romance
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Cousins: very much the kissing kind
Brazilian queer filmmaker Thiago Cazado is a remarkably talented young man. Not only has he written and co-directed his sophomore film but he has starred in it too playing a teenager almost half his age (33 years). Cousins is a cute queer romance that may not tax your imagination with it’s light and…
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SIberia and Him : a love affair doomed from the start
There cannot possibly be a more desolate place to live on Earth than in the vast plains of Siberia where the sparsely populated people miserably eake out a living and simply pray that there is no return to war. When Sasha’s grandmother fails to answer her phone for days the family send him off…
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Fin de Sigle/End of the Century : Poem, painting or dream?
For anyone who has traveled alone the first 12 wordless minutes of Fin de Sigle are so recognizably real that you don’t realize you are being set up for a love story that is not quite a poem, a painting or a dream. Gustavo, or Ocho (Juan Barberini) as he is known by his childhood…
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A Luv Tale : about 4 queer women in Harlem
It’s been 20 years since director’ Sidra Smith’s debut film A Luv Tale played the Film Festival circuit and picked up a couple of Audience Awards. Now she is back with a 6 part web series of the same name that picks up where she left off with the story of the lives of…
