Queer Lisboa’22

The International Queer Film Festival presents a multidisciplinary program on the subject of HIV/AIDS, entitled The cinema-virus: queer cinema and HIV/AIDS. This is one of the great highlights of the program that brings together a movie cycle, a collective exhibition of young artists on Galeria Foco, and the launch of a book of essays. Many of the works that have focused on the epidemic have paved the way for new aesthetics and narratives in cinema. The cycle that takes place at Cinemateca and at Cinema S. Jorge, has the goal to present HIV/AIDS video-activism filmmakers, putting these emerging works in dialogue with more emblematic feature films. Of relevance Buddies, by Arthur J. Bressan Jr., first fiction on the subject, exhibited in a restored version; Kids, by Larry Clark and Bright eyes, by Stuart Marshall, one of the first documentaries on AIDS.

The opening film of the festival is the Portuguese work Diamantino, by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, winner of the Critics’ Week Grand Prix in Cannes. The story is about a world football star who is experiencing an existential crisis. At the end, the documentary Bixa Travestywill be exhibited, this is a work by the Brazilian directors Claudia Priscilla and Kiko Goifman, about the self-described “bixa travesty” and multimedia artist from the outskirts of São Paulo.

Also noteworthy is the debut of the documentary George Michael: Freedom – Director’s Cut, by George Michael and David Austin and the exhibition of three documentaries, in a partnership with ModaLisboa, that reveal the importance of queer culture in the world of fashion.

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