An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and, finally, each other.

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Never before seen home movies made by queer people dating back to the 1930s and the struggle to save them before they are lost forever.

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Zhenya Tsoi impersonates Russian showbiz stars, from Philipp Kirkorov to Lolita. He’s 33 and he lives with his long-time partner Maxim, who is a bus driver and a real support for Zhenya. This tragi-comic story looks at two people trying to create their own family home in the face of the harsh realities of modern Russia. In 21st century Moscow, is it possible to be gay and live happily in your small family? This full-length observation zooms right in on its characters, contrasting the somewhat comical private life of a couple with the decidedly unfunny conditions at a far from comic time in the history of a grim country. These two vivid characters are like a convex mirror reflecting any and all long-term relationships.

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