Firsts

Feb 24, 2022

0h 17m

★ 6.0

Overview

On the eve of Chinese New Year, Steven, a closeted Chinese international student living in New Zealand oppressed by the expectations of his parents, plans to lose his virginity to a stranger that he meets online.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

New Zealand Film Commission

Script to Screen

Zsofi Pictures

Department of Post

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Cast

Steven / Cheung

Kelvin Ta

Andrew

David Shi

Ming (Steven's Mother)

Esther Wee

Marieke, a 27-year-old Dutch woman, works for an advertising agency in New York. She feels lonely in ‘the city that never sleeps’. Her boyfriend Dylan is the only one who can comfort her, although he only drops by occasionally. When she visits the verdant and quiet Long Island on an outing with colleagues, the introverted woman finally blooms. Especially when she is introduced to George. Right at that moment, Dylan asks Marieke to let him go. Subtle drama about loneliness, mourning and starting anew.

1.0

Two Fish

Oct 21, 2017

Max is spending his summer on campus. A lonely place in maintenance. His best friend Taylor comes back from Europe and their relationship takes a new turn.

0.0

Erstes Mal - Schwule Kurzfilme

Apr 1, 2002

Four gay themed short films: 1.Frühstück, - Young love in Berlin: speed, anonymity and 3 million people making a wish. 2. Frende - Johannes has found a new friend: Marco, the tough guy who seems to know no bounds. 3. Sommerkleid (Une robe d'été (1996))- That's summer... Sebastien loves Sheila. Lucia loves the boys. And Frederic really just wants to sunbathe. 4. Hormone und andere Dämonen (Hormoner og andre demoner (2001)) - All sorts of confusion surrounding a queer pair of siblings and their desire for the same man, sweet blond Lukas...

6.9

Shé (Snake)

Sep 8, 2023

Fei is the top violinist of an elite London youth orchestra. When another Chinese violinist arrives to challenge her place in the orchestra, Fei’s anxieties and internalised racism grow to take monstrous physical form. They whisper to her, urging her to be the best, no matter the cost.

4.0

Veracity

Jul 31, 2015

Veracity is about a popular African American student, Olivia, who is outed by her friends after she acts on feelings for a new girl at her high school...

5.1

Catch Hell

Oct 10, 2014

Former Hollywood star Reagan Pearce is kidnapped by two men connected to his past while on location in Louisiana. When he wakes up bound and chained in a rundown shack, he soon discovers the real motives of his captors and finds himself in the middle of a twisted scheme with little chance to survive. With no rescue in sight, Reagan must use every ounce of strength he has left to break free and get his revenge.

2.7

Put Down

Nov 16, 2014

John is a socially awkward man in a downward spiral of debt, until a lucky accident propels him into a new career as a black-market pet exterminator. In these difficult times, some families can no longer afford a pet. John has some inventive ways to help them.

7.0

Late for Break Time

Nov 12, 2017

During a football training, two friends celebrate a goal effusively, which causes an unexpected reaction in one of them.

5.2

Blackmail Boy

Nov 14, 2003

In the small, closed community of a provincial town, Magda tries to maintain a balance within a family facing many serious problems. The families apparently normal, bourgeois, every-day life will crack open, bringing to the surface hatred and passions of the kind that lie well-hidden in the mists of the nearby lake. An intense plot and a totally unexpected ending make up this film, which features characters who are vulnerable, innocent and ordinary, but who become ruthless and callous, worrying only about protecting their financial resources. The offences are disproportionately serious compared to the financial benefits they try to secure

7.0

Slow Light

Sep 26, 2022

A story of a man with a very dense eyes who sees all the surrounding reality only after seven years. The consequence of the eye defect translates into the mental immaturity of the man, lack of understanding of the present and belated reflections on long-gone facts. The man is never mature enough for his age and constantly lingers on the past.

5.5

Charmides

Jun 25, 1949

Based on Plato's dialogue Charmides.

8.5

Young Diego

Jun 17, 2021

With a haunting atmosphere and a narrative open to different interpretations, 'El joven Diego' is presented as a metaphor that explores interpersonal relationships and human desire. A very personal portrait of youth and the search for first 'love'.

3.2

Atoms

Oct 15, 2012

Hugo, 34, an educator at the boarding school, finds is daily life disrupted by Jules, a provocative teenager.

0.0

Pendeln

Sep 30, 2016

A woman talks about meeting an old classmate on the train.

0.0

The Red Balloon

Feb 23, 2014

Paris, France, 1963. A couple have an argument in a bar. A young man sitting nearby takes the opportunity to talk to the girl and tells her what their life together could be if she accepts to run away with him, now.

7.6

Landscape in the Mist

Sep 10, 1988

Two Greek children embark on a journey to search for their father, who supposedly lives in Germany.

7.9

Mamma Roma

Sep 22, 1962

After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.

0.0

CAMP

Aug 8, 2024

Desperate for change, Brandon joins a conversion therapy group led by Damien, a charismatic yet sinister leader whose dark influence gradually corrupts him.

6.0

Resurrection Slope

Jan 19, 2013

In 'Resurrection Slope' A young boy at the brink of adolescence takes a harrowing journey through a mystical dreamworld, confronting his emerging questions of individuality and gender. Through splintered fantasies of his reckless, fading beauty of a mother and cruel, alcoholic father, he performs a holy ritual that will one day form into a defiantly singular adult persona.

6.0

Luciano

Nov 21, 1965

A sensationalist television show unravels the sordid story of Luciano Fernández and analyzes the possible motives that led him to murder a child. (Inspired by a real event that occurred in the forest of Verrières, Paris, on May 27th, 1964.)

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