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.

Dono, Kasino and Indro (the Warkop DKI comedy trio) are waiters at a restaurant owned by the parents of Yully, the girlfriend of Kasino. They are specially hired to compete with a rival restaurant owner, Soleh, who likes to sabotage Yully's father’s restaurant. Many slapstick antics such as catching a rat that falls from the attic, start the comedy rolling. Then the journalists and the police start watching Soleh, and that finally leads to his arrest.
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
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