Tag: coming of age
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…
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…
The Harvesters
This dark and rather dismal coming of age tale is set South Africa’s central Free State province inhabited by Afrikaners made up of isolated farms where time seems to have stopped still. In fact it really is difficult to work out if this a period piece or not, and it is only the eventual…
Lúbtha a touching Queer Irish Short Film
Growing up as a teenager In Northern Ireland in the 1990’s in the midst of ‘The Troubles’ was no picnic. In a country torn apart by an extreme religious-led political climate, day-to-day life was tough on all those trying just to survive in the middle of all the conflict. It was even rougher for…
My Best Friend
Lorenzo (Angelo Mutti Spinetta ) is a shy geeky teenager who much prefers to keep his nose buried in a book than be out playing sports with his classmate. He lives with his younger sibling in their family home in a remote part of Patagonia which they had moved too some years ago from Buenos…
