family drama
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Hijamat, an intense family drama screening at Miami’s Outshine Film Festival.
To Berlin, and an intense drama with Hijamat, the tale of a Muslim family’s angst at dealing with one of the men´s romantic relationships with another man. When photographs of Kerem (Jael Cam Ilhan) and his boyfriend Samuel (Jeremy Hanhoff) are brought to the attention of his deeply religious family and Muslim community, his elder brother Murad (Kida…
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Queerguru reviews QUEEN new totally delightful & unmissable Polish family drama on Netflix
Kudos to Netflix for commissioning this original heartfelt Polish family drama series which as its title hints has a glorious queer theme . The elegant and well-turned-out Sylvester Bork (Andrzej Seweryn) has three passions in life. His very successful Tailors shop in Paris that he is about to retire from for a new life…
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The Invisible Thread : when an Italian gay family break up turns melodramatic
There are many different ways to tell the story of a family drama, and with this particular Italian one, they just shouted it. This intriguing same-sex fathers and son tale with its ground-breaking scenario sadly overwhelmed its potential subtle family dynamics by unnecessarily making every single step such a melodrama. Simone (Francesco Scianna) and…
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Queerguru reviews Kenneth Branagh’s BELFAST one of the best family dramas of the year
Kenneth Branagh’s heart-wrenching family drama based loosely on his own childhood in the capital of Northern Ireland is a very personal account of growing up in the midst of a civil war. Set in 1969 when Branagh was just nine years old and when the violent conflict between the Protestant and Catholic populations was…
