{"id":1696,"date":"2009-08-30T15:22:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T13:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.queerlion.it\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2020-05-07T16:21:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T14:21:56","slug":"competition2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.queerlion.it\/en\/competition2009\/","title":{"rendered":"3. Queer Lion Award: films in competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cast, credits, synopses, pictures and of all the movies in competition for Queer Lion 2009; and the calendar with the screening schedule throughout the Film Festival<\/em><\/p>\n

A Single Man<\/strong> by Tom Ford (Usa 2009, 99\u2019)
\nA day in the life of George, an English gay professor, who, after his male partner’s death, starts in Los Angeles an ordinary and lonely life, among his longtime female friend Charley, and his many young students. This film is the debut of the gay stylist Tom Ford and is based on the eponymous 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood, who fictionalizes the encounter with his lifetime partner Don Bachardy.<\/p>\n

Pers\u00e9cution <\/strong>(Persecution) by Patrice Ch\u00e9reau (France 2009, 100\u2019)
\nDaniel, 35, lives a busy but solitary existence that’s peppered by his troubled affair with Sonia, a woman he seems to both love and loath, but can’t get enough of. When out of nowhere a mysterious man shows up in his apartment, what Daniel believes to be a one-time event starts happening more and more, and the unlikely intruder just won’t leave him alone. The unending harassment begins to take its toll on Daniel’s tormented relationship, and when Sonia suddenly decides to leave him, he’s left facing a slew of unanswered questions: Who is this unknown character? Why is he persecuting Daniel? And, what is this all for?<\/p>\n

Life During Wartime<\/strong> by Todd Solondz (Usa 2009, 96\u2019)
\nSomething of a sequel to Solondz’s own \u201cHappiness\u201d. The main topic of the movie is love in its differents facets, a feeling that often needs to forgive rather than to forget – in order to survive and get stronger -. One of the main stories, among the many that animate the movie, is the one of Timmy, a kid discovering that his father is not dead but has been condemned and imprisoned for paedophilia.<\/p>\n

Lei wangzi <\/strong>(Prince of Tears) by Yonfan (Hong Kong 2009, 122\u2019)
\nSet in 1954 Taiwan, during the “White Terror”, it’s the story of a family happily living in a small village nearby Formosa, mostly inhabitated by soldiers working at an aircraft base and their relatives. In the movie, a surprising lesbian twist will give a new meaning to much of the story.<\/p>\n

Great Directors<\/strong> by Angela Ismailos (Usa 2009, 90\u2019)
\nBertolucci, Breillat, Cavani, Frears, Haynes, Linklater, Loach, Lynch, Sayles, Varda: the life and work of ten living authors, through interviews, conversations, movie scenes and archive materials. Bertolucci remembers Pasolini, Frears talks about queer cinema in the 70’s, Haynes analyzes the actualstate of queer cinema; Agn\u00e8s Varda remembers Jacques Demy, Lynch once again drives through \u201cMulholland Drive\u201d.<\/p>\n

L\u2019oro di Cuba<\/strong> by Giuliano Montaldo (Italy 2009, 74\u2019)
\nThe Revolution turns 50. Fifty years of a country that has influenced politics and culture all over the world. A country as rich in contradictions as it is in fascination, for its strong cultural and political identity. The movie wants to analyze what is Cuba now, as seen through the eyes of the youth. Among them , Mariela Castro, head of the National Center for Sexual Education, and daughter of president Raul Castro, speaking about her fights for LGBT rights; the interview ends with an excerpt from Tom\u00e1s Guti\u00e9rrez Alea\u2019s movie \u201cStrawberry and Chocolate\u201d.<\/p>\n

Choi voi <\/strong>(Adrift) by Thac Chuyen Bui (Vietnam 2009, 110\u2019)
\nDuyen got married to Hai, a young man who is still very innocent. Duyen thought she is happy, but the shared life of the young couple is soon dotted with flickers of emptiness. They dont make love like other couples. They are just like two good friends. Cam, a writer, is Duyen’s friend and she’s quietly in love with Duyen. She is troubled by a vast emptiness brought about by Duyens marriage. In order to hide from Duyen her real feeling”a kind of love deemed immoral by the Vietnamese society, Cam pretends to be tortured by her love for a man named Tho. At the same time, another woman named Vi is also desperately in love with Tho.<\/p>\n

