Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesNovember sees us still in the middle of the Queer Film Festivals season right across the globe. This week we are making tracks up north to the 36th Edition of IMAGE+NATION …. Canada’s original LGBT2SQ+ Film Festival. This hybrid Festival runs from November 16 – 23rd in Montreal Theatres + curated Programming is … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn 1993, a group of queer Sydney filmmakers, students, and supporters approached Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras to establish an independent organization whose focus would be queer film and screen culture. This organization was Queer Screen. (One of those pioneer filmmakers was Stephen Cummins who died in 1994, and now is … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesTat and Nat are best friends. They go to the same high school together in Bangkok where they live, and also to the new LGBT Rainbow Club as they are both gay and want to find out how to ‘come out’ to their parents. Then Ek another class mate turns up at the Club’s meeting … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFrom 2001 comes this queer tale from French filmmaker Rémi Lange about an Arab sociology student at the Sorbonne in Paris who decides to make a documentary about homosexuality as his class project. Karim (Karim Tarek) lives in the small top floor apartment with his girlfriend Sihem (Sihem Benamoune). She thinks butter melts in … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesA very young set of Brazilian filmmakers have very loosely adapted Shakespeare’s classic love-story Romeo & Juliet and made it a contemporary queer romantic drama. This web series was also set in the fictional Italian city of Verona, and is now where the Campelos and Monteiros families have vehemently hated each other for generations after … Continue reading