A Queer Review of the Austin Film Festival (2023)
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.

Following the 9/11 attacks, the war on terror against Afghanistan continues. With the Taliban insurgents hiding out in the mountains however, they become increasingly difficult for the US military to engage. The solution is to try and flush them out by adding low level chemicals to the water supply. Little do the USA know however that enemy scientists have adapted the chemicals to make their own formula, one that can bring the dead back to life.
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
The legacy of this movie starts off the film series with a bang of magic, plot twists, and battles.
Disclosure Day asks us to question humanity's role in the universe but falls victim to the same assumptions of centrality.
Praising Black representation and condemning the power structures that suppress it, a mother delivers an impassioned speech to her distant son.
Deborah (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder) are a delight to watch evolve, sometimes devolve, then evolve again.
Not a lot of people realize that being introverted is not always a permanent state of mind. Being considered an introvert by others is a complicated thing; not everyone likes being labelled “shy.”