queertiques
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Breaking Fast: how one gay Muslim falls in love
Writer/director Mike Mosallam’s debut feature, the enchanting BREAKING FAST, is part queer romantic comedy and part tutorial on the ups and downs of being a gay Arab Muslim living in West Hollywood. Somehow the two are a good fit, so it makes us feel good that love (eventually) conquers all and we’ve learnt something…
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Moffie : Soldier stripped bare
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…
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El Principe aka The Prince : a homoerotic Chilean jail drama
El Principe aka The Prince, the directing debut of filmmaker Sebastián Muñoz is one of most homoerotic prison movies we have seen for some time, and it bears the influences of other queer movies of that genre. The main difference of this tale set in Allende’s Chile in the 1970s is that young Jaime…
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Stranger Hearts: a trio of unhappy souls
KEVIN JAMES THORNTON has followed up his disappointing debut feature “How To Get From Here To There‘ a low budget queer sci-fi movie with this new web series for Dekkoo. Stranger Hearts follows three gay men from wildly different backgrounds whose lives would somehow one day overlap. Billy (musician Matt Moran) has all the…
