2014

  • SLEEPLESS IN NEW YORK

    Swiss Oscar-Nominated Director Christian  Frei’s new documentary is his well-meaning attempt to investigate the power of love and how to survive once you lose it.  With the involvement of Dr Helen Fisher PhD a Biological Anthropologist and Professor at Rutgers (and the author of 5 books on ‘romantic love’) Frei follows three love-lorn people as they…

  • Holiday aka Feriado

    Holiday aka Feriado

    They immediately take off in a hurry to be followed in hot pursuit by Uncle Jorge and his thuggish bodyguards and when they catch up to them, they beat one of them to a pulp.  Juampi though helps the other one escape and he jumps on the back of the man’s motorbike as he speeds…

  • Life Most Wonderful

    Life Most Wonderful

    When watching Bulgarian filmmaker Svetoslav Draganov’s new documentary about the three Liliev brothers unfold, you can be forgiven in thinking at first that there is possibly more than a touch or irony in the title of his film. The brothers share their surname, but that’s where the similarity ends. Their mother died a few years…

  • The Normal Heart

    The Normal Heart

    Larry Kramer is perpetually angry. This prominent loud-mouthed writer and gay activist has been shouting out his highly personal take on some of life’s iniquities and in-equalities for the past 40 years and has made himself famously unpopular. It was his exasperation with the apathy of the gay community when the AIDS scare first started…