Ris Fatah
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘THE LAST FIRST TIME’ a sexy, highly charged Mexican coming-of-age drama
Can you remember your first proper night out as an adult? The first time you had sex? Remember how easy it was to meet people and make friends as an eighteen-year-old? Writer and director Rafael Ruiz Espejo takes us back to the heady days of our youth – not so long ago for many of…
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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews ‘Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders’, a brilliant documentary by Jeffrey Schwarz about the controversy around the cult 1980 queer film Cruising.
We can always trust director Jeffrey Schwarz to deliver compelling documentaries about queer social history. The maker of I Am Divine, Tab Hunter Confidential, The Fabulous Allan Carr, Boulevard! A Hollywood Story and Vito is back with Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders, the story of the controversy around the making of the 1980 queer cult-classic film…
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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews ‘Frida: The Making of an Icon’, a detailed study of the legendary artist, Frida Kahlo.
Putting on a show of Frida Kahlo´s work in a large gallery space is never going to be easy. The legendary artist only ever created about 200 works of art, mainly small or medium-sized, most of which are in the hands of private collectors or museums unwilling to lend them for shows. The public,…
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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews ‘TOO DESI TOO QUEER’ the LGBTQ section of The London Indian Film Festival, to be shown at venues around the UK.
Europe´s largest South Asian Film Festival, The London Indian Film Festival, has a queer section. Too Desi Too Queer features a range of ground-breaking short films and documentaries which celebrate and amplify South Asian queer lives. Highlights of the six-film programme for me include the cute Ruse, a short film about three teenage girls…
