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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews THIS IS BALLROOM : a documentary on Brazil’s vibrant ballroom scene
This feature length documentary is both a live record of a small staged Ball held in 2022 in Niteroi, just outside Rio de Janeiro, and a history of the Ballroom movement in Brazil, including interviews with the main personalities in some of the Brazilian Houses. For the uninitiated, central to the Ballroom…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews CIURÉ , the debut feature of Gianpiero Puno. “Life in suburban Palermo can be tough”
A whimsical sequence of a child´s hands playing under a sheet bathed by the morning light, after what seems to have been a short night sleep ,and a tired bearded man waking up completely. The joyful father/son moment transforms into a rush since the kid is late for school and the father takes…
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Queerguru reviews A NICE INDIAN BOY : a cute and funny queer rom-com crowd-pleaser of a movie
The ironic thing about this new cute and funny queer rom-com crowd-pleaser of a movie is that is based all on a chance meeting between two gay men ‘like the good old days‘. Whereas the reality of what is claimed is based on a real-life story has been created by a gay…
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Queerguru reviews MY PARTNER a coming of age ‘boys-love’ story filmed in English, Haiwaiin and Tagaloo
My Partner , the feature film debut of director Keli’I Grace, a native Hawaiian visual storyteller is a very unique touching coming-of-age story. Written by Lance D Collins also from Hawaii, it is to our knowledge, the first movie filmed in English, Hawaiian and Tagalog……the national language of the Philippines. This how ever…
