Queersicht - Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Bern.
A young lesbian policewoman loves a Turkish woman, a gifted chef lives openly gay, a gay couple adopted a 15-year-old boy, a portrait of transvestites and much more. The Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Bern shows of 12-18. November queer feature films, documentaries and short films. Who wants to swing after a long film night on the dance floor can do so at the sound of Electro-Queersicht party. Quiet is the way of the Queer Lounge view: it provides a chillout zone to rest and over-Movies-Chat.
A blind spot. Flyers, the program guide and even on the website www.queersicht.ch claims a large white patch space. Although it has changed since the turn of 20 years ago, much to the benefit of homosexuals remain blind spots. Today gays and lesbians walk hand in hand through the streets kissing in public and can enjoy the freedoms most hetero couples as well. Queer does not provide more for speechlessness, red heads, or looks that could kill. Queer has become normal. If the scene is dead? This question is the theme of this year's panel discussion: Mosca muerta - the scene is dead! "On Saturday 14 November at 15:00 clock on the small stage in the PROGR.
Queersicht is certainly alive. Gay and lesbian alone are not sufficient as a criterion for a good movie. One can look forward to a varied program. The recent Queer Festival preview clearly showed a red thread. This year will show a colorful array of films. One theme stands still significantly Out: Gays and lesbians in football. The documentary "The great taboo" and "taboo" reveal a subtle way, how far gays and lesbians is widespread hostility in football yet. The reports, the football program run on Friday 13.11. at 18:00 clock and on Saturday 14.11. at 15:30 clock in the cinema of the riding school.
Der Themen-Block im Kino Kunstmuseum geht auf die Wende vor 20 Jahren ein. For example, with the film "A Comrade Couture." Marco Wilms feels like a crazed bird of paradise. He loves to dress up and posing. And in East Berlin in the mid eighties where everyone pursues Conspicuous wurde.Am Sunday, 11.15. at 15:30 clock in the cinema art museum in the presence of a protagonist, Frank Schäfer.
Another special guest Sumeya Kokt, the director of the opening film, "Sens Interdits" on Thursday, 11/12 at 21:00 clock in the cinema ABC. Kokt tells the story of a lesbian couple. The police officer Jennifer will substantiate their relationship with the young Turkish woman Selin and move in with her. But Selim's father insists that his daughter leaving the parental home only when she is married. The approach of the story is not far away. The director is Kokt police officer and himself comes from the Turkish community in Belgium. Her first film shows the tensions between religious tradition and a liberal society.
The best short film will be honored this year with the "pink eye" and a price of CHF 1'500 .-. The "pink eye" is first presented at a gala evening: Connected to a concert Evelinn Trouble. On Sunday 15.11. from 19:30 clock in the gym in the PROGR.
QUEER VIEW 12.-18. November 2009
Program: www.queersicht.ch
Tickets: www.starticket.ch
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