Jun Li's alluring third feature, Queerpanorama (眾生相), received its world premiere at the 75th Berlinale—aptly enough in the festival's Panorama section—where it was in competition for the 39th Teddy Award. Strikingly shot in black and white, it is a bold and inventive meditation on self-discovery that really got under my skin. The protagonist, listed in... Continue Reading →
Writer-director Lucio Castro follows his acclaimed 2019 debut feature, End of the Century (Fin de siglo), with the brooding and seductively enigmatic After This Death featuring a captivating central performance by Mía Maestro. Reverberating with love and loss, Castro's latest work—which is dedicated to his late mother—received its world premiere at the 75th Berlinale. Maestro... Continue Reading →
Following the world premiere of Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor's poignant and romantic debut feature Dreamers at the 75th Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival, where it was in competition for the prestigious queer film Teddy Award, its lead actors Ronkę Adékoluęjo and Ann Akinjirin speak exclusively with The Queer Review's editor James Kleinmann. Loosely based on Gharoro-Akpojotor's... Continue Reading →
Rabbit Rabbit. Welcome to the March (hare) edition of The Queer Agenda, The Queer Review’s curated monthly guide to LGBTQ+ cultural happenings in New York City, Los Angeles, London and beyond. Stay queer and fierce out there. Please Hold (70 mins, 2024) by Alexandra Juhasz premieres at the Parkside Lounge, New York at 5pm on... Continue Reading →
Through her production company, Joi Productions, Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor has produced films such as Rapman's Blue Story starring Michael Ward and Aml Ameen’s Boxing Day, the UK's first all-Black Christmas movie, starring Ameen, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. In 2020, the filmmaker was named a Screen International Star of Tomorrow and a BAFTA Breakthrough professional, while... Continue Reading →
Brazilian-Italian writer-director duo Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon made their feature debut in 2015 with the queer coming-of-age drama Seashore (Beira-Mar) which premiered at the Berlinale and went on to win three prizes at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival. Their captivating 2018 sophomore feature Hard Paint (Tinta Bruta), exploring the double life of... Continue Reading →
"In space no one can hear you howl with laughter!" This is the queer animated scifi musical comedy you've been looking for. Co-writer-directors Leela Varghese and Emma Hough Hobbs made a splash at the 75th Berlinale with their debut feature, Lesbian Space Princess, which received its world premiere there last week. It went on to... Continue Reading →
Following the world premiere of Queerpanorama (眾生相) at the 75th Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival, where the film was in competition for the prestigious Teddy Award, filmmaker Jun Li and star Jayden Cheung speak exclusively with The Queer Review's editor James Kleinmann. Set in contemporary Hong Kong, the strikingly shot black and white film... Continue Reading →
39 years ago German filmmakers Wieland Speck and Manfred Salzgeber created an award for LGBTQ+ films at the Berlin International Film Festival as a way of acknowledging and rewarding queer films and filmmakers. But it was always much more than just another bunch of awards. It effectively turned the Berlinale (an A-list film festival) into... Continue Reading →
Early noughties indie rock pic, We Forgot To Break Up, tells the story of the band The New Normals as they rise from high school friends to rock stardom before the emotions that fuel their music start to rip them apart. Adapted from Kayt Burgess’ novel, Heidegger Stairwell, there are some familiar beats here, from... Continue Reading →
