- Overview
Léto, a young trans and gay man, lives in a small, social housing apartment near Tours. During the day, he kills boredom on his phone from the ticket booth of a movie theater on its last legs. But where he's looking for feelings, he's only offered sex. So at night, he flees disillusionment by heading for the stars. The roof of his high-rise building is like his moped: a refuge, an escape. However, one morning, the parking lot of an ice rink becomes the setting for a life-changing encounter when he comes face to face with Hamza, a solitary employee with an enigmatic charm. The emotional disturbance is immediate. With all due respect to the scoundrels!
- Release Date
01 August 2020
- DirectingSarah Al Atassi
- Budget
$0.00
- Revenue
$0.00
- Stars
Videos
User Reviews
See moreCinemaSerf
10 August 2023
This packs quite a lot into twenty-five minutes. "Léto" (Sohan Pague) is an ostensibly gay lad living in a fairly rough French housing estate. He hooks up, in the dark, now and again and is bullied pretty relentlessly by the homophobic thugs who live nearby. He has another secret though - that's one we gradually assume rather than are told about - and that's where this rather falls down. You have to watch for yourself to see what I mean, but the rest of the film really would have benefitted from a clearer statement of identity so we could better understand just how "Léto" was coming to terms with his complicated sexuality. The photography has an intensity to it that could be intrusive, but isn't - it's quite engaging as we share a lifestyle that is futile and unrewarding until, well, "Hamza" (Issa Al Issa) appears working at the car park by the local ice rink, and things take what might just be a turn for the better. Pague is quite effective here, and as we fill in the gaps ourselves, the story starts to pan out nicely and offering us a "work in progress" ending. Certainly worth a watch.
More Like This
Nowhere
"Nowhere" is a drama about Adrian and Sebastian, a Colombia couple living together in New York City. When Sebastian is faced with immigration...
See more
Florence
Florence, a young vulnerable and exhausted stripper from Amsterdam melts down and deals with duality within her consciousness that ultimately...
See more
Capricho
8-year-old Nuria has a perfect plan: for her father to fall in love again. What she has not taken into account is that love is not so easy to find.
See more
Two Sisters
Rouge et Blanche, two happy twin sisters, live in an arid plain on the edge of a hostile forest they are afraid to approach. The danger comes from...
See more
Light Light Light
Mariia visits her childhood home and reminisces about the summer of 1986, when a girl named Mimi arrived in the small village and filled the life...
See more
Silence In The Wind
When Biju goes against the will of the parents to get married, a secret is revealed - an identity that is borderline taboo and repugnant in his...
See more
Jurassic Punk
In 1976, punk rocker Danny Brooklyn was kicked out of his own band. 45 years later, he's crashing the reunion.
See more
The Storm
Léo fantasizes about his weather forecaster. His obsession may be realized when he meets Luca. The night they spend together will take them through...
See more
Paradise Hotel
Pierr is a young gay dress maker who lives with his younger brother in a gay porn cinema. He works in a small textile factory in order to save up...
See more
The Way He Looks
Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best...
See more
Man in Phone
A Japanese man mysteriously wakes up inside of his phone and is forced to confront the destruction his addiction to technology has wreaked on his...
See more
The Untouchable
A young woman, who seems to be upset, holding up the traffic in the middle of a highway. The scene gets more intense when police petrol arrives...
See more
Pornographer - Spring Life
This story takes place about 2 and half years after their first encounter. Kijima moved from Tokyo to his parents' house where his sister and her...
See more
Walk on Water
Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be...
See more