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
DO NOT MAKE UGLY SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL Reverend Petter Simmons is an Anglican Vicar advocating for change at St. John´s Church in a small town in New Zealand . He is a widower, has a teenage daughter but is now in love with Samoan Jason, who served 8 years in prison and is the actual … 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
This third feature film from Welsh/Egyptian filmmaker Sally El-Hosaini continues her concern with gender/sexual identity that she explored so beautifully in My Brother The Devil. She has also set UNICORNS in present day UK where the younger members of immigrant families feel stuck in the middle of two different cultures that are unsure … Continue reading
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