Porcupine

Oct 21, 2023

0h 13m

★ 10.0

Overview

Porcupine evokes the fragmented tale of a young man who breaks into an empty hospital to set up his online broadcast of poses and provocations; his audience includes real-life participants with anonymous tags like ‘bigballnz’ and ‘romeoazteca’.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Dérives

New Asian Filmakers Collective

Levo Films

Porcupine Trailers

Cast

Trương Minh Quý

Nicole Bonew

(voice)

Anne-Marie Loop

Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall - London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.

6.0

Kombi

Jul 3, 2014

Joana receives her grandfather’s ashes. At home, she finds his voyage diary that belonged to her grandfather and decides to recreate that journey. On the road, she meets Rui, who helps to find the truth about her past.

7.5

Breaking the Waves

Jul 5, 1996

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.

8.0

American Beauty

Sep 15, 1999

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

5.0

Closeout

Nov 18, 2024

Auksė and her father Saulius arrive at her late grandfather’s house, where Auksė learns that Saulius intends to sell it. Guided by visions of the past Auksė tries to convince Saulius to reconsider the sale, but the cold relationship between them leads to a conflict where no one is completely right.

4.3

Three Women

Aug 18, 1924

A frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for the daughter, leaving the young boyfriend crushed.

0.0

Realness

Oct 18, 2018

Realness’ is a study on gender identity and sexual orientation in the teen stage. We follow Javier, a boy who has doubts about his sexuality.

6.0

Human Nature

Sep 12, 2001

Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised in the wild. As Nathan trains the wild man in the civilized ways of the world, Lila fights to preserve the man’s natural state. In the power struggle that ensues, an unusual love triangle emerges.

0.0

La stanza buia

Jul 31, 2019

No overview available.

10.0

Parable

Jan 8, 2026

Six strangers awake inside a loft with no memory of how they got there and no escape. A seventh individual lies lifeless on a bed. Hourglasses count down the minutes as they fight to find a way out.

6.9

Faraway, So Close!

Sep 1, 1993

A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in name but overrun with crime, corruption, and—in what turns out to be a key theme here—Americans.

6.9

Fearless

Oct 15, 1993

After surviving a plane crash that kills many others, Max Klein develops a sense of invulnerability, leading to radical, compulsive actions. Can a psychologist and a fellow guilt-ridden survivor bring him down to earth?

6.6

Die Klasse von '99 - Schule war gestern, Leben ist jetzt

Sep 24, 2003

The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town

7.1

Friday

Apr 26, 1995

Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.

6.1

Autumn in New York

Aug 11, 2000

Will Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte Fielding, a free-spirited young woman. Together the pair pursue a passionate affair that forces them both to reevaluate what they want out of life, even as fate threatens to steal away their future.

6.6

Block Pass

Feb 5, 2025

Friendship and rebellion - but how will a secret play out in the masculine world of motocross? Willy and Jojo are best friends. They share a passion for motocross - whereas Willy uses it to honour his deceased father, it is only by excelling in the sport that Jojo’s father will notice him. Also the masculine world or racing is perfectly suited to suppress their own insecurities. Yet when Willy one fateful night discovers the hidden love life of Jojo, he will be forced to take sides in the wave of homophobia that follows.

6.0

Birth

Oct 29, 2004

It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.

0.0

Tuī Ná

Aug 11, 2022

A boy struggles to reconcile his burgeoning queer identity with his filial duties and expectations from his Chinese immigrant mother.

7.9

I'm Still Here

Sep 19, 2024

A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.

7.5

Kensho at the Bedfellow

Mar 9, 2017

Reeling from his sister’s death, a NYC playwright searches for fulfillment in a sex-and-drug filled odyssey. When he’s reunited with a childhood love, their shared journey of self-discovery catalyzes a profound, existential awakening.

Porcupine

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