POUT began as an LGBT film festival from UK-based independent film distributor Peccadillo Pictures, created as a response to audience demands to see more queer-oriented cinema on the big screen. POUTFest 2012 is now in it’s fourth year and the films being screened this year are listed below. Many of the films have cast and crew in attendance at their screenings and the festival is a must for anyone interested in contemporary queer film.

Romeos • 7pm • Apollo Piccadilly 
Dir: Sabine Bernardi
Cert:15 • Ger: 94 min • Boogiefilm • 2011
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A tale of star-crossed lovers with a difference, Sabine Bernardi’s richly textured ode to young love takes a fresh and unique look at a romantic encounter that transcends boundaries.

Bashment • 8.45pm • Apollo Piccadilly 
Dir: Rikki Beadle Blair
Cert:18 • UK: 110 min • Team Angelica • 2010
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Rikki Beadle-Blair (FIT, Kick Off) is back with a bang with this hard-hitting urban drama adapted from his stage play exploring the intersection of race, sexuality and music. Starring stand-up comedian and MTV presenter Joel Dommett in his first lead role performance as JJ and a host of Team Angelica regulars, Bashment is like nothing you have seen before.

Circumstance • 7pm • Apollo Piccadilly 
Dir: Maryam Keshavarz
Cert:15 • USA/Fr/Iran: 107 min • Marakesh Films • 2011
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Set in contemporary Iran in the unseen world of Iranian youth culture, filled with underground parties, sex, drugs and defiance, Circumstance is the story of two vivacious young girls – Atafeh and Shireen – discovering their burgeoning sexuality, struggling with their desires and the boundaries placed upon them by the world they were born into.

Bumblefuck, USA • 8.45pm • Apollo Piccadilly 
Dir: Aaron Douglas Johnston
Cert:15 • USA: 90 min • Double Life Productions • 2011
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Bumblefuck, Iowa, USA, the present. The mysterious Alexa has arrived from Amsterdam with a backpack, her video camera and intentions to make a film about what it must be like to be gay in Small Town USA.

Three Veils • 4pm • Apollo Piccadilly 
Dir: Rolla Selbak
Cert:15 • USA: 120 min • Three Veils Productions • 2011
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From trailblazing director Rolla Selbak, starring Sheetal Sheth (The World Unseen, I Can’t Think Straight), Mercedes Masöhn (Quarantine 2) and introducing Syrian TV star Angela Zahra, comes a triptych tale of three women facing up to futures that clash with what they were brought up to expect and embrace.

Stud Life • 6pm • Apollo Piccadilly 
Dir: Campbell Ex
Cert:15 • UK: 85 min • Stud Life Films • 2012
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JJ a lesbian and Seb a gay man are best friends – they work together and play together. Then JJ falls for Elle and has to split her attention between them both? Mates before sex? What would you do?