MELBOURNE December, 2008 – One of the largest queer film festivals in the world, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF), is gearing up for another premiere event in 2009. Screening at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image from 18 – 29 March, MQFF will screen over 150 films over twelve days and includes a $16,000 cash prize pool.
Highlights for the 2009 festival include Affinity, a sumptuous period piece, based on Sarah Waters’ 1999 novel of the same name. It’s a women-in-prison movie with a gothic Victorian twist; Fashion Victims, a classic German comedy about a travelling salesman who finds his territory challenged by a young rival – who’s also become romantically involved with his secretly-gay son; and The Other Side (A Outra Margem), a humanist drama a drag queen who, after his lover commits suicide, re-connects with his sister while finding hope from her son who refuses to let the fact that he suffers from Down Syndrome prevent him from pursuing his dreams.
