

This film entered people’s lives, as they entered the film in equal measure … Boundaries blur, truth and fiction are intermingled. Through its intimate gaze, Strange Love investigates how attitudes toward sex and relationships are shaped by mainstream entertainment and how these longings cut across the class divide.Īs an artist, I am keen on gathering the living force within a community for the collective effort of cinema.

Unrequited love, betrayal and friendship underlie a larger narrative of city hustle as Suman explores what forms her artistic practice can take outside of the predominantly hetero-patriarchal Bollywood industry and Khush strives to make a working-class wage. In the morning comes the news that dictatorial measures were taken by the government, changing the political situation.This debut feature from Indian artist and curator Natasha Mendonca follows the intersecting lives of Suman, a punk, jazz and slam poetry vocalist, and Khush, a rickshaw driver in the process of transitioning to a male body. Newly arrived at the house and coming from Santa Catarina, it is a "virgin" genre and it is especially there to be given to Benicio, who never "jumped the fence". Tamara is the young woman who is most interested in Hugo. Laura gets nervous, not wanting things to get out of hand, so she puts Hugo in a room in the attic, but he is disturbed in a house where circumstances always surround him with young women, some of whom provoke, tease, or attract him. The boy's arrival coincides with the day of a great farewell party for Benício, the most influential and powerful politician from another state. She lives in a luxurious mansion with several other young ladies, all led by Laura and serving the political maneuvering of Osmar, who uses the house for parties and orgies in order to impress and please possible political allies. In 1937 São Paulo, 12-year-old Hugo comes from Santa Catarina, his grandmother returning him to his mother Anna, who is now with Osmar, the state's most influential politician.
