The Male Gaze Film Series - Gay Films Matter

The Male Gaze: Reality Bites

2025 Compilation

There exists a line between resistance and satisfaction, faith and sin, pleasure and danger. These six short films explore how in all our lives, there exists the temptation to cross that line.

The Male Gaze: Breaking Dawn

2025 Compilation

5 short film from France, Switzerland, Brazil and Romania. Reality takes an unexpected detour, and things turn out a little differently when sunrise comes.

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The Male Gaze: Courage Under Fire

2026 Compilation

Whether it's finding the strength to speak truth to power, making a decision that will mark you as an outsider, or taking a risk that will expose a secret - these men and boys prove that sometimes courage is not learned. It is an instinct. A compilation of 5 gay short films.

The Male Gaze: Secrets and Lies

2025 Compilation

Escaping school bullies in Jerusalem, reconnecting with Dad in Indonesia, a missing baby at a drag show in Taiwan. All around the world, the language of telling lies and keeping secrets is common practice, but sometimes people's reasons for doing so may surprise you.

The Male Gaze: Three’s Company

2021 Compilation

Six different gay relationships face the dilemma of having a third party and the group dymanics at play.

The Male Gaze: The Boy Is Mine

2020 Compilation

A variety of characters throw caution to the wind and take their chances on a fleeting moment.

The Male Gaze: The Heat of the Night

2019 Compilation

Six stories about late-night confessions, intimacy for sale, high-speed hookups and full moon frisson cause temperatures to rise.

The Male Gaze: First Kiss

2018 Compilation

From regret to introspection, a compilation of festival award-winning short films that look at relationships between men.

The Male Gaze: Strikers & Defenders

2020 Compilation

Exploring how rivalry between teams can spill over into teacher-pupil relationships, high school crushes and brotherly compassion.

The Male Gaze: Wandering Hearts

2026 Compilation

Are we destined to make the same mistakes in life? Is my teacher attracted to me? Is this more than just a one-night stand? Will my family forgive me? What does the future hold? For these lost souls questioning their paths in life, there are a multitude of answers. A collection of 6 short films.

The Male Gaze: Naughty Boys

2026 Compilation

Bad behavior travels from the bedroom to the classroom to the beach in these six short films that follow wayward boys and men for whom mischief and sexuality go hand in hand.

The Male Gaze: Wild Youth

2026 Compilation

In these five gay short films from Mexico, France, Italy and Israel, human nature can reveal that there are forces within us that are either challenged by - or reflected in - the environments and people that surround us.

The Male Gaze: Hide and Seek

2021 Compilation

Five short films prove that once desire is ignited, nothing stays the same. In London, a one-night-stand between two strangers becomes something more. Two old friends play master and submissive at an Italian beach.

The Male Gaze: Celluloid Dreams

2021 Compilation

A compilation of 7 timeless stories portrays the nature of gay relationships between men from the 1980s to the present.

The Male Gaze: Shadows on Skin

2023 Compilation

From a swimming pool in Brazil to the back seat of a car in Germany via an apartment in the early hours of the morning where three men dance to the beat of wild passions, here are four stories about the marks that can be left when skin touches skin.

The Male Gaze: Fleeting Glances

2022 Compilation

A compilation of 7 short films that delve into the different perspectives of male sexuality.

The Male Gaze: Boy Trouble

2024 Compilation

Four countries, four men - and four encounters that will call into question everything about themselves they thought they were sure of. Just when you thought things couldn't get any more complicated, along comes a boy to add a fresh perspective.

The Male Gaze: A Better Tomorrow

2023 Compilation

Go on an enriching journey from Mexico to Spain, onto Austria and then to China via Greece in these five moving short films where gay men overcome various obstacles in accepting who they are, and where they are going - things can only get better.

The Male Gaze: Bitter Sweet

2024 Compilation

Take a trip on the wild side with these six daring short films from Mexico, Portugal, Brazil, Spain and France that uncover the power of nature and mysticism, suffocating family ties, the pain of memory, and the thrill of what's to come.

The Male Gaze: French Connection

2024 Compilation

Five stories from France about a love left unsaid on the soccer field, a third invite to an intimate chat, a fast-approaching farewell, and a friendship that evolves into something complicated.

The Male Gaze: Risk Appeal

2024 Compilation

Portrays a sizzling collection of short films about the choices we make or don't make and the risks we accept or have thrust upon us.

The Male Gaze: Heavenly Creatures

2025 Compilation

Witness how the power of God works in mysterious ways. Religion can be a man's prison, but sometimes it can set him free. A compilation of 4 short films.

The Male Gaze: Nocturnal Instincts

2021 Compilation

Five award-winning short films from across the globe that delve into heart-pumping escapades varying from the intimate to the ultra-violent. The night has never looked so inviting.