Tag: hate-crime
Bashment
British filmmaker Ricki Beadle Blair’s movies are never ever subtle, but this one made in 2010, insists on literally screaming about the cacophony of issues he crams into a rather manic 110 minutes. It tackles homophobia, hate crimes, racism, class, poverty, prison brutality, sexual identity, redemption plus there is the white star’s hangup for not being…
Matt Shepard Was A Friend of Mine : the retelling of a true story that should never ever have ended like this
It’s hard to grasp the fact that Matthew Shepard should have been celebrating his 37th birthday this year if it hadn’t been for the tragic events of that fateful night 16 years ago on that desolate prairie outside of Laramie in Wyoming. So many of us still think of him as the slight short blond-haired…
Floating Skyscrapers
Polish writer/director Tomascz Wasilewski’s second feature film is a dark tragic love story that you immediately sense from the opening scenes that is doomed. Although it is Poland’s first ever Gay movie, it is so much more a story about the search for one’s identity and about being accepted for one’s own true self and…
Out In The Dark
Nimr is in Tel Aviv to visit his old friend Mustafa in a Gay Bar where he works since moving from Ramallah. Once there he meets Roy a very flirtatious your lawyer who gently puts the moves on equally handsome Nimr who is quickly smitten and is soon ready to make a night of it.…
Out Loud : an exceptional queer Lebanese drama
The four young men have been best friends forever and what keeps them together is their need to help each other. Naive and innocent Jason is still dealing with being alone after his parents were assassinated by a car bomb; Elvis is trying to get out of the clutches of his drug dealing father so…
