Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews ELEPHANT a Polish intimate story about choosing freedom above family obligations.

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  Polish landscape and rural life are beautifully shot in this fictional drama that portrays families living rooted in tradition and discomfort,  no doubt the effects of the last strong Soviet influence on Poland still project its shadow in the lives of the older ones in the small village. We are introduced to young Bartek … Continue reading



Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews Marco Berger’s ‘The Astronaut Lovers’  the Opening Night Gala Film at Queer Screen Mardi Gras Festival in Sydney

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No astronaut will refuse to look at  the stars… In this romantic comedy from Argentinian Teddy Award Winner Marco Berger (one of Queerguru’s very favorite  queer filmmakers)  Javier Orán and Lautaro Bettoni are Pedro and Maxi,  friends from childhood reunited years later  at a beach house with a group of friends, during a weekend. While … Continue reading



Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews “Nelly and Nadine “: the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944

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    The film captured me from the beginning;  a sequence of a newsreel from April 28th, 1945 shot at Malmö Harbor, Sweden,  in which a large group of women reaches freedom after German concentration camps. We see them smile and say hello to the camera, there is Nadine with her white scarf, striped uniform, … Continue reading



Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews THE JUDGEMENT : the journey of a gay couple in love in homophobic Egypt

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  “Egypt, where to live between fantasy and reality almost doesn’t exist” The call for the Muslim prayer out loud in the streets of Alexandria, Egypt seems like the background music of this fictional dark tale of two young men in love.      It is June 2020.Mo -Mohamed- (Junes Zahdi) and Hisham  (Freddy Shahin) … Continue reading



Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews ‘The Lost Boys  (Le Paradis)’ where to fall in love is against the rules

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  A sequence of still images of a place that seems to be a mansion into the woods introduces us to lonely Joe (Khalil Gharbia) wearing a red t-shirt.  After a while we learn the residence is a juvenile reform center.  Joe has Arab roots and shards of memories with his mother walking on a … Continue reading



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