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23ʳᵈ Florence Queer Festival

Cinema

In Florence, Tuscany’s premier festival celebrating the best in LGBTQIA+ filmmaking

Under the banner of the 50 Days of Cinema in Florence, from November 26–30, Cinema La Compagnia will host the 23ʳᵈ edition of Florence Queer Festival—Tuscany’s premier event celebrating the best of LGBTQIA+ filmmaking with screenings, meetings and thematic focuses.

Created within the Ireos Association in Florence, the festival presents a rich, cross-cultural program that weaves together current events, historical memory and visual experimentation, with 22 films including features, documentaries, shorts and animations, split into Best Feature, Best Short, Queer Animation Award and Pride Award categories.

This edition’s theme is R/Esistenze, a call for political awareness, mutual care and solidarity, as a celebration of those lives that continue to redefine the boundaries of freedom and shared humanity. Protagonists of the event are queer people who every day—through small forms of personal resistance or even large actions that become part of collective history—affirm their existence in spite of increasingly hostile societies.

Among this edition’s guests are Imma Battaglia, Vladimir Luxuria, Simone Alliva, Marco Falorni, Andrea Frassoni, Daphne Bohémien, Yujin Lee and Valérie Taccarelli.

Opening the Festival will be “Orgoglio e Pregiudizio” by Marco Falorni, a docufilm that, 25 years after the first historic World Pride event in Rome during the Jubilee, voices the struggles that the LGBTQIA+ community has faced to date. The director will be present at the screening, along with some of the film’s protagonists.

Closing the festival is “Queens of the Dead” by Tina Romero, daughter of horror master George A. Romero, who reinterprets her father’s iconic zombie movie with a queer tint.

Also scheduled are meetings, book presentations, exhibitions, matinées for schools and parties in the cinema foyer.

The full program can be found on the festival website.

Tickets:

Afternoon Admission: €5
Evening Admission: €7 or €6 (reduced)
Daily Pass: €10
Festival Pass: 35€ (all afternoon and evening screenings)

Additional information

The Festival’s Artistic Directors are Barbara Caponi and Manu Mancuso.

Florence Queer Festival is part of the “50 Days of Cinema in Florence” initiative, conceived and coordinated by the Area Cinema of Fondazione Sistema Toscana, realized thanks to the Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Florence, the Region of Tuscany, Fondazione Sistema Toscana, Fondazione CR Firenze and the Florence Chamber of Commerce. With the support of the City of Florence, included in the cultural offerings of the Festival dei Diritti, and
the contribution of Publiacqua.

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