Starts this Thursday (9), another edition of International LGBTQIA+ Film Festival. The event is coordinated by several institutions and embassies around the world in partnership with the European Union Delegation and Sesc SP, and aims to promote productions that promote the LGBTQIA+ agenda through cinema.
Free and entirely online, this time the festival presents 27 films (10 feature films and 17 short films) from 19 different countries, which have undergone a selection to be shown.
According to the organization, among the themes brought to this edition are the fight for the rights of LGBTQIA+ people, the discovery of one’s own identity, homophobia and transphobia, love in the elderly population, the fight against social and cultural conventions and the impact of Covid-19 .
Among the short films is the Brazilian “Soccer Boys” (2019) , a documentary by Carlos Guilherme Vogel, which follows two players from the first gay football team in Rio de Janeiro and the transformations they undergo from the moment they join the team. The film wants to discuss issues such as homosexuality in football, discrimination and homophobia in contemporary society.
already short it “First day [First day]” (2017) is an Australian production about Hannah’s first day of high school, which also marks the first day she will wear the female school uniform and her chosen name, rather than the male name she was given at birth.
In the selection of features, “Living. loving [Living. Loving]” (2018) is a documentary from Sweden that takes place in 2013 and shows the world’s first senior residence for LGBTQ people, opened in Stockholm. The film centers on the lives of three elderly characters who move in and tell about their experiences, dreams and desires in a time of oppression and embarrassment.
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7th International LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
June 9th to 15th, 2022
Full schedule: https://sesc.digital/colecao/cinema-lgbtqia
Source: CNN Brasil
