queertiques

  • Queerguru’s Favorite Transgender Movies : 2020

    Queerguru’s Favorite Transgender Movies : 2020

      Every January for the past few years the Queerguru team have gotten together to review our film reviews of the year.  We focus on all LGBTQ movies but particularly  try to see as many Transgender documentaries and feature films that get released.  We are thrilled to discover that each year there are more and…

  • A Skeleton In The Closet

    A Skeleton In The Closet

      For his third feature film 30 year old queer Argentinian filmmaker Nicolás Teté revisits the theme of ‘coming out’.  It’s obviously a subject  that weighs very seriously with him which may be a reflection of his own personal journey.  This the story of Manual (Facundo Gambandé) an architecture student in Buenos Aires.  We first…

  • Goodbye Mother : a charming queer romance from Vietnam

    Goodbye Mother : a charming queer romance from Vietnam

      Goodbye Mother is one of those cases of don’t judge a Book (or in this case movie) but its cover.  Having wrongly assumed that this was a straightforward story of a closeted gay man taking a boyfriend home to Vietnam for the first time, and being forced to choose between his conservative family, or…

  • Martin Margiela : In His Own Words

    Martin Margiela : In His Own Words

      How do you make an intimate documentary  when your subject refuses to be photographed?  Ask Reiner Holzemer who hot from his acclaimed profile on Belgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten he turned his attention one of Noten’s peers Martin Margiela.  To be honest it was Margiela’s demand was hardly news to Holzemer as he…