Film

  This rather enchanting Brazilian dramedy is about three smart urban professionals who are not only best friends, but also neighbors in a trendy São Paulo apartment building.  As they are also very self-absorbed, it is no-wonder that all three of them are having relationship issues with their partners. Julia (Maria Laura Nogueira) hates confrontations and so has chosen to ignore the fact that her boyfriend has been two-timing her for years, until she is left with no other option than dump him when she catches him red-handed, but by then she is pregnant with his child. Her unhappiness is also exasperated by the fact […]

Inés’s (Celia Freijeiro) life is always a mess because she simply wants it all.  Or at least she wants to make out with every single good looking girl that she comes across regardless of the circumstances.  We learn this in the opening moments of this hilarious Spanish farce in which it seems that every woman in the world is gay, or at the very least thinking about it.  Inés is at the funeral of the Uncle of her Miami-cop girlfriend when she makes out in the bathroom with her girlfriend’s younger cousin, and then five minutes later is being threatened by a […]

Even as queer cinema continues to keep evolving it is still something of a surprise to discover yet another new barrier has been broken with the first movie from an unexpected provenance. Writer/director Adam Garnet Jones has done just that by setting and actually making his feature film, a very tender coming-of-age drama, in a First Nation reservation in the North of Canada where he also hails from, with an entire cast of indigenous locals. His story centers around Shane (a very talentedAndrew Martin) a bright teenager who wants to seize the opportunity to go to study in Toronto, and escape the confines of living on […]

  Teenage Miguel (Diego Calva) has two major passions in his life.  His boyfriend Johnny (Eduardo Eliseo Martinez) who just happens to be the son of his wealthy family’s maid, and skateboarding. Whilst Johnny may share these passions ….. well, definitely the latter …. he also has a very jealous girlfriend too.  They all live in Mexico City albeit in quite opposite settings as Johnny is living rough on the streets and always on the look out to make some easy money. These two young men jump at the chance of getting involved with some petty criminal plot that involves rounding […]

  It took the members of G-Voice South Korea’s oldest gay male choir a long time and a great deal of discussions before all the members agreed to this documentary to be made. Most gay Koreans are by nature quite conservative and they are usually reticence to talk about their sexuality, but in this instance as Lee Dong-ha the filmmaker was also a member of the choir, they let their guards down more than normal and seemed to throw themselves wholeheartedly into the project. Since 2003 G-Voice has been meeting in Seoul every weekend to rehearse. In some cases their […]

Some people wait an awful long time before they start to come to terms with the fact there were born with the wrong gender, or indeed have the wherewithal to deal with it.  Gloria Stein is one such person as she waited until she was 66 years old until she transitioned.  In this slightly stranger-than-fiction story we learn that one of the main reasons that prompted her to start the process then was that as Bernard “Butch” Rosichan he wanted to avoid being sent to jail for not making his alimony payments to his second wife. To be fair to Gloria, this wasn’t […]