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Present Still Perfect : a queer Thai love story

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  Only recently we shared  the announcement that  GagaOOLala  the largest queer Asian streaming service has now gone global making it the first  and only queer Asian video-on-demand service in the world . (http://c3f.ab6.myftpupload.com/the-first-global-queer-asian-video-on-demand-service-is-launched/) Now hot on the heels of that Queerguru has just received two movies from new-wave Thai filmmaker  Aam Anusorn Soisa-ngim : … Continue reading



Queerguru’s David Lagachu reviews LONESOME an Australian queer love story refreshingly told with sex-positivity

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  The opening scene of Lonesome resembles a Hollywood Western as our protagonist Casey (Josh Lavery) keeps pace with the sun while running away from his reality. He dons a cowboy hat and the classic blue jeans and white T-shirt combo that immediately endow him with an eye-candy-cum-rebellious persona. His face has the sharpness as … Continue reading



Queerguru’s David Lagachu reviews PRIVATE DESERT a Brazilian queer drama that is about hopelessness and hope at the same time

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  The film opens with the protagonist Daniel (Antonio Saboia), a police officer, jogging in the middle of the night. The scene immediately highlights a sense of him running away from himself and the almost palpable loneliness. In the first half an hour of the film, the strong bond between Daniel and his ex-police officer … Continue reading



Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews EISMAYER a compelling military queer love story based on real life

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  The film begins with a lament, it is winter in Central Europe, and the camera moves out from a ruined landscape to a forest, this sadly beautiful shot repeats for a while and it is interesting to wonder how it refers to the story we are about to view. Indoors at a military center, … 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



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