34th International Short Film Festival Berlin 2018
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SP 05 Queer Fever

Queer Fever shows LGBT life from a wide variety of suspenseful situations, from Europe to Canada and from China to Chechnya. Issues dealing with gender are discussed, chasms between family members come up, politically motivated threats turn lethal, and the program tells intimately about life in a local neighborhood of Berlin. Love and passion serve as bookends for the six films. They call for tolerance across the board.

21.11.18, 20:00h, Il Kino

23.11.18, 23:00h, Volksbühne 3. Stock

24.11.18, 22:00h, Rollberg Kino

Queer Fever
6 films
Angst

Angst

Fear

Raissa Sokurowa // Germany // 2018 // 13:46 min

Live Action

Since Mikail fled Chechnya for Germany, he feels like someone is always following him. He bumps into his boyfriend by chance and suspects that something bad is bound to happen.

Beauty

Beauty

Christina Willings // Canada // 2018 // 23:24 min

Documentary

Although still children Bex, Fox, Tru, Lili, and Milo know who they are and that they do not conform with the traditional categories of gender. They talk about their lives.

Letters from Childhood

Letters from Childhood

José Magro // Portugal // 2018 // 02:46 min

Live Action

A woman writes a letter to her childhood sweetheart and revels in memories of unfinished deeds.

Pirate Boys

Pirate Boys

Pol Merchan // Germany // 2018 // 13:08 min

Documentary, Experimental

The portrayal of the punk novelist Kathy Acker is the starting point for a journey to the queer 1990s in this hybrid artistic documentary. The words of the intersex photographer Del LaGrace Volcano recount transformative and self-ordained bodies, souls, and scars.

RICK

RICK

Jan-Peter Horstmann // Germany // 2017 // 15:30 min

Documentary

A gay porn actor chats about his favorite colleagues in the film business in sign language. His tattooed body is his way of expressing himself, and the porn business is his therapy.

Chen Li

Chen Li

Sunken Plum

Roberto F. Canuto / Xiaoxi Xu // Spain, China // 2017 // 20:00 min

Live Action

A transgender woman is booed off the stage by the audience of a nightclub while she performs, but she doesn’t want to back down so she confronts her family in a village in China.