{"id":4459,"date":"2018-09-04T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.queerlion.it\/?p=4459"},"modified":"2019-07-20T14:26:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T12:26:11","slug":"competition2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.queerlion.it\/en\/competition2018\/","title":{"rendered":"12. Queer Lion Award: films in competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Synopses, cast & credits of the 10 movies in competition for Queer Lion Award 2018; calendar with the screening schedule during the Venice International Film Festival; names of the jurors<\/em><\/p>\n

CALENDAR WITH THE SCREENING SCHEDULE<\/strong><\/p>\n

C\u2019EST \u00c7A L\u2019AMOUR<\/a>
\nAug 29 | 11:30 Sala Perla (Lido) | Press, Industry
\nAug 30 | 17:00 Sala Perla (Lido) | Free Coupons, All Accreditations
\nSep 07 | 11:30 Sala Perla (Lido) | Free Coupons, All Accreditations<\/p>\n

JOS\u00c9<\/a>
\nAug 29 | 17:00 Sala Perla (Lido) | Press, Industry
\nSep 06 | 11:30 Sala Perla (Lido) | Free Coupons, All Accreditations
\nSep 07 | 20:00 Sala Perla 2 (Lido) | Free Coupons, All Accreditations<\/p>\n

THE FAVOURITE<\/a>
\nAug 30 | 08:45 Sala Grande (Lido) | Press, Industry
\nAug 30 | 11:30 Sala Grande (Lido) | Press, Industry
\nAug 30 | 22:00 Sala Grande (Lido) | Tickets, All Accreditations
\nAug 30 | 22:15 Sala PalaBiennale (Lido) | Tickets
\nAug 31 | 08:30 Sala PalaBiennale (Lido) | All Accreditations<\/p>\n

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND<\/a>
\nAug 30 | 19:30 Sala Perla (Lido) | Press, Industry
\nAug 30 | 22:00 Sala Darsena (Lido) | Press, Industry
\nAug 31 | 14:15 Sala Grande (Lido) | Tickets, All Accreditations
\n01 Sep | 17:30 Sala Perla 2 | Free Coupons, All Accreditations<\/p>\n

SUSPIRIA<\/a>
\nSep 01 | 08:30 Sala Darsena (Lido) | Press, Industry
\nSep 01 | 11:00 Sala Grande (Lido) | Press, Industry
\nSep 01 | 19:15 Sala Grande (Lido) | Tickets
\nSep 01 | 22:00 Sala PalaBiennale (Lido) | Tickets
\nSep 02 | 09:50 Sala PalaBiennale (Lido) | All Accreditations<\/p>\n

ZEN SUL GHIACCIO SOTTILE<\/a>
\nSep 01 | 11:30 Sala Giardino(Lido) | Press, Industry
\nSep 01 | 17:30 Sala Giardino (Lido) | Tickets, All Accreditations
\nSep 02 | 20:00 Sala Pasinetti (Lido) | Free Coupons, All Accreditations<\/p>\n

LA QUIETUD<\/a>
\nSep 02 | 09:00 Sala Grande (Lido) | Press, Industry
\nSep 02 | 11:00 Sala Darsena (Lido) | Press, Industry
\nSep 02 | 22:00 Sala Grande (Lido) | Tickets, All Accreditations
\nSep 02 | 22:30 Sala PalaBiennale (Lido) | Tickets
\nSep 03 | 08:30 Sala PalaBiennale (Lido) | All Accreditations
\nSep 03 | 21:30 Sala Rossini 3 (Venezia) | Tickets
\nSep 03 | 21:30 Sala IMG Candiani 2 (Mestre) | Tickets<\/p>\n

B\u00caTES BLONDES<\/a>
\nSep 02 | 19:45 Sala Perla 2 (Lido) | Press, Industry
\nSep 03 | 14:00 Sala Perla (Lido) | Free Coupons, All Accreditations
\nSep 04 | 14:00 Sala Perla (Lido) | Free Coupons, All Accreditations
\nSep 04 | 19:00 Sala Rossini 3 (Venezia) | Tickets
\nSep 04 | 19:00 Sala IMG Candiani 2 (Mestre) | Tickets<\/p>\n

