Gay Films with a Rural Setting

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.

Keep Coming Back

2025 Drama

Emilio is not prepared, after the death of his mother, to manage a cursed inheritance, the promiscuity of his desires and the discovery of a love. At 18 years old, he will be puzzled when he realizes that fate sometimes hangs on something as fragile as the flight of a dove.

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Take Me Home

2025 Drama

Elias has always felt out of place. When he strikes up an unlikely bond with classmate Raphael, the simple act of being seen and understood reshapes his world and gives him his first taste of what home can be.

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Stand By Me

2025 Drama

In Brazil, a summer day shared by two best friends leads to a confession that challenges the boundaries of their friendship.

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Fetish Eyes

2016 Drama

A young Australian man experiences homoerotic attraction that consumes his world.

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History of Other Touches

2016 Drama

An encounter between two young men. One of them doesn't know it's the last time.

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Horseshoe Theory

2017 Comedy, Romance

A weapons deal between a white supremacist and a Islamic terrorist blossoms into more.

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Debut

2018 Drama

A young Croatian farmer dreams of becoming a professional football star. But before pursuing his ambition on the pitch, he must first face the truth about who he really is.

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Odd Bird

2019 Drama

Raised on a conservative ranch, Clark escaped into a comic where an odd bird becomes a hero. Now nineteen, a publisher wants the manuscript, sending him back home to face his mother and the truth he has never said out loud.

Bleed Like Me

2025 Drama

After a fatally botched robbery, would-be indie filmmakers - and long-standing gay frenemies - Jesse and Butch hole up at a house in the SoCal desert to figure out their next move.

Ladybug

2024 Horror

A young artist is stalked at his remote cabin by a killer who murdered his supernatural guest.

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The Mustache

2011 Drama

A young man awakens naked in a field, only to discover his cherished mustache has been stolen. Determined to reclaim it, he embarks on a search for the thief.

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Emmanuel In The Middle of The Desert

2019 Documentary

When pink nail polish chips away from digging in the soil, how can one experience a homosexuality that is both radical and rural? How can sexuality be reinvented in the middle of a desert?

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My Thoughts Exactly

2022 Drama

A day in the lives of two gay men.

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The Motorcycle

2025 Drama

During a sweltering summer in southern Italy, shy Luca is drawn to Valerio, an older boy obsessed with motorcycles. Their secret meetings fuel a desire that turns dangerous, forcing Luca to confront the thin line between attraction and harm.

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Big Boys Don’t Cry

2025 Drama

A scorching summer in a small village near Marseille. After a three-year absence, Lucas and his group of friends welcome back their best friend Hicham. This eagerly-awaited return quickly arouses conflicting emotions in the gang, but above all, new hopes in Lucas.

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RAT!

2024 Comedy, Horror

When a disgruntled music journalist accuses a global pop star of queerbaiting, the singer's devoted fans descend on his remote cabin to wreak havoc and seek retribution.

The One You Feed

2020 Drama, Thriller

An injured stranger wakes in a remote, timeworn house, tended to by a man and woman whose strange behavior suggests they’re anything but ordinary.

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High Rocks

2017 Drama

Two lifelong best friends are interrupted by an outgoing hiker, who tags along uninvited. A dynamic competition for attention proceeds and lifelong secrets surface.

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Marrow

2013 Drama

Camilo and his boyfriend embark on a trip that challenges their seemingly incompatible natures. As they venture into the Brazilian southeast, Camilo discovers an unexpected allure in the region's breathtaking landscapes.

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Before You Go

2022 Romance

Daniel and his best friend Franco go camping in Patagonia, but after losing their gear to a cliffside fall, they take shelter in an empty cabin. As they spend their last days together before college pulls them apart, Daniel struggles with unspoken feelings for Franco. A shared moment of vulnerability draws them closer, but just as the tension between them peaks, reality abruptly interrupts, leaving their bond forever altered.

On the Fringe of Wild

2021 Drama, Romance

A romance between two teenage boys, set in a small Ontario town, where love does not win, but the surviving players grow to accept themselves as members of the LGBTQ+ community.

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The Wash

2025 Documentary

In the open desert of Southern California, at a gay cruising ground, the film uncovers fragments of queer history, myth, and rumor, piecing together a shifting landscape of memory and desire.

COMING SOON

On the Sea

2025 Drama, Romance

Jack, a lifelong fisherman in North Wales, expects his son Tom to follow the family trade, but Tom’s refusal stirs tension at home. When a traveling deckhand, Daniel, reveals his feelings for Jack, he faces an impossible choice between duty, desire, and family in a tight-knit coastal community.

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The Tiger’s Fight

2016 Drama

After a year of drought, Nicolas prepares for “The Tiger’s Fight”, a prehispanic ritual where the village men fight to imitate thunder and foster the rain, hoping for a good harvest.

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Chickenshit

2023 Drama

During a summer afternoon, two unruly boys race through the open countryside looking for trouble. A reckless challenge at an electric fence turns their rivalry into a charged moment neither of them saw coming.

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The Martyr

2024 Drama

A young man’s obsession with the half-naked figure of Jesus Christ leads him down a dangerous path of self-harm and masochistic tendencies.