Queer Lisboa – International Festival of Queer Cinema is back, 18-26 September at the Cinema São Jorge in Lisbon
The latest movies two biggest names in contemporary cinema, Karim Aïnouz and. Peter Greenaway, with Futuro Beach and Eiseinstein in Guanajuato, respectively, both at the national premiere; the passage of Queer Art competitive section; conducting workshops for Marc Siegel and Gustavo vinegar; the rescue of figures that make the Queer History as Sergei Eisenstein, Elizabeth Bishop and Bob Mizer; and an official competition with an ambitious selection of queer films most relevant 2014 and 2015, where there are the different looks of this film about the crisis in Greece, the stigma of HIV / AIDS, the War of Independence of Algeria or the problems of young people LGBT are some of the highlights of this 19th edition.
This year the Brazilian queer film returns to be highlighted, with the screening of eight films in this country, and the presence in Lisbon of Philip Matzembacher Marcio Reolon and Tavinho Teixeira. The festival features a total of 76 films from 34 countries.
On the verge of mark 20 years of existence, the Queer Lisboa, who is the oldest film festival in the capital, back It is a reflection of the place that occupies today Queer Cinema in the film industry and society. It is therefore cross the programming of this 19th edition a “queer look to the outside world”, as stated John Ferreira, artistic director of the festival.
This movie goes well “to take your questions as how the crisis financial and economic, migration, terrorism, xenophobia, the failure of democratic regimes, environmental problems, hunger, among numerous other challenges facing the world in this new century, “says the same charge.
Of the 34 countries attending the festival, Germany and France are the most represented with 12 films each. Portugal has a total of eight planned films.
This year’s Queer Lisboa retained the support of the MEDIA Programme of the European Community an important boost to the promotion of European films in the Festival, and the Queer Lisboa the only Festival European Queer awarded this support
The Queer Lisboa 19 is funded by the city of Lisbon / EGEAC at ICA. – Cinema and Audiovisual Institute, the MEDIA program, and a set of private support . Besides the Queer Lisboa in 2015 the Cultural Association Rear Window also held from 7 to 10 October, the first edition of Queer Porto – International Festival of Queer Cinema. Both festivals have an overall cost of 170,000 euros, with a direct guaranteed funding worth 150,000 euros and indirect 20 thousand euros.
Brazil is one of the countries with greater emphasis in Queer Lisboa 19, having been chosen for the Opening Session of the film Praia do Futuro (Brazil, Germany), directed by Karim Aïnouz. Biggest name of the current Queer Cinema, the Brazilian filmmaker will be present in Lisbon to present his film. Praia do Futuro is played by celebrated actor Wagner Moura, who plays a lifeguard fortress that leaves behind his mother and younger brother, Ayrton, played by Jesuit Barbosa, finding a new life in Berlin. The film was selected for the edition 2014 of the Berlinale.
At the same festival, but already in 2015, was also shown Beira-Mar (Brazil), dual full-length Philip Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon that part of the Feature Film Competition. The two filmmakers will also be at the festival to present this film about youth and sexuality conflicts.
Also from Brazil will be present Gustavo Vinagre, who will discuss the limits of the sexually explicit representation at the workshop “View or not see, that is the question “, and introduce the film New Dubai (Brazil), where sex is used as a political weapon against real estate speculation. The film is part of the Queer Art section, which this year happens to be competitive, which is still part of a feature film Batguano (Brazil), the Brazilian also Tavinho Teixeira.
The crisis in Greece, its implications for Greek society, but also cultural since this Mediterranean country occupies a place of border between East and West, are issues that the film 7 Kinds of Wrath (Greece), Christos Voupouras also seeks to address.
