Tag: shorts
Love and Distance : how queer filmmakers see the Covid 19 Lockdown
We take our hats off to DEKKOO the leading Queer Subscription Service for not only creating a Short Film Challenge but also being generous with donating $10,000 in Cash Prizes. It not only eases some of the hardships caused by the pandemic, but it inspired such wonderful creativity with its Love and Distance competition.…
New French Shorts 2020 : with flashes of honesty, humour and a little horniness
A marvelously robust and compelling group of French shorts. They are all satisfyingly different filled with flashes of honesty, humour and a little horniness AHMED’S SONG (Le chant d’Ahmed) Director: Foued Mansour The low key charm is real as young Mike, a chancer…
Boys on Film 20: Heaven Can Wait : Heavy going on the way to Heaven
Hidden in this collection of shorts are two or three better, more focused films. It is too long to bare all the weight of its sombre content in one sitting. Anyone trying to bake their way out of their coronavirus confinement will be familiar with the problem that a good ingredient, eaten too often,…
Seeing Is Believing : New Queer Visions
If being in isolation is becoming, lets us politely say, a bit predictable then it is time to have a few slices of the sideways looks at the world offered in this latest series of shorts. It does not contain the kind of surprises that will sit you bolt up from your coronavirus sofa slouch.…
#FiveFilmsForFreedom : 5 fab queer shorts to view now for FREE
There has never been a more important time for the BFI Flare & British Council annual joint project #FiveFilmsForFreedom . It is a global, online short film program in support of LGBTIQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer) rights. It is an opportunity for audiences everywhere to watch the five films online and FREE …
