coming out
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A Distant Place : a finely nuanced Korean queer family drama
A Distant Place, the debut feature film from Korean filmmaker Kuo-Young Park, and is a remarkable finely nuanced tale that evolved into such an exquisite film as beautiful as the stunning rural setting. It is the first Korean queer film that I have ever seen and I have to confess although I was unsure…
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From Queerguru archives : A MATTER OF SIZE a 2009 Israeli ‘coming out movie’ of a different kind
Herzi (Itzik Cohen) is a very likable obese man, living in a small town in Israel, who gets mad when he is thrown out of his Dieting Club by its skinny tyrannical leader who calls him a whale cos he is actually putting on weight. To make matters worse, he then gets fired from…
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I Am Syd Stone : a coming out story
This Canadian feel-good romantic queer comedy/coming out story started its life as a short film that had a very successful reception in 2014. So actor turned writer/director Denis Theriault converted it into a Web Series which we then viewed as a feature film at the OUTshine Virtual Film Festival in Miami. Syd (Travis Nelson)…
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Poppy Field : a rare queer drama from Romania
The fact that this film ever got made is a real achievement in itself is something of miracle/breakthrough. To our knowledge, this is only the 2nd queer movie to come out of Romania. The first was Beyond The Hills, which when we reviewed it in 2013, we found overwhelmingly bleak. Poppy Field, the debut…
