| March 19, 2015 | to | March 30, 2015 |
Melbourne Queer Film Festival (Vic) – Held over 11 days in late March, MQFF is the largest and longest running queer film festivals in Australia, screening the best Australian and International queer films, shorts and documentaries.
Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2015
The Festival first screened in 1991 and has continued every year since.
Melbourne Queer Film Festival is the oldest queer film festival in Australia, and one of the oldest queer film festivals in the world. It is the largest queer film festival in the Southern Hemisphere, as well as being the second largest film festival in Victoria.
Over the past 23 years it is estimated that over 245,000 people have attended the Festival and other MQFF events.
Originally called the Melbourne International Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival, we became the Melbourne Queer Film & Video Festival in 1993, and settled on Melbourne Queer Film Festival in 2003.
Since 1992 the Festival has screened within the boundaries of the City of Melbourne, originally at the State Film Theatre at Treasury Place and also the Capitol Theatre in Swanston Street. For the past seven years, MQFF has screened in the heart of Melbourne at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) at Federation Square, the first film festival to use the screening facility. In 2012 we moved our Opening Night film and party from St Kilda’s Astor Theatre to ACMI Cinemas in the City of Melbourne, and will continue to hold this event there.
Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2015
At Midsumma Carnival we unveiled three films that will be part of this year’s lineup. And here they are!
We are so excited about our 25th anniversary, and we hope to see you there from March 19 to 30.
Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter (@mqff), Instagram (@melbqueerfilmfest) and on Facebook.
The Way He Looks
This year’s festival will open with the multi-award winning Brazilian film The Way He Looks (Hoje eu Quero Voltar Sozinho).The Way He Looks is director Daniel Ribeiro’s first feature length work and is based on his previous short I Don’t Want To Go Back Alone which played at MQFF in 2011.While blind from birth, young Leo is independent and well adjusted in his school. With the help of his admirer and close friend Giovanna, Leo can face the trials that accompany being the only visually impaired student at the school. This all changes when the charismatic Gabriel moves into their class and befriends the pair. As the two become closer, Giovanna increasingly becomes jaded and shut out, which causes adolescent angst to arise.
Selected as Brazil’s official entry to the Academy Awards Foreign Language Category, Ribeiro’s film is an outstanding original take on the popular coming out narrative. The festival’s opening night screening will be followed by drinks, mingling and dancing at the after-party downstairs at ACMI.
The Foxy Merkins
This Independent Spirit Award Nominee and Sundance 2014 selected film is the follow up to smash hit Co-dependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (MQFF 2013). The Foxy Merkins follows the lives of two lesbian hookers as they make their way through a world of bargain-hunting housewives and double-dealing conservative women that results in a subversive buddy comedy.
I Feel Like Disco
German feel-good comedy I Feel Like Disco tells the bittersweet story of a family learning to accept each other. Director Axel Ranisch tells the gay coming-of-age tale with a sensitive touch that never loses sight of the film’s refreshingly awkward sweetness.
Watch all 3 with our MQFF 3-Film-Pass.
Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2015
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