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.

A mature and successful businessman leads a peaceful life with his family and his lover. However, his life is greatly complicated when found dead in bed a girl who had spent the previous night with him. The first thing that comes to mind to solve the problem is to remove the body, but that's not easy. Still, the case is much worse when someone who seems to know what happened, begins to blackmail.
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
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