Ferzan Özpetek’s feature film Hamam aka [Steam: The Turkish Bath] in 1997 is one of those movie-making debuts that stick in your memory. In it, Özpetek takes a mesmerizing look at how special places and people can transform other people. This romantic drama film is a haunting joy Since then this Italian/Turkish queer … Continue reading
Fiona Clark Unafarid is an affectional profile of a rather eccentric photographer who is something of a queer icon in her native Aotearoa’s (New Zealand) that the rest of the world …….. particularly the LGBTQ+ one … should know about. Back in the 1970’s Clark captured images of the fringes of the … Continue reading
The title of Jason Karman’s debut feature film is also the name of the family restaurant in the movie but it could almost pass as a critique too on this charming coming-of-age story. Set in an anglo-Asiian community in East Vancouver where the Wong family all seem to have their own identity crisis caused … Continue reading
Queerguru first came across Brit filmmaker Jeanie Finlay’ in 2015 when we were bowled over by her documentary Seashorse. Her sympatico telling of the story of Freddy McConnell, a determined Brit trans man who wanted to give birth was a remarkable testament of faith by McConnell in allowing the cameras to film every part … Continue reading
We have to confess that as Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s exhilarating 2000 film, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, is one of our favorite queer documentaries of all time we approached the new film with the same title with such trepidation. Thankfully it turned out to be groundless as although this feature drama written … Continue reading