ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಇಂದಿನಿಂದ ‘Queer Film Festival’

ಚಿತ್ರೋತ್ಸವದ ಪೂರ್ಣ ವೇಳಾಪಟ್ಟಿ ಇಲ್ಲಿದೆ :

BQFF SCHEDULE

DAY 1

Feb 28, 2014

AUDITORIUM

Margaritas

Serbia | 9:30 am

Saturday night in a cocktail bar. The glasses clink, cool margaritas are served. Everybody is relaxed, except for Rita. She is waiting nervously for her first blind date.

Telling Tales

South Africa | 9:46 am

Three short films (1 parody and 2 documentaries) made for the Out In Africa-sponsored Telling Tales workshop in 2005.

 

Breaking out of the Box

South Africa | 10:07 am

A touching, funny documentary on the lives of black lesbians in South Africa through the apartheid era to the present. It covers six women talking about their African identity.

 

TEA BREAK 10:50 am

 

Damned if You Don’t

US | 11:05 am

Story of an isolated convent, whose tale of passions leashed and unleashed provides the leitmotif for a young lesbian who watches it and the lonely nun she pursues and seduces.

 

Chaleur Humaine (Human Warmth) Belgium | 11:47 am

Antoine loves being close to Bruno, he loves his warmth and he needs it. But comes the time of detachment and the body stops responding.

 

Beyond Binary

India | 11:58 am

A poignant documentation about Shankari’s search for femininity, love, dignity and identity; and what she thinks are the elements that make her more of a woman.

 

Partir (Leaving)

Portugal | 12:18 pm

The story of three brothers that fate wanted to bring together since the day they were conceived. Their mother died seven years ago and since then, they had to be each other’s cornerstone. And when all seemed to make sense, someone decides to leave.

 

Blush

France | 12:40 pm

Nicolas, 26 years old, is perfectly in tune with his generation: discreet, sporty, trendy. In his tiny Parisian apartment we find out that two ordinary paper boxes keep a precious secret.

 

LUNCH BREAK 12:55 pm

 

Muro (Wall)

Spain | 13:30 pm

Waiting, craving, downing… Miguel wants to hear what Peter has to say.

 

You Are My Brother

India | 13:34 pm

The story revolves around an older brother acknowledging the sexual orientation of his younger brother and the former’s dilemma on learning about it in the most unexpected fashion.

 

Rue Curiol (Curiol Street)

France | 13:46 pm

Touria, Joséphine and Dominique are transsexuals. They come from French Polynesia and have been working for many years as prostitutes on Curiol street in Marseille. At a time where their street is undergoing far-reaching changes, they tell us about their lives and their trade.

 

Angel

France / Ecuador | 14:21 pm

In Paris everyone knows her as “Mujeron” (Big Woman) but her real name is Angel. A former boxer from Ecuador, Angel is now a transsexual prostitute in France. Her mission in life is to support her family back home. Now, after five years away, the time has come for her to see what her help has achieved.

 

Aan Poovu

India | 15:31 pm

Many factors led Seethalakshmi, one of several daughters in an extremely backward family in rural Kerala to undergo a sex-change operation to become Sreedharan. The film, through Sreedharan’s situation tries to subtly unravel how deeply gender colours the already complex relationship between an individual and society even in a 100 percent literate model state like Kerala.

 

PHOTO INAUGURATION + BREAK 15:46 pm

 

Bioscope

India | 16:04 pm

The documentary follows 4 Trans* people who recount their own stories of silence, violence, oppression, resistance and survival in the Indian education system.

 

Waiting in Wilderness

India | 16:48 pm

One dusky evening in the courtyard of a middle class household, we see a 12 year old lad coming of age trying to fathom the Shakespearean verses on the seven stages of life.

 

Milk & Vodka

Australia | 17:55 pm

Astrid immerses herself in her first love, however paranoia consumes her when she suspects her girlfriend of cheating.

 

PERFORMANCE 18:20 pm

 

La Santa (The Blessed)

Chile | 19:25 pm

Father and daughter are getting ready for a grand procession through the village, but things are strained between them. Dad has arranged for his thirteen-year-old daughter Maria to play the Virgin Mary. Maria doesn’t want to, but her father insists. He hopes that this will heal her. Maria has no idea if she wants to be healed – and from what, anyway?

 

Knighthood

Taiwan | 19:40 pm

A young knight must face her WORST nightmare – her first training bra.

