
DANIEL PORTO | BRAZIL | 2024 | 7 MIN | PORTUGUESE EST
DANIEL PORTO | BRAZIL | 2024 | 7 MIN | PORTUGUESE EST
Subtitles: English
A group of unknown gay men connect via a dating app for casual encounters. The starting point is a chemsex party, where drug use intensifies sexual experiences, but also reveals the depths of human emotions. The film explores both the fascination and liberating energy of these encounters and the emptiness and loneliness that can haunt a gay man's life.
Born in São Gonçalo, a suburb of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Daniel Porto began his career in 2013 as a playwright of the play O Pastor, which criticized the movement of Neo-Pentecostal Churches in Brazil and received the O Globo seal among the best plays on display that year. In 2023, he directed his first short film, Chemsex, with an LGBTQ+ theme that talks about the relationship between drugs and gay sex life in the contemporary world.
“We had the feeling that, even in 2023, talking about sex and drugs still seemed like a huge taboo, even for the gay community. 80% of the film's team belongs to the LGBT+ community, and we wanted to make a film that portrayed an increasingly common and universal reality, without value judgments for those who participate in the practice, or for those who are curious to know about it.”
Alexandre Lino, Daniel Porto
Daniel Porto
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