This is one of ten titles in the Feature Film Competition. Addition to the above Beira-Mar, are still part of this competition the Lilting titles (UK), Hong Khaou, fellow at the Sundance Film Festival, history of Sino-Cambodian mother and an English man united by the pain of loss the same man, the same who do not speak the same language; The Zimmermädchen Lynn (Germany), Ingo Haeb, centered on a zealous employs hotel and a prostitute; Eternal Love (Spain), Marcal Forés in which the Catalan director returns to reinvent the movie teens and was distinguished in Sitges – International Film Festival of Catalonia; Je Suis At Toi (Belgium, Canada), David Lambert, story of a young Argentine who leave their country to conquer, through the Internet, a gay Belgian baker who pays you the plane ticket; Limbo (Denmark, Germany), feature film Anna Sofie Hartmann first, about the unrequited passion of a student by his teacher; Black Stone (South Korea, France), last part of a trilogy made by Gyeong-Tae Roh on environmental pollution, raising this issue to a metaphysical level, to cross it with issues related to HIV / AIDS, immigration and nationalism; The Hidden (Spain), Mikel Rueda, where racism intersects with sexuality in adolescence; and La Tour (Chile, Argentina), a brave story about transsexuality performed by Mauricio López Fernández. The filmmakers Hong Khaou and Mikel Rueda will be present in Lisbon to present their films.
For the Documentary Competition, Call Me Marianna (Poland), Karolina Bielawska, is one of the selected titles in a view which will also feature the presence of the director. Already Vincent Leclercq, one of the central figures of Vivant! (France), Vincent Boujon documentary that shows how even today remains the stigma of HIV / AIDS, will be present at the festival. After Leclercq session will attend a debate with Ricardo Fuertes, the GAT – Portuguese Group of activists on HIV / AIDS treatments. The filmmakers Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel will also be present at the session. The competition also includes El Hombre Nuevo (Chile, Uruguay), Aldo Garay, and this year received the Teddy Award at the Berlinale for Best Documentary.
The War of Independence of Algeria is the cloth documentary background La Nuit S’achève (France, Algeria), Cyril Leuthy where a child filmmaker and her boyfriend accompany a French man to revive the route of exile.
The director comes to Lisboa introduce the film. Welcome To This House (USA), veteran documentary Barbara Hammer about the houses and the loves of poet Elizabeth Bishop, will also be in competition alongside Oriented (UK, Israel), Jake Witzenfeld, which follows the three life Palestinian partners that operate on its national and sexual identity in Tel Aviv for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2014, Misfits, directed by Jannik Splidsboel, about a group of friends lives her identity in a highly religious society, or Alex & amp; Ali (Turkey, USA), Malachi Leopold, about two men who were separated after the Islamic revolution.
Another highlight is The Battle of the Sexes (UK), James Erskine and Zara Hayes on the mythical tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, who was in the history of feminism, and The Cult of JT LeRoy (USA), Marjorie Sturm documentary about the literary hoax that was JT LeRoy.
> One of the great innovations of Queer Lisboa 19 is connected to the Queer Art section, which this year comes to competition, in partnership with the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, the cash prize sponsor in the amount of 1,000 euros, attributed to director the best film. In addition to the aforementioned securities Gustavo Vinegar and Tavinho Teixeira, highlighted yet for the French film S’arrache Pauline (France), of Émilie Brisavoine, a fun and amazing look to the family’s own director, who was a sensation this year’s films Section ACID (Independent Cinema Association for its dissemination), which runs in parallel during the Cannes Film Festival.
In Lisbon to present their films will still be Gemma Ferraté, director of Tots Els Camins De Déu ( Spain), and Lior Shamriz of Cancelled Faces (Germany, South Korea), two of the titles in this competition. The winner of the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Videofilia (Y Otros viral syndromes) (Peru), Juan Daniel F. Molero, also part of the Queer Art competition.
