Queer Film Night

It will be a fantastic evening with glitter and glamour, when the heteronormativity will need to take a step back. The evening begins with a more serious tone with a film XXY which will introduce us to Alex who was born with two sexes. We will continue with a cult musical ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’; a warm and humorous story about the East German transsexual punk rock singer.
Emma Gray Munthe, a freelance film journalist, known as a film critique in Filmkronikan and Aftonblanded , is going to be the evening’s hostess.

Snacks and the cider are included in the price of the ticket for this evening.

XXY

Lucia Puenzo/Argentina 2007/ 86 min/11 years/ Spanish with the English subtitles

A fifteen year old Alex lives with her parents in a small coastal town, far from the bustle of a big city. However, she is treated as an outcast by the locals and  it is difficult for her to trust anyone. Her father is worried about her mental and physical condition. Three people; a plastic surgeon with his wife and their son arrive to the house on Alex’s mother invitation. This visit brings new acquaintances, confessions and feelings which greatly affect all the people involved.

XXY is a brutal but at the same time very beautiful film about norms, values and about living up to peoples’ expectations. It is a film about making the most difficult choice in life and about daring to change oneself. Empire Magazine acclaimed XXY “the most original coming-of-age drama you’ll see this year”. The film presents the phenomenon of children born with two sexes in a respectful and an insightful manner. In fact, there are more of them in the world than might be presumed.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

USA 2001/ John Cameron Mitchell/ 92 min/ 11

This is John Cameron Mitchel’s cult musical about Hedwig; a transsexual East German punk rock singer who is on tour with her band‘the Angry Inch’. She is following a rock star Tommy Gnosis; her former boyfriend who stole her songs. The film is Hedwig’s slightly bitter but very humorous recollection of her life expressed mostly in her songs. She recounts her upbringing and her acquaintance with the American naval officer Luther and the sacrifices she made in order to move to the USA – her beloved rock music land.

The musical had its premier in 1998 on Broadway where it received fantastic critics. It was screened for the first time in 2001 and has already acquired the cult status which can be easily compared to Rocky Horror Picture Show. The musical was also performed in Sweden at the Stockholm City Theater 2008.

Fokus
Saturday, 4th of Sept kl.18.30
100 Sek.

More films with the queer topic at the Jönköping Film Festival 2009:

Ed Wood (Tim Burton) –the outdoor cinema in Jönköping , 4th of Sept 2009
A Special Day (Ettore Scola)
Född i fel kropp (Katarina Johansson), Cinema at the Jönköping läns museum (in Swedish)
Milk (Gus van Sant)
Were the world mine (Tom Gustafson)