queertiques
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Queer Cinema at its very best : Toronto International Film Fest
Right at the tail end of a very busy round of Virtual Queer Film Festivals this summer comes the mainstream Toronto International Film Fest an important milestone in the moviemakers annual calendar. One of the best things about TIFF is that its eclectic program mixes the best of the new blockbusters with some superb indie…
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Dating Amber : and pretending to be straight
Out-gay filmmaker David Freyne returns to his native Kildare in Ireland for the his latest film a delightful coming-out comedy that has a more than a passing reference to his own story . Set in 1995 a period Freyne comments was a time when so many films about being gay focused on people dying…
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Gimme One : Andrew Hebden reviews a BFI London World Premiere
Queerguru won’t be camped out at London’s Leicester Square for the British Film Festival this year. Social distancing has forced most of the content online. We’re gutted. On lockdown since March it’s another grim nail in the coffin of the UK art scene. Or so we thought. However this little surprise from director Montague…
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No Hard Feelings : a queer story of race, belonging and love
When Iranian/German filmmaker Faraz Shariat was 19 years old he imported a security detacher from China and used it to take off the security tags from clothes in department stores. In time he got caught shoplifting and was sentenced to community service which he did by becoming a translator in a refugee shelter. That was…
