Mardi Gras Film Festival 2024 (Updating)

This year I’m reviewing films at the Mardi Gras Film Festival 2024 for The Queer Review, so I’ve created a page to collate all the coverage (including reviews and interviews for films screening at the festival). I’ve sorted the reviews into star order so you can clearly see which films The Queer Review recommends. This page will be continually updated as more content lands.

INTERVIEWS

Exclusive Interview: Sunflower director Gabriel Carrubba “as a teen I never thought I’d tell anyone I was gay, let alone make a film about it”

Aitch Alberto on Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe “owning my authenticity made me capable of directing this film”

Max Pelayo & Reese Gonzales on starring in Aristotle & Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe

Filmmaker D. Smith centres Black transgender sex workers in Kokomo City “their stories needed to be told”

Filmmaker Jen Markowitz lets LGBTQ+ youth speak for themselves in Summer Qamp “I wanted it to be for them & about them”

REVIEWS

All Of Us Strangers ★★★★1/2 (by Glenn Gaylord)

A Portrait of Love ★★★★

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe ★★★★ (by James Kleinmann)

Femme ★★★★

Kokomo City ★★★★ (by James Kleinmann)

The Lost Boys (Le paradis) ★★★★

The Mattachine Family ★★★★

Mutt ★★★★ (by James Kleinmann)

Our Son ★★★★

The Summer with Carmen (To kalokairi tis Karmen) ★★★★

Sunflower ★★★★

Fireworks (Stranizza d’amuri) ★★★1/2

Isla’s Way ★★★1/2

The Missing (Iti mapukpukaw) ★★★1/2

Sahela (Companion) ★★★1/2

Summer Qamp ★★★1/2 (by James Kleinmann)

Egoist ★★★

Mad About The Boy – The Noël Coward Story ★★★