Yann Gonzalez

A sexual reverie unfolds over the course of one ethereal night. Characters wander through an erotic maze of love and lust, blurring the lines between wet dream and lucid nightmare as a macabre, erotic stage performance sends a ripple of lustful desires through its audience and performers.

16th century: After a period overseas in the Antarctic France, Jean Aurand finds refuge as a servant in the house of French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, where a series of fantastical events change the lives of these two men forever.

After wandering a ruined city for years in search of food and shelter, two siblings find their way into one of the last remaining buildings. Inside, they find a man who will make them a dangerous offer to survive the outside world.

A girl, a boy, a ghost. Some pop music and noisy rock. Meanwhile, youth keeps fading away.

In the summer of 1979, gay porn producer Anne sets out to film her most ambitious film yet, but her actors are picked off, one by one, by a mysterious killer.

Nawojka, 20, dreams of escaping her harsh life working at the family farm. Under the influence of the free-spirited Sandra, Naw experiences trance-like episodes and strange powers, just like her dead mother before her…

An unusual bandit trio spends autumn in a village by Lake Maggiore. In their holiday apartment they create a parallel world, which little reflects their surroundings. As the pressures of the outside world begin to weigh in on them, they kidnap a tourist in order to give their lives a purpose.

November 1989: in Brussels, Victor is looking for Elina, his summer love who mysteriously vanished. He meets Damian, an enlightened English journalist, and Rosie, a punkish Dutch barmaid. Together, they dive into the night, driven by the New Beat fever.

Actor and director Jacques Nolot opens up to the camera about his desires, doubts, anxieties… and of what fulfils him in life as much as it connects him with death. Between dreams and memory, everything seems to gradually crumble.

Says Gonzalez: "I remember shooting at dusk in Antibes, my hometown, revisiting all the places I've been while I was a teenage night paperboy. Then I edited this footage with flashes of my corpus' disturbing images. But I see it today as a bad amateur nightmare haunted by the fear of sex and vaguely misogynistic... Pretty good musical choice though: the Coil track I used is soooo intense."

Around midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will be The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen.

I wake up gagged, hands and feet tied. I can see the clouds go by through the window. I'm in the back seat of a car. Who is this man driving? And where is he taking me?

In the darkness of their respective rooms, two girls, in love with one another, converse on the Internet. But something is broken.

Passionate by Japanese pop culture, Fleur returns to her hometown to announce some big news to her family: she's moving to Tokyo. But there, no one has ever supported Fleur during her transition. Except for her cousin Noé who could become the ally she needs.

Dead city. Foggy night. A saxophone is playing. Lust is lurking.

A suburb housing. Two girls on the phone are looking for each other but never succeed to meet. One of them vanishes.

User LonerWolf58 is part of the incel community. They consider themselves as involuntary celibate. His videos have been reported for violent and terrorist content. I have to make him disappear from the net.

A party at night. Some teenagers dance and fall in love as if it was the first and the last time.

Night. Kisses. A consumed heart.

A vibrant anthology of LGBTQ+ short films and music videos that delve into the complexities of youth, identity, and desire. This diverse collection showcases a range of cinematic voices—both emerging and established—exploring the exhilaration, vulnerability, and confusion of coming-of-age through stories that celebrate queer love, self-discovery, and the breaking of societal boundaries. Blending narrative shorts, experimental visuals, and music-driven pieces, the anthology offers an evocative, multifaceted portrait of innocence transformed.