queertiques
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A Distant Place : a finely nuanced Korean queer family drama
A Distant Place, the debut feature film from Korean filmmaker Kuo-Young Park, and is a remarkable finely nuanced tale that evolved into such an exquisite film as beautiful as the stunning rural setting. It is the first Korean queer film that I have ever seen and I have to confess although I was unsure…
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Queerguru’s pick of MUST SEE FILMS at Reel Affirmations Film Fest in Washington DC
Reel Affirmations, Washington DC’s annual LGBTQ+ Film Festival is by The DC Center, a nonprofit organization offering several different programs to the local LGBTQ community. The Fest was established in 1981 and has been through a few major changes and reincarnations since then, but is still recognized as one of the largest queer…
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Caer (Caught) is an extraordinary hybrid film about the plight of trans-Latina sex workers
Caer (Caught) is an extraordinary film that takes an unusual approach to highlight a very serious problem. Australian-based filmmaker Nicola Mai’s remarkable hybrid documentary is about drawing our attention to the problematic situation facing trans-Latina sex workers in Queens NY. Mai chooses to do this by merging fiction and documentary, and this way he…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews NORTH BY CURRENT an excellent doc about family reconciliation on PBS
North by Current is a documentary about family reconciliation and premiered very successfully at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. After the inconclusive death of his young niece Kalla, filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown during the bleak winter of 2015. He was originally preparing to make a film about a…
