Lithuanian
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews THE ACTIVIST :a rare Lithuanian queer film
Lithuanian drama/thriller/noir directed by Romas Zabarauskas, in his own words: THE ACTIVIST is a hopeful celebration of civic society, let´s add with its intricacies. LGBT+ rights in Lithuania have evolved slowly over the years since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1993, although same sex sexual activity among consenting adults is not criminalized, people…
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Queerguru reviews Roman Zabarauskas’s THE WRITER at image+nation. Montreal LGBTQ film festival
Roman Zabarauskas is one of a very rare breed. Not only he is a queer filmmaker in Lithuania, a country not exactly well- known for its LGBTQ cinema, but he has a refreshing approaching to powerful storytelling. This is just his 4th feature (we loved The Lawyer his 3rd film) but it shows a…
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The Lawyer: a queer romance with a powerful message
Lithuanian queer filmmaker Romas Zabarauskas has skillfully woven together an unusual queer romance that also packs a powerful message about the plight of LGBTQ Syrian refugees stranded in Europe, and at the same gives such a positivity to the film’s queerness. It’s not only all very impressive, but throughly entertaining too. Its the story of…
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You Can’t Escape Lithuania
This new movie from 24 year old Lithuanian openly gay writer/director Romas Zabarauskas is probably one of the most pretentious egotistical pieces of nonsense that we have had to sit through desperately trying to find at least one redeeming feature to justify why it was ever made in the first place. The fact that it was…
