Ris Fatah
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews LAVENDER MEN : a drama that honours the legendary rumour that Abraham Lincoln had a gay affair
The plus-size, fem-presenting, non-binary Taffeta (Roger Q Mason) is working as a stage manager on a lacklustre play about ex-US President Abraham Lincoln, showing to half-empty houses at a small American theatre. They have a huge unrequited crush on the play’s director (Philippe Bowgen), which makes them work super-hard and quietly absorb negative energy from…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews MY FATHER’S DAUGHTER the feature film debut of Norwegian filmmaker Egil Pedersen.
Being fourteen or fifteen years old is never easy, and feisty indigenous Norwegian Sami teen Elvira (Sarah Olaussen Eira) is no exception. Bored in her small village, Unjarga in the far north of Norway, she fantasises that the father she has never known is Game of Thrones film star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. The Danish heartthrob (he…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ODD FISH a beautiful, and rare, queer film from Iceland
Queer storytelling is constantly evolving in the right direction, and it’s been good to see the latest crop of new films increasingly focus on queer life in smaller towns and villages around the world rather than the more obvious big urban centres. Another welcome development, particularly for trans characters, is for the queer story not…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Queerpanorama : a deep dive into the offbeat hook-up experiences of a twenty-something queer Hongkonger
Queerpanorama takes a deep dive into the offbeat hook-up experiences of a twenty-something Hongkonger. Directed by Jun Li and featuring the impressive acting debut of Jayden Chung, we follow an unnamed protagonist (Chung) as he flips from hook-up to hook-up in and around Hong Kong. What makes this guy different is that he takes on…
