Storm in a Teatasse

Dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner, Summer Storm, 2004
What a sweet little movie.  It's like a combination of American Pie with that classic Brit film from the 90s Beautiful Thing.  It's set in the German countryside, where a group of students in a rowing team go compete against groups from other parts of the country.  Two boys in the group are Best Friends Forever, even going as far as date girls who are also Best Friends Forever.  Thing is, one of the boys starts to discover he has deep feelings for his best friend.  To complicate things further, when they arrive at the camping site where all the other rowing teams are based one of the teams - Queerschlog - is made up of cute, out-and-proud, gay boys that don't mind stirring shit up.  Cue comedy of disasters, mistaken identities and broken hearts in this lovely, low key coming of age story.

It's the sort of perfect film for a Sunday afternoon.