GAZE 2020: Focus on German Cinema
Film Festival|International LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2020
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- Language English / with English subtitles
- Price €6,99/film; film bundles and film passes are available as well
International LGBTQ+ Film Festival GAZE is back in 2020 - with special focus on queer German cinema. Four feature films and two short films will be showcased, including the 40th anniversary screening of Taxi zum Klo and Teddy Award Winner 2020 Futur Drei, which is closing the festival.
Due to current restrictions GAZE Film Festival has been made available online - via IFI@Home. In order to maximise the authenticity of your cinematic experience, have a look at GAZE's advice how best to enjoy the online festival.
Films can be preordered online and will go live according to the GAZE schedule. As soon as a movie is available, you will have three days to watch it, and two days to finish watching once you start.
Should you rent films later in the festival, they too will be available in your library for three days after the purchase. For more information click here.
"Focus on German Cinema" Programme:
Available from Friday, 2 October at 6:45 pm
Faragh / Void
Directed by Jan-Peter Horstmann, Colour, 22 min., Germany 2020
as part of "Men's Shorts"
In this short film produced by Filmuniversität Babelsberg Sex worker Nadim meets his client Oliver in a park and goes home with him, where they have unspectacular sex. A misunderstanding ultimately results in a brawl and confronts both of them with unanticipated desires and needs. Realizing how similar they actually are, Nadim and Oliver start to grow closer.
Tickets are available here.
Available from Friday, 2 October at 8:45 pm - 40th anniversary screening
Taxi zum Klo
Director: Frank Ripploh, Colour, 91 min., West Germany 1980
The autobiographically based tragic comedy – with Frank Ripploh as director, screenwriter and leading actor – tells the story of primary school teacher from Berlin, who’s life is torn between white-bread existence and homosexual subculture. Frank frequently goes out as Peggy for the night and regularly picks up men for quick sex in parks or public toilets – until he meets caring Bernd at the cinema and takes him home. The two of them instantly become a couple, except Frank’s desire for sexual freedom, adventure and excesses dooms their relationship from the very beginning.
With its open and visual handling of homosexuality the film caused a scandal in West Germany of 1980; today it counts as a classic of the queer German cinema.
Tickets are available here.
Available from Saturday, 3 October at 2:00 pm
When the Androgynous Child
Directed by Melina Pafundi, Colour, 9 min., Germany/Argentina 2019
as part of "Experimental Shorts"
When the child speaks about his*her androgyny, they will return to the places where they have belonged. They speak between then and now, representing a figure that contradicts today’s binarisms and them constantly causing exclusion and allocation. The child remembers and claims their identity as foreigner, refugee, bilingual, rejected for not being a man or woman at all. Awareness and worry about this shape Pafundi’s short film.
Tickets are available here.
Available from Saturday, 3 October at 6:00 pm
Kokon / Cocoon
Directed by Leonie Krippendorff, Colour, 95 min., Germany 2020
Summer of 2018: Berlin-Kreuzberg is her microcosm. Nora, the silent observer, is always there: At parties, at school, at the pool, on rooftops and in apartments. Tagging along with her older sister and her friends, Nora drifts around the monotonous housing blocks, witnessing events that seem to cross-fade in the summer light. Girls who want to be slim and pretty, boys who say dumb things to provoke or because they are in love. Ruthless smartphone cameras and fragile teenagers. But Nora has her own way of looking at the world, and when she meets Romy, she realizes why. There is music in the air, Nora’s body is changing, and caterpillars are spinning their cocoons. In her second film director and screenwriter Leonie Krippendorff drafts an authentic coming-of-age story about emerging feelings, sexual awakening and first love.
Tickets are available here.
Available from Sunday, 4 October at 8:00 pm
Futur 3 / No Hard Feelings
Directed by Faraz Shariat, Colour, 92 min., Germany 2020
As a child of exiled Iranians living in Hildesheim, Germany Parvis leads a sheltered life in prosperity. In order to get a bit of a change, he goes on Grindr dates and raves – until he is sentenced to community service for shoplifting and has to work as translator at a refugee shelter. At the shelter he meets Iranian Amon and his sister Banafshe, both of them waiting to receive resident permits. Starting as hesitant friendship, noticeable love starts to develop between Parvis and Amon, but they’re also aware their futures in Germany could not be any more unequal.