 

The Kiss

Poland | 19:50 pm

After an alcohol-induced night out, Emilia, 20, wakes up in an unknown apartment next to another woman, Matylda, 32, who claims they slept with each other last night.

 

Mía

Argentina | 20:13 pm

Mía is the story of Ale, a transvestite who lives in a shanty town inhabited only by gays. Ale finds a diary of a young woman who has died. The content written on it, makes Ale confront her reality.

 

DAY 1

Feb 28, 2014

FIRST FLOOR HALL

 

Joaquín La Habana: Living Between Worlds

Germany | 9:30 am

A documentary portrait of the transformation artist Joaquín La Habana, an androgynous Cuban-born singer, dancer and entertainer, who currently resides in Berlin, Germany. The film contains impressive archival material, including Joaquín La Habana’s performance at the famous nightclub, Studio 54.

 

TEA BREAK 11:32 pm

The Brave Unseen

South Africa | 11:37 am

Grace (a rookie cop) falls in love with Emma (a determined social worker) after the two women start to work together on a case that would see a homophobic rapist be put behind bars.

 

Somagwaza

South Africa | 12:10 pm

Believing that after his initiation and circumcision he will finally be accepted by his father as a man, Mkhonto heads to the Eastern Cape to undertake the ceremony. Alone, he is joined by Gcina, also an initiate, and the two battle the elements and their own demons as they wait for the pain and the process to play itself out.

 

Acceptance

India | 12:23 pm

Raj becomes a recluse after losing a five-year relationship. His insecurities unfold when he meets Sonali, a transsexual, and her husband on a fateful afternoon.

 

Rótulo (Label)

Brazil | 12:37 pm

Fernando and Carol lay awake in bed, in the morning after a hectic night. A kiss between the two starts a heated debate about their sexualities. Gay, Bi, Straight? What are they, anyway?

 

LUNCH BREAK 12:50 pm

 

Rainbow Popcorn

Taiwan | 13:20 pm

A sequel to Lesbian Factory, Rainbow Popcorn follows their love stories of Filipino lesbian migrant workers and their journeys to Luzon, Ilo-Ilo and Mindanao in the Philippines, to Dubai and elsewhere. Candid, heartwarming and touching, this documentary will make you laugh and shed tears at the same time.

 

One Zero One: The Story of Cybersissy and Babyjane

Germany | 14:22 pm

A hybrid of documentary and fiction, this film follows the lives of Moroccan-German Mourad, who is ‘the smallest drag queen of the world’ and multi-disabled, and Dutch Antoine, who is a nightclub performer as well.

 

PHOTO EXHIBITION +BREAK 15:50 pm

 

Edie & Thea: A very long engagement

US | 16:04 pm

After 42 years, feisty and delightful lesbian couple Edie and Thea are finally getting married. From the early ’60s to the present day, the tireless community activists persevere through many battles, both personal and political.

 

Kuch Palon Mein (In some moments)

India | 17:11 pm

The film explores the relationship between Mihir, a college student and Ankit, his senior who Mihir had a crush on. Upon realising that they are both gay, their relationship seems to turn into a romantic one night stand.

 

Irene

Brazil | 17:27 pm

Irene is a lonely lady who lives in a secluded cottage. When her granddaughter shows for an unexpected visit, along with a new friend, Irene is disturbed and she begins to relive feelings that seemed to have been forgotten.

 

Aquaporko!

Australia | 17:42 pm

Aquaporko! is a documentary about fat activism, empowerment and synchronised swimming.

 

Her Name is Sowmya

India | 18:04 pm

This is the tragic story of Sowmya, a 26 year old transgender girl from Chennai. The footage of this film is a collection of memories filmed by using mobile, laptop and handy-cam during various times when Sowmya was alive. Sowmya speaks of her struggle to survive.

 

PERFORMANCES: AUDITORIUM 18:13 pm

 

DAY 2

Mar 01, 2014

AUDITORIUM

 

Camp Beaverton: Meet the Beavers

US | 9:30 am

Given the setting with the Burning Man festival as the backdrop, this film is a visual feast celebrating several aspects of queer identity with the majority of the characters identifying as female and others preferring gender neutral identity.

 

The Beginning

Russia | 10:30 am

Moscow, 2012. The true sexuality of Russian women has just begun waking up. And Daria is thrilled with it.

 

I Feel Lost

Spain | 10:39 am

Javier feels an existential emptiness after watching the last episode of LOST. Little by little, a strange force pushes him further and further into a voyage of self-discovery. What starts as a game could end up … as a game!

