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Streaming Via Mqff.Com.Au 19 November to 30 November WELCOME SPONSORS SPONSORS WELCOME to PRINCIPAL PARTNER MQFF INTERUPTED CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF QUEER FILM WE’RE INTERRUPTED WE’RE BACK WE’RE ONLINE WE’RE MQFF streaming via mqff.com.au 19 November to 30 November WELCOME SPONSORS SPONSORS WELCOME TO PRINCIPAL PARTNER MQFF INTERUPTED Okay, so the 30th Melbourne Queer Film Festival didn’t exactly go as FESTIVAL PARTNERS planned. Who are we kidding? This whole year has been one enormous raincheck from so much of what we usually take for granted. Four days into our festival in March we hit the pause button on what would have been our biggest ever celebration of queer film. While we’ve all been in lockdown the MQFF team has been working hard behind the scenes to bring the best of 2020’s festival directly to your living room. Now you don’t even need to get up off the couch to enjoy the latest and greatest LGBTIQ+ films. MQFF Interrupted showcases 22 films online, as well as a much-anticipated return to the Coburg Drive-In for the opening day of Happiest Season. CINEMA PARTNERS EDUCATION PARTNER We have films to make you laugh, cry and think about the CINEMA, CURATED world through the eyes of our incredible and diverse community. PRESENTING PARTNERS We hope you enjoy watching MQFF Interrupted as much as we enjoyed putting it together for you. 2021 is just around the corner and we know you’re going to go wild for what we have in store, but for now, sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. FESTIVAL SUPPORTERS Love from the MQFF Team xoxo MEDIA PARTNER 2 3 INTERNATIONAL FEATURES INTERNATIONAL FEATURES HAPPIEST THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, AT 8.30PM Meeting your girlfriend’s family for the first Coburg Drive-In time can be tough. Planning to propose at her family’s annual Christmas dinner — until you Melbourne Premiere realize that they don’t even know she’s gay — Dir – Clea DuVall, USA, 2020, 107 mins is even harder. When Abby (Kristen Stewart) Courtesy – Sony Pictures learns that Harper (Mackenzie Davis) has kept their relationship a secret from her family, she Proudly Presented by begins to question the girlfriend she thought SEASON she knew. Happiest Season is a holiday romantic comedy that hilariously captures the range of emotions tied to wanting your family’s acceptance, being true to yourself, and trying not to ruin Christmas. 4 5 INTERNATIONAL FEATURES INTERNATIONAL FEATURES AND THEN WE DANCED MONICA ZANETTI’S QUEER IS A SENSUAL EXPLORATION COMING OUT COMEDY HAS ECHOES OF IDENTITY THAT OF AUSTRALIAN HIGH-CONCEPT AND THEN PULSATES WITH DESIRE. ELLIE & ABBIE TEEN CLASSICS. IT’S A – THE DAILY MIRROR REFRESHING CROWD PLEASER. WE DANCED (& ELLIE’S – SCREEN HUB DEAD AUNT) Bookish and insecure highschooler Ellie has a crush on classmate Abbie but what to do? Like Teenage Merab has spent his life determined her instagram feed? Ask her to the formal? Or to be a lead dancer in the National Georgian take dating advice from the ghost of her dead Ensemble. When handsome and rebellious aunt… As far as dating tips go, Ellie’s dead aunt newcomer, Iralki enters the company, Merab Tara has some sage but somewhat misguided 19-30 November is sent spinning. Not only has he a rival for advice such as asking Abbie who her favourite the position he covets, but romantic feelings AFL player is or if she prefers K.D. Lang over available Australia wide FRiday, November 20 at 7:00pm are ignited and in a country that strictly Melissa Etheridge. But will this be enough for forbids homosexuality, trouble is just around available Australia wide Ellie to make the first move and get the girl of Dir – Levan Akin. Sweden, Georgia, the corner. her dreams? 2019, 106 mins Dir – Monica Zanetti, Australia, Courtesy – Totem Films Passionate and deeply romantic, And Then 2020, 82 mins Monica Zanetti’s delightful debut feature is We Danced has overtaken the hearts of the lesbian teen romantic comedy we’ve all Georgian with English subtitles Courtesy – Cobbstar Productions audiences since its premiere at the Cannes been waiting for. The film’s heartfelt tone is Proudly Presented by Film Festival, winning prizes around the Proudly Presented by elevated by winning performances throughout world ever since. Submit to the allure of this and a witty and ultimately poignant script that life-affirming film and you’ll be dancing out of also pays tribute to the queer elders that have the cinema. paved the way. 6 7 INTERNATIONAL FEATURES INTERNATIONAL FEATURES BIT IS MUCH MORE THAN A TYPICAL GENRE FILM, IT BITES WITH ROBUST FEMININE FORCE UNSETTLED: BIT AND LEAVES A NOTABLE MARK OF REPRESENTATION. SEEKING REFUGE - FILM INQUIRY IN AMERICA First things first, Bit is the queer answer to The Lost Boys we have all been waiting for Winner of the Grand