The ninth edition of Sicily Queer filmfest, held in Palermo from 30 May to 5 June, It offers around 60 movies 7 days Programming, with many national and world premieres and over 20 International guests will be working to meet the festival audience.

I'm 8 feature films that concur in the section new Visions e 13 short films competing in the section Queer Short; feature in the program works out of competition Panorama Queer; the staff dedicated to the artist and filmmaker Marie Losier, protagonist of the section attendance; the two sections devoted to the history of cinema, Italian Hinder e Postcard Serge Daney; the section Eterotopie this year dedicated to Syria, in addition to presentations of books of Queer Literature who will see renewed its partnership with A marine festival of books Sicilia Queer which will act as a relay team. Many will also be the side events, the performance, the meetings, the exhibitions the feasts the festival will offer its audience.

To evaluate the two competitions will be international jury composed by Eva Sangiorgi (artistic director of the Viennale), Mykki Blanco (musician and performer, Award Nino Gennaro 2019), A woman Vega evidence (editor), Sara Fattahi (director), Monica Rovira (director and actress). A jury that explores the female in its plurality, represented by the world of film protagonists, music and activism LGBT.

The ninth edition of Sicily Queer opens with an event not to be missed entirely dedicated to dance: the opening night CLIMAXXX It is a unique event that will see the world premiere of CliMax, an interactive project - created by French artist Antoine Schmitt and Hortense Gauthier performer - which mixes images, sound body and depicts the love between a performer in the flesh and a digital creature made of lights and electronic music. The Movie Opening, which will immediately follow the performance, is the long-awaited work one of the most visionary directors, celebrated and controversial of contemporary cinema, the Franco-Argentine Gaspar Noé. Climax, presented to Fortnight Cannes Film Festival 2018, will be released in Italian cinemas 13 June: It is a Dionysian film, lisergico, psychotropic, the limit between madness, dream and delirium starring a group of professional dancers, and a sensational soundtrack 90s, with Daft Punk songs, Rolling Stones, Giorgio Moroder, Aphex Twin.

The festival will close, always at Arrow From movie, Wednesday 5 June with the proclamation of winners and the projection Please, love and run fast (2018), the most celebrated films of last season that bears the signature of Christophe Honoré.

SQFF2019 | the news

They are the eyes of new authors to characterize the programming of Sicily Queer 2019; some are of returns (among them Carlos Conceicao, Luca Ferri, Gabriel Abrantes, Gustavo Vinagre, Luis Miñarro), other new meetings for the Sicilian festival, investigating carefully in view of the best talents of contemporary cinema, proposing numerous national and international premieres of feature films, short films out of competition; that baptizes the debuts of two young Palermo as Etrio Fidora and Roberto Prestia; and that dialogues with prestigious local realities such as international festivals Efebo Golden, Animaphix and novelties like Seeyousound. edition, the ninth, decisively it characterized by the large presence of the authors, that you will meet along the paths of the Cultural Shipyards alla Zisa; and even comebacks, like that of Arnold Pasquier and Lionel Baier, that will introduce some of the film selection.

If the film of Yann Gonzalez A knife in the heart (in 2018 in the main competition in Cannes) He had closed its international premiere on the eighth edition of the Queer Sicily, He is the same director to symbolically open the ninth edition with a trailer realized together with Alain José García Vergara working on found footage and look at the imagery of the nineties, in an evocative crescendo that tells the desire through the bodies of a porn film actresses before the birth of the world wide web. A trailer prohibited, that is the idea of ​​queer of these two new authors of contemporary cinema.

