Friday, June 1st, Opening Night with Vladimir Luxuria
Friday, June 1st, the second edition of Sicilia Queer filmfest kicks off, this year fathered by Vladimir Luxuria, godmother of the opening night (conducted by Filippo Luna) at the Cinema Rouge et Noir in Palermo.
The numbers of the festival: 7 days of screenings and events (June 1st to 7th), 57 films in the line-up (including feature films, documentaries and short films, O.V. with Italian Subt., all first screenings for Sicily, with many Italian and international premières), 4 panel discussions, 4 presentations of queer-themed books, 3 visual arts exhibitions, and this year even a theatre show.
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QUEERTOUR
Let's book a queer holiday in Sicily by the occasion of SICILIA QUEER FILMFEST, June 1st to 7th !
The "Sicilia Queer filmfest" is the first international glbt and new visions film festival in Sicily. It is a completely self-financed festival, focused on quality, heterodox, independent and alternative cinema, as to poetics or language, production or distribution.
QUEERbuzz #1
National Gay Pride in Palermo for 2013
The 3rd edition of the “Palermo Pride” will take place this year on the 23rd of June, with the usual parade closing an intense week of activities starting from the 16th of June.
Still the most exciting news is that in the latest days the candidacy presented by Committee Palermo Pride has been accepted for hosting the National Gay Pride in Palermo for the 2013. The “Sicilia Queer filmfest” being always close to the Pride and member of the net promoting it, wishes to congratulate Arcigay, Articolo Tre and all those which effectively contributed to make this old dream and rightful aspiration real.
QUEERSHORT - extended submission deadline
The submission deadline for QUEERSHORT, our short film international competition, has been postponed to March 30, 2012.
Please find here entry form and regulations.
HURRY UP and send your short film to Sicilia Queer filmfest !
Queer according to ME #2 + "Tomboy"
QUEER according to ME #2
and "Tomboy" by Céline Sciamma
Monday, March 19, 2012
Palermo, Cinema Rouge et Noir
08 pm: writer Giorgio Vasta
on William Friedkin's "The Boys In The Band"
6:30 & 10:30 pm: "Tomboy" (2011) by Céline Sciamma
Queer according to ME #1 and FIRST RELEASE #1
QUEER according to ME #1
and FIRST RELEASE #1
Tuesday, February 28, 2012, at 08 pm
Palermo, Cinema Rouge et Noir
psychoanalist Vittorio Lingiardi
on Todd Haynes' "Far From Heaven"
Teddy Award: and the winners are...
And the Teddy Award 2012 goes to...
The international Jury of the Teddy Award 2012 (in the picture) at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, composed by Alessandro Rais (Director of Sicilia Queer filmfest, Italy), Bilge Taş (Turkey), Joako Ezpeleta (Spain), João Federici (Brazil), Magali Simard (Canada), Monika Visniarova (Slovakia), Nhlanhla Ndaba (South Africa), Shannon Kelley (USA) and Yang Yang (China), has decerned and tributed the following prizes:
SQFF at the next Berlinale (eng)
The SQFF's Director invited as member of the TEDDY AWARD JURY at the BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (February 9 to 19, 2012)
The artistic director of "Sicilia Queer filmfest", Alessandro Rais, is part of the TEDDY Jury at the upcoming Berlinale.
The TEDDY AWARD – the most outstanding queer film prize in the world – is a socially engaged, political honour presented to films and people who communicate queer themes on a broad social platform, thereby contributing to tolerance, acceptance, solidarity and equality in society.
Carte postale à Serge Daney
"Carte postale à Serge Daney" (June 2012)
SiciliaQUEERfilmfest will pay a tribute to the French film critic (1944-1992) in the twentieth anniversary of his death, as an highlight of the next edition: June 1-7, 2012.
BE QUEER in Palermo next June !
BE QUEER in Palermo next June (1st to 7th): join the second "Sicilia Queer filmfest" !
The etymology of the word “queer” includes both the concepts of transversality and diversity. Therefore, the word “queer” refers not only to GLBT issues (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) in the strict sense, but to everything that can be considered out, different, divergent. Today, more than ever, it is necessary to disseminate a culture increasingly oriented to inclusion and socialization, and to share different ideas and lifestyles.
QUEERSHORT submission deadline is approaching!
Enter your short film to the international competition QUEERSHORT.
Official submission deadline is February the 29th
The 2011 festival trailer: “With different eyes” by Roberta Torre
WITH DIFFERENT EYES (Con occhi diversi)
trailer for Sicilia Queer filmfest 2011
by Roberta Torre, Italy 2011, 2 '
