Following three young people affected by homelessness in Chicago, The Homestretch studies the options available to these struggling urban youths. Roque, Kasey and Anthony have very different pasts but are all looking to pursue more […]
Month: December 2016
By Jessica Duncanson These ten documentaries deal with issues surrounding various fundamental human rights. From gender equality to authority over one’s own body, these films show the fight to uphold a wide range of rights. […]
Director: Katharina Mückstein Watch on FilmDoo Katharina Mückstein’s tonally astute, quietly transfixing Talea is a mother-daughter drama that makes no assumptions of any inherent and intuitive bond between two biological kin. Though not a wholly […]
Open Windows (2014) allows four lesbian women over 70 to tell their stories about love, desire and developments in the LGBT movement. They discuss their relationships, their identity and their feelings about ageing. The documentary explores society’s […]
By Jessica Duncanson Director: Christopher Tew Melanie first took heroin when she was 14 years old. Following the misery of watching her mother die, she approached her sexually abusive brother to acquire the drug. Her […]
Documentary filmmaker Jean-Baptiste Erreca has crafted numerous films on art and LGBT awareness, and his recent documentary Pansy! (Les Pensées de Paul, 2015) is an especially moving combination of the two subjects. Pansy! follows London based artist Paul Harfleet, a […]