 

TEA BREAK 10:52 am

 

Morning

France | 11:07 am

Morning is the story of a young transsexual who reminisces about his dreary past as he applies his make-up in the morning.

 

Kuch Palon Mein (In some moments)

India | 11:17 am

The film explores the relationship between Mihir, a college student and Ankit, his

senior who Mihir had a crush on. Uponrealising that they are both gay, their relationship seems to turn into a romantic one night stand.

 

Boy

Denmark | 11:33 am

Oliver is trapped in his own body. He is born as a girl, but feels like a boy. Everything is wrong when he meets himself in the mirror.

 

Transgressions

India | 12:03 pm

This film is composed of video stories exploring the experiences of people in south India who are gender and sexual minorities and have different sexual orientations.

 

Accsex

India | 12:14 pm

The film questions notions of beauty, body, sexual orientation and disability at large.

 

LUNCH BREAK 13:06 pm

 

Mumbai Police

India | 13:41 pm

They dance in the water. They are like wandering clouds. But not for a homophobic spectator.

TEA BREAK 16:11 pm

 

Nube Flotantes (Wandering Clouds)

USA/Mexico | 16:25pm

They dance in the water. They are like wandering clouds. But not for a homophobic spectator.

 

Brother and Sister: Short 2

US | 16:40 pm

A brother and sister (and their friends) argue over the political correctness of the use of the word ‘gay’.

 

Pas

US | 16:43 pm

An exploration of the ballet tradition, a tradition notoriously structured through western ideologies of beauty, grace, and the feminine.

 

Frangipani

Sri Lanka | 16:48 pm

Sarasi does not want Chamath to be the only boy in her bridal dressing class but she couldn’t help wrapping the beautiful wedding saris that Chamath embroiders. She wants Chamath to rescue her from an arranged marriage but Chamath wants to run away from the village looking for freedom in the city.

 

PERFORMANCE + BREAK 18:18 pm

 

In Berlin We Die Alone

Germany / Romania | 19:18 pm

The camera follows Dragos for 24 hours in Berlin. 3.5 million live in Berlin, yet loneliness finds its way and creeps into people’s souls.

 

Still Black: A portrait of Black Transmen

US | 19:26 pm

Stories of six thoughtful, eloquent and diverse transmen. Preachers, teachers, students and activists educate us simply by making their presence known.

 

The Invisible Men

Israel / The Netherlands | 20:44 pm

An untold side of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. Gay Palestinians––Louie, Abdu and Fares––are hiding in Tel Aviv, and until they escape, they must remain ‘the invisible men’.

 

DAY 2

Mar 01, 2014

FIRST FLOOR HALL

Paper Flowers

India | 12:30 pm

Paper Flowers is about a group of hijras living in Mumbai. They talk about themselves, their dreams and aspirations. It also looks at their relationships with each other and their perceived role in society, as seen through their own eyes.

 

LUNCH BREAK 13:00 pm

 

EDSAXXX

Philippines | 13:40 pm

This film takes us on a wild ride through the ups and downs, twists and turns in the life of one man’s downfall and the rise to fame of another.

 

Chuppan Chupai (Hide and Seek)

Denmark / Pakistan | 15:05 pm

This film follows the lives of four LGBT Pakistanis: activist Neeli, flighty but “famous” Kami, shy Waseem, and Jenny, a transgender woman who struggles with her transition. All live under the spectre of Pakistan’s sharia laws forbidding homosexuality.

 

TEA BREAK 16:12 pm

 

Audre Lorde Poetry: Reading by Minal Hajratwala

16:27 pm

 

Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years (1984 – 1992)

Germany | 16:42 pm

Audre Lorde, the highly influential, award-winning African-American lesbian poet came to live in West-Berlin in the 80s and early ’90s. She was the mentor and catalyst who helped ignite the Afro-German movement while she challenged white women to acknowledge and constructively use their privileges.

 

PERFORMANCES:

AUDITORIUM 18:06 pm

 

Damned If You don’t

US | 19:16 pm

Story of an isolated convent, whose tale of passions leashed and unleashed provides the leitmotif for a young lesbian who watches it and the lonely nun she pursues and seduces.

 

Joie! (Joy!)

