By Amy Dunning Director: Ana Maria Hermida Written and directed by Ana Maria Hermida, The Firefly beautifully explores the different ways in which the human body copes with the grieving process. Beginning with a scene […]
LGBTQ+ films
Directed by Anysay Keola As the first feature film produced in Laos to explicitly address LGBT issues, Anysay Keola’s Above It All has a small place in the nation’s cultural history that will make it […]
By David Pountain Panos Koutras’ Xenia is a funny, organically composed and affecting drama that succeeds on levels both personal and national. Telling the story of two young half-Albanian brothers, Danny (Kostas Nikouli) and Ody (Nikos […]
By Elizabeth Sandell Directed by Ethan Reid Watch Peter de Rome: Grandfather of Gay Porn on FilmDoo Director Ethan Reid begins Peter de Rome: Grandfather of Gay Porn in Sandwich, Kent, where his now elderly and retired subject […]
Director: Sudhanshu Saria The opening minutes of Loev, the promising feature debut from India’s Sudhanshu Saria, establishes the film’s world and the audience’s positioning within it like a jigsaw puzzle being systematically assembled from its central […]
By David Pountain Tim Marshall’s gorilla is an open and entrancing short that itself inspires an openness to the universe at large. Beginning part of the way into a couple’s camping trip and climaxing with a […]