coming of age
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SOCRATES : a 15 year old gay Brazilian’s struggle for life and love
Life is tough enough for Socrates (Christian Malheiros) and his single-parent mother as they struggled to eak out a living in their small shabby apartment in Baixada Santista one of the rougher ghettos of São Paulo. Then she suddenly dies and the 15 year old is left to fend for himself. Behind in the…
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Seeds (aka Cuernavaca) a Mexican coming-of-age story
After preadolescent Andy (Emilio Puente) sees his mother gets fatally shot in a random robbery, he is sent to live on the country estate of his paternal grandmother (the wonderful Carmen Maura) who he has never met before. She is rather cold and awkward with him and brushes off any enquiries of the whereabouts…
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Interested In : a contemporary coming out story about losing your virginity and more
Michael Witkes is the latest in a stream of gays actor who have created a web series which not acts as their therapy as they are based on their own lifes, but they also write themselves a plummy starring role too. Whereas Jack Tracy’s entertaining series History (we recently reviewed here) is based on…
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Nevrland : a post-gay coming of age story
17 year old Jakob (Simon Frühwirth ) has just graduated high school and as it is the summer break his single-parent rather subdued father fixes him up with a temporary job at the abattoir he word at in town. The pair of them live in a isolated house in the country with Jacob’s elderly…
