With the festival category We are here, we focus on the people around us. Your future role models, past crushes and present trend setters. We want to focus on the queer people of the world.
Would Gena have been born somewhere else, she would be the sensation of high fashion runways from NYC to Milan. Having been born in a former gulag in Siberia, her options are somewhat different. Protesting against full scale Russian invasion to Ukraine in high heels and battling queerphobia each day; she endeavors to inspire change in Queendom.
I’m very proud to be able to present a Czech queer documentary I’m Not Everything I Want to Be by Klára Tasovská to Hungarian audiences. It is an audiovisual masterpiece which retells the story of legendary photographer and fierce woman Libuše Jarcovjáková, in her own words. She creates her own revolution – not only in former Czechoslovakia – with every photo she has taken.
Queer communities flourish in other countries of Central Europe and the Balkans. Care to learn about the fresh ballroom scene in Zagreb? Teo and Valentina will show you their epic moves and realness in Grand Prize. In an intimate portrait of everyday life in Such Feeling, Polish performers are open and proud of their queer life, despite the harsh signals from the government.
Fragments of a Life Loved is a novel about love. As pure as can be, as it can be seen in the eyes and faces of the former lovers of the director. When they talk about their relationships, with humor, sadness and fondness, the doors to our own present and past experiences open and emotions burst out.
From Europe to Cameroon, Appolain Siewe examines the roots of homophobia in his home country. Local traditions never shied away from homosexual relationships, so what changed and installed this Code of Fear and hate to the society’s structures? Well, you can probably guess it, right?
Let’s meet in the cinema to bear witness to these queer stories and support human beings in all their diversity, complexity and beauty. We have always been here and we are not going anywhere!
Kristýna Genttnerová
Program curator
