The Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney is showcasing a diverse lineup of films that celebrate LGBTQIA+ history, identity and expression. From the unhinged French musical 'Queens of Drama' to the understated drama 'Green,' the festival offers something for every cinephile.
Queens of Drama — a tale of rival musicians in mid-2000s France — is just one of the films showing as part of Mardi Gras Film Festival .Hold onto your rainbow lanyards, Mardi Gras is set to glitter-bomb Sydney with its celebration of Australia's LGBTQIA+ community.The Mardi Gras Film Festival , put on by Queer Screen, is the perfect way to celebrate the glory of queer history, identity and expression, all while sitting down.
It's a work of pure sensory overload; director Alexis Langlois' brand of over-saturated, adrenalised camp perfectly syncs up with the onslaught of a voracious music industry and its surrounding ecosystem of tabloid rags, internet fandoms and trash TV.Based on Kim Hye-jin's international bestseller, this gracefully understated drama excavates the growing rift between a widow and her adult lesbian daughter.
As the situation deteriorates, Green's mother throws herself into her work at a care home — "Resting only makes me feel sore," she insists. She finds herself latching onto a childless dementia patient whose needs are being curtailed by a cost-cutting administration, wondering if she's staring into the abyss of her own future.
Directors Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel zero in on the compulsive grind of work, digital reality and crime, fuelled by soaring highs and violent conquest. As the days to Darknoon's demise ticks down, Pablo's enterprise finds itself at risk when he recklessly provokes a rival organisation. 14-year-old Elias has a dorky dad and suffers older bullies at school, but the real trouble begins when an athletic city boy, Alex, moves in across the road. Fearless and frank, his new neighbour makes a splash in his friendship group at school, and they begin bonding on the cycling commute home.
The film opens with a sensuous tracking shot down the corridor of a gay bathhouse, casting furtive glances into open rooms, before diverting into a sterile, near-colourless archive. The ceiling leaks and the lights flicker, but it's home to a treasure trove of queer history — and the place where Ahmad, an Iranian American trans man, seeks to understand his own sexuality.
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