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June Events...

  • Cinépride Nantes
  • CineSLAM
  • Colors of Love International Queer Film Festival
  • DIGO Festival
  • DiversidArte: Festival de Curtas
  • Espacio Queer
  • Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival
  • Fire!!
  • Frameline
  • Freiburger Lesbenfilmtage
  • Gilbert Baker Film Festival
  • Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival
  • Korea Queer Film Festival
  • Macao International Queer Film Festival
  • Mix Mexico
  • National Queer Arts Festival
  • OUR PRIDE Shorts & Arts Fest
  • OutFilm Festival Connecticut
  • Palm Springs International ShortFest
  • Panorama Film Festival
  • Premio Maguey
  • Provincetown International Film Festival
  • Queer North Film Festival
  • Queer Vision
  • Queer Women of Color Film Festival
  • Rainbow Reel Tokyo
  • Sofia Pride Film Fest
  • Tribeca Film Festival
  • Zinegoak Bilbao International GLBT Film Festival
Queer Popcorn Film Festival

Queer Popcorn Film Festival

Address

  • Bellinzona
  • Switzerland

The Queer Popcorn festival is composed by three sections: the international short film competition, the national amateur short film competition – dedicated to everyone - and a selection of films and documentaries newly awarded in international festivals. The festival’s philosophy is to present films treating socially or politically committed subjects but also humorous ones: the public is challenged by important topics that stimulate discussion and, at the same time, we also want to provide a friendly and relaxed atmosphere where socialization is encouraged during the “Apéros” taking place in the evenings, for instance. Queer Popcorn represents a unique opportunity for the public to discover stories that wouldn’t be screened in our cinemas.

Queer is an umbrella term that indicates the refusal of normative identities, societies or politics. Sexual orientation and gender identity cannot be reduced to binary alternatives. Queer people don’t see the point in defining people as bisexual, homosexual, transgender or heterosexual: what really matters is to be recognized as a person who has the right to live and love without being considered as unequal to the majority.