Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor his debut feature film Chilean writer/director Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo adapted his own short film San Cristabel which won the prestigious Teddy Award at the Berlinale in 2015. It is a beautifully executed queer love story that is a near perfect as it could be. Lucas (Samuel González) has just won a scholarship to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe lazy summer is over and Leo and his best friend Giovana are back in High School for the new term when curly headed new boy Gabriel joins the class for the first time. Suddenly the cosy closeness of the two old friends is threatened when Giovana discovers that the newcomer will not be her … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesUnrequited love is tough, especially when you are still in your early 20’s and you have been silently wrestling with it for the past 15 years. Charlie thinks he has it all worked out and that if he hangs on in their long enough then maybe his best friend Sebastian, who he is inseparable … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesEver since Ang Lee’s earth-shatteringly beautiful ‘Brokeback Mountain’ we have had a thing about cowboys. Just as in that movie when Jack Twist says to Ennis ‘I wish I knew how to quit you’, we cannot stop yearning for a rugged man in spurs on horseback. Or in fact any type of Cowboys, including the ones … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen 60-year-old Alice comes to Toronto six months after becoming a widow, her daughter Suzanne a lawyer is too busy at work to be home to greet her mother. She asks her unemployed friend Tru to step in at the last minute to look after Alice but then is shocked when she later arrives home … Continue reading
