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The new programming of the 20th edition of Queer Lisboa, and the recent Queer Port were released yesterday.

20 years of Queer Lisboa. He who in the early days was designated Film Festival Gay and Lesbian reaches the capital in September, 16-24, and also marks the 2nd edition in Oporto, from 5 to 9 October. Announced yesterday the news of the event, the director, João Ferreira, expressed the DN will return to the origins, or were not announced Derek Jarman to retrospective in Lisbon:. “It made sense to retrieve a director to which we have devoted so much attention in the beginning there already while this retrospective was being planned and organized, and many of the films in Super 8 Jarman are only now being recovered. the collaboration of its producer, James Mackay, who will be in Lisbon for the Festival, was instrumental in all .. process a happy coincidence “

the Cinematheque is the main room of this rediscovery of British director, author of Caravaggio and the Last of England -” one of the transgressors names and influential queer cinema “, as stressed – and the occasion lends itself even to debate the work to experts, as the actor Keith Collins and director John Scarlett-Davis, and James Mackay. There are more than 40 titles on display, including unreleased short films and experimental documentary about Orange Juice Group

Absolutely Fabulous:. The Movie , to open in Lisbon and closing in Porto, and Looking: the Movie , to close the twentieth edition are the films that mark the festival, originated in television series, showing a reality to which the Queer watch: “These two films although adapted the television format, they have in common the concern of creating a film language. and eventually also compelling because the Absolutely Fabulous marked a whole generation and created characters still widely cited . The Looking , more recent, is one of the biggest viral phenomena, with great projection in queer viewers, “says John Ferreira.

in turn, this second edition Queer Porto , is marked by a display of New Queer Cinema “was relevant to publicize a set of films that formed a movement that changed the panorama not only of queer cinema, but the independent American cinema. The New Queer Cinema comes, coined by that name in the early years of the 1990s, the purpose of a “new wave” films presented at Sundance, which caught the attention of critics. The new proposals come to break with a long line of representation of queer characters. “

And this retrospective, with Todd Haynes film, Gus Van Sant, Gregg Araki … the director of the Festival highlights swoon , Tom Kalin: “a case of two male lovers who, at the beginning of the century, committed a murder in Chicago. The Kalin film not only is not afraid to show this most cruel side of the characters, as is part of a new concern these filmmakers is to recover for himself the cultural and social memory of individuals and queer communities. “The director of this film is the presence strong in Oporto, which will give you a master class .