{"id":10575,"date":"2021-08-20T11:30:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T09:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.queerlion.it\/?p=10575"},"modified":"2022-02-04T16:00:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T15:00:38","slug":"competition2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.queerlion.it\/en\/competition2021\/","title":{"rendered":"15. Queer Lion Award: films in competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

The line-up of the tiles competing for the Queer Lion Award is possible thanks to the direct and precious collaboration of the different selection committees of the Venice International Film Festival.<\/em><\/p>\n

All films with a duration of 30 minutes or more, with relevant LGBT themes and characters, are eligible for the QL Award competition.<\/em><\/p>\n

For the 2021 line-up, special thanks go to Alberto Barbera<\/strong>, Angela Savoldi<\/strong>, Paolo Bertolin<\/strong> (for all the sections of the official program, and in particular Venezia 78, Fuori Concorso, Orizzonti, Biennale College); Michel Reilhac<\/strong>, Federico Anselmi<\/strong>, \u00a0Liz Rosenthal<\/strong>, Mariachiara Manci<\/strong> (Venice VR Expanded); Gaia Furrer<\/strong>, Renata Santoro<\/strong>, Luca Di Leonardo<\/strong>, Francesco Bonerba<\/strong> (Giornate degli Autori); Beatrice Fiorentino<\/strong> (International Critics’ Week).<\/em><\/p>\n

Last but not least, thanks to all of those contributing to the success of QL, directly and indirectly, from the experts and consultants of the Cinema Department to the Press Office, Accreditations Office, Secretariat and Protocol Office.<\/em><\/p>\n

SYNOPSES, CAST & CREDITS
\n<\/strong>download the pressbook HERE<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Power of the Dog<\/strong><\/a> by Jane Campion (New Zealand, Australia, 125 ‘, 2021)
\nSet in the 20\u2019s, the story centers on the Burbank brothers, Phil and George, well-off siblings owners of a Montana ranch overlooking the valley. The two could not be more different: whereas Phil is a bright but cruel man, with an overbearing and violent attitude, George is a stubborn and fussy, but always kind. When George secretly marries Rose, a young widow, Phil refuses to accept it and starts a ruthless war against her, \u00a0using her son Peter as a pawn.
\nPresented in Venezia 78<\/em><\/p>\n

Competencia oficial<\/strong><\/a> by Gast\u00f3n Duprat, Mariano Cohn (Spain, Argentina, 114 ‘, 2021)
\nLooking for a prestige project that will leave a mark, a billionaire decides to finance a film. He hires renowned director Lola Cuevas (openly lesbian), who, however, immediately finds herself in trouble, having to manage the clashing egos of the two leads, Hollywood star F\u00e9lix and “serious theater” actor Iv\u00e1n. In order to try to create some chemistry between the two men, she comes up with a series of weird labours they will have to overcome.
\nPresented in Venezia 78<\/em><\/p>\n

Madres paralelas<\/strong><\/a> by Pedro Almod\u00f3var (Spain, 120 ‘, 2021)
\nTwo women from Madrid, both single and dealing with an unexpected pregnancy, find themselves giving birth on the same day in the same hospital: middle-aged Janis, comforts younger Ana, frightened about the future, and the words they exchange in those hours, in an anonymous hospital corridor, will end up changing their lives in an unexpected way.
\nPresented in Venezia 78<\/em><\/p>\n

Il bambino nascosto<\/strong><\/a> by Roberto And\u00f2 (Italy, France, 110 ‘, 2021)
\nGabriele Santoro, a piano teacher at San Pietro a Majella Conservatory, lives in a low-class district in Naples. Silent, cultured, solitary, he is a man of hidden, secret passions. One morning a ten-year-old boy sneaks into his apartment and hides in it. Gabriele will soon discover that the child is the son of a Camorra man and that, as it often happens to those denied of their childhood, Ciro ignores the alphabet of feelings.
\nPresented in Fuori Concorso<\/em><\/p>\n

Il paradiso del pavone<\/strong><\/a> by Laura Bispuri (Italy, Germany, 89 ‘, 2021)
\nOn a winter’s day, Nena gathers her family to celebrate her birthday. Il paradiso del pavone (The peacock’s paradise) is a small journey into the intimacy and authenticity of human beings: a film about an extended family in which everyone talks but no one really listens. Until an unexpected event forces the family members to look into each other’s eyes and reveal themselves for what they really are. Nena will finally reveal to her children and relatives her polyamorous relationship.
\nPresented in Orizzonti<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>El hoyo en la cerca<\/strong><\/a> by Joaqu\u00edn del Paso (Mexico, Poland, 100 ‘, 2021)
\nAs every year, the Los Pinos school, a prestigious school of the confessional type, sends its students on retreat to the countryside. Under the watchful eye of teachers and priests, the children are led on the path of their physical and moral development. Through the gaze of several middle and upper class teenagers, the film shows how their upbringing affects the future of society itself.
\nPresented in Orizzonti<\/em><\/p>\n

