Curious Thing

Directed by Alain Hain

Explores the evolving friendship between Jared and Sam, testing boundaries and challenging their perceptions of love, sexuality, and connection.
Curious Thing is an inventive gay short film that blends documentary testimony with a fictional story about a closeted man falling for his straight friend. Alain Hain uses the interview audio cleverly, giving familiar unrequited longing a more truthful emotional texture. The result is tender, bittersweet and impressively economical.

Curious Thing

Directed by Alain Hain

Explores the evolving friendship between Jared and Sam, testing boundaries and challenging their perceptions of love, sexuality, and connection.

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Curious Thing is an inventive gay short film that blends documentary testimony with a fictional story about a closeted man falling for his straight friend. Alain Hain uses the interview audio cleverly, giving familiar unrequited longing a more truthful emotional texture. The result is tender, bittersweet and impressively economical.