The film was filmed over the course of 15 days, including 9 nights, on a small budget.
The action of the film begins at 4:27 am and concludes at 5:59 am. The film stars Geoffrey Couët and François Nambot as two gay men who meet during the film's opening 20-minute scene at L'Impact, a gay sex club, and follows them as they get to know each other during the next two hours, biking and walking in northeast Paris, visiting a hospital, riding the metro, and visiting one's apartment, encountering a woman on the Paris Métro and a counter server in a kebab shop. The film won the Audience Award at the Berlin Festival's 2016 Teddy Awards. It was shown in the Panorama section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo (French: Théo et Hugo dans le même bateau also known as Theo and Hugo in some territories) is a 2016 French erotic romantic drama film written and directed by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau.
