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Feature Films

QueerWave Festival Programme 2021. The Cyprus LGBTQ+ Film Festival.
 

BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN

Radu Jude

106’ | 2021 | Romania

Emi finds her teaching career under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.

 

CARMEN & LOLA

Arantxa Echevarría

103’ | 2018 | Spain

Two young women come into conflict with the conservatism and patriarchalism of Madrid's Roma community when they fall in love.

 

COLORS OF TOBI

Alexa Bakony

81’ | 2021 | Hungary

A documentary providing an intimate glimpse into the family life of a young person exploring their gender identity in rural Hungary.

 

DATING AMBER

David Freyne

92’ | 2020 | Ireland, UK, US, Belgium

In 1990s Ireland, two school friends decide to start a pretend straight relationship in an effort to fit in.

 

IT IS NOT THE HOMOSEXUAL WHO IS PERVERSE, BUT THE SOCIETY IN WHICH HE LIVES

Rosa von Praunheim

67’ | 1971 | West Germany

A sociological essay film about gay life in Berlin in a time of secrecy and oppression, following Daniel's unsatisfying immersion into gay society.

 

LITTLE GIRL

Sébastien Lifshitz

90’ | 2020 | France, Denmark

A trans girl grows into herself in a lovely, light-filled documentary that pitches familial strength against community resistance.

 

LOVE, SPELLS AND ALL THAT

Ümit Ünal

96’ | 2019 | Turkey

After not having seen each other for 20 years, two women are reunited on the small Turkish island where, as teenagers, they first fell in love.

 

MOFFIE

Oliver Hermanus

104’ | 2019 | South Africa, UK

A young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality.

 

MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM

Leontine Sagan

88’ | 1931 | Germany

At an all-girls boarding school, Manuela develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers. One of the earliest narrative films in the history of cinema to explicitly portray homosexuality.

 

OBSCURO BARROCO

Evangelia Kranioti

59’ | 2018 | France, Greece

An essayistic film exploring the pulsating world and poetic words of transgender narrator Luana Muniz, an icon of Brazil's queer subculture.

 

SHIVA BABY

Emma Seligman

77’ | 2020 | USA, Canada

A young woman struggles to keep up different versions of herself when she runs into her sugar daddy and her ex-girlfriend at a shiva with her parents.

 

THE COMING BACK OUT BALL MOVIE

Sue Thomson

86’ | 2018 | Australia

In the middle of Australia's divisive marriage equality vote, Melbourne hosted a gala event to honour and celebrate its LGBTIQ elders. These are their stories.

 

THE STRONG ONES

Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo

98’ | 2019 | Chile

Lucas travels to visit his sister in a remote city in southern Chile. There he falls in love with Antonio, a foreman on a local fishing boat.

 

THE WILD BOYS

Bertrand Mandico

110’ | 2017 | France

Five teenagers enamoured by the arts commit a savage crime. As punishment, a Dutch captain takes them to a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers.

 

TOVE

Zaida Bergroth

103’ | 2020 | Finland, Sweden

A biopic on the formative years of Tove Jansson, showing both her personal relationships, and the creation of the popular Moomin books.