(A scene from “My Name is Rose”)
The
5th annual Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (DGLFF) will take place
from June 18 to 26 at the KZNSA Gallery.
As
a partner of the Durban Pride week with the main parade happening on June 27 (www.durbanpride.org.za) after the closing night,
the DGLFF forms a key part of eThekwini’s pink celebrations with free morning public
workshops and lunchtime screenings, afternoon filmmaker workshops and evening
screenings including feature films, documentaries and short films.
This
year sees a retrospective of well-known Canadian gay filmmaker Charlie David's
recent films Mulligans (2009), Scenes From A Gay Marriage (2012), More Scenes From A
Gay Marriage (2014) and the Pink African
Premiere of his latest film Paternity Leave (2015) with Chris Salvatore (Eating Out series) along with powerful documentaries Beyond Gay: The
Politics of Pride (2009) and Positive Youth (2013).
David
is a great supporter of the DGLFF with his well-received film Judas Kiss opening the inaugural
DGLFF in 2011. He is a guest of this year's Festival thanks to the support of
the Canadian High Commission in Pretoria. He will also conduct filmmaking
workshops for emerging LGBTI filmmakers.
Oscar
nominated for the documentary Invisible War that saw him win an Emmy,
American filmmaker Tanner Barklow and Israeli counterpart Gil Kofman will share
their new film Lost In the White City starring Thomas Dekker as
a bisexual experimental filmmaker on a soul-searching vacation with his
girlfriend in Tel Aviv when a handsome Israeli drives a sexual wedge between
them.
Additional
films to look forward to are A Reunion (USA/2014), a gay road trip
film that brings two estranged friends back together on a journey to attend
their alma mater reunion in Chicago whilst confronting a complicated past; and Shadows of Yesterday (Philippines/2014), a drama that focuses on
the growing romance of two guys during student uprisings that pit love and
principles against ideology.
The Festival will
host the world premiere of a new South African lesbian drama, My Name Is Rose, a story of forced marriage, African tradition and newly-discovered
love between two young African women coming to terms with a patriarchal
society. The film will screen on June 19 at 19h00. Starring Enoch Mnguni,
Slindile Dlamini and Zenele Mazibuko, My Name
Is Rose looks at the emerging sexuality of a young
Zulu princess in rural KZN who flees to Durban to avoid being 'sold' to an
older chief for 40 cattle, and in doing so initiates great changes in her
world. Filmmakers Mlungisi Msomi and Sekara Mafisa will attend the premiere as guests
of the Festival.
In
addition, more than a dozen international short films and deeply moving documentaries
will be included in the eight-day Festival
The
5th annual Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (DGLFF) will take place
from June 18 to 26 at the KZNSA Gallery, 166 Bulwer Road,
Glenwood, Durban. Tickets R30 for main screenings and special
package rates are available - see the website for details. http://www.dglff.org.za/
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