2020
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Forgotten Roads : a brilliant new queer Chilean drama
Despite all the problems in the world, 2020 has seen a remarkable crop of such excellent queer debut feature films from first time directors/writers. Forgotten Roads from Chilean filmmaker Nicol Ruiz Benavides is right up there amongst them. Kudos for both his script and his visual interpretation but especially for the sublimely nuanced performance…
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The Ballroom Boys : where you have to have balls to survive
ACORN TV is Queerguru’s favorite ‘go-to’ TV Channel for the best in British TV programs that are worthy of sharing around the globe. Our latest discovery from them is The Ballroom Boys. In the world of competitive ballroom, there’s a serious shortage of young male dancers, and hundreds of girls lining up for every…
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Rialto : an exploration of masculinity
Rialto, the sophomore feature film from Scottish filmmaker Philip Mackie Burns was written by queer Irish playwright Mark O’Halloran who adapted from his own award-winning stage play ‘Trade’. Incidentally O’Halloran also wrote the script of the stunning film Viva which in 2015 was Ireland’s Official Submission for Best Foreign Film at the Academy…
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Queer On The Pier : the final fling of Summer
If you are in the UK right now you really must make tracks to Hastings on the South Coast for the final fling of Summer. QUEER ON THE PIER is set to be the largest outdoor queer festival this year : and it will be all totally socially distanced.. Evidently Hastings Pier is evidently…
