review
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Hijamat, an intense family drama screening at Miami’s Outshine Film Festival.
To Berlin, and an intense drama with Hijamat, the tale of a Muslim family’s angst at dealing with one of the men´s romantic relationships with another man. When photographs of Kerem (Jael Cam Ilhan) and his boyfriend Samuel (Jeremy Hanhoff) are brought to the attention of his deeply religious family and Muslim community, his elder brother Murad (Kida…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews LITTLE TRAGEDIES an enthralling autobiographical film by Daniel Nolasco
Homoerotic desire translates into powerful images and a witty narrative that leaves the viewer longing for more. The autobiographical film is divided into a prologue, five chapters, an intermission, and an epilogue. A warning: this is not a happy film; a congenial one, sure, is. Its author, writer, and director, Daniel Nolasco, recreates and shares…
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Queerguru’s David Allen reviews “ME Caveman you narcissist” a novel by Steve Attwell
Who’d have thought that going to an art exhibition in Brighton would lead me to one of the best books I’ve read this year? The book in question is ‘ME Caveman you narcissist’ by Steve Attwell and I saw the intriguing cover created by Dan & Serg at their exhibition, ‘Personae‘ a couple of weeks…
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Queerguru’s David Allen reviews MASC the debut feature from London-based artist Bertil Nilsson @ TIFF
Most movies are a passive watch where we sit at home or in a movie theatre and the story unfolds before us. ‘MASC’ from writer/director/producer Bertil Nilsson makes you work. This is by no means a bad thing, but it doesn’t make for a straightforward movie to review, not least because I don’t want to…