The dall'allunaggio inspire fifty year history section of Italian cinema Italian Hinder, edited by Umberto Canton. The projections of the section will be in the center watching the moon through the eyes of two great authors disappeared at the end of 2018, that the festival aims to honor in this way: Bernardo Bertolucci and Guido Ceronetti. A copy digitized specifically for Sicily Queer and from the National Film Archive will allow the public to discover on the big screen one of the great works of Bertolucci, at month; while the thought and work of Ceronetti will be addressed through a recent Italian films, Guido Ceronetti the unknown philosopher, documentary about the life and work of the great writer through the experience of the Theater of Sensitive. The section ends, the 5 Wenders June at the Hall of the Goethe-Institut Palermo, an unmissable meeting in the presence of one of the greatest media theorists, the American Richard Grusin, who will talk with Umberto Canton and Alessia Cervini starting from archival films from the past days of the lunar enterprise 1969 and the reflections of some masters of Italian cinema and literature of those years (Pasolini Manganelli, Bertolucci of Fellini).

And to stay in Italian cinemas, It has been defined The Fellini of documentary film the host of the section attendance of Sicily Queer 2019: French Marie Losier, author of love portraits that tell the world of the underground New York, cult musicians (da Alan Vega of peaches, da Tony Conrad a Genesis P-Orridge, da April March a Felix Kubin), great authors of contemporary queer film. A retrospective featuring eight of his short films, plus the two films The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (dedicated to the love story between Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye, two souls following the pandroginia project they try to become one body) and the recent Cassandro, the Exotico! (which he tells the mythical figure of the greatest Mexican wrestler, openly gay, his life and the end of his extraordinary career). Marie Losier is among the most original authors of contemporary cinema, has been able to build a world and an imaginary instantly recognizable and strongly characterized by happiness and empathy with the characters of his films. It will be in Palermo to present his films and with her also the editor of Cassander, A woman Vega evidence, member of the international jury of the festival.

Two cult films constitute the proposal Postcard Serge Daney: a classic of gay cinema history, German film Taxi to the Toilet (Taxi zum Klo, 1980) The Frank Ripploh, which tells the lively love life of a homosexual teacher in West Berlin; and a pioneer of queer cinema as The funeral of roses del giapponese Toshio Matsumoto, released in 1969 (and which is therefore celebrating fifty) that inspired Kubrick Clockwork Orange and many other filmmakers of contemporary cinema: the story of Eddie and Leda who compete for the love of Gonda, the owner of Genet gay bars in Shinjuku district of Tokyo.

The section Eterotopie It is devoted to Syria and is curated by one of the largest Arab media expert, Donatella Della Ratta. Organized in collaboration with the Experimental Center of Cinematography – Office Sicily, It will be attended by three representatives of what could be called a new wave Syrian. Director Avo Kaprealian will hold a master class at the National Film Center, to be followed by the screening of his latest film Life=Cinematic Imperfections, presented the latest edition of the Turin Film Festival. Costanza Quatriglio, Paola Caridi and Marta Bellingreri will dialogue with Donatella Della Ratta from his new book, Shooting a Revolution. Visual Media and Warfare in Syria, while on the terrace of the Institut Français is scheduled to meet with the artist and Syrian director (years resident in Berlin) Ammar al-Beik, who will present his Syrian trilogy. The section will conclude with a preview screening of national films Chaos (recently awarded best Austrian film of the year) realized by Sara Fattahi, member of the international jury of Sicily Queer 2019, that will meet the audience after the screening.

And then the section dedicated to the Visual Arts that presents the result of the Palermo German artist residency Franca Scholz, Unsteady State (House of Art, Cultural Shipyards alla Zisa); Party Nudo. The nights of queerilla, shows two young photographers Palermo (Simona and Fabrizio Mazzara Milazzo) which tells the Palermo night with his new reality of clubbing (International Center of Photography); e Insomnia Cookies, joint exhibition with works by Urs Lüthi, Luigi Ontani, Lovett&Codagnone, Cesare Viel, Yamada Anuku, Paul Angelosanto, Rita Casdia, Yasumasa Morimura and Matteo Basile, realized in collaboration with the Antonio Pasqualino Museum and Coordination Palermo Pride and curated by Antonio Leone and Paola Nicita.

