
Pink Apple
Zürich: 2 -10 May 2018
Frauenfeld: 11 -13 May 2018
The Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Pink Apple was founded in 1997 by a small group of film enthusiasts in Frauenfeld in the Canton of Thurgau. Thurgau, nicknamed the Swiss «Apple Canton», was the reason for its naming. Initially its aim was to promote the emancipation and acceptance of homosexuality in the provinces on the basis of a cultural activity. The festival was first held in 1998, showing ten films to a large crowd in the tiny Cinema Luna in Frauenfeld.
Pink Apple landed in Zurich in the wake of the lesbian and gay Eurogames held there in the year 2000. The programme – with seven performances of seven films in the Arthouse Movie Cinema – was very successful right from the start. Since then the festival has been growing continuously, and its focal point now lies in the big city, thanks to the great public encouragement and increasing demand for an annual gay and lesbian film programme.
2018 films...
A Moment in the Reeds - Mikko Tapio Makela · FIN/GB 2017 · FIN/d · 107 min
After Louie - Vincent Gagliostro · USA 2017 · E · 100 min
Escaping from Home - Bin Chen · D 2017 · D/E/ARAB/d · 57 min • Documentary
Battle of the Sexes - Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris · USA 2017 · E/d · 122 min
Beach Rats - Eliza Hittman · USA 2017 · E/d · 95 min
Below Her Mouth - April Mullen · CAN 2016 · E/d · 88 min
Boys don't cry - Kimberly Peirce · USA 1999 · E/d/f · 118 min
Can't stop the music - Nancy Walker · USA 1980 · E/d · 119 min
Carol - Todd Haynes · GB/USA 2015 · E/d/f · 118 min
Chavela - Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi · USA 2017 · E/d · 90 min - Documentary
Diane has the right shape - Fabien Gorgeart · F 2017 · F/e · 87 min
Draussen in meinem Kopf - Eibe Maleen Krebs · D 2018 · D · 99 min
Embrasse-moi Océane - rosemarie, Cyprien Val · F 2017 · F/d · 86 min
Extra Terrestres - Carla Cavina · PRI 2016 · SPAN · 113 min
Far from heaven - Todd Haynes · USA/F 2002 · E/d/f · 107 min
Frida - Julie Taymor · USA/CAN/MEX 2002 · E/d · 118 min
Féminin/Féminin - Chloé Robichaud · CAN 2014 · F/e · 93 min
Gaycation – India - Ellen Page (Host), Ian Daniel (Host) · USA 2016 · E · 45 min
Gaycation: Orlando – Ukraine - Ellen Page (Host) · USA 2016 · E · 45 min
Go fish Rose Troche · USA 1994 · E · 83 min
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - John Cameron Mitchell · USA 2001 · E/D/d/f · 95 min
Hello Stranger - 80 min - Short films
Dag vreemde man - Hello, Stranger
Anthony Schatteman · B 2017 · Fläm/e · 19 min
Arthur's a single dad. Can he combine the care of his 7-year-old son Max and his secret life as a drag queen?
Mir selbst so fremd
Jannik Gensler · D 2017 · D/e · 12 min
Ben satisfies his longing for closeness and love with strange men and sex dates. But every time he feels empty. How can he break that circle?
Petit ami
Anthony Schatteman · B 2017 · Fläm/e · 14 min
On Christmas Eve Jasper meets the older and mysterious Vincent. In the Rendezvous Hotel "Petit ami" he discovers the secret that surrounds the man.
Calamity
Séverine De Streyker, Maxime Feyers · B 2017 · F/e · 22 min
France meets her son's girlfriend for the first time. She loses control...
Top 10 Places to Visit in São Paulo
Akira Kamiki · BRA 2018 · Port/e · 13 min
On a Sunday two photographers meet in São Paulo. As they try to connect with the city, they slowly fall in love.
I shot Andy Warhol - Mary Harron · USA/GB 1996 · E/d/f · 103 min
Infamous - Douglas McGrath · USA 2006 · E/d · 113 min
It's All About Love - 78 min - Short films
Two Fish
Antoine Dupont-Guerra · USA 2017 · E · 10 min
Max spends the summer at the pool of the abandoned campus site. When his best friend Taylor returns from Europe, their friendship takes a new turn.
Ha'rav - The rabbi
Uriya Hertz · ISR 2016 · Hebr/e · 19 min
A confession from his favorite student shakes the familiar and safe world of popular Rabbi Michael.
Le convive
Hakim Mastour · CH 2017 · Arab/e · 19 min
Sofiane is visiting his home in Tunisia and is supposed to marry Halima. When his boyfriend Fouad shows up unexpectedly, everything threatens to be revealed...
