The Sicilia Queer filmfest opens its eighth edition 31 May with the international premiere of Stefano Savona's film The Road of Samouni, just proclaimed winner of the Prize for Best Documentary at the Cannes Film Festival. While the 6 It will close its doors in June with the premiere of Un couteau dans le coeur by Yann Gonzalez. Both directors will be guests of the SQ2018.
The film, Powerful creative documentary of one of the most important representatives of contemporary Italian cinema and tragically present films in the days following the transfer of the American Embassy to Jerusalem and the continued Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip, It will be presented on Thursday 31 May during the opening night at the Cinema de Seta. The screening will be preceded, at 20.30, This body from the show he loves me of the group The list of representative.
THE ROAD Samouni Stefano Savona / Italy-France 2018 / 128’ / v.o. sott. it. / national premiere will be the director
Since the small Amal is back in his neighborhood, just remember a large tree that no longer exists. A sycamore tree on which she and her brothers were climbing. After the war came. Amal and his brothers, children of the Samouni family, They have lost everything. Now they have to start looking to the future, rebuilding their homes, their neighborhood their memory. On the thread of memories, real images and the animated story by Simone Massi take turns to draw a family portrait, before, during and after the tragic events, during Operation Cast Lead, where they were massacred twenty-nine family members.
Even the closing night event will have a special flavor: Wednesday 6 June at 20.30, immediately after the awards ceremony, The Festival will salute the edition 2018 with one of the most significant directors of contemporary queer film, The Frenchman Yann Gonzalez, in Palermo who will present the long-awaited international premiere of his new film, he thriller A knife in the heart, in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and starring among others by Vanessa Paradis, Kate Moran, Nicolas Maury. A happy return to Sicily Queer French director who had already submitted his previous works.
the Festival, which in recent years he has accustomed the public to its becoming creative, unstable and innovative and that carries with consistently great cinema in Palermo, this year's edition will offer particular attention to the contemporary art scene around the world, the Beirut Parigi, da Londra to Los Angeles. See the assignment of Nino Gennaro Prize 2018 the German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, first photographer no Briton to win the prestigious Turner Prize, in 2000, among contemporary artists with greater intensity they have explored the potential of photography; The staff dedicated to Catherine Opie's most respected contemporary American photographers; the collective curated by Lebanese director Roy Dib on the contemporary scene of his country; and again installations premiere of French filmmakers Vincent Dieutre and Arnold Pasquier to which is added the debut in the French-Algerian artist Neil feature Beloufa.
The Sicilia Queer filmfest will propose 8 feature films competing in the competition and New Visions 16 short films in competition for the Queer Shorts competition. In addition to these two competitive sections will present the SQ2018: works out of competition Panorama Queer, the Attendance section with the complete retrospective on French director and actor Jacques Nolot, the two sections of the history of Italian cinema and post cards Hinder à Serge Daney, heterotopies the section dedicated this year to Lebanon, in addition to presentations of Queer Literature books that will see renewed its partnership with the festival A sea of books which will be the relay Sicily Queer. Many will also be side events, the performance, meetings, concerts and workshops that the Festival will offer to the public from 31 May to 6 June 2018.
PROGRAM QUEER18
3 June 2018 / Sunday / day #4
Cinema De Seta Cultural Shipyards alla Zisa
11.00 DAILY FATHER Gianni Amelio / Mondadori / Milano 2018
Piero Melati dialogue with the author.
16.00 HINTERLAND di Jacques Nolot / France 1998
The Outback He told with insight and without malice portrait acid and precise some deep province.
18.30 A TRIBUTE to GODARD Vincent Dieutre, Vivian Perelmuter / France 2018 / 6‘ / v.o. sott. it. / premiere will be the director Vincent Dieutre
A friend asks filmmakers to participate in a film in homage to Jean-Luc Godard. What remains after him? Survive as Godard? Queerizzare politics? Surprise catastrophe?
AT DISCRETION Cedric Venail / France 2017 / 50‘ / v.o. sott. it. e eng. / national premiere will be the director
At discretion is a film about the power of the gaze, the pleasure and the desire that it is capable of triggering, but also a great metaphor for the power of cinema. A further step to know the world of Jacques Nolot, Here extraordinary interpreter along with Sharif Andoura.
