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, read more about the panelists below.

Tickets: Regular tickets, Cineville, stadspas, student cards and cjp cards.

10 july 2024 | 21:00 | Film screening at LAB 111: Soft (2022) + panel talk 

Film + Panel Talk: Chosen Families | Moderator Alejandra Ortiz and panelists Fiqi Zahira and Patri Roa Johansen

Spoken language during Talk: English | Info + Tickets

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 after-talk we will discuss the concept of being queer and families, how chosen families take over and provide the line of love an

Panellist: Fiqi Zahira

Zahira Fiqi Banafsaji (Fiqi), Image Specialist, born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia. Active member of the Dutch Ballroom Scene and Duth Princess of the Kiki House of Gabbana

Panellist: Patri Roa Johansen

Patri Roa Johansen (1991) is a Colombian-Danish classically trained musician, a performance artist, and a trans community builder. Currently, he lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is a member of Papaya Kuir, an intersectional feminist organization for and by Trans, Lesbian & Queer Latinx asylum seekers/migrants in The Netherlands. He is also a founding member of the award winning House of Løstbois, an Amsterdam-based drag king collective. Since 2019, Patri aka LatinX Charm, has done creative research on gender expression through realness drag.

14 july 2024 | 17:00 | Film screening at Het Ketelhuis: Caer | Caught (2021) + panel talk 

Film + Panel Talk: From New York to Amsterdam; Echoes of migrant realities | moderator Alejandra Ortiz and panelists Dora Melkonyan and Coral Andreoni.

Spoken language during Talk: English | Info + Tickets

Panellist: Dora Melkonyan

Dora is originally from Armenia. In her country, she holds a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from YSU and a master’s degree in medical biology from YS Medical University, where she also earned her Ph.D. in Medical Biology. She worked for Nine years in an institution by the National Academy of Science. She was researching the active properties of newly synthesized organic compounds during different pathological conditions. Besides her professional life, she is determined to support, empower, and educate vulnerable people and communities such as the LGBTQI+ community, people living with alcohol/drug addictions, and people with disabilities. She was actively involved in many projects supporting the transgender community with their very specific social and mental/health needs. She fled her country in 2019 to seek asylum in The Netherlands. She is continuing her activities in The Netherlands as well. Here, she supports LGBTQI+ asylum seekers, improving their social and mental well-being, as much as she can.

Panellist: Coral Andreoni.

Coral Andreoni, is a Morrocan-Italian transgender activist.

14 july 2024 | 19:00 | Film screening at Het Ketelhuis: Uýra: A Retomada da Floresta (2022) + panel talk 

Film + Panel Talk: From Manaus to Amsterdam; Why chosen families matter | Moderator Alejandra Ortiz and panelists Krissy van Orange and Misha Adrian.

Spoken language during Talk: English | Info + Tickets

Panellist: Krissy van Orange

Krissy is a fabulous trans woman from Trinidad and Tobago. A volunteer host at T-huis Amsterdam and a trans activist in my own right. I’m trying to make a change in this world however I can.

Panellist: Micha Adarian 

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.