{"id":1832,"date":"2017-02-17T13:18:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T11:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2017-02-17T13:18:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T11:18:51","slug":"day-9-ceremony-party-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.teddyaward.tv\/en\/2017\/02\/17\/day-9-ceremony-party-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 9: Ceremony & Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear friends, today it\u2019s the day of the spectacular TEDDY Ceremony and Party which will take place at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. The best queer films of the Berlinale will be awarded with a TEDDY AWARD in the categories: \u201cSpecial TEDDY\u201d, \u201cBest Short\u201d, \u201cBest Feature Film\u201d and \u201cBest Documentary\u201d. We will also have <\/span>great artists who will perform during and after the Ceremony. You can find them here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Please come in droves and dance with us til our toes are bleeding. See you later! Below you\u00b4ll find the programme for today.<\/p>\n

An Englishman in New York<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\nAn Englishman in New York<\/p>\n

Great Britain\/ USA 2008
\n74′
\nDirector: Richard Laxton<\/p>\n

In 1975, at the age of 66, openly gay writer Quentin Crisp<\/a> has given up on finding fame and so it comes rather as a surprise when the British TV film THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT<\/a>, which is about his life so far, makes him a celebrity overnight. However, while Quentin had successfully pushed a nation out of the closet, the nation \u201chad a name to put to their demon.\u201d Refusing to return to anonymity and following an invitation to New York, Quentin finds himself in the country where he is welcomed with open arms. What was seen as freakish in London is normal in the Big Apple and having secured his Resident Alien status for his \u201cunique qualities\u201d, Quentin becomes the toast of New York society. In his off-Broadway show he also advises people on, \u201chow to be happy\u201d. But it’s the gay community this time who now condemn him. In one of his shows Quentin unwisely describes AIDS as \u201ca fad.\u201d The consequences are devastating. His hit show is pulled\u2026 But it is his friendship with the young and gay artist Patrick Angus<\/a> that proves to be a profound revelation. Patrick is in search of his \u201cGreat Dark Man\u201d, a journey that is leading him to disillusion and destruction. Patrick confesses that he agrees with Quentin \u2013 homosexual love is impossible. Lately Patrick has contracted HIV\u2026<\/p>\n

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17.02. \/ 18.00 CinemaxX 6<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bones of Contention<\/strong><\/span>
\nBones of Contention<\/p>\n

USA 2017
\n75′
\nDirector: Andrea Weiss<\/p>\n

There are 120,000 victims of Franco\u2019s regime buried in the unmarked mass graves that stretch for kilometres alongside Spain\u2019s country roads. One of these victims is the world renowned Spanish author Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca, who was shot and killed by the fascists during the early days of the Spanish Civil War. The mystery that surrounds the exact location of his remains has made him a symbol for those seeking to remember and disclose the hidden stories of gays and lesbians under Franco, people who continued to be subjected to violent repression long after the end of the dictatorship. Spain is today one of the most progressive countries when it comes to homosexuality, and yet the nation still refuses to account comprehensively for its dark past before a court of law. Andrea Weiss\u2019 sensitive film gives a voice to the victims from the LGBTIQ* community. Her documentary tells their stories and their struggle for clarification, justice and human rights as well as their continued efforts to provide those who were murdered and \u2018disappeared\u2019 with a dignified burial. Impressive archive material documents this repressed history which finds a painful echo in Lorca\u2019s poetry and music<\/p>\n

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17.02. \/ 17:30 Cubix 7<\/span><\/p>\n

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Call me by your Name<\/u><\/b><\/span>
\nCall me by your Name<\/p>\n

Italy\/France 2017
\n130′,
\nDirector: Luca Guadagnino<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the hot, sun-drenched summer of 1983 and Elio is at his parents\u2019 country seat in northern Italy. The seventeen-year-old idles away the time listening to music, reading books and swimming until one day his father\u2019s new American assistant arrives at their large villa. Oliver is charming and, like Elio, has Jewish roots; he is also young, self-confident and good looking. At first Elio is somewhat cold and distant towards the young man but before long the two begin going out together on excursions. Elio begins to make tentative overtures towards Oliver that become increasingly intimate \u2013 even if, as Oliver says, \u2018one can\u2019t talk about such things\u2019. As the short summer progresses, the pair\u2019s mutual attraction grows more intense. Director Luca Guadagnino co-wrote the screenplay \u2013 which is based on the novel of the same name by Andr\u00e9 Aciman \u2013 with US director James Ivory and Walter Fasano. Guadagnino transposes the memories of the book\u2019s first-person narrator Elio into quietly atmospheric images. Besides the two main characters of this unexpected coming-out story (played by Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet and Armie Hammer) the film also boasts a third leading role in the shape of the seductive landscape.<\/p>\n

