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TEDDY TODAY: 17th of February 2024

The third day of the Berlinale is here and has several interesting TEDDY films in store.

The Visitor

A refugee washes up in a small suitcase on the banks of the River Thames in London. Arriving at the house of an upper-class family, he seduces each and every family member, depicted in explicit sex scenes. A reimagining of Pasolini’s Teorema.

Premiere: 17.02/ 22:00 Kino International

🎥18.02/ 15:30 Cubix 9
🎥21.02/ 22:00 Kino International
🎥22.02/ 21:30 Cubix 5

You can find more information about the director and the film right HERE!

All Shall Be Well

When her partner Pat unexpectedly dies, Angie is left to worry about the flat in which the couple lived together for over 30 years. Supported by her chosen family, Angie begins a later-life journey into emancipation.

🎥 17.02 / 21:30 Cubix 8
🎥 18.02 / 12:30 Cubix 9
🎥 21.02 / 10:00 Cubix 5
🎥 23.02 / 12:00 Haus der Berliner Festspiele
🎥 25.02 / 15:30 Cineplex Titania

Looking for more information about the film? Click here

Cura Sana

Spain during the Noche de San Juan festival. Sisters Jessica and Alma are once again on their way to pick up food stamps from the Caritas charity. Although they have experienced violence at home, they both try to break the cycle and treat each other with love.

🎥19.02./ 13:30 Kino International
🎥20.02/ 18:45 Cubix 8
🎥23.02/ 12:30 Filmtheater am Friedrichshain
🎥25.02/ 18:30 Cineplex Titania

Click here to get more information about the film!

PREMIERES:

Sex

Directed by: Dag Johan Haugerud
Norway, 2024, 125′

Filmstill Sex © Motlys

Two chimney sweeps living in monogamous, heterosexual marriages both end up in situations that challenge their views on sexuality and gender roles

SCREENINGS:

17.02/ 16:30 Zoo Palast 1

The Visitor

Directed by: Bruce LaBruce
UK, 2024, 101′

Filmstill The Visitor © LaBruce / A/POLITICAL

A refugee washes up in a small suitcase on the banks of the River Thames in London. Arriving at the house of an upper-class family, he seduces each and every family member, depicted in explicit sex scenes. A reimagining of Pasolini’s Teorema.

SCREENINGS:

17.02/ 22:00 Kino International

Young Hearts

Directed by: Anthony Schatteman
Belgium, Netherlands, 2024, 97′

Filmstill Young Hearts © Thomas Nolf

Fourteen-year-old Elias increasingly feels like an outsider in his village. When he meets Alexander, his new neighbour of the same age, Elias is confronted with his burgeoning sexuality.

SCREENINGS:

17.02/ 16:00 HKW1 – Miriam Makeba Auditorium

RERUNS:

All Shall Be Well
17.02/ 21:30 Cubix 8

Crossing
17.02/ 12:30 Cubix

Cuckoo
17.02 / 09:30 Haus der Berliner Festspiele
17.02 / 15:15 Verti Music Hall
17.02 / 21:30 Cubix 9

detours while speaking of monsters
17.02/ 21:00 Kino Betonhalle @silent green

Grandmamaauntsistercat
17.02/ 21:00 Kino Betonhalle @silent green

I Don´t Want To Be Just A Memory
17.02/ 21:00 Kino Betonhalle @silent green

Winners (Sieger sein)
17.02/ 10:00 Zoo Palast 2

TEDDY Winner 2014

Yesterday night this year’s TEDDY AWARDS were given away in the Komische Oper Berlin. Here you will find all the winners, trailers and jury statements!


Best Feature_Preistraeger Teddy_2014The TEDDY AWARD for the best feature film goes to:

HOJE EU QUERO VOLTAR SOZINHO, (The Way He Looks)
by Daniel Ribeiro, Brazil

A046_C002_0101D2Giovana is Leo’s best friend. They spend their afternoons at the pool, awarding points for the level of their boredom and just hanging out. Leo is rather self-contained; even his schoolmates’ barbs can’t dent his sense of his own independence. This blind fifteen-year old hoje_eu_quero_voltar_sozinho_2wants to take control of his own life. The arrival of a new pupil, Leo, at school prompts Leo to reassess his daily routine. As naturally as Leo becomes aware of his feelings for Gabriel, the more he allows himself to feel unsettled by his friend’s tentative advances. The winner of the hoje_eu_quero_voltar_sozinho_32008 Crystal Bear has the protagonists of his first feature-length drama orbit each other in an emotional universe of fierce attractions.