Io sono l\u2019amore <\/strong>(I Am Love) by Luca Guadagnino (Italy 2009, 120\u2019)
\nFamily strategies involving family and the guide of the familiar business drive the stories of Emma and Tancredi, their offspring Elisabetta, Edoardo and Gianluca, their companions and soon to be spouses: but all the delicate balances and liaisons are soon to be broken. Guadagnino\u2019s feature is a mix of plots, affaires and loves involving many characters; among them, a lesbian girl. Screenplay by Barbara Alberti, Ivan Cotroneo and Guadagnino himself.<\/p>\n

Villalobos<\/strong> by Romuald Karmakar (Germany 2009, 125\u2019)
\nA 360\u00b0 portrait of internationally acclaimed dj Ricardo Villalobos. What his music tastes are? How does the chilean born combines electro sounds with Herbert von Karajan and Musorgskij? How people react to his techno performances in Berlin or Ibiza?<\/p>\n

Repo Chick<\/strong> by Alex Cox (Usa 2009, 90\u2019)
\nRich and spoiled Pixxi De La Chasse is living her scoundrel life between days spent not being able to find a job and arrests for driving dangerously. Recruited by “repo men” Arizona Gray e Agua, she soon becomes the best of punk confidents, a trendy bodyguard and a flashy fashion designer.<\/p>\n

Pepperminta<\/strong> by Pipilotti Rist (Switzerland\/Austria 2009, 80′)
\nPepperminta, anarchist of the imagination, wants for everybody to become able to look at the world through their favorite palette of colors. She will bejoined inher mission by young and plumpy Werwen, and by androgynous Edna, able to talk to the tulips.<\/p>\n

Francesca<\/strong> by Bobby Paunescu (Romania 2009, 94\u2019)
\nFrancesca is 30 and teaching to kids in Bucharest. Her biggest wish is to go to Italy to be able to live the way Western Europeans do. She will comeclose tofulfillherdream when she will be hired for a job near Milan. Francesca’s best friend is gay.<\/p>\n

Il compleanno <\/strong>(David\u2019s Birthday) by Marco Filiberti (Italy 2009, 106\u2019)
\nTwo couple of friends, Matteo and Francesca, Diego and Shary, decides to spend summer holidays together at a beach house. Matteo, a psychoanalyst, is married with Francesca and they have a 5 years old daughter; Diego, a lawyer, got Shary pregnant while being still very young, and they have a son, David (played by Brazilian model Thyago Alves). When David joins the quartet, Matteo starts developing a deep upsetting feeling towards the boy, and the tension arising between the two couples only make things worse.<\/p>\n

Poeti<\/strong> by Toni D\u2019Angelo (Italy 2009, 69\u2019)
\nPeculiar journey inside the metropolitan poetry, to see Rome through the images and the words of the two main characters: Biagio Propato and Salvatore Sansone. They talk about poetry, modern times, and question themselves about the possibility of another event, like the one who happened in Castelporziano in 1979, to take place again: poets from all around the world gathered in a great \u201cWoodstock of poetry\u201d. Among others: quotations from Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sandro Penna, and poems from Elio Pecora and Dario Bellezza.<\/p>\n

Apan <\/strong>(The Ape) by Jesper Ganslandt (Sweden 2009, 81\u2019)
\nKrister, a husband and a father, wakes up having to face the consequences of a familiar tragedy. During the press conference, the director revealed that the whole tragedy revolves around an episode of homophobia, who is only briefly sketched in the movie during a scene in the gym showers.<\/p>\n

L\u2019amore e basta<\/strong> by Stefano Consiglio (Italy 2009, 75\u2019)
\n9 homosexual couples, 9 stories: Alessandro and Marco, university students in Catania; Nathalie and Val\u00e9rie, fortysomethings, from Versailles; Catherine and Christine, in their sixties and living together for more than 20 years; Lillo and Claudio, from Rome, living together for the last 17 years; Thomas and Johan, in Berlin; Emiliana and Lorenza, living together for the last 7 years in Northern Italy; Gino and Massimo, a couple for the last 30 years in the Palermo province, Ga\u00ebl and William, longtime companions in Paris; and finally, Maria and Marisol, from Spain, legally bound in marriage, as long as it was possible.<\/p>\n

