Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen Israeli filmmaker Nitzan Gilady crammed his parents and two grown up brothers and one sister in lawn into an RV to travel thousands of miles across country for a week to go visit the Grand Canyon I was very skeptical. What on earth could happen over the Passover holiday with the family living on top of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesPhoon (Asda Panichkul) and Yuke (Nat Sakdatorn) a handsome urban professional gay couple in their 30’s live in a sleek modern apartment that has all the trappings that come with success. They even have an adorable 7 year old son called Butr (Arituch Pipattangkul) whom Phoon had adopted at birth from an orphanage after his mother … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFatima 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 … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor anyone who has traveled alone the first 12 wordless minutes of Fin de Sigle are so recognizably real that you don’t realize you are being set up for a love story that is not quite a poem, a painting or a dream. Gustavo, or Ocho (Juan Barberini) as he is known by his childhood … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis documentary is the story of Phong a 20-something-year-old Vietnamese transwoman as she goes about realigning her body to finally becoming the woman she has always rightly felt she was. The youngest of six siblings, Phong could never identify the source of her deep childhood depression until she left her small village home to go to … Continue reading
