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abril / Film des Tages 8. April/ Film of the Day 8.
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With the advent of same
sex marriage, homosexuals have achieved
near-equality in much of Europe.
Everything seems rosy, so why should
they keep on fighting?
Rainbow's End is a revealing and
entertaining multinational journey from
the center to the borders of Europe.
From parades and protests in Warsaw and
Krakow to touching personal stories with
social, religious and political insights,
the film moves from street activism to
the United Nations in Geneva,
Switzerland. A starting
point for any timely and relevant
discussion regarding the future of
lesbian, gay, bi and transgender people
within Europe and throughout the world.
Canvassing the European countryside, Rainbow's
End covers significant territory:
• Berlin partygoers looking for an
online hookup who stumble upon an
activist organization’s website which
causes them to rethink the relationship
between gay culture and the internet
• An English man fighting for the
basic human rights of his lover who has
been deported to Russia
• Activist group Outrage’s actions
intended to bring national and worldwide
attention to injustices in gay, human
and social rights
• Experiences of gay Arab men in the
Netherlands
• The first publication of a gay and
lesbian newspaper in the Arabic world
• A physically violent hate crime in
Amsterdam which results in the victim
developing acute agoraphobia
• Polish crowds chanting that they
would like to see gay festival
participants in the incinerators of
nearby Auschwitz
• An anti-gay organization advocating
to host its own “pride parade”
At the end of the rainbow, gay and
lesbian existence reverberates in an
intimate and moving way within a tense
field of major political issues: newly
established Christian and Islamic
fundamentalisms, the curtailing of human
rights, issues of asylum and right-wing
radicalism. Rainbow's
End suggests that there remains a
great deal for the LGBT community to
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| La pelicula del dia 9 de
abril / Film des Tages 9. April/ Film of the Day 9.
April: |
Screaming
Queens tells the little-known
story of the first known act of
collective, violent resistance to the
social oppression of queer people in the
United States — a 1966 riot in San
Francisco’s impoverished Tenderloin
neighborhood, three years before the
famous gay riot at New York’s
Stonewall Inn.
Screaming
Queens introduces viewers to
street queens, cops and activist civil
rights ministers who recall the riot and
paint a vivid portrait of the wild
transgender scene in 1960s San
Francisco. Integrating the riot’s
story into the broader fabric of
American life, the documentary connects
the event to urban renewal, anti-war
activism, civil rights and sexual
liberation. With enticing archival
footage and period music, this unknown
story is dramatically brought back to
life.
Screaming
Queens is a production of Victor
Silverman and Susan Stryker produced in
association with ITVS and KQED, with
funding provided by the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting.
Visit the website |
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de abril / Film des Tages 10. April/ Film of the Day 10.
April: |
Based on a real person, Shabnam
Mousi is an action-packed
Bollywood musical about a hijra (eunuch)
who transcends societal oppression to
become a successful politician. The
story begins with Shabnam’s birth and
her parents’ decision to ask other
hijras to take care of the child.
Shabnam then grows up under the
influence and cultures of these hijras
who are her daily companions, friends
and parents. She grows up to be a dancer,
then runs away and, through grit and
determination (and lots of great song
and dance numbers and action sequences),
fights against social prejudices,
eventually rising to political power.
Starring Vijay Raaz (from Monsoon
Wedding).
In the culture of the Indian
subcontinent a hijra is a physically
male or intersex person who is
considered a member of "the third
sex." They trace their historical
roots to Hinduism where they mirrored
androgynous deities, as well as to the
royal courts of Islamic rulers. Many
modern Hijras, faced with health
concerns and discrimination, have become
politically active. For example, they
have formed HIV/AIDS awareness groups to
combat health problems within their
communities. Other hijras have been
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Existing
as they have for centuries, the Eunuchs
(or Hijra) are considered the third
gender, neither men nor women. Harsh
Beauty follows over a period of 3
years the lives of Jyothi, Usha and hira
bai, three Eunuchs who live openly as
women, and want to be accepted for what
they truly believe themselves to be.
This one hour documentary uses a verite'
approach, creating intimate and personal
accounts of their lives, without
presenting an anthropological
perspective. Set against the vibrant
energy of the Indian metropolis, Harsh
Beauty takes a glance into a
society rarely seen and often
misunderstood. |
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| La pelicula del dia 11
de abril / Film des Tages 11. April/ Film of the Day 11.
April: |
Salut
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| Late-in-life romance
doesn't feature too often in gay-themed
movies, but Canadian filmmaker Anne
Claire Poirier puts that to right with
this delicate, affecting tear-jerker.
Longtime loner Philippe checks
into a stately nursing home, ready to
die; but resident rebel Victor incites
him to optimism with giddy, delinquent
adventures. Victor is gay, and his
spirit inspires Philippe to share
secrets about his own past. Salut
Victor breaks ground with its
portrait of older gay men, and wins over
audiences with its seductive style. |
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| From the director of A
Kiss in the Snow and Home For
Christmas comes the beautifully
filmed story of 18-year-old best friends
on a weekend escape to a remote cabin.
