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Queerguru reviews ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT the fiction film debut from Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia winner of Cannes Palme d’Or
Payal Kapadia’s fiction feature debut “All We Imagine As Light” is set in contemporary India, which in itself is quite a rarity. She is a compelling storyteller and for this delicate and very human tale, she has already picked up the Grand Prix Award at Cannes for the film, and this week a…
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Queerguru reviews AFTER 82 : The Untold UK’s AIDS Crisis Story (now streaming FREE on You Tube)
The documentary AFTER 82 shoud be compulsive viewing for the entire LGBTQ+ community. It covers the worst time in our history, and in part makes for tough viewing for all of us who physically lived through this period. There was this undeniable feeling of helplessness as the AIDS pandemic indiscriminately ravaged through the very…
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Queerguru reviews SOLO a story about the different layers of a drag queen’s quest for love
This exhilarating look at Montreal’s drag scene is the third movie directed by Sophie Dupuis and staring Theodore Pellerin. He plays Simon, make up artist by day, star drag queen at night, who lives with his best friend who is also his sister Maud. When we first see him he is on stage pouring…
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Queerguru reviews Roman Zabarauskas’s THE WRITER at image+nation. Montreal LGBTQ film festival
Roman Zabarauskas is one of a very rare breed. Not only he is a queer filmmaker in Lithuania, a country not exactly well- known for its LGBTQ cinema, but he has a refreshing approaching to powerful storytelling. This is just his 4th feature (we loved The Lawyer his 3rd film) but it shows a…
