
Boys On Film 20: Heaven Can Wait
Drama · Animation · Romance
Overview
On the cusp of adulthood, the world's longest running gay short film series is only getting started. Boys On Film 20: Heaven Can Wait includes eleven complete films: Bassem Ben Brahim's animated "Chromophobia"; Jimi Vall Peterson's "Sleepover" starring Hjalmar Hardestam and Simon Eriksson; Mickey Jones's "Just Me" starring Philip Olivier and Carl Loughlin; Matthew Jacobs Morgan's "Mine" starring Joshua McGuire and John Macmillan; Dale John Allen's "Don't Blame Jack" starring Jordan Tweddle and Kane Surry; Timothy Ryan Hickernell's "Foreign Lovers" co-starring Lucio Nieto; Layke Anderson's "Mankind" starring Ricky Nixon and Alexis Gregory; Christopher Manning's "Isha" starring Horia Săvescu and Dario Coates; Jay Russell's "ruok" starring Peter Mark Kendall, Zachary Booth, and Sydney James Harcourt; Chintis Lundgren's animated "Manivald"; and Zoe McIntosh's "The World In Your Window" starring Joe Folau and David Lolofakangalo Rounds.
Top Cast
Hjalmar Hardestam
Hjalmar Hardestam
Emil (segment "Sleepover")
Hjalmar Hardestam
Emil (segment "Sleepover")


Simon Eriksson
Simon Eriksson
Adam (segment "Sleepover")
Simon Eriksson
Adam (segment "Sleepover")


Philip Olivier
Philip Olivier
Scott (segment "Just Me")
Philip Olivier
Scott (segment "Just Me")


Carl Loughlin
Carl Loughlin
Connor (segment "Just Me")
Carl Loughlin
Connor (segment "Just Me")
Chauntelle Bowler
Chauntelle Bowler
Kelly (segment "Just Me")
Chauntelle Bowler
Kelly (segment "Just Me")


Joshua McGuire
Joshua McGuire
Liam (segment "Mine")
Joshua McGuire
Liam (segment "Mine")


John Macmillan
John Macmillan
Ben (segment "Mine")
John Macmillan
Ben (segment "Mine")


Jordan Tweddle
Jordan Tweddle
Jack (segment "Don't Blame Jack")
Jordan Tweddle
Jack (segment "Don't Blame Jack")


Kane Surry
Kane Surry
Frank (segment "Don't Blame Jack")
Kane Surry
Frank (segment "Don't Blame Jack")


Timothy Ryan Hickernell
Timothy Ryan Hickernell
American (segment "Foreign Lovers")
Timothy Ryan Hickernell
American (segment "Foreign Lovers")
Similar Movies

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

Edan (19) and Dula (18) navigate love, identity, and self-acceptance on a journey about coming into oneself and out to the world. Confronting fear, shame, and societal expectations, the boys rediscover a sense of belonging in their own paradise, in this celebration of queer love, vulnerability, and the power of embracing who you are.

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.



















