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Tender-hearted: Shorts from the UK and Ireland that seek to remind us of the radical possibilities of opening up our hearts to life, love and healing.
The short film programming at the BFI Flare film festival is always excellent and this year was no exception. The last day of the festival today kicked off with Tender-Hearted, a selection of seven British and Irish short films seeking to remind us of the radical possibility of opening up our hearts to…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘DON’T EVER STOP’ the story of legendary DJ Tony De VIt the musical force at Londons queer after-hours club TRADE
London’s queer bar/club scene at the beginning of the 1990s entered its most exciting decade to date. The homophobic attitudes of the 1980s had eased somewhat due to the widespread use of ecstasy across the UK during the recent acid house rave years. This combined with a hedonist live-for-the-moment attitude in the queer community…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews LOVE LIES BLEEDING ‘fabulously intense, lesbian romance, bodybuilding, shock horror flick,
1989, small-town New Mexico, USA. Too many people with too much time on their hands and not enough money. The perfect receipe for things to go wrong. And they sure do in director Rose Glass’ fabulously intense, lesbian romance, bodybuilding, shock horror flick, Love Lies Bleeding; surely destined to become a queer cult classic.…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews WHAT A FEELING ….. A Jolly Germanic Lesbian Romcom. at BFI Flare
As the British Film Institute Flare Festival heads into its final few days it’s nice to discover one of those quirky sub genres that makes these events special. Ladies, Gentlemen and Everybody let me introduce a new favourite, the Jolly Germanic Lesbian Romcom. It’s not often we get to put those three words…
