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El Principe aka The Prince : a homoerotic Chilean jail drama

  El Principe aka The Prince, the directing debut of filmmaker Sebastián Muñoz is  one of  most homoerotic prison movies we have seen for some time, and it bears the influences of other queer movies of that genre.  The main difference of this tale set in Allende’s Chile in the 1970s is that  young Jaime … Continue reading

Enfant Terrible : the story of queer German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Enfant Terrible is a perfect name for this unsettling biopic about the queer German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder.  Filmmaker Oskar Roehler spares no punches in telling the tale of this outrageous egomaniac who treated everybody in his life so vilely and in a manner that could not be justified by the fact that his films … Continue reading

Equation to an Unknown : a 1980 masterpiece of French queer porn lovingly restored

  Queer US film distributor ALTERED INNOCENCE was founded in 2015 and is dedicated to releasing LGBTQ & Coming-of-Age films with an artistic edge.  With increasing censorship brought about by powerfully biased homophobic Social Media, there are less opportunities for alternative filmmakers to get their art in front of the audiences they so deserve. One … Continue reading

Erik & Erika

  Erik and Erika is the dramatization of the extraordinary life story of Austrian World Skiing Champion Erika Schinegger who relinquished her title when she finally became Erik. Born in 1948 to a farmer’s wife, as the baby had no physical signs of any genitalia, the midwife declared that she was a girl, and the family … Continue reading

Ernesto : a teenager wanders around Rome looking for ‘himself’.

    Ernesto the debut movie by Italian couple  Alice De Luca and Giacomo Raffaelli makes too many demands on the viewer.  This experimental wee film shakily shot on a handheld camera and that contains long sections of silence,  and a muddled narrative, requires a great deal of patience to keep viewing until the final credits It’s … Continue reading

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