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The 10 Year Plan
The good thing about J C Calciano’s latest take on hapless gay men struggling to find true love (but not nothing as deep as the meaning of life) is that within 10 minutes you know the whole story, give or take the odd line of embarrassing dialogue, and there is really no need to have…
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Futuro Beach
Karim Ainouz’s mesmerising melancholic drama starts and ends in a very similar fashion. In the opening scenes we see two motorbikers racing across the sand dunes and when they reach the end of the beach discard their bikes and clothes and run off into the high rolling waves. They soon get caught in riptides and despite…
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Xenia
Two weeks after his Albanian mother has drunk herself to death, 15 year old Danny with a lollipop stuck in his mouth and his white pet rabbit crammed into his backpack, takes the Ferry from his home on Crete to go to Athens to break the news to his brother who now lives there. Danny…
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Four Moons aka Cuatro Lunas
This enchanting debut feature from Mexican writer/director Sergio Tovar Velarde is essentially 4 stories about love and heartbreak from 4 different generations of men and they all share a common theme of self-acceptance. The youngest and most tenderest of the group is a shy 11 year old called Maurizio who develops a crush on Oliver his…
