Tomorrow, March 12th 2016 at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin Texas there is the North American Premiere of an extraordinary new LGBT movie called LOEV.  This debut feature from writer/director Sudhanshu Saria is set in India where homosexuality is still illegal and so the whole movie had to be made on the ‘down-low’.

This gentle ground-breaking drama follows the story of a young gay couple struggling to keep their relationship going, whilst of one of their close friends tries to comes to terms with his unrequited love. 

Loev may have a totally different tenor than a European or American queer movie but it still strikes a chord with its measured tone and its heartfelt sentiment.  It blends the needs and desires of a gay culture that may be less active publicly than most but it is one which still goes through all the usual dilemmas and highs and lows in its search for happiness and establishing relationships. Saria leaves out several parts of the puzzle of this story to ensure that not everything fits neatly into place, and so that  we can draw our own conclusions along the way. An added dimension to is that Loev also serves as his own public coming out too.

After its US Premiere LOEV is screened in London next week as part of  BFI Flare London’s Gay & Lesbian Film Festival .

For our full review of Loev click HERE.

Further information : SXSW Festival    & BFI FLARE