What’s better than a film festival? Two film festivals, of course. In the coming days, guests of the Munich city cinemas do: While the Fantasy Film Festival lures you into the cinemas with eerily hard genre films, the Queer Film Festival confidently promises “the best queer films of the year”. One or the other work could also run at the festival of the other (Luc Besson’s fantasy film festival opening film “Dogman”, for example, which is currently also being shown in Venice and has been nominated for the “Queer Lion” there), otherwise you have to at the latest the cinema doors make a festival decision.
At the queer film festival, productions are on the program that, according to the organizers, are “non-heteronormative”, i.e. show lesbian, gay or transsexual living environments. The first is the French literary adaptation “Stop Lying”, in which a writer (Guillaume de Tonquédec) returns to his old homeland and remembers his first great love. Many of the 25 feature films and documentaries are about love. In the Belgian-French drama “Le paradis”, for example, two young men discover their feelings for each other in a juvenile detention center. The Austrian coming-of-age film “Breaking the Ice” is about ice hockey training – where a young woman falls in love with a fellow player. Leading actress Alina Schaller will be present at the performance on September 9 at 6.45 p.m.
In the US film “Mutt”, a trans man finds himself in an emotional state of emergency because his father, half-sister and ex-boyfriend announce their visit within a very short space of time. There is a reunion with the “Young Soul Rebels”: Isaac Julien’s festival hit from 1991 has been restored and can be seen again on the big screen.
Queer Film Festival, Thursday, September 7th to Wednesday, September 13th, City Kino, Sonnenstr. 12a