Over the past five years London’s Riverside Studios had a lot of success with their Deep Desires & Broken Dreams season of gay-themed cinema. Now they’re back with their 2014 offering, which runs 20th-26th February.
The week-long programme combines premieres, preview screenings, Q&A’s as well as some of the best recent releases. 2014’s Deep Desires begins with the UK Premiere of 22-year-old director Chris Birkmeier’s, In Bloom. The film tells the story of two young and devoted partners whose relationship is threatened by the disruptive impact of an alluring newcomer.
There are also two other British premieres: the dark and potent German thriller Lose Your Head, about a young Spanish tourist who flirts with danger on Berlin’s infamous gay club scene; and US filmmaker Mike Skiff’s documentary Folsom Forever, about the wild history of San Francisco’s annual leather street party, the Folsom Street Fair.
Other highlights include a preview screening of Nanouk Leopold’s captivating rural drama, It’s All So Quiet, in which a farmer’s isolated existence and repressed sexuality are shaken by the arrival of a young farmhand. There’s also a preview of British director Simon Savory’s American road movie Bruno and Earlene Go to Vegas followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.
Director Travis Mathew’s will join the audience via Skype after a screening of his and James Franco’s explicit co-production, Interior. Leather Bar. In another Q&A event, the creative team behind Codebreaker, a drama-documentary examining the pressures – including homophobic persecution by the UK government – which may have contributed to wartime codebreaker Alan Turing’s tragic suicide.
Other screenings include, Dallas Buyers Club, Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm, Stranger by the Lake, Floating Skyscrapers, Free Fall, Tell No One (Not a Word), I DO and Monster Pies.
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