Roller Coaster

A 13-year-old refugee from Afghanistan living in an emergency shelter in Germany joins a Christian boys' choir to save his father who was left stranded in Hungary, and clashes with the strict choir master.

Felix is secretly in love with Ralph. This doesn't seem to be the biggest problem. But Felix is 15 and Ralph his 34 years old soccer coach. They meet every day in an ambush. One day Felix mother finds out and Ralph has to decide between feeling and reason.

If you can not see the forest for the trees, life sometimes seems like a postcard.

Seven heart-rending short films, seven approaches to a special relationship: When it comes to his mother, every gay man will immediately think of Sunday roasts, fresh laundry and hidden porn magazines, of the warmth of the nest and pubertal rebellion, of a mixture of intimate connection and hidden feelings, complicity and emancipation. Coming out (Mum, I have to tell you something...) is just one of many facets. But even if you can talk to her about everything - there are some things Mama shouldn't know... With the films: - Peking Turkey (CA) 2006 13 minutes - Herzhaft (DE) 2006, 13 minutes - HitchCocked (USA) 2006, 8 minutes - Implicación (ES) 2004, 6 minutes - Kali Ma (USA) 2007, 14 minutes - Mors lille Ole (SE) 2003, 14 minutes - Bonus film: Trevor (USA) 1994, 19 minutes