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- ‘AND THEN WE DANCED’ REVIEW: ONE OF THE BT GAY FILMS IN THIS YEAR’S OSR RACE COM FROM SWEN
- AND THEN WE DANCED REVIEW - GLOR GEIAN GAY G-OF-AGE TALE
- ‘AND THEN WE DANCED’ TRAILER: FIRST LOOK AT GEIAN GAY DANCE ROMANCE AHEAD OF CANN DEBUT
- TRAILER, POSTER RELEASED FOR GAY FILM THAT PROVOKED VLENT PROTTS TWO MALE GEIAN DANCERS FD LOVE "AND THEN WE DANCED."{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY BRANDON VOSSDECEMBER 22, 2019/4:25 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:1328PX;WIDTH:2360PX;}LISABI FRILL/MIC BOX FILMSBY BRANDON VOSSDECEMBER 22, 2019 / 4:25 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"TRAILER, POSTER RELEASED FOR GAY FILM THAT PROVOKED VLENT PROTTS","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-12-22T21:25:16.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-12-22T21:25:16.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"BRANDON VOSS","KEYWORDS":"TERNATNAL","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A NEW TRAILER AND POSTER HAVE BEEN RELEASED FOR THE UPG U.S. PREMIERE OF AND THEN WE DANCED, A QUEER G-OF-AGE ROMANCE SET GEIA AMID THE MASCULE WORLD OF TRADNAL GEIAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND THEN WE DANCED, WRTEN AND DIRECTED BY OUT FILMMAKER LEVAN AK, IS BEG TOUTED AS THE NSERVATIVE EASTERN EUROPEAN NATN'S FIRST EXPLICLY GAY-THEMED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE MOVIE "FOLLOWS MERAB, A VOTED DANCER WHO HAS BEEN TRAG FOR YEARS WH HIS PARTNER MARY FOR A SPOT THE NATNAL GEIAN ENSEMBLE," ACRDG TO AN OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS. "THE ARRIVAL OF ANOTHER MALE DANCER, IRAKLI—GIFTED WH PERFECT FORM AND EQUIPPED WH A REBELL STREAK—THROWS MERAB OFF BALANCE, SPARKG BOTH AN TENSE RIVALRY AND ROMANTIC SIRE THAT MAY E HIM TO RISK HIS FUTURE DANCE AS WELL AS HIS RELATNSHIPS WH MARY AND HIS FAY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND THEN WE DANCED HAD S WORLD PREMIERE MAY AT THE CANN FILM FTIVAL AND WILL SCREEN NEXT MONTH AT SUNDANCE. IT WAS SWEN'S OFFICIAL ENTRY FOR BT INTERNATNAL FEATURE AT THE AMY AWARDS BUT DID NOT MAKE THE SHORT LIST. (WHILE AK IS OF GEIAN HERAGE, HE GREW UP STOCKHOLM.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS NEWNOWNEXT PREVLY REPORTED, POLICE ARRTED MORE THAN 25 PEOPLE LAST MONTH AFTER VLENT PROTTS EPTED AT PREMIERE SCREENGS TBILISI, GEIA'S PAL CY, WHERE THE MOVIE WAS FILMED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUNDREDS OF FAR-RIGHT NATNALISTS AND GEIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH MEMBERS, SOME HOLDG CROSS AND OTHER RELIG PARAPHERNALIA, MONSTRATED OUTSI THE THEATER AN ATTEMPT TO DISURAGE MOVIEGOERS. OTHER MONSTRATORS, WHO SHOUTED CHANTS LIKE “LONG LIVE GEIA” AND “SHAME,” SET FIRE TO A RABOW FLAG. TWO POLICE OFFICERS AND A WOMAN TRYG TO ATTEND A SCREENG WERE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I FEEL SO MUCH PRI THAT NONE OF THE THEATERS BACKED DOWN OR NCELLED ANY OF THE SCHLED AND SOLD OUT SCREENGS, BUT STOOD SOLIDARY WH THE ," AK WROTE ON SOCIAL MEDIA. "THE GEIAN DIENCE FALLY GOT TO SEE THE FILM! THIS FIGHT IS FAR OM OVER AND I AM SO SPIRED AND MOVED BY ALL THE BRAVE MOVIE GOERS WHO STOOD THEIR GROUND AND WOULD NOT BE TIMIDATED."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AK DID NOT SCREEN AND THEN WE DANCED EARLIER THIS MONTH AT THE TBILISI INTERNATNAL FILM FTIVAL. "WH THE SUATN AS IS NOW, I DON’T THK WOULD BE GOOD TO SHOW ANY FTIVALS GEIA— WOULD GO CRAZY AGA," HE EXPLAED. "AT LEAST WE WERE ABLE TO SCREEN FOR THREE DAYS [ NOVEMBER], BUT NO MORE THAN THAT, UNFORTUNATELY."VANO SHLAMOV/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGGEIAN POLICE OFFICERS STAND GUARD ONT OF THE AMIRANI CEMA AS FAR-RIGHT ACTIVISTS PROTT AGAST THE PREMIERE SCREENG OF AN OSR-NOMATED SWEDISH-GEIAN GAY FILM TBILISI ON NOVEMBER 8, 2019. (PHOTO BY VANO SHLAMOV / AFP) (PHOTO BY VANO SHLAMOV/AFP VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHILE LGBTQ PEOPLE ARE PROTECTED BY GEIA’S ANTI-DISCRIMATN LAWS, THEY STILL FACE HARASSMENT, DISCRIMATN, AND VLENCE. A NSTUTNAL AMENDMENT SIGNED 2017 F MARRIAGE AS A UNN BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ONE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}GEIA IS MAJORY-CHRISTIAN, AND THE GEIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH—AN ULTRA-NSERVATIVE, CENTURI-OLD CHRISTIAN NOMATN WH LNS OF MEMBERS WORLDWI—IS VEHEMENTLY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MIC BOX PICTUR WILL RELEASE AND THEN WE DANCED FEBARY 7, 2020, U.S. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WATCH THE NEW TRAILER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
