Mapplethorpe : Look at the Pictures
The prolific gay filmmakers Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato start this latest documentary of theirs on the celebrated and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in 1989 with the scene of the right wing Republican Senator Jesse Helms angrily pleading with the Senate to stop the public funding of the latest Mapplethorpe Exhibition. The fact it didn’t actually receive any monies … Continue reading
Marathon
The celebrated gay poet William Meredith was 52 years old when he met and fell in love with poetry student Richard Harteis, less than half his age, in 1972. In the early days of their relationship Meredith’s professional reputation continued to grow as he hiked up countless of honors as Poetry Consultant to the Library of … Continue reading
Marco : the tale of a queer Syrian refugee
Acclaimed writer Saleem Haddad’s first foray into filmmaking MARCO is a heartbreaking tale about the plight of a undocumented Syrian LGBTQ refugee in London who becomes a sex worker simply so he can afford to eat. After a long arduous journey by way of Turkey and the Refugee Camp in Calais to being a … Continue reading
Margarita, With A Straw
Laila may be wheelchair bound because she has cerebral palsy, but it hardly seems an obstacle to stop this young student at the University of Delhi from doing exactly what she wants to do. Encouraged by her middle-class parents, she never lets her disability stop her getting exactly what she wants in life. That is until … Continue reading
MARILYN: an Argentinean coming-of-age story that doesnt end well
Teenage Marcos (Walter Rodríguez) lives in a remote part of Argentina on his family’s dairy farm with his parents and his elder sibling. They barely eake out a living to support them all and whilst his mother Olga (Catalina Saavedra) toughened by their daily existence is insistence that Marcos becomes a farm laborer, his … Continue reading