Film

At the beginning of the film, the situation looks perfect. An affectionate and good-looking couple lives in a beautifully styled home and shares a quick kiss.

Screened in the official competition at the last Cannes Film Festival in May, Wim Wenders’s Perfect Days is set in Tokyo and follows the quiet and uncomplicated life of Hirayama, a toilet cleaner, played by Koji Yakusho, (this year winner of the Best Actor award). His daily existence consists of driving in his van from job to job, listening to cassettes of classic rock music, as he fastidiously carries out his tasks which he takes much pride in.

Golden Globe-nominated director Klaus Härö is full of energy when we meet at a shopping mall’s eatery in Helsinki. At first, the plan was to do the interview over the phone.

Premiering at this year’s South by Southwest festival, Bomani J. Story’s new film The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster isn’t exactly the easiest movie to summarize or categorize.

The British film Blue Jean premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2022, winning the People’s Choice Award; it was released in the US in June 2023. First time writer-director Georgia Oakley (born on July 31, 1988) explores the inner conflict of Jean (Rosie McEwen), a young PE (Physical Education) teacher in Tyneside, Northern England, who hides her homosexuality when in her school environment and with her family, while hanging out at night in a different neighborhood with her butch girlfriend Viv (Kerrie Hayes) and their group of lesbian activists.

It was only on September 6, 2018, that homosexuality was finally decriminalized in India with the Supreme Court overturning the British Colonial-era Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and calling the law “irrational, indefensible and manifestly arbitrary” in its ruling. (The law still exists in some British colonies, but Singapore is another country that has overturned it.

We take a look at some movies that show how the western is also a place for "queer" stories. "In no other western film have we seen two men making a bed," said Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar when talking about Strange Way of Life, his new short film and the first western in his filmography.

On November 13, 1998, a film opened in India and played to almost full houses for about three weeks. On December 1, some 200 women belonging to a right-wing Hindu fundamentalist political party, the Shiv Sena, stormed a matinee screening of the film in Mumbai, vandalizing the theater and screaming slogans, shutting down the film.

Over 30 years could be an eternity in Hollywood, an industry that praises itself to be ahead of times. And if it’s about a span between a successful movie and its sequel, that period of time could seem unthinkable.

Memorial Day, the public holiday which falls on the last Monday of May each year, honors the men and women who died while serving in the U. S.