Best Gay-Themed Short Films
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1. Going South
Korean Movie - 2012
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2. Stay With Me
Taiwanese Movie - 2015
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3. Just Friends?
Korean Movie - 2009
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4. Journey to the Shore
Korean Movie - 2020
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5. Deep Ocean
Taiwanese Movie - 2022
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6. Love 100° C
Korean Movie - 2010
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7. Tilted Summer
Korean Movie - 2017
One of Matchbox/Strongberry's very best, which is saying a lot. I don't think there's a single M/S short I'd rank below 8.5/10.
I have watched Tilted Summer at least six times and with every watch I find something I hadn't caught before that deepens the story. I've gone back and forth on which half of the main couple is more at "fault," a sign of great writing. Very few situations IRL are black/white, and engaging stories are best told in shades of gray.
M/S excels at packing layers of gray upon layers of gray in a very short amount of time. TS is a great example of that.
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8. Being Me
Korean Movie - 2018
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9. Please Tell Me So
Korean Special - 2021, 1 episode
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10. The First Love Story
Korean Special - 2021, 2 episodes
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11. Sonnet 18
Korean Movie - 2019
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12. Brake
Korean Movie - 2019
Obliterating.
Jang Yoo Sang is heartbreaking perfection in this role. He is one of my favorite actors and he is tragically under-utilized in Korean cinema. He moves me to the core in every role I've seen him play.
Just finished what must have been my fifth watch of "Brake." More revelations I missed before. This is one I will watch again and again.
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13. Smoke
Korean Movie - 2019
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14. My Pistachio
Korean Movie - 2018
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15. Private Lessons
Korean Movie - 2020
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16. Jay
Taiwanese Movie - 2019
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17. Incomplete
Korean Movie - 2019
So many Strongberry shorts help me understand my own adolescent/young adulthood/closeted gay angst, though my experience was decades before these films were made and I went through it halfway around the world from Korea.
CHOOSING to consciously accept incompleteness as a state of being can be a real thing. And that choice itself can change at any time, and thus is itself incomplete...
Bravo.
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18. Fly by Night
Korean Movie - 2011
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19. One Night Only
Korean Movie - 2014
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20. Suddenly Last Summer
Korean Movie - 2012
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21. The Turning Road
Korean Movie - 2017
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22. The Morning After
Taiwanese Movie - 2021
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23. Chul Soo
Korean Movie - 2021
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24. Some More
Korean Movie - 2018
Strongberry goodness.
I live for angst, distress, transgressive behaviors, and heavy drama of all kinds, but this ode to sweet simplicity and love has my heart. Tears come from happiness too. :)
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25. Fragment
Korean Movie - 2018
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26. Beats per Minute
Taiwanese Movie - 2023
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27. A Cohabitation
Taiwanese Movie - 2019
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28. Swingin'
Taiwanese Movie - 2020
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29. The End of Our Youth
Taiwanese Movie - 2016
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30. I Go To School Not By Bus
Hong Kong Movie - 2015