Canada | 19:58 pm

In 1979, Mish created an Order of gay male nuns to promote a philosophy of promulgating universal joy and expiating guilt. Both he and the Order have come a long way since then. Today, the Sisters are spread out across the globe, and Mish lives in the middle of the woods of the Deep South, in a community of Radical Faeries.

 

And You Thought You Knew Me

India | 21:09 pm

The film brings the lives of five women into focus. Women whose only common meeting ground is that they identify themselves as outside of the heterosexual framework and live in the same city. What they identify as, their stories, relationships and activism, set against the backdrop of Delhi––form part of the narrative and create a tapestry of images and metaphors, that invites one to re-engage with and rethink the notion of the other, the lesbian.

 

DAY 3

Mar 02, 2014

AUDITORIUM

 

Disrupted

Spain | 9:30 am

The memory and testimony of two characters: One, who was a child actor in the seventies, and Lilia Ortega, his mother, an actress. Fernando came out as a transvestite some years ago, and now goes by a different name.

 

TEA BREAK 11:05 am

Rótulo (Label)

Brazil | 11:17 am

Fernando and Carol lay awake in bed, in the morning after a hectic night. A kiss between the two starts a heated debate about their sexualities. Gay, Bi, Straight? What are they, anyway?

 

Acceptance

India | 11:29 am

Raj becomes a recluse after losing a five-year relationship. His insecurities unfold when he meets Sonali, a transsexual, and her husband on a fateful afternoon.

 

Aquaporko!

Australia | 11:42 am

Aquaporko! is a documentary about fat activism, empowerment and synchronised swimming

 

Rainbows Are Real

India | 12:04 pm

A Kolkata based film, revolving around the lives of three transgenders, their work, their difficulties, their childhood, their relationships, their hobbies, their normality. The film not only encapsulates the lives of the three transgenders but also the harsh truths of many other transgender people in the country.

 

LUNCH BREAK 13:00 pm

 

Bruno & Earlene Go to Vegas

US | 13:33 pm

Earlene arrives at Venice Beach after running away from a situation she cannot handle, only to become fast friends with a bohemian intersex skater who is also lost. Together, they set out into the desert to

find themselves.

 

…Ebang Bewarish (“…and the unclaimed”)

India | 15:08 pm

In 2011, two young girls committed suicide together in Nandigram, a village in West Bengal. As the story unfolds we come to know of their love affair, and non-acceptance of the village community as well as their families.

 

TEA BREAK 16:11 pm

 

Just Two Steps Away

India | 16:21 pm

The film is about the idea of a modern day marriage and unapologetic love between two men.

 

The Falceto Jazz Club

Australia | 17:15 pm

A gay teenager is seduced into a homosexual cult, run by villainous Drag Queens.

 

PR – Public Relations

India | 17:29 pm

After failing to get hot dates in town, a young man discovers a gay dating site called PR (Public Relations).

 

Scaffolding

Spain | 17:39 pm

Eduardo, a publicist and David, a shy student of literature are neighbours in a building under construction. After 6 months of hardly a greeting a scaffold intercedes between them, causing unexpected reactions in each.

 

Irene

Brazil | 17:54 pm

Irene is a lonely lady who lives in a secluded cottage. When her granddaughter shows for an unexpected visit, along with a new friend, Irene is disturbed and she begins to relive feelings that seemed to have been forgotten.

 

The Egg

Australia | 18:09 pm

Patsy is determined to beat the odds and hatch her own little chick, but she discovers she must fight some angry dads for her right to become a mum.

 

Cannibales (Cannibals)

Spain | 18:20 pm

Just 10 minutes away from the heart of the city, hundreds of hungry men meet by chance, by stealth. Some of them are looking for quick and easy sex, others want to avoid loneliness. Most of them are looking for themselves.

 

I’ve Only Just Begun

Finland | 18:35 pm

“I’ve Only Just Begun” is a ragingly beautiful and empowering story about Venuz Vulgar and his friends on their way to St. Petersburg, Russia.

 

PERFORMANCES 18:41 pm

 

The Language of Love

Australia | 19:41 pm

Seventeen-year-old Charlie struggles to find the words to be true to himself, and his best friend.

 

Mecs Meufs (Guys Girls)

France | 19:51 pm

Bob doesn’t understand why French girls never hit on guys. What if men were actually the ‘weaker sex’?

 

Ink Deep

France | 20:05 pm

Through-out the first five months of his hormone reassignment therapy, Remy Leroux, a transsexual, takes us through his body to his mind, his gender and his identity.

