Link to tickets: https://studio-k.nu/film/cada-vez-que-muero-queer-amsterdam/

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Queer Amsterdam will take place for the first time from July 22nd until July 28th and Humans of Film Festival is participating! Humans of Film Festival is proud to announce our collaboration with the new Queer Pride by Queer Amsterdam this year. Queer Pride centers queer people of color, transgender and non-binary people, and queer people with disabilities. We have chosen Alejandra Ortiz, writer (her book: “The Truth will set me Free“), grassroots activist and guest curator Queer Currents 2023, to select two films (that will be screened at Melkweg and Studio/K) and to decide the topics that she wants to discuss during the panel discussions after the films. Through our other projects (including LGBTQ Humans of Amsterdam) you will find more programs (for example in collaboration with Pride and Sports) and even an exhibition about the Gay Games 1998 in the Amsterdam Museum.

26 july 2023 | Film screening Studio/K: Cada vez que Muero (2022) + after talk with Alejandra Ortiz 

During the Queer Amsterdam film program we screen Cada vez que Muero (2022), a film by Raúl Vidales Bohórquez, at Studio/K. Cada vez que Muero, meaning Every Time I Die, is a hybrid feature film that combines documentary with fiction. The feature film approaches cinema as a ritual of symbolic transformation in the death experiences of seven trans women. After the film, Alejandra Ortiz will moderate a panel discussion with panelists and trans activists Alexandra R. Ruiz (México) and Alma Betancur (Colombia). The conversation will be about the artistic world that often serves as the only space of acceptance, where transgender people can empower themselves and the community.

Synopsis: Cada vez que Muero (2022)

“Cada vez que muero” is a hybrid feature film that blends documentary with fiction. The feature film approaches cinema as a ritual of symbolic transformation in the death experience of seven transwomen. The film’s testimonies, along with surreal and fantastic scenes, come together to narrate death viewed from different angles: as related to transfeminicides and as social death that seeks to nullify through exclusion and silence those seen as uncomfortable by others. The film also deals with the multiple deaths that we experience in life; death that speak of resignations, of forgetfulness, of separations, of changes. “Caza vez que muero” is an invitation to shake off mourning through delirious weeping or through sagacious bursts of laughter, with the aim of seeing death through the eyes of those who radiate life, celebrate life, and struggle for life.

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Panel Talk: “Why is the art world often the only trans accepting space?”

During this talk we discuss how the community can unite and come together through their dreams and artistic expression. In the middle of violent and aggressive times, queer people continue to dream their dreams and express them in daily life. When people talk about being marginalized it is often presented in a monolithic way. Trans people have their own dreams, personas and personalities. Often the artistic field seems to be the only space where trans people can empower themselves and the community, whereas in other fields there is hardly any acceptance. Why is it that non linear, non hegemonic identities are more accepted in the art world?

• Moderator: Alejandra Ortiz, writer (her book: “The Truth will set me Free“), grassroots activist and guest curator Queer Currents 2023

• Panellist: Alexandra R. Ruiz, a trans and migration human rights activist from Mexico;

• and Panellist: Alma Betancur, a Columbian trans and indigenous rights activist.