Ris Fatah
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘MONTREAL, MY BEAUTIFUL’ a heartfelt Canadian lesbian drama @ OUTshine Film Fest
Come out of the closet, they say. ¨Come out and find your tribe, your chosen family.¨ But finding your chosen family is sometimes easier said than done, especially if you are older, working in a small business, and an immigrant with a poor grasp of the local language. Montreal, My Beautiful (Montreal, Ma Belle) examines…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah previews London’s QUEER EAST FESTIVAL featuring Asian LGBTQ+ cinema, arts and moving images
London´s Queer East festival returns this 1 May – 6 June at venues across the city, including The Barbican, The ICA, BFI Southbank, Battersea Arts Centre and many more. Queer East is a cross-disciplinary festival that showcases boundary-pushing Asian LGBTQ+ cinema, live arts, and moving image. The festival explores what it means to be…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ON THE ROAD (EN EL CAMINO) a gripping Mexican drama – screening at Miami’s Outshine Film Festival.
Life on the margins in Mexican society isn´t easy, and even more difficult if you’re transient and on the run. On The Road (En El Camino), an excellent, award-winning film noir by director David Pablos, takes us on a dark, tense, very gritty journey of raw masculinity, with violence and lust bedfellows, and a relevant…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘ARMANI AND THE BIRTH OF ITALIAN FASHION’ fascinating piece of social history about the rise of Armani, Gucci & Versace
A certain kind of magic happens when the worlds of ambitious gay men and alluring, equally ambitious women collide, never more so than in the designer fashion world with male designers and their supermodel friends and Hollywood muses. Armani And The Birth of Italian Fashion, a documentary by John Maggio, traces the rise of a…
