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September Events...

  • 29 Queer Film Festival
  • Calgary International Film Festival
  • Cinema Diverse!
  • Cinema Queer International Film Festival
  • CinePride Film Festival
  • CINEVERSATIL
  • D'un bord à l'autre
  • Exposures: Montréal Trans Film Festival
  • Fantastic Fest
  • festheart
  • Festival MIX MILANO di Cinema Gaylesbico e Queer Culture
  • Fresno Reel Pride Film Festival
  • Fringe! The London Gay Film Fest
  • Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
  • I+N Festival Courts Queer Short Film Fest
  • Kreives: Vilnius LGBT* Festival
  • Les Mains Gauches
  • LGBT Toronto Film Festival
  • Long Beach Q Film Festival
  • MICGenero
  • Mirror Mountain Film Festival
  • Oslo/Fusion Filmfest
  • Out on Film
  • Outfest Peru
  • OUTnorthLa Film Festival
  • Premio Sebastiane
  • PriFest
  • Queer City Cinema
  • Queer Film Festival: Germany
  • Queer Lion
  • Queer Lisboa
  • Queer Wave
  • QueerX
  • Reel Pride Winnipeg
  • Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
  • San Sebastián International Film Festival
  • Some Prefer Cake
  • Toronto International Film Festival
  • Twisted Arts Film Festival
  • Vancouver Queer Film Festival
  • Venice Film Festival
  • Vinokino Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
  • Virginia Queer Film Festival
  • Vues d'en Face - Grenoble
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.