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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
