Susan Sontag, Laertes and Joaquim Pinto in the first Queer Porto – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

It would be predictable wait Queer Porto, which runs Wednesday through Saturday with the Rivoli as the center of the official projections, an extension of the festival held in Lisbon in the last days of September.

 

After all, the Queer Porto, this year’s first issue after a trial in 2014, is not a mere extension of the veteran Portuguese festival of LGBT cinema: it’s actually another event, with a stand-alone program and different from Lisbon. Suffice it to say that none of the displayed feature films over the next four days was shown in the capital; the exception is Praia do Futuro , Karim Aïnouz, who opened the issue of Lisbon, will be the closing film at the Port (Saturday 10 at 21.30).

The official opening of the Porto event, on Wednesday at 21.30, is still under the sign of Brazil, with the projection of Ferreira Lily movie Blue Blood , Rio de Janeiro Festival winner in 2014 and one of the twelve titles scheduled for the competitive section of the event (six documentaries, fictions six). Among the works tendered, include the documentary Nancy Kates on the celebrated critic and essayist Susan Sontag, Regarding Susan Sontag (today, 17h); From Tie and Red Claw , where the Brazilian Miriam Chneiderman films Laertes, Brazilian cartoonist transgender (Friday 9, 17h); and director’s cut the documentary Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel about an Azorean fishing community, Rabo de Peixe (Saturday 10, 16.30).

At the same time, the Queer Port occupy the company’s space Mala Flying in Almada Street, with the screening of two thematic programs of short films, and two video installations of the Lebanese Roy Dib ( The Spectacle of Privacy ) and Akram Zaatari ( The End of Time ), patents during the four days of the festival. Another video installation, The Golden Age of the American Male , about the work of photographer Bob Mizer (also honored in Lisbon Queer Art section) will be visible in the Weather Wrong Gallery. Finally, the Bad Habits receive a music video program session Queer Pop and a special screening of The Devil’s Bacchanalia and Other tapes Prohibited Ivan Cardoso , “collage” / mix-tape of unfinished initiated or excerpts of films prepared by one Brazilian marginal filmmaker (tomorrow at 23.30). The complete program of this first Queer Port can be found on site official www.queerporto.pt.