The Coming-of-Age film premiered at the Berlinale 2020 within the Panorama section and received the 2020 Teddy Award.
Tickets are available here.
Supported by the Goethe-Institut Irland.
Due to current restrictions GAZE Film Festival has been made available online - via IFI@Home. In order to maximise the authenticity of your cinematic experience, have a look at GAZE's advice how best to enjoy the online festival.
Films can be preordered online and will go live according to the GAZE schedule. As soon as a movie is available, you will have three days to watch it, and two days to finish watching once you start.
Should you rent films later in the festival, they too will be available in your library for three days after the purchase. For more information click here.
"Focus on German Cinema" Programme:
Available from Friday, 2 October at 6:45 pm
Faragh / Void
Directed by Jan-Peter Horstmann, Colour, 22 min., Germany 2020
as part of "Men's Shorts"
In this short film produced by Filmuniversität Babelsberg Sex worker Nadim meets his client Oliver in a park and goes home with him, where they have unspectacular sex. A misunderstanding ultimately results in a brawl and confronts both of them with unanticipated desires and needs. Realizing how similar they actually are, Nadim and Oliver start to grow closer.
Tickets are available here.
Available from Friday, 2 October at 8:45 pm - 40th anniversary screening
Taxi zum Klo
Director: Frank Ripploh, Colour, 91 min., West Germany 1980
The autobiographically based tragic comedy – with Frank Ripploh as director, screenwriter and leading actor – tells the story of primary school teacher from Berlin, who’s life is torn between white-bread existence and homosexual subculture. Frank frequently goes out as Peggy for the night and regularly picks up men for quick sex in parks or public toilets – until he meets caring Bernd at the cinema and takes him home. The two of them instantly become a couple, except Frank’s desire for sexual freedom, adventure and excesses dooms their relationship from the very beginning.
With its open and visual handling of homosexuality the film caused a scandal in West Germany of 1980; today it counts as a classic of the queer German cinema.
Tickets are available here.
Available from Saturday, 3 October at 2:00 pm
When the Androgynous Child
Directed by Melina Pafundi, Colour, 9 min., Germany/Argentina 2019
as part of "Experimental Shorts"
When the child speaks about his*her androgyny, they will return to the places where they have belonged. They speak between then and now, representing a figure that contradicts today’s binarisms and them constantly causing exclusion and allocation. The child remembers and claims their identity as foreigner, refugee, bilingual, rejected for not being a man or woman at all. Awareness and worry about this shape Pafundi’s short film.
Tickets are available here.
Available from Saturday, 3 October at 6:00 pm
Kokon / Cocoon
Directed by Leonie Krippendorff, Colour, 95 min., Germany 2020
Summer of 2018: Berlin-Kreuzberg is her microcosm. Nora, the silent observer, is always there: At parties, at school, at the pool, on rooftops and in apartments. Tagging along with her older sister and her friends, Nora drifts around the monotonous housing blocks, witnessing events that seem to cross-fade in the summer light. Girls who want to be slim and pretty, boys who say dumb things to provoke or because they are in love. Ruthless smartphone cameras and fragile teenagers. But Nora has her own way of looking at the world, and when she meets Romy, she realizes why. There is music in the air, Nora’s body is changing, and caterpillars are spinning their cocoons. In her second film director and screenwriter Leonie Krippendorff drafts an authentic coming-of-age story about emerging feelings, sexual awakening and first love.
Tickets are available here.
Available from Sunday, 4 October at 8:00 pm
Futur 3 / No Hard Feelings
Directed by Faraz Shariat, Colour, 92 min., Germany 2020
As a child of exiled Iranians living in Hildesheim, Germany Parvis leads a sheltered life in prosperity. In order to get a bit of a change, he goes on Grindr dates and raves – until he is sentenced to community service for shoplifting and has to work as translator at a refugee shelter. At the shelter he meets Iranian Amon and his sister Banafshe, both of them waiting to receive resident permits. Starting as hesitant friendship, noticeable love starts to develop between Parvis and Amon, but they’re also aware their futures in Germany could not be any more unequal.
The Coming-of-Age film premiered at the Berlinale 2020 within the Panorama section and received the 2020 Teddy Award.
Tickets are available here.
Supported by the Goethe-Institut Irland.