NEWS.- Today the 62 edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival and it does so with the presence of 10 LGTBI-themed movies, 7 of which they choose as candidates for the Sebastiane Prize. This contest, which has already been held for 15 years in the framework of the San Sebastian Festival, rewards production that best reflects the freedoms, reality and social advances of LGTBI people. In the candidatures we find consecrated names of the cinematographic direction along with new incorporations. The candidates are:
• "Beach of the future" of Karim Aïnouz, Brazilian director of Algerian origin. The film, which has already won the 2º Sebastiane Latino Award for the best LGTBI-themed Latin movie of the year, tells the story of love between a Brazilian lifeguard and a German motorist.
• "Felice chi è miscellaneous" is a documentary by Italian director Gianni Amelio, which shows the evolution of Italian society in relation to homosexuality throughout the 20th century.
• "Limbo", is the first feature by director Anna Sofie Hartmann and the only lesbian-themed film that participates in the contest. The plot revolves around the close relationship between a high school teacher and one of her students in a small Danish town.
• "The fools and the stupid" comes from the hand of Roberto Castón, one of the founders of the gay film festival Zinegoak in Bilbao and that surprised us in the 2009 with the film "Ander". In this proposal, Roberto makes an exercise of metafiction entering the world of a film set. In history there is no lack of gai trios or consumption of viagra and popper.
• In "Una nouvelle amie" the French director François Ozon speaks to us, with a mixture of curiosity and intrigue, of the double life of a widower who dresses as a woman in privacy. The transvestite will be discovered with surprise by the best friend of his late wife.
• "Pasolini" is one of the strong bets of the Festival. Directed by Abel Ferrara and with the brilliant performance of Willem Dafoe in the role of the ill-fated Italian director, "Pasolini" dreamily reconstructs the last day in the director's life.
• "Love is strange" closes the list of candidates. Under the direction of Ira Sachs, he tells us about the situation faced by two elderly gays when they decide to get married after 39 years of life together. Starring John Litgow and Alfred Molina, the film raised controversy to be included in the list of films not suitable for minors.
The trailers of the films mentioned can be seen at the end of this article.
Within the framework of the Festival, it is worth highlighting the Eastern Promises Cycle that, on the 25 anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, offers us a portrait of the situation in the countries of Eastern Europe since the year 2000. Among the films that make up the cycle, 3 are LGTBI, the Croatian "Fine dead girls", "The class" from Estonia and the Belgian "Beyond the hills".
And finally, we can not fail to applaud the decision to offer a retrospective of the work of Dorothy Arzner, director of the golden age of Hollywood and avowedly lesbian, a pioneer who had been relegated to oblivion.
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