Goran Stolevski on his achingly romantic and emotionally potent queer film Of An Age #LGBTQ

Writer-director-editor Goran Stolevski's achingly romantic and emotionally potent sophomore feature, Of An Age, opened Queer Screen's 30th Mardi Gras Film Festival this week and is playing in US cinemas from today. The Macedonian-born, Australian-raised queer filmmaker followed his Sundance award-winning short Would You Look At Her by directing several episodes of the fourth season of Nowhere Boys and his acclaimed feature debut, starring Noomi Rapace and Alice Englert, You Won’t Be Alone which premiered in competition at Sundance. His next feature, Housekeeping for Beginners, which follows a queer woman who is forced to raise her partner's daughter, will be released later this year. Of An Age, hailed in our ★★★★★ review as "an instant queer classic", is set in suburban Melbourne suburbs during the summer of 1999 over a life-changing 24 hours for Serbian immigrant Kol (Elias Anton). On the cusp of turning 18, his participation in the Australian Dance finals are in put jeopardy when h