Broomfield, Nick

1993

Thynne, Lizzie

1993

After the Revolution documents the effect sexual repression has had on gays and lesbians in the former Czechoslovakia. Maria Dunková and Sonia Pompová and other lesbian and gay couples tell how they found each other and the struggles they have gone through to maintain their relationships. Lizzie Thynne’s Channel Four production also examines the impact the new gay movement has had on this newly liberated country.

Dridi, Karim

1992

A clever French faux-documentary which examines the story of a female boxer who became a man and murdered her manager.

Gotz, Elke

1992

One of the most tender lesbian love stories to reach the screen at this year's festival, Your Heart Is All Mine is also one of the most quirky.Hilde, played by sly beauty Karla Schender, is a secretary in an anonymous corporate firm. The pariah of the secretarial pool, her colleagues mutter, "All that she knows how to do to is work. When you look like this, what else can you do?"Plenty, apparently! After meeting a baby butch in a butcher shop (a scene not recommended for vegetarians), Hilde sneaks into her new love's apartment, strips, and waits for her to come home from work. German angst and despair give way to 1950s pulp heartthrob as the butcher beds the secretary; keep your eyes open here for one of the loveliest of lovemaking scenes in the coming-out ouvre."

Jones, G. B.

1992

Lawrence, Jacquie

1992

In the insightful Working Class Dykes from Hell, produced for Channel Four's Out series, working-class British lesbians talk about class differences in the lesbian community, organizing of political consciousness, and developing a sense of community.

Mead, Wrik

1992

Wrik Mead's dreamy Warm suggests the comfort of an embrace as a pixilated naked male body flailing against a crumbling brick ruin . . . released from the anguish of containment by another man's touch.

Mead, Wrik

1992

Wrik Mead's dreamy Warm suggests the comfort of an embrace as a pixilated naked male body flailing against a crumbling brick ruin . . . released from the anguish of containment by another man's touch.

Kunja, Alexander

1992

Two young men in a small town find each other and the courage to show their love.

Matusoka, George

1992

Shoko (Hiroko Yakushimaru), a translator with a drinking problem, and Matsuki (Etsushi Toyokawa), a handsome gay doctor, decide to come together in a marriage of convenience to satisfy their parents. All semblance of normalcy breaks down when Matsuki's student boyfriend becomes jealous, Shoko decides she wants a baby, and her parents find out about their son-in-law's homosexuality. ("Being married to him must be like trying to eat soup with a fork," says Shoko's dad, mystified.) Twinkle is one of three Asian films in this year's festival that uses the springboard of an arranged marriage for its subsequent drama. If Okoge is the most earthy, and The Wedding Banquet is the most glossy, then Twinkle is like a Japanese twist on a French sex comedy-drama. It has a breezy stride, as well as a classy, upscale setting and a keen sense of visual humor. It's also a delicate, refreshing, and funny film about honesty and friendship.