queertiques
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Woman On Fire
Brooke Guinan’s second-generation New York City firefighter father is a hero. He was one of the first responders who worked tirelessly at the site of the World Trade Center for weeks after 9/11. Brooke, a firefighter too, is also very much a heroine for a very different reason. She is the only openly-trans member of…
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I Dream In Another Language
Mexican filmmaker Ernesto Contreras’s fourth feature film with a script by his brother (Carlos Contreras) is a magical mythical tale about the search for a language that is on the brink of extinction, because the last two remaining elderly speakers are bitter enemies who haven’t exchanged a word for the past 50 years. Martin (Fernando Álvarez…
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100 Men
When we read that New Zealand filmmaker Paul Oremland had made a documentary about the 100 sexual partners he has had over the past 40 years, we were really most impressed. Not with the number of conquests that he has clocked up, but by the sheer fact that after all this time he could…
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4 Days
The 4 Days referred too in this Filipino coming-of-age story take place over several years, and always around Valentine Day. When Mark (Mikoy Morales) is assigned to be the new college roommate of Derek (Sebastian Castro) he has to adjust to the fact that Derek always has a new girlfriend in tow. In fact through…
