We’d hoped to follow the full QUEER strand at this year’s Raindance but schedules got in the way, so we were delighted to just see Eibe Maleen Krebs’s beautiful 2018 chamber piece, WORLD BEYOND MY MIND. Here’s our writeup.
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SCREEN DIARY: JUDY JUDY JUDY by Fringe! at The Cinema Museum
Arriving more than a little late, we finally caught up with the closing event in Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest’s QUEER SQUEE season, a celebration of film & TV fandom (27 JUL 2019). Here’s what we discovered.
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NOW BOOKING: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH at Genesis Cinema
Our friends Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest have teamed up with The People’s Film Club and Genesis Cinema to support LGBTQ+ crisis shelter The Outside Project with a special fundraiser (25 JUL 21:00).
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KNIFE + HEART Part 1: What makes a giallo?
Ahead of this week’s special preview screening of KNIFE + HEART by Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest x MUBI at Rio Cinema (04 JUL 2019), we take a queer look at the origins of the giallo sub-genre & our own fandom.
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NOW BOOKING: QUEER SQUEE by Fringe! Film Fest & friends
As we hatch a more intimate relationship with the divine Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, we thought we’d bring you a glimpse of their new season of events about queer fandom. QUEER SQUEE runs from 30 JUN to 27 JUL at various venues.
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South Social Film Festival: SPAIN + CARMEN Y LOLA (2018)
SUBSCRIBER DISCOUNT: Let’s celebrate SPAIN together with SOUTH SOCIAL FILM FESTIVAL. Immerse yourself in Spanish cinema, sounds & flavours!
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SCREEN DIARY: THE END OF THE TRACK at Aperture Film Festival
Mou Tun-fei’s rediscovered 1970 film, previously banned for its “sensitive political nature & homosexual undertones”, screened as part of an evening of avant-garde Taiwanese cinema at this year’s Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival (04 to 13 JUN). Here’s our RADIANT CIRCUS writeup.
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NOW BOOKING: Fragments Film Festival (07 to 15 JUN).
Fragments Film Festival at Genesis Cinema (07 to 15 JUN 2019) celebrates “inclusivity through film” & features a high proportion of directors who identify as women, people of colour, disabled & LGBTQ+ . We’ve taken a look at the programme to produce this handy guide (& make a few cheeky recommends).
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Odyssey Film Club: RAFIKI
FRIENDS & FOLLOWERS DISCOUNT: Banned at home, and embraced by the world, join us on an odyssey this May to Kenya with a screening of the remarkably touching and vibrantly colourful RAFIKI. Includes a post-film discussion and chance to try Kenyan snacks.
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Valentine’s Screening: LOVE IS STRANGE
The Geffrye Museum is screening non-traditional love stories for the modern age: the perfect antidote to a schmaltzy Valentine’s!
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