Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiques“I don’t want to be free of you. I want you to be free.” cries Shervin Ramezan’s sympathetic father as the family discusses the possibility of 16-year-old Shervin moving abroad to transition to a man in a more hospitable environment than Iran. Saeed Gholipour’s moving documentary, This Is Not Me, follows Shervin and fellow … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesTowards Happiness is director Paola Cipolletta’s drama about living life rather than just surviving it. Andrea (Francesco Di Leva) is a 40-year-old account manager and lives a rather mundane life in Naples with his wife Lucia (Miriam Candurro), a call center worker, and their ten-year-old son, Tommaso (Giuseppe Pirozzi). Their marriage is not going … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesTriple Threat is a very modern story about three friends, Chloe (Stacey Maltin), Maggie (Margarita Zhitnikova) and Gus (Jay DeYonker), who meet whilst at college in New York. Chloe and Maggie develop a musical together, Firefly, and following a threesome with Chloe and her boyfriend, Gus joins the cast. This happens after the existing … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesDivorce rates for couples over fifty have increased in recent decades, largely because it’s now more socially acceptable to be a single older person, and also because more older people are now financially and emotionally independent. Turtles, a new Belgian/Canadian comedy-drama by David Lambert, examines what happens when Brussels couple Thom (Dave Johns) and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe British Film Institute looks after one of the largest archive collections of films in the world, with footage dating back to the first moving images in the 1890s. Within its vaults are countless classic queer films, a couple of which are included in the BFI Flare Festival each year. This year’s favourites include … Continue reading