Tag: lesbian
Small Talk
Small Talk is one of those compelling documentaries that demand patience from the viewer in the same manner that Hui-chen Huang the filmmaker had to exercise in getting her mother ……the subject of the film ….to open up about her life. Their share a home together in Taiwan, and although the presence Huang’s very young child…
Signature Move
With movies timing is everything and it couldn’t be more perfect in the case of Signature Move a deeply moving story of three ‘outsiders’ trying to fit in today’s world. They are all women (there is hardly a man in sight in the whole movie) and not just from different cultures but also dealing with…
I, Olga Hepnarova
The horrifying real-life story of the mass-murderer Olga Hepnarova, who was the last woman to be hung in Czechoslovakia in 1975 aged 22 after she deliberately drove a truck through a line of people waiting at a bus-stop, makes for very bleak viewing. Shot in black and white in the bleak depressed town where this…
Different For Girls
Jacqui Lawrence has turned her hit indie novel, that was once described as ‘Armistead Maupin meets Jackie Collins‘, into a brand new 12 part webseries directed by Campbell X which will have its World Premiere at BFI Flare in London later this month. This multi-layered lesbian drama set in West London kicks off with a real…
London’s Rebel Dykes of 1980’s on the Big Screen
London in the 1980’s was a hotbed of radical lesbian feminism with its Rebel Dyke community which for some inexplicable reason has never been mentioned in feminist history books about the period. But that is all about to change with a brand new documentary. The movie’s producers take great pains to point out that before the…
