Torino GLBT Film Festival 2009 Articles

2009 Torino GLBT Film Festival Awards 2009 Torino GLBT Film Festival: April 23-30, 2009   Best Feature Film: Leonera / Lion's Den by Pablo Trapero (Argentina/South Korea/Brazil, 2008) Special Mention: Actress Martina Gusman for Lion's Den Special Jury Award: Elève libre / Private Lessons by Joachim Lafosse (Belgium, 2008) Special Mention: Actor Jonas Bloquet for Death in Venice Special Mention: Wu sheng feng ling / [...]

Filmmaker Kit Hung (above, with festival programer Cosimo Santoro), whose Soundless Wind Chime was screened at the 2009 Torino GLBT Film Festival. In the film, a young Chinese man gets involved with a Swiss con artist drifting away in Hong Kong. Tribute to Spanish filmmaker and painter Adorfo Arrieta (above, with Arrieta section programmer Donatello Fumarola), among whose cinematic efforts are El crimen de la [...]

Canadian filmmaker John Greyson (above with festival supporter Laura Righi) was at the 24 Torino GLBT Film Festival to receive a special award for his latest effort, the part-documentary, part-fiction Fig Trees, about the struggles of AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Cape Town, as they fight governments and the pharmaceutical industry for better access to antiviral drugs. Fig Trees won [...]

2009 Torino GLBT Film Festival: Catalonian filmmaker Ventura Pons (above right, with festival director Giovanni Minerba) presents his latest feature, Forasters / Strangers. Pons, among whose credits are Actresses (1997), Caresses (1998), Food of Love (2002), and Barcelona, a Map (2007), was also given a special award for his contributions to gay cinema. (Photo: M. Maldonado.) In Strangers, a traditional family goes through two traumatic [...]