Too Close. Shorts

Boys in the Water
Les garçons dans l’eau

2023 / France / drama

Directed by Pawel Thomas Larue
Cast: Sasha Martelli, Ottman Iram
French, with English and Lithuanian subtitles, 40 min

End of summer on the Breton coast. Oscar invites his group of friends to spend a week’s vacation at his grandparents’ house. He hasn’t been back to his childhood home for years – not since he came out as a trans boy. On the beach, the gang meets Malo, a handsome local guy, also trans. The story is about their meeting, which will turn everything upside down.

Life in Canada
La vie au Canada

2023 / France / comedy

Directed by Frédéric Rosset
Cast: Allisson Chassagne, Sarah Zapata, Sébastien Chassagne
French, with English and Lithuanian subtitles, 20 min

Sarah goes to the weekend of her parents’ anniversary accompanied by Hermione, 10 years old, the daughter of her partner. But the absence of this last one does not delay to raise the interrogations.

The Night Practice
Antrenamentul de Noapte

2023 / Romania / horror

Directed by Bogdan Alecsandru
Cast: Andrei Giurgea, Tiberius Zavelea
Romanian, with English and Lithuanian subtitles, 16 min

The new goalkeeper in a junior soccer team is greeted with hostility by the other boys. Robert, the only friendly teammate, develops an obsession with him. While the two grow closer, Robert reveals his strange lust for human blood.

Sucker’s Death
Śmierć frajera

2024 / Poland / drama

Directed by Krzysztof Grudziński
Cast: Julian Świeżewski, Grzegorz Palkowski
Polish, English and Lithuanian subtitles, 20 min

In a small town somewhere in Poland, “Young” a member of a nationalist militant group, is coerced into planting a bomb at an LGBT rally in Warsaw. Unbeknownst to him, his own brother is participating in the demonstration as a gay individual. The entire situation takes an unexpected turn with the intervention of the two brothers’ mother. “Young” finds himself facing a profound dilemma.