LGBTQ Archives - RADIANT CIRCUS

HARD PAINT

The VITO Project is proud to present HARD PAINT aka Tinta Bruta (2018), a Brazilian film recently shown at the Berlinale Film Festival, where it won the Teddy Award for best LGBTQ feature, and BFI Flare.

WE’LL NEVER BE SILENT AGAIN + PANEL

To celebrate the release of 120 BPM, Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest and Curzon DocDays have teamed up to present a short film programme that “honours the real-life activists who work to demolish prejudice, fight AIDS and give us the valuable freedoms that queers have today”.

FRINGE! FLINGS: MR GAY SYRIA

Husein is a Syrian refugee in Istanbul anxiously awaiting placement in Europe with his wife and young daughter… and trying to balance home life with a secret gay existence in Istanbul’s underground queer Muslim scene.

Featured, QUESTS, SPECIAL FEATURES

SCREEN QUEST: MY OWN PRIVATE HELL at BFI Flare

RADIANT CIRCUS went to see MY OWN PRIVATE HELL at BFI Flare 2018. Introduced by co-director/screenwriter Guto Parente & Flare programmer Jay Bernard, the film was followed by an audience Q&A (24 MAR 2018, BFI Southbank). Here’s our writeup.

CONTRACORRIENTE

ReShape and the Cinema Museum present the third season of the VITO Project, a series of free monthly screenings bringing generations of LGBTs together to provide an alternative space to mix, watch films and share ideas.

RADIANT CIRCUS SCREEN GUIDE - NOW SHOWING: 120 BPM screens at Curzon Soho (26 MAR).

120 BPM + INTRO

The lives of AIDS activists in early 90s Paris are reimagined in bold and vivid detail in 120 BPM, a stunning and heart-wrenching drama from the writer of Palme d’Or winner THE CLASS, Robin Campillo.

PROJECTS, QUESTS

SIDESHOW PROJECT: ‘Token Homo’: The Complete Psychotronic Cinema Of David DeCoteau

RADIANT CIRCUS is launching a new sideshow project inspired by Kim Newman’s ‘Video Dungeon’. Over the next 12 months, we will try to see & blog about every film made by prolific North American director David DeCoteau. That’s c.135 features (& counting…). Here’s our plan of attack.

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