bloglis tourism: [tourismindonesia] Q Film Festival at CCF Salemba: 25 august

Synopsis Q! Film Festival 2007

at CCF Salemba

6.15 From Ostkreutz – Train Station

18.15 Uhr ab Ostkreuz

Director: Joern Hartmann

Germany 2006/105 minutes/black and white

In German with English Subtitles

Karin Höhne, a retired teacher living in Berlin - Haselhorst. On her way to meet her best friend Rosa Brathuhn (Andreja Schneider) she involuntarily witnesses a horrible murder on a passing train. A young woman (Susanne Sachsse) gets chopped up by an axe murderer. Sadly the police, in particular exchange commissioner Rock Milchester (Dieter Bach), thinks that she is a slightly senile old lady, especially because no corpse was found. So what else can she do but to try to solve the case on her own. Rosa is quickly persuaded and off they go...

Festivals: Berlin Film Festival, Mix Brasil Film Festival, Queer Lisboa Film Festival

Screening Time: 28 August 19.00 CCF

A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle the Sky, Love, You Will Never Stop Being Love

Mil Nubes De Paz Cercan El Cielo, Amor, Jamàs Acabaràs De Ser Amor

Director: Julian Hernandez

Mexico 2002/80 minutes/black and white

In Spanish with English Subtitles

17-year-old Gerardo and his friend Bruno have split up. Gerardo finds himself wandering aimlessly about the streets of Mexico City. As he meanders, he is tortured by images: every male body he sees rekindles memories of his lover, who is with him once again in his imagination. However, his wet dreams do not alleviate his suffering, nor does masturbation provide him with any kind of relief. Even his brief, surprising sexual encounters with strangers can't help him get over the pain of his loss.

Award: Winner Best Film Teddy Award Section Berlin Film Festival

Screening Time: 30 August 13.00 CCF

Conception, The

A Concepçao

Director: José Eduardo Belmonte

Brazil 2005/96 minutes/colour

In Portuguese with English Subtitles

Alex, Lino and Liz are sons of diplomats; they live together in Brasilia inside an empty apartment with no parents. Their place is full of globalized trinket. They share affectionate caresses and seem to be unaware of the world outside. Feeling bored, they try to live each day as if it was the last one. The process is radicalized when X, a person with no name or past, arrives to the house and suggests taking more seriously the idea of living every day as it was the last one. For that to happen he creates a new movement: the Conceptualism. It's mainly based on the death to the ego, being everything in everyway, abolishing money, among other things and following the path of excess, even if for that it is necessary to use drugs, false documents and behave with complete immodesty. For them the world will become a great theater and the conceptualist is someone who makes up characters that last only 24 hours.

Awards: Best Editing and Best Music - 38^oBrasília Festival of Brazilian Cinema - Brazil, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Music - 3º Fiesp/Sesi Prize – São Paulo, Brazil

Screening Time: 29 August 16.00 CCF

Locked Up

Gefangen

Director: Jörg Andreas

Germany 2004/96 minutes/colour

In German and English with English Subtitles

This fiercely erotic and often harrowing story of love behind bars was shot almost entirely in an abandoned East German jail. New arrival Dennis, is horrified by the harsh and abusive realities of prison life; his cell block is dominated by a vicious gang of drug dealers who delight on abusing others, especially the meek Lutz. Eventually Dennis finds escape in the arms of Mike, an older black inmate. To keep their romance alive, they must fight off the anger of other prisoners, the indifference of the prison bureaucracy, and even a parole board.

Festival: New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

Screening Time: 30 August 19.00 CCF

Madame Sata

Director: Karim Aïnouz

Brazil 2002/105 minutes/colour

In Portuguese with English Subtitles

From a run-down boarding house in the heart of Lapa João Francisco shares his world with Laurita, prostitute and "wife"; Firmina, Laurita's daughter; and Taboo, accomplice in petty crimes and "slave". The patriarch of this chosen "family", João Francisco is well acquainted with the local underworld: he is on good terms with Amador, owner of the Blue Danube bar, where prostitution, drugs and police corruption run wild. His strong temper, his skills in capoeira-style fighting make him a feared and fascinating character. He is an excellent fighter, and always reacts to provocation, whether from bar customers or the police. One night, João Francisco meets Renatino, with whom he falls in love.

Awards: Best Film-Chicago International Film Festival, Best Actor-Cinema Brazil Grand Prize

Screening Time: 29 August 13.00 CCF

Mysterious Skin

Director: Gregg Araki

USA 2004/107 minutes/colour

In English

When he was eight, Brian Lackey woke up in the crawlspace beneath his house with his nose bleeding, having no idea how he got there. After that, his life is different. Now 18, Brian believes that he was abducted by aliens. Neil McCormick is the ultimate beautiful outsider, the boy everyone loves from afar but is afraid of when they get too close. Also 18, Neil longs for the relationship he had with his baseball coach when he was eight years old. Neil's search for what he thinks is love leads him to New York City. Brian¹s search for what happened to him leads him to Neil. Together they come to realize that the events that shaped them most were not what they seemed to be.

Festivals: Venice Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival

Screening Time: 28 August 13.00 CCF

An Early Frost

Director: John Erman

USA 1985/100 minutes/colour

In English

Set in the mid-eighties Michael Pierson (Aidan Queen), a young gay man, is struck with AIDS in the prime of his life. He's forced to be open about the disease and his homosexuality for the first time with his co-workers (he's a successful lawyer) and family. He, and the people around him, must face up to the inevitablity of his death and the disease that's killing him. "An Early Frost" was many people's first look at an AIDS victim as a human being instead of a statistic.

