“You’re so cute I want to vomit.” This is how Andreas declares Sebastian, an androgynous boy who saves the punches of an older man in a public toilet. After that, comes a story of love in times of androgyny and sexual discovery. Neither stands out as gay and Sebastian (Saga Becker) prefers to be called after Ellie and begin to unleash your feminine side – even if it involves a controversial scene with golden rain to the sound of “You’re My Thrill” by Peggy Sue.
This is how “Something Must Break”, the film by Esther Martin Bergmark, who won the 18th edition of Queer Lisboa. The film, which asks for the name borrowed from a song of Joy Division, is considered by many as “the Nordic transgender movie we were waiting,” as the blog repeats film “Film School Rejects.”
A feature film has won the film festivals where it has been since its debut in January at the Göteborg International Film Festival, and the jury Queer Lisboa, this year constituted by Lene Thomsen Andean Manuel Mozos and Michael Blyth, was no exception.
The film won the 18th edition of the festival (with a prize of one thousand euros) “for its defiant originality and poignant vision,” explains the jury. “It is a highly physical movie that stirs our senses unexpectedly – is a movie which almost feel the taste and the smell The way questions the volatile nature of desire and by how fluidly mixing moments of visual lyricism with reality. raw and naked. ”
The “honest and revealing” interpretation Saga Becker, the skin of Sebastian / Ellie – his first movie role – was also awarded by the jury. “This is a working actor who knows the material with which to work,” considered.
The LGBT film festival, the only one in Portugal dedicated to this subject, also gave an honorable mention to “Atlantis”, a Franco-Argentine production of María Inés Barrionuevo sexual initiation two sisters, Lucia and Elena, Argentina in 1987
In the feature film competition, the public decided to award “Rosie” (Germany, Switzerland, 2013), Marcel Gisler, about a successful gay author suffering a creative block, you have to abandon Berlin to return to Eastern Switzerland when the mother goes to the hospital.
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