- ‘AND THEN WE DANCED’: A POIGNANT GAY MOVIE ON GEIAN DANCG
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‘AND THEN WE DANCED’ REVIEW: ONE OF THE BT GAY FILMS IN THIS YEAR’S OSR RACE COM FROM SWEN
It’s one of the year’s bt gay films. The rt is fairly predictable, but Ak fills Merab’s world wh enough other trigue to transcend the clich of one unrequed gay romance. He follows his new iend to a gay bar that wouldn’t be out of place any other European cy, as the loud and flamboyant crew party all night, ignorg the slurs of passersby.
Roughly 20, 000 unter prottors had gathered the pal of Tblisi to target some 50 LGBT activists marchg for gay rights. Watchg the vlence unfold om his home Swen, gay filmmaker Levan Ak felt ashamed that his untry of orig, where he spent summers his youth, would display s homophobia so vlently. Six years later, “And Then We Danced, ” which is Swen’s official submissn for Bt Internatnal Feature, is reigng anti-gay sentiment Geia.
AND THEN WE DANCED REVIEW - GLOR GEIAN GAY G-OF-AGE TALE
There are no gay people Geian dance. Ak is enjoyg the succs of “And Then We Danced, ” though he was unrstandably upset about news of anti-gay protts at screengs Tblisi. It’s both hearteng and rehg to see a gay film wh polil impact, somethg the blockbters of today’s Hollywood lack a big way.
Merab, the film’s youthful dancer protagonist (played by Levan Gelbakhiani, pictured below, his first screen role) has been through a lot by then – the trials of first love, exacerbated by the realisatn that he’s gay – and those closg mut see him assertg his right to be who he is at an dn that ps him agast his highly nservative ’s a clash of valu every sense. It’s one which homophobic prejudice somehow hangs dolently the air, a relic of tradn over the ag that's enuraged by populist polics and pecially stutns such as the Orthodox Church.
”, one ballet master sists early on – a pot brought home by the fact that one of the troupe’s soloists has jt been st out after beg ught wh another man (even worse, he was flagrante wh an Armenian, a wry piece of natnal chvism that's revealg about Csian lol rivalri)’s a world which g out, or beg exposed as gay n mean that you really do lose everythg. Wh new films om gay trs Xavier Dolan, Ira Sachs, and Christophe Honoré, this year’s Cann promis a verable feast of rich for queer cephil. Premiere of And Then We Danced, a queer g-of-age romance set Geia amid the mascule world of tradnal Geian Then We Danced, wrten and directed by out filmmaker Levan Ak, is beg touted as the nservative Eastern European natn's first explicly gay-themed movie "follows Merab, a voted dancer who has been trag for years wh his partner Mary for a spot the Natnal Geian Ensemble, " acrdg to an official synopsis.
‘AND THEN WE DANCED’ TRAILER: FIRST LOOK AT GEIAN GAY DANCE ROMANCE AHEAD OF CANN DEBUT
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.” 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.
Ala Guirdie’s sexy and sry “Stranger by the Lake” has earned cricisms for nflatg homosexualy wh crimaly, but ’s hard not to be drawn to the world of a nu beach that serv as a regular cisg spot for lonely gay men. Nagisa Ōshima shocked the ternatnal arthoe scene wh the sexually brazen “In the Realm of the Sens” 1976, but revised the dangero world of sexual polics more than 20 years later 1999’s “Taboo.” Set durg the fal years of the Edo perd Japan, “Taboo” centers on an androgyno-lookg samurai (played by Ryuhei Matsuda) whom his manr spects to be gay. It ma the shortlist, but py didn’t go all the way bee this spirg movie provis need reprentatn for young gay people stgglg to e out.
