Part from Palermo and Sicily Queer Film Fest festival the initiative of a national coordination for the promotion of quality cinema. Premiered at Cinema Aurora, Girl, the anticipated film by Belgian director Lukas Dhont, winner 4 awards at Cannes.

The film, distributed by Teodora and promoted in cities from Sicily Queer filmfest, screened in original version with subtitles in Italian (It will remain at the Aurora movie theater in the days following the dubbed version) and in collaboration with five other Italian festivals: il Florence Queer Festival from Florence, MIX Festival from Milan, The Lovers Film Festival of Turin, The Orlando Festival Bergamo e Gender Bender International Festival from Bologna.

Presented and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival (Camera D’Or for the Best First Feature, best performance In some perspective a Victor Polster, Fipresci award In some perspective and the Queer Palm) Girl It tells the exciting story of Lara, teenager who, moved to a new city, will try to realize the dream of becoming a ballet dancer. But the challenge will be tougher than that of his companions: Lara was born in a male body and faces his transformation eagerly and cheerfully trying to come up with strength and passion its place in the world.

The preview scans annually as the path to the ninth edition of Sicily Queer Film Fest..

"The idea of ​​doing a joint promotion to give visibility to those films that do not find a lot of space within the national distribution circuits, It comes from the comparison with other Festival, the awareness of having in our audience a valuable resource for promoting more and more quality cinema. »explains Giorgio Lisciandrello, programmer of Sicily Queer and promoter of the initiative – "The operation is designed as the first date for the establishment of coordination between the various Italian festivals involved and is part of a project for the dissemination of cinema in the region and with the cultural association SudTitles We carry on for several years "