Film

When German high-schooler Phil (Louis Hoffman) returns from summer camp he is greeted so enthusiastically by his mother Glass (Sabine Timoteo) and his best friend Kat (Svenja Jung) as if he’d been away for much longer than just three weeks.  We soon discover however that both these women tend to act melodramatically over almost every little thing.  It is only his twin sister Dianne (Ada Philine Stappenbeck) who all but ignores him as she has obviously fallen out with their hippy mother over some issue and is now behaving in a surly secretive manner. The family live in a rambling […]

French writer/director Jérôme Reybaud’s feature debut that premiered at the Venice Film Festival during their Critics Week is an intriguing and extremely compelling love affair that stars France’s rather glorious countryside in this very unusual road movie.  It is the story of two lovers, the younger one Pierre Thomas (a very convincing Pascal Cervo) who suddenly ups and mysterious leaves Paul (Arthur Igual) and their very comfortable life in Paris in the middle of night. He undertakes this unexplained odyssey driving into the heart of the country in his Alfa -Romeo guided solely by the Grindr app  which he is using to pick […]

Don’t be fooled by the deceptive title of this movie which implies it is just another teenage romp, as Craig Boreham’s feature film debut, is one of the most powerful edgy LGBT dramas  to come out of Australia for some years. It’s hard not to compare it with Ana Kokkinos’s 1998 award-winning break-out hit ‘Head On‘, not just because of its gritty storyline but the fact that it also centered in a immigrant Greek/Australian family. Miklós (Miles Szanto) is a very frustrated and confused 17 year old. He is secretly in love with his best friend Dan (Daniel Webber), and perpetually […]

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 discover that it grows into a flower overnight.  Completely shocked, the rather curious girls randomly decided to taste the plants sap thinking it may posses some magical qualities. They are right, and after a trance like sequence, they wake up to find out they are […]

Jehri Jones is a most remarkably resilient women.  The outwardly cheery disposition of this 74 year-old-transgender Mississippi native is because she is quick to dismiss the struggle of her journey to establish and accept her own identity which didn’t start until she was in her 40’s, and was not completed until she could finally afford the gender alignment surgery when she was in her 60’s.  She was estranged from her four sons when their very religious mother banned Jehri from their lives the moment she started her transitioning. Now that her ex-spouse has died, Jehri has persuaded two of the adult sons to move […]

  When Chilean lawyer Paula (Mariana Loyola) divorces her husband Victor (Daniel Munoz), her new partner Lia (Agustina Muñoz) moves in to share her home in this small conservative town.  One day Paula is summed for a meeting with the school Principal after her 8 year old daughter Catalina (Emilia Ossandon) had made a drawing of their family showing  her two ‘mummies’ and her 13 year old sister Sara (Julia Lübbert). This ‘official’ reprimand to voice disapproval of her sexuality is just the beginning of public dissent that will start to try and eventually break the family up. Even Paula’s […]

Hurricane Bianca is a contemporary take on a 1950’s screwball comedies and is about Richard a down-on-his-luck NY science school teacher who ends up taking a job in a small town school in the middle of rural Texas.  This openly gay man sticks out like a sore thumb, and is soon fired.  To keep his job he re-appears and is re-hired after his transforms himself into his drag persona of Bianca Del Rio who everyone loves.  Except for the school old-guard in the form of Vice Principal Deborah Ward (Rachel Dratch), but she is no real match for Bianca who […]