BE MERCIFUL, EVEN AS YOUR FATHER IS MERCIFUL. JUDGE NOT, AND YOU WILL NOT BE JUDGE. CONDEMN NOT, AND YOU WILL NOT BE CONDEMN STOP JUDGING AND YOU WILL NOT BE JUDGE. GOD JUDGES, NOT YOU… FOR WITH THE MEASURE YOU USE IT WILL BE MEASURED BACK TO YOU. LUKE 6: 36-38 … Continue reading
Writer and director Leyla Yilmaz in her second film Not Knowing (“Bilmemek”) gives a glance of Turkish society in general, and in particular, the portrait of a family of three, living in pre-pandemic Istambul. Sinan (Yurdaer Okur), the father, works with containers at the port for a big sea transportation corporation that has … Continue reading
Roadside Attractions are very excited about their latest new movie JOE BELL, which is released in movie theatres on July 23rd. Written by Diana Ossana & Larry McMurtry (Brokeback Mountain) and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green (Monsters and Men) it’s based on an intimate and emotional true story. An Oregonian father decides to pay … Continue reading
French queer filmmaker Olivier Lallart’s 35 min film is one of the most powerful dramas which homophobia we have seen for a long time Shot in 2019 in the Oise, the film starts from a love story between two young boys to describe the mechanism of homophobia fueled by rumor. After playing the … Continue reading
This week sees the online screening of Broken Heart Land a powerful documentary essentially about LGBTQ Rights but is also very much about a culture of prejudice, bigotry and sheer hatred that still prevails in so many parts of our country. It is a portrait of a town divided along the right/left fault-line that … Continue reading