Queer Monitor’s
Mardi Gras Film Festival
is obviously a highlight of our Mardi Gras schedule, because whon’t love the chance to relax with many popcorn and (ultimately) see our very own communities and stories projected from the giant screen?!
We have trawled through system of 120 films (54 feature-length and 66 short flicks across 70 classes) to take you the very top picks. They’re diverse and comprehensive, funny and moving, enjoyable and informing, and we also believe you are going to love all of them.
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Zen for the Ice Crack
Italy
Zen within the Ice Rift
employs 16-year-old Zen, apparently âthe merely woman’ on regional ice hockey team, while they battle with bullying and discovering their unique identification. The tense soundtrack and spectacular visuals blend in actually effective ways to generate a visceral sense of the misunderstandings and isolation of sex dysphoria, raising upwards, and desire.
The movie discusses these themes at once, with hostility. The icy setting also brings a welcome change from the Mardi Gras heat.
Screening Monday 18 February, 7:30pm
Event Cinemas George St
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Chedang and Apple
Philippines
Thelma and Louise
is among my favorite movies. Therefore, how can you enhance on a movie like
Thelma and Louise?
By making it about a 66-year-old lady that is simply appear, along with her best friend who’s only block the woman abusive partner’s mind, clearly.
This humorous path movie stars two former charm queens as Chedang and Apple, and employs them because they look for Chedang’s previous fan, with Apple’s husband’s head in a Louis Vuitton bag. Seriously.
Testing Saturday 23 February, 1pm
Event Cinemas George St
Sunday 24 March, 7:15pm
Riverside Theatre, Parramatta
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1985
USA
This beautiful and simple film is actually much indication of certain darkest minutes in regards to our communities. The film is scheduled with its titular 12 months and follows Adrian’s return from New York to his conservative Tx family members for xmas, for just what is likely the past time: Adrian has HELPS.
The grayscale movie captures the shadowy character of these minutes â the stilted talks Adrian has actually together with family, the silences that are heavy with definition, plus the fractures in failing relationships. Tales concerning HIV/AIDS epidemic tend to be common at LGBTQ film festivals, but this award-winning movie is actually a stand out.
Screening Tuesday 19 March, 6:30pm
Occasion Cinemas George St
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Leitis in wishing
Tonga
From group that produced
Kumu Hina
, your favourite from Mardi Gras movie Festival 2015,
Leitis in Waiting
is actually a documentary about leitis, Tonga’s native transgender ladies: their unique tradition, and their battles for admiration.
These ladies have typically used a significant place inside the Tongan society, but previous influxes of overseas evangelism have actually triggered a growth in conservatism and discrimination. The movie screening, followed closely by a Q&A with among the film’s topics, Joey Joleen Mataele, just isn’t becoming overlooked.
Testing Wednesday 27 February, 6:30pm
Occasion Cinemas George St
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Two inside the Bush: A Love Tale
American
The majority of rom-coms these days is summarised using the soon after synopsis:
“boy-meets-girl. Woman does not like son. Boy harasses lady. Woman inexplicably comes in love.”
Therefore I like this particular film flips the program into: “woman gets work working for a Dominatrix. Lady comes obsessed about Dominatrix
and
the woman sweetheart. Stores and whips get excited about a consensual manner.”
This film deals with bisexuality, kink and polyamory in a sensible and amusing method, and I am very here regarding combo.
Screening Friday 22 February, 8:30pm
Event Cinemas George St
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Lucy Watson is actually Archer mag’s web editor, co-host of FBi Radio’s Kings and Queens, and a PhD prospect in the University of Sydney.
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