\nBalcony<\/p>\n
Great Britain 2015
\n17\u00b4
\nDirector: Toby Fell-Holden
\nCast: Charlotte Beaumont, Genevieve Dunne, Umit Ulgen<\/p>\n
Tina doesn\u2019t know much about the schoolgirl in the Hijab. She might come from Egypt or Iraq \u2013 but what does it matter? She would like to be there for her neighbour, protect her from her tough life at home and in the hood but how comes Tina thinks she knows so much about this foreign girl? Dana starts wondering why the blond girl has been paying her so much attention of late. Prejudice and tentative advances collide head-on in the block.<\/p>\n
17:30 CinemaxX 1<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Br\u00fcder der Nacht<\/span><\/span> Austria 2016 Vienna as a non-stop nocturnal land and doss house, the flip side of its daytime persona, devoid of schmaltzy waltzes and\u2018Mozartkugel\u2019 chocolates. The protagonists of this documentary are young Bulgarian Romani who have wound up in Vienna due to poverty and the need to earn money for their families, and who are now offering their services at a hustler bar called \u2018R\u00fcdiger\u2019 in the working class Margareten district. They wait, smoke, drink, play pool, dance, show off, fool around like young bulls, talk about their meagre excesses, their families and prostitutes, exchange experiences and information about the \u2018bizness\u2019. In the midst of a clash of cultures and traditions, they lead lives caught between worlds, between reality and illusion; transitory, deceptive, and fleeting. Gus Van Sant meets James Bidgood meets Pasolini: Brothers of the Night is a hybrid, imbued with a rich baroque semi-darkness, deliberately and disturbingly oscillating between documentary and dramatised scenes. This is no moralising know-all ballad about hustlers, but rather a tender and empathetic hymn to the grim poetry of survival and the solidarity amongst the ostracised and the outsiders.<\/p>\n 20:00, CineStar 7<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n En la azotea<\/span> Spain 2015 The heat\u2019s bearing down on the high-rise rooftops of the suburbs. Every day at the same time, five boys climb to the top of one of them to stare at the house next door. Like clockwork, a woman appears, removes her clothes and proceeds to sunbathe in the nude. But this day something\u2019s different. On the roof next door, a naked man seeks relief from the heat under a hose and one of the boys can\u2019t keep his eyes off of him. His buddies don\u2019t fail to notice.<\/p>\n 15:00, CinemaxX 1<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Inside the Chinese Closet<\/span> Netherlands 2015 Andy\u2019s father knows that his son is gay but, determined to conform to social conventions, he urges him to find a lesbian who is willing to marry him. Cherry has already entered into a bogus marriage, but now her parents expect their only daughter to provide them with a grandchild so that they can finally put an end to their neighbours\u2019 gossiping. In China, gay men and lesbians are under enormous pressure to spare their parents the perceived shame of having an unmarried child without offspring. Homosexuality may no longer be illegal, but understanding for a life lived outside traditional heterosexual norms is rare. Director Sophie Luvar\u00e0 sensitively accompanies Andy and Cherry in their often absurd attempts to do the right thing: bogus gay-lesbian marriage markets, agencies for surrogate mothers, price lists for the adoption of newborns and their constantly carping parents who will simply not let up. Both Cherry and Andy succeed in carving out a little piece of freedom. But they also know that their personal coming out will, in turn, force their parents into a closet, since they do not want to acknowledge their children\u2019s homosexuality in public.<\/p>\n 17:00, CineStar 7<\/span> Liebmann<\/span> Germany 2016 Teacher Antek Liebmann leaves his life in Germany behind and rents a place in summery northern France. He learns from his landlord that a murderer is striking terror in the surrounding woods. Following a dark premonition, Antek is drawn into the undergrowth on one of his walks where he makes a dangerous discovery. He befriends his attractive neighbour Genevi\u00e8ve and the cheery S\u00e9bastien. No one realises that Antek has left behind a terrible secret in his own country. Only the discovery of a mysterious property to which Genevi\u00e8ve takes him and the possibility of a new romantic relationship present Antek with a way out of the darkness. But before he can begin a new life he must confront the ghosts of his past, conjure them up and exorcise them. The storytelling is like the feathers of a peacock, oscillating between unobtrusive glimmering and striking iridescence. And so gentle summer days slide into night-time terrors or vanish in short flights of fancy into parallel worlds.