Ris Fatah
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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews ‘We’ll Find Happiness’, an excellent drama about a queer couple seeking asylum in Canada, the gala closing film at Miami´s Outshine Film Festival.
Homosexuality remains illegal in 69 countries around the world. Queer life in some of those countries is so dangerous that many people leave everything behind and endure long, torturous journeys, illegally crossing borders, over months, or sometimes years, to claim asylum and find freedom in a more accepting land. We´ll Find Happiness, a powerful drama…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘BLUE BOY TRIAL’ the heartfelt story of the landmark 1960’s Japanese trans rights court case
Queer life in 1960´s Japan isn’t mentioned very often, even though by the mid-1960s there were about fifty gay bars in Tokyo, albeit largely discreet and low profile. Tokyo´s current queer neighbourhood of Shinjuku Ni-Chome was already a thing by then. Trans lives were also becoming easier, in part due to the pioneering gender-affirming surgery…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews LONE STAR BULL a dramatic thriller starring Luke MacFarlane
Queer human rights are never earned permanently. They are always under threat of attack from wrong ´uns, never more so than right now with the various right-wing fanatic governments around the world, including Trump’s Republican Party. Sometimes it feels as though we are heading back to the homophobic 1980s Reagan era. This makes director…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘SMOKE’ a thought provoking play by/starring Alexis Gregory
Smoke is the latest play by London-based actor-playwright Alexis Gregory (Riot Act). Directed by Campbell X (Stud Life, Low Rider), Smoke is a brutal monologue that observes the psychotic downward spiral that can occur when recreational drug use and mental health get out of hand. Forty-four year old Alex (Gregory) wakes up one morning to…