The festival will present his program moving between five screening rooms: Cinema De Seta Cultural Shipyards alla Zisa, real heart of the film village of Sicily Queer button, but also the White Room of the Experimental Center of Cinematography – Office Sicily, Wenders Hall of the Goethe-Institut Palermo, The terrace of the Institut français arena that will host the film festival and the Sala Noir Film Rouge et Noir, where they will be replicated, from 31 May to 3 June, feature films and short films competition.

NEW VISIONS International Feature Film Competition

The competition of feature films dedicated to the New Visions International is a competitive section dedicated to first and second films, new authors and new visions of contemporary cinema, innovative films under different points of view, not necessarily related to queer themes: 8 feature films that contribute to New Visions Award (1.000 euro) awarded by the international jury of the festival and other awards given by Jury 100Autori and from that of the Coordination Palermo Pride.

Love standing Michaël Dacheux, France 2018

Fleeing from his Toulouse, Martin leaves for Paris in search of fortune. There she meets Leah, which has just left and which represented his first love. Confused and drifting, the two boys will try to overcome them so the end of their relationship including unexpected love affairs, unlikely jobs and a new awareness of what it means to grow up.

Diamantino di Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, Portugal-France-Brazil 2018 / 92’

Diamantino Matamouros is the best player in Portugal, perhaps the entire planet. Or at least it was, first mistake the decisive penalty in the final of the World Cup. A dark-comedy from the sci-fi colors that tells us, through bizarre exaggerations and pop staged outside the box, all the contradictions and absurdities of contemporary. An unusual perspective that discusses intelligently all limitations related to gender.

Dulcinea Luca Ferri, Italy 2018 / 66’

A young girl prepares to receive in your apartment a customer. The man, transposition of Don Quijote in Milan nineties, following a precise ritual he is dedicated to meticulous cleaning of four rooms. The girl, incarnation of Dulcinea, it eats, law, It puts the glaze, smoking, si veste e si sveste, as if Quijote was not there present and as if between the two there was no relationship. A film quixotic, trying to go back to one basic and anti-narrative look to magically restore the sense of all the rhythm of a simple experimental language at the same time.

I remember more of crows Gustavo Vinagre, Brazil 2018 / 80'/ National preview

Julia Katherine is transsexual actress who lives in a small apartment in San Paolo. I remember more of crows recalls, dismissing, the ghosts that have touched Julia in its growth, from childhood to adulthood, through a self-deprecating and self-possessed narrative that involves the freshness of someone who has lived and is not afraid to tell; It makes the protagonist film, as something to live and to express themselves.

Love Me Not di Lluís Miñarro, Spain 2019 / 83’ / national preview

Middle East, 2006. In a prison camp run by the regiment of a powerful international coalition, the soldiers spend their time watching and torturing prisoners. A contemporary reinterpretation of Salome di Oscar Wilde, a film divided into two acts that touch political issues without forgetting the indissoluble link between Eros and Thanatos, desire and violence.

Pierino Luca Ferri, Italy 2018 / 70’

Pierino Vinegar is a retired Bergamo. It's an ordinary life, methodical, attentive to every detail. During a series of weekly meetings lasted an entire year inside his apartment, the protagonist tells director Luca Ferri what would appear to be the anonymous everyday of his life. Second chapter of the trilogy home after Luca Ferri Dulcinea.

Serpentario Carlos Conceicao, Portugal-Angola 2019 / 85'/ National preview

A boy sets off in search of the ghost of her mother to keep an old promise. A visual experience that echoes to the films of Tarkovsky.

Only pirates di Gaël Lépingle, France 2018 / 90'/ National preview

Following an urban regeneration project, Gero is about to be evicted from his home and his little theater. To make matters worse, a young grandson who barely know, confessing wanted to be a playwright, he settled in his house to write a play with him. To combat the gentrification and social injustice, a hoarse voice and the pace a bit 'uncertain, Gero will only have to arm themselves to the teeth and become a real pirate.

