IX Side by Side LGBT Film Festival, Saint Petersburg, 2016 IX Side by Side LGBT Film Festival, 2016 | Page 16

18 november, fr
20:00—22:55
WHO'S GONNA LOVE ME NOW
Barak Heymann, Tomer Heymann, Israel, UK, 2016, 85 min
2016 — Berlin International Film Festival, Panorama Audience
Award
2016 — Krakow Film Festival, Audience Award
It was 18 years ago when Saar, a young Jew, raised in a religious
family, had to leave the kibbutz because of his sexual orientation.
He moved to London where he could finally live the life he wanted.
When it turned out he was HIV positive, his family had to face
yet another challenge. Ever since he was diagnosed with HIV,
Saar has craved his family’s love, while they struggle with fears
and prejudices.
When confronted with his mother, father and siblings, he tries
to name and re-work the problem dividing them in order to become soundtrack for this documentary about the power
of forgiveness and the power that home has, no
part of the community again while continuing to be himself.
Saar and the rest of the London Gay Men’s Chorus provide a glorious matter how far we go.
Barak Heymann
«I am very pleased, honoured, proud and excited to be screening this film at Side by Side.
To say that the LGBT community’s struggle for equal rights in Russia still has a long
way to go is as an understatement. After telling people that I am going with such a film
to such a festival in Russia, I wish to believe that in the future no one will ever tell me
to be careful and to watch myself. I promise to keep on supporting this struggle by any
possible means as I believe that bringing change is in our hands and we must keep
on fighting together for justice and humanity».
Join Director and Protagonist after the screening for Q&A.
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19 november, sa
20:50—22:45
Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato,
USA/Germany, 2016, 108 min
This film is the first definitive, feature length portrait of the controversial
artist since his untimely death in 1989. A catalyst and an illuminator,
but also a magnet for scandal, Robert Mapplethorpe had but one goal:
to ‘make it’ as an artist and as an art celebrity. He could not have picked
a better time: the Manhattan of Warhol’s Factory, Studio 54, and an era
of unbridled hedonistic sexuality.
His first solo exhibition in 1976 already unveils his subjects: flowers,
portraits and nudes. Mapplethorpe quickly gains notoriety through
his explicitly sexual photographs from the gay sadomasochistic scene
as well as nude pictures of black men.