Gordos<\/strong> by Daniel S\u00e1nchez-Ar\u00e9valo (Spain 2009, 121\u2019)
\n\u201cGordos\u201d (Fats) revolves around the stories of 5 overweight characters: 5 bodies trying to find themselves again through group therapy, a place where they have nothing to lose, but simply try to find out the reasons for their obesity. One of the main characters, a former TV seller of diet pills, is a gay sexhaolic; while trying to discover what turned his body into a flabby fat something, he will run into his repressed heterosexuality and will accept the sexual offers of his best friend\u2019s widow. After his stunning \u201cAzuloscurocasinegro\u201d, Daniel S\u00e1nchez Ar\u00e9valo returns with a black comedy, as ironic and unbiased as only young Spanish cinema can be.<\/p>\n

Qu\u2019un seul tienne et les autres suivront <\/strong>(Silent Voices) by L\u00e9a Fehner (France 2009, 119\u2019)
\nIn the parlour of a French jail, the lives of a group of men and women are interwoven and influence each other\u2019s destinies. Among them: a notorious criminal\u2019s look-alike, the girlfriend of a young man in jail, a falsely cynic doctor, a killer\u2019s sister, and the mother of a young Algerian killed by his male lover: the woman is not willing to accept the long waiting dictated by justice, and starts investigating by herself, even managing to get to talk with his son\u2019s murderer. It will be a pointless meeting: it\u2019s impossible to use the reason to understand what is driven by passion.<\/p>\n

Domaine<\/strong> by Patric Chiha (France\/Austria 2009, 110\u2019)
\nPierre is a 17 year old, intellectually fascinated by his aunt Nadia, an alcoholic. Their exclusive and peculiar relationship, driven by consolidated habits, is slowly weakened by love interests and other \u201cdistractions\u201d coming from outside their own world, and the two start to fall apart. During the process of \u201cseparation\u201d, young Pierre will get to know himself better, to discover his true feelings, his hidden desires, from a one night stand with a boy picked up in a club, to the friendship with a transvestite.<\/p>\n

The list of films of queer interest includes as well the following titles, not competing anyway for the Queer Lion Award:<\/p>\n

Survival of the Dead<\/strong> by George A. Romero (Usa 2009, 90\u2019)
\nOn a small island nearby the coasts of North America, the living dead are threating the humans; but despite the growing danger, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to get rid of the “living corpses” of the beloved ones. Among the military forces trying to keep the order, an openly lesbian female soldier.<\/p>\n

Valhalla Rising<\/strong> by Nicolas Winding Refn (Denmark 2009, 90\u2019)
\nOne-Eye, mute warrior with a supernatural force, has been kept prisoner for years by Barde, the head of the tribe. Helped by Are, he kills his warder and they both manage to escape, beginning a trip into the heart of darkness. Trying to escape the bounty hunters, One-Eye and Are go on board of a Viking ship sailing towards Norway; as the country reveals its secrets and the Vikings meet their fate, One-Eye discovers his true nature. In a society such as the Viking one, based on manliness and cruelty, there is place for violence and rapes, even homosexual ones.<\/p>\n

Sinner<\/strong> by Meni Philip (Israel 2009, 28\u2019)
\n13 years old Yotar, student in a hortodox jewish school, turns to the rabbi to come to terms with his first sexual impulses; but, instead of receiving the help he was wishing for, he will find himself even more confused and alone.<\/p>\n

Celda 211 <\/strong>(Cell 211) by Daniel Monz\u00f3n (Spain\/France 2009, 113\u2019)
\nTwo men, during a jail riot: the merciless murderer heading it, and the newly arrived jailer that will find himself involved in it (being forced to undrgo an humiliating rite of passage, being stripped naked among the prisoners, that will take advantage of that). \u201cPrison movies\u201d often show a male-driven, homophobic society, ruled by violence and abuses, even sexual ones. The movie starts from there to tell stories of loves, power games, secret agreements, inside and outside the prison\u2019s walls.<\/p>\n

Good morning Aman<\/strong> by Claudio Noce (Italy 2009, 103\u2019)
\nAman, a 20 year old boy born in Somalia and raised in Rome, works as a used cars seller. Driven by insomnia, he wanders at night for the streets of the Italian capital. One night, after sneaking on a terrace, he meets Teodoro, a former boxer with a dark past. Their friendship soon starts to become something much deeper, even morbid, though never fully cleared, despite a fleeting kiss.<\/p>\n