TCHELOVEK KOTORIJ UDIVIL VSEH<\/a>
\nSep 04 | 19:45 Sala Casin\u00f2 (Lido) | Press, Industry
\nSep 04 | 22:00 Sala Volpi (Lido) | Press, Industry
\nSep 05 | 14:15 Sala Darsena (Lido) | Tickets, All Accreditations
\nSep 05 | 21:00 Sala Web<\/a> | Tickets
\nSep 06 | 12:00 Sala PalaBiennale (Lido) | Tickets, All Accreditations<\/p>\n

KUCUMBU TUBUH INDAHKU<\/a>
\nSep 06 | 19:30 Sala Casin\u00f2 (Lido) | Press, Industry
\nSep 06 | 22:00 Sala Volpi (Lido) | Press, Industry
\nSep 07 | 14:00 Sala Darsena (Lido) | Tickets, All Accreditations
\nSep 07 | 21:00 Sala Web<\/a> | Tickets
\nSep 08 | 12:00 Sala PalaBiennale (Lido) | Tickets, All Accreditations<\/p>\n

For further information: La Biennale di Venezia<\/a>, biglietteria.cinema@labiennale.org<\/a><\/p>\n

SYNOPSES, CAST & CREDITS<\/strong><\/p>\n

C\u2019est \u00e7a l\u2019amour<\/strong> (Real Love) by Claire Burger (France, 98\u2019)
\nForbach, East of France, today. Mario, a man without much ambition, except for love, is back to square one after his wife left home. He now must raise on his own his two daughters going through their adolescent years while going through some sort of a teenage crisis of his own. Frida, 14-years old, blames her father for their mother’s absence and she develops ambivalent feelings towards her new girlfriend. Niki, 17-years old, will soon leave home. Until then, she lives the good life. Mario can’t help but lose the women he loves. Yet they must all agree to let one another go. Can accepting to lose someone eventually lead to finding oneself?
\nPresented in 15. Giornate degli Autori<\/em><\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9<\/strong> by Li Cheng (Guatemala, 85\u2019)
\nJos\u00e9 (19 years old) lives with his Mother (50s) in Guatemala: a tough life in one of the world’s most dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. Jos\u00e9 is her youngest and favorite child, and her life is church and selling sandwiches. Jos\u00e9 spends his days on crowded buses and in the streets delivering food. Resigned and aloof, in free moments he plays with his phone and looks for random sex. When he meets Luis, Jos\u00e9 is thrust into passion and pain and self-reflection that was previously unimaginable.
\nPresented in 15. Giornate degli Autori<\/em><\/p>\n

The Favourite <\/strong>by Yorgos Lanthimos (Uk, Ireland, Usa, 120\u2019)
\nEarly 18th century. England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving. A frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne\u2019s ill health and mercurial temper. When a new servant, Abigail, arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. Sarah takes Abigail under her wing and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become quite time consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps into the breach to fill in as the Queen\u2019s companion. Their burgeoning friendship gives her a chance to fulfil her ambitions and she will not let woman, man, politics or rabbit stand in her way.
\nPresented in Venezia 75<\/em><\/p>\n

The Other Side of the Wind<\/strong> by Orson Welles (Usa, France, Iran, 122\u2019, 1970-1976, 2018)
\nIn 1970, legendary director Orson Welles began filming what would ultimately be his final cinematic opus with a cast of luminaries that included John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg and Welles\u2019s partner during his later years, Oja Kodar. Beset by financial issues, the production ultimately stretched to 1976 and soon gained industry-wide notoriety, never to be completed or released. More than a thousand reels of film languished in a Paris vault until March 2017, when producers Frank Marshall (who served as a production manager on Wind during in its initial shooting) and Filip Jan Rymsza spearheaded efforts to have Welles\u2019s vision completed more than 30 years after his death. Featuring a new score by Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand and assembled by a technical team including Oscar- winning editor Bob Murawski, The Other Side of the Wind tells the story of famed filmmaker J.J. \u201cJake\u201d Hannaford, who returns to Hollywood after years in self-exile in Europe with plans to complete work on his own innovative comeback movie. Although heterosexual, the director falls in love with the movie’s leading man. As stated by Joseph McBride, while dealing with the theme of homosexuality, the movie tries to explain Welles’ vision of the actor\/director relationship, or between “man” and “God”. This film, says McBride, “is Welles’ 8\u00bd, a meditation on art and on what cinema is”.
\nPresented in Fuori Concorso<\/em><\/p>\n

