coming of age
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Boy Meets Girl
Eric Schaeffer’s refreshing and enchanting drama about three 20 year-olds looking for love in a small backwater town in Kentucky gently challenges us to suspend our preconceived views on gender labels and be as open to what happens as these lovelorn kids are. Ricky is a confident and determined transgendered young woman who is marking…
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Five Dances
Alan Brown’s latest movie has one of the most accurate titles that pulls no punches and is exactly what it promises i.e five dances. Held together by the strands of a wisp of a tenuous plot, it is however still a sweet and sensual coming-out-tale thanks to the presence of a charming young dancer who…
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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…
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Boys aka Jongens
The two boys in question are 15 year old Dutch schoolboys who get thrown together when their athletics coach selects them to be part of a 4 man relay team. They seem an unlikely pair of friends at first as Sieger is reserved and a little uptight mainly because of the fact since his mother…
