6 movies by Russian directors will depict the life of gay and lesbians
The 5th Side by Side movie festival in Saint Petersburg will be special in featuring russian directors. Directors of six films - Seva Galkin, Svetlana Sigalaeva, Jeanne Zhunusova, Elena Ustinova, actors and producers - will be present at the festival to present the works to Petersburg’s public and to discuss questions in respect of implementation of the lesbi-gay theme in the modern art. Russian films are put together in the collection named "Beginning".
The theme of the jubilee 5th festival will be "International LGBT-movement: the local specifics and the global policy". 35 films in its program come from Cuba, China, Uganda, Brazil, Chile, the Republic of South Africa, Great Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands and other countries.
The program includes new LGBT-films, winners of prizes of international film festivals. Among them is the Chilean Film "Young and Wild" (in Russia "The Wild Ñat"), South African’s "The Beauty", which received a queer-palm prise in Cannes in 2011, Israeli director Eytan Fox's new film "Yossi", and the holder of many prices David Kato’s documentary "Call Me Kuchu" about a murdered Uganda gay activist.
This year’s partner of the "Side by side" is the prestigious "Tempo" festival in Sweden, which will add some interesting documentary works.
Traditionally, many visitors are expected - Eytan Fox (Israel), Mariali Rivas (Chile), Yang Yang (China) (the organizer of the LGBT-film festival in Beijing and a director), the Swedish documentarians Sara Broos and Mette Aakerholm Gardell, the Netherlands director Michiel van Erp and an activist from Uganda Stosh Jovan.
The full program and the film festival schedule will appear after October 1st, 2012. Volunteer option is still available as of writing.
The theme of the jubilee 5th festival will be "International LGBT-movement: the local specifics and the global policy". 35 films in its program come from Cuba, China, Uganda, Brazil, Chile, the Republic of South Africa, Great Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands and other countries.
The program includes new LGBT-films, winners of prizes of international film festivals. Among them is the Chilean Film "Young and Wild" (in Russia "The Wild Ñat"), South African’s "The Beauty", which received a queer-palm prise in Cannes in 2011, Israeli director Eytan Fox's new film "Yossi", and the holder of many prices David Kato’s documentary "Call Me Kuchu" about a murdered Uganda gay activist.
This year’s partner of the "Side by side" is the prestigious "Tempo" festival in Sweden, which will add some interesting documentary works.
Traditionally, many visitors are expected - Eytan Fox (Israel), Mariali Rivas (Chile), Yang Yang (China) (the organizer of the LGBT-film festival in Beijing and a director), the Swedish documentarians Sara Broos and Mette Aakerholm Gardell, the Netherlands director Michiel van Erp and an activist from Uganda Stosh Jovan.
The full program and the film festival schedule will appear after October 1st, 2012. Volunteer option is still available as of writing.
