Projects matching: Marco Alessi

Synopsis

Set in 1723 London, where Thomas Neville has to hide out in a molly house - essentially the proto-queer clubs of Georgian Britain - after being caught cruising in the public toilets. Once inside, though, Thomas meets an underground community preparing for a night of revelry.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

Synopsis

On the set of a luxury car commercial, an overlooked assistant seizes his chance to get noticed by the star.
Filmed on a Virtual Production Stage, THE TALENT is a tense exploration masculinity, desire and becoming.
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2024 - International Competition

Synopsis

In 1991, Seb takes friend Terri to Dungeness to witness Derek Jarman's jubilant canonisation by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Thirty years later, Terri takes her young employee Jude on a surprise day trip to the same spot as he faces a tough, pivotal moment in his young life.
Official Selection Outfest LA Film Festival 2022 - World premiere

Synopsis

In the early 90s a group of gay activist nuns, the London House of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, decide to canonise Derek Jarman, a prominent queer filmmaker and the most public figure living openly with HIV at the time. They declare him Britain's first living gay saint.
Official Selection Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2022
Official Selection BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival 2022

Synopsis

Tam gets the first tube home alone. In just a crop-top and high-waisted jeans he re-lives his Halloween night out.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Create Strand - World premiere

Synopsis

Toni, 13, doesn’t fit in at school. One day, after her situation takes a dive, the internet unexpectedly comes to save her.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2020 - Generation Kplus - International premiere

Synopsis

Over the course of a night out in a queer club, Raf struggles to find his place among the crowd until he stops trying to force the narrative and just lets himself go with the music.
Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Berlinale Shorts and Generation 14plus - European premiere