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Queer Amsterdam will take place for the second time from July 3 to August 3 and Humans of Film Festival will participate! During the Queer Amsterdam Film program, we show films that focus on transgender people and queer people of color in both LAB 111 and Het Ketelhuis. These films were selected by writer and trans activist, Alejandra Ortiz. After the films, she moderates several panel discussions with transgender key figures from the queer community.
Humans of Film Festival and LGBTQ Humans of Amsterdam are proud to announce that we will again have a collaboration with the amazing Alejandra Ortiz as our film curator during Queer & Pride 2024. Together with her, we have chosen three films that we will show during the Queer Pride film program, which will be from the 8th of July until the 14th of July. The entire Queer & pride program this year will start from the 3rd of July until the 3rd of August 2024. The film Soft will be screened at LAB111 on the 10th of July, and the films Caer | Caught and Uyra, together with a sing performance by Agnes Geneva, will be screened at Het Ketelhuis on the 14th of July. Alejandra Ortiz will also have talks right after the film as moderator with intriguing panelists, more information will come up soon.
Tickets: Regular tickets, Cineville, stadspas, student cards and cjp cards.
10 july 2024 | 21:00 | Film screening at LAB 111: Soft (2022) + panel talk with Alejandra Ortiz and panellists
Spoken language during Talk: English
During the Queer & Pride film program, we will screen Soft (2022), a film by Joseph Amenta, at cinema LAB 111. After the film, Alejandra Ortiz will moderate a panel discussion with panel members Fiqi Zahira and Patri Roa Johansen. During the aftertalk we will discuss the concept of being queer and families, how chosen families take over and provide the line of love and support many trans youth do not find within their blood-related families.
*disclaimer: foul language*
14 july 2024 | 17:00 | Film screening at Het Ketelhuis: Caer | Caught (2021) + panel talk with Alejandra Ortiz and panellists
Spoken language during Talk: English
During the Queer & Pride film program, we will screen Caer | Caught (2021), a film by Nicola Mai, at cinema Het Ketelhuis. After the film, Alejandra Ortiz will moderate a panel discussion with panel members Dora Melkonyan and Coral Andreoni. The talk is named From New York to Amsterdam; Echoes of migrant realities. The talk will discuss how trans-migrant realities tend to echo each other around the world. Common challenges and strategies to make it better for our communities.
14 july 2024 | 18:30-19:00 | Performance at Het Ketelhuis: Call me Agnes by Agnes Geneva
Agnes is a Transgender singer/actor. Being a versatile singer she loves to sing pop, jazz, blues, and Gospel. Since she was 4 years old. She grew up at the church and sings gospel every Sunday and that influenced her performance up until nowadays, she sings with power and full of emotion. She has performed in many places and events in Amsterdam and throughout the Netherlands: Pride events, Nedpho-Koepel Orchestra, Weddings, Bars/Cafe’s and she was also on Holland’s Got Talent 2019. Apart from singing, Agnes also loved acting. She does Musical Theater and her debut feature film “Call me Agnes” will be in the Cinema at the end of 2024.
14 july 2024 | 19:00 | Film screening at Het Ketelhuis: Uýra: A Retomada da Floresta (2022) + panel talk with Alejandra Ortiz and panellists
Spoken language during Talk: English
During the Queer & Pride film program, we will screen Uýra: A Retomada da Floresta (2022), a film by Juliana Curi, at cinema Het Ketelhuis. After the film, Alejandra Ortiz will moderate a panel discussion with panel members Misha Adrian and Krissy van Orange. The talk is named From Manaus to Amsterdam; Why chosen families matter. During this discussion, we will discuss the role chosen families play in the well-being and the development of a trans and queer person. We will also delve into the interconnectedness of issues such as gender, politics, climate justice, and who speak for who.
25 juli 2024 | 19:30-22:00 | Short film screening + panel talk program | Perspectief op Gender: Toen en nu | Rijkmuseum
Spoken language: Dutch / Netherlands
During the panel talk program Perspectief op Gender: Toen en nu, in the Rijksmuseum, we will screen the short film Required Reading (2023) by Iniyavan Elumalai. The program stands in relation to the summer exhibition Point of View, which you can visit as from July 5th until September 1st, 2024 in the Rijksmuseum. During the program, Feargal Agard, director of Humans of Film Festival shall give an introduction to the film. After the film there will be two panel talks taking place. The first will be about the importance of new perspectives with Maria Holtrop and Charles Kang, curators of Point of View. The second talk will be about museums as places of context with Erik van Ginkel, financial director of Rijksmuseum, and Maaike Rikhof, curator Frans Hals Museum.
The program will end around 20:45, afterward you can have drinks and snacks with us and or take a look at the exhibition point of View until 22:00.
Humans of Film Festival 10 – 13 October 2024
Humans of Film Festival will return in October this year with a scala of intriguing world cinema films with a social focus. Our film festival takes again place in the week of Diversity. We will have various talks, guests, jury members and awards, workshops, parties, and performances next to the films screenings. We will also start on October 5th with a talk for the neighborhood in regard of Solidarity, in collaboration with the Alliance Change from Within (Alliantie Verandering van Binnenuit | Movisie). So save the date and stay tuned for more information.
Stichting Humans of Film Foundation and her projects and collaborations
The stichting Humans of Film Foundation (Projects: Humans of Film Festival | LGBTQ Humans of Amsterdam) aims as a socio-cultural organization to give a stage to important stories by and about queer people, but also other people in general. By showing and discussing such stories, we can make people think about all these different topics. We do this in collaborating with various parties, such as Queer Amsterdam, Stichting ART.1, IQMF, LAB 111, Het Ketelhuis, etc.