The winners in 2024 have been announced!
These are the winners of the 13th edition of the QUEER-STREIFEN festival Regensburg:
Most popular feature film
The non-monetary Audience Award for the best feature film goes to:
WHAT A FEELING
Austria 2024 | 110 min |Directed by: Kat Rohrer
Craftswoman Fa (Proschat Madani) takes care of more than just the kitchen installations for her customers. She is an part of the furniture in a lesbian bar. Marie Theres (Caroline Peters) leads a completely different life. Her wedding day, which doesn’t go as expected, throws the well-to-do doctor completely off track. When Marie Theres is then almost run over by the self-confident Fa, she has had enough. Marie Theres is also full when she is brought home by Fa after a long night. She remembers nothing – did they or didn’t they? And how does this fit into a life that plays on all the clichés of a wealthy hetero family? Her life plan becomes increasingly unstable and conversations with friends and her daughter confront Marie Theres with completely new questions.
Audience Awards at € 250 per short film programme:
STONE
United Kingdom 2023 | 13:00 min | Directed by: Jake Graf und Hannah Graf
Tess searches for answers after her deceased father turns out to be a trans woman. The revelation forces her to confront the reality of her childhood, which her mother concealed.
Queen Size
France 2023 | 19:52 min | Directed by: Avril Besson
Marina actually just wants to sell her mattress to Charlie before she moves back in with her parents. But the encounter between the two women throws her relocation plans into disarray.
Chavo
Sweden 2022 |15:00 min | Directed by: Alecio Araci
A young Roma man who has been rejected by his family finds shelter for one night with an elderly food stall owner. He wants to make amends – and makes an unforeseen discovery in the process.
QUEER-STREIFEN-Kurzfilmpreis der Jury (750 €):
The jury, consisting of Andreas Hammer, Elisabeth Kratzer und Emily Meinke, awards the main prize 2024 to
See You ’Round the Block
Israel 2023 | 15:00 min | Directed by: Daniel Gat
Statement of the jury:
This year’s queer short film programme was dominated by international productions, 19 films from 13 countries, 2 of them from Germany, with an equally wide range of themes and aesthetics. There was a lot of drama to be seen, occasionally also a little cheerfulness and humour, strong cinematic approaches, black and white, one-shots and historical films.
Eventually, we had to decide between two films that were particularly appealing to us. In the end, we chose a film that shows an early morning encounter between two people who must have loved each other very much at one time and yet somehow parted ways. The film shows in an impressive way how complex relationships are, how much we love each other and yet how we hurt each other emotionally again and again. With two leading actors who never leave us cold for a second. In this 15-minute one-shot, the director lets us look deep into the souls of the protagonists as an invisible companion. In strong dialogues, he shows us a relationship and conflict dynamic that alternates between reunion, affection and razor-sharp malice.
We would therefore like to award this year’s QUEER Film Jury Prize for this wonderful and stirring Walk of Shame to director Daniel Gat and his team from Israel with their film „See You ‘Round the Block“.
Congratulations!
