BFFW 2016: While You Weren't Looking + Discussion about lesbian representation in cinema (SOLD OUT)

This program will take a closer look at lesbian visibility in film with a feature presentation of the South African drama While You Weren't Looking, short films and a panel discussion.

Feature presentation: While You Weren't Looking

In the 1990s, South Africa was at the forefront of gay and lesbian rights and South Africa led the world with its all embracing Constitution, granting homosexuals unprecedented freedoms and rights. This feature, produced by The Out In Africa Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, takes a look at South Africa through the lives and experiences of a cross section of Cape Town queers. While you weren’t looking takes up issues of gender, women’s rights, class and race through the eyes of the queer community.

Full synopsis

”Dez and Terri, a mixed-race couple married 20 years and adoptive parents, they are the trailblazing lesbians of the New South Africa. But, have these freedoms guaranteed them happiness?

Asanda, their 18 year old adopted daughter, is the poster child for South Africa’s diversity but describes herself as “an experiment”, being made up as she goes along. She meets Shado, an enigmatic Tommy Boy from Khayalitsha, a township on the edge of Cape Town, and a different picture of the New South Africa emerges.”

Panel discussion with:
Josie Thaddeus-Johns (Journalist/Moderator)
Naomi Beukes-Meyer (filmmaker)
Aileen Pinkert (Lesbische-Schwule Filmtage Hamburg)
Nathalie Percellier (filmmaker, Pro Quote Regie)

Venue: Schwuz
Date&Time: March 10th, 8 pm (doors) 8:30 pm (start)
Language: English
Tickets: 8 euro

Wheelchair accessible, please let us know if you need a spot!

After the screening you are all warmly welcome to stay for the
Elektronischer Donnerstag: ://about blank & SchwuZ feiern gemeinsam w/ Alienata & resom. Screening tickets will get you in for free!

Event details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1117893984921528/