Sweetheart
2025 · 18m · UK
Directed by Luke Wintour
Genres: drama, historical, LGBTQ+
In 1723 London, a young man discovered cruising in a public toilet takes refuge in a Molly House, where he is initiated into the city's clandestine queer subculture on the eve of its festivities.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A historically rigorous and aesthetically assured period short that recovers a suppressed corner of queer history — the Molly House — with the warmth and craft of a far larger production.
1723 Molly House, Sundance 2025, period queer subculture. The historical specificity is unusual and the production looks serious — this is the rare period short that picks a genuinely fresh setting.
Sundance 2025 selection set in a 1723 Molly House — rare period territory for queer cinema, and Eben Figueiredo plus Ian Gelder is a real ensemble. Eighteen minutes that gets to be both costume drama AND community portrait.
Festivals
- Sundance Film Festival 2025