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TEDDY Diversity Talks 2017

About a month ago another Berlinale finished after 10 days of premieres, discussions and networking. Besides moving our Queer Academy/Programmers Meeting to the Martin-Gropius-Bau, we also initiated the TEDDY Diversity Talks. After last year’s Academy Summit, we decided to continue those talks but in a different, more intimate format where filmmakers could go into depth discussing certain topics circling Queer Cinema.

We are very happy to share all four talks with you today. Please make sure to view the talks, especially if you did not get a chance to attend in person a few weeks ago. It would be great if you could share the links also within your community,our goal is to reach as many interested people as possible, to keep the discussions flowing. We will be back with more Diversity Talks and are looking forward to welcome you back in Berlin.

Michael Stuetz
Berlinale Panorama

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Day 8: Anticipation and Diversity Talks

Hello, dear film lovers! I hope you had a great time on the Berlinale so far; met interesting people, watched inspiring movies and drank a lot of coffee. The preparations for tomorrows Award Ceremony are in full swing and we are full of anticipation.

Today we will have our great Diversity Talks again, which you shouldn´t miss! Today at 11am we will have a talk with filmmakers Neil Triffet and Lia Hietala about the subject “Queer for the Kids”, whose movies “EMO The Musical” and “Mon Homosytser” are on this years queer list. At 2pm we´re going to have a discussion about “Queer Historiography” with filmmakers Andrea Weiss (“Bones of Contention”) and Jochen Hick (“Mein wunderbares West-Berlin”).

Where? At BRLO Brwhouse at U-Bhf-Gleisdreieck, Schöneberger Straße 16. Guys, it´s going to be very interesting, come around! Below you´ll find the queer programme for today. Continue reading Day 8: Anticipation and Diversity Talks →

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TEDDY Diversity Talks presented by L´Oréal Paris @ BRLO Brwhouse

TEDDY Diversity Talks presented by L´Oréal Paris
@ BRLO Brwhouse
Date February 15th & 16th, 2017
Location: U-Bhf-Gleisdreieck
Schöneberger Straße 16, 10623 Berlin

Free Admission

Moderation: Toby Ashraf

February 15th 2017

1.00 pm
IN THE FLESH.
The other body in queer cinema

Participants: Shu Lea Cheang (FLUIDØ)
Eduardo Casanova (Pieles)
Moderation: Toby Ashraf

3.00 pm
SILENCE/VIOLENCE.
Independent queer narratives and The United States of Oppression

Participants: Yance Ford (Strong Island)
Travis Mathews (Discreet)
Moderation: Toby Ashraf

 

February 16th 2017

11.00 am
QUEER FOR THE KIDS
The potential of non-normative children and youth in cinema

Participants: Neil Triffett (Emo the Musical)
Lia Hiatala (Min Homosyster)
Moderation: Toby Ashraf
2.00 pm
QUEER HISTORIOGRAPHY
Our history books are exclusively heterosexual

Participants: Andrea Weiss (Bones of Contention)
Jochen Hick (Mein wunderbares West-Berlin)
Moderation: Tbc

TEDDY Diversity-Talks @L´Oreal Lounge
TEDDY Diversity-Talks @L´Oreal Lounge

 

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Remembrance of the homosexual victims of Franco´s fascist regime

In the movie “Bones of Contention”, which is competing for a TEDDY AWARD this year, the filmmaker Andrea Weiss takes us searching for tracks of the homosexual victims of Franco´s regime. Andrea Weiss will be in Berlin during the Berlinale and wants to invite you to join a remembrance for the victims:

“La Asociación Ex-Presos Sociales de España (Association of ex-Social Prisoners of Spain) is an organization of those who were incarcerated and persecuted under Franco’s fascist dictatorship on account of their sexual identity.

On Thursday, February 16 at 11 am, two representatives of the Association, Antoni Ruiz and Silvia Reyes, will lay a floral wreath at the Homosexuellen-Denkmal to pay tribute to the homosexuals who lost their lives in Nazi concentration camps.  Our intention is to give recognition to these victims whose ultimate sacrifice is a fundamental pillar supporting the current struggle for LGBTI and human rights.

It would be an honor to have your support and attendance at the floral offering on Thursday, February 16 at 11 am, at the Memorial to Homosexuals persecuted under Nazism in Berlin.”