Selection of art house movies in collaboration with Queer Lion Award, collateral award of the Venice International Film Festival
18 giugno
Principe Maurice #Tribute by Daniele Sartori (Italy 2016, 50’) documentary
“Principe Maurice #Tribute” is a documentary, directed by Daniele Sartori, about the icon of the Night Theatre, and Master of Ceremonies of the Carnival of Venice, Maurizio Agosti. Known by his stage name of Principe Maurice, Agosti tells his story starting from the beginning of his carrier at the Cocoricò of Riccione to his recent work at Plastic of Milan and at the Carnival of Venice.
02 luglio
Gesù è morto per i peccati degli altri by Maria Arena (Italy 2014, 91’) documentary
Franchina, Meri, Alessia, Marcella, Santo, Totino, and Wonder are transgenders that have prostituted themselves in San Berillo neighborhood for decades, but now they risk finding themselves without a roof under which to work and ending up under an overpass along the Catania-Gela highway, instead
09 luglio
Snails in the Rain by Yariv Mozer (Israel 2013, 82’) sub. ita.
Snails in the Rain tells the story of a young student in Tel Aviv named Boaz. As he awaits a letter regarding a scholarship, he begins to receive love letters from an anonymous man. These letters cause Boaz to question his own sexuality and his future plans.
16 luglio
Merletti e borotalco by Riccardo Di Mario, Lilia Miceli, Anna Peronetto, Sara Tarquini (Italy 2016, 8’)
A little boy from the the eighteenth century, adorned with face powder and lace, is found in our world and discovers the hard way that, nowadays, his tastes and habits only belong to the female gender. Divided between hairdresser and barber, then lost among the shelves of a toy store, our boy stands up, with graceful ingenuity, against stereotypes and gender bias.
Colla by Renato Muro (Italy 2015, 30’)
La tana by Lorenzo Caproni (Italy 2015, 16’)
Christian is on vacation with his family: wife and son. One day he meets Luca, an old friend, at the bar on the beach. This face emerged from the past bothers Christian: Luca asks Christian to restart a game interrupted many years ago.
Xavier by Ricky Mastro (Brazil 2016, 13’) sub. ita.
Nicolas notices that his eleven year old son Xavier spends his time not only playing drums, but also paying attention to a certain type of boys.
23 luglio
Al di là dello specchio by Cecilia Grasso (Italy 2015, 54’) documentary
“On the other side of the mirror” is a documentary film that tells the story of gender performance, or else known as drag, through the experience and the look of the roman organization “Eyes Wild Drag” who, for years, has been putting on workshops about drag kings. In collaboration with Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.
30 luglio
Queer Lion: teaser by Daniele Sartori (Italy 2016, 2’)
Portraits From Mykonos by Daniele Sartori (Italy 2015, 38’) documentary
Video-portrait dedicated to Priscilla and Gloria Darling, drag queens performing at the queer party island for excellence: Mykonos.
Trémulo by Roberto Fiesco (Mexico 2015, 20’) sub. ita.
Carlos sweeps and mops the floor of an old-time barbershop. The day before Independence Day, among the customers is Julio. Their eyes meet, and when the barbershop closes Julio comes back for Carlos. They spend the night together, eating, chatting and even dancing, knowing full well that this encounter will be brief and short-lived.
06 agosto
Pier Paolo Pasolini e i confini by Martina Vocci (Slovenia 2015, 46’) documentary
In collaboration with TV Koper Capodistria.
13 agosto
Billy Elliot – Il musical by Stephen Daldry (Uk 2014, I act, 80’) sub. ita.
Billy Elliot the Musical is a musical based on the 2000 film Billy Elliot. The music is by Elton John, and the book and lyrics are by Lee Hall, who wrote the film’s screenplay.
20 agosto
Billy Elliot – Il musical by Stephen Daldry (Uk 2014, II act, 80’) sub. ita.
27 agosto
The Danish Girl by Tom Hooper (Uk/Usa 2015, 119’)
The Danish Girl is a British-American biographical romantic drama film directed by Tom Hooper, based on the 2000 fictional novel of the same name by David Ebershoff and loosely inspired by the lives of Danish painters Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Queer Lion Award 2015 winner.
01 settembre
Five Dances by Alan Brown (Usa 2013, 83’) sub. ita.
The story follows the rocky emotional journey of an 18-year old dancer with talent to burn, who must choose between his responsibility to his broken family in the Midwest, and forging a life and career for himself.
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