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Levan Akin on AND THEN WE DANCED
When Swedish/Georgian Filmmaker Levan Akin‘s queer romance And Then We Danced premiered at Cannes Film Festival it received a 10 min standing ovation : since then it has picked up numerous Awards around the globe. was Sweden’s Official Submission for the Acadamy Awards and has just played at Sundance Film Festival. Now on the eve of its release in the US…
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Hump Porn Festival : amateur porn for (almost) all tastes and kinks
Dan Savage’s HUMP! Film Festival has been taking pornography all around the US for the past 15 years. It’s far from conventional porn (if there is such a thing …) as its all created by people whp aren’t potn stars BUT want to be one for a weekend. Each piece is less than 5…
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MOFFIE : a harrowing coming-of-age tale
The fact that ‘moffie’ is the South African equivalent of ‘faggot’ sets the tone for one of the most harrowing coming-of-age films we have ever seen. It is set in South Africa in 1981 in the midst of apartheid where the white minority still dominate and persecute the ‘colored’ population. They however are not…
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Queerguru’s picks of the Queer Movies at Glasgow Film Fest
Flavio Alves’s award winning film THE GARDEN LEFT BEHIND finally gets its UK premiere at Glasgow Film Festival next month It’s the tale of Tina a young trans woman and her grandmother, as they navigate Tina’s transition and struggle brings home the stark reality of trying to build a life as undocumented immigrants in…
