queertiques
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Diamantino
This sophomore feature from American filmmakers Gabriel Abrantes, and Daniel Schmidt is a joyous bizarre tale that is a result of their wonderfully warped imagination. It won’t play well with everyone but if you get pulled in by their sheer lunacy you will so love how it all pans out. It’s the tale of Diamantino (Carloto Cotta) the…
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Giant Little Ones
Teenagers Franky (Josh Wiggins) and Ballas (Darren Mann) have been best friends since kindergarten and are totally inseparable. Both are handsome jocks who are on the school swim team together and very popular with all the girls in their class. Then one drunken night after they have celebrated Franky’s 16th birthday, the two…
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Lúbtha a touching Queer Irish Short Film
Growing up as a teenager In Northern Ireland in the 1990’s in the midst of ‘The Troubles’ was no picnic. In a country torn apart by an extreme religious-led political climate, day-to-day life was tough on all those trying just to survive in the middle of all the conflict. It was even rougher for…
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The Sunday Sessions
Richard Yeagley’s documentary “The Sunday Sessions” makes for very tough and uncomfortable viewing. It’s not just the subject matter of gay-conversion therapy that is so abhorrent and extremely harmful, but the fact the film follows 20-something-year-old vulnerable Nathan Gniewek for a year as he tries to de-gay himself. Gniewek is a very likeable and…
