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Forgotten Roads : a brilliant new queer Chilean drama
Despite all the problems in the world, 2020 has seen a remarkable crop of such excellent queer debut feature films from first time directors/writers. Forgotten Roads from Chilean filmmaker Nicol Ruiz Benavides is right up there amongst them. Kudos for both his script and his visual interpretation but especially for the sublimely nuanced performance…
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The Ballroom Boys : where you have to have balls to survive
ACORN TV is Queerguru’s favorite ‘go-to’ TV Channel for the best in British TV programs that are worthy of sharing around the globe. Our latest discovery from them is The Ballroom Boys. In the world of competitive ballroom, there’s a serious shortage of young male dancers, and hundreds of girls lining up for every…
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VILOM : making homosexuality legal is not always enough
Vilom is a new queer Indian film that isn the writing/directing debut of actor Sunder Pal. It is one of those movies that demand a great deal of patience from the viewer for the whole first half. A combination of stiff acting with an equally wooden script make it actually painful to sit through.…
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Rialto : an exploration of masculinity
Rialto, the sophomore feature film from Scottish filmmaker Philip Mackie Burns was written by queer Irish playwright Mark O’Halloran who adapted from his own award-winning stage play ‘Trade’. Incidentally O’Halloran also wrote the script of the stunning film Viva which in 2015 was Ireland’s Official Submission for Best Foreign Film at the Academy…
