Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesActor Tim True steps behind the camera for his directing debut for the drama Here Awhile which he also cowrote. It’s the story of a prodigal lesbian sibling, 30-something-year-old Anna (Anna Camp), who has finally come home just to die. Her cancer is well-advanced and inoperable so she has returned to the family home … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesOur thanks to Irelands GCN (just celebrating its 33rd year as Ireland’s National LGBTQ+ press) for making us aware of this cute short queer film from writer/director Orla Keaveney . Set in the Covid 19 Lockdown, ‘Hiding Places’ is about the how tough it can be when you are still not out to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis debut feature film from Bora Kim of a quiet and confused 14 year old Korean schoolgirl is loosely based on her own giving a real sense of authenticity to this unique coming-of-age story. Plus its also set in 1994 which proved a significant year in South Korea’s history. Eighth-grader Eun-hee (Ji-hu Park) is the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe horrifying real-life story of the mass-murderer Olga Hepnarova, who was the last woman to be hung in Czechoslovakia in 1975 aged 22 after she deliberately drove a truck through a line of people waiting at a bus-stop, makes for very bleak viewing. Shot in black and white in the bleak depressed town where this … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesPalestinian writer-director Maysaloun Hamoud’s extremely delightful debut movie about three Arab-Israeli single women living together in Tel Aviv has deservedly won her copious awards around the world. The story about a conservative Muslim woman who moves in with a couple of partying flatmates features drugs, alcohol and homosexuality all of which are taboo in that culture … Continue reading
