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Synopses, cast & credits of the feature length and short films of LGBT interest, presented at the 77. Venice International Film Festival.<\/em><\/p>\n

SYNOPSES, CAST & CREDITS
\n<\/strong>click HERE<\/a> for the calendar<\/h2>\n

Fucking with Nobody<\/strong> by Hannaleena Hauru (Finland, 102′, 2020)
\nHanna is an aspiring actress that, after a negative screen test, decides to make her own movie, helped by her sister and some friends. They decide to stage her relationship with the younger, gay Ekku, destined to be published on Instagram and then turned into a movie, testing therefore even the need for romance hidden in their instagram followers. But when reality and fiction start to blebd, things get complicated.
\nPresented in Biennale College<\/em><\/p>\n

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Fucking With Nobody by Hannaleena Hauru<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

La nuit des rois<\/strong> (Night of the Kings) by Philippe Lac\u00f4te (Ivory Coast, France, Canada, 92′, 2020)
\nA young man is sent to \u201cLa Maca\u201d, a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new \u201cRoman\u201d and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named \u201cZama King\u201d and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn. Following the orders of Boss \u00abBarbe Noir\u00bb, the inmates stage the long story narrated by \u00abRoman\u00bb with songs, dances, choreographed battles. A non-musical prison movie rich in suggestions. Among the all-male inmates, each with his own nickname, also the transvestite \u00abSexy\u00bb, “partner” of the most powerful prisoners.
\nPresented in Orizzonti<\/em><\/p>\n

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La nuit des rois by Philippe Lac\u00f4te<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u015aniegu ju\u017c nigdy nie b\u0119dzie<\/strong> (Never Gonna Snow Again) by Ma\u0142gorzata Szumowska, Micha\u0142 Englert (Poland, Germany, 113\u2019, 2020)
\nCast: Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza, Weronika Rosati, Andrzej Chyra
\nPoland. A masseur from Ukraine enters the daily, dull lives of the wealthy residents of a closed community. In spite of their wealth, these people look sad and bored. The hands of the newcomer heal them, his eyes seem to pierce their souls. To them, that man’s Russian accent sounds like a song from the past, a memory of their childhood. Zhenia, this is his name, will change their lives. The movie solicits sharp questions about sexuality, intimacy, contact, with atmospheres referencing Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Teorema”.
\nPresented in Venezia 77<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u015aniegu ju\u017c nigdy nie b\u0119dzie (Never Gonna Snow Again) by Ma\u0142gorzata Szumowska, Micha\u0142 Englert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Human Voice<\/strong> by Pedro Almod\u00f3var (Usa, Spain, 30\u2019, 2020)
\nA loose adaptation of the original theatrical monodrama by Jean Cocteau, on which Pedro Almod\u00f3var worked for decades. A desperate woman (Tilda Swinton) awaits for the phone call of the lover who just abandoned her. It’s Almod\u00f3var’s first english-spoken project. Swinton\/Almod\u00f3var, two worldwide icons of both Cinema and Queer Culture, paired for the first time.
\nPresented in Fuori Concorso<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Human Voice by Pedro Almod\u00f3var with<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Natt\u00e5get <\/strong>(The Night Train) by Jerry Carlsson (Sweden, 15\u2019, 2020)
\nOskar is on the night train, heading home after an interview in Stockholm. With a long night ahead of him, he makes eye contact with Ahmad. For the first time he meets the gaze of someone who feels the same desire as he does.
\nPresented in Orizzonti<\/em><\/p>\n

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Natt\u00e5get (The Night Train) by Jerry Carlsson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Return of Tragedy<\/strong> by Bertrand Mandico (France, 24\u2019, 2020)
\nTwo policemen interrupt a secret ceremony: a woman being disembowelled at the bottom of a garden to let out her inner beauty. This situation is presented in a variety of ways and all possibilities are explored.
\nPresented in Orizzonti<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Return of Tragedy by Bertrand Mandico<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Queerskins Ark<\/strong> by Illya Szilak, Cyril Tsiboulski (Usa, 17\u2019, 2020)
\nReading a diary left by the estranged son she has lost to AIDS, a Catholic mother (Hadley Boyd) living in rural Missouri finds a way to transcend her self and her grief by imagining him alive and in love. With heart-wrenching performances by Michael DeBartolo and Christopher Vo in volumetric video and the storytelling potential of spatial sound, Ark allows you to enter her imagination and co-create the lovers\u2019\u00a0intimate dance through your body position and movements. An Intel Studios Original co-produced with Cloudred.
\nPresented in Venice Virtual Reality<\/em><\/p>\n

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Queerskins Ark by Illya Szilak, Cyril Tsiboulski<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gravidade VR<\/strong> by Fabito Rychter, Amir Admoni (Brazil, Per\u00f9, 15\u2019, 2020)
\nGravidade VR is a wild ride through a chaotic world. In this experience you follow the last moments of two men (brothers? friends? loving partners maybe?) while free falling for 15 minutes. An emotional and thrilling journey in a surreal universe with no ground beneath your feet. A parable, a fable, an interactive experience.
\nPresented in Venice Virtual Reality<\/em><\/p>\n

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Gravidade VR by Fabito Rychter, Amir Admoni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

En ce moment<\/strong> (In this moment) by Serena Vittorini (Italy, 15\u2019, 2020)
\nIn This Moment is a love story involving two young women during the lockdown imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. They meet and fall in love, then the world shrinks around them, and their relationship is concentrated in one place and time. The film shows their attempts to express their own emotions and needs in a series of moments oscillating between intensity, suffering and passion.
\nPresented in Giornate degli Autori<\/em><\/p>\n

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En ce moment (In this moment) by Serena Vittorini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miu Miu Women’s Tales #19 \u2013 Nightwalk<\/strong> by Ma\u0142gorzata Szumowska (Italy, Poland, 9\u2019, 2020)
\nIt’s nighttime in Warsaw, Poland. Two very different homes. In one, a father is slovenly stretched out on a sofa, watching sports, expecting his son to be everything he is. In another apartment, all clean modern, an affluent mother sits to have dinner with her daughter, who isn’t like her at all. Simultaneously, both the boy and the girl embark on a night journey of transformation, where they shed their inherited gender layers. The city streets become a catwalk of liberation. When they meet, by chance – face-to-face, body-to-body – they wordlessly mirror each other with comfort and assurance.
\n\u00a0Presented in Giornate degli Autori<\/em><\/p>\n