For the 13th QUEER-Streifen Regensburg the time frame is now set:

October 17-23, 2024

We are glad to be able to welcome you in the cinema in autumn.

From now on to June 30, films can be submitted for the festival via FilmFreeway.

These are the winners of the 12th edition of the QUEER-STREIFEN festival Regensburg:

Most popular feature film

The non-monetary Audience Award for the best feature film goes to:

LEVANTE (Power Alley)
by Lillah Halla, Brazil, Uruguay, France, 2023

Sofia is about to join a professional volleyball team when she finds out about her unwanted pregnancy. Her career dream seems to be shattered, because in her home country of Brazil, abortion is a punishable offense. This presents the 17-year-old with almost impossible hurdles. But the uncompromising solidarity of her team – all part of the LGBTQ+ community – and Sofia’s father give her courage again and again to stand up to the fundamentalist legislation.
Powerful, queer and encouraging, Lillah Halla’s first feature-length film is a social critique, a father-daughter story as well as a sensitive love story and was screened at Cannes 2023. Hate and violence ultimately lead themselves ad absurdum in Power Alley and cannot stop the victory of the struggling women. So “Levante!”, cheer up!

Audience Awards at € 250 per short film programme:

ANGELIQUE
Elisabeth Kratzer, Germany, 2021

With her transition, Angelique entered unknown territory in the Bavarian province in the 1960s – but with chutzpah, joie de vivre and determination, she was well equipped for this journey to herself.

LA VIE AU CANADA (Life in Canada)
Frédéric Rosset, Kanada, 2022

Together with her partner Justine and their daughter, Sarah wants to move to Canada. At Sarah’s parents’ 60th birthday party, Justine can’t be there because she has to organize the move – at least that’s what Sarah tells her family.

NACKTE MÄNNER IM WALD (Naked Men in the Woods)
Paul Ploberger, Österreich, 2022

The woods as the home of marginalized desire is just one of the venues in this story of truth and its avoidance strategies, told with a proper tongue-in-cheek.

QUEER-STREIFEN Jury Award (750 €):

The jury, consisting of Katja Briesemeister, Katharina Kellner, and Stefan Langthaler, awards the main prize 2023 to:

ANGELIQUE
Elisabeth Kratzer, Germany, 2021

Statement of the jury:

We saw many strong contributions in the short film programme – films that enriched us, touched us and made us laugh. Despite the high quality of the short film submissions, we did not have to discuss our favourite for long. The choice fell quickly and very clearly on a film that overwhelmed us in a positive sense.

The director of this film relies entirely on her strong protagonist, whom she stages cleverly and with a sensitive eye. Accompanied by calm, unagitated images, her story can unfold its full power. In a wonderful way, the film builds a bridge between the past and the present: it tells of the past and encourages people of today.

The film tells an extraordinary life story – that of a woman who made an unheard-of decision in a small Bavarian town in the 1960s: To be completely herself. With great self-confidence and an incredible amount of courage, she defied many difficulties, hostility and danger. We watch and listen to her spellbound and let ourselves be deeply touched – the merit of an impressive personality, but also of documentary storytelling at the highest level.

The QUEER-Streifen Jury Award 2023 goes to the film “Angelique” by director Elisabeth Kratzer.

Congratulations!

The 12th QUEER-Streifen Regensburg will take place from

October 19 to 25, 2023

in the Kinos im Andreasstadel.

The programme is now set!

Attention:
The film Stranizza D’Amuri on Saturday, October 21 at 20:30 will be shown with English subtitles.
On Wednesday, October 25 at 18:00, we will show Levante instead of Two as we had to flip the screenings.

We are looking forward to seeing you!

For the 12th QUEER-Streifen Regensburg the time frame is now set:

October 19-25, 2023

We are glad to be able to welcome you in the cinema in autumn.

From now on to June 30, films can be submitted for the festival via FilmFreeway.

These are the winners of the 11th edition of the QUEER-STREIFEN festival Regensburg:

Most popular feature film

The non-monetary Audience Award for the best feature film goes to:

POTATO DREAMS OF AMERICA
by Wes Hurley, USA, 2021

Early on, little Potato realizes that he is different. He doesn’t like naked women in magazines at all, and the communist system of his home country Vladivostok is not his cup of tea either. Because the single mother Lena, with her morally difficult job as a gulag doctor, also sees no future in the country, a decision is made: off to the USA, the land of unimagined possibilities! But even there, many things are not as they seem.
With a lot of love for the production and even more love for his characters, director Wes Hurley, who himself emigrated from Russia to the USA at the age of 16, tells of dreams, hopes and the desire for self-realization. In this sometimes thoughtful, sometimes cynical, but always highly entertaining film, even the Mother of God herself gets to belt out a few lines!

Audience Awards at € 200 per short film programme:

DEADNAME: SID
Anthony Pieck, Belgium, 2022


What Sid has done is so intolerable to his father that he asks Sid to have his last name changed to spare the family further disgrace. But what does the accused say to this?

PSYCHO BABY
Charlotte Kennett, USA, 2022

Contrary to what most people think, 99% of all “psychopaths” are not serial killers. Andra tries to form a relationship with Sadie, two women who couldn’t be more different.

NEUZEIT (Boom and Bloom)
Stefan Langthaler, Austria, 2022

Sweeping up the pieces of a failed relationship with a talkative but not exactly sensitive father on an Alpine hike? A tightrope act at dizzy heights!

