drama
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Don’t Look Down (Haut Perches) : Sex, Love and Grudges
Gift wrapped in sex, perversity and symbolism Don’t Look Down tells a simple truth: It’s hard to let go of a grudge because it’s easier to have someone else to blame when love does not go as wished. The film ticks out a countdown like a highly structured piece of conceptual theater. Olivier Ducastel…
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15 Years : when love is just not enough
For his feature film debut Israeli writer/director Yuval Hadadi gives us this compelling tale of an outwardly successful gay couple in Tel Aviv who seem to have all the trappings of a good life but who are nevertheless destined for heartbreak Yoav (Oded Leopold) and Dan (Udi Persi) live in a chic penthouse city…
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The Grass is Always Grindr : Sex ed for the almost grown ups
Do you remember sex ed at school? A quick tour of reproduction and some advice on the practical ways to avoid STDs. Little or nothing about the circumstances in which sex happens, which is the biggest driver of people’s sex choices. It is called a sex life for a reason. This feature length version…
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Road To Love : may not always be straight
From 2001 comes this queer tale from French filmmaker Rémi Lange about an Arab sociology student at the Sorbonne in Paris who decides to make a documentary about homosexuality as his class project. Karim (Karim Tarek) lives in the small top floor apartment with his girlfriend Sihem (Sihem Benamoune). She thinks butter melts in…
