Tag: Nigeria
Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews ALL THE COLORS OF THE WORLD ARE BETWEEN BLACK & WHITE winner of TEDDY AWARD 2023
This fictional film from Nigeria just premiered at the Panorama Section of the 73rd annual Berlin International Film Festival. where it won the prestigious TEDDY AWARD Queerness is a taboo topic in Nigeria, one of the most difficult countries in the world to be an LGBT+ person, people there can face up to 10 years…
Queerguru reviews ‘The Legend Of The Underground’
One of the best new queer docs that came out of Tribeca Film Festival this year was The Legend of the Underground by Nneka Onuorah and Giselle Bailey Based around an event in August 2018 when Nigerian police raided a birthday party at a hotel in Lagos, throwing 57 men in jail for allegedly participating in a…
Walking With Shadows: plodding shadows stay flat
Walking with Shadows has all the emotional set pieces that are expected from a film about a gay man who ends up married to appease the religious expectations of his family. With little to offer in the way of surprises the story plods towards a predictable destination whilst managing to under deliver against the…
The Boy From Mushin
As we re-align ourselves behind the the leaders of the LGBT community in the US safe in the knowledge that we have same-sex marriage dealt wth, and are ready now to fight back against the 200 plus anti-gay Bills introduced in the past six months alone, it still seems that the fight for equality is…
