Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesEven as queer cinema continues to keep evolving it is still something of a surprise to discover yet another new barrier has been broken with the first movie from an unexpected provenance. Writer/director Adam Garnet Jones has done just that by setting and actually making his feature film, a very tender coming-of-age drama, in a First Nation reservation … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAfter escaping from Iran where he was persecuted for being gay, Ramin (Arash Marandi) mistakenly takes the wrong freighter out of the port and ends up stranded in Vera Cruz Mexico. It is hardly the vibrant city that it once was and is now decaying and demoralised like so many of people who seem … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesPolish writer/director Tomascz Wasilewski’s second feature film is a dark tragic love story that you immediately sense from the opening scenes that is doomed. Although it is Poland’s first ever Gay movie, it is so much more a story about the search for one’s identity and about being accepted for one’s own true self and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe latest big queer news from Down Under is not from Australia for a change but it’s smaller near neighbor New Zealand. They have just made an Independent LGBT web series FLUNK: The Exchange which has gone viral literally overnight ……clocking up over 1 million views in its very first month. After getting her … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAxun’s ex son-in-law Mikel is rushed to hospital after a tragic car accident and as he is completely alone, she feels obliged to visit him. Whilst there she meets Maite who’s visiting her brother, also in a coma, and realizes that this is her best friend from high school. In fact the two of … Continue reading