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 […]
trans films
By Jessica Duncanson Director: David France East End Film Festival 2017 review Director David France positioned himself as a crucial LGBT documentary filmmaker with his first film, the remarkable AIDS documentary How to Survive a Plague. Now, […]
By Gita Subaran Toronto International Film Festival review Director: Elia K. Schneider Tamara tells the story of Teo Almanza who, upon hearing about the death of his brother, returns to his hometown in Venezuela. What […]
By Sharon Calingasan Directed by Susanna Salonen Funny how a two-week vacation can change and bring about so many things: convictions, prejudices, beliefs and feelings. Susanna Salonen’s Patong Girl tells of the Schroeders’ last holiday […]
Josh Kim’s short documentary, Draft Day, takes a brief snippet of LGBT life in Thailand to reveal the larger society at a curious juncture characterised by the shifting attitudes of the 2010s. The 9-minute film […]
by Alice Pickard 1. All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre, 1999, Spain, Pedro Almodóvar) The Spanish director is at his best in this complex comedy-drama that follows the life of single mother Manuela. […]