2009
From Queerguru archives : A MATTER OF SIZE a 2009 Israeli ‘coming out movie’ of a different kind
Herzi (Itzik Cohen) is a very likable obese man, living in a small town in Israel, who gets mad when he is thrown out of his Dieting Club by its skinny tyrannical leader who calls him a whale cos he is actually putting on weight. To make matters worse, he then gets fired from…
The King of Escape
Tubby French tractor salesman Armand is having some sort of mid-life crisis. Openly gay with a penchant for mature married men that he picks up in a cruising area outside of the country town where he lives, his life takes a dramatic turn when he jumps to the defense of a teenage girl who is…
Before Your Eyes
Life is tough enough for 10 year-old Gülîstan and Firat her younger brother and their baby sister living with their family in a small apartment in Diyarbakir in the heart of Turkish Kurdistan amidst the uncertainty of the political unrest in the region. But then when her mother and her father, a celebrated journalist, are assassinated by…
THE LUNCHBOX
Ila a young Indian housewife feels totally neglected by her husband and so her older upstairs neighbor suggests that to put some spice back into her marriage she should start with spicing up his food. Everyday she prepares a lunch box that is picked by one of Mumbai’s 5000 plus white coated ‘dabbawallahs’ who, through…
