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ORLANDO
Saturday, 03 May 2025 until Sunday, 11 May 2025
ORLANDO is an international queer festival that features cinema, dance and theatre. It is addressed towards a broad, varied audience and characterized by its ironic, inclusive and welcoming approach. Our aim is to experience culture, overcome borders by broadening possibilities of expression and knowledge through multiple visions of reality. We want to raise a generation that is more liberated, and dream of a society that is more sensitive to equal opportunities, minority rights, gender violence and widen the possibilities of expression. We want a society that is brave and willing to explore otherness. During the course of nine days we bring valuable artistic experiences to Bergamo by transforming the city through a rich programme of films, shows, encounters, workshops and events thanks to our network of relations, cultural exchanges as well as national and international partnerships. The Festival and the association are named after Virginia Woolf’s novel. Her work clearly proves how cultural, gender, ethnic and affective orientation differences are indispensable to establish a cultural identity that is plural, alive and constantly transforming.
- A A Menos que bailemos (Unless We Dance) by Hanz Rippe Gabriele and Fernanda Pineda Palencia (Colombia, 2023) – duration 15’
In Quibdó, a Colombian city with a high crime rate, dance becomes a language to confront a social context filled with violence, racism, homophobia, and transphobia.
- Jusqu’au dessert by Jules Duclos and Noë Simondi (France, 2023) – duration 4’
During a family meal, Ninho, a young transgender man, spirals into negativity. With the help of friends, he seeks to free himself from a haunting memory.
- Gender Reveal by Mo Matton (Canada, 2024) – duration 13’
A queer trio at a gender reveal party, what could go wrong? An unexpected dark comedy about social inadequacy and gender stereotypes.
- TuTudo que importa (All That Matters) by Coraci Ruiz (Brazil, 2024) – duration 20’
Three families face off, three stories of acceptance and celebration of trans identity in a narrative that spans generations.
- Aquest (no) és el teu oceà (This is (not) your ocean) by Jordi Wijnalda (Spain, 2024) – duration 14’
An intimate letter takes shape through sound and images, an ode to a queer love that confronts an irreversible loss.