Renato Turnes

How can bodies and lives of LGBTQIA+ people be shown so that everyone in the city will see?

Mocinha and Madalena, a lesbian couple, invite a couple of friends to a farewell dinner

Renê, 35, a receptionist at a hotel during the night and supplements his income by making nozzles to pay a pension for his 6-year-old son. Copi, 41, is an amateur, Argentinian, transvestite artist who makes her living on the night of Balneário Camboriú. The path of the must crosses and an unlikely friendship is born as quickly as it is interrupted.

In Copacabana, lesbian photographer Elvis is hired to deliver pizzas in the night shift on her motorcycle. Her first assignment is a delivery to the transgender hairdresser Lady Madonna, whom she falls in love with.

A literature teacher moving to Portugal decides to personally return her last five books to their original gifters, each containing special dedications.

Shortly after her honeymoon Alicia contracts an inexplicable illness, while her husband Jordan bear witness seemingly indifferent. Something hidden is driving her insane. The disease makes the young woman mix reality with gruesome hallucinations.

Boys on Film presents ten encounters from across the globe, where the dangerous allure of a risky attraction yields emotional results — proving that the age-old adage of taking the plunge is as relevant — and sexy — as ever before. The 10 short films are: My Uncle's Friend [O Amigo do Meu Tio] (2021); Budapest, Closed City [Budapest, zárt város] (2021); Eden (2020); Chaperone (2022); Break Me [Knus meg] (2018); By His Will [שעשני כרצונו] (2021); Red Ants Bite (2019); Jim (2022); Hornbeam (2022); Too Rough (2022).