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Max Mueller Bhavan | India Chennai

Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival

QUEER FILM FESTIVAL |in cooperation with Orinam and Berlinale Spotlight

  • Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan @ Library, Chennai

  • All are welcome

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Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan is pleased to bring you Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival, July 27-29, 2018. Reel Desires is a three-day series of feature films, shorts and documentaries showcasing sexuality and gender diversity issues. Submissions this year include those that take the struggle for gender and sexuality rights to the original site of the struggle – the family. Other films explore intersections among gender/sexuality movements with other struggles for social justice, and those that reflect the universality and specificity of LGBTIQA+ lives across space and time.

The film festival is being held in association with Orinam, a local collective that has been working since 2003 to end gender- and sexuality- based discrimination and provide social and support spaces for the LGBTIQA+ communities in Chennai. Co-organizing the event are several community groups and NGOs. Besides films, Reel Desires will also feature performances and a panel discussion.

'Reel Desires' is a reminder of our common humanity that transcends boundaries of sexuality, gender identity and culture.

You can view or download the Reel Desires: CIQFF 2018 brochure now.