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17.02. \/ 17:00 Cubix 9 <\/span><\/p>\n

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Casa Roshell<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nCasa Roshell<\/p>\n

Mexico\/Chile 2017
\n71′
\nDirector: Camila Jos\u00e9 Donoso<\/p>\n

You\u2019d never know this is your home away from home. The surveillance camera outside shows a drab reception area and an unremarkable street in Mexico City; inside, the lights flash, but the tables are empty. Yet preparations are soon underway and fixed categories cease to apply: stubble is removed, make-up applied and strands of hair are teased into place; the camera is trained not on the men themselves, but what they see in the mirror. There\u2019s time for a lesson before the festivities get going, to practise walking, consider the letters of the alphabet, think about what sort of girl to be. Music plays, drinks are served and the last boundaries are suspended: those between man and woman, gay, straight and bi, past and present, reality and fiction. The people chatting at the tables or waiting before the darkroom are shot to resemble characters from a film, impossibly glamourous, which doesn\u2019t mean their stories aren\u2019t true. Whenever film stock replaces the digital images, it\u2019s like a symbol for the memories Casa Roshell contains, the spectres of all those who came here and no longer felt alone. No matter how small the utopia, the world outside can still catch up.<\/p>\n

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17.02. \/ 16:30 Akademie der K\u00fcnste<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dream Boat<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\nDream Boat<\/p>\n

Germany 2017
\n92′
\nDirector: Tristan Ferland Milewski<\/p>\n

One week on a cruise ship, with parties, fun and new friendships. The all-gay clientele on board discuss topics such as identity, the body beautiful and the search for sex. Every evening is dedicated to a new theme, challenging the passengers to ever more extravagant, body-hugging outfits. In the cabins however, the talk is more than skin deep as the men open up about their private lives. Marek, a young Polish man just wants to be accepted and loved as a human being and not just because of his taut body. Dipankar from India has just recently come out; he and Palestinian Ramzi are revelling in the kind of freedom they can only dream about in their homophobic societies back home. Martin is HIV positive and ponders hedonistic ways, while Philippe from France observes the proceedings on board serenely from his wheelchair. In his feature film debut director Ferland Milewski succeeds in providing a look behind the scenes of an ostensibly superficial world. His humorous approach helps him create a genuine bond with the protagonists who talk openly about gay desires, free love and good old-fashioned monogamy.\"OK_201713990_1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

17.02. \/ 12:30 CinemaxX 7<\/span><\/p>\n

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Final Stage<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nFinal Stage<\/p>\n

Germany 2017
\n27′
\nDirector: Nicolaas Schmidt<\/p>\n

The present, the whole present and nothing but the present. A young man on a footbridge, a bus departs, his friend is gone. This is followed by a majestic parade through a shopping centre. This central shot in the film is a fragile balancing act between documentary observation and subtle direction. Deliberately asynchronous sound serves to heighten the sense that events are nothing more than a construction of an apparently familiar reality. The boy’s melancholic bearing, and the way the film unfolds, are embedded in an extremely expressive, albeit narratively minimalistic, dramaturgy of colour. Vibrant colours introduce each individual sequence: blue, green, yellow, orange, red.<\/p>\n

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\n 17.02. \/ 16:30 CinemaxX 3<\/span><\/p>\n

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I Am Not Your Negro<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nI Am Not Your Negro<\/p>\n

France\/USA\/Belgium\/Switzerland 2016
\n93′
\nDirector: Raoul Peck<\/p>\n

In June 1979 renowned US writer James Baldwin began work on his last, unfinished text \u2018Remember this House\u2019. His personal memories of his three murdered civil rights friends Malcolm X, Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King and his reflections on his own painful experiences as a black American serve to re-write American history. Raoul Peck has turned these thirty hitherto unpublished pages into a powerful collage of archive photographs, excerpts from films and newsreel footage: the boycotts and the resistance against racial segregation in the 1950s and 1960s, the invisibility of black Americans in Hollywood\u2019s legendary works, the AfroAmerican protests against white police brutality that continue to take place even today, Baldwin\u2019s complex relationship with the Black Power Movement and one FBI report\u2019s paranoid view of Baldwin\u2019s homosexuality. A trenchant and disturbing essay about the reality of the lives of African Americans \u2013 lives that are still largely ignored by America\u2019s mainstream. Samuel L Jackson\u2019s voice lends Baldwin\u2019s language suitably poetic, meditative expression.<\/p>\n

