Amors on FIRE!!
Amors on FIRE!! 2024
Selection of Barcelona's LGBTI film festival, FIRE!!
Audiovisuals
Free with pre-booking
FIRE!! Barcelona LGTBI Film Festival returns to the CCCB for the sixth year with Amors on FIRE!! to offer the best films from recent years of the festival.
The FIRE!! LGTBI Cinema Festival of Barcelona returns to the CCCB for the sixth year with Amors on FIRE!! to offer the best films from recent years of the festival. And it does so around Valentine's Day, to celebrate different ways of loving and of living gender identity. This year Amors on FIRE!! will take us around the world: to Korea with Peafowl, to Brazil with Indianara, to Italy with Mascarpone and to Germany with Seyran Ates: Sex, Revolution and Islam, with positive stories and stimulating portraits that explain what it means, today, to belong to the LGTBI collective.
All screenings will be preceded by a presentation organised by the FIRE!! LGTBI Cinema Festival of Barcelona, by Casal Lambda.
Programme
Thursday 15
19.00: Mars One, Gabriel Martins, Brazil, 2022, 115', Original language with Catalan subtitles
The members of the Martins family, optimistic dreamers, live quietly on the outskirts of a large Brazilian city. After the disappointing inauguration of an extreme right-wing president, and as a lower middle-class black family, they feel the strain of the new situation as political power takes hold. Tércia, the mother, reinterprets her world after a chance event that makes her think she's cursed. Wellington, her husband, pins all his hopes on the football career of his son, Deivinho, who reluctantly follows his father's ambitions even though he secretly aspires to study astrophysics and colonise Mars. Meanwhile, the eldest daughter, Eunice, falls in love with a free-spirited young woman and wonders whether it's time to leave home.
Presentation by Mar Canet
21.30: Indianara, Marcelo Barbosa and Aude Chevalier-Beaumel, Brazil, 2019, 84', Original language with Catalan subtitles
With her revolutionary and overwhelming personality, Indianara and her team lead a fight for the survival of transgender people in Brazil. As she gathers forces for a last stand against the attacks carried out by her political party, she prepares herself for the totalitarian threat that's about to come. Shot between 2016 and 2018 just before Jair Bolsonaro was elected, and later premiered at Cannes, the documentary takes us to Casa Nem, a shelter for trans, gay and lesbian people in Rio de Janeiro. Among violent demonstrations, election dates, funerals and pool parties, we follow the charismatic Indianara Siqueira, a modern warrior, as she leads her "troops" with an iron will and endless passion. A powerful, spirited film co-directed by Marcelo Barbosa and Aude Chevalier-Beaumel, a masterpiece of cinematic art in purely observational style that brings to life a terrifying reality.
Presentation by Rubén Antón
Friday 16
19.00: Socks on Fire, Bo McGuire, USA, 2020, 93', Original language with Catalan subtitles
When the matriarch of a large family in the south of the US dies without a will, her children become embroiled in a bitter feud over inheritance. The dispute leads filmmaker Bo McGuire to return to his home in Hokes Bluff, Alabama, and document the growing confrontation between the two idols of his childhood: his now homophobic aunt and his proudly gay uncle. The battle threatens to tear apart various generations of this formerly united tribe. By investigating this epic family feud, McGuire also reflects on his own queer adolescence in the rural South. Socks On Fire is the filmmaker's tribute to his beloved grandmother and also the story, told in first person, of a clan divided by petty jealousies and old wounds, fuelled by the extreme homophobia of one of its members. Combining home videos and intimate interviews with masterful re-enactments, including the brilliant casting of drag queens, McGuire paints a fascinating picture of a family divided.
Presentation by Antoine Leonetti
21.30: Les meilleures, Marion Desseigne Ravel, France, 2021, 80', Original language with Catalan subtitles
Nedjma, a teenager living in Paris with her mother and sister, is spending the summer with her gang of friends. But her life is turned upside down when she meets Zina, from a rival gang. They're enemies in broad daylight but secretly lovers. Nedjma is caught in a spiral, torn between the values of the neighbourhood and her own desire, which no-one around her can understand, let alone tolerate. She'll have to make a decision that will ultimately define who she is.
