Men’s Shorts: Connection, Connecting, and Connected

Troy
Directed by Mike Donahue (2022, USA, 16 min.).

Troy has loud sex. Troy has loud sex twenty-four seven. Troy shares a wall with Thea and Charlie. Troy is ruining their lives—or is he saving them? A darkly comedic tale of New York neighbors, the ways our lives become interwoven with the lives of strangers, and the unexpected consequences of unasked-for intimacy.

Sax
Directed by Andrew Van Heusden (2022, USA, 14 min.).

A college saxophone player prepares to audition for a spot in an elite quartet, but things hit a flat note when he discovers his rival also wants the spot.

The Dress Code
Directed by Rikard Westman (2022, Sweden, 3 mins.). Swedish with English subtitles.

What happens when a lonely man’s advertisment for company demands something very…particular?

Coming Out 
Directed By Robbie Ryde and Mathew Young (2023, USA, 11 min.).

Charlie and Mitch arrive at Charlie’s mother’s home to come out of the closet as stoners. But Charlie's fear of being exiled drags out the process—until somebody is caught with their pants down.

Fanatic
Directed by Taran Killam (2022, USA, 17 min.).

Charlie and Gerald reunite their failed 2000s boy band for a competition offering prize money that could remedy both of their financial woes. What could go wrong?

Reflections
Directed by Kane Kwik (2022 Spain, 11 min.).

The good and bad parts about coming out.

Pipes
Directed by Kilian Feusi, Jessica Meier, and Sujanth Ravichandran (2022, Switzerland, 4 min.). No dialogue.

Bob the plumber is hired to fix a broken pipe. To his surprise, the job is at a gay fetish club.

Gods of the Supermarket
Directed by Alberto Gonzalez Morales (2022, Switzerland, 8 min.). English and French with French subtitles.

In times of the body positivity movement, this film pays tribute to the male body, with which the director has a love-hate relationship. Both captivating and frustrating, this ideal body represents an unreachable fantasy.

Cock N’ Bull 3
Directed by Nathan Adloff (2022, USA, 24 min.).

Flight attendants Chris and Wes instigate twisted mile-high games with their passengers, leading to the unimaginable—a poisoned pilot and an emergency landing.