Queer Display’s
Mardi Gras Film Festival
is definitely an emphasize of our Mardi Gras calendar, because whon’t love the opportunity to relax with some popcorn and (finally) see all of our communities and tales projected in the silver screen?!
We have trawled through program of 120 flicks (54 feature length and 66 small movies across 70 sessions) to take you our very own top selections. They are varied and comprehensive, amusing and going, interesting and enlightening, and now we believe you are going to love all of them.
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Zen for the Ice Crack
Italy
Zen inside the Ice Rift
follows 16-year-old Zen, apparently âthe just lady’ regarding the regional ice hockey group, as they battle with intimidation and checking out their particular identity. The anxious soundtrack and stunning visuals incorporate in actually good ways to generate a visceral feeling of the misunderstandings and separation of sex dysphoria, raising up, and desire.
The film deals with these themes head on, with hostility. The icy setting in addition gives a welcome change from the Mardi Gras heating.
Screening Monday 18 March, 7:30pm
Occasion Cinemas George St
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Chedang and Apple
Philippines
Thelma and Louise
is among my personal favorite films. Therefore, how do you enhance on a movie like
Thelma and Louise?
By creating it about a 66-year-old woman who is only emerge, along with her best friend who’s simply block the woman abusive husband’s mind, certainly.
This humorous street movie stars two former charm queens as Chedang and Apple, and uses them as they look for Chedang’s former partner, with Apple’s partner’s head in a Louis Vuitton bag. Seriously.
Screening Saturday 23 March, 1pm
Occasion Cinemas George St
Sunday 24 March, 7:15pm
Riverside Theatre, Parramatta
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1985
American
This breathtaking and simple movie is huge reminder of a few of the darkest moments in regards to our communities. The film is scheduled in titular year and follows Adrian’s return from ny to his conservative Texas family for Christmas time, for just what is likely the final time: Adrian has AIDS.
The monochrome movie captures the shadowy nature among these moments â the stilted conversations Adrian features along with his family, the silences which happen to be hefty with definition, plus the cracks in crumbling relationships. Stories regarding the HIV/AIDS epidemic are generally typical at LGBTQ movie celebrations, but this award-winning movie is actually a stand out.
Testing Tuesday 19 February, 6:30pm
Event Cinemas George St
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Leitis in wishing
Tonga
From the team that produced
Kumu Hina
, your favourite from Mardi Gras Film Festival 2015,
Leitis in Waiting
is actually a documentary about leitis, Tonga’s indigenous transgender women: their own tradition, and their battles for admiration.
These ladies have usually held a significant destination within Tongan community, but current influxes of international evangelism have resulted in a rise in conservatism and discrimination. The movie assessment, with a Q&A with among movie’s topics, Joey Joleen Mataele, is certainly not to-be overlooked.
Testing Wednesday 27 February, 6:30pm
Occasion Cinemas George St
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Two from inside the Bush: A Love Tale
United States Of America
The majority of rom-coms nowadays can be summarised making use of the soon after synopsis:
“boy-meets-girl. Girl doesn’t like kid. Boy harasses girl. Lady inexplicably drops crazy.”
And so I like this film flips the script into: “Girl becomes work working for a Dominatrix. Lady falls in deep love with Dominatrix
and
the woman sweetheart. Stores and whips take part in a consensual manner.”
This film tackles bisexual get-together, kink and polyamory in a sensible and amusing way, I am also thus right here regarding combination.
Testing Friday 22 February, 8:30pm
Event Cinemas George St
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Lucy Watson is Archer mag’s internet based publisher, co-host of FBi broadcast’s Kings and Queens, and a PhD prospect during the college of Sydney.
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