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Eurovision – It's Oh So Queer!This special with film screenings, a talk and a performance is devoted to the gay topic par excellence: the Eurovision Song Contest. The ESC - or “Grand Prix de la Chanson” as it was called until 1991 – stands for the marketing of gay music pleasures and hereby has formed specific stereotypes, which will be examined in this special. Along with two documentaries, the scientific analysis of queerness and mainstream culture by Dr. Peter Rehberg, professor of German Literature and Queer Studies in Austin, Texas, will be central to this programme. Two performances by the Eurovision performer Eurofalsh from Israel will give it a finishing touch. |
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Homosexuality and Religious FaithIn 1998, when Pink Apple took place for the first time, it was confronted with demonstrating Christian fundamentalists. For the first few years they turned up annually, then occasionally in front of the cinema, campaigning against the festival with slogans such as “Adam and Eve – not Adam and Steve”. |
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Homosexuality/homophobia in educationThis special is about verbal abuse in the schoolyard, about girls and boys that do not meet role expectations and are mobbed, bullied and discriminated against, or about coming out during the difficult years of puberty, a seemingly huge and impossible step. How do schools deal with these problems? Is homosexuality part of the curriculum? How do teachers manage to haul this subject into the classrooms? And what do the textbooks say? |
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Human RightsThis year we will show a series of films focusing on the desperate situation of lesbians and gays in various eastern and southern countries. Even though equal rights – at least on a legal level - have been implemented in many western countries, there still are too many places on earth where homosexuality is forbidden, ostracized and persecuted, and where lesbians and gays have to fear for their physical integrity or even their lives on a daily basis.
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Lunch Cinema SpecialThis year we will show a series of films focusing on the desperate situation of lesbians and gays in various eastern and southern countries. Even though equal rights – at least on a legal level - have been implemented in many western countries, there still are too many places on earth where homosexuality is forbidden, ostracized and persecuted, and where lesbians and gays have to fear for their physical integrity or even their lives on a daily basis. |
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Pink Talks – Talks with our GuestsWe are happy to invite you this year again in our own Café bar during the festival in Zurich, which will also serve as a meeting point. Near the Arthouse Movie, at the Cabaret Voltaire (Dada House), we invite you to join us for discussions, lectures and panel discussions. Talks (Pink Talks) with guests from Switzerland and abroad will also take place. Or simply enjoy a drink before or after a film at the Arthouse Movie. |
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Rainbow familiesQueer filmmakers are currently very interested in the subject of children. This can be seen in our programme: no less than eight documentaries, feature films and short films about rainbow families are to be found. The main issues however are very different, featuring biological children and stepchildren and the consequent legal complications, and children that still have to be conceived on the one hand and stubborn teenagers on the other hand. |
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The “Hosen-Rocken-Picture-Show“We thought the Twenties were the times of cross-dressing, but we were mistaken! Before 1914, films were much more lively and free, wilder and more utopian than in the wildest years after. Mother and daughters roam around, smoking and dressed in stolen trousers, while the father slips into skirts and dances about the parlour. And while the Berlin police waggle their bottoms provocatively, Tilly and Sally escape at night in men’s clothing. The film historian Mariann Lewinsky Sträuli has compiled a collection of eye-opening and amusing short films from the early days of cinema and will present a sensational show, which will be accompanied on the piano by Ruth Bieri. |
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The “Kreis”: Zurich’s Gay HistoryThe journal “Der Kreis” (“The Circle”) was first published in 1943, initially in German and French, after 1955 also partly in English. Its background was the reading circle “Der Kreis”, one of the most important gay organisations worldwide after the war. Pink Apple pays homage to the “Kreis” with music, poetry and photographs from the time, as well as memories of contemporaries of the circle. In addition, Stefan Haupt (director) and Ivan Madeo (producer) will talk about their current film project “Der Kreis”, its challenges, its current state and future schedule until completion and marketing. |
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Zanele MuholiA photo exhibition will present a selection of works drawn from “Faces & Phases” and “Being” by the South African photographer, filmmaker and activist Zanele Munoli. We will also be screening two of her shorter films, “Enraged by a Picture” and “Difficult Love”. The exhibition will open on April 27th at 4 pm in Galerie Widmer+Theodoridis, and close on May 6th. On April 28th, 4 pm, and May 5th, 4 pm, there will be a discussion with the artist. |