Out In Africa 2009 Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
The 16th Out In Africa South African Gay & Lesbian Film Festival takes place in Johannesburg from September 3 to 13 and in Cape Town from September 10 to 20. This years festival features 17 international feature films and nine local productions, five of which are world premieres.
The festival has a wide range of films with subjects and themes that include high school hilarities, forbidden love, coming out, the desire to have children and ageing gigolos. Once again, moviegoers can look forward to comedies, tragedies, dramas and thought-provoking documentaries. Every genre of filmmaking is covered including homage to celebrated gay icons. Award-winning international directors and actors will attend as guests of the festival.
The festival opens with Spinnin’ (6 Billion Different People) a film made by Spanish director Eusebio Pastrana in 2007. This is the Spaniards at their wacky best – an exuberant award winning film set in Madrid in 1995, following lovers Garate and Omar as they seek to have a child.
Included in the line-up is Fig Trees. Directed by John Greyson, this Canadian production is a contemporary opera based on the lives of South Africa’s own HIV/Aids activist, Zackie Achmat and Canadian Tim McCaskell. The film uses clever historical references to Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thompson and is richly layered, intelligent and unique. Greyson, who is considered the prince of gay filmmaking, is a guest of the festival and will be in attendance.
Angel, directed by Giorgios Katakouzinos is an award-winning film that took the world by storm when it debuted at Cannes in 1982. Based on a true story this Greek classic is considered the one Greek film that all Greeks have seen!
Anyone who has seen Cabaret will be fascinated by Chris and Don, directed by Guido Santi and Tina Mascara. This amazing documentary is about Christopher Isherwood whose short stories, Goodbye to Berlin were the basis for the musical, Cabaret. This sharp, witty and revealing film is told mainly by his lover, Don, and is supported by amazing archival footage of Hollywood starting in the late forties.
Courtesy of the British Council, the festival welcomes in attendance director Simon Pearce and producer Christian Martin whose film
Shank, directed by Simon Pearce, follows the story of working-class Cal who hides the fact that he is gay to his fellow gang members. Trouble erupts when he rescues a French boy his gang beats up. This explicit, shocking, largely hand-held film has already picked up an international award and breathes new life into British alternative cinema.
Probably the most controversial and most recommended film at the festival is XYZ. At last year’s festival, the South African Film and Publications Board banned the movie on the basis of child pornography. Out In Africa then challenged the Film and Publications Board and won their case, which has set a precedent and will have fa- reaching effects on future rulings of films with such a sensitive subject matter.
Family is about a group of 30-something African-American lesbians who make a pact to finally come out to their families and colleagues with surprising and hilarious results. US director Faith Trimel will be in South Africa to present her film.
The South African films in the festival include a re-release of Zackie Achmat’s 1999 Apostles of Civilised Vice, an important film which unpacks the tangled, tragic and often ironic queer history of South Africa. Cunningly presented and endlessly revealing, this film reclaims and rewrites the place of gays and lesbians in history and presents a new one that is celebrated, as opposed to criminalised and marginalised.
Dykeumentary, directed by Jacque Oldfield and Adelheid Reinecke, is South Africa’s first full-length lesbian feature film and this screening will be the world premiere.
Opening the festival in both Johannesburg and Cape Town will be the world-acclaimed and beloved South African icon Pieter Dirk Uys.
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