T
the guy 24TH MELBOURNE Queer Movie Festival
(MQFF)
commences tonight. For the next 11 times cinemas throughout Melbourne will light up with of the best LGBTI flicks from Australia and abroad. You’ll find over 150 films to select from, therefore, the group at
Archer
has arrived to your service and selected the utmost effective 5 films to suit your watching (alongside) pleasure.
Any Time Now
Picked since the premiere movie for 24th MQFF,
Any Time Now
is actually a poignant account of love and acceptance. Encouraged by real activities that were held in West Hollywood circa 1979, this movie examines the enduring appropriate and personal injustices endured from the LGBTI community. Featuring Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt.
Thursday 13 March
7.30pm
ACMI Cinema 1 and 2
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Soongava: Dancing associated with Orchids
Emerge present-day Nepal,
Soongava: Dance from the Orchids
is actually an account of friendship looking at love, and also the familial and social demands that threaten to tear it aside. Chosen as the recognized Nepalese entry for Best Foreign Language movie at the 2014 Academy Awards, this flick is lovely and one that’ll linger in your mind even after the finishing credit.
Friday 14 March
6.00pm
ACMI Cinema 1
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52 Tuesdays
If you have one movie you visit see while in the festival, make it
52
Tuesdays
. The movie employs the encounters of 16-year-old Billie, whose solitary mommy is certainly going through gender transition. Recorded over the course of a-year, one-day weekly, merely on Tuesdays, this Australian film by Sophie Hyde is absolutely nothing lacking masterful â groundbreaking not just when it comes to method it actually was filmed but additionally how real and raw the experience is actually for the viewer.
Tuesday 18 March
6.00pm
ACMI Cinema 2
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Gerontophilia
Gerontophilia
is actually a genuine exploration of intimate range. It really is a story of a not likely love between 20-something Lake and 81-year-old Melvyn. From Canadian manager Bruce LaBruce, this movie is over simply a provocation and research of taboo, it’s a heart-warming story that displays exactly how boundless love could be.
Thursday 20 March
6.15pm
ACMI Cinema 2
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Both you and the Night (
Les Recontres D’Apres Minuit
)
French film
You and the evening
is queer cinema at the best. Provocative and interesting, it is a literal orgy of pleasure. One-night. One orgy. Plus the invited guests include all manner of sexual identities. It had been the official option at Cannes 2013, and winner of ideal movie at the Athens and Milan Film celebrations (2013). A feast the sight and various other locations too.
Tuesday 21 March
6.00pm
ACMI Theatre 1
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Archer intern Erin Stutchbury is actually a Melbourne-based journalist and grammarian, homosexual scenester and event-goer.
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thanks to MQFF