coming of age
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Ernesto : a teenager wanders around Rome looking for ‘himself’.
Ernesto the debut movie by Italian couple Alice De Luca and Giacomo Raffaelli makes too many demands on the viewer. This experimental wee film shakily shot on a handheld camera and that contains long sections of silence, and a muddled narrative, requires a great deal of patience to keep viewing until the final credits It’s…
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2 Cool 2 Be 4Gotten
If you have even been to a clothes store that has the words Fashion! Or Exclusive! written in the windows then it can be pretty much guaranteed that what was inside was neither fashionable nor exclusive. So there is some trepidation in approaching a film that titles itself as 2 cool 2 be 4gotten.…
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It’s Just In My Head
This new cute short film is the writing/directing debut of Romanian Marius Gabriel Stancu who’s daytime job is the Festival Manager of The Open Reel a major European distributor of LGBTQ films It’s a story that so many gay men can relate too personally, but in most cases it didn’t always end on such…
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Young Hunter : from queer Argentinian filmmaker Marco Berger
Marco Berger, the most celebrated and prolific queer Argentinian filmmaker is back with his 8th feature film. His second film Absent (Ausente) in 2011 that won the prestigious Teddy Award at the Berlinale is considered his breakthrough, but we have to admit that his very first film Plan B still remains one of our favorites. All Berger’s…
