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.
Contents:
- FIRST FNISH FEATURE FILM WH GAY THEME SET FOR 2017
- INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
FIRST FNISH FEATURE FILM WH GAY THEME SET FOR 2017
* finnish gay movies *
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).
INTERNATNAL GAY CEMA: 33 LGBTQ MOVI TO SEE OM AROUND THE WORLD
From Fassbr to Pasoli and Sciamma, here are some of the bt gay movi om the global arthoe. * finnish gay movies *
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.
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.
The gay film ftival circu is ripe wh excellent foreign films that prove queer stori don't have to skimp on qualy. * finnish gay movies *
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.
First-time full-length film director Mikko Mäkelä is filmg a movie wh two homosexual protagonists this summer. 2016 20:03An upg pennt film entled Tämä hetki kaislikossa (Fnish for "This moment the reeds") is currently productn and will be one of the first movi Fnish history to tackle the topic of homosexual love – and the very first feature-length one. Homosexual them rare Fnish filmDocumentary filmmaker Markku Heikken says he agre wh Mäkelä that Fnish movi tend almost never to have homosexual lead characters.
"There aren't many, and not a sgle feature film wh a gay lead yet exists, " Heikken says. "The 2010 TV film Päivät ku unta ("Bety Sleep") by Elias Koskimi is the only lengthier Fnish productn that als wh the liv of gay men. That unbearable, paful erotic tensn is more or ls the staed mood of Oliver Herman’ shimmerg and sensual ary drama “Moffie, ” which is easily the bt movie about gay male reprsn sce “God’s Own Country.
100 Hero: Tom of Fland. The gay man who created art that helped shape queer inty and sire. * finnish gay movies *
” Set 1981 South Ai at the apex of the South Ain Borr War, the film’s story of gay unrequed sire turns out to be a sg for somethg far more lethal s marrow. It’s 1981, South Ai, which means ’s not okay to be a “moffie”; effemacy is a sign of weakns, and beg gay is also illegal.
Frears’ film nonts all manner of taboos, not only terms of the gay relatnship at s center, but also the entrenched xenophobia and natnalism that challenge their bond.
Raer Werner Fassbr’s fal howl of anguish om the soul was 1982’s “Querelle, ” his last and possibly gayt movie. It’s an adaptatn of a novel by French liberte and gay in Jean Ge, settlg to a French port cy where a madame played by Jeanne More ns the world, and sailors engage explic sex acts that turn vlent.