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Queer East · 2023

Queer East 2023

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Home Ground

Review preview for Home Ground

An important contribution to the record, Home Ground succeeds – like Myong – in doing a lot with the material available to it.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A documentary about the development of South Korea's lesbian community in the 1990s.

(Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Kwon Aram)

I Love You, Beksman (Mahal Kita, Beksman)

Review preview for I Love You, Beksman

Neither its silliness nor its occasionally barbed wit can distract from the fact that it has a lot of heart.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A make-up artist and fashion designer enjoying life in a thriving queer community has to open up about being straight when he falls for a beauty queen.

(Country: Philippines; Year: 2022; Director: Perci M Intalan; Writer: Fatrick Tabada; Stars: Christian Bables, Keempee de Leon, Katya Santos, Iana Bernadez, Donna Cariaga, Joanna Marie Katanyag)