La nave delle donne maledette<\/strong> by Raffaello Matarazzo (Italy 1954, 94\u2019)
\nA group of deported women sails towards American colonies on Spanish ship in the 18th century. Uncensored version of a flaming melodrama, with rather explicit lesbian innuendos.<\/p>\n

Morte di un amico<\/strong> by Franco Rossi (Italy 1959, 86\u2019)
\nBruno and Aldo are longtime friends. The former lives on the money of a prostitute, as will do the latter very soon. Pier Paolo Pasolini collaborated to the screenplay of this story of good vs. evil, love vs. violence. Very dense of meanings are the scenes in which the two friends find themselves body-to-body, either during a fight or in the moving final sequences.<\/p>\n

Nudi per vivere<\/strong> by Elio Montesti (Italy 1964, 90\u2019)
\nDirected under pseudonym \u201cjust to make money\u201d, this is a docu-drama nearer to realism than to exploitation movies, where in the trip around a sinful Paris by night, it\u2019s impossible not to meet and visit homosexual spots and clubs.<\/p>\n

Il tramontana<\/strong> by Adriano Barbano (Italy 1965, 80\u2019)
\nThe main character, a rebellious kid, is forced to go into a boarding-school when his parents leave for Switzerland. The school, run by Capuchin friars, has all the typical elements one can imagine: long dormitory rooms, long dark corridors, male-bonding and friendship among the boys… and some friar looking at them in a morbid way.<\/p>\n

Screenings Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n

LIDO DI VENEZIA<\/strong>
\n3 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n11:00 SALA GRANDE Great Directors by Angela Ismailos (Usa, 2009 \u2013 90\u2019)
\n14:30 SALA VOLPI Il tramontana by Adriano Barbano (Italy, 1965 \u2013 80\u2019)
\n16:30 SALA PERLA 2 Apan (The Ape) by Jesper Ganslandt (Sweden, 2009 \u2013 81\u2019)
\n19:45 SALA GRANDE Life During Wartime by Todd Solondz (Usa, 2009 \u2013 96\u2019)
\n21:30 SALA DARSENA Francesca by Bobby Paunescu (Romania, 2009 \u2013 94\u2019)<\/p>\n

4 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n11:00 SALA PERLA 2 Celda 211 (Cell 211) by Daniel Monz\u00f3n (Spain\/France, 2009 \u2013 111\u2019)
\n17:00 SALA PERLA 2 L\u2019amore e basta by Stefano Consiglio (Italy, 2009 \u2013 75\u2019)
\n22:00 SALA GRANDE Lei wangzi (Prince of Tears) by Yonfan (Hong Kong, 2009)
\n24:30 SALA GRANDE Valhalla Rising by Nicolas Winding Refn (Denmark, 2009 \u2013 90\u2019)<\/p>\n

5 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n14:00 SALA PERLA 2 Domaine by Patric Chiha (France\/Austria, 2009 \u2013 110\u2019)
\n19:00 SALA DARSENA Pepperminta by Pipilotti Rist (Switzerland\/Austria 2009, 80\u2032)
\n19:30 SALA GRANDE Pers\u00e9cution (Persecution) by Patrice Ch\u00e9reau (France, 2009 \u2013 100\u2019)
\n21:30 SALA DARSENA Io sono l\u2019amore (I Am Love) by Luca Guadagnino (Italy, 2009 \u2013 120\u2019)<\/p>\n

6 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n11:00 SALA PERLA 2 Gordos by Daniel S\u00e1nchez-Ar\u00e9valo (Spain, 2009 \u2013 121\u2019)
\n14:00 SALA PERLA 2 Good morning Aman by Claudio Noce (Italy, 2009 \u2013 103\u2019)
\n17:15 SALA VOLPI Morte di un amico by Franco Rossi (Italy, 1959 \u2013 86\u2019)
\n21:30 SALA DARSENA Choi voi (Adrift) by Thac Chuyen Bui (Vietnam, 2009 \u2013 110\u2019)<\/p>\n

7 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n17:00 SALA PERLA 2 Qu\u2019un seul tienne et les autres suivront by L\u00e9a Fehner (France, 2009 \u2013 119\u2019)<\/p>\n

