This work, which portrays the aspirations of a queer youth community in Queens, is an odyssey that transcends time, through dreams and visions of a better world. The film starts from a utopia and creates a collaborative manifesto, demanding the changes that queer young people want today.
In the feature film competition, for the Tigre prize, there is the Brazilian ‘Madalena’, by Madiano Marcheti, also in world premiere, on how the death of a trans woman links three lives in the agrarian heart of Brazil.
In the Grande Ecrã competition, there is also the Brazilian ‘Carro Rei’, by Renata Pinheiro.
Catarina de Sousa is a journalist, director and producer of cinema and visual arts, master in Communication Sciences from the University of Minho with training in Documentary Workshops at Ataniers Varan, in France.
Due to the fight against Covid-19, the Rotterdam International Film Festival will be divided into two stages: the first between 1 and 7 February and the second between 2 and 6 June, with a series of events in between.