20.30 Di manners Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas / Brazil-France 2017 / 135‘ / v.o. sott. it. e eng.
The horror themes and gender are linked to an investigation into what it seems but it is not, the classes of contemporary Brazil, on the affective dimension with its lights and its shadows up to indulge in a reflection on the film and on its highly evocative character.
22.30 OCCIDENTAL of Neïl Beloufa / France 2017 / 73‘ / v.o. sott. it.
Presented at the 67th Berlinale in the Forum section, Occidental It is a game of chess in the ambiguity, where everyone has something to hide and social thermometer can only become more and more hot.
16.30 TEAM HURRICANE in Annika Berg / Denmark 2017 / 96‘ / v.o. sott. it.
Team Hurricane He portrays extremely honest and natural way what it means to be a teenager with all the joy, difficulties, collapses and excitement that it brings, in a world that finally allows them to fully explore their identities beyond the binary gender roles.
18.30 SILENCE IS a falling di Agustina Comedi / Argentina 2017 / 72‘ / v.o. sott. it. / national preview
Silence is a falling explores the past of a private life but in doing so finds himself in the folds of the political portrait of an era and social.
CSC / White Hall Cultural Shipyards alla Zisa
22.30 ERNESTO TOMASINI. ONE LIFE TO LIVE di Nendie Pinto-Duschinsky / UK 2018 / 21‘ / v.o. sott. it. / national preview
A documentary about the refinement, directness and irony of a now iconic figure of the international art scene.
AN EVENING WITH ERNESTO TOMASINI Andrea Inzerillo talks to Ernesto Tomasini
A journey through the artistic life of the singer and performer Palermo through different commented video contributions with Andrea Inzerillo and in dialogue with the audience in the hall.
Bottega 2 Cultural Shipyards alla Zisa
18.00 ARNOLD PASQUIER. MODERN LOVE [DAY NIGHT] installation presentation will present the director
4 June 2018 / Monday / day #5
Cinema De Seta Cultural Shipyards alla Zisa
16.00 Martyr in Mazen Khaled / Lebanon-Italy 2017 / 84‘ / v.o. sott. it.
Among the visual art and performance art, Martyr It shows us the inevitable martyrdom of young Lebanese population.
18.30 SANTIAGO João Moreira Salles / Brazil 2006 / 80‘ / v.o. sott. it. introduces the jury chairman SQ18 Barisone
Santiago was the butler of Salles family for forty years, bearing witness of the events of a home of the most important of Brazil in those years. Argentine Piedmontese origin, He is an educated man, lover of opera and Italian Renaissance Art, It transcribed for decades of human history through the stories of aristocratic families.
20.30 MANÈGE di Jacques Nolot / France 1986 / 10‘ / v.o. sott. it. This will be the director
Max, a man in his forties, It goes from one station to another, He pretends to be heterosexual and brings his new prey in the Bois de Boulogne to achieve its aims.
BEFORE I FORGET di Jacques Nolot / France 2007 / 108‘ / v.o. sott. it.
A reflection on life, the time that passes and on what remains.
22.30 TEAM HURRICANE in Annika Berg / Denmark 2017 / 96‘ / v.o. sott. it.
Team Hurricane He portrays extremely honest and natural way what it means to be a teenager with all the joy, difficulties, collapses and excitement that it brings, in a world that finally allows them to fully explore their identities beyond the binary gender roles.
Cinema Red and Black / Noir hall piazza Verdi, 8
16.30 WILD BOYS di Bertrand Mandico / France 2017 / 110‘ / v.o. sott. it.
A mixture of the nineteenth-century adventure novel, film suggestions of Jean Vigo and Jean Genet, and the chromaticism Quarrel Fassbinder. A game of quotes that returns a declaration of love for the seventh art.
18.30 QUEER SHORT #2
RAFAEL LAST TIME SEEN di Rafael Valerio / Brazil 2017 / 7’ / v.o. sott. it. e eng. / national preview
A young man walks on a secluded street at night. At one point he calls his mother. Leaving her a voicemail message, his words they reveal a radically different reality than it is experiencing.
HA'RAV of Uriya Hertz / Isrele 2017 / 20’ / v.o. sott. it. e eng.
