Synopsis:
Aliya is a 36-year-old Kazakh lesbian woman. Aliya for the first time in her life tried to play the Green Card Lottery and won. Now she cannot decide whether to leave Kazakhstan or stay. On the one hand, Aliya is tired of the stagnation, corruption, dictatorship of the Kazakh society, she wants changes in her life. But on the other hand, she is afraid of uncertainty and to start all over again in a foreign country.Read More »
Queer Cinema(s)
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Assel Aushakimova – Welcome to the USA (2019)
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Mark Rydell – The Fox (1967)
1961-1970CanadaDramaMark RydellQueer Cinema(s)Quote:
‘Jill Banford and Ellen March have built a good life together on a hardscrabble Canadian farm. Then handsome Paul Grenfel enters their isolated world, and sets friend against friend. But is Paul the real trouble between Jill and Ellen? Or has his presence merely awakened the unspoken, unexplored sexual tension that always existed between the women? Sandy Dennis, Keir Dullea and Anne Heywood portray the three sides of an incendiary triangle in this breakthrough film that sparked controversy in its day and remains fascinating in ours. Based on a D.H. Lawrence novella and directed by Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond), The Fox probes the mysteries of human relationships with maturity, subtlety and candor.’Read More » -
Dominique Delouche – L’homme de désir (1970)
1961-1970ArthouseDominique DeloucheDramaFranceQueer Cinema(s)Étienne, a married writer, gives a lift to a young hitchhiker called Rudy who is mixed up with a gang of thugs. Étienne takes a liking to Rudy and brings him home, where a strong homoerotic attraction soon develops between them. Étienne also tries to extricate Rudy from his dangerous life in the streets, and seems ready to go to any lengths to achieve this goal.Read More »
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Cynthia Wade – Freeheld (2007)
2001-2010Cynthia WadeDocumentaryQueer Cinema(s)Short FilmUSALieutenant Laurel Hester is dying. All she wants to do is leave her pension benefits to her life partner – Stacie, so Stacie can afford to keep their house. Laurel is told no; they are not husband and wife. After spending a lifetime fighting for justice for other people, Laurel – a veteran New Jersey detective – launches a final battle for justice. Knuckle-biting, dramatic Freeheld chronicles a dying policewoman’s bitter fight to provide for the love of her life.Read More »
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Heinz Emigholz – Die Wiese der Sachen AKA The Meadow of Things (1988)
1981-1990ExperimentalGermanyHeinz EmigholzQueer Cinema(s)Quote:
Clonetown 1974 to 1979: a terrorist defector named Charon sits on the edge of oblivion and commentates on the imminent putrification of an abducted car dealer.Read More » -
James Bolton – Dream Boy (2008)
2001-2010DramaJames BoltonQueer Cinema(s)RomanceUSAChronicles the relationship between two gay teenagers in the rural south in the late 70’s.Read More »
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Coni Beeson – The Now (1972)
1971-1980Coni BeesonQueer Cinema(s)Short FilmUSA“These are my past lives when my lovers were black and my lovers were white, when I was male and when I was female.” A reincarnation.Read More »
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Ádám Császi – Viharsarok AKA Land of Storms (2014)
2011-2020Ádám CsásziDramaHungaryQueer Cinema(s)Quote:
Szabi (András Sütö) is a young Hungarian on a German soccer team. After a fight with his best friend Bernard (Sebastian Urzendowsky), Szabi decides to return to Hungary to fix up a countryside home he inherited. There, he meets Áron (Ádám Varga) and a mutual attraction ensues. But when news of their love affair spreads around their homophobic small town, the boys find themselves in great danger. To make matters worse, Bernard also shows up and a turbulent love triangle develops.Read More » -
Sheila McLaughlin – She Must Be Seeing Things (1987)
1981-1990DramaQueer Cinema(s)Sheila McLaughlinUSAQuote:
Agatha is an international lawyer, Jo a filmmaker. The two women are lovers. While Jo is on the road showing her films, Agatha discovers and reads her diaries. Problems ensue as Agatha’s transgressions lead to jealousy and a spiraling cycle of sexual obsession.Sheila Dabney and Lois Weaver star in this landmark lesbian classic. Revelatory for its representation of a new lesbian desire, She Must Be Seeing Things put forth a politicized eroticism that mirrored the burgeoning butch/femme scene at the time. – First Run FeaturesRead More »









