The International Festival of Queer Film ‘Merlinka’ will be held from 31 January to 2 February in Sarajevo in Art Kino Kriterion, organized by the Sarajevo Open Center, announced the organizers today.
The aim of the festival is to promote the rights and culture of LGBT people through film art, which is one of the methods in the struggle to reduce homophobia.
In the three days of the festival, 30 short films and 3 feature films will be shown.
‘’On the second day, a discussion will take place on the topic ‘transexuality in transition’, whose idea is that transexuality question the wider socio-ideological context of countries in the region, from socialism to capitalism and everything in between, and to show how and if political processes have anything to do with everyday life of trans people’’, announced the Sarajevo Open Center. Guests from Croatia, Serbia and B&H will participate.
Festival ‘Merlinka’ was organized for the first time in Belgrade in December 2009. The basic idea was to promote films that deal with gay, lesbian and trans topics, which rarely reach a wider film audience. The festival is named after the murdered trans person, Vjeran Miladinović Merlinka.
(Source: Fena)