Adult
Jamieson Pearce · AUS 2017 · E · 10 min
Having enable a loss that now torments her, a woman goes to an adult store in search of redemption.
The World is Round so that nobody can hide in the corners – Part II : The Kiss
Leandro Goddinho · D 2017 · 5 min
A performance exploring the romance and terror of a simple kiss.
Malik
Nathan Carli · F 2018 · F/e · 15 min
Malik decides to escape with his boyfriend from his ghetto. Walid, his big brother, wants to dissuade him. It comes to the hunt ...
Kids - Larry Clark · USA 1995 · E/d · 91 min
Kill your darlings - John Krokidas · USA 2013 · E/d · 104 min
Stage-Fright / G&T - Anna F. Kohlschütter · D 2017 · D · 60 min
Love, Simon - Greg Berlanti · USA 2018 · E/d · 110 min
Ma vie avec James Dean - Dominique Choisy · F 2018 · F/d · 108 min
Mixed Messages - Kanchi Wichmann · D 2017 · D/E/d · 74 min
Mixed Sweets - 79 min - Short films
Queere Tiere
Ana Angel · D 2017 · D/e · 3 min ·
Gay giraffes, promiscuous bonobos and lesbian albatrosses: The rapper sookee shows that being queer is anything but unnatural.
Superheroes
Voker Petters · D 2017 · D · 16 min
Phil is bullied because he is too small for his age. When Phil unexpectedly receives support from lesbian girl Jo, they become friends.
Chasing Unicorns
Ella Lentini · USA 2017 · E · 4 min
Blacked out from a brutal fall while skating, Jo dreams up a world of color, where she meets a unicorn who helps her believe in magic again.
One Night Only
Sam Langshaw · AUS 2016 · E · 10 min
Tyler and Erica put on make-up for their first night in Sidney. Their outfit does not like everyone. Especially Theo, Tyler's Grindr-Date, is not impressed ...
Waffles
Foster Wilson · USA 2016 · E · 4 min
The morning after a casual one-nighter with an older woman, Gina scrolls through her Facebook feed, only to discover that the person beside her is the epitome of everything she loathes.
Scheideweg
Arkadij Khaet · D 2017 · D · 4 min
One Boy, One Girl and her Stepbrother. A date goes wrong.
Broad Strokes
Phillip Vernon · USA 2017 · E · 17 min
Annie and Austin say goodbye to the New Year at a New Year's party. Both are lonely and frustrated and hope for a new start.
Happy
Laura Dudgeon · AUS 2016 · E · 12 min
A sexually inexperienced and lonely young woman downloads a dating app on her birthday and seeks out a casual encounter with another woman.
Turn it Around
Niels Bourgonje · NL 2017 · Niederl/e · 9 min
At a party, 15-year-old Bram falls in love with a buddy's cousin. If he wants to confess his love, he has to come out in front of his friends.
Mr. Gay Syria - Ayse Toprak · TUR/F/D 2017 · ARAB/E/TÜRK/D/d · 84 min - Documentary
My days of mercy - Tali Shalom Ezer · GB/USA 2017 · E/d · 103 min
Nadie nos mira - Julia Solomonoff · ARG/COL/BRA/USA 2017 · SPAN/E/d · 102 min
Nina - Olga Chajdas · POL 2017 · POLN · 130 min
Now and Then - 85 min - Short films
Secession
Yifan Sun · POL 2015 · Poln/d/e · 14 min
An ex-couple spend the day together before one moves away for good.
Mai
Marta González · E 2017 · Span/d · 7 min
Three old ladies spend every afternoon sitting on a bench, next to the main street of their village. The arrival of two mysterious girls turns into their main topic of discussion.
Nominated for the Pink Apple Short Film Award
Szép alak - Beautiful Figure
Hajni Kis · HUN 2016 · Ungar/d/e · 16 min
A high-school cleaning lady falls in love with one of the students in the school. Her love is impossible from the beginning, but she still decides to show her feelings.
Aridai
Igor Luna · E 2017 · Span/d · 8 min
«I wouldn’t have expected that you that you were tailor-made to my bathtub.»
Noora
Tommy Naess · N 2017 · Norw/e/d · 20 min
Noora is raised in a strict religious sect on the west coast of Norway. When she falls in love with Siv, she upsets her family's plans to marry her to a much older man.
Nominated for the Pink Apple Short Film Award
Prudence
Angela Jude · USA 2017 · E/d · 9 min
A dishonourably discharged World War II nurse, stricken by grief and crippling dementia, seeks out her beloved to dance with one last time.
Nominated for the Pink Apple Short Film Award
Out Again
Robin Cloud · USA 2016 · E/d · 11 min
Cat visits her parents for the weekend and is confronted with her mother's inability to remember one key detail.
