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 […]
gay films
By Elizabeth Sandell Directed by Ethan Reid Director Ethan Reid begins Peter de Rome: Grandfather of Gay Porn in Sandwich, Kent, where his now elderly and retired subject spends each summer. In this small, historic parish […]
By David Pountain Set in an alternate reality where openly straight people are the target of stigma, Tyler Glodt’s short cheekily flips the script on heteronormativity with humorous and often surprisingly touching results. Following the […]
By Lauren Hurrell Fawns is a poignant Greek film made by Thanasis Tsimpinis that portrays an emotive love story between two men with the use of beautiful, natural imagery, displayed in nostalgic black and white, and […]
By David Pountain Directed by Sudhanshu Saria The opening minutes of Loev, the promising debut feature from India’s Sudhanshu Saria, establishes the film’s world and the audience’s positioning within it like a jigsaw puzzle being systematically assembled […]
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 […]