Virtual Cinema | Out On Film 2026

WHAT WE CAN’T HIDE: NARRATIVE SHORTS

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Available October 1, 2026 9:00 AM UTC
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Secrets have a way of demanding to be seen. These seven stories follow people caught between who they are, whom they love and what the world expects of them—until desire, grief or an inconvenient truth brings everything into the open.

Nonbinary Max and their straight, cisgender boyfriend spiral into an identity crisis when Max announces that they are finally off the waitlist for top surgery. Two Pentecostal youth pastors face a crisis of faith during an afternoon of forbidden love. Strapped for cash, lifelong friends make an amateur adult film and awaken feelings neither is prepared to acknowledge. Peigí is discovered in a bedroom where she should not be. A newly single man preparing to spend Christmas alone unexpectedly takes in his ex-boyfriend’s grieving mother. A polarizing self-help personality, played by Russell Tovey (Plainclothes), begins to unravel at the height of his lecture tour. And when Guy tells his parents that he is living with someone and finally happy, Sunday lunch becomes a coming-out encounter no one anticipated.

When 30-year-old Guy tells his parents he is living with someone and finally happy, he also has to come out to his father, Rob – though his mother, Tess, has known for years. Wanting to be supportive, Tess and Rob invite Frankie for Sunday lunch.

But Frankie isn’t quite who Tess and Rob are expecting – least of all Rob. A potential disaster looms that will hurt everyone and help nobody. Can they rise to the moment with grace, or will everything come crashing down?

  • Year
    2025
  • Runtime
    14 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United Kingdom
  • Premiere
    International Premiere
  • Genre
    Bisexual, Drama, Family, First-Time Filmmaker, Gay, International / World Cinema, Narrative, Queer, Romance, Short Film
  • Director
    Steven Kunis
  • Screenwriter
    Shaun McKenna
  • Producer
    Shaun McKenna, Toby Lawson
  • Cast
    Anthony Calf, Imogen Stubbs, David Michaels, Øystein Lode
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