Queer Cinema from the Eastern Bloc
Cinema Rediscovered, Bristol, 24-28 July 2024
Co-curated with Fedor Tot, this strand featured four films from East Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union marking the first retrospective of cinema from this region to focus on queer perspectives. In doing so, it revealed undertold queer histories from this historical moment and brought works which navigate the relationship between the state, collective and individual identity differently.
Many of these films had not been screened since their initial release and have not been restored or recently digitised, providing a rare opportunity to see the persepectives of voices who have been doubly marginalised, as a result of their geography and their identity.
The programme is currently touring across the UK & Ireland and cinemas are able to book the films through to February 2025.
More information can be found here.
Cinema Rediscovered, Bristol, 24-28 July 2024
Co-curated with Fedor Tot, this strand featured four films from East Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union marking the first retrospective of cinema from this region to focus on queer perspectives. In doing so, it revealed undertold queer histories from this historical moment and brought works which navigate the relationship between the state, collective and individual identity differently.
Many of these films had not been screened since their initial release and have not been restored or recently digitised, providing a rare opportunity to see the persepectives of voices who have been doubly marginalised, as a result of their geography and their identity.
The programme is currently touring across the UK & Ireland and cinemas are able to book the films through to February 2025.
More information can be found here.
