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9:00 pm - “Sebastian”

August 21 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm

“An intriguing exploration of sex, identity, restraint and abandon… and a performance from Ruaridh Mollica that should put him on the map.”
Screen Daily

“Captivating! Mollica delivers natural, impeccably delicate work.”
The Queer Review

“Piercing… sexy… with a stirring finish that won’t be easily forgotten.”
Screen Rant

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Screening August 16 – 22nd!
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Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival
Official Selection: NewFest Pride Film Festival
Official Selection: Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival
Official Selection: Frameline San Francisco Int’l LGBTQ+ Film Festival

Max (Ruaridh Mollica) is a 25-year-old aspiring novelist, living in London and paying his dues working at a literary magazine. Frustrated by his own ambitions and the pressures to succeed, Max begins moonlighting as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, secretly meeting men via an escorting platform and using his experiences to fuel his stories. What begins as a few furtive meetings soon becomes a hidden nocturnal life, and the debut novel that he has been longing to write finally seems within reach. Finding himself more comfortable as Sebastian than expected, yet determined to keep his exploits a secret, Max increasingly struggles to remain in control of a delicately balanced double-life. As he confronts conflicting feelings of ecstasy, shame, and exhilarating liberation, Max has to reckon with whether Sebastian is merely a writer’s tool to achieve first-hand authenticity – or whether something more is at stake.

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Date:
August 21
Time:
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
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