QUEER SHORT International Short Film Competition

13 short films from around the world compete for the Premio Queer Short, competitive section dedicated to works related to queer issues in the wider connotation of the term. The international jury will award a prize worth of 500 Euros to the best short, while the other two juries of the festival (Jury 100Autori and that of Coordination Palermo Pride) assign their awards.

blue Vazante Julia Alquéres, Brazil 2018 / 15’

"Perhaps the watch begins before you open your eyes": This is the enigmatic passage in the epigraph with which it opens blue Vazante. Through a directorial style that recalls the films of Pedro Costa teacher, blue Vazante It is an accumulation of dream symbols, religious and political.

Between Us Two di Tan Wei Keong, Singapore 2017 / 5’

Tan Wei Keong evokes some of his memories: Now he watches his mother dying in her bedroom; now he finds himself a step away from the altar, next to his betrothed, Stephen; now displays a burst by the wind and the beach crowded with mysterious female figures.

The Drum Tower / Gulou West di Popo Fan, China 2018 / 18'/ National preview

In 2017 Beijing administration decides to intervene on illegal commercial properties, patching doors and windows with bricks that transform local animated than before in desolate walls. La Flaca Adriana Barbosa, Brazil, Mexico-United States 2018 / 20'/ National preview

Arely has come to New York from Mexico and works so much to get sick with pancreatic. The story scours the delicate relationship faith-homosexuality and Mexican cultural traditions: between selflessness and pure spectacle singing, parades an impressive gallery of masks.

Framing Agnes di Chase Joynt, United States 2019 /19'/ National preview

In the second half of the 1950, a woman named Agnes was presented at the UCLA Medical Center asking a surgical sex reassignment operation.

Fuck You di Anette Sidor, Sweden 2018 / 15'/ National preview

Alice is a carefree girl. Darts through the town with a group of friends, with which it is in great harmony. Her boyfriend, Albin, It seems very lustfully.

Galatée in the finally Julia Maura, Mariangela Pluchino, Ambra Reijnen, Maria Chatzi, Fátima Flores Rojas Spagna 2017 / 17'/ National preview

Pigmalione, disappointed by the women of his day, He decides to create an immaculate woman with his own hands. Based on the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, Here cleverly revised and updated, this audiovisual essay, through archive material intelligently dismembered and reconstructed as the same Galatea, He discusses the figure of the woman in the contemporary as exclusive screening of the male sex drive.

Isha di Christopher Manning, UK 2018 / 15'/ National preview

Rahmi is a young Romanian Muslim who lives in London with her mother and younger brother problematic.

Lake Daumesnil Thomas Devouge, France 2019 / 19'/ Premiere

Lake Daumesnil It is the story of an elective affinity surrounded by distant ghosts.

Old Narcissus di Tsuyoshi Shoji, Japan 2017 / 22'/ National preview

In Greek mythology, Narcissus is a hunter who disdains every person who loves him. A melodrama in the wake of the Japanese tradition that addresses the crucial issues of aging and loneliness while maintaining good narrative freshness, with original visual ideas and a music colourism able to dampen the pathetic part.

Reform di Fabio Leal, Brazil 2018 / 15'/ National preview

Francisco decides to help her friend Flavia in the renovation of an old apartment. Fabio Leal, actor and director, He puts all his physicality available to a story that alternates between day and night, Fear and Desire, probing his own body through the eye of the camera.

Whole Slava Doytcheva, Bulgaria 2018 / 21'/ National preview

Freeze frame on a framework of Byzantine art, form of expression that was born with the scission Empire Eastern Roman Empire and the West. flat, cold light in the room, dense and murky in the wardrobe, for a story with original visual cues that revisits and problematize, Also in the dance, the usual wedding comedy.

