drama
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews 3670, a thought-provoking tale of a shy North Korean gay defector’s assimilation into Seoul’s vibrant queer life.
South Korea has a vibrant queer scene, particularly in buzzing Seoul. The mainstream society remains fairly conservative, though, and many queer people remain in the closet there. 3670, a new drama by director Joonho Park, explores this from the perspective of Kim Cheol-jun (You-hyun Cho), a handsome North Korean defector who escaped to South Korea…
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Queerguru reviews THE COMPATRIOTS a heart-stirring feature film about the inquities of immigration for queers
Writer/director SPENCER COHEN’s heart-stirring feature film debut THE COMPATRIOTS, is a real labor of love. Inspired from his own life story when he discovered that his best friend at school was an illegal immigrant and his whole life in the US was at risk. Later, when Cohen was in Film School, this innocuous situation inspired…
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Queerguru’s David Lagachu reviews Antony Hickling’s award winning ‘DOWN IN PARIS’ & now wants to take the first flight to France
It is impossible to overlook the influence of Federico Fellini’s 8½ in especially in the surreal bits of the film when reality and illusion collide to make way for a dazzling humane effect. A middle-aged film director wandering about in a glamourous city looking for inspiration and facing his demons head-on is a cinematic trope…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ODD FISH a beautiful, and rare, queer film from Iceland
Queer storytelling is constantly evolving in the right direction, and it’s been good to see the latest crop of new films increasingly focus on queer life in smaller towns and villages around the world rather than the more obvious big urban centres. Another welcome development, particularly for trans characters, is for the queer story not…
