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WHEN:
April 29 - May 5, 2022
WHERE:
Galleria 6
30 St Louis Galleria Street
Richmond Heights
St. Louis, MO
and select films online-- see schedule.
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
"...The St. Louis-based LGBTQ film festival, QFest will present an eclectic array of 35 films from 13 countries (20 shorts, nine narrative features, and six documentary features). The participating filmmakers represent a wide variety of voices in contemporary queer world cinema. The mission of the film festival is to use the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the lives of LGBTQ people and to celebrate queer culture."
The film program is as follows:
Cut!
Marc Ferrer, Spain, 2021, 79 min., Spanish, narrative
The Depths
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Japan/Korea, 2010, 121 min., Japanese & Korean, narrative
Great Freedom (Grosse Freiheit)
Sebastian Meise, Germany, 2021, 116 min., German, narrative
Mama Bears
Daresha Kyi, U.S., 2022, 90 min., documentary
Poison
Todd Haynes, U.S., 1991, 85 min., narrative
Queer Shorts Programs 1-4
Multiple countries, program runtimes range between 79 and 99 minutes
Rebel Dykes
Harri Shanahan & Siân A. Williams, U.K., 2021, 89 min., documentary
Sirens
Rita Baghdadi, Lebanon, 2021, 78 min., Arabic & English, documentary
The Swimmer (HaSahyan)
Adam Kalderon, Israel, 2021, 83 min., Hebrew, narrative
The Therapy
Zvi Landsman, Israel, 2021, 85 min., English & Hebrew, documentary
Two Eyes
Travis Fine, U.S., 2019, 107 min., narrative
The Unabridged Mrs. Vera’s Daybook
Robert James, U.S., 2021, 81 min., documentary
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
Jane Schoenbrun, U.S., 2021, 86 min., narrative
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