. A confusing and supremely awkward trip unfolds as Jamie grapples with this newfound attraction and the realisation it hints at. The clumsiness of teenage desire hits perfectly home throughout this film. The script is a dream and this is most definitely a story where audiences laugh with the fat queer kid, not at them. The central performance by Isaac Krasner as a completely adorable Jamie needs all of the trophies.
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