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Reem Morsi’s marvellous film Queen Tut has at its heart two struggles, which intermingle to give the movie its dramatic and emotional journey. Drag performer and activist Malibu, played impeccably by trans actress Alexandra Billings, is fighting to save a Toronto LGBTQ+ historic bar and club – Mandy
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With 2024 marking 30 years of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Guy Pearce has shared his thoughts on what he wants to see – and wants to avoid – in the sequel to the Australian drag classic. After the famous bus was discovered abandoned in New South Wales, Priscilla writer and direc
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Foton.Pictures and Superfilms has announced that their Primetime Emmy-nominated documentary CHANGING THE GAME – a journey of family, sports, love and life, which follows the lives of three transgender high school athletes, will be released post-Olympics on all UK streaming platforms. Directed by Mic
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This Friday it’s a double bill of trans film at the Duke of York Cinema in Brighton as part of the 11th Annual Brighton International Trans Film Festival, which received a record number of submissions this year. The first screening is of incredible short films from all over the globe with doors at 6
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Trans activist Paul B Preciado has taken Virginia Woolf’s 1928 gender-fluid classic novel Orlando and made a powerful film essay that combines the life stories of over 20 trans and divergent people with many elements and direct quotes from the novel. The effect is a stunning cinematic marvel, as the
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A trans-woman takes an aspiring seamstress and drag queen teen under her wings in endearing comedy/drama QUEEN TUT, out now in the UK on Amazon Prime. Following the death of his mother, Egyptian teenager Nabil (Ryan Ali) moves to Toronto to live with his traditionally minded father. There he meets M
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Organisers of this year’s Brighton International Trans Film Festival (BITFF) are seeking short films (under 25 minutes) that explore a variety of trans lives and experiences worldwide for BITFF, which takes place at Duke of York’s Picturehouse in Brighton on 19 July. The films can be either fact or
Birmingham
An event entitled Chinese Queers; Diasporic Dykes: Saving Face + Reality Fragment 160921 will be held as part of 2024’s Flatpack Film Festival – a mobile arts organisation which takes over Birmingham venues every May. Programmed by writer, curator and artist Yifan He, the event will feature a screen
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Peccadillo Pictures has secured Iris Prize award-winning film Norwegian Dream, which will be released on streaming on 29 April. Directed by Leiv Igor Devold, the film tells the story of Robert, a young Polish immigrant, who arrives in Norway to work for a fish factory in hopes of paying off his moth
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Lead Pic: Lovebound Founded in response to the systemic lack of East and South East Asian representation on stage, screen and behind the scenes, the Queer East Festival was formed in 2020 and has earned its place as a premier LGBTQ+ film festival. Its events this year are across London from 17 – 28
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Hunter Schafer – the 25-year-old transgender star who found fame playing a trans character in hit teen drama Euphoria – has said she no longer wants to play transgender roles. Schafer, who played the character Jules Vaughn in the HBO series, said she felt she could go further as an actress by “not m
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Seaford writer and director Rose Collis is to present her documentary ONE FOR THE BOOKS: THE MAUPIN MARATHON at Hastings Rocks International Film Festival 2024 on Saturday, April 13. In 1984, HM Customs raided the legendary Gay’s the Word bookshop and seized 2,000+ books. They included Tales of the