QUEER-STREIFEN Jury Award (500 €):

The jury, consisting of Francy Fabritz, Kristóf Gellén and Pedro Álvarez Olañeta, awards the main prize 2022 to:

THE HOWLING
Bartosz Brzezinski, Poland, 2021

Statement of the jury:

A film that, through its style and use of many metaphors and symbols, manages to captivate the viewer from the very first second. The acting of the young actors makes us understand what it is like to grow up in dusty binary structures and to want to discover and live a different sexuality and love than the one recognised as “right” by the Eastern patriarchy. Away from it all, when our protagonists, imitating the liberating cry of the wolves, experience a little bit of freedom, one feels the hunch and possibility of freedom and discovery. All the more painful – also thanks to excellent writing and camerawork – is the end, which almost silently brings one back to reality and repeatedly asks the question: does it have to be like this? So lonely? So painful? So absolutely incomprehensible?

The Jury Prize of 500€ for the Best Short Film of the 11. QUEER-Streifen Film Festival Regensburg goes to THE HOWLING by Bartosz Brzezinski.
Congratulations!

Special mention

PÉRIPHERIE
Thibault Bru, Frankreich, 2021


PÉRIPHERIE is a perfect example of how well a short film can address controversial and poorly represented topics and people in just a few minutes. Age, pregnancy in old age, career as a woman, BPOC women in the workplace, the desire to have children and same-sex parenthood. In the smallest space in a car, the film concisely tells a relationship, a difficult situation and the power of communication. And all this with perfect craftsmanship.

PÉRIPHERIE by Thibault Bru receives a special mention from the jury.

We were interviewed by Regensburg Tourismus for their podcast REGENSBURG ‘R’ LEBEN!
You can listen to the episode (in German) at Amazon, Spotify, Google Podcast, Deezer or Apple Podcast.

The QUEER-Streifen Regensburg will take place from

October 20 to 26, 2022

in the Kinos im Andreasstadel.

The programme is now set! You can find it in the short version at Festival where you will also find the program booklet in German. If you are already curious about the selection of long or short films, you can look them up at feature films as well as gay, lesbian and queer short films.

We are looking forward to seeing you!

For the 11th QUEER-Streifen Regensburg the time frame is now set:

October 20-26, 2022

We hope that we will be lucky again and that we can welcome you in the cinema hall.

From February 1 to June 30, films can be submitted for the festival via FilmFreeway.

The director of the short film BEFORE THE ERUPTION (Antes de la Erupción), Roberto Pérez Toledo, sent us a message of greeting. His film won both the Audience Award Queer Short Film and the Jury Award Best Short Film. Even though the Jury Award unfortunately did not make it to Spain in one piece, he was very happy to receive it.

These are the winners of the 10th edition of the QUEER-STREIFEN festival Regensburg:

Most popular feature film

The non-monetary Audience Award for the best feature film goes to:

GROSSE FREIHEIT (Great Freedom)
by Sebastian Meise, Austria/Germany, 2021

Audience Awards at € 200 per short film programme:

BEFORE THE ERUPTION
Roberto Pérez Toledo, Spain, 2020

FAKE
Lou-Brice Léonard, France, 2020

FABIU
Stefan Langthaler, Austria, 2020

QUEER-STREIFEN Jury Award (500 €):

The jury, consisting of Jens Holzhäuser, Heinrich Horwitz and Insa Wiese, awards the main prize 2021 to:

BEFORE THE ERUPTION
Roberto Pérez Toledo, Spain, 2020

Statement of the jury:

BEFORE THE ERUPTION is the story of a circle of friends that has been closely connected from childhood to young adulthood. Despite their different ways of life, they maintain their connection, homogeneity and familiarity through regular, joint vacations. This time they reconnect on a volcanic island and find that the landscape of their friendship, through a seemingly unpredictable eruption, has also begun to change or even be recreated. This is how a member of the small group describes the transformation of Em. From the perspective of the reporter and the other friends, Em is not involved as a young man for the first time, but as a person in transition. A volcanic eruption is not understood as destructive, but as a formative and enriching force of nature, which produces new landscapes, as well as changes and enriches existing ones.
The jury pays tribute to the loving and empowering approach to the topic, which gives the audience the opportunity to perceive a person in transition not as an isolated peculiarity, but as a powerful, self-confident and equal part of the whole. For us, the film is an amazing example of how to deal with queer issues in an empowering, encouraging and connecting way without polarizing and problematizing. Roberto Pérez Toledo manages to make the self-confident and empowered position of Em as tangible as that of his friends. This also succeeds because the reporting friend ultimately gives Em sovereignty over the own history of change. In an almost poetic way, the changing person and their environment form a self-evident unity that celebrates its cohesion and its own changeability. Thus, the film succeeds in balancing the sensitivity and uncertainty of coming-out and the promise of a changing, inclusive, colorful and queer world.

The decision in favour of BEFORE THE ERUPTION is also intended to point out that trans persons and their process of transition are still stigmatized to varying degrees and excluded from society. This also applies to the field of art and culture. Yet art in particular has the ability to broaden or change perspectives and to question and influence social norms. For this purpose, it is important that more people are involved and promoted in the art and cultural sector who are queer, disabled or not in compliance with other current social norms. The fact that these groups are exploited and kept away from crucial positions is still a problem and cannot be accepted.
The jury’s prize of 500€ for the best short film of the 10. QUEER-Streifen Film Festival Regensburg goes to ANTES DE LA ERUPCIÓN by Roberto Peréz Toledo, Spain
Congratulations!