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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Bearcave, an intimate queer love story set in the spectacular Greek Balkan mountains.
The beautiful Greek Balkan mountains are the setting for Bearcave’s queer love story, which just screened at London’s BFI Flare Film Festival. Goat farmer Argyro (Hara Kyriazi) lives a gentle, bohemian existence with her cute goats in Tirna, a small mountain village in Central Greece. Life is languid and slow-paced. She’s cool with multiple piercings,…
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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’s David Allen falls in love with Wales (again) reviewing ‘ON THE SEA’ at BFI Flare
With the outstanding ‘Lost Boys and Fairies’ being the only other queer drama I can think to be set in my Welsh homeland, it’s a pleasure to see more from there in writer/director Helen Walsh’s ‘On the Sea’. Set near the Menai Straits in North Wales, this is a different environment to that of ‘Lost…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Low Rider, a dramatic South African road trip, director Campbell X’s latest movie @BFI Flare
Low Rider is the latest film by London-based director Campbell X (Stud Life). His work examines themes of colonisation, longing, and Blackness across the African diaspora and Low Rider continues in that vein. We meet Quinn (Emma McDonald), a slightly scatty, naïve, low substance – high maintenance, Gen Z Londoner. Her mother has recently passed…
