Amors on FIRE!! 2025

Films such as Power Alley and Under the Rainbow reveal the transformative power of LGTBI solidarity. Fragments of a Life Loved depicts a woman’s life through all the people who’ve loved her, from adolescence to adulthood. Friendship and youth are portrayed from different but extremely fresh perspectives in The Summer With Carmen, set during a sweltering Greek summer, and Girl Picture, which takes place during a harsh Finnish winter. With an intimate, reflective approach, Queerying Nature takes a look at a queer animal world as an echo of our society. In the crime drama Till the End of the Night there’s deception and betrayal criss-crossing between a trans woman, an undercover agent and a criminal. The central theme of All the Colours of the World are Between Black and White is the exploration of identity whilst, finally, Hidden Master pays homage to George Platt Lynes, the unjustly forgotten photographer and pioneer of male nude portraiture.

There will be an introduction to each film before it’s screened, provided by Casal Lambda on behalf of the FIRE!!! Barcelona LGTBI Film Festival.

 

Programme

Thursday, 13 February 

6.30 pm: Girl Picture (Tytöt tytöt tytöt), Alli Haapasalo, Finland, 2022, 100', original language with Catalan subtitles

Mimmi, Emma and Rönkkö are young girls on the verge of femininity who are attempting to define their own personalities. On three consecutive Fridays, two of them experience the stirring effects of falling in love, whilst the third sets out on a quest for something she’s never experienced before: pleasure.

Introduction by Mar Canet

 

9.00 pm: All the Colours of the World are Between Black and White, Tunde Apalowo, Nigeria, 2023, 93', original language with Catalan subtitles

Bambino is a delivery man who’s adapted to a simple bachelor’s life. However, everything changes when he meets Bawa, a charismatic photographer, at a photo contest. During their long trips around the city of Lagos, they develop a deep affection for each other. But in a society that considers homosexuality to be taboo, they feel the pressure of social norms.

Introduction by Antoine Leonetti

 

Friday, 14 February

6.30 pm: Till the End of the Night (Bis ans Ende der Nacht), Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany, 2023, 120', original language with Catalan subtitles

To gain the trust of Victor, a drug dealer, Robert, an undercover policeman, has to pretend to be Leni's lover. The police hope that Leni’s ties to Victor will help him infiltrate the organisation. But while this part of the plan works relatively well, their fake relationship is difficult from the start. Leni’s a trans woman and, before her transition, Robert was in love with "him". Ironically, it’s Victor who’ll force Robert to confront his mixed feelings of love.

Introduction by Rubén Antón

 

9.00 pm: Hidden Master: the legacy of George Platt Lynes, Sam Shahid, USA, 2023, 96', original language with Catalan subtitles

George Platt Lynes began his career photographing celebrities and it’s those portraits, along with his flamboyant fashion work, that are most remembered today. However, George's passion and greatest talent lay in another area: the portrayal of the male nude. It’s only recently that his work, sensual and radically explicit for the time, has been fully discovered and appreciated as revolutionary, being the work of an artist who opened a window onto a future that his camera saw coming before anyone else. The documentary shows Platt Lynes' influence as one of the first openly gay American artists.

Introduction by Antoine Leonetti

 

Saturday, 15 February

5.00 pm: Power Alley (Levante), Lillah Halla, Brazil, France, Uruguay, 2023, 99', original language with Catalan subtitles

On the eve of a championship that will define her future, promising volleyball player Sofia is faced with an unwanted pregnancy. Seeking an illegal abortion, she becomes the target of a fundamentalist group determined to stop her at all costs, but neither Sofia nor those who love her are willing to surrender to the blind fervour of the mob.

Introduction by Mar Canet

 

7.30 pm: Fragments of a Life Loved (Fragments d'un parcours amoureux), Chloé Barreau, France, Italy, 2023, 95', original language with Catalan subtitles

Throughout our lives, we fall in love with very different people. Teenage infatuations, long-distance love, carnal passion, deep attachment: each story is different, each experience is unique. Since the age of 16, between Paris and Rome, Chloé Barreau, a filmmaker, has filmed all her loves. She’d start creating her memories while she was still in a relationship: filming, photographing, writing. But each story has at least two points of view. What do her exes remember? What’s their version of events?

Introduction by Alba Laguna

 

10.00 pm: The Summer with Carmen (To kalokairi tis Karmen), Zacharias Mavroeidis, Greece, 2023, 106', original language with Catalan subtitles

While spending a whole day on a gay beach in Limanakia, Athens, two good friends, Demos and Nikitas, recall the events of a recent summer with a view to turning them into a screenplay for Nikitas' feature film debut.

Introduction by Antoine Leonetti

 

Sunday, 16 February

5.00 pm: Under the Rainbow (L’Arche de Noé), Bryan Marciano, France, 2023, 103', original language with Catalan subtitles

An association takes in LGBT+ young people who’ve been thrown out of their homes by their families. Behind the apparent comedy lie broken lives. They’re young people with a strong desire to exist, to find their place in society. Here they have only six months to find work, accommodation and to accept themselves as they are. A race against time in which Noëlle, who runs the association, and Alex, who helps her in her mission, also remember their own failures and question their reasons for helping others.

Introduction by Rubén Antón

 

7.30 pm: Queerying Nature, Aline Magrez, Leonor Palmeira, Belgium, 2023, 65', original language with Catalan subtitles

Over the past twenty years, thanks to a new, freer approach, scientists have revealed an animal world in which sexuality, gender and family relate with diversity. Being queer is natural! From the pioneering work on queer animals by biologist Joan Roughgarden to the questions posed by philosopher Vinciane Despret, at the same time reflecting on diversity with biologist Thierry Lodé and ethologist Fleur Daugey, this film interweaves the thoughts and emotions of two artists inspired by this queer nature and the multitude of animal behaviours, representing them poetically. By means of an intimate, reflective approach, Queerying Nature asks: does the story of animals echo our own society? Could we also destroy the idea of a sexual norm and, at the same time, eliminate the symbolic power of animals?

Introduction by Rubén Antón