QUEER - THE RAINBOW OF DESIRES

CINEMA 'KSUNS' 29.11 / 22.00

Renata Litvinova, Kevin Spacey, Boy George, Jodie Foster, Pedro Almodovar, Edgar Rinkevich - this list could be supplemented by hundreds and thousands of reputable homosexual, bisexual and transgender people who, in today's world, have not only minority but also are discriminated against the outsiders - in most countries they have fewer rights than heterosexuals. The private and public life of LGBT community members is uneasy and sometimes disturbs the minds of many heterosexual people, for example, in Latvia rarely what happens in such emotionally saturated and vivid contrasting shades as the Europride. Do representatives of sexual minorities mirror all other hidden fears, insecurities and sometimes even tendencies? Short film programme QUEER. The Wish Rainbow consists of six stories about various gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and, yes, normal, hunger to express, to love, to create a family, to enjoy and to exist healthy. I think that in a programme devoted to sexual diversity, everyone will recognize a close and human-minded desire for themselves.

MOMS ON FIRE, Joanna Rytel, animation, Sweden, 2016, 12"

What's it like to be pregnant with only four days until you're due to pop? You'd like to jerk off, but can't, your boyfriend is useless shit, you'd like to have fun, but you're pregnant. Again. Yuk!!!

BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, Diëgo Nurse, animated documentary, Belgium, 2016, 9"

A poetic portrait of Beyong - a 30-year-old transgender, who was forced to suppress her true self growing up, gives in to her subconsciousness and starts her transformation to the woman she is today.

I KILLED MY MOTHER, Xavier Dolan, experimental / fiction, France, 2009, 96'

Hubert Minel, a brash 17 year old, dislikes his mother intensely. All of his adolescence he is consumed by all encompassing contempt for this manipulative woman he somehow once loved.

Films will be screened in the original language with Latvian subtitles.

Curator: Astra Zoldnere