Outside the competition will be still displayed as part of the Queer Art section, the challenger documentary No Place for Fools (Russia), Oleg Mavromatti, a Russian gay loner who is also a converted Christian Orthodox and activist pro-Putin, reflecting the ideological confrontations in Russia of today
The actress Lia Gama, the director of the IndieLisboa Nuno Sena and the producer and CEO of euroimages Roberto Olla (in the feature film competition).; Charlotte Lipinska journalist, the director of Temp d’Images Manuel António Câmara (in documentary competition) and the director of RTP Camilo Azevedo (in the documentary competition); the programmer of the Turkish festival Pink Life QueerFest Bilge Tas, journalist Jean-Sébastien Chauvin and actress Mariana Gaivão (in short films competition); the producer Pedro Duarte Fernandes, the director Diogo Costa Amarante and actress Claudia Jardim (in competition of European school films); and the developer of the Berlinale Marc Siegel, the artist and curator Justin Jaeckle and the director Susana de Sousa Dias (Competition Queer Art), make up the jury of this edition.
As is the hallmark of Queer Lisboa also this year the cinema will be placed in dialogue with other artistic expressions. Hence, during the festival are present in Cinema São Jorge two video installations, linked to that figure of history Queer which was Bob Mizer.
Photographers and American filmmaker, Bob Mizer was the founder of Athletic Models Guild in 1945, which was dedicated to the production and distribution of photographic material, but also short films, focusing on male nudity, thus challenging prejudice in the United States. In 1947 his career was catapulted to fame when he was convicted of distributing obscene material through the US mail. His work influenced artists like Robert Mapplethorpe or David Hockney and was already exposed in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
Also noted that in addition to the above workshop Gustavo Vinagre, the Queer Lisboa 19 It will also have another workshop by Marc Siegel, programmer at the Berlinale. In “How Do I Look (Now)?” Siegel comes to us about the new trend of Queer Cinema in look out of your specific situation.
The music back to the Queer Pop section, which this edition will mark the 25th anniversary of the release of the compilation Red Hot + Blue, Red Hot Organization, which has carried out campaigns for collecting funds and information messages in the fight against AIDS, still remembering other records of the organization, a dedicated them Lisbon, but also celebrate the Icelandic artist Björk, through an anthological look at his work through two sets of music videos
Since the Hard Nights section has highlighted this year two filmmakers:. Antonio da Silva, winning Portuguese filmmaker living in London since 2005, of whom his last three films will be shown – Spunk (Portugal, United Kingdom) Doggers (Portugal, United Kingdom) and Limanakia (Greece, United Kingdom) – and Goodyn Green , photographer and Danish queer porn filmmaker who lives and works in Berlin, who will spend two films. – Shutter (Germany) and Want Some Oranges (Germany)
This year’s Queer Focus section back to rooms Cinema São Jorge with a program that seeks to question the power relations that are established through sex. Section titles as part Kopfkino (Norway), Lene Berg, who presents us with eight women working in S & amp branch; M to share past episodes with their customers; Sexy Money (Netherlands), Karin Junger musical documentary that follows the stories of several Nigerian women who opt for the prostitution market in Europe in search of better livelihoods; Die Menschenliebe (Germany), Maximilian Haslberger, which lets us know some of the obstacles and difficulties faced by people with disabilities in the demand for sexual self-determination; Baby, I will make you sweat (Germany), in which Birgit Hein sharing memories of their trips to Jamaica, where he finds a new force for your life in the relationship established with a Jamaican male prostitute; and Love Hotel (United Kingdom, France), Phil Cox and Hikaru Every on one of the most restricted and anonymous spaces of Japanese society. Giovanna Stopponi, producer of Love Hotel, will be at the festival to present the documentary along with Birgit Hein.
The Queer Lisboa 19 will end with the national debut Eisenstein in Guanajuato (Netherlands, Mexico, Finland, Belgium ), the latest film from British director Peter Greenaway a biopic of the visionary Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and his mysterious passage through Mexico.
During the festival will still take place several parties. The Opening and Closing parties will take place at the club Fontoria Blues Caffe & amp; Dinner. Already SaunApolo 56 will receive a reading night staged The Hamlet Machine of Heiner Müller. In 49 ZDB members of Queer Lisboa team will serve as DJ while at Neighborhood Theatre the Rabbit Hole platform will present the party A $ $ Value ET
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