Wieland Speck Articles

  Giovanni Minerba (above), director of the Torino GLBT Film Festival, and his staff have been busy selecting entries for the 24th edition of Turin's annual gay & lesbian film event, which will take place April 23-30. In addition to competition and out-of-competition screenings, the festival will feature homages, retrospectives, and assorted sidebars, including a tribute to Spanish director Ventura Pons, best known internationally for [...]

Wieland Speck, director of the Panorama sidebar at the Berlin Film Festival: "To show a film from Iran about a transsexual, as we did three years ago, was a sensation. We had to take enormous precautionary measures, because this continues to be a highly political issue. "But it's by no means just the Islamic countries. In our neighbouring Poland a man was recently elected president [...]