Documentaries are becoming more and more important in the film industry, a reality that is reflected in the XVII LGTBIQ+ Film Festival of the Region of Murciawhich takes place in the Regional Film Librarywhich is celebrated from this Friday May 13 to Sunday 22. During those days, more than a dozen feature films about this group will be screened.
Among the documentaries that can be seen, highlights ‘dressed in blue‘ (1983), which tells the story of some real characters, Lorenzo, René, José Antonio, Paco, Juan and José, and how and why they became Lorena, Renée, Nacha, Eva Tamara and Jossete.
‘Ocaña, intermittent portrait‘ (1978) is a biographical documentary that offers an intimate vision of the Andalusian painter José Pérez Ocaña, a character who marked the life of La Rambla and Plaza Real in Barcelona at the end of the seventies.
More current are the documentary ‘Flee‘ (2021), an animated film, which tells the story of an Afghan refugee living in Denmark, and ‘Transformers‘ (2020), which portrays the history of Cuban drag queens and their struggle in search of art and equal rights.
Outside this genre, several award-winning films recognized by critics will also be screened, such as the Austrian ‘great freedom‘ (2021) true story of Hans in three moments (1945, 1957 and 1969) of his relationship with Viktor, a convicted murderer: a prison love, caused by Hans’s entrances and exits from prison due to the repression to which homosexual people were subdued in post-war democratic Germany.
‘Nora’s awakening‘ (Germany, 2020), a teenager who realizes her attraction to Romy, with whom she will experience a summer of intense changes. Of Belgian production is ‘Lola‘ (2019), a transsexual-themed drama that revolves around overcoming and understanding.
In the British ‘Supernova‘ (2020), Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci play two men who have been together for twenty years and embark on a trip across the country to visit friends and family after one of them is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
Spanish films like ‘Cut!‘, ‘The ghost of the sauna‘the classic ‘Deputy‘, with José Sacristán (1978), complete the program.
From the collective Do not deprive yourself They congratulate themselves because they have already been united to the Francisco Rabal Regional Film Library for 17 years, which they thank for “its effort to make the LGTBI+ reality visible through cinema, placing the cinema of this theme at the level of other cycles and festivals. We are proud that So many films have been screened to the delight of thousands of people over the years”.
This sample is also complemented by a trans and non-binary themed art exhibition performed by Ariel Montalbanwhich already triumphed at the Barcelona Manga Fair last year, and which will remain at the Filmoteca throughout the entire screening cycle.
“For 10 days, the largest screen in the Region offers us the perfect excuse to go to the movies and get closer to the LGTBI+ reality through plots and documents that make us dream again and reflect on the need to work on diversity,” they point out from Do not deprive yourself. In addition, this year the final party to close the cyclewhich will take place on Saturday, May 21 at 10:30 p.m.
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