On this episode, we discuss the work of bisexual Iranian-American filmmaker Desiree Akhavan, who is best known for the films Appropriate Behaviour and The Miseducation of Cameron Post, as well as the TV shows The Slope and The Bisexual.
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Highlights of the 2021 InsideOut Film Festival
The 2021 InsideOut Film Festival featured some of the best LGBTQ+ films of the year, with highlights including A Sexplanation and Beyto.
InsideOut review: Beyto is an unexpected coming-of-ager
Gitta Gsell’s Beyto is more admirable for what it attempts to explore about life as a gay Turkish immigrant in Switzerland than how successful it is at achieving this
Ep. 91: AIDS on screen, featuring It’s a Sin
On this episode, we have a wide-ranging conversation about the history of AIDS on film, inspired by the recent TV miniseries, It’s a Sin.
‘It was always about making you feel unsafe’: Oliver Hermanus on Moffie
South African auteur Oliver Hermanus on his 1981-set film, Moffie, about how the army indoctrinated conscripted boys with white supremacy and homophobia.
Highlights from BFI Flare 2021, from No Ordinary Man to Boy Meets Boy
Orla Smith runs down the best films of BFI Flare 2021 and the themes that they kept coming back to.