After a festival run that began with a world premiere in Competition at the 2025 Edinburgh International Film Festival and continued with a North American premiere at NewFest, Elliot Tuttle’s “Blue Film” is now headed to theaters in May. NewFest praised the film as “at once erotic and deeply unsettling,” with particular emphasis on its two lead performances.
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The new trailer centers on Aaron Eagle, a fetish camboy played by Kieron Moore, who agrees to visit an anonymous client for $50,000, only to find a masked man, played by Reed Birney, waiting with a camcorder and a series of invasive questions. As the night unfolds, the encounter turns into a reckoning tied to Aaron’s past.
Tuttle wrote and directed the film, which Obscured Releasing will open in select theaters on May 8. The company’s synopsis describes the movie as a sultry chamber piece, and that tracks with the trailer’s stripped-down tension: one house, two men, and a steadily collapsing barrier between performance, confession, and desire. The producing team includes Bijan Kazerooni, Will Youmans, Adam Kersh, and Waylon Sall, with Mark Duplass credited as consulting producer.
NewFest’s program notes describe “Blue Film” as a chamber drama about sex, memory, and connection, anchored by layered turns from Moore and Birney. That same intimate pressure comes through in the trailer, which keeps everything locked on the shifting balance of power between the two men rather than overselling the material with cheap shock tactics. “Blue Film” opens May 8. Watch the trailer below.
