Tag: lesbian
Leading Ladies : a film by Ruth Caudeli
For her latest feature film, Spanish queer filmmaker Ruth Caudeli continues with her fixation with ‘navel-gazing’ which was the topic of her sophomore movie Second Star On The Right. Leading Ladies, filmed in Colombia, is the tale of five young women who have gathered together for a celebratory dinner for one of their number…
Hiding Place : a short film by Orla Keaveney
Our thanks to Irelands GCN (just celebrating its 33rd year as Ireland’s National LGBTQ+ press) for making us aware of this cute short queer film from writer/director Orla Keaveney . Set in the Covid 19 Lockdown, ‘Hiding Places’ is about the how tough it can be when you are still not out to…
The World To Come : (may be as bleak as this one)
Set in 1856 this slow-burning drama is mostly as bleak as the wild Frontier it is set in. It opens with a throughly depressed Abigail (Katherine Waterson) reading aloud in voiceover . “This morning, ice in our bedroom for the first time all winter,” and you really feel the cold as she speaks. She…
24 year old Dolly shares her very real heartbreaking story of surviving as a lesbian in Egypt
When Dutch Jewish filmmaker Evelyn Markus introduced Queerguru (via Email) to Dolly a young woman in Egypt, who lives in a severely oppressive society as a lesbian and atheist, we immediately knew we wanted to share her story. Her heartbreaking tale of trying simply to exist and being true to her self is incredibly…
NIMBY Not In My Back Yard
From Finland comes this rather absurdist drama centered around a lesbian couple’s attempt to ‘come out’ to their respective parents . What was a seemingly straightforward trip home to a remote town for Melvi (Susanna Pukkila) to introduce her German girlfriend Kata (Almila Bagriacik). turns into total chaos. The moment the pair step off…
