Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews ALL THE FIRES a meditation on solitude, acceptance and overcoming fears while playing with fire.

Bruno (Sebastian Rojano) is a melancholic teenager living in Mexico City with his mother Inés (Ximena Ayala). From his bedroom he uploads home videos, chats with  his friend Ian (Ari López) and with Daniela (Natalia Quiroz)  an online acquaintance in Durango that he doesn’t know  in person yet. Pyromaniac Bruno likes to make little fires with … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews ANY OTHER WAY:  THE JACKIE SHANE STORY one of music’s pioneering Black trans performers.

  In the 1960s Jackie Shane was a groundbreaking R&B star on the rise, she dared to say the things other people didn’t say, at a time when she knew she couldnt be who she really was. Under those premises, and throughout the film, animated sequences that resemble watercolor paintings, illustrate about Jackie´s doings, concerns, … Continue reading

Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews “AS WE LIKE IT” a Taiwanese adaptation of Shakespeare with an all-female cast

  Love flourishes no matter what in William Shakespeare´s As You Like It, a pastoral comedy from the early XVI Century.  The play has been updated in a whimsical film with an entirely female cast and a kitsch touch. The directors dedicate their film to Shakespeare and to the patriarchy who would not allow female … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews ACSEXABILITY an unmissable very personal story from Brazilian filmmaker Daniel Gonçalves

  DESIRE IS A HUMAN RIGHT, FOR EVERYONE.  Joao Paulo Lima The first sequence of this Brazilian documentary is a long descriptive one, orally rich and visually intriguing  with silhouettes that fade out to allow what follows, a profoundly human narrative right up to the end. The film is a salutation to the ancestors  whose … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews BEAUTIFUL BEINGS A tale of friendship and complicity among teenagers in Reykjavik

  Baldur is fourteen years old, his mother is a drug addict, his sister drifts around and the stepfather is in jail. Balli (Áskell Einar Pálmason)  is constantly bullied by his classmates as presented in the first part of the film. Leader Konni, aka “the Animal” (Viktor Benóný Benediktsson)  and pals Addi (Birgir Dagur Bjarkason … Continue reading

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