Valentina is a very impressive feature film debut from Brazilian writer/director Cássio Pereira dos Santos that tells the heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a transgender teenager. It starts with teenage Valentina (Thiessa Woinbackk) being unable to get into a night club with her friends because her official ID card still lists her with her male … Continue reading
In the 1970’s Lorenzo de Santis was ‘the only gay in the village’ in Bari an economical depressed port town in Southern Italy. Well, he was the only known homosexual at that time, and by all accounts he was so openly flamboyant that he probably made up for the rest of them still hidden in … Continue reading
Should what role you play in bed be enough to make or break your relationship even if you are versatile? This excellent =short movie from queer Spanish filmmaker Carlos Ocho takes a very definite stance on this, which you may or may not agree with, but will intrigue you anyway. https://www.carlosocho.com/
Hollywood has always had the habit of taking a successful European movie and ‘Americanizing’ them, often with very questionable results. In this movie’s case they were last in line as at the same time Reinhold Schünzel was directing Viktor und Viktoria in Germany in 1933, he was also shot a French-language version of the … Continue reading
From Eytan Fox the Director of ‘Yossi and Jaegar’ comes a story of a Mossad Agent who is ordered to track and down and kill one of the last remaining Nazi war criminals before he can die a natural death. To find his man, he is expected to act as a Tour Guide and befriend the … Continue reading