Tag: lesbian
The Unlikely Story of The Lesbians of First Friday
This is a very personal story for filmmaker Kathryn L Beranich as she was part of a small group of lesbians in the small city of Roanoke, Virginia who socialised together in the 1980’s. There were huge feminist movements elsewhere in the USA but for the most part these mainly white privileged closeted women…
Forgotten Roads : a brilliant new queer Chilean drama
Despite all the problems in the world, 2020 has seen a remarkable crop of such excellent queer debut feature films from first time directors/writers. Forgotten Roads from Chilean filmmaker Nicol Ruiz Benavides is right up there amongst them. Kudos for both his script and his visual interpretation but especially for the sublimely nuanced performance…
BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes and Sadomasochism
Michelle Handelman’s video BLOODSISTERS is celebrating its 25th Anniversary with a screening at Outfest Los Angeles Virtual Film Festival right now. It’s probably her most well known project from a whole body of controversial work that explores the sublime in its various forms of excess and nothingness. The film is not merely an in…
House of Hummingbird : a Korean queer coming-of-age tale
This debut feature film from Bora Kim of a quiet and confused 14 year old Korean schoolgirl is loosely based on her own giving a real sense of authenticity to this unique coming-of-age story. Plus its also set in 1994 which proved a significant year in South Korea’s history. Eighth-grader Eun-hee (Ji-hu Park) is the…
Worst Case Scenario, Butch & Femme Editions
To most gay men the art of lesbian flirting and dating is a total mystery. So as part of our commitment to defunk some of the myths about being a queer women we want to share with you this video about some Worst Case Scenarios. From Framline comes this follow up to the 2006…
