14 Feb Top Queerability films at MGFF23
Featuring uplifting romances, captivating docos, short films and even an alien-involved fantasy sci-fi, here are the Queerability films screening at this year’s Festival; stories featuring queer characters living with disability.
So Damn Easy Going
Fri, Feb 17, 7:00pm
Event Cinemas, George St
and
Tue, Feb 28, 8:30pm
Ritz Cinemas, Randwick
This darkly comedic film impressively balances the highs and lows of a burgeoning high school sapphic romance amidst the mounting anxieties of an adolescence magnified by neurodiversity.
Unidentified Objects
Sydney Premiere
Sun, Feb 19, 7:00pm
Dendy Cinemas Newtown
+ On Demand
Unidentified Objects is a buddy movie like you’ve never seen before. Peter, an uptight gay man with dwarfism, and his free-spirited neighbour Winona take a cross-country roadtrip in search of her alien family.
Prosopagnosia
Sydney Premiere
Sat, Feb 18, 1:45pm
Ritz Cinemas, Randwick
A story of identity, communication and memory using expressive animation to investigate personal memories in intimate and experimental ways.
Sparkles
Mon, Feb 27, 7:00pm
Event Cinemas, George St
Selling Fast! 🔥
A 30-something year-old woman with Down syndrome flees her small country town for the big city, befriending a drag queen along the way.
Screening at: My Queer Career
Single
Mon, Feb 27, 7:00pm
Event Cinemas, George St
Selling Fast! 🔥
Housemates Tilly, Luke and Bridie bamboozle their way through a kaleidoscope of psychedelic romantic encounters in Sydney’s inner-west.
Screening at: My Queer Career
Victor’s Body
Sydney Premiere
Sat, Feb 18, 1:45pm
Ritz Cinemas, Randwick
A baby is born but does not cry. A body screams and is not heard. Paints that run in a promised future do not reach people with disability.
Sleep with Me
Sydney Premiere
Tue, Feb 28, 6:20pm
Ritz Cinemas, Randwick
Harry is a charming radio DJ whose program ‘Sleep with Me’ offers a sympathetic ear to hopeless romantics awake at midnight. When avid listener Luna bumps into her (literally), sparks instantly fly.