Out

An old saying about those who were once sheltered from the ways of the world but miraculously blossom when exposed to the panorama of life astutely maintains, How are you going to keep ʼem down on the farm once theyve seen Paris? Its a sentiment thats equally applicable to many other cosmopolitan, urbane locales, such as the free-wheeling, uninhibited pace of life in Amsterdam, as a gay male couple from a small Dutch town discover when they relocate to the big city to attend film school. In many ways, its a dream come true, providing them with an opportunity to cast off the shackles of a restrictive, closeted lifestyle in favor of something eminently more liberating. But is it really the panacea theyve long hoped for? For Tom (Bas Keizer), ...

Loved-up Tom (Bas Keizer) and Ajani (Jefferson Yaw Frempong-Manson) live in a small Dutch community where the latter man has just come out and where the former, bisexual, has thus far kept his powder dry. Both are keen film students and hope to get to Amsterdam where they can enjoy a new life together but almost immediately they arrive, they hook up with the outgoing Fer (Fjodor Jozefsoon) who is an old friend and who introduces both to the nightlife and a broader gay community that one lad takes to enthusiastically whilst the other, innately less gregarious, struggles. Its fairly clear that from now on their rural, only gay in the village, love and loyalty is going to be severely tested since opportunity, choice and mischief are on their d...