This week we bring you a variety of new releases from China, Taiwan, Indonesia and the UK, along with two compilations of short films that exhibit the best of recent gay cinema. Speed Angels (dir. Jingle Ma, […]
New Queer Visions
Tragedy and grief take mesmeric form in Courtney Faye Powell’s richly beguiling short, The Surf Report. When a young black surfer named K goes mysteriously missing, his lover Freddie seeks answers from a local tarot […]
By David Pountain Deconstructing gender roles against a backdrop of pervasive prejudice and legal persecution, Hassene Belaïd’s short drama N’sibi is a welcome anomaly of Algerian cinema that sees a revelatory meeting between the young […]
By David Pountain Beginning its story amidst the vibrant fields and sunny skies of childhood before progressing into the romance of young adulthood, Alex Myung’s animated short Arrival finds tension and poignancy in exploring the personal […]
Amidst a raging punk gig one night in Tel Aviv, the young Noa’s spirited crowd surfing ends with a hard tumble to the ground in Kerem Blumberg’s layered short, One Last Night. Noa’s final night with […]
Writer-director-producer Xolelwa ‘Ollie’ Nhlabatsi’s short film Lost in the World is a revenge thriller rearranged to disorienting effect. The South African film tells its story of police officer Whitney’s (Honey Makwakwa) quest for vigilante justice […]