Jury Award at L.A. Outfest and so much more. Lauren (played by Nicole for Outstanding Documentary Feature, Unsettled Maines from TV’s Supergirl) is your typical is a powerful and emotionally charged plea for 18-year-old, restless, bored and looking to acceptance that follows four LGBTQ+ asylum escape her life at home. When an opportunity seekers and refugees who have fled from to join her brother in LA comes up, Lauren persecution and violence in their home countries. jumps at the chance. Not long in the City of Arriving in San Francisco are Cheyenne and Angels Lauren is lured into the posse of a 19-30 November Mari from Angola, Subhi from Syria and Junior cliquey gang of queer feminist vampires, led by the charismatic Duke (Diana Hopper), who available Australia wide from Congo, who try to navigate the challenges – bureaucratic, societal and personal – to find are hellbent on ridding LA of ‘problematic’ Melbourne Premiere a safe and secure place in their new homeland. men. Their only rule for joining this gnarly gang of women is – ‘No. Fucking. Boys!’ A rule Dir – Tom Shepard, USA, 2019, 84 mins From the lows (struggling to find protective 19-30 November you break at your own peril as we discover Courtesy – Film Collaborative housing in one of the USA’s most notorious rental markets) to the highs (one of the four available Australia wide in the bloody opening scene. Proudly Presented by wins an LGBTQ+ Trailblazer Award resulting This sharp, fun and wickedly subversive Melbourne Premiere in international press), Unsettled puts a human take on the vampire genre has a lot to love, Dir face to one of the most urgent crises of our – Brad Michael Elmore, USA, most of all the casting of transgender actor times. The resilience and strength of these 2019, 90 mins Nicole Maines, whose role is a great step inspiring survivors make for captivating viewing. Courtesy – Provocator forward in representation. 8 9 INTERNATIONAL FEATURES INTERNATIONAL FEATURES RIALTO BUILDS AN INTIMATE STRADDLING POETIC REALISM, BODY PORTRAIT OF MASCULINE CRISIS, HORROR AND LESBIAN ROMANCE, ILLUMINATED BY TWO EXTRAORDINARY CLAIRE OAKLEY’S MAZY COMING-OF- RIALTO CENTRAL PERFORMANCES. MAKE AGE PSYCHODRAMA IS GORGEOUS AND - VARIETY INVENTIVE. UP - SIGHT & SOUND Life for 46-year-old Colm seems comfortable – he works on the Dublin docks and is happily married with two kids. But after his father’s Ruth arrives at a sleepy seaside caravan park death, his life is spun off-balance and he starts to be with her boyfriend Tom who who works at seeing 19-year-old rent boy, Jay. This secret a local arcade. Quickly settling in and starting life forces Colm to be withdrawn from his family work herself at a laundromat, Ruth begins to but with Jay he’s open and emotionally raw. suspect that Tom is fooling around behind her However, for Jay, who has a young child, it’s back with a mysterious red-headed woman. purely financial, but the sex and conversations Into her orbit comes Jade, a free spirited and provide a cathartic release for Colm. But for confident woman who Ruth initially suspects is 19-30 November how long can he keep continuing his reckless her romantic rival but soon the two young women available Australia wide behaviour? 19-30 November find themselves attracted to each other. Premiering at the Venice Film Festival, Rialto, the available Australia wide Loaded with atmosphere, tension and simmering Australian Premiere second film from Peter Mackie Burns (Daphne), desire, Claire Oakley’s bewitching debut feature Dir Australian Premiere – Peter Mackie Burns, Ireland, is a compelling story of a man whose life is is a mysterious, sensual and bold coming out UK, 90 mins coming apart at the seams. An honest and Dir – Claire Oakley, UK, 2019, 86 mins film like no other that will keep you enthralled Courtesy – Madman Entertainment unflinching modern queer classic. Courtesy – Protagonist Pictures and guessing right until the end. 10 11 INTERNATIONAL FEATURES INTERNATIONAL FEATURES AN ENTIRELY UNIQUE AND UNIQUELY AN ENTIRELY UNIQUE AND UNIQUELY VITAL LESBIAN LOVE STORY. VITAL LESBIAN LOVE STORY. TWO - VARIETY THE - VARIETY OF US STRONG ONES (LOS FUERTES) Two retired women, Nina and Madeleine, have been carrying on a secret relationship for decades. Everybody, including Madeleine’s family, thinks they are simply neighbours, sharing the top floor of their building. They Lucas travels from the big city to visit his sister come and go between their two apartments, and her partner who live in a remote seaside enjoying the affection and pleasures of daily town in southern Chile. In front of the ocean 19-30 November life and are in the planning stages of selling up and the fog, he meets Antonio, a handsome available Australia wide and moving away together, far away from their 19-30 November boatswain for a local fishing crew.
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