Queer Screen’s
Mardi Gras Movie Festival
is a highlight of our Mardi Gras diary, because would youn’t love the opportunity to relax with some popcorn and (ultimately) see all of our communities and tales projected regarding big screen?!
We have trawled through plan of 120 films (54 feature length and 66 short flicks across 70 classes) to create you our very own very top selections. They may be diverse and comprehensive, funny and going, enjoyable and informing, and now we believe you will love them.
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Zen during the Ice Crack
Italy
Zen inside the Ice Rift
employs 16-year-old Zen, relatively âthe merely girl’ on regional ice hockey staff, because they struggle with intimidation and discovering their own identity. The tight soundtrack and stunning visuals incorporate in truly good ways to create a visceral feeling of the distress and separation of gender dysphoria, growing upwards, and need.
The movie discusses these motifs head on, with hostility. The icy environment also gives a welcome vary from the Mardi Gras temperature.
Screening Monday 18 March, 7:30pm
Event Cinemas George St
Look at the trailer and purchase passes
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Chedang and Apple
Philippines
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Thelma and Louise
is regarded as my personal favorite movies. Very, how can you improve on a film like
Thelma and Louise?
By making it about a 66-year-old woman who is only emerge, and her best friend who’s merely take off the woman abusive husband’s head, obviously.
This hilarious road celebrities two previous charm queens as Chedang and Apple, and comes after them because they find Chedang’s former enthusiast, with Apple’s partner’s mind in a Louis Vuitton case. Honestly.
Testing Saturday 23 February, 1pm
Event Cinemas George St
Sunday 24 March, 7:15pm
Riverside Theatre, Parramatta
View the trailer and purchase seats
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1985
American
This beautiful and sparse movie is actually a heavy note of a few of the darkest times in regards to our communities. The movie is placed in its titular year and comes after Adrian’s return from nyc to their conventional Texas family members for Christmas time, for just what is probably the very last time: Adrian features HELPS.
The black-and-white movie captures the shadowy nature of the times â the stilted talks Adrian provides with his household, the silences which happen to be hefty with definition, together with splits in failing interactions. Stories concerning HIV/AIDS epidemic are usually usual at LGBTQ film celebrations, but this award-winning movie is actually a stand out.
Testing Tuesday 19 March, 6:30pm
Event Cinemas George St
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Leitis in Waiting
Tonga
Through the team that developed
Kumu Hina
, a favourite from Mardi Gras movie Festival 2015,
Leitis in wishing
is actually a documentary about leitis, Tonga’s native transgender ladies: their unique society, as well as their struggles for esteem.
These women have actually over the years held a significant destination inside the Tongan neighborhood, but previous influxes of foreign evangelism have actually triggered a rise in conservatism and discrimination. The movie evaluating, followed by a Q&A with among the film’s topics, Joey Joleen Mataele, is certainly not becoming missed.
Testing Wednesday 27 February, 6:30pm
Occasion Cinemas George St
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Two inside the Bush: A Love Tale
American
The majority of rom-coms in this world could be summarised aided by the soon after synopsis:
“boy-meets-girl. Woman does not like child. Boy harasses lady. Girl inexplicably comes crazy.”
Thus I love this movie flips the program into: “female becomes job working for a Dominatrix. Female drops in love with Dominatrix
and
the woman boyfriend. Stores and whips take part in a consensual fashion.”
This movie discusses bisexuality, kink and polyamory in a sensible and funny method, I am also thus right here for the combination.
Evaluating Monday 22 February, 8:30pm
Occasion Cinemas George St
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Lucy Watson is Archer mag’s on line editor, co-host of FBi Radio’s Kings and Queens, and a PhD candidate within college of Sydney.
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