Almost exactly a year ago we featured the sweet Brazilian gay-themed short Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho (I Don’t Want to Go Back Alone). Now a feature-film version has been made, which is one of the first movies to be announced as part of the Panorama 2014 at the Berlin Film Festival.
The short film was first released in 2010 and follows a teenaged blind boy who is trying to work out his feelings for his new friend, Gabriel. However his growing feelings spark jealousy from his female friend. Now Brazilian helmer Daniel Ribiero has expanded the short into a feature called Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho (The Way He Looks), which features the same actors as the shorter version.
The film will screen in Berlin in February as part of the festival’s Panorama 2014. It will also compete for the Teddy Award, the annual prize given to the best LGBT-themed movie screened as part of that segment of the fest. I Don’t Want to Go Back Alone won numerous awards at both LGBT and general film festivals, so hopefully the feature version can follow suit.
You can see the short film below. [Read more…]