GIRL : Lukas Dhont’s Award Winning Cannes Debut
One of the best received feature film debuts at the Cannes Film Festival was Belgian writer/director Lukas Dhont whose film Girl picked up both Caméra d’Or award, for best first feature film, as well as the Queer Palm. It is the transitioning story of teenage Lala (Victor Polster) who has always dreamed of being a ballerina … Continue reading
Girls Lost
Three 14-year-old girls who are inseparable best friends are always mercilessly picked on by all the bullies at their school. Considered outsiders by their classmates, Kim (Tuva Jagell0), Momo (Louise Nyvall) and Bella (Wilma Holm) the girls very much keep to themselves. One day Bella finds a very strange looking seed that she plants to … Continue reading
Give or Take: a tale of love, loss and compassion
Most LGBTQ peeps have one time or another have been touched by the scenario when a gay relationship ends suddenly with the death of one of the partners. Instead of being allowed to grief properly the survivor is immediately set upon by relatives of the deceased, most of whom have never been seen for … Continue reading
Glitterboys and Ganglands
This documentary was shot in 2010 but because the setting is the rather deprived Cape Flats area of Cape Town in South Africa, it has a very distinctly old fashioned feel to it. The area is populated by ‘Coloureds‘ a multi-racial ethnic group, and time has definitely stood still for the local populace, especially … Continue reading
Global Gay : the journey towards the universal decriminalization of homosexuality
This excellent French TV documentary about the journey towards the universal decriminalization of homosexuality was made in 2014, and sadly very little progress has been made since then President Obama had supported UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon efforts at what he called ‘the final frontier in human rights“. Out of 196 UN member states, … Continue reading