Awards and Festivals: Emmy Award for Best Outstanding Cinematography

Screening Time: 28 August 16.00 CCF

WESTERN FLAVOUR

Films: And Everything Nice, Cowboy Forever, It's A Guy Thing, Possession, Ron & Leo, Stray, The Day I Died, With Me

Total Running Time: 112 minutes

Screening Time: 1 September 13.00 CCF

And Everything Nice

Director: Craig Boreham and Peta Jane Lenehan

Australia 2006/7 minutes/colour

In English

The curiosity of a schoolgirl leads her to skip a day at school to observe a classmate as she wanders through the city.

Awards/Festivals: Best Sound Design Award-Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival, Melbourne Queer Film Festival

Cowboy Forever

Director: Jean-Baptiste Erreca

France 2006/26 minutes/colour

In Portuguese with English Subtitles

Not enough of Brokeback Mountain? In the Pantanal area of Western Brazil, two handsome cowboys, Jones and Govinda experience a true love story in the open air. Jean-Baptiste Erreca proudly assumes this similarity. He pays a tribute directly to Ang Lee in this documentary film.

Awards/Festivals: GLBT Film Festival Paris

It's a Guy Thing

Director: Richard Reyes

United Kingdom 2006/13 minutes/black and white

In English

Follows the story of friends - Mark, Zane and Paul for a day out on the beach. Whilst Mark wants to preach about women, sex and relationships, Paul wants to talk about Greco-roman wrestling and Zane is more concerned about the right moment to reveal his secret?

'It's a Guy Thing' is an emotional journey about friendship and trust.

Possession

Director: Herve Joseph Lebrun

France 2007/24 minutes/black and white

In French with English Subtitles

A man, after spying his neighbour night and day, decides to kidnap him. Love and pain, torture and tenderness... A death love story.

Festivals: Turin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Inside Out Film Festival-Canada

Ron & Leo

Director: Oliver Husain

Germany 1999/13 minutes/colour

In German with English subtitles

Ron and Leo are twins, lovers, a boyband and plushy toys. They go through the phases of a popstar-crisis: Sell-Out, discontent, fighting at the press conference, etc., shown as a musical melodrama. The computergenerated space they inhabit is constructed from elements and textures taken from the metrosystem of Frankfurt. Just as the narration, the space mixes private and public, virtuality and everyday experience.

Festival: Slingshort Festival-Jakarta

Stray

Director: Craig Boreham and Dean Francis

Australia 2005/15 minutes/colour

In English

A contemporary retelling of the classic tale of the City Mouse and the Country Mouse, Stray follows the story of Mouse, a teenager who leaves his home in the country in search of his place in the world. Along the way he is exposed to the seedy underbelly of the city and the people who live there including the broken drag diva Lame` Doe Ray, who takes him under her wing.

Awards/Festivals: Melbourne Queer Film Festival

The Day I Died

El Dia Que Mori

Director: Maryam Keshavarz

Argentina, USA 2006/11 minutes/colour

In Spanish with English Subtitles

A girl, her brother and their best friend on a long, hot summer's day in Chascomús in Argentina. A love-triangle takes its course.

Award: Best Short Film in Teddy Award Section-Berlin Film Festival

With Me

Mit Mir

Director: Kerstin Cmelka

Germany 2000/3 minutes/colour

No Dialogue

A woman is lying on a bed. Her double is stretched out next to her, and she slowly turns to caress it, to kiss and lick it before the two cuddle up to each other and the scene darkens. A straightforward etude. A simple setup, though with a false bottom: The woman is played by the filmmaker, who has cloned her ghostly actors by means of multiple exposures.

Award/Festival: Youth Jury Award-Diagonale Film Festival-Austria, Slingshort Festival-Jakarta

Cold Shower

Douche Froide

Director: Antony Cordier

France 2005/102 minutes/colour

In French with English Subtitles

A trio of French teens experiences a love that will change their lives forever in this erotic coming-of-age tale. Mickael's obsession with Judo often helps him to focus his frustrations in life, but when he's alone with longtime girlfriend, Vanessa, his guard fades, leaving a loving and easygoing boyfriend where the aggressive martial artist used to be. Clément is the new kid in town with a similar obsession with Judo and a pair of nouveau riche parents who stand in stark contrast to Mickael's working class mother and father. When the pair bond over an upcoming tournament and Clément helps Mickael to lose some weight for the meet, Vanessa is hesitant to accept the outspoken newcomer. As the bond between Mickael and Clément strengthens, Vanessa's increasingly complex role in the pair's friendship leads the trio through a series of sacrifices and emotional revelations that will result in a profoundly affecting sexual encounter for all three conflicted teens.

Screening Time: 27 August 16.00 & 31 August 13.00 at CCF

La Cage Aux Folles

Director: Edouard Molinaro

France 1978/91 minutes/colour

In French with English Subtitles

Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try concealing their lifestyle and their ownership of the transvestite club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.

Screening Time: 31 August 16.00 CCF

La Cage aux Folles 2

Director: Edouard Molinaro

France 1981/91 minutes/colour

In French with English Subtitles

Sequel to La Cage aux folles has homosexual nightclub owner Renato and his transvestite companion/lover Albin becoming involved with the local cops and foreign spies when Albin unwittingly gets his hands on a role of stolen microfilm. The gay couple then hide out in Renato's native Italy, but find little peace there with their frequent bickering among themselves.