Tag: Berlin
Queerguru’s Top Picks for Must See Films @ XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin
Since 2016 the XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin has built itself with a fine reputation of creating entertaining, odd, left-of-center queer film programs that also, in turn, create further exposure for queer filmmakers on the global queer festival circuit and beyond. By not only screening some of the newest films around, XPOSED always mixes their…
Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews DRIFTER ‘a tale of someone moving from being the outsider to the insider” at BFI Flare
The final film of the 2023 BFI Flare is Drifter and, it has to be said, it’s a delicious side-eyeing choice from the programmers to have the final film be one that leaves you thinking ‘where is this going?’ for the first 60 minutes of its 79-minute length. Moritz (Lorenz Hochhuth) moves to Berlin…
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews “Narcissism – The Auto-erotic images” award-winning documentary about gender, narcissism, and self-love.
This is a fascinating, award-winning documentary about gender, narcissism, and self-love. How do we look in the mirror? Do we allow ourselves a narcissistic or even covetous view? And how is it influenced by our gender and/or socialisation? Are we able to love ourselves and our reflection? And why do lesbians often have a…
Truth or Dare : a new doc on Berlin’s Sex Postive Culture
If sex positivity is an important issue for you then here’s a chance to for your first good deed for the new year and you can help crowd-fund a new documentary on the subject. Maja Classen’s ongoing 30-minute experimental film “Truth or Dare” explores stories of intimacy, desire, and diversity in sex-positive spaces and she…
Jurgen Wittdorf : homoerotic art of the communist era in East Germany
The German Democratic Republic (communist East Germany) may have beaten West Germany in decriminalizing sexual acts between men by one year in 1968 but they were just as homophobic as the West. Even though they called themselves a socialist “workers’ and peasants’ state”. When the GDR was formed after WW2 it inherited Paragraph…