Jury Statement: A joyous debut feature from a director who combines great writing, characterization, performance, camera, and music to deliver a film that soars above the well-explored coming of age genre, giving new meaning to the old adage ‘love is blind’.


Best_Doc_Preisträger 2014
The TEDDY AWARD for the best documentary/essay film goes to:

DER KREIS (The Circle)
by Stefan Haupt, Switzerland

Founded in the early 1940s, the networkDer_Kreis_2 around the magazine DER KREIS (’The Circle’) was the only gay organisation to survive the Nazi regime. Legendary masked balls in Zurich provided 800 visitors from all over Europe. It is there that timid teacher Ernst Ostertag falls in love with drag star Röbi Rapp. Ernst searchDer_Kreis_1-e1391437968704es for a way to fight for his gayness to be accepted as normal outside the boundaries of ‘The Circle’ network without losing his employment as a teacher.
Stefan Haupt’s new film uncovers the fascinating universe of one of the first gay liberation communities. Enriched by impressive conversational records with Ernst Ostertag and Röbi Rapp, the film depicts a decades-long love story.

Jury Statement: A film that reflects on personal Queer histories in mid-twentieth century Switzerland, brings to light the necessity and urgency to resist and engage with homophobia as it proliferates around the planet.


Shortfilm_Preistraeger Teddy_2014
The TEDDY Award for the best short film goes to:

MONDIAL 2010
by Roy Dib, Lebanon

A Lebanese gay couple decides to take a road trip to Ramallah. The film is recorded with their camera as they chronicle their journey. The protagonists and the viewers are invited through the couple’s conversations into the universe of a fading city.

Jury Statement: A film that takes us on a journey, both literal and personal through a hazardous landscape where invisibility is a necessary aspect of Queer survival.Mondial_2010


The Special Jury Award goes to:

PIERROT LUNAIRE
by Bruce LaBruce, Germany, Canada

A young woman that regularly dresses as Pierrot_Lunaire_2a man falls in love and seduces a young girl that has no clue that her lover is of the same sex. When the girl introduces ‘her boyfriend’ to her father he becomes skeptical and unmasks the fraud.

 

Jury Statement: The Teddy Jury would like to recognize Bruce LaBruce’s important new piece Pierrot Lunaire as a significant addition to his oeuvre, that continues to explore the notion of ‘Queer’ in every sense. Melding theatricality with edgy cinematic language, a remarkable performance by Susanne Sachsse, with sophisticated use of music, Bruce recombines these elements to renew the classic avant-garde.


David Kato_Preistraeger Teddy_2014David Kato Vision and Voice Award for Sou Sotheavy

Cambodian transgender activist Sou Sotheavy has spent the last two decades working to establish a national network of organizations to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people across the country.

 
Special TEDDY AWARD for Elfi Mikesch
Special Teddy_Preistraeger Teddy_2014Elfi Mikesch is an author, photographer and filmmaker and, as one of the first camerawomen of her generation, a role model for a whole series of artists who followed. The oeuvre of this pioneer cannot be surpassed using conventional means. Elfi Mikesch is always looking for a challenge, exploring and transgressing boundaries. Her artistic method involves a dreamlike slowing of the gaze, fusing art and life in a fascinating symbiosis.

Special TEDDY AWARD for Rosa von Praunheim

Rosa Von Praunheim is particularly well known for his pioneering 1970/71 film Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt [It is not the homosexual who is perverse, but the society in which he lives] that played a crucial role in launching the gay and lesbian political movement, especially in West Germany. In making this group production, he demonstrated at an early stage of his career film’s considerable potential for bringing about social change. He wins audiences over with the wide range of direct emotions and social commitment portrayed in his films. The realism that characterises his works is radically open, honest and eccentric, provocative in a positive sense and excites and sharpens the senses.