One highlight from this year was the collection, ‘Hybrids’ which saw the screening of films like The Picture of Dorian Gray (dir. With well over sixty films and short film screenings, this year was huge and saw some of the best programs to date. Queer Screen’s fifteenth Mardi Gras Film Festival was a hit with audiences across Sydney, Newtown and Parramatta.
Following a series of encounters, George has to ultimately decide if there really is meaning to life after Jim. The directorial debut of fashion designer Tom Ford followed George Falconer (Colin Firth) for a single day after the death of his long-time partner, Jim. Another surprising and moving highlight from this year was A Single Man. Russel Mulcahy’s Prayers for Bobby(based off a true story) was an emotional screening looking at a man’s struggle to cope with his sexuality, mother’s religious beliefs and his own mental health. Megan Siler and Ellen Siedler), the San Franciscan remake of the seminal German split-narrative film, Run Lola, Run. Audiences also loved And Then Came Lola(dir. Other highlights from this year’s festival included the three-hour special program The History of My Queer Career which had a look back at some of the highlights of the competition from the last decade.
The festival opened, once again, with the world’s largest competition for locally produced queer short films and closed with the highly anticipated sequel to The Naked Civil Servant, Richard Laxton’s An English Man in New York. Queer Screen’s 17th Mardi Gras Film Festival was one of the biggest to date, with over forty-five films and programs in six locations.