La santa piccola<\/strong><\/a> by Silvia Brunelli (Italy, 97 ‘, 2021)
\nMario and Lino, two friends, born and raised in the Sanit\u00e0 quarter in Naples, are two eighteen-year-olds who never stepped out from that micro-reality. They lead a monotonous life, until the sister of one of them convinces the locals that she has performed a miracle and she starts being whorshipped as a living Saint. The fate of her family abruptly changes and both boys find out that they are different from what they thought: Mario realizes that he is homosexual and in love with Lino, who, instead, does not notice it, and, actually tries to find a way out from the routine of his life.
\nPresented in Biennale College<\/em><\/p>\n

Deserto Particular<\/strong><\/a> by Aly Muritiba (Brazil, Portugal, 120 ‘, 2021)
\nA lonely forty-year-old policeman lives in the rich south of Brazil. His heart beats for a woman he met online. Although they never met in person, their relationship becomes deeper and more and more solid. One day the woman disappears from the web and he decides to leave for Bahia and look for her. Upon reaching his destination, he will discover that the woman he loves actually is a man.
\nPresented in 18. Giornate degli Autori<\/em><\/p>\n

Il silenzio grande<\/strong><\/a> by Alessandro Gassmann (Italy, Poland, 106 ‘, 2021)
\nVilla Primic, once a luxurious mansion, now nothing more than a ruin that looks like something out of a ghost story, has been put up for sale. A painful decision, taken by Mrs. Rose Primic, and shared by Massimiliano (who comes out in a very touching way) and Adele, heirs to the dilapidated fortune of the family: the only one who is not happy at all is the head of the family, Valerio, who will discover that he never really got to know his dear ones and, perhaps, not even himself, to the point of reaching the bitter awareness that living does not mean being alive.
\nPresented in 18. Giornate degli Autori<\/em><\/p>\n

La derni\u00e8re s\u00e9ance<\/strong><\/a> by Gianluca Matarrese (Italy, France, 100 ‘, 2021)
\nBernard has just retired. He is 63 years old, he lives alone with his two cats and decides to move to a new house, the one where he will live the last chapter of his life. Preparing the boxes, he begins to make a selection: what to leave, what to bring? Bernard is my master and I am his slave. His last lover I help him to put the whip in a box, between fragments of his memories; memories of the loves that AIDS has stolen from his arms, the traces of an adoptive family that rejected him, of the rigid upbringing that forged him, of a mother and father he never knew. Our sexual games are the chances for two generations to meet: between a whiplash and a leather harness we discuss about love, death, the AIDS epidemic in the Eighties, his new life project, about us. The wounds and grave goods of a survivor, a cry for life in the light of sexual impulses.
\nPresented in 36. International Critics’ Week<\/em><\/p>\n

SCREENING SCHEDULE<\/strong><\/h2>\n

THE POWER OF THE DOG<\/strong>
\n01\/09 18:30 PalaBiennale | press, industry
\n01\/09 19:00 Sala Giardino | press, industry
\n01\/09 21:30 PalaBiennale | press, industry
\n01\/09 22:00 Sala Giardino | press, industry
\n02\/09 16:30 Sala Grande | tickets, all accreditations<\/span>
\n02\/09 21:50 Teatro Piccolo Arsenale (Venezia) | tickets
\n02\/09 18:30 Cinema Rossini (Venezia) | tickets
\n02\/09 18:30 IMGCinemas (Mestre) | tickets
\n02\/09 22:50 Arena Lido | tickets
\n03\/09 09:30 Cinema Rossini (Venezia) | tickets
\n03\/09 09:30 IMGCinemas (Mestre) | tickets
\n03\/09 11:30 Teatro Piccolo Arsenale (Venezia) | all accreditations
\n03\/09 19:00 Sala Pasinetti | all accreditations
\n03\/09 19:00 Sala Perla 2 | all accreditations
\n03\/09 21:45 Sala Pasinetti | all accreditations<\/p>\n

COMPETENCIA OFICIAL<\/strong>
\n04\/09 09:00 Sala Grande | press, industry
\n04\/09 11:00 Sala Darsena | press, industry
\n04\/09 19:30 Sala Grande | tickets<\/span>
\n04\/09 19:30 Teatro Piccolo Arsenale (Venezia) | tickets
\n04\/09 20:30 Arena Lido | tickets
\n04\/09 21:30 Cinema Rossini (Venezia) | tickets
\n04\/09 21:30 IMGCinemas (Mestre) | tickets
\n05\/09 08:30 Teatro Piccolo Arsenale (Venezia) | all accreditations
\n05\/09 10:30 PalaBiennale | all accreditations
\n05\/09 12:30 Cinema Rossini (Venezia) | tickets
\n05\/09 12:30 IMGCinemas (Mestre) | tickets
\n05\/09 22:15 Sala Perla | all accreditations<\/p>\n

