queertiques
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The Wound
Understanding the rites of passage for other cultures other than one’s own is often tough, but this new movie, the debut feature from white South African filmmaker John Trengove, focuses on an African tribal ritual that seems positively unbearable, and nigh on impossible to understand. Shot in a remote part of his country, it is the story…
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The Ring Thing
When Sarah (Sarah Wharton) is sorting through boxes at her mother’s house she comes across her father’s wedding ring that he left when he walked out several years ago. Without thinking she shows her find to her girlfriend Kristen (Nicole Pursell) when they meet up later in Provincetown on the beach for a picnic, who naturally…
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Seventeen aka Siebzehn
This intriguing coming of age movie is set in Lanzenkirchen in Lower Austria, the home town of the writer/director Monja Art, so it is probably safe to say that some of the trials and tribulations of the teenagers involved in this story are drawn from her own life experiences. The problems that seem to vex this one…
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The Fabulous Allan Carr
Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz has added another subject to his series of documentaries on iconic LGBT figures which so far have included Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon, Tab Hunter Confidential, I Am Divine, and Vito. This time his subject Allan Carr may be not quite so well known to the general public, but his successful career…
