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While The Fish Child is pitched as something of a younger, sexier “Argentine Thelma and Louise”, the reality is that it’s several shades darker; with more death and sexual violence then you’ll see in about twelve other queer films with the same general level of drama. Don’t let that stop you, however – this is a special film, about an adolescent lesbian love affair that is so much more, personal tragedy and the real meaning of family. It’s not always an easy watch, but director Lucia Puenzo (who is adapting the story from her own novel) has crafted something that is worlds away from the majority of lesbian-oriented cinema.

Lala (Ines Efron) is an upper-class girl living with her famous father – an author and judge - her addiction-addled brother, and her elegant, world-traveling mother in a beautiful Buenos Aires estate. She’s pixie-ish and beautiful, carrying on...

Ghosted (Directed by Monica Treut and written by Astrid Stroner), It Came From Kuchar by Jennifer Kroot, and El Niño Pez (The Fish Child) are stand-out genre films by women playing at the 2009 Outfest Film Festival.

These award-winning women directors deal with subjects like murder, revenge, twisted love, unsolved murders, and the absolutely awesome B-movie industry in their films...

Writer-director Lucía Puenzo won awards - including two prizes at Cannes - and critical acclaim all over the world for Xxy, and now the Argentine filmmaker returns with a lesbian romance that’s also a Chabrol-esque mystery thriller and a scathing examination of class differences in the South American nation. Lala (Inés Efron, whose performance has inspired comparisons to the early film roles of both Sissy Spacek and Chloë Sevigny), the privileged daughter of a powerful judge, wants to run off with her Paraguayan lover La Guayi (Mariela Vitale), a maid...

Lucia Puenzo's thriller El Niño Pez (her follow-up to her Cannes fave Xxy) is making its UK premiere at the Edinburgh Film Fest on June 20th 2009.

Wealthy teenager Lala (Xxy’s Ines Efron) is in love, but it’s safe to say her parents won’t approve of her choice: the object of her affections is the family’s feisty young Paraguayan housemaid, Ailin (Mariela Vitale). Based upon Puenza’s own novel, this twisty and atmospheric tale takes the two girls from the realm of blissful romantic fantasy into an all-too-real world of crime, violence and sexual jealousy... read more...