• Queerguru @BFI Flare : FIREBIRD a tale of life, love and loss

    Queerguru @BFI Flare : FIREBIRD a tale of life, love and loss

    Firebird is an enormously satisfying and complete film. It tells a full tale of life, and love and loss from its beginning right up to an end that could never need or want a sequel.  Peeter Rebane‘s story of two Soviet military recruits, a pilot officer and a private, falling in love on a military base…

  • Diary of a Film : Niven Govinden reviewed by Jonathan Kemp

    Diary of a Film : Niven Govinden reviewed by Jonathan Kemp

    At the heart of Niven Govinden’s short novel is the romantic off-screen love affair between two actors, the leading men in the narrator’s latest film. The narrator, known only as Maestro, originally from some East European country and now in his mid-fifties, is a successful film director attending a film festival in Italy for the…

  • Queerguru @ BFI Flare : Rebel Dykes : London in the 1980’s

    Queerguru @ BFI Flare : Rebel Dykes : London in the 1980’s

      In the opening minutes of this powerful documentary we hear a voice that says ‘ we were young, working-class and poor: we were dykes NOT lesbians.”  It is a statement of fact but there is a slight edge to it which we take as a warning not to misinterpret who this group of queer women…

  • Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews  BOY MEETS BOY

    Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews BOY MEETS BOY

    Warning: This film contains penetration of social bubbles, unsanitized hands, and explicit bare facing. It is for fantasy purposes only. In Daniel Sanchez Lopez’s Boy Meets Boy two gay men meet each other on the dancefloor in Berlin after 24 hours of clubbing. At first, it’s the hazy intimacy of drugs that brings them together…