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Ratnesh

The World Unseen takes us to apartheid-era South Africa, seen through the eyes of two women of Indian descent, Amina and Marium. The two are as different as they can be. Amina is rebellious and unconventional, and holds responsible to no-one. On the other hand, Marium is a dutiful mother and wife. Despite their differing personalities, they gradually develop a friendship that has unforeseen effects on the life of Marium, leading her to question the traditions and conventions she has been brought up with. Read the rest of this entry »

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Kishore Kumar

Very often, we have at the centre of our lives a single point which gives us strength and purpose – a dream, an idea, a conviction, a vendetta, a love. This single point remains the pillar of support around which we weave our stories and plan our days. Read the rest of this entry »

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Karan Sood

One afternoon, in 1996, R. Raj Rao called Riyad Vinci Wadia and asked if he could come around to show him some poems he had recently written. Raj had been invited to attend the writing program and workshop at Iowa State University and was keen that Riyad should film him with a video camera to have some visual material reading some of his poems. And this led to the making of the very first Indian Gay Film. Read the rest of this entry »

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Arijeet Chandra

“Open Your Mind. And Everything Else.”

Shortbus is an American film written and directed by John C Mitchell. The plot revolves around a weekly gathering of sexually driven people at a salon called Shortbus. Inspired by early 2000s NYC underground meetings, the Salon is not only a place for sexual orgy, but also is a club where different kinds of people get together and discuss music, art, politics etc. Shortbus has a variety of explicit scenes of sexuality and this had/has given it a tag of pornographic film, but according to writer-director Mitchell, the film attempts to “employ sex in new cinematic ways”. Read the rest of this entry »

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Ananya Dhote

As you see this movie, you can almost feel a flower blooming inside of you. The bittersweet intricacies of love and attraction, the lonely feeling, little anxieties of youth, variability of people and situations, boredom, self-doubt, and bursts of transitory happiness, all of this curls up inside a bud that blooms into a beautiful flower by the end of the movie. And a pink one at that! Read the rest of this entry »

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Karan Sood

She was humiliated, she was assaulted, and she was raped and finally shot to death, just because she was a transgender man.

Boys Don’t Cry is an American independent drama film based on the true story of Brandon Teena, a transgender man who attempts to hide the fact that he has female genitalia to avoid discrimination. Directed by Kimberly Peirce, the film features Hilary Swank as Brandon Teena and Chloë Sevigny as Brandon’s girlfriend Lana Tisdel.

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Karan Sood

Touch of Pink, directed and written by Ian Iqbal Rashid, is the story of Alim, a young gay Ismaili Muslim man living in London, miles away from his mother, Nuru in Toronto. The reasons for this distance are quite obvious; he can’t come out of closet to his mother and relatives. Secondly, He can’t leave his love, Giles, Caucasian economist working for UNICEF. Alim has an imaginary friend, Cary Grant , whose advices are very effective in letting him into troubles. All four characters are strikingly built from head to toe, especially the mother and the son.

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Ratnesh

Directed by Sean Mathias and adopted from a play by Martin Sherman, Bent features the persecution of gays in Nazi Germany. Bent is a harrowing portray of the inhumane treatment of homosexuals by the Nazis, a subject overlooked by many writers. Though the brutalities of the Nazis have been kept off-screen, the movie is dark and unsettling.

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Arijit Singh

Sometimes we might think that we live in a bubble, in our own world, without paying heed to the day-to-day violence-war-hatred-etcetera spread around us. Two lovers may forget the world. Hu-Buah (or ‘the Bubble’), in Hebrew language, presents before us the short “insignificant” lifespan of Noam and Ashraf. Read the rest of this entry »

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