<\/p>\n Little Men<\/span> USA 2016 \u00abWhy they\u2019re still mad on us?\u00bb \u00b7 \u00abOur parents are involved in a business matter and it\u2019s getting ugly. So they\u2019re taking it out on us.\u00bb Summer in Brooklyn. Jake\u2019s parents have just moved into the house that used to belong to his grandfather. Tony\u2019s mother has been renting the shop on the ground floor forever. The two 13-year-olds quickly discover their shared interest in art, computer games and girls. Together, they dream of transferring to the renowned La Guardia High School in the autumn. Soon they become allies, not only against the other boys on the block, but also when it comes to the rent dispute between their parents. Attempting to stem the inexorable effect the adult world is having on their genuine friendship, they stage a headstrong protest. Once again renowned Indie director Ira Sachs intuitively explores the family and moral conflicts with emotional depth.<\/p>\n Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures<\/span> USA\/ Germany 2016 He was a catalyst and an illuminator, but also a magnet for scandal. From an early age Robert Mapplethorpe had but one goal which he single-mindedly pursued: to \u2018make it\u2019 not just as an artist but also as an art celebrity. He could not have picked a better time: it is the Manhattan of Warhol\u2019s Factory, of Studio 54 and, following the Stonewall riots, an era of unbridled hedonistic sexuality. His first solo exhibition in 1976 already unveils his topics: erotic depictions, flowers and portraits. He is gaining notoriety through his series of explicitly sexual photographs from the gay sadomasochistic scene as well as nude pictures of black men. Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, who took part in the Panorama in 2003 and 2005, were given unrestricted access to Mapplethorpe\u2019s archives for their documentary Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures in which this exceptional artist talks candidly about himself in recently discovered interviews. At the same time, the testimonials of friends, lovers, family members, celebrities and models help paint quite a critical picture of this complex key figure of twentieth century photography.<\/p>\n Moms On Fire<\/span> Sweden 2016 An ordinary neighbourhood in an ordinary town. Two women sit on a sofa and scratch their pregnant bellies. Four days till the due date. The situation is as unbearable as it is unavoidable. It\u2019s simply intolerable. Masturbation isn\u2019t an option, the clitoris can\u2019t even be reached, and the boyfriend is absent, but he\u2019s boring anyway. The only advantage in having another child is that one no longer has to play with the first one. Artist and filmmaker Joanna Rytel uses claymation to candidly address questions and situations that usually go unnoticed.<\/p>\n 16:00, CinemaxX 5<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Nunca vas a estar solo<\/span> Chile 2016 Introverted Juan, manager of a mannequin factory, lives alone with his eighteen-year-old gay son, Pablo. Whilst Pablo blithely studies dance, Juan is hoping that, after twenty-five years at the firm, his boss will consider him for a partnership. When Pablo is badly wounded in a brutal homophobic attack which sees him hospitalised, his father realises just how far they have become estranged. A lack of witnesses and expensive medical bills force Juan to leave the quiet stability of his life for good and reposition himself in a world where there is discrimination. Time and again his efforts come to nought, until one night on the streets of Santiago he makes up his own rules in order to save his son. In March 2012 the murder of an openly gay Chilean man, Daniel Zamudio, by neo-Nazis, shocked the whole of Latin America. This incident inspired Alex Anwandter to make his impressively multi-layered debut. Demonstrating great sensitivity, he traces in the figure of the reclusive father the enormous pressure that exists to adhere to the fixed norms of masculinity \u2013 only to dissolve these norms in Pablo\u2019s dream of living a life that is vibrantly queer.<\/p>\n Reluctactly Queer<\/span> Ghana\/ USA 2016 This epistolary film invites us into the unsettling life of a young Ghanaian man struggling to reconcile his love for his mother with his love for the same-sex desire amid the increased tensions incited by same-sex politics in Ghana. Focused on a letter that is ultimately filled with hesitation and uncertainity, Reluctantly Queer both disrobes and questions what it means to be queer for this time in this space.