Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews SANDBAG DAM a superb coming-of-age drama that was nominated for the Teddy at the Berlinale

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sandbag bulwark is screening at the BFI flare film fete up-to-datish London on 26th process at 20.45 and 28th huddle at 18.20https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/flare/Online/article/sandbag-dam-flare25Robert Malcolm is an interior designer who relocated minus london into his home townsfolk anent edinburgh inwards 2019. below the drama-writing call in relation to officer Burns yourself had his in the beginning novel a gay titillating fiction called Bone aerodrome spread by Homofactus Press in 2011.