Queer Screen - Mardi Gras Film Festival

Queer Screen, basé à Sydney, en Australie, est la principale organisation culturelle LGBTIQ+ cinématographique du pays. Depuis 1993, elle organise le premier festival du film LGBTIQ+ d’Australie, le Queer Screen Mardi Gras Film Festival (février/mars). Elle organise également un deuxième festival, le Queer Screen Film Fest, et propose un financement à l’achèvement et un concours de présentation.

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Projects

Goes to Cannes

From All Sides

Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Bina Bhattacharya

Produced by: Bina Bhattacharya and Alexander McGhee - Gemme de la Femme Pictures Pty Ltd Bina Bhattacharya and Alexander McGhee - Gemme de la Femme Pictures Pty Ltd

Country of production: Australia

Original title: From All Sides

Genre: Comedy, Coming-of-Age, Drama, LGBTQ+

Language: English

Runtime: 118'

A multiracial bisexual married couple and their teenage children find themselves beset from all sides as they navigate work, school, sex, friendships, romances and their colourful neighbours in the outer suburbs of Sydney.

Goes to Cannes

Arms Of A Man

Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Rohan Parashuram Kanawade

Produced by: Neeraj Churi | Lotus Visual Productions, UK

Country of production: India, UK, France

Original title: Sabar Bonda

Genre: Drama, Romance

Language: Marathi with English Subtitles

Runtime: 120'

Completed in: 2024

A thirty-year-old city-dweller compelled to spend ten-day mourning of his father in the rugged countryside of Western India tenderly bonds with a local farmer struggling to stay unmarried. As the mourning ends, forcing his return, he must decide the fate of his relationship born under duress.

Goes to Cannes

Strange Creatures

Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Henry Boffin

Produced by: Rachel Forbes & Riley Nottingham | Strange Creatures Pty Ltd, Humdrum Comedy Pty Ltd

Country of production: Australia

Original title: Strange Creatures

Genre: Black comedy, Road Movie

Language: English

Runtime: 87'

Completed in: 2024

Two estranged brothers are forced back into each others’ lives when they’re tasked with scattering the ashes of their recently deceased mother in the country town where she grew up.

Goes to Cannes

Under the Influencer

Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Bryn Woznicki (Director); Lauren Neal (Technical Director)

Produced by: Jill Bennett, Katie Hall | Lion & Lamb Studio, Team Stillwell, Fair Play Films

Country of production: USA

Original title: Under the Influencer

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Language: English

Runtime: 103'

Completed in: 2024

When a struggling digital artist has her work appropriated by a popular art curator, will she remain a victim, or become the perpetrator of an even more villainous crime?

Goes to Cannes

Heart of the Man

Category: Queer Screen Goes to Cannes

Directed by: David Cook

Produced by: Blake Northfield | Bronte Pictures

Country of production: Australia

Original title: Heart of the Man

Genre: Coming-of-Age, Drama

Language: English

Runtime: 85'

Completed in: 2024

A young boxing prodigy coming to terms with his sexuality must battle between fulfilling his father’s dream and becoming his own man.