In this capsule review from the San Francisco Frameline Film Festival, Alex Heeney reviews Carmen Emmi’s feature debut Plainclothes.
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InsideOut Reviews: Sandbag Dam, The Nature of Invisible Things
Alex Heeney reviews Rafaela Camelo’s The Nature of Invisible Things and Čejen Černić Čanak’s Sandbag Dam at Toronto’s InsideOut LGBTQ+ Film Festival: two sensitive films about young people that young people should see.
Interview: Lucio Castro on Drunken Noodles
In this interview, Lucio Castro discusses the total freedom of low-budget filmmaking for his queer Cannes ACID film Drunken Noodles.
Film Review: Alice Douard’s Love Letters
Alex Heeney reviews Alice Douard’s debut feature Love Letters, which screens in the Critics’ Week sidebar at Cannes. The film tells the story of a queer woman in 2014 whose partner is pregnant with their child, and the paperwork involved with becoming her daughter’s legal parent.
Ep. 170 Why is it so hard to see African films?
On the podcast, Alex discusses why it’s so hard to see African films compared to films from other continents and what you can do if you’d like to seek out more African films.
Ep. 168 Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet
On the podcast, Alex recommends Andrew Ahn’s remake/adaptation of the 1993 Ang Lee queer rom-com The Wedding Banquet.