8 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n11:00 SALA GRANDE Il compleanno (David\u2019s Birthday) by Marco Filiberti (Italy, 2009 \u2013 106\u2019)
\n16:30 SALA DARSENA Villalobos by Romuald Karmakar (Germany, 2009 \u2013 125\u2019)
\n22:00 SALA DARSENA Repo Chick by Alex Cox (Usa, 2009 \u2013 90\u2019)<\/p>\n

9 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n11:00 SALA GRANDE Poeti by Toni D\u2019Angelo (Italy, 2009 \u2013 69\u2019)
\n17:00 SALA VOLPI La nave delle donne maledette by Raffaello Matarazzo (Italy, 1954 \u2013 94\u2019)
\n17:30 SALA PERLA Sinner by Meni Philip (Israel, 2009 \u2013 28\u2019)
\n22:00 SALA GRANDE Survival of the Dead by George A. Romero (Usa, 2009 \u2013 90\u2019)<\/p>\n

10 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n14:45 SALA GRANDE L\u2019oro di Cuba by Giuliano Montaldo (Italy, 2009, 74\u2019)<\/p>\n

11 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n14:30 SALA VOLPI Nudi per vivere by Elio Montesti (Italy, 1964 \u2013 90\u2019)
\n19:30 SALA GRANDE A Single Man by Tom Ford (Usa, 2009 \u2013 99\u2019)<\/p>\n

VENEZIA<\/strong><\/p>\n

5 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n16:30\/19 CINEMA GIORGIONE (sala A) Francesca by Bobby Paunescu (Romania, 2009 \u2013 94\u2019)<\/p>\n

6 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n21:00 ARENA DI CAMPO SAN POLO Pers\u00e9cution (Persecution) by Patrice Ch\u00e9reau (France, 2009 \u2013 100\u2019)
\n21:30 CINEMA GIORGIONE (sala A) Valhalla Rising by Nicolas Winding Refn (Denmark, 2009 \u2013 90\u2019)<\/p>\n

7 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n16:30 CINEMA GIORGIONE (sala A) Io sono l\u2019amore (I Am Love) by Luca Guadagnino (Italy, 2009 \u2013 120\u2019)
\n19:00 CINEMA GIORGIONE (sala A) Lei wangzi (Prince of Tears) by Yonfan (Hong Kong, 2009)
\n21:30 CINEMA GIORGIONE (sala A) Domaine by Patric Chiha (France\/Austria, 2009 \u2013 110\u2019)<\/p>\n

8 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n21:30 CINEMA GIORGIONE (sala A) Good morning Aman by Claudio Noce (Italy, 2009 \u2013 103\u2019)<\/p>\n

10 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n21:30 CINEMA GIORGIONE (sala A) Il compleanno (David\u2019s Birthday) by Marco Filiberti (Italy, 2009 \u2013 106\u2019)<\/p>\n

12 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n21:00 ARENA DI CAMPO SAN POLO A Single Man by Tom Ford (Usa, 2009 \u2013 99\u2019)<\/p>\n

MESTRE<\/strong><\/p>\n

6 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n19:00 CINEMA PALAZZO (sala 2) Francesca by Bobby Paunescu (Romania, 2009 \u2013 94\u2019)<\/p>\n

7 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n17\/19:30\/22 CINEMA PALAZZO (sala 1) Pers\u00e9cution (Persecution) by Patrice Ch\u00e9reau (France, 2009 \u2013 100\u2019)
\n21:30 CINEMA PALAZZO (sala 2) Valhalla Rising by Nicolas Winding Refn (Denmark, 2009 \u2013 90\u2019)<\/p>\n

8 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n16:30 CINEMA PALAZZO (sala 2) Io sono l\u2019amore (I Am Love) by Luca Guadagnino (Italy, 2009 \u2013 120\u2019)
\n19:00 CINEMA PALAZZO (sala 2) Lei wangzi (Prince of Tears) by Yonfan (Hong Kong, 2009)
\n21:30 CINEMA PALAZZO (sala 2) Domaine by Patric Chiha (France\/Austria, 2009 \u2013 110\u2019)<\/p>\n

9 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n21:30 CINEMA PALAZZO (sala 2) Good morning Aman by Claudio Noce (Italy, 2009 \u2013 103\u2019)<\/p>\n

11 SETTEMBRE \/ SEPTEMBER
\n21:30 CINEMA PALAZZO (sala 2) Il compleanno (David\u2019s Birthday) by Marco Filiberti (Italy, 2009 \u2013 106\u2019)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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