Suspiria<\/strong> by Luca Guadagnino (Italy, Usa, 152\u2019)
\nA darkness swirls at the centre of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe\u2019s artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
\nPresented in Venezia 75<\/em><\/p>\n

Zen sul ghiaccio sottile<\/strong> by Margherita Ferri (Italy, 90\u2019)
\nIn a small village on top of the mountains, Maia Zenasi, a rowdy and solitary 16-year-old tomboy, is the only girl on the local hockey team and her life, on and off the ice-rink, is tough. When Vanessa, the beautiful and dazed girlfriend of the team captain, runs away from home and hide in Maia’s family lodge, Maia opens up for the first time someone of her peers: the days they spend together will lead them to break away from the roles that the community forced them to play.
\nPresented in Biennale College<\/em><\/p>\n

La quietud<\/strong> by Pablo Trapero (Argentina, 117\u2019)
\nAfter long years of absence, and following her father\u2019s stroke, Eugenia returns to La Quietud, the family estate near Buenos Aires where she is reunited with her mother and sister. The three women are forced to confront the emotional traumas and dark secrets of their shared past, which played out against the backdrop of the military dictatorship. Long-buried grievances resurface and jealousies are revealed, all amplified by the unsettling physical resemblance between the two sisters.
\nPresented in Fuori Concorso<\/em><\/p>\n

B\u00eates blondes<\/strong> (Real Love) by Alexia Walther, Maxime Matray (France, 100\u2019)
\nThe former star of a short-lived television sitcom, Fabien, drinks too much to remember everything he does and not much surprises him anymore. When his path crosses Yoni\u2019s, he is not surprised to discover, in the wake of this young, tearful, military man, the head of yet another young man, beautiful like a dream, a memory, a reproach.
\n\u00abA completely alien cinematic space: an audacious and anarchic film that does not resemble anything else\u00bb.
\nPresented in 33. Settimana Internazionale della Critica<\/em><\/p>\n

Tchelovek kotorij udivil vseh<\/strong> (The Man Who Surprised Everyone) by Natasha Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov (Russia, Estonia, France, 105\u2019)
\nThe story of the film is based on memories of Natalia Merkulova’s, the film director’s, Siberian childhood, the village where she grew up, the people who surrounded her and the legends told in those places.
\nEgor Korshunov (40) is a Siberian forest guard who works in a local environmental company, fighting fearlessly against poachers in taiga. Egor is a great family man, respected by his fellow villagers. He and his wife Natalia are expecting a second child. Unexpectedly, Egor finds out that he has terminal cancer and has only two months left to live. No traditional medicine or shamanic magic can save Egor. Finally, left with no other options, he decides to take the last desperate step. He attempts to completely change his identity in order to fool the oncoming death, just like Zhamba, the hero of a legendary ancient Siberian epos, did.
\nPresented in Orizzonti<\/em><\/p>\n

Kucumbu tubuh indahku<\/strong> (Memories of My Body) by Garin Nugroho (Indonesia, 105\u2019)
\nJuno is just a kid when his father leaves him in their village of Center Java. Alone now, he joins a Lengger dance center where men transform their appearance and movement into female\u2019s. But the sensuality and sexuality that comes from dance and bodies, mixed with the violent social and political Indonesian surrounding, forces Juno to move from village to village. If on his journey Juno gets attention and love from his dance teachers, his weird aunt, his old uncle, a handsome boxer and a Warok, he still has to face alone the battlefield that his body is becoming.
\nPresented in Orizzonti<\/em><\/p>\n

JURY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brian Robinson<\/strong> (UK), BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival, British Film Institute
\nRita Fabbri <\/strong>(Italy), Radio Ca\u2019 Foscari, Universit\u00e0 Ca\u2019 Foscari
\nJani Ku\u0161trin<\/strong> (Slovenia), LGBT activist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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