A Woman’s Wife / His wife in Ahlam Jang, South Korea 2018 / 20'/ National preview

In a Korean town a couple visiting a new apartment. The change of the house triggers the memory of their very delicate marital affair, the identity transformation of her husband in a transsexual. The dialogues are deliberately classic, foundational understanding of the structure-rejection-acceptance that animates the tension between the characters.

PANORAMA QUEER

Official selection of the non-competitive festival, that every year presents an overview of the best feature films and documentaries themed queer - or spiritually queer because independent, innovative, irreverent - from the most recent international production.

17 films that Sicily Queer presents to its customers, ensuring that the most interesting aspects of contemporary world cinema.

• (S)he Said That di Mike Hoolboom, Canada 2019 / 13’
• Alfredo D'Aloisio, in art (and in politics) Cohen Andrea Meroni Enrico Salvatori, Italy 2017 / 68’
• Atelier Elsa Maria Jakobsdóttir, Denmark 2017 / 30’
• Berlin Based Vincent Dieutre, France, Germany, 2019 / 90'/ National preview
• A Boy’s Life (1996-2018) di Mike Hoolboom, Canada 2018 / 8'/ National preview
• Climax says Gaspar Noé, France, Belgium / 2018 / 97’
• The Cosmos Dreamt Her di Roberto Prestia, UK, Lithuania 2019 / 9’ / premiere
• The glorious acceptance speech di Nicolas Chauvin, France / 2018 / 26'/ National preview
• Actually, she's my little brother di Lena Lobers e Carina Nickel, Germany 2018 / 40'/ National preview
• Golem Etrio Fidora, Czech Republic, Italy / 2019 / 25’ / premiere
• Sap Carlotta Cerquetti, Italy, 2018 / 52′
• The Man-Woman Case di Anaïs Caura, France 2017 / 5’ x 10 ep./ national preview
• Nevrland Gregor Schmidinger / Austria 2019 / 88’/ national preview
• We Benedetta Valabrega, Italy / 2019 / 54’
• Please, love and run fast di Christophe Honoré, France 2018 / 132’
• Friends di Wanuri Kahiu, Kenya 2018 / 82’
• View a mujer di Monica Rovira, Spain 2018 / 60’

ATTENDANCE: Marie Losier

He is the director Marie Losier the star of the Attendance section of the ninth edition of Sicily Queer filmfest. The invito a Marie Losier, artist and filmmaker deeply cut staff, He born in France but has worked extensively in the United States, where he was able to enter significantly into contact with the New York underground scene, It is also an opportunity to honor Jonas Mekas, one of the great masters of experimental cinema.

POSTCARD TO SERGE DANEY

The Postcard Serge Daney is the section dedicated to the history of cinema through the memory of Serge Daney, great French film critic who was director of "Cahiers du Cinéma" (1973 – 1981) and then editor of "Libération" and founder of the magazine "Trafic". At the ninth edition of the Festival will be presented two absolute masterpieces recently restored and put into in an unprecedented dialogue: The funeral of roses (1969) Toshio Matsumoto exhibition exit hall, film precursor of queer cinema and that inspired Stanley Kubrick Clockwork Orange e Taxi zum Klo (1980) German Frank Ripploh, a classic of gay cinema story about the sensual adventures of a primary school teacher in West Berlin in the late seventies.

Hinder ITALIAN

The section, edited by Umberto Canton, It focuses on the history of Italian cinema and this year is inspired by the fiftieth anniversary dall'allunaggio and will pay tribute to two great Italian culture disappeared at the end of 2018: the writer Guido Ceronetti, author of a famous Defense of the moon and star of the film Guido Ceronetti, the unknown philosopher, and Bernardo Bertolucci, which will screen the film at month specially digitized by the National Film Archive for the projection to Sicily Queer.

