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From the 5th to the 15th of July, Casal Lambda is carrying out FIRE!!, the 17th International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in Barcelona. The main headquarters of the exhibition will be the French Institute of Barcelona. Casa Asia will be showing the Asian film screenings and FNAC Triangle will be the home of the lectures, discussion tables and open projections.
This year the festival is packed with material, ready to mark its territory at a time in which its organizers define it as ´combative´ and in which nobody should stay quiet. It´s all pointing towards the fact that these film and documentary screenings will be a space to raise critical awareness that leads towards a change of an unequal and discriminatory system. Despite these politico-philosophical proposals, the organization points out that the festival is driven by the passion of good films, a discourse which has stood since its first edition.
This year, for the first time, a competition for short film creators will take place, ´Filming against violence´, which is related with the promotion of human rights and is taking place with the collaboration of Amnesty International and the Bande à Part film school.
Among the films that will be screened is the Teddy Award winning as the best film at the 2012 Berlinale Keep The Lights On, directed by Ira Sachs. It´s a great film that portrays relations of love, sex and friendship between two men of our time.
Gun Hill Road, directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green, tells us the story of a prisoner who goes back to his home in the Bronx and finds that he´s lost his wife and that his teenage son is a transsexual. The film majestically shows us a world of relations fractured by marginality and the difficult approximation to teenage transsexuality.
My Brother The Devil is a film directed by Sally El Hosaini which tells the story of marginal subculture of Arabic migrants in London through the love story of two brothers. Rashib is the eldest, who deals drugs to support the family financially and educate his younger brother, Mo, who admires Rashib. After the death of a friend, Rashib rethinks his whole life, even his sexuality, at the same time that Mo decides to take over the world that his brother leaves behind. The film won the award for the Best Film in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was labelled by Variety as a “story filled with poetry of two brothers who have been affected by the criminal world”.
Circumstance is a film that questions moral, political and social codes in the Islamic world in Iran, through the story of a rich Iranian family that tries to contain the sexuality of their teenage daughter, who has started a lesbian relationship. It´s directed by Mayan Keshavarz and it was shot in Lebanon by a team of debutant yet professional filmmakers, which has given the film good specialized critics.
For more information: http://www.cinemalambda.com
Nancy Guzman
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