Yann Gonzalez

In the summer of 1979, gay porn producer Anne sets out to film her most ambitious film yet, but her actors are picked off, one by one, by a mysterious killer.

A sexual reverie unfolds over the course of one ethereal night. Characters wander through an erotic maze of love and lust, blurring the lines between wet dream and lucid nightmare as a macabre, erotic stage performance sends a ripple of lustful desires through its audience and performers.

Around midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will be The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen.

A girl, a boy, a ghost. Some pop music and noisy rock. Meanwhile, youth keeps fading away.

Kate screams, burns, kisses furiously. But the times are tepid, the music "cold," and Kate can no longer come. Until Julien, who died ten years ago, gives her pleasure again.

A short introduction to the film Knife+Heart (2018).

In the summer of 1979, gay porn producer Anne sets out to film her most ambitious film yet, but her actors are picked off, one by one, by a mysterious killer.

In the summer of 1979, gay porn producer Anne sets out to film her most ambitious film yet, but her actors are picked off, one by one, by a mysterious killer.

A sexual reverie unfolds over the course of one ethereal night. Characters wander through an erotic maze of love and lust, blurring the lines between wet dream and lucid nightmare as a macabre, erotic stage performance sends a ripple of lustful desires through its audience and performers.

A sexual reverie unfolds over the course of one ethereal night. Characters wander through an erotic maze of love and lust, blurring the lines between wet dream and lucid nightmare as a macabre, erotic stage performance sends a ripple of lustful desires through its audience and performers.

A sexual reverie unfolds over the course of one ethereal night. Characters wander through an erotic maze of love and lust, blurring the lines between wet dream and lucid nightmare as a macabre, erotic stage performance sends a ripple of lustful desires through its audience and performers.

Around midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will be The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen.

Around midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will be The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen.

A girl, a boy, a ghost. Some pop music and noisy rock. Meanwhile, youth keeps fading away.

A girl, a boy, a ghost. Some pop music and noisy rock. Meanwhile, youth keeps fading away.

Kate screams, burns, kisses furiously. But the times are tepid, the music "cold," and Kate can no longer come. Until Julien, who died ten years ago, gives her pleasure again.

Kate screams, burns, kisses furiously. But the times are tepid, the music "cold," and Kate can no longer come. Until Julien, who died ten years ago, gives her pleasure again.

A short introduction to the film Knife+Heart (2018).

A short introduction to the film Knife+Heart (2018).

Musician Oliver Sim is the main guest of a talk-show that soon slides into a surreal journey of love, shame, and blood.

Musician Oliver Sim is the main guest of a talk-show that soon slides into a surreal journey of love, shame, and blood.

In a small town in northern Poland, 18-year-old Majka is convinced that she is possessed. She decides to rely on the skills of a local priest to expel the demon, which doesn’t stop her from jokingly referencing William Friedkin’s The Exorcist with her best friend.

Passionate by Japanese pop culture, Fleur returns to her hometown to announce some big news to her family: she's moving to Tokyo. But there, no one has ever supported Fleur during her transition. Except for her cousin Noé who could become the ally she needs.

I wake up gagged, hands and feet tied. I can see the clouds go by through the window. I'm in the back seat of a car. Who is this man driving? And where is he taking me?

A vibrant anthology of LGBTQ+ short films and music videos that delve into the complexities of youth, identity, and desire. This diverse collection showcases a range of cinematic voices—both emerging and established—exploring the exhilaration, vulnerability, and confusion of coming-of-age through stories that celebrate queer love, self-discovery, and the breaking of societal boundaries. Blending narrative shorts, experimental visuals, and music-driven pieces, the anthology offers an evocative, multifaceted portrait of innocence transformed.

Two policemen interrupt a secret ceremony: a woman being disembowelled at the bottom of a garden to let out her inner beauty. This situation is presented in a variety of ways and all possibilities are explored.

Actor and director Jacques Nolot opens up to the camera about his desires, doubts, anxieties… and of what fulfils him in life as much as it connects him with death. Between dreams and memory, everything seems to gradually crumble.

November 1989: in Brussels, Victor is looking for Elina, his summer love who mysteriously vanished. He meets Damian, an enlightened English journalist, and Rosie, a punkish Dutch barmaid. Together, they dive into the night, driven by the New Beat fever.

We see a succession of scattered glam images: beat-up figures on lucid papers and dreamlike landscapes, until the (apelike) apparition of a model and her photographer. Together, they will play martyr and demiurge. They will attempt to achieve grace in a world of moving surfaces.

Macha, Nathan and Walter are awaited by a young man outside the high-school. He's here to lead them. Away from the city. To the sea. Into a night they might never return from.

Macha, Nathan and Walter are awaited by a young man outside the high-school. He's here to lead them. Away from the city. To the sea. Into a night they might never return from.

A party at night. Some teenagers dance and fall in love as if it was the first and the last time.

Follows a 50-year-old primary school teacher living in a small village in the mountains. She’s a teacher by day, but by night she seduces sad men who she never sees again. Her life turns upside down when she falls desperately in love with Terrence, driving her to the outer reaches of a troubling, fantastic world…

Follows a 50-year-old primary school teacher living in a small village in the mountains. She’s a teacher by day, but by night she seduces sad men who she never sees again. Her life turns upside down when she falls desperately in love with Terrence, driving her to the outer reaches of a troubling, fantastic world…

An unusual bandit trio spends autumn in a village by Lake Maggiore. In their holiday apartment they create a parallel world, which little reflects their surroundings. As the pressures of the outside world begin to weigh in on them, they kidnap a tourist in order to give their lives a purpose.

A suburb housing. Two girls on the phone are looking for each other but never succeed to meet. One of them vanishes.

Dead city. Foggy night. A saxophone is playing. Lust is lurking.

Dead city. Foggy night. A saxophone is playing. Lust is lurking.

In the darkness of their respective rooms, two girls, in love with one another, converse on the Internet. But something is broken.

Bianca and her mother meet again in Porto after many years. Together, they will hit the road with their stripping show, running after lost time, impossible love and strange fantasies.

Bianca and her mother meet again in Porto after many years. Together, they will hit the road with their stripping show, running after lost time, impossible love and strange fantasies.

Mock trailer for a fictional porn film within Yann Gonzales' movie Knife+Heart.

Says Gonzalez: "I remember shooting at dusk in Antibes, my hometown, revisiting all the places I've been while I was a teenage night paperboy. Then I edited this footage with flashes of my corpus' disturbing images. But I see it today as a bad amateur nightmare haunted by the fear of sex and vaguely misogynistic... Pretty good musical choice though: the Coil track I used is soooo intense."

Alex and Sacha are shaken up by the closure of the online video game on which they met. As Alex and his mother go on holiday to the south of France where Sacha lives, the two teenagers will attempt to meet up and finish the game together.

User LonerWolf58 is part of the incel community. They consider themselves as involuntary celibate. His videos have been reported for violent and terrorist content. I have to make him disappear from the net.

At Naarièges cemetery, Mino guards the gates, takes care of the dead, and also the mourners. Next to him: a ghost, a widow and a huge spider. They are busy, panicking, blossoming, lovesick.