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Nacho G. Velilla's Spanish comedy Fuera de Carta / Chef's Special opened the 24th edition of the Torino GLBT FIlm Festival last night. In Chef's Special, a highly regarded chef (Javier Cámara, above, with festival programmer Cosimo Santoro and Velilla) working at a trendy restaurant in Chueca, Madrid's gay neighborhood, believes that life is just perfect. It doesn't take long, however, for imperfection to knock [...]

"What we wanted to say is, if these people [Iranians, Muslims] scare you, look closer: They have parents, they have lovers, they have hope, they have stories." That's filmmaker and cartoonist Marjane Satrapi, referring to Persepolis, at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. (Top photo: Brick Lane by Sarah Gavron. Right photo: Of Love and Eggs by Garin Nugroho.) Whether or not following on Satrapi's lead, [...]

Next round of Brigitte Bardot vs. Muslims. No, Bardot's animosity has nothing to do with, say, a planned Algerian-made sex melodrama called And Allah Created Woman. Bardot, like millions of others in France and elsewhere, apparently just doesn't like Muslims, period. She's now on trial for the fifth time since the mid-1990s for "inciting racial hatred" due to recent controversial remarks she made about Islam [...]