Queer Pride FILM

Joseph Amenta | Fiction film | 90 min | Canada | English (English subtitles)

Humans of Film Festival and LGBTQ Humans of Amsterdam are proud to announce that we will again have a collaboration with the amazing Alejandro 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 21:00 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.

10 july 2024 | 21:00 | Filmscreening at LAB 111 : Soft (2022) + panel talk met Alejandra Ortiz 

During the Queer & Pride film program, we will screen Soft (2022), a film by Joseph Amenta, at cinema LAB 111 as from 21:00 on the 10th of July. After the film, Alejandra Ortiz will moderate a panel discussion with panel members Fiqi Zahira en Patri Roa Johansen.

Synopsis: Soft (2022)

Follows three adolescent friends who become enraptured in the queer nightlife scene over the summer break before a missing person pulls them back into the reality they have chosen to leave behind.

*disclaimer: foul language*

Programme

HoFF x Queer Amsterdam x IQMF

Paneldiscussie: Chosen families

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.

• • Moderator: Alejandra Ortiz, schrijver (her book: “The Truth will set me Free“), grassroots activist, curator, and Jury member of Pride Photo 2024

  • Panellist: Fiqi Zahira, Indonesian Dutch trans woman, member of House of Gabbana

  • Panellist: Patri Roa Johansen, Colombian-Danish trans man, member of Papaya Kuir