Stéphane Galas

A series of shorts about the AIDS crisis, homosexuality, and the reinvention of love in such conditions.

Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for the tale of a lesbian teen trying to come out to her parents, to a gay man who shocks his lover by claiming to be pregnant, to another man's reminiscence of a brief affair with an HIV-positive man.

A lonely man talks to his camcorder and tells it everything he'd have liked to do if he hadn't fallen ill.

Teenager Luc lives with his mother Liliane and his little brother Paul in Paris, has to cope with the fact that his mother is a prostitute and practically raise his brother alone. Luc is disillusioned. One day, little Paul wants to phone his grandmother in Nord-pas-de-Calais, one thing leads to another and suddenly the whole family finds themselves in a holiday in northern France. For Liliane it means a reunion with her mother, for Luc and Paul the reunion with their grandmother. And then someday on the beach Luc gets to know Manuel who teaches him lessons in love, life, fun, teenagerhood and friendship.

Through the joys and difficulties of some of its most emblematic protagonists, Unique en son genre offers to discover the life of La Station, a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex center created in Strasbourg and open to the whole Alsace region.