Waves paints a moving and
introspective portrait of two young men
on the threshold of adulthood, timidly
testing the waters between romantic
attraction and the deep bond of
friendship. |
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| La pelicula del dia 12
de abril / Film des Tages 12. April/ Film of the Day 12.
April: |
Based on recently
discovered archive material, this
first-ever documentary about Annemarie
Schwarzenbach is the portrait of a woman
from one of the biggest fortunes of
Zurich--a family with open inclinations
towards the Nazi order.
A writer, journalist, and photographer,
Schwarzenbach travelled the world
denouncing European fascism and the
exploitation of American workers. A
complex woman, she lead an unending
quest for identity, struggled with drug
addiction, and lived a bohemian life in
Berlin in the twenties and thirties.
Filmmaker Carole Bonstein reveals the
fascinating story of a lesbian political
radical, a romantic deceiver and an
adverturer who rejected her prescribed
role in life.
A model of courage? An eternally
uprooted woman? Who was Annemarie
Schwarzenbach? A
Swiss Rebel looks at these
questions and more. |
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Derek
Jarman: Life as Art
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Derek Jarman was one of
the UK's most talented, innovative and
controversial independent filmmakers,
making significant films such as Caravaggio
and Wittgenstein.
He was also a hugely talented painter,
writer, and gardener, and following his
HIV+ diagnosis became an ardent activist
for gay rights. He only made the films
he wanted to make – films giving voice
to his vision of the world as a gay man,
a lover of high art and Super-8.
He died in 1994.
Derek
Jarman: Life as Art explores the
rich and colorful life and loves of
Jarman through the entertaining,
insightful and thought-provoking
recollections and perspectives of some
of Jarman's closest friends, family and
colleagues including Tilda Swinton,
Christopher Hobbs, James Mackay, Simon
Fisher Turner, Nigel Terry, Tariq Ali,
Peter Tatchell and Jill Balcon. Gorgeous
looking slow-motion Super-8 shots of the
contributors act as cut-aways, bringing
the influence of Jarman's stylistic look
to the documentary. Clips and stills
from his films and previously unseen
footage of Jarman directing Wittgenstein
give a clear feel for the anarchy, color,
imagery and poetry of the man and his
work.
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de abril / Film des Tages 13. April/ Film of the Day 13.
April: |
From the maker of Zero
Patience and Lillies...
Eisenstein, Mishima, Frida Kahlo and
other dead artists are uncannily
summoned on a mission to probe the
policing of public toilets in Ontario.
They discover that, since 1981, hundreds
of men have been arrested, victims of
video surveillance. The key to all this
seems to be a portrait of Dorian Gray.
Part news story, part surreal comic
invention, John Greyson's Urinal
is at the cutting edge of new gay cinema:
passionate, playful, complex and sharp.
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April: |
Based on an 1896 Broadway
stage play, A
Florida Enchantment is an
extraordinary resort-set silent comedy
of cross-dressing and confusion.
Frustrated by her fiancé's affairs with
hotel maids, a New York heiress downs
one of the magic seeds that change women
into men. But after shaving her morning
moustache, she exchanges ideas of
revenge for the new-found pleasure of
embracing other women! Hence begins a
drama of bewildered sexual identity
which rivals anything Hollywood ever
later produced, like Some
Like It Hot or All
Of Me.
*Please note that while A
Florida Enchantment offers some
complexity about sex roles, it does not
exercise the same thoughtfulness about
ethnicity; like many films of the time,
it is often disturbingly racist.*
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Academy Award winning
director Richard Schmiechen (The
Times of Harvey Milk) vividly
portrays the life and work of the woman
described by the Los Angeles Times as
“The Rosa Parks of Gay Rights” in Changing
Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn
Hooker.
During the repressive 1950’s, Dr.
Evelyn Hooker undertook ground breaking
research that led to a radical discovery:
homosexuals were not, by definition, “sick.”
Dr. Hooker’s finding sent shock waves
through the psychiatric community and
culminated in a major victory for gay
rights -- in 1974 the weight of her
studies, along with gay activism, forced
the American Psychiatric Association to
remove homosexuality from its official
manual of mental disorders. Startling
archival footage of the medical
procedure used to “cure”
homosexuality, images from the
underground gay world of the McCarthy
era and “home movies” of literary
icon Christopher Isherwood bring to life
history which we must never forget. Dr.
Hooker’s insights into “gay marriage”
and the “gay community” (a term she
coined), and the filmmakers’ winning
approach make this documentary education
at its most exciting and enjoyable.
Narrated by Patrick Stewart. |
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[05.12.2006]: Un
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Este martes contamos con
la presencia de John Rosso & Oscar Gutierrez,
quienes forman parte del Grupo Milk A.C. cuya acción se
basa en tres ejes: El Sexo. La Sexualidad y, la Salud
Sexual. A continuación llegó una musa con una agilidad
impresionante: Kundala y el Fuego Arabe... más |
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