Trailer
Queerama
Sun
17
Sun 17 Nov 1:15 PM
Cinema Nova - Cinema 8
Wheelchair
Allocated Seating
Unclassified 15+
70 Mins | UK November
Created from a deep dive into the British Film Institute Archive, this engrossing, profoundly moving essay film charts a century of incredible change in British queer life. Film, television, documentary and newsreel footage is mined to illuminate the relationships, desires, fears and activism of queer folk from 1919 onwards. Queerama features landmark moments from films such as Victim, The Killing of Sister George, Caravaggio, Beautiful Thing and Young Soul Rebels (which also screens in this year’s festival), yoked to a dynamic soundtrack that includes Hercules & Love Affair, Goldfrapp and John Grant (with a cameo from Sinéad O'Connor.
Director Daisy Asquith traverses persecution, injustice, forbidden encounters, sexual liberation and Pride to create an intimate and unflinching portrait of what it was to be British and queer in the 20th Century. Previously screened at MQFF in 2018, this year’s “Formative Sound and Vision” theme resoundingly demanded an encore!
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