Queer Arab love stories are brought to life in Egyptian film director Mohammad Shawky Hassan’s colourful new film, Bashtaalak Sa’at (Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?). A lively, handsome group of young queer Arab men, mostly Egyptian and Lebanese, and clad just in their underwear or less, recount their tales of love and … Continue reading
All You Need – Everything You Feel is a wonderful new queer drama series based in Berlin. We follow a group of gay friends as they take on life, love, and relationships. Handsome medical student Vince (Benito Bause) lives with his best friend, web designer Levo (Arash Marandi). Both are twenty-somethings and living their … Continue reading
Balaban is the touching story of the coming-of-age relationship between two teenage HIV-positive girls in Kazakhstan and their journey toward freedom and love. Based on real-life events, writer and director Aysulu Onaran highlights the case of 160 children who were infected with HIV during blood transfusions in Kazakhstan in 2006 when untested blood was … Continue reading
Blood-Red Ox is a clever, very unusual, queer psycho-drama set in the Bolivian rain forest. Director Rodrigo Bellott tells a multi-layered horror story of handsome Lebanese-American journalist Amir (Mazin Akar), who travels down from New York to Bolivia with his hot American boyfriend Amat (Kaolin Bass), to meet his old friend Amancaya (Andrea … Continue reading
Bodyshop is the latest, and final film by acclaimed queer Hong Kong filmmaker Scud (Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung), who is retiring. A front-runner in Asian queer film-making, his previous films include Voyage, Utopians, Amphetamine and Adonis. Scud is a unique filmmaker, and here combines extreme sex, nudity, and rape scenes with documentary-type interviews, camp elements, … Continue reading
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