LES EVANGILES D’ANASYRMA
Gospel of Anasyrma
Elene Naveriani
CH, 2014, col., 29’
FATHER, BLESS US
Padre, ci benedica
Elene Naveriani
CH, 2013, COL., 9’
RED ANTS BITE
Le formiche rosse mordono
Elene Naveriani CH, 2019, col., 23’
- Friday 17
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 16:00
Housekeeping for Beginners
Goran Stolevski
MK – PL – HR – SRB – RSK, 2023, col., 107’
Macedonian – Romani – Albanian o.v.
Despite never aspiring to be a mother, Dita finds herself compelled to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters. As their individual wills clash, a heartwarming story unfolds about an unlikely family’s struggle to stay together. Housekeeping for Beginners, one of the projects selected at WEMW in 2021, premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2023 in the Orizzonti section.
- Friday 17
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 20:00
Hovhannes Ishkhanyan AM – F, 2023, col., 105’ Armenian o.v. Italian Premiere
Carabina, a gay artist, transvestite and sex worker is married to Hasmik, a heterosexual lawyer defending the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. Having become parents, they are faced with a dilemma: will the child grow up or not in Armenia, where 93% of the population declares itself hostile to homosexuality?
The film premiered in competition at Dok Leipzig.
- Friday 17
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 22:00
Fil Ieropoulos
GR, 2024, col., 92’
Greek – English – Albanian – Russian o.v.
Ten drag performers find solace in each other as they rebel against their oppressive reality and those who control it. Avant-Drag!, second feature of Greek director Fil Ieropoulos, premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam and won a special jury mention at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival.
- Saturday 18
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 22:00
Dane Komljen
DE-SRB, 2024, col., 62’
German – English – Finnish – Serbian o.v.
Italian Premiere
Mollies is a queer-feminist collective living at a trailer park next to Ostkreuz in Berlin for nearly a decade. The Garden Cadences documents their last summer there before being evicted. The Garden Cadences premiered at Cinéma du Reel and then was presented in many festivals worldwide, including Jeonju IFF, Karlovy Vary IFF, BelDocs and DOKLeipzig.
- Saturday 18
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 23:45
Ilir Hasanaj
RSK, 2022, col., 62’
Albanian – English o.v.
Italian Premiere
As I Was Looking Above, I Could See Myself Underneath unveils intimate stories of LGBTQ+ persons from Kosovo, going through their unceasing search for a safe place that allows them to be.
The Film was presented at the festivals Dokufest in Prizren, Kosovo, Solothurner Filmtage in Switzerland, Queer Lisboa in Portugal,among others.
- Sunday 19
Teatro Miela | House of Cinema | Alpe Adria Cinema
At 16:30
