queertiques
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Just Charlie
Charlie (Harry Gilby) is the star player in his high school football team in Tamworth in the Midlands, so much so that he is spotted by a talent scout who immediately offers him a place in a prestigious Football Academy. His father Paul (Scot Williams) is completely overjoyed as he had been the one pushing…
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Dating My Mother
For his first feature film writer/director Mike Roma reunites with actor Patrick Reilly who starred in his successful TV series Danny the Manny about a cute gay out-of-work actor in Hollywood having to become a nanny to a surly 6 year old simply to survive. This time round Reilly plays Danny a rather obnoxious, aspiring…
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Close Knit
Japanese writer/director Naoko Ogigami’s latest movie is a delightfully sensitive family story that puts a refreshing slant on the continuing dialogue about the transgender community that is the focus of more and more films these days. 11-year-old Tomo (an enchanting and rather sanguine Rin Kakihara) has a single-parent mother who has a habit of suddenly…
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In Between
Palestinian writer-director Maysaloun Hamoud’s extremely delightful debut movie about three Arab-Israeli single women living together in Tel Aviv has deservedly won her copious awards around the world. The story about a conservative Muslim woman who moves in with a couple of partying flatmates features drugs, alcohol and homosexuality all of which are taboo in that culture…