MADRES PARALELAS<\/strong>
\n01\/09 08:30 Sala Darsena | press, industry
\n01\/09 10:45 PalaBiennale | press, industry
\n01\/09 19:00 Sala Grande | invitations<\/span>
\n01\/09 19:00 Sala Darsena | invitations
\n01\/09 20:00 Teatro Piccolo Arsenale (Venezia) | tickets
\n01\/09 20:30 Arena Lido | tickets
\n01\/09 21:30 Cinema Rossini (Venezia) | tickets
\n01\/09 21:30 IMGCinemas (Mestre) | tickets
\n02\/09 08:30 PalaBiennale | all accreditations
\n02\/09 09:00 Teatro Piccolo Arsenale (Venezia) | all accreditations
\n02\/09 14:15 Astra 1 | tickets, all accreditations
\n02\/09 14:30 Astra 2 | tickets, all accreditations
\n02\/09 15:30 Cinema Rossini | tickets
\n02\/09 15:30 IMGCinemas (Mestre) | tickets
\n02\/09 16:45 Astra 1 | tickets, all accreditations
\n02\/09 17:00 Astra 2 | tickets, all accreditations
\n02\/09 19:15 Sala Pasinetti | all accreditations
\n02\/09 21:30 Sala Perla | all accreditations
\n02\/09 21:45 Sala Pasinetti | all accreditations<\/p>\n

IL BAMBINO NASCOSTO<\/strong>
\n11\/09 08:30 Sala Darsena | press, industry
\n11\/09 11:00 Sala Darsena | press, industry
\n11\/09 20:00 Teatro Piccolo Arsenale (Venezia) | tickets
\n11\/09 20:30 Arena Lido | tickets
\n11\/09 21:00 Sala Grande | tickets<\/span>
\n11\/09 21:00 PalaBiennale | tickets, all accreditations
\n11\/09 21:30 Cinema Rossini (Venezia) | tickets
\n11\/09 21:30 IMGCinemas (Mestre) | tickets<\/p>\n

IL PARADISO DEL PAVONE<\/strong>
\n04\/09 19:30 Sala Volpi | press, industry
\n04\/09 22:15 Sala Casin\u00f2 | press, industry
\n05\/09 17:15 Sala Darsena | tickets, all accreditations<\/span>
\n05\/09 17:15 Sala Giardino | tickets, all accreditations
\n05\/09 19:00 Cinema Rossini (Venezia) | tickets
\n05\/09 19:00 IMGCinemas (Mestre) | tickets
\n06\/09 09:15 Sala Volpi | all accreditations
\n06\/09 11:30 Sala Casin\u00f2 | all accreditations
\n06\/09 13:00 Cinema Rossini (Venezia) | tickets
\n06\/09 13:00 IMGCinemas (Mestre) | tickets
\n06\/09 14:00 Sala Volpi | all accreditations
\n06\/09 15:00 Teatro Piccolo Arsenale (Venezia) | tickets, all accreditations
\n06\/09 17:15 Sala Casin\u00f2 | all accreditations<\/p>\n

EL HOYO EN LA CERCA<\/strong>
\n02\/09 19:45 Sala Casin\u00f2 | press, industry
\n02\/09 22:00 Sala Volpi | press, industry
\n03\/09 13:45 PalaBiennale | tickets, all accreditations
\n03\/09 14:15 Sala Darsena | tickets, all accreditations<\/span>
\n03\/09 22:00 Cinema Rossini (Venezia) | tickets
\n03\/09 22:00 IMGCinemas (Mestre) | tickets
\n04\/09 09:15 Sala Casin\u00f2 | all accreditations
\n04\/09 10:00 Cinema Rossini (Venezia) | tickets
\n04\/09 10:00 IMGCinemas (Mestre) | tickets
\n04\/09 11:15 Sala Volpi | all accreditations
\n04\/09 14:15 Sala Casin\u00f2 | all accreditations
\n04\/09 17:00 Sala Volpi | all accreditations<\/p>\n

LA SANTA PICCOLA<\/strong>
\n08\/09 09:00 Sala Giardino | press, industry
\n08\/09 16:30 Sala Giardino | tickets, all accreditations<\/span>
\n08\/09 Sala Web<\/a>
\n09\/09 14:00 Teatro Piccolo Arsenale (Venezia) | tickets, all accreditations<\/p>\n

DESERTO PARTICULAR<\/strong>
\n02\/09 19:30 Sala Astra 1 | press, industry
\n02\/09 19:45 Sala Astra 2 | press, industry
\n07\/09 16:45 Sala Perla | all accreditations<\/span>
\n07\/09 16:45 Sala Web<\/a>
\n09\/09 22:00 Sala Astra 1 | tickets, all accreditations
\n09\/09 22:15 Sala Astra 2 | tickets, all accreditations<\/p>\n

IL SILENZIO GRANDE<\/strong>
\n08\/09 10:30 Sala Perla | all accreditations<\/span>
\n08\/09 10:30 Sala Web<\/a>
\n09\/09 21:00 Cinema Rossini (Venezia) | tickets<\/p>\n

LA DERNI\u00c8RE S\u00c9ANCE\u00a0<\/strong>
\n09\/09 08:30 Sala Perla | press, industry
\n10\/09 14:00 Sala Perla | all accreditations<\/span>
\n11\/09 09:00 Sala Perla | all accreditations
\n11\/09 17:30 Cinema Rossini (Venezia) | tickets<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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