Queer Screen has announced the dates and line up for this
year’s Mardi Gras Film Festival.
This year’s festival runs from 15th February to 2nd March
and has 167 films screening across more than 100 sessions
in cinema, outdoors and …
As the three generations of women meet for the weekend there are obviously some topics that are “forbidden”. ‘What ifs’ is right up there. Along with the perils of too much drinking, smoking and wallowing in grief and …
As the list of the deceased keeps moving up the screen and the unmistakable sound of the dot matrix printer shows no signs of stopping, the strings double down on the emotional content in the confronting beginning of BUDDIES. From …
POSTCARDS FROM LONDON is stylish, smart and sexy. It is also garish … but never Gaudi. The topic, you see, is art. Paintings and literature and desire. With every frame a frameable image and beauty abounding in the environments and …
I MISS YOU WHEN I SEE YOU is a marvellous film and my favourite so far of the offerings for Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Film Festival. Sad and soulful and conflicted, it grips the viewer with a combination of empathy …
Outrage. I was prepared to be outraged by this film … seeing LDS and LGBTQ in the same sentence enough to cause fear and a presentment of horrors. Yes, there is plenty to be outraged by here if that’s what …
How to bake a successful modern rom com? Put the girl in hot water, simmer her in a slob of ennui, gradually add the heat of some hot sex and serve with an alternatively romantic ending. The chef’s secret technique …
KANARIE is such a sweet film. Don’t know why that adjective springs to mind when it is about a young man who, under church and state conditioning, struggles with his inner self, his authentic self. Perhaps it is because of …
Since Nanook was captured on film fishing through a hole in the Northern ice, the documentary form has brought millions of other lives into our own. In a stunning choice by Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Film Festival, Tonga’s Leitis community …
Stylish and supernaturally creepy, JADE OF DEATH, is making its public premiere at the Mardi Gras Film Festival on February 23rd. Lucky me, I had a chance to see the series of 6 x 10 minute shows before …