romance
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Queerguru’s Peter Herbert reviews Lukas Dhont’s award-winning “COWARD”. Unmissable
The BFI London Film Festival opened with Elsinore, screened Coward on the closing day and managed to include enough major LGBT films to equal the BFI LGBT Film Festival Flare. Belgian director Lukas Dhont’s Coward provided one of the high notes, continuing his earlier Close in 2022 with another sensual portrait of young lives testing life’s…
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Pierre Le Gall, won the inaugural Queer Palm Revelation Prize @ CANNES for his excellent debut Flesh and Fuel
As the Cannes Film Festival shuts down its screens after another year, there are the usual rumblings about its relevance for the film industry and beyond. The ongoing debate is between those who view it as the essential “cathedral” of global cinema and critics who see it as an insular, elitist “bubble” struggling to adapt…
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Queerguru reviews ‘MOLLY’ a short queer romance from Brit filmmaker Darius Shu
Queerguru first came across Brit queer filmmaker Darius Shu back in 2017 when he deservedly won the prestigious Iris Prize for his short movie Queer Parivaar. He’s not just been very busy since then, but extremely successful, as he now has some 26 Awards for the whole body of his work (plus lest we forget,…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Bearcave, an intimate queer love story set in the spectacular Greek Balkan mountains.
The beautiful Greek Balkan mountains are the setting for Bearcave’s queer love story, which just screened at London’s BFI Flare Film Festival. Goat farmer Argyro (Hara Kyriazi) lives a gentle, bohemian existence with her cute goats in Tirna, a small mountain village in Central Greece. Life is languid and slow-paced. She’s cool with multiple piercings,…
