Queer Cinema

The Goethe-Institut will celebrate queer stories on screen. There will be screenings of No Hard Feelings, Cocoon and Tackling Life in Wellington, Auckland and New Plymouth.

In the powerful, semi-biographical No Hard Feelings, director Faraz Shariat unfolds a tale of intense first love and offers a sensitive insight into the experience of migrants in Germany caught between feeling foreign, being excluded and obtaining the permanent right to stay, and shows how even subsequent generations are still in the process of arriving.

Realistic and taking on the protagonist Nora’s perspective, Cocoon captures a summer of change in the microcosm of Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Tackling Life is a rousing portrait of a rugby team sweating, celebrating, laughing and crying together, winning and losing. It is about the joy, after years of searching, of finally finding a community where you can be who you really want to be.

Entry is free and prior registration is essential. All films will be screened with English subtitles.

For venues, screening times and further details, please check here.