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The Skinny

Polk, director of Noah’s Arc, delivers another dish of beautiful men, spiced with sex and issues. Good-looking fun with a point!

Hannah Free

Sharon Gless (of Cagney and Lacey, remember?) plays Hannah, an elderly disabled lesbian now living in an institutional home, where around the corner and down three corridors, her life-long lover, Rachel, lies comatose and dying.

Kiss Me

Lekker lesbofliek, great performances and cinematography, with genuine subtexts – familial relationships, facing up to one’s weaknesses, the hardship of honesty and the pain of infidelity.

Weekend

Love, sex or commitment? It’s complicated
What could have been a wordless one night stand turns chatty and challenging… Weekend has a gentleness that helps get across Haigh’s idea that we’re all looking for something honest, whatever that may be and wherever we may look for it.

Shank

Working class Cal runs with a disaffected mob of heavy-drinking, drug-dependent hoodies, hiding the fact that he’s gay. Trouble erupts when he rescues a French boy his gang has beaten up. This explicit, shocking, largely hand-held film has already picked up a clutch of international awards and breathes new life into British alternative cinema.

North Sea, Texas

Exquisite tale of blossoming teen love among the windswept North Sea dunes, great script and acting.

Mixed Kebab

“I’m Ibrahim, I’m Turkish. I’m Bram, I’m Belgian. I am a Muslim, and I’m gay.” Handsome Bram tries to negotiate the contradictions of his situation – betrothed to his cousin, and now flirting with the gorgeous, available Kevin. A satisfying, sexy romance that never belittles the dilemmas facing the unwilling hero of the piece.

Breaking out of the Box

Buhli Msibi’s poem I Break the Boxes provides the title for this wide-ranging, touching, often funny documentary highlighting the lives of black lesbians in SA. The title is appropriate; by telling the tales of six high profile women, the sheer breadth of experience in the black lesbian community is revealed.

August

Is re-igniting an old flame ever a good idea? Troy returns to LA from Barcelona and looks up old flame Jonathan, who meantime has taken up with Raul. Issues of infidelity, trust, honesty and the foundations of love play out against the backdrop of LA’s gay village and beaches. Thought-provoking, contemporary – and very good looking.

Property of the State

Gay Men in the Apartheid Military. Boys, gay boys, any boys in the army is a sensitive subject — unformed men conscripted, at a tender age, into an anonymous war machine with conformity and killing as its objectives. This film explores the complex space that was the military for gay men, at once erotic and hostile.