Uk, Barbican Centre: La Cage aux Folles + introduction by Brian Robinson
Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi embrace high camp in this delightful, bawdy farce, later remade as The Birdcage. In this uproarious comedy, which won…
Queer Lion
Uk, Into: Venice Film Festival, A Guide To Every Queer Lion Award Winner So Far
Years after Scar first queered things up in The Lion King, the Venice International Film Festival started to award competitors with its very own…
News: 75th Venice Film Festival announces two new collateral awards
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) Award to three winning filmmakers from Orizzonti for a residency programme, and the Fundación Casa Wabi – Mantarraya…
France, Just Focus: Queer Palm, Queer Lion, Teddy Bear, les prix LGBT des festivals du film (french)
Chaque année depuis 2010, la Queer Palm récompense, lors du Festival de Cannes, un film qui traite des thèmes LGBT parmi les films nominés…
Uk, The University of Edinburgh: Queer/ing Film Festivals – Call for contributions
Contributions by academics and/or industry professionals are invited for a proposed special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Studies in European Cinema, to be published…
11. Queer Lion Award: films in competition
Cast, credits and synopses of the 7 movies in competition for Queer Lion Award 2017; and the calendar with the screening schedule during the…
Queer Lion 2017: jury meeting and deliberation on September 7th
The jurors of Queer Lion Award 2017, Brian Robinson, Adriano Virone, Rich Cline, Daniel N. Casagrande e Marco Busato, will meet in Lido di Venezia,…
Usa, Variety: ‘Heartstone’, ‘Sami Blood’ Among 2017 Nordic Council Film Prize Contenders
Haugesund, Norway — Icelandic director Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson first feature “Heartstone” (“Hjartasteinn,” pictured) and Swedish director Amanda Kernell’s “Sámi Blood” (“Sameblod”) are among the…
#QL11: Team Hurricane
Team Hurricane by Annika Berg with Eja Penelope Roepstorff, Ida Glitre (Denmark, 94’) A punk chick flick about straight and lesbian teen girls that…
#QL11: Marvin
Marvin by Anne Fontaine with Finnegan Oldfield, Isabelle Huppert (France, 115’) Written by Anne Fontaine and Pierre Trividic, the story revolves around Martin Clément,…
#QL11: Les garçons sauvages
Les garçons sauvages by Bertrand Mandico with Vimala Pons, Diane Rouxel (France, 110’) At the beginning of the 20th century, on the island of…
#QL11: Una famiglia
Una famiglia by Sebastiano Riso with Micaela Ramazzotti, Patrick Bruel (Italy, 105’) Vincent is fifty, born near Paris; Maria, fifteen years younger, grew up…
#QL11: The Prince and the Dybbuk
The Prince and the Dybbuk by Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosołowski (Poland, Germany, 82’) documentary “The Prince and the Dybbuk” is a documentary film…
#QL11: Martyr
Martyr by Mazen Khaled with Carole Abboud, Hamza Mekdad (Lebanon, 80’) Boys in Beirut take dangerous dives in the sea as part of an…
#QL11: Il contagio
Il contagio by Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini with Anna Foglietta, Vincenzo Salemme (Italy, 110’) Marcello, Chiara, Mauro and Simona all live troubled lives…
Australia, SBS: Heartstone, queer teen love in a lonely place
This achingly beautiful Scandinavian Film Festival highlight explores the boundaries of friendship and the harm wrought by homophobia Our teenage years are troublesome for…