Love is a many splendered thing...

Tonight, I was invited to two films at image+nation 2005 (Imagination, which is the Montréal queer film festival).

I saw two films tonight: Sommersturm (Summer Storm) and a short called Starcrossed.

Although I enjoyed both, I found the first one (the short) more powerful. These were both queer films, and both had a hint of love in them.

Sommersturm was about Tobi who discovers that he's gay and has fallen in love with his straight best friend. I won't go into all the details, but there is heartbreak, denial, etc. in this film.

The short, called Starcrossed is about two brothers who end up falling in love with each other, in a world that frowns upon their kind of love. I thought this was a very well done short. I looked on the website, and it said that the feature length of the film is being worked on. (I am thinking feature length means a movie in the theatres). This looks very interesting, and I found the ending of the short tragic, but moving and touching.

I thought that the DVD of Sommersturm was going to come with the short Starcrossed, but then I realized that it was part of the festival doing, so it probably won't. I'm now less inclined to buy the DVD for that movie.