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Free Fall (German: Freier Fall) is a 2013 German drama film directed by Stephan Lacant who also wrote the script with Karsten Dahlem, and starring Hanno Koffler, Max Riemelt, and Katharina Schüttler. The film tells the story of police officer, Marc Borgmann (Koffler), who lives with his pregnant girlfriend, Bettina Bischoff (Schüttler). Whilst on a training course, Borgmann meets fellow police officer, Kay Engel (Riemelt), and a romance develops between the two men. Borgmann is torn between his love for Bettina and his new found feelings for another man. When Engel disappears for a while, Borgmann realises his life is rapidly going into “free fall“, as he cannot meet the high expectations of the people he knows.^[4]

Filming began in Ludwigsburg, Germany, in the summer of 2012. Freier Fall has been compared to Brokeback Mountain and received good reviews following its première at the Berlin Film Festival on 8 February 2013,^[2] and at the Frameline Film Festival in the United States on 21 June 2013.^[1] The original motion picture soundtrack written by music duo Dürbeck & Dohmen was released digitally online by MovieScore Media to coincide with the film’s opening release on 23 May 2013.^[5] It made a box office gross of $599,721.^[3]

Plot

Marc Borgmann, a young police officer, is on a training course for the riot control unit. He is struggling at the police academy, being somewhat behind his peers in his physical training. Marc does not initially get along with his roommate at the academy, Kay Engel. They have a physical confrontation during a training exercise, but afterwards Marc apologizes for his aggressive behavior and they become friends. The two begin jogging together regularly, with Kay instructing Marc (on more than one occasion) to “breathe evenly”. During one jog, Kay kisses Marc as they share a marijuana cigarette. Marc is reassured by Kay that he was joking. On a subsequent jog the two kiss and Kay gives him a handjob.

Kay is later transferred into Marc’s police unit to fill a vacancy, where Marc finds it difficult to ignore him. Kay shows up with a colleague to a bowling alley where Marc and his family are having a game and is introduced to Bettina, Marc’s pregnant longtime girlfriend. Marc attempts to stay committed to Bettina and forget about Kay, but goes back to the jogging trail, where Kay is waiting. The two have sex in the rain. Bettina grows suspicious of Marc’s activities as Marc continues to have intimate encounters with Kay under the guise of having night shifts; Kay also gives him a key to his apartment. Marc finds himself less able to sexually perform with Bettina, which he explains is due to her pregnancy.

Marc and Kay later go to a gay bar, where Marc takes ecstasy. The next morning, Bettina rebuffs his advances and asks him if he is seeing another woman, which Marc denies. Bettina goes through Marc’s phone and finds recent calls from Kay. Bettina gives birth to their son, and Marc tries to cut Kay out his life; however, Kay attempts to contact Marc, leading to a physical altercation with Marc demanding to be left alone.

Marc later finds out that Kay was discovered at a gay bar that the unit raided. He then shows up at Kay’s apartment and accuses Kay of going to the bar to find other men to sleep with. Kay calls Marc selfish but says he loves him and that he is not sleeping with anyone else. Marc tries to leave but breaks down in Kay’s arms and the two share a kiss.

Later, Kay attacks his fellow officer Limpinski, following a homophobic incident. Marc gets hit in an attempt to separate the two. Kay visits Marc in the hospital, and the two share a kiss that Marc’s mother witnesses. After Marc catches up to her, they have an argument and Marc leaves alone. Later, Kay arrives at a party after Bettina’s invitation, where Marc’s parents tell him to stay away from Marc due to his new family. Marc, overhearing the conversation, tells him to leave.

Marc visits Kay at his apartment to find Kay’s face bruised following an altercation with Limpinski. Marc advises him to transfer to another unit, and Kay asks about the future of their relationship. Marc returns the key to his apartment and departs. He returns home to find Bettina packing to leave with their son; she has learned that he has been lying about working night shifts and wants him gone by the time she has returned, questioning Marc’s friendship with Kay. Marc visits her at Frank’s house, and admits his affair with Kay.

Bettina eventually returns to the house with their son, but there is emotional distance between them. Marc tries to visit Kay at his apartment to find it empty; Kay has moved, also departing from the unit without notice. When Limpinski tries to goad Marc about his relationship with Kay, Marc taunts him, leading Limpinski to assault him. Frank witnesses this and implies that Limpinski will be let go. Marc, unhappy, visits the gay bar alone, and though he initiates a sexual encounter with another man, he ends up rebuffing him. Back at the house, Marc and Bettina admit to each other that they cannot see their relationship continuing. The film concludes with Marc at the academy, on a jog with his peers as in the first scene of the film; he outpaces them and runs ahead, alone.

