Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 2009
The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival kicks off tomorrow with a screening of Ella Lemhagen’s Swedish comedy Patrik, Age 1.5, in which a gay couple discover that their newly adopted "baby" is actually a 15-year-old anti-gay juvenile delinquent.
Among the other films scheduled at the festival, which runs until May 3, are:
Yair Hochner’s quirky romantic comedy Antarctica (above, top photo), in which several gay men and a couple of lesbians try to sort out their entangled romantic lives in bustling Tel Aviv — all that while awaiting for aliens to land in the city.
Valdis Óskarsdóttir’s Icelandic comedy Country Wedding (above, lower photo), about several individuals with various personal secrets who gather for an out-of-town wedding.
Jacqui Morris‘ British [...]
by Andre Soares | April 23, 2009
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Tags: Antarctica, Armin Meiwes, Country Wedding, Ella Lemhagen, Film Festivals, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Grimm Love, Gustav Hofer, Jacqui Morris, Luca Ragazzi, Martin Weisz, Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Mr. Right, One Day in a Life, Patrik Age 1.5, Stefano Tummolini, Suddenly Last Winter, Valdis Oskarsdottir, Yair Hochner
John Greyson Boycotts 2009 Tel Aviv LGBT Film Festival
In Haaretz.com, Cnaan Liphshiz discusses the reactions to Toronto-based filmmaker John Greyson’s refusal to attend the 2009 Tel Aviv International LGBT film festival, which runs June 23-27. Below are a couple of brief quotes from Liphshiz’s piece:
"’What Greyson has done is an act of violence both against Israeli gays as well as [gay] Palestinians, for whom this festival is a rare ray of light,’ said Yair Hochner, the festival’s Israeli-born organizer and an internationally-acclaimed director. Greyson told Anglo File this week: ‘With ongoing violations by Israel of Palestinian human rights and given the specific content of my film, screening it in Israel would be hypocrisy.’ The film, Fig Trees, deals with [...]
by Andre Soares | April 17, 2009
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Tags: Boycotts, Fig Trees, Film Festivals, Fucking Different Tel Aviv, Gay Film Festivals, Gay Interest, Homophobia, John Greyson, Politics, Tel Aviv LGBT Film Festival, Yair Hochner
