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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews BRINGING HIM BACK a new queer Spanish psycho-drama streaming online
Bringing Him Back is an intense yet gentle psycho-drama about family, set in the Spanish countryside outside Barcelona. Following his mother’s death, Moi (Ricardo Gomez) travels with his boyfriend, post-grad student Biel (Eneko Sagardoy), back to his mother’s rural house. His sister Mia (Bruna Cusi) has already returned to the house and the three…
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Queerguru reviews MAILMAN : a musical, black comedy & cute coming out story
Usually, when movies are titled The Postman or The Mailman they turn out to be a shlocky horror B-Movie Maybe it’s something about the uniform? Who knows? However, The Mailman, written, directed, and starring Joseph Baken is not that at all but actually a musical, a black comedy and a very cute coming-out story. This…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews COALESCE a realistic look at contemporary life for the young in today’s Cambodia
Cambodia is a very fast developing country in total mutation. After the devastating civil war in the 1970s, Cambodia – located between Thailand and Vietnam – has now experienced rapid and sustained economic growth for 20 years (more than 7% pa on average since 2000). This growth mainly benefits urban areas, causing an exodus…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews HIPBEAT: the story of a political activist looking for love in queer Berlin
Berlin has been a haven and mecca for queers from all over the world for over 100 years now. By 1925 there were already over 80 LGBTQ+ venues in the city although many closed during the years of Nazi rule. Post 1945 however Berlin regained its queer crown. Samuel Kay Forrest’s coming-of-age drama Hipbeat…
