Lust - Shorts Program

To yearn, desire, and crave; these short films show us what it means to truly lust. In MUSES, a dancer struggles to break free from the hold of his choreographer now attracted to another. In a cutthroat competition for the coveted position as a billionaire’s Blood Boy, Sam faces off against top-dog candidate Charlie, pushing Sam to confront the dark underbelly of his aspirations in BLOOD BOYS. Simon Schneckenburger’s intimate film SKIN ON SKIN follows two men displaced in the hell of the German meat industry and the desire between them. During a hard-fought, tense cup semi-final, the two captains of a football team have an argument that ends up uncovering a secret in the dressing rooms of the first division: the silence of homosexual footballers in CAPTAINS. And a novice drag queen is given a golden opportunity to become a star, but she’ll have to give up on herself to achieve it in MURDER ME.