{"id":1762,"date":"2024-09-08T22:04:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T20:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemaqueer.se\/cq24\/english\/?post_type=portfolio_page&#038;p=1762"},"modified":"2024-09-29T15:40:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T13:40:53","slug":"if-i-was-a-fruit-2","status":"publish","type":"portfolio_page","link":"https:\/\/cinemaqueer.se\/cq24\/english\/portfolio_page\/if-i-was-a-fruit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"If I was a fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1724839493573{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;background-color: #dc3ca9 !important;}&#8221; z_index=&#8221;&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;100&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1><b>If I was a fruit\u00a0<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><strong>At Kontr\u00e4r 1, 3, 5 of October<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The films explore the (in)comprehensible. Speculating on the &#8221;buts&#8221; and &#8221;ifs&#8221; of imagined realities. Heralds reveal uncomfortable truths about the ruling king&#8217;s attire and the former king&#8217;s demise\u2014absurd responses to questions framed by whataboutism. These speculative lines of thought guide us toward a shimmering mirage, woven together in a short film program featuring carefully selected submissions from this year&#8217;s open call.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Azul Pandora<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Alan Gonz\u00e1lez \/ Cuba \/ 2024 \/ 12 min \/ Spanish<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pandora, a 40-year-old transgender woman living in a residential neighbourhood in Havana, rejects Roy, the teenager who tries to win her over. While caring for a neighbour\u2019s child, she gets an unpleasant surprise that makes her consider whether or not to give Roy a chance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A body like mine<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Maja Classen \/ Germany \/ 2023 \/ 35 min \/ English, German<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Puck dares to do wild things, such as queer post porn and wrestling, her creator artist is often insecure and vulnerable. Puck is often misunderstood, judged, fetishized. As a proud Black performer artist, Puck stages herself in images and phantasies that bodies like hers have been banished from. Through the collaboration between director Maja Classen and Puck, presents refreshing and unconventional perspectives on current discussions about race and gender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cherry, Passion Fruit<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Renato Jos\u00e9 Duque \/ Portugal \/ 2023 \/ 5 min<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nature contains both the flowing waterfall and the consuming fire. Inside a mysterious rainforest, lust takes shape between love and pain. Would you face your haunting desire?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Du bist So Wunderbar (Paradise Europe)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Leandro Goddinho, Paulo Menezes \/ Germany \/2023 \/ German, English, Portuguese<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the day thousands of people went to the streets protesting against unaffordable rents in Berlin and the abolishment of the rental cap law, a gay Brazilian immigrant who was just kicked out of his apartment struggles to find a new room while his personal life falls apart as well as the city around him.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inhale<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Lagha Ghavam \/ 2024 \/ 7 min<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pill Nation<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Bruno Tadeu \/ Brazil \/ 2024 \/ 17 min \/ Portuguese<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dante is an old gay activist who refuses to retire. Facing the inevitable end of his being, he decides to fulfill his old plans of opening the first LGBTQIA+ retirement house in Brazil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Utop\u00eda<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Rub\u00e9n Fabbri \/ M\u00e9xico \/ 2024 \/ 7 min<\/strong><br \/>\nUtop\u00eda is an exploration of the reformulation of the erotic body and the deconstruction of gay sex; It focuses on moments of homosexual sexuality, directly and canonically dismantling the aesthetics imposed by gay porn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Queer exile<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Ahmed Awadalla \/ Germany \/ 2024 \/ 10 min \/ English<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After fleeing Egypt in the wake of the 2011 revolution, an activist seeks refuge in Berlin, yearning for a fresh start and the promise of safety and freedom. As he reflects on his past and contemplates his future, he confronts profound questions about belonging, sacrifice, and the true meaning of freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where the wild frangipanis grow<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bNirartha Bas Diwangkara \/ Indonesia \/ 15min \/ 2023 \/ Indonesian<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aditya, a young personal assistant in a renowned Hindu ashram for a charismatic spiritual leader, is torn when he develops romantic feelings toward a new innocent recruit named Chandra and realizes that his Guru has also developed a strong attraction toward the new disciple. <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;]<a  itemprop=\"url\" href=\"https:\/\/kulturbiljetter.se\/varukorg\/7387\/cinema-queer-festivalpass-30-sep-6-okt-2024\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\"  class=\"qbutton  big_large_full_width default\" style=\"\">BUY FESTIVAL PASS<\/a>[\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;12px&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1763&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; qode_css_animation=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;12px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; angled_section=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image_as_pattern=&#8221;without_pattern&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1724839493573{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;background-color: #dc3ca9 !important;}&#8221; z_index=&#8221;&#8221; padding_top=&#8221;100&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;] If I was a fruit\u00a0 At Kontr\u00e4r 1, 3, 5 of October The films explore the (in)comprehensible. 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