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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews BALABAN a rare queer drama from Kazakhstan
Balaban is the touching story of the coming-of-age relationship between two teenage HIV-positive girls in Kazakhstan and their journey toward freedom and love. Based on real-life events, writer and director Aysulu Onaran highlights the case of 160 children who were infected with HIV during blood transfusions in Kazakhstan in 2006 when untested blood was…
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Queerguru reviews this years Lifetime’s LGBTQ+ Holiday movie ‘A CHRISTMAS TREASURE “
Now that both Hallmark and Lifetime TV have discovered that gay people exist…… and even watch TV, they want to include us in their traditional overdose of Holiday movies. Lifetime got the edge with their first one in 2021 with The Christmas Set helmed by a gay director and starring a real-life gay couple…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Nina Menkes’ ‘Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power’ which investigates the politics of cinematic shot design
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power is filmmaker Nina Menkes’ thought-provoking analysis of the sexual politics in (heterosexual, I should add) cinematic shot design. Part documentary, part student lecture, and using scenes from dozens of our favorite movies as examples, Menkes successfully argues that shot design perpetuates sexism and other ills across the world. Movies such…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga is ‘captivated” with THE DAMNED DON’T CRY (Les damnés ne pleurent pas)
British Moroccan writer-director Fyzal Boulifa tells the story with style, of a mother-son in a difficult relationship while moving from Casablanca to Tangier, and once there, from place to place with their belongings in bags, sharing a mattress on the floor to sleep in tiny rooms or even in the street. The mother…
