drama
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews WE WILL NEVER DIE : a disappointing queer cat & mouse drama
\ A series of 5 episodes of approx 20 min each directed by Tor Iben We Will Never Die begins quoting Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa: We live on desire, what we see is not what we see, it is what we are. Set in Rhodes, Greece, and Germany the plot, an international gay…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews ALL THE COLORS OF THE WORLD ARE BETWEEN BLACK & WHITE winner of TEDDY AWARD 2023
This fictional film from Nigeria just premiered at the Panorama Section of the 73rd annual Berlin International Film Festival. where it won the prestigious TEDDY AWARD Queerness is a taboo topic in Nigeria, one of the most difficult countries in the world to be an LGBT+ person, people there can face up to 10 years…
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Queerguru reviews A PLACE OF OUR OWN : the trials & tribulations of an Indian transgender pair seeking accomodation
A Place Of Our Own is a new feature film about the trials and tribulations of a couple of transgender women In Bhopal, India, and is a tragic reminder of how life for them has not progressed at all in society. The film, made by the Ektara Collective, an independent collaborative of filmmakers which…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews BLUE JEAN a brilliant new lesbian drama set in Thatcher’s Britain
“Do you know what the phrase ‘Fight or Flight’ means?” asks gay Geordie PE teacher Jean (Rosy McEwen) of her teenage students at the beginning of the brilliant new drama Blue Jean. It is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival. It’s obviously on…