<\/p>\n 22:00, CinemaxX 3<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Strike a Pose<\/span> Netherlands\/ Belgium 2016 For her \u2018Blond Ambition\u2019 tour in 1990, pop superstar Madonna was looking for performers who knew how to vogue. Out of countless hopefuls, the gay dancers Salim, Kevin, Carlton, Jos\u00e9, Luis and Gabriel were chosen along with breakdancer Oliver, the only straight guy. The tour was accompanied by a film crew and Madonna cast herself in the role of mother figure of her stage family. The boys soon found fans among homosexual youths who saw them as role models, while the tour came to epitomise Madonna\u2019s commitment to gay liberation and the acknowledgement of AIDS. But the idyll fell apart when Gabriel, Kevin and Oliver sued against their involuntary outing as gay men brought about by the film In Bed with Madonna. In 1995 Gabriel died of AIDS-related illness, while the others continued to pursue their professional careers. Now, twenty-five years after their time together, the six surviving performers are reunited and long-buried secrets are aired. The filmmakers excel at telling the stories of these very different dancers whilst carefully calling into question the official version of events in order to edge closer to the truth.<\/p>\n 17:00, International<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Th\u00e9o et Hugo dans le m\u00eame bateau<\/span> France 2016 Th\u00e9o and Hugo encounter each other\u2019s bodies in a sex club. They talk, things blur into the haziness of unbridled desire, then take shape for a moment as their gaze meets before they resume their exploration and lose themselves anew. A few moments later the two men feel the need to go outside. Together they drift down the deserted streets of nocturnal Paris. Suddenly they find themselves confronted by a sense of reality that wipes out their freedom and aimlessness and lends each step an existential helplessness. Do they want to know more about each other? Will their trust be rewarded? What are their expectations? Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau display consummate sensitivity in bringing us closer to two men as they strive for intimacy in spite of being stalled by their insecurity. Their two leading actors delight us with their remarkably intuitive performances and their incredible charm.<\/p>\n![\"Balcony\"](\"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/01\/Balcony.jpg\")
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\nBrothers of the Night<\/p>\n
\n88\u00b4
\nDirector: Patric Chiha<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nOn the Roof<\/p>\n
\n12\u00b4
\nDirector: Dami\u00e0 Serra Cauchetiez
\nCast: Nil Cardoner, Roger Pr\u00edncep, Biel Estivill, Pol Hinojosa<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nInside the Chinese Closet<\/p>\n
\nDirector: Sophia Luvar\u00e0<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nLiebmann<\/p>\n
\n82\u00b4
\nDirector: Jules Herrmann
\nCast: Godehard Giese, Adeline Moreau, Fabien Ara, Bettina Grahs<\/p>\n<\/a>19:30, CinemaxX 3<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nLittle Men<\/p>\n
\n85\u00b4
\nDirector: Ira Sachs
\nCast: Greg Kinnear, Paulina Garcia, Jennifer Ehle, Theo Taplitz, Michael Barbieri<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n 20:00, International<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nMapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures<\/p>\n
\n108\u00b4
\nDirector: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
\nCast: Robert Mapplethorpe, Edward Mapplethorpe, Debbie Harry, Patti Smith, Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, Brooke Shields, Fran Lebowitz, Brice Marden<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n\u00a0 14:30, Colosseum 1<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nMoms On Fire<\/span><\/p>\n
\n12\u00b4
\nDirector: Joanna Rytel<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nYou’ll Never Be Alone<\/p>\n
\n82\u00b4
\nDirector: Alex Anwandter
\nCast: With Sergio Hernandez, Andrew Bargsted, Jaime Leiva, Benjamin Westfall, Antonia Zegers<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n\u00a0 20:00, CinemaxX 7<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nReluctactly Queer<\/p>\n
\nDirector: 8\u00b4
\nDirector: Akosua Adoma Owusu
\nCast: Kwame Edwin Otu<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nStrike a Pose<\/p>\n
\n83\u00b4
\nDirector: Ester Gould, Reijer Zwaan<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nTh\u00e9o et Hugo dans le m\u00eame bateau<\/span><\/p>\n
\n97\u00b4
\nDirector: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau
\nCast: Geoffrey Cou\u00ebt, Fran\u00e7ois Nambot<\/p>\n