Sneak Preview of QUEER SCREEN'S MARDI GRAS FILM FESTIVAL in Sydney, Australia

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 producers of the Mardi Gras Film Festival program sent us. Its held in Sydney (when its Australia’s summer) during 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 Partners of the Film Festival

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.

DUINO. In a kind of real life Call Me By Your Name meets Saltburn, Argentinian film maker Juan Pablo de Pace and his friend Andrés Pepe Estrada have written a touching memoir of unrequited teenage love, how it impacts our emotions growing up and how our romantic memories change with time. It’s a subject which resonates with many gay men and is why this movie is so affecting.

The film begins with an obsessive director (Juan Pablo playing himself) trying to finish an autobiographical film about his first love. The director is Matias, who was a shy, working class boy from Buenos Aries when he first met posh, entitled, Swedish student, Alexander on a scholarship to an international school in Duino, Italy in 1997. They hit it off immediately and are always in one another’s company. When Alex gets expelled for a stupid prank, they are separated, but the distance between them only strengthens their bond.

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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Sneak Preview of QUEER SCREEN’S MARDI GRAS FILM FESTIVAL in Sydney, Australia