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17.02. \/ 14:30 Colosseum 1<\/span><\/p>\n

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Karera ga Honki de Amu toki wa<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nClose-Knit<\/p>\n

Japan 2017
\n127′
\nDirector: Naoko Ogigami
\nCast: Toma Ikuta, Rinka Kakihara, Kenta Kiritani<\/p>\n

Eleven-year-old Tomo is pretty much left to her own devices. Unwashed dishes are piling up in the sink and supermarket onigiri are all there is to eat again. Tomo\u2019s single mother usually comes home late, and drunk. When she leaves her daughter for good one day the girl has to rely on help from her uncle, who takes in Tomo to live with him and his girlfriend Rinko. At their first meeting Tomo is flabbergasted to discover that Rinko is a transsexual. Rinko immediately sets about taking care of Tomo; not only does she lovingly prepare meals but she also succeeds in creating a new home for the girl. But before long cracks appear in their perfect nest. As in her last film Rentaneko (Panorama 2012) Japanese director Naoko Ogigami offers another story about finding a way out of one\u2019s loneliness; in the case of Tomo and her new family the solution is a mixture of human warmth, good food and the symbolic act of knitting. In quietly concentrated images the film portrays non-normative sexuality as a natural way of life and describes the value of families that are defined not by convention but by a loving, caring environment.<\/p>\n

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17.02. \/ 14:00 Cubix 9<\/span><\/p>\n

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Maurice<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nMaurice<\/p>\n

Great Britain 1987
\n140′
\nDirector: James Ivory
\nCast: James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott<\/p>\n

At King\u2019s College, Cambridge in 1909, fellow students Maurice Hall and Clive Durham feel more for each other than mere friendship. But sexual contact, never mind the \u201cunspeakable vice of the Greeks\u201d as their Plato professor calls it, remains taboo. For fear of being ostracised, like one of their classmates, they keep their love secret. Later, after Clive has made a marriage befitting his station, they maintain a purely platonic friendship. When Maurice begins a relationship with the Durham\u2019s gamekeeper, it seems as if he has found happiness … Following their Oscar-winning turn with A Room with a View (1985), the team of James Ivory and Ismail Merchant took on this second film based on a book by E.M. Forster; although the novel had been written in 1913\/14, it could not be published until after his death in 1970. In melancholy tones, the film deals sensitively with the grief of a forbidden love. The rigorously detailed production design precisely captures the Edwardian zeitgeist, while at the same time, the exquisite composition of the camerawork reveals the narrow-mindedness of a society in which prudery and hypocrisy rule. \u2013 World premiere of the digitally restored 2K DCP version.<\/p>\n

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\n 17.02. \/ 11:30 CinemaxX 8<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ri Chang Dui Hua<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\nSmall Talk<\/p>\n

Taiwan 2016
\n88′
\nDirector: Hui-chen Huang<\/p>\n

Anu is a tomboy. Although she was married off at a young age \u2013 as was customary in Taiwan in the 1970s \u2013 and had two children, she quickly divorced her violent husband and brought up her daughters alone. Since then her only relationships have been with women who, like her, earn a living as professional mourners at funerals. One of her daughters is filmmaker Hui-chen Huang. It\u2019s considered taboo in Chinese culture to question a mother\u2019s unconditional love, and yet this taboo is exactly the topic of Huang\u2019s intimate portrait. Mother and daughter set off on a journey together into the past during which Anu is confronted by questions that have tormented her daughter for years. In a series of long shots the two women discuss such topics as trust, abuse and cognisance, and yet most of these discussions end in painful silence. Shifting focus in order to plumb the depths of the topic, the director attempts to understand her mother by also talking to her mother\u2019s siblings and ex-lovers. In doing so she paints a picture of changing living conditions for three generations of women in Taiwan.<\/p>\n

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