drama
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Stranger Hearts: a trio of unhappy souls
KEVIN JAMES THORNTON has followed up his disappointing debut feature “How To Get From Here To There‘ a low budget queer sci-fi movie with this new web series for Dekkoo. Stranger Hearts follows three gay men from wildly different backgrounds whose lives would somehow one day overlap. Billy (musician Matt Moran) has all the…
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Lingua Franca : the tale of an undocumented Filipino trans caregiver
NY based Filipino trans filmmaker Isobel Sandoval’s heart-wrenching third feature film is sadly one of those tales of the moment that seem like they can never end well. Its the story of Olivia (played by Sandoval) who is an undocumented Filipino caregiver who looks after Olga an elderly Russian Jewish women (Lynn Cohen) in…
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Sorry We Missed You : Ken Loach’s latest piece of brutal realism
For those cinephiles who worried that Ken Loach’s Palme D’Or Winner ‘I Daniel Blake’ may have been the last film from the veteran British director then his new one “Sorry We Missed You” is a welcome addition to his resume. Typical for this very socialist-committed man who always wears his heart on his sleeve,…
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Parking : a compelling short LGBTQ film from Iran
Parking is a very rare breed as it is one of the few Iranian LGBTQ movies ever made, This 9 minute short directed by Ahmad Seyfipour is the tale of a burglary that goes wrong. When a man is stealing from a garage he comes across two men having sex on the back seat…