Michael is a charismatic and highly respected rabbi. The revealing confession of his pupil Gadi shake the certainties and the familiar universe where the rabbi found refuge.
DANCES in Ramon Watkins / Australia 2018 / 5’ / v.o. sott. it. / national preview
Testimonials of queer experiences, experienced by dating app users. With his physicality and his flagrante, The dance brings all that into real, to show what is behind the profiles of users and derogatory comments.
Slabberts di Jurg Slabbert / Belgium-South Africa 2017 / 10’ / v.o. sott. it. e eng. / national preview
Jurg Slabbert turns out that the origin of his ancestors does not match the stories that have been told. It's time to look for those elements that are dozing, camouflaged, anchored inheritance of bodies.
PEDRO André Santos, Marco Leon / Portugal 2016 / 22’ / v.o. sott. it. e eng.
It's dawn, and Peter makes the house. Before he can fall asleep his mother drags him into the beach, which will disappear with a stranger behind the dunes. The mother while waiting for an appointment that perhaps will never come.
HEARTS DEAF di Arnaud Khayadjanian / France 2017/ 18’ / v.o. sott. it. / national preview
Teenagers Baptiste, Mathilde, Jørgen, Yulya e Jeanne, Wild and tender at the same time, They tell you without hesitation. Armed with desire and words, They fight their loneliness in a world deserted by adults.
FOR A CHANGE di Keren Nir / Israel 2016 / 5 / v.o. sott. it. e eng
Ofer is a transgender teenager discovering his female corporeality trying to keep up with the relentless physical transformations.
PRE-DRINK Marc-Antoine Lemire / Canada 2017 / 23’ / v.o. sott. it.
Alexe and Carl are just friends, but one night end up making love. What should have been a spontaneous act, about friendship, Alexe entails for many more complications than expected.
Goethe-Institut / Wenders room Cultural Shipyards alla Zisa
18.30 THE CAKE MAKER di Ofir Raul Graizer / Germany-Israel 2017 / 105‘ / v.o. sott. it. e eng.
A declaration of love towards people, of life, food and film, a movie that forces us to question our definitions of religion, sexuality and nationality.
5 June 2018 / Tuesday / day #6
Cinema De Seta Cultural Shipyards alla Zisa
16.00 THEY di Anahita Ghazvinizadeh / US-Qatar 2017 / 80‘ / v.o. sott. it.
A film that can cope with the issue as complex gender transition with a sweetness and a disarming simplicity.
18.30 THE SERVANT di Joseph Losey / UK 1963 / 116‘ / v.o. sott. it.
Scrypto in collaboration with Harold Pinter, and work that continues to be effective after more than fifty years. Thanks to the amazing performance of Dirk Bogarde, it reveals in filigree a homosexual subtext that often led to scandal.
20.30 SIGNATURES of TIERRA Carlos Marques-Marcet / Spain 2017 / 113‘ / v.o. sott. it. This will be the director
Mainland It is both a traditional and alternative films, A romantic comedy that defends the lifestyles that do not refer to the styles suburban, because of unusual choices, not burdened with strictly economic constraints.
22.30 ABU in Arshad Khan / Canada 2017 / 80‘ / v.o. sott. it. e eng. This will be the director
Abu is a journey to the center of a family that is divided when confronted with issues such as religion, sexuality, colonialism and migration.
Cinema Red and Black / Noir hall piazza Verdi, 8
16.30 BLUE MY MIND di Lisa Brühlmann / Switzerland 2017 / 97‘ / v.o. sott. it.
Feature debut by Swiss director Lisa Brühlmann, It is a daring film, able to displace the public by mixing an apparent narrative film about adolescence with a strong story with fantasy and horror connotations, a film that reflects on the film and on the potential of film genres.
18.30 QUEER SHORT #1
DAWN OF THE DEAF di Rob Savage / UK 2016 / 12‘ / v.o. sott. it. e eng.
An apocalyptic horror film that teaches us to look at the "disability" of the characters as an advantage over the rest of the population.
RED AMOUREUSE di Laura Garcia / France 2017 / 23’ / v.o. sott. it. / national preview
Since Victor left him for Julie, Gaël is willing to do anything to regain. Animated by a relentless fury, the young, in skirt and high heels, He decides to break into the home of the beloved in the middle of the night.
