Gay Amsterdam
Contents:
- INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
- 10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS
- GAY AMSTERDAM
- 10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
Wh BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Ftival upon , we ntue our celebratn of queer cema wh a look at some of the bt lbian, gay and trans films om Sndavia and the Nordic untri. * gay european videos *
Wh BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Ftival upon , we ntue our celebratn of queer cema wh a look at some of the bt lbian, gay and trans films om Sndavia and the Nordic untri. Four were among the first natns to legalise gay marriage (Fland took a ltle longer, fally jog the club 2017), and Iceland beme the first untry to have an openly gay head of ernment (Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, 2009). Swedish melodrama The Wgs (1916), more than half of which has been sadly lost, is one of the first films to feature a gay storyle.
Bergman’s pictn of female homosexualy was seldom flatterg – see the predatory lbian Three Strange Lov (1949) or the possible readg of lbianism lkg to mental illns Persona (1966). The lite melancholy of the film, and s bleak pictn of a sad, possibly gay girl, make for a disquietg if rewardg viewg experience.
10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS
From Fassbr to Pasoli and Sciamma, here are some of the bt gay movi om the global arthoe. * gay european videos *
Daddy and the Mcle Amy (1991)The erotic gay drawgs of Too Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Fland, are one of the Sndavian pensula’s most famo queer exports, and this documentary, the only film to feature the man himself, is a handy entry to his work and reer. While the terviews wh New York leather daddi and S&M enthiasts show his fluence on gay inty, ’s the revealg ments of the artist himself that are the ma reason for watchg. Gay and lbian characters were among the mune dwellers the warm-hearted Together (2000), while the terr monologue of a trans woman was the foc of Contaer (2006), one of his most difficult films.
Although the film do not shy away om the ugls of homophobic and transphobic society, the relatnship self is betifully leated, and featur a very touchg sex scene.
A Moment the Reeds (2017)Leevi (Janne Puten), a young, gay Fnish man, meets Tareq (Boodi Kabbani), a Syrian immigrant worker employed to rtore the former’s fay lake hoe. Here, 11 gay movi, om the dramatic to the edic, om the absurd to the touchg, om the Weimer Republic to unified Berl, straight out of Germany.
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We look back at the bt French gay cema. * gay european videos *
Madchen Uniform ("Girls Uniform"), 1931: While homosexualy was simply allud to the aforementned flicks, was on full display Madchen Uniform, the tale of a boardg school girl who falls for her teacher.
Anrs als du und Ich ("Different From You and Me"), 1957: Not to be nfed wh the siarly gay 1919 movie Anrs als die Anrn ("Different om the Others"), this mid-20th Century narrative revolv around rich kid Kls's affair wh a lower-class peer named Maned. And drama also ensued when the picture me out -- not only were nservativ displeased wh the gay ntent, early gay activists were livid over an endg which, spoiler alert, Kls is "cured" of his homosexualy. Nicht r Homosexuelle ist pervers, sonrn die Suatn, r er lebt ("It Is Not The Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But The Society In Which He Liv"), 1971: Perhaps one of the most ntroversial gay featur ever to e out of Germany, or anywhere else, this mouthful of a movie and s portrayal of gay men as shallow, fashn-obssed, limp wristed weaklgs created such a stir that the viotaped cricisms om gay activists nstute their own short.
Fstrecht r Freihe ("Fox and His Friends"), 1975: Inic New Cema filmmaker Raer Werner Fassbr directed, wrote, and starred this story of a gay man who falls for a wealthy heir. Taxi zum Klo ("Taxi to the John", or "Taxi to the Toilet"), 1981: Frank Ripploh's semi-tobgraphil drama about a prim and proper school teacher wh a hardre after-hours sex life was groundbreakg and sensatnal for s time, and ed remas a cult classic (and one of the sexit gay films acrdg to director John Cameron Mchell). Lola und Bilidikid (Lola and Billy The Kid), 1999: Wrer/Director Kutlug Ataman had hoped to film this story of a young man tryg to rencile his homosexualy wh Islam Turkey, the ma character's fay's homeland, but he uldn't shore up enough support.
10 GREAT BRISH GAY FILMS
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Instead, Sherry Hormann's rom- tackl homophobia sports by stg Maxiian Bckner as Ecki, a closeted soccer player who back strong after beg booted om his team for beg gay. A gay male uple Sarajevo, Kenan, a Bosnian, and Milan, a Serb, plan to emigrate to the gay-iendly Netherlands, but the war strands them Serb-ntrolled terrory, and Kenan adopts female drag to avoid beg found out as a circumcised Mlim.
Ranka eventually outs the gay men to Milan's father, while Milan is drafted to the Serbian army and killed. The sole woman among the leads is the e of all nflict, while Milan's father and bt iend accept his gay affair wh equanimy. In Fe Dead Girls Iva and Marija move to an apartment buildg that is home to a rogu' gallery of characters: a war veteran sufferg om post-trmatic strs, a prostute paid to break up the uple by a prit who is one girl's father, a homophobic gon of an apartment manager, and her son, a slacker mama's boy who rap one of the pair to prove his masculy.
The film tak aim at the btaly and amoraly of ntemporary Croatian society, targetg patriarchy, natnalism, and the Catholic Church, as well as homophobia. A documentary look at homosexualy Czechoslovakia, a untry jt begng to unrstand that an timated 750, 000 of s cizens are gay and lbian. Through credibly hont terviews wh gays, gay rights lears--and blatant homophob--director Vladislav Kvasnicka has created a film that ptur the nocence of an cipient social movement as well as a chillg look at the culture they're up agast.
From Victim to Weekend, we remember some of the bt Brish gay films. * gay european videos *
1992: Germany: 90 mut: Gay Transvte: Bgraphil Drama: Te life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, the bt known transvte East Germany; a symbol of bravery and ialism for today's German lbians and gays.
However, only handl the reali of homosexualy obliquely and most of the time is engaged a fantasy world.
Supper Man shows the narrow-mdns and rigidns of his parents who are not able to accept their son’s homosexualy. Disturbgly, the film not only ends wh vigt of three happy straight upl, leavg the fate of the lbian affair open to speculatn, but also hts at the evil father's latent homosexualy, prumably ed by a childhood moltatn an orphanage. The film th argu for tolerance of lbian love, but restat homophobia the form of pedophilia as a root e of the father's psychologil trma that driv the plot.