The Nini -Treadwell collection is a love letter to the world. The approx. 60 min documentary shows a selection of vintage photographs of the accidental collection that are included in the coffee table book published by 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2019. The book has been properly reviewed by Queerguru here. The collection of photographs … Continue reading
ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FROM OAXACA TO FINLANDIA… The movie opens with the image of a boy listening to a conch shell that reminded me of the portrait of Edouard Boubat and also Nina Ricci´s Farouche perfume from 1973. After the boy´s poetic image we see a sequence of tragedies … Continue reading
Writer and director Leyla Yilmaz in her second film Not Knowing (“Bilmemek”) gives a glance of Turkish society in general, and in particular, the portrait of a family of three, living in pre-pandemic Istambul. Sinan (Yurdaer Okur), the father, works with containers at the port for a big sea transportation corporation that has … Continue reading
WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR, YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE… Canadian filmmaker Charlie David has been exploring the LBBTQI2S experience and reveals to us Pat Rocco (1934-2018) who lived in those days when police made raids against the ‘notorious’ members of the queer community in the United States of America and when the act of … Continue reading
Queens of the Revolution is the filmmaker Rebecca Heidenberg‘s first feature film. It begins with the ritual of Ms. Cinthya dressing up for her performance at El Mejunje, a cultural center in Santa Clara, the capital of the Central Cuban province of Villa Clara. The city of Santa Clara, also known as Liberal City, … Continue reading