We are happy to collaborate yet again with the Bangalore Queer Film Festival (BQFF) and present 4 Germanfilms at the 12th edition of the festival, which will take place from July 22 to 24, 2022 at the Bhavan.
Since 2009, BQFF has been a community-funded, collectively-run, entry-free, annual film festival located in Bangalore, India. BQFF is an important avenue to bring to the Bangalore queer communities and public experimental, contemporary, archival, and/or social justice themed films and video art by queer filmmakers from across the city, the country and the world. BQFF is committed to the circulation of queer cinema, with a focus on films from non-Western locations, films by independent filmmakers, popular cinema that experiments with LGBTQ+ themes, and experimental radically queer films that push our ideas of good aesthetics. Alongside the film programming, the festival also hosts art and photography exhibitions, poetry readings, drag acts and dance & theatre performances by queer artists.
Zuhur's Daughters
Laurentia Genske, Robin Humboldt
2021 | 89 min. Friday July 22, 10.45 a.m.
Two Syrian sisters, on the verge of adulthood and trans *, are looking to find their way in their new home-country Germany. This film not only tells the moving story of a family that sticks together despite all hardships, but also poses the question of one's own identity. A coming-of-age documentary about the search for one's individual place in society.
No Hard Feelings
Faraz Shariat
2020 | 92 min. Friday July 22, 2.25 p.m.
High-cut trousers, skin-tight t-shirt, short, peroxide-blond hair. On his birthday, Parvis celebrates by stealing a bottle from the bar at the club and dancing. The son of Iranian parents, he has established himself in the attic of his parents’ house in a quiet new housing estate in Lower Saxony and is busy trying out everything and anything from sex dates to raves.
After getting caught shoplifting, he is sent to do community service in a refugee shelter where he falls in love with Amon, who has fled Iran with his sister Banafshe Arezu.
The trio enjoys a summer of fierce partying till dawn, coloured by the realisation that, in their different ways, none of them is at home in Germany.
Nico
Eline Gehring
2021 | 79 min. Sunday July 24, 9.55 a.m.
The emancipated and cheerful German-Iranian Nico is the most popular geriatric nurse among her clients. She has a gentle and understanding way in finding time for each and every one of them. She is enjoying summer in Berlin with her best friend Rosa when an attack wrenches the self-confident woman out of her seemingly carefree everyday routine. She realizes that she's not really so accepted after all and now sees the level of xenophobia surrounding her. She decides that self-empowerment is the only way out of this predicament...
Blue Noise
Simon Maria Kubiena
2022 | 17 min. Sunday July 24, 6.30 p.m.
His T-shirt caked with mortar, Alex takes a thoughtful drag on his cigarette. The other apprentices are laughing, throwing punches and showing off their fighting moves. They try to draw him into their game, but his thoughts seem elsewhere – not even his girlfriend can get through to him. Alex is searching for answers and he withdraws from the expectations of those around him. He eventually finds himself, at ease among a group of complete strangers.
Free entry!
Location
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore
716, CMH Road Indiranagar 1st Stage Bangalore 560 038 India
18 years and above
Location
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore
716, CMH Road Indiranagar 1st Stage Bangalore 560 038 India
