drama
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Forgotten Roads : a brilliant new queer Chilean drama
Despite all the problems in the world, 2020 has seen a remarkable crop of such excellent queer debut feature films from first time directors/writers. Forgotten Roads from Chilean filmmaker Nicol Ruiz Benavides is right up there amongst them. Kudos for both his script and his visual interpretation but especially for the sublimely nuanced performance…
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Rialto : an exploration of masculinity
Rialto, the sophomore feature film from Scottish filmmaker Philip Mackie Burns was written by queer Irish playwright Mark O’Halloran who adapted from his own award-winning stage play ‘Trade’. Incidentally O’Halloran also wrote the script of the stunning film Viva which in 2015 was Ireland’s Official Submission for Best Foreign Film at the Academy…
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Cicada: a tale of overcoming trauma to finding happiness
We are not certain of how much of Matt Fifer is in his debut feature film Cicada which he wrote, co-directed and starred in , but it has such a solid ring of authenticity that it must be based on his life story. Fifer plays twenty-something- year-old Ben who has just broken up with…
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Queerguru @ BFI Flare : DRAMARAMA
Queer writer/director Jonathan Wysocki’s debut feature film is based on his own high school days where a bunch of geeky best friends prefer to play dress-up drama than actually deal with the reality of their own lives It all takes place in Escondido California back in 1994 and as the summer has ended it…
