queertiques
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Futuro Beach
Karim Ainouz’s mesmerising melancholic drama starts and ends in a very similar fashion. In the opening scenes we see two motorbikers racing across the sand dunes and when they reach the end of the beach discard their bikes and clothes and run off into the high rolling waves. They soon get caught in riptides and despite…
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Xenia
Two weeks after his Albanian mother has drunk herself to death, 15 year old Danny with a lollipop stuck in his mouth and his white pet rabbit crammed into his backpack, takes the Ferry from his home on Crete to go to Athens to break the news to his brother who now lives there. Danny…
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Four Moons aka Cuatro Lunas
This enchanting debut feature from Mexican writer/director Sergio Tovar Velarde is essentially 4 stories about love and heartbreak from 4 different generations of men and they all share a common theme of self-acceptance. The youngest and most tenderest of the group is a shy 11 year old called Maurizio who develops a crush on Oliver his…
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Alex & Ali
In 1967 Alex a young student from North Carolina who had just graduated in International Affairs volunteered for the American Peace Corps and was sent to Iran to teach English. Whilst there he met and fell in love with Ali a local boy a few years younger than him, and for the next ten years…