DISTANCE di NAMORO Carolina Markowicz / Brazil 2017 / 5’ / v.o. sott. it. / national preview
A man obsessed with alien intercourse becomes part of a phone sex with aliens program that takes place in a former military base from which you can establish contact.
Those who can DIE di Charlotte Cayeux / France 2017 / 18’ / v.o. sott. it. / national preview
Fifteen Zoé comes into a college with a rigorous climate. Thanks to the meeting with Marie, Zoé discover the potential of your body and above all the mystery that lies behind eerie atmosphere.
1ST DAY & NEXT MINUTE Sara Koppel / Denmark 2017 / 3’
An adventure hectic constantly torn between libido, personal enjoyment and reciprocity Contact, psychedelic animation and biting in the name of freedom of expression.
KYO-NETSU di Yuji Mitsuhashi / Japan 2017 / 17’
An impetuous story, filmed in black and white, the suffocating everyday life of a writer in full midlife crisis and seeking inspiration. Nothing, after all, destabilizes more than normal.
THE DECISION OF RILEY di Yue Xia / UK 2017 / 4’ / national preview
He was born in a female body, Riley has always felt confused about his gender identity. One day he discovers an easy way to change her biological gender. A film that uses stop motion him to show us a new way of looking at gender issues.
JUST PAST NOON ON A TUESDAY di Travis Mathews / Brazil-United States 2017 / 22’ / v.o. sott. it. e eng.
João Tiago and you have never met and have nothing in common, except the man who both attended and perhaps loved. Gustavo Vinagre and Travis Mathews compete in an explosive mix of queer cinema contemporary scene.
Goethe-Institut / Wenders room Cultural Shipyards alla Zisa
17.00 AWARD NINO GENNARO – Prize giving Nino Gennaro Wolfgang Tillmans
Intervengono Michael Short Countries, Heidi Sciacchitano, Emilia Valenza.
6 June 2018 / Thursday / day #7
Cinema De Seta Cultural Shipyards alla Zisa
16.00 COELHO MAU in Carlos Conceição / Portugal-France 2017 / 33‘ / v.o. sott. it. This will be the director
Surprising erotic fable, shrouded atmosphere to Jean Cocteau, a nod to Kenneth Anger and Fassbinder.
AB OVO in Luca Ferri / Italy 2016 / 24‘
Nine floors sequence in super 8 in which Adam and Eve are called to redo everything, again.
WAIT FOR ME di Juan Carlos Castaneda / Mexico 2017 / 9‘ / v.o. sott. it. / national preview
Alicia is having to reconstruct the memories of the night before to try to win back his woman. What I remember, however, he could separate them forever.
18.30 AL BERTO in Vicente Alves do Ó / Portugal 2017 / 109‘ / v.o. sott. it.
At Berto It focuses on some aspects of the personality of the poet Lusitanian far from his public image.
20.30 AWARDS QUEER SHORT AND NEW VISIONS
A KNIFE IN THE HEART di Yann Gonzalez / France 2018 / 110‘ / v.o. sott. it. / international premiere will be the director
As shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and starring a disturbing Vanessa Paradis, Yann Gonzalez signing a full high-voltage thriller provocations that leave their mark.
Goethe-Institut / Wenders room Cultural Shipyards alla Zisa
18.30 ITALIAN CINEMA AND THE '68
Cinema on Paper, one of the most politicized journals: a dialogue from a mounting on Italian cinema '68. Speakers Umberto Canton, Alessia Cervini and Renato Tomasino
Believe. Plus Cultural Shipyards alla Zisa
18.30 TRILOGY OF LOSS Alan Pauls / Sure / Roma 2018 Giorgio Vasta and Piero Melati dialogue with the author. In collaboration with a sea of books.
9 June 2018 / Saturday / off festival – Botanical Garden / room Lanza Via Lincoln, 2
18.30 A MARINA OF BOOKS Goliarda Sapienza. SPACES OF FREEDOM. TIME OF JOY Maria Rizzarelli / Carocci / Roma 2018 Tilli Bertoni and Nicholas Scaffai dialogue with the author.