 

Out In East Berlin

Germany | 20:08 pm

Out in East Berlin tells the impressive-to-absurd personal histories of lesbians and gays in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). East German lesbians and gays, on the path to out sexual identity, share one specific and sinister perspective: they live under the watchful eye of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi).

 

DAY 3

Mar 02, 2014

FIRST FLOOR HALL

 

Miniaturas

Spain | 9:30 am

Mrs Asuncion is 67, a widow and has two children, Juan and Belen. The day of her death, Belen disappointingly discovers that her mum had a secret lover. In the vigil, together with her brother, Belen will try to discover who the lover is, while she negotiates and goes into the special features of a Spanish village.

 

Angel

France / Ecuador | 9:47 am

In Paris everyone knows him as “Mujeron” (Big Woman) but his real name is Angel. A former boxer from Ecuador, Angel is now a transsexual prostitute in France. His mission in life is to support his family back home. Now, after five years away, the time has come for him to see what his help has achieved.

 

TEA BREAK 10:57 am

 

Kusum

India | 11:07 am

Can hope be found in the most unusual places amongst the most unlikely characters? A young transvestite prostitute, Kusum, locked up in her room, gears up for a regular night like any other.

 

Meghadhanushya: The Colour of Life

India | 11:18 am

Tanmay is a gay man who grew up oppressed by his family, friends, and society at large. The film shows social obstacles against gay people in Indian society.

 

LUNCH BREAK 12:48 pm

 

Rules of the Road

US | 13:18 pm

This film tells the story of a love affair and its demise through one of the objects shared by the couple: an old beige station wagon with fake wood panelling. A typical American family car for an atypical American family, it provides the women at first with all the familiar comforts. But when their relationship ends, the car becomes the property of one and the bane of the other’s existence.

 

Verona

Brazil | 13:49 pm

Ten years after dance duo Verona split, the two men meet to prepare the marriage of one of them. At a beautiful country estate, they celebrate the end of youth and the start of a new future. The moods, from subdued to ecstatic, have been captured superbly.

The Invisible Men

Israel / The Netherlands | 14:23 pm

An untold side of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. Gay Palestinians––Louie, Abdu and Fares––are hiding in Tel Aviv, and until they escape, they must remain ‘the invisible men’.

 

Partir (Leaving)

Portugal | 15:33 pm

The story of three brothers that fate wanted to bring together since the day they were conceived. Their mother died seven years ago and since then, they had to be each other’s cornerstone. And when all seemed to make sense, Someone decides to leave.

 

TEA BREAK 15:55 pm

 

Change Over Time

US | 16:07 pm

CHANGE OVER TIME is an animated, experimental, personal documentary about the filmmaker’s first year on testosterone from an impressionistic and poetic perspective.

 

Chaleur Humaine (Human Warmth)

Belgium | 16:15 pm

Antoine loves being close to Bruno, he loves his warmth and he needs it. But comes the time of detachment and the body stops responding.

 

Il Mondo Sopra La Testa (The World Above Head)

Italy | 16:26 pm

The film is set in a fantasy world where the political leader has absolute power. A group of gays, lesbians and transgender people kidnap the despotic leader and demands a ransom for his release.

 

Knighthood

Taiwan | 16:38 pm

A young knight must face her WORST nightmare – her first training bra.

 

The Kiss

Poland | 17:48 pm

After an alcohol-induced night out, Emilia, 20, wakes up in an unknown apartment next to another woman, Matylda, 32, who claims they slept with each other last night.

 

XXY

Argentina | 17:10 pm

In a small coastal town of fishermen in Uruguay, the biologist Kraken works and lives in a house at the sea side with his wife Suli and their aggressive fifteen year-old child Alex. Suli’s friend Erika visits with her husband and their teenage son Alvaro. Alvaro finds that Alex is intersex and Alex finds that Alvaro is gay.

 

PERFORMANCES: AUDITORIUM 18:41 pm

 

Grace

Israel | 19:41 pm

Grace, a Filipina who came to Israel to look for work 20 years ago, married an Israeli man and bore him three sons. Since then she has lived with a split identity: half Filipina – half Israeli. She divorced, rediscovered her sexuality, entered a relationship with a Filipina and opened a beauty salon at the Tel Aviv, Central Bus Station.

 

Still Black: A portrait of Black Transmen

US | 20:22 pm

Stories of six thoughtful, eloquent and diverse transmen. Preachers, teachers, students and activists educate us simply by making their presence known.