TRAILER, POSTER RELEASED FOR GAY FILM THAT PROVOKED VLENT PROTTS TWO MALE GEIAN DANCERS FD LOVE "AND THEN WE DANCED."{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY BRANDON VOSSDECEMBER 22, 2019/4:25 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:1328PX;WIDTH:2360PX;}LISABI FRILL/MIC BOX FILMSBY BRANDON VOSSDECEMBER 22, 2019 / 4:25 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"TRAILER, POSTER RELEASED FOR GAY FILM THAT PROVOKED VLENT PROTTS","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2019-12-22T21:25:16.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2019-12-22T21:25:16.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"BRANDON VOSS","KEYWORDS":"TERNATNAL","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A NEW TRAILER AND POSTER HAVE BEEN RELEASED FOR THE UPG U.S. PREMIERE OF AND THEN WE DANCED, A QUEER G-OF-AGE ROMANCE SET GEIA AMID THE MASCULE WORLD OF TRADNAL GEIAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND THEN WE DANCED, WRTEN AND DIRECTED BY OUT FILMMAKER LEVAN AK, IS BEG TOUTED AS THE NSERVATIVE EASTERN EUROPEAN NATN'S FIRST EXPLICLY GAY-THEMED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE MOVIE "FOLLOWS MERAB, A VOTED DANCER WHO HAS BEEN TRAG FOR YEARS WH HIS PARTNER MARY FOR A SPOT THE NATNAL GEIAN ENSEMBLE," ACRDG TO AN OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS. "THE ARRIVAL OF ANOTHER MALE DANCER, IRAKLI—GIFTED WH PERFECT FORM AND EQUIPPED WH A REBELL STREAK—THROWS MERAB OFF BALANCE, SPARKG BOTH AN TENSE RIVALRY AND ROMANTIC SIRE THAT MAY E HIM TO RISK HIS FUTURE DANCE AS WELL AS HIS RELATNSHIPS WH MARY AND HIS FAY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND THEN WE DANCED HAD S WORLD PREMIERE MAY AT THE CANN FILM FTIVAL AND WILL SCREEN NEXT MONTH AT SUNDANCE. IT WAS SWEN'S OFFICIAL ENTRY FOR BT INTERNATNAL FEATURE AT THE AMY AWARDS BUT DID NOT MAKE THE SHORT LIST. (WHILE AK IS OF GEIAN HERAGE, HE GREW UP STOCKHOLM.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS NEWNOWNEXT PREVLY REPORTED, POLICE ARRTED MORE THAN 25 PEOPLE LAST MONTH AFTER VLENT PROTTS EPTED AT PREMIERE SCREENGS TBILISI, GEIA'S PAL CY, WHERE THE MOVIE WAS FILMED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HUNDREDS OF FAR-RIGHT NATNALISTS AND GEIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH MEMBERS, SOME HOLDG CROSS AND OTHER RELIG PARAPHERNALIA, MONSTRATED OUTSI THE THEATER AN ATTEMPT TO DISURAGE MOVIEGOERS. OTHER MONSTRATORS, WHO SHOUTED CHANTS LIKE “LONG LIVE GEIA” AND “SHAME,” SET FIRE TO A RABOW FLAG. TWO POLICE OFFICERS AND A WOMAN TRYG TO ATTEND A SCREENG WERE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I FEEL SO MUCH PRI THAT NONE OF THE THEATERS BACKED DOWN OR NCELLED ANY OF THE SCHLED AND SOLD OUT SCREENGS, BUT STOOD SOLIDARY WH THE ," AK WROTE ON SOCIAL MEDIA. "THE GEIAN DIENCE FALLY GOT TO SEE THE FILM! THIS FIGHT IS FAR OM OVER AND I AM SO SPIRED AND MOVED BY ALL THE BRAVE MOVIE GOERS WHO STOOD THEIR GROUND AND WOULD NOT BE TIMIDATED."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AK DID NOT SCREEN AND THEN WE DANCED EARLIER THIS MONTH AT THE TBILISI INTERNATNAL FILM FTIVAL. "WH THE SUATN AS IS NOW, I DON’T THK WOULD BE GOOD TO SHOW ANY FTIVALS GEIA— WOULD GO CRAZY AGA," HE EXPLAED. "AT LEAST WE WERE ABLE TO SCREEN FOR THREE DAYS [ NOVEMBER], BUT NO MORE THAN THAT, UNFORTUNATELY."VANO SHLAMOV/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGGEIAN POLICE OFFICERS STAND GUARD ONT OF THE AMIRANI CEMA AS FAR-RIGHT ACTIVISTS PROTT AGAST THE PREMIERE SCREENG OF AN OSR-NOMATED SWEDISH-GEIAN GAY FILM TBILISI ON NOVEMBER 8, 2019. (PHOTO BY VANO SHLAMOV / AFP) (PHOTO BY VANO SHLAMOV/AFP VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHILE LGBTQ PEOPLE ARE PROTECTED BY GEIA’S ANTI-DISCRIMATN LAWS, THEY STILL FACE HARASSMENT, DISCRIMATN, AND VLENCE. 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