Office Killer - Cindy Sherman · USA 1997 · E/d/f · 90 min
Pihalla - Nils-Erik Ekblom · FIN 2017 · FIN/d · 96 min
Poison - Todd Haynes · USA 1991 · E/d · 83 min
Postcards from London - Steve McLean · GB 2018 · E · 88 min
Princess Cyd - Stephen Cone · USA 2017 · E/d · 86 min
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women - Angela Robinson · USA 2017 · E/d · 108 min
Puoi baciare lo sposo - Alessandro Genovesi · I 2018 · I/e · 89 min
Queer Music - 79 min - Short films
Sookee
Von Seepferdchen und Schränken
Kerstin Polte · D 2018 · D · 30 min · Director's Cut
Together with...
Matilda – Apologize
Alvin Stantos, Magnus Borka, Sony Music Entertainment · N 2016 · 4 min
Tami T – Eat Me When I Bleed
Julia Thelin · D 2016 · 4 min
Mona – Kiss Like a Woman
Johnathan Crocker, Worldsound · USA 2018 · 4 min
BETS – Jenny
Andrew Brooke, Best Records LLC · USA 2015 · 4 min
Horse – So, Kiss Me
Horse McDonald · GB 2015 · 3 min
Brandi Carlile – The Joke
Canny Clinch, ATO Records · USA 2018 · 5 min
Elektra – Se Pensar feat. LAN
Bruno Trinidade · BRA 2017 · 4 min
BIFE – El piropo
WCU Villanueva · ARG 2016 · 2 min
Baby In Vain – Low Life
Rasmus K. Petersen, Partisan Records · DK 2017 · 4 min
Greg Holden – Boys in the Street #Pride
Louisa Bertman · USA 2016 · 5 min
Sylvan Esso – Slack Jaw
Saskia Kivilo · USA 2017 · 3 min
Wyvern Lingo – I Love You Sadie
Louise Gaffney, Thanks Evolving Music Company & Sony / ATV · IRL 2017 · 3 min
Chocolate Remix – Como me gusta a mi
Emanuel Nem · ARG 2018 · 4 min
Riot - Jeffrey Walker · AUS 2017 · E · 95 min
Saturday Church - Damon Cardasis · USA 2017 · E · 82 min
Savage Grace - Tom Kalin · F/E/USA 2007 · E/d/f · 97 min
Soldiers. Story from Ferentari - Ivana Mladenovic · ROM/SRB/B 2017 · RUMÄN/d · 119 min
Starting From... Now! - Julie Kalceff · AUS 2015 · E · 91 min - Fiction • Webseries
Sueño en otro idiomaErnesto Contreras · MEX/NL 2016 · SPAN/e · 101 min
That's My DJ - D.W. Waterson · CAN 2016 · E · 39 min - Fiction • Web Series
The Cakemaker - Ofir Raul Graizer · ISR/D 2017 · E/D/HEBR/d · 105 min
The Constitution - Rajko Grlic · KRO/CZE/MAZ/SVN 2016 · KROAT/e · 93 min
The Fabulous Allan Carr - Jeffrey Schwarz · USA 2017 · E · 90 min
The Happy Prince - Rupert Everett · D/B/I 2017 · E/F/I/d · 105 min
The Marriage - Blerta Zeqiri · KOS/ALB 2017 · ALBAN/e · 96 min
The Ring Thing - William C. Sullivan · USA 2017 · E · 106 min
The Sign for Love - Elad Cohen, Iris Ben Moshe · ISR 2017 · HEBR/e · 75 min
Tinta Bruta - Filipe Matzembacher, Màrcio Reolon · BRA 2018 · BRASIL/e · 118 min
Tom of Finland - Dome Karukoski · FIN/DK/S/USA/D 2016 · E/FIN/D/d · 116 min
Us dä Region - 68 min - Short films
Alien
Julian Quentin · CH 2017 · 3 min
A story of liberation between self-destruction and self-realization.
Diversity Exists
Claudia Bach · CH 2018 · Schweizerd · 29 min
16-year-old Orlando is found unconscious in the schoolhouse toilet. Since he came out shortly before, a homophobic act is suspected behind it...
Huere müehsam
Anja Habermehl · CH 2013 · Schweizerd/e · 15 min
A young callboy visits a customer with muscle atrophy. He soon realizes that this job is more challenging than he ever imagined.
Die Liebe des Matrosen - Sailors Love
Ida Schmieder · CH 2018 · Schweizerd · 21 min
L. doesn't feel comfortable at all. After a huge fight with his mother he leaves home for an evening that changes his life for ever.
Venus - Eisha Marjara · CAN 2017 · E · 95 min
True Friends - Florian Forsch · D/A 2018 · D/e · 44 min
Yours in Sisterhood - Irene Lusztig · USA 2018 · E/d · 101 min