Teddy Award Berlin - Der queere Filmpreis

Colourful programme on the third day

Today there will be screening eleven of the 40 movies which compete for a TEDDY AWARD. Among them are a film about a transperson, an experimental movie about the political situation in Thailand, the dark portrait of a broken father-son-relationship, as well as a documentary about an Israeli family, which is falling apart. Furthermore the Berlin Queer Movie Tour takes place today and informs about 90 years of queer films in Berlin.

Magnus Rosengarten made an interview with Johanna Jackie Baier, director of the documentary HOUSE OF SHAME - CHANTAL ALL NIGHT LONG. Baier talks about her personal experiences with Chantal, the idea of making a movie for the 10. anniversary of the House of Shame party, her own queer identity and the intimacy, which evolved during the talks with Chantal.

ROMEOS at the berlinale

The coming-of-age-movie ROMEOS deals with the everyday problems and the first love of a trans-person, who was aasigned a girl, but feels as a boy. Support gets Lukas from his best friend, who’s a lesbian, but soon reaches her limit of understanding – for example why he wants to have the operation done even though he likes men. For Fabio, whom Lukas falls in love with, on the other masculinity is over-important – and his Italian must not find out about his homosexuality.

Despite the difficulties the movie is showing it remains humorous and sensitive at the same time. It is a movie about growing up, finding yourself, finding friendship and loosing it – and maybe also about love.

The director Sabine Bernardi: “Transgender has really changed my view of identity and so in ROMEOS I wanted to tell a story about a young person’s courage to live the way they feel is right for them. On an emotional level, I was less interested in their inner turmoil than I was in finding out what they need in order to live happily. In this way, ROMEOS is a love story, at times funny and a bit cheeky, but the attitude was always that your gender identity is your own business.”

ROMEOS, Cubix 7&8 Interlock, 8.15 pm

Thai experiments

The Thai movie POO KOR KARN RAI is an experimental mixture of documentary and fiction. The movie follows different people in their life, the plots of the single segments are independent from each other and describe quite diverse story, e.g. about high-sea fishing and violence at home, in a very intense way. All have in common to point out the problems in the political situation in Thailand.

POO KOR KARN RAI, CinemaxX 4, 10.00 pm

sad swans

The winter in Berlin is dark and long in SWANS. To visit their mother and ex-wife who is in a coma, a father and his son travel from Portugal to Berlin. They share the flat with the mother’s enigmatic girl-friend. The grey city, the dying mother, a broken father-son relationship and a mysterious strange woman…

SWANS, Delphi Filmpalast, 7.00 pm

Queen without crown

What is a family? What is home? Who am I? – With these existential questions deals the documentary THE QUEE HAS NO CROWN, which tells the story of an Israeli family. Three brothers decide to leave the country in times of crisis and emigrate to the USA, while two – one of them gay and the director of the documentary – stay behind with their mother. A movie about loss and gain, fear, hatred and love.

THE QUEEN HAS NO CROWN, CineStar 7, 5.00 pm

All movies screening today in the programme overview >>

Berlin Queer Movie Tour

For more than 90 years queer movies are made in Berlin! The Berlin Queer Movie Tour guides you to the original scenes in the city. The tour begins at 1.00 pm, takes app. 2 hours and costs 18 Euros. To take part ring 030-28095326 or send an email to queer@filmstadt-berlin.de.

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Queer Movie Tour Berlin 1.00 pm