image+nation. LGBTQueer Montreal is an annual eleven-day film festival, which takes place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Held in November each year, the festival is dedicated to sharing the stories and experiences of the whole spectrum of the LGBTQ community and is the first festival of its kind in Canada. The festival’s name was selected to … Continue reading
My Partner , the feature film debut of director Keli’I Grace, a native Hawaiian visual storyteller is a very unique touching coming-of-age story. Written by Lance D Collins also from Hawaii, it is to our knowledge, the first movie filmed in English, Hawaiian and Tagalog……the national language of the Philippines. This how ever … Continue reading
Set in Pre-war Turin with Benito Mussolini´s speeches as background, the film shows the journey into adulthood of a young woman from the countryside coming to the city with her brother, in a story held by pins. Ginia (Yile Yara Vianello) is a skillful and dedicated seamstress, dress and pattern maker working at a … Continue reading
The Tribeca Film Festival is not just a launching pad for a whole spectrum of the best new independent feature movies, but it also premieres an impressive array of short films too. Ripe is one such case. Made by a queer duo of filmmakers known as Tusk, its a charming coming out-story that happens … Continue reading
Australia’s rough, macho culture is examined from a queer perspective in Sunflower, a tough coming-of-age, coming-out drama set in the suburbs of Melbourne. Director/writer Gabriel Carrubba’s debut introduces us to Leo (Liam Mollica), a handsome, strapping seventeen-year-old high school student. His home is a working-class Greek-Italian household with his truck driver dad (Sal Galofaro), mum … Continue reading
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