Lover Boy is the second short written and directed by Irish filmmaker Steven McKenna. It’s the coming-out-story of Mark ( a very cute Jamie LLoyd Belton) who in the course of a single night in his small home town tries his hand at intimacy with three different man with less then successful results . … Continue reading
When queer documentarian Eric Steel adapted David Bezmozgis ‘s short story MINYAN into his first feature film the narrative became much more personal. Like the protagonist David (Samuel H. Levine) ., Steel grew up in a New York Jewish family in the 1980’s when being gay in the midst of an AIDS pandemic was … Continue reading
Bram is in his 20’s and a good-looking Belgian/Turkish gay man who is rather smitten with blond, blue-eyed Kevin who works with his mother at their wee Cafe in Antwerp. Unusually for self-confident Bram who subsides his Waiter’s job by some small time drug dealing on the side, he is however unsure of either Kevin’s … Continue reading
At one point in this movie the lead character, Nicholas Van der Swar (Kai Luke Brummer) is warned “Try to stay invisible” but there is nowhere to hide as director Oliver Hermanus slowly and powerfully strips individuality and intimacy away from him. Conscripted at sixteen into the white supremacist army defending the apartheid of … Continue reading
Mo is the sensitive and intelligent 14 year old son of Egyptian immigrants who live in the working class (blue collar) area of Hackney in London’s East End. He idolises his older brother Rashid who is a real tough guy and amateur boxer who avoids getting a regular job by being member of a street … Continue reading