queertiques

  • That’s Not Us

    That’s Not Us

    The Summer is over and before Fall can kick in three 20-something-year-old couples who are good friends leave the NY for a weekend break together in a borrowed house on a pretty island somewhere.  As soon as they arrive and make claims to their bedrooms for their short  vacation the kvetching starts. Rather than focus on…

  • The Firefly

    The Firefly

    From Colombia, not a country that one usually associates with LGBT movies, comes this very touching melodrama about two women who are mourning the recent tragic death of the same man, and who surprise themselves with how things develop when they get together to share their loss.   Andres (Manuel José Chávez) had been estranged from…

  • Girl Gets Girl

    Girl Gets Girl

    Inés’s (Celia Freijeiro) life is always a mess because she simply wants it all.  Or at least she wants to make out with every single good looking girl that she comes across regardless of the circumstances.  We learn this in the opening moments of this hilarious Spanish farce in which it seems that every woman…

  • Fatima, Queen of the Night

    Fatima, Queen of the Night

    Fatima is 40. Not that she looks it, but as she stares into her mirror she thinks about her life’s journey that got her to this point.  This enchanting new movie from Cuban actor turned filmmaker Jorge Perugorria is one day in Fatima’s life as she tells her story in a series of flashbacks of how she…