Marion Desseigne Ravel has succeeded in capturing, with extraordinary realism, the yearnings and contradictions of the young generations of North African immigrants in France, where sexual freedom still clashes strongly with family traditions and the street culture of the slums.
Presentation by Mar Canet
Saturday 17
17.00: Canela, Cecilia del Valle, Argentina, 2020, 77', Original language
At the age of 48, Ayax Grandi, an architect from the city of Rosario, decided to become Canela. This film narrates a parenthesis in her life in which she's torn between having surgery on her body or not. To resolve this dilemma, she begins a search. She consults health professionals, her children and friends until she realises something about her desire she didn't really expect. Canela is a film as intelligent, funny, kind, cheerful and captivating as its protagonist.
Presentation by Rubén Antón
19.30: Seyran Ates: Sex, Revolution and Islam, Nefise Özkal Lorentzen, Norway, 2021, 81', Original language with Catalan subtitles
The exemplary humanitarian work of Turkish-German radical feminist, lawyer and imam, Seyran Ateş, lies at the heart of this compelling and revealing documentary. As a young Muslim girl in Berlin, Seyran grew up experiencing Islamic repression. Since then, she's dedicated herself to reforming Islam, opening the first gender-neutral mosque and educating and empowering young LGBTQ Muslims to embrace their sexuality. The film reveals a determined woman, willing to risk her life in the name of religious reform and sexual freedom. Nefise Özkal Lorentzen, the film's director and a Turkish-Norwegian writer and producer who lives in Oslo, has focused much of her career on Islam-related documentaries and has used her platform as a means of activism in defence of human rights and to draw attention to the lives of LGBTQ people.
Presentation by Mar Canet
22.00: Mascarpone, Matteo Pilati and Alessandro Guida, Italy, 2021, 101', Original language with Catalan subtitles
Antonio is a 30-year-old man whose life takes an unexpected turn when his husband leaves him, on whom he depends, both psychologically and financially. He needs to find a place to live, a job and a new purpose in life. He ends up renting a room in Denis's house and working in Luca's bakery whilst attending a patisserie school. While all this is going on, he realises he was wrong to give up his independence in order to save his relationship at all costs.
Presentation by Antoine Leonetti
Sunday 18
17.00: Peafowl, Byun Sung-bin, Korea, 2022, 114', Original language with Catalan subtitles
Shin's a real expert at Waacking, a type of Voguing with lots of posing. And she's got a lot riding on the dance competition because, if she wins, the prize money will cover the cost of her gender reassignment operation. However, Shin also has other challenges. Her father, from whom she was estranged, has just died and it falls to her, his only child, to perform a traditional dance ritual at his funeral, which entails an unpleasant journey back to her rural origins. Despite all this, Shin has the support of a spiritual guide in the form of a peafowl. And so, defiantly facing any opposition with coolness and confidence, staying true to herself but also shedding some of her harshest armour, she embarks on a winding path to enlightenment, a journey on which the whole village will soon follow. This is the first magnificent feature film by Byun Sung-bin, director of God's Daughter Dances, a short film screened at FIRE!! in 2022 that has won prizes all around the world.
Presentation by Rubén Antón
19.30: Moneyboys, C.B. Yi, Austria/France/Taiwan/Belgium, 2021, 118', Original language with Catalan subtitles
Fei makes a living in the big city working as a prostitute. His world collapses when he realises that his family accepts his money but not his way of life or his homosexuality. Heartbroken, Fei struggles to start a new life. Moneyboys could be about a very specific situation, namely the migration of a young man from rural China, but for director C.B. Yi it's a universal story about interpersonal relationships that could take place anywhere in the world.
Presentation by Antoine Leonetti
Presenters: Antoine Leonetti, Rubén Antón, Mar Canet
This activity is part of Amors on FIRE!!