ETEROTOPIE

In tribute to the great French philosopher Michel Foucault, survey on cinema and the stories from the places where conflicts are agitated, social, cultural, economic. The eterotopie, opposed to Utopia, undermine our certainties, They know how to give back visions of this extreme, from time to time disturbing and seductive. This year's section, dedicated to Syria is clean yes Donatella Della Ratta (John Cabot University), one of the leading international Arab media expert, It will be attended by three directors who represent a new wave by Syrian: Avo Kaprealian, Ammar al-Beik e Sara Fattahi, that will be in Palermo to present their works to the public of Sicily Queer and discuss contemporary Syria throughout the course of the week.

(In collaboration with the Experimental Center of Cinematography – Office Sicily).

LITERATURE QUEER

During the days of the Festival and in collaboration with the Palermo Pride, Also this year a section of Sicily Queer filmfest will be devoted to queer literature. There will be many meetings and debates around a selection of books by Giuseppe Burgio (University Kore, Enna) Mirko Lino (Aquila University). All appointments will be held at the Cre.Zi. Plus (Cultural Shipyards alla Zisa)

SQ2019 | VISUAL ARTS

There are three projects dedicated to the visual arts of Sicily Queer 2019: one begins with the exhibition Unsteady State Franca Scholz - inauguration Friday 24 May, ore 18 at l 'House of Art (headquarters of the Sicilian-Verein Düsseldorf Palermo) - presenting the work done during her artist residency in the city and will be visible for the duration of the Festival. continue Thursday 30 May all ore 18 with the opening of the exhibition Party Nudo. The nights of queerilla al International Center of Photography directed by Letizia Battaglia: a look on the night Palermo more alternative view of two young photographers, Simona and Fabrizio Mazzara Milazzo, in a context like that of the Party Naked, new reality of clubbing citizen born in the Sicily Queer. Artistic activities of Sicily Queer 2019 continue beyond the festival calendar with an exhibition organized in collaboration with the Coordination Pride Palermo and International Puppet Museum Antonio Pasqualino, curated by Antonio Leone and Paola Top: Insomnia Cookies It will be inaugurated on Saturday 15 June at 18 at International Puppet Museum Antonio Pasqualino and is a group exhibition presenting works by international artists such as Urs Lüthi, Luigi Ontani, Lovett&Codagnone, Cesare Viel, Yamada Anuku, Paul Angelosanto, Rita Casdia, Yasumasa Morimura and Matteo Basile.

AWARD NINO GENNARO

On the occasion of the ninth edition and Fifty years from Stonewall riots, The Festival decides to confer Mykki Blanco, American musician who makes his artistic production the opportunity for a wider political debate and embodies the subversive power of what Stonewall represented by the ideal and historical perspective, the Award Nino Gennaro.

The recognition, entitled to an example of eclectic Sicilian and non-aligned intellectual distinguished for its activities and its commitment to the international spread of queer culture, It will be assigned Tuesday 4 June hours 17.30, at the Wenders room of the Goethe-Institut Palermo (Cultural Shipyards alla Zisa). The award ceremony will also be reason for a public reflection on the relationship between music and political activism starting with the work of Mykki Blanco, and will see the participation of the artist Ernesto Tomasini and some activists of the movement LGBTQI + Palermo.

SQ2019 | Activities for toddlers

It is once again the association homefreegame to take care of children at the ninth edition of Sicily Queer filmfest: a series of free activities will be offered on Friday 31 May to Tuesday 4 June to all children whose parents will want to participate in the activities of the Festival.

The events will take place all at Bottega 2 Cultural Shipyards alla Zisa.

 

The Sicilia Queer filmfest is realized with the contribution of the Sicilian Region - Department of Tourism Sport and Entertainment - Special Office for Film and Audiovisual / Sicily Film Commission, part of the "Contemporary Senses"; the City of Palermo, Department of Culture. And with the support of the Institut Français Palermo, Goethe-Institut Palermo, Instituto Cervantes Palermo and the Austrian Cultural Forum.