The cinemas are closed, but you want to watch queer movies? From December 17th to 27th December 2020 you can stream a selection of films that the festivals cannot currently show in cinemas, and support the festivals in the crisis: https://queerstream.queerscope.de/
These are the winners of the 9th edition of the QUEER-STREIFEN festival:
The non-monetary Audience Award for the best feature film goes to:
UFERFRAUEN – LESBISCHES L(I)EBEN IN DER DDR
by Barbara Wallbraun, Germany 2019
((UFERFRAUEN was recently awarded the 5th QueerScope Debut Film Award!)
Audience Awards at € 200 per short film programme:
GOD’S DAUGHTER DANCES
by Sungin Byun, South Korea 2020
With exactly the same audience rating:
TOUCHING AN ELEPHANT
by Lara Milena Brose, Germany 2019
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REVOLVO
by Francy Fabritz, Germany 2019
RUSHES – IN DEN BINSEN
by Clara Zoe My-Linh von Arnim, Austria 2019
QUEER-STREIFEN Jury Award (500 €):
The jury, consisting of Chrissy Grundl, Frances Hill and Ralph Kinkel, awards the main prize 2020 to:
REVOLVO
by Francy Fabritz, Germany 2019
The jury gives an honorable mention to:
TOUCHING AN ELEPHANT
Lara Milena Brose, Germany 2019
Ritah fled to Germany to escape anti-lesbian violence and persecution in Uganda. But the authorities make her life difficult.
MALL
Jerry Hoffmann, Germany 2019
The introverted Didi is visitng a megastore with his male-dominated family. When the family wants to leave the store, the alarm goes off!
As Christopher Street Day cannot take place as planned this year, there will be several online promotions.
One of them will be from us: We will be showing some short films on our website from 29 June to 5 July 2020! Stay tuned for the link!
Check out the other actions on the CSD Regensburg website.
We screened the film SIDNEY & FRIENDS in 2018 at our festival. Now, the film producer writes:
The United Nations’ International Organization for Migration has chosen SIDNEY & FRIENDS to be the featured film in their Lockdown Film Club. This means that anyone, anywhere in the world, can watch the film for free (until May 27): https://www.iom.int/gmff/film-club