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desired! – film lust & queer

This section in Cologne and since 2021 also in Dortmund provides with its own forum for all genres of film that deal with sexual identity and diversity. The desired! – film lust & queer programme puts the focus on lifestyles and concepts of love that differ from those of society’s majority and question prevailing ideas and notions of gender and their assigned social roles. The diversity of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersexual lifestyles is highlighted in six to eight programmes comprising documentaries, feature films and lectures on film culture.

Be/Longing
Being accepted as a feeling of longing. The films in the desired! – filmlust queer section tell of collective experiences and utopian spaces. With the Covid pandemic still in full flow, these films deal with the question of belonging, about togetherness that extends well beyond the nuclear family, but they also address the issue of violent exclusion. Documentary and feature film narratives take a particularly close look at collective forms of relationships in this year’s films. The concept of “we” in the films is not the one about romantic couples: communal forms of everyone caring for others and of responsibility are central.