We know there is still a month left to go in 2024 BUT its still not to early to share the first sneak preview that our friends at QUEER SCREEN Mardi Gras Film Festival program sent us. Its held in Sydney (when its Australia’s summer) and is part of 17 days of unforgetable moments of their iconic Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival which everybody should attend at least once in their lifetime. QUEERGURU is very proud to announce that in 2025 we will now be Official Media Sponsors of the Film Fest
The 2025 Festival theme Free to be is a celebration of the strides toward true LGBTQIA+ equality while also acting as a global reminder that our fight is far from over, and that we are not truly free until we are all free to be.
Gil Beckwith, CEO of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras told QUEERGURU “Free To Be is a manifesto of what our community has desired and fought for dozens of decades, and the reason why we will continue to be here, fighting, celebrating and being fiercely visible for the generations to come, Our theme is about making a statement to embrace and rejoice in our unique individuality as well as our collective identity. It is about the bravery to rise for each other in the darkest of times and protect the progress we’ve made, using it as a springboard toward the progress we deserve.”
The Full Film Program will not be released until January 8th BUT but they shared with us their first 6 pics, and if they tempt you as much as they did us, then be sure to grab your festival flexi pass to get priority booking
DESIRE LINES is an inclusive celebration of gay trans men and gay trans-masculine livesm “Can a vagina be masculine?” This, and many more thought-provoking questions, are posed by interviewer/director Jules Rosskam, in his innovative new documentary which examines the lives of trans men who also became gay men after transitioning. Rosskam’s film, which premiered at Sundance, combines drama with documentary.
WHAT A FEELING ….. A Jolly Germanic Lesbian Romcom. Marie Theres known as Resi (Caroline Peters) is a German doctor living and working in Austria with her wealthy husband Alexander (Heikko Deutschmann). It is their anniversary dinner with friends and he has just come back from his first tree hugging men’s retreat. While there not only has Alexander rediscovered himself but he has also discovered he no longer wishes to be married to Resi. Alexander announces it to Resi and all her friends over the schnitzel. In a devastated drunken delirium Resi staggers towards home on her own but decides to stop off at a bar she has never noticed before – the Pussycat Club. There she recognizes Fa (Proschat Madani) who had almost ran her over in her van the morning prior. Fa is beautiful, studly and charismatic. An Iranian immigrant who is a carpenter by day, with a coterie of married female customers who can’t get enough of her handyperson skills, and an open mic night slam poetry rapper in the evening.
The other three films are :Eat The Night, Ponyboi and Queens of Drama
| QUEER SCREEN’s 32nd MARDI GRAS FILM FESTIVAL 13 – 27th February 2025 |
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