Cast

• Hanno Koffler as Marc Borgmann
• Max Riemelt as Kay Engel
• Katharina Schüttler as Bettina Bischoff
• Oliver Bröcker as Frank Richter
• Stephanie Schönfeld as Claudia Richter
• Britta Hammelstein as Britt Rebmann
• Shenja Lacher as Gregor Limpinski
• Maren Kroymann as Inge Borgmann
• Louis Lamprecht as Wolfgang Borgmann
• Vilmar Bieri as Lothar Bischoff
• Attila Borlan as Werner Brandt
• Horst Krebs as Bernd Eiden
• Samuel Schnepf as Benno Borgmann

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Fair Haven is a 2016 American independent drama film directed by Kerstin Karlhuber, written by Jack Bryant, produced by Tom Malloy, and starring Tom Wopat, Michael Grant, Gregory Harrison, Josh Green, and Lily Anne Harrison.

The film was released by Breaking Glass Pictures digitally and theatrically and it premiered on Showtime Networks in June 2017.

Premise

A young man returns to his family farm, after a long stay in conversion therapy, and is torn between the expectations of his emotionally distant father and the memories of a past, loving gay relationship he has tried to bury.

Storyline

James Grant and his parents, Richard and his wife, own and farm the Fair Haven Orchard in a small town in Vermont. This orchard has been in their family for four generations. Richard Grant seeks to carry on the family legacy despite two bombshell events: 1) he and his wife discover that James has a gay relationship with his high school classmate, Charlie Green, and 2) his wife dies. Richard’s wife provides the guiding center of their family life: James and Richard measure their own lives and actions in the light of what “Mom” would have wanted. This motivates the parents’ sending of James into conversion therapy under the direction of Dr. Gallagher, a Christian therapist. James emerges from this therapy ostensibly “cured” of his homosexuality. He is led to believe that he is able to live out his life “normally” as his mother and father would desire. James assures his father that the therapy has helped him.

When James comes home from this therapy, he faces the hard reality that his father has seen fit to spend all of the money put by for him to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. This is devastating to James since his goal is to become a concert pianist. His father vetoes these plans, demanding that James attend technical college to study Agribusiness. His goal for James is for him to take over the family farm.

James helps his father on the farm, and his father gives him the responsibility of delivering cases of apples to surrounding stores and other clients. Unhappily for the “success” of James’s conversion to heterosexuality, his delivery route brings him regularly back in contact with his “old flame,” Charlie Green. For this reason, James suggests that his father do the deliveries himself, but his father expects James to continue doing them.

James sees the need for “moral support,” so father and son go back to church. James is introduced to the pastor’s daughter, Suzy, who was in the high school class behind James and Charlie. Suzy is eager to become James’s girlfriend and go out with him, but James is shy and awkward around her.

The budding romance with Suzy comes to a grinding halt when James discovers that Charlie was cruelly gay bashed. James insists on driving Charlie home from work from then on.

James and Charlie get together for a picnic one Saturday evening, and they end up spending the night together in James’s barn. Suzy discovers them together and cuts herself off from James. James’s father, realizing what has happened, appears to disown James. James and Charlie plan to go away together to Boston where James can go to music school.

James’s father goes through a period of taking stock of his own life and coming to a realization of what is best for his son and himself. The conversion of local orchards into producers of organic apples and the generous offer of a buyer help Richard make up his mind to sell the farm.

Richard tells his son, “The farm isn’t family: we are.” Richard can then provide for James all the money he needs to follow his dream of going to music school and living his life with his life partner, Charlie. Richard acknowledges that both he and James’s mother are proud of him.

Cast

• Michael Grant as James
• Tom Wopat as Richard
• Gregory Harrison as Dr. Gallagher
• Josh Green as Charlie
• Lily Anne Harrison (Gregory Harrison’s daughter) as Suzy
• Tom Malloy as Reverend Thomas
• Jennifer Taylor as Ruby
• Lisa Varga as Patricia
• Denise Dorado as Helena
• Michael Cuddire as Sebastian
• Joanna Herrington as Melissa
• Susan Katz Aser as Mrs. Grant