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Unfolding in real time, the aftermath of an encounter in a gay sex club is rich with feeling and an immersive sense of the milieu

The latest drama from French collaborators Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau (The Adventures of Felix) is an intensely flavoured slice of life, salty-sweet, rich with feeling.

It offers 97 compact minutes that unfold in real time, starting from the moments when the title characters (Geoffrey Couët and François Nambot, respectively) meet in a gay sex club and get it on in explicit, unfaked detail. But when it turns out one of them is HIV positive, that sweaty bout of unprotected sex changes everything, prompting a trip to the hospital and a great deal of soul searching as they traverse the city, getting to know each other.

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Other titles include Rebecca Miller’s Maggie’s Plan, starring Greta Gerwig, and David Farr’s The Ones Below, starring David Morrissey.Scroll down for full lists

The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 11-21) has announced the first titles in Panorama – its strand that comprises new independent and arthouse films that deal with controversial subjects or unconventional aesthetic styles.

The initial features include three from the UK, with John Michael McDonagh returning to Berlin for the world premiere of War On Everyone.

The film, a satire centred on two corrupt cops in New Mexico, stars Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña, Theo James and Tessa Thompson.

McDonagh was previously in Panorama in 2011 with The Guard and 2013 with Calvary.

Also from the UK is David Farr’s The Ones Below, which revolves around a couple expecting their first child who discover an unnerving difference between themselves and the couple living in the flat below. Receiving its European...

Gregg Araki's "Kaboom" was announced today as the winner of the inaugural Queer Palm, awarded to an Lgbt film at the Cannes Film Festival, at a ceremony held at Zanzibar, the oldest gay bar in Europe and popular with gay fest goers. Sponsored by Gallic filmmakers Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau ("Cote d'Azur," "The Adventures of Felix"), the Queer Palm joins Berlin's Teddy and Venice's Queer Lion, similar Lgbt-themed awards at ...