As part of the LET’S TALK Series, the 5th BEAST International Film Festival will host a panel on Queer Culture in Central & Eastern Europe, inviting Karol Radziszewski (Founder of the Queer Archives Institute, Poland), Teresa Vieira (Film critic and journalist, Portugal), Bohdan Zhuk (Programmer Sunny Bunny - Molodist Film Festival, Ukraine) and Bianca Stânea (Sociology researcher in LGBTQIA+ rights, Romania).
The panelists will draw upon their personal and professional experiences examining where does queerness stand nowadays in a Europe that is such a deeply polarized territory when it comes to the rights of the LGBTQIA+ minorities.
With its fifth edition, BEAST International Film Festival returns to the big screens of Porto with a selection primarily aimed at films that have Eastern Europe as its backdrop. While exploring the Balkans, the Baltics and Post-Communist countries, the festival contextualises its work in the context of differentiated debates on film aesthetics, socio-political, and cinematic theoretical topics. BEAST IFF is all about representation of talents, arousing curiosity and questioning common clichés about Eastern Europe.
Free entry.
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