New Polish gay thriller reflects the history of AIDS unr Soviet le • GCN

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Polish gay thriller ‘Operatn Hyacth' giv a sense of the fear and trma surroundg the AIDS panmic of the 1980s unr Soviet le.

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POLISH GAY DRAMA ‘ELEPHANT’ SELLS TO NORTH AMERI AND KEY EUROPEAN TERRORI (EXCLIVE)

Wh BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Ftival upon , we ntue our celebratn of queer cema wh a look at some of the bt lbian, gay and trans films om Sndavia and the Nordic untri. * polish gay film *

Wh BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Ftival upon , we ntue our celebratn of queer cema wh a look at some of the bt lbian, gay and trans films om Sndavia and the Nordic untri. Four were among the first natns to legalise gay marriage (Fland took a ltle longer, fally jog the club 2017), and Iceland beme the first untry to have an openly gay head of ernment (Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, 2009). Swedish melodrama The Wgs (1916), more than half of which has been sadly lost, is one of the first films to feature a gay storyle.

Bergman’s pictn of female homosexualy was seldom flatterg – see the predatory lbian  Three Strange Lov (1949) or the possible readg of lbianism lkg to mental illns  Persona (1966). The lite melancholy of the film, and s bleak pictn of a sad, possibly gay girl, make for a disquietg if rewardg viewg experience. Daddy and the Mcle Amy (1991)The erotic gay drawgs of Too Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Fland, are one of the Sndavian pensula’s most famo queer exports, and this documentary, the only film to feature the man himself, is a handy entry to his work and reer.

GAY POLISH DRAMA ‘ALL OUR FEARS’ ACQUIRED FOR NORTH AMERI BY ARIZTIL (EXCLUSIVE)

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While the terviews wh New York leather daddi and S&M enthiasts show his fluence on gay inty, ’s the revealg ments of the artist himself that are the ma reason for watchg. Gay and lbian characters were among the mune dwellers the warm-hearted Together (2000), while the terr monologue of a trans woman was the foc of Contaer (2006), one of his most difficult films. Although the film do not shy away om the ugls of homophobic and transphobic society, the relatnship self is betifully leated, and featur a very touchg sex scene.

A Moment the Reeds (2017)Leevi (Janne Puten), a young, gay Fnish man, meets Tareq (Boodi Kabbani), a Syrian immigrant worker employed to rtore the former’s fay lake hoe. It aimed at creatg a natnwi database of all Polish homosexuals and those that associated themselv wh the LGBT muny, or are known as queer.

Intrigued, Robert ntu to pursue the murr, even after higher thori (clive of his own father) em the se closed, and closer proximy wh the homosexual muny Warsaw. Ariztil has taken North Amerin rights to “All Our Fears, ” a gay drama based on the life of Polish artist Daniel Rycharski that won the top prize at last year’s Gdynia Film Ftival. “All Our Fears” tells the story of Daniel (Dawid Ogrodnik), a young artist torn between his small village muny, urban art galleri, the Catholic Church and his gay inty.

NEW POLISH GAY THRILLER REFLECTS THE HISTORY OF AIDS UNR SOVIET LE

When his lbian iend (Agata Labno) ms suici after sufferg om homophobic hecklg, Daniel’s life missn be the remptn of his muny through a towerg work of art.

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