{"id":10801,"date":"2015-12-26T18:35:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T18:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/?p=10801"},"modified":"2016-01-18T10:26:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T10:26:43","slug":"detailed-program-of-the-festival-merlinka-in-sarajevo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/detailed-program-of-the-festival-merlinka-in-sarajevo\/","title":{"rendered":"Detailed program of the Festival Merlinka in Sarajevo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/soc.ba\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/plakat_vodoravno.jpg\" alt=\"plakat_vodoravno\" \/>On January 29<sup>th<\/sup> and 30<sup>th<\/sup>, Sarajevo Open Centre will organise and host, for the fourth time, the International Festival of Queer Film Merlinka at the Art Cinema Kriterion in Sarajevo. This Festival has been organised for seven years in Belgrade with the goal to promote films tackling LGBT topics. This year&#8217;s Merlinka in Sarajevo differs from the previous ones because it\u2019s programme is different than the Belgrade Merlinka\u2019s one \u2013 the featured films will be premiered, and the festival will last for two days.<\/p> <p class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 mb-3\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IjZ80dLFFfE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"embed-responsive-item\"><\/iframe><br \/> On Friday, 29th January, the festival will be opened by the film <strong><em>Appropriate behaviour<\/em><\/strong> (Desiree Akhavan, USA, 2014, 86\u2032) an exciting comedy with the focus on the emotional-erotic relations of the bisexual Shirin. Shirin is struggling to become an ideal Persian daughter, politically correct bisexual and hip young Brooklynite. But she\u2019s not quite Persian enough, not quite gay enough, not quite anything enough. She fails miserably in her attempt at all identities, and being without a clich\u00e9 to hold onto can be a lonely experience. After being dumped by her girlfriend Maxine, Shirin faces an unimaginable task: trading the idyllic lesbian haven of Park Slope for a shared artist\u2019s loft in Bushwick. Unable to let go of the memories of their excruciating highs and lows, the endearingly superficial narcissist finds herself plotting to win back her ex.<\/p> <p class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 mb-3\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hc45-ptHMxo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"embed-responsive-item\"><\/iframe><br \/> During the second day of the festival, at 2 P.M. the documentary film <strong><em>Mask you live<\/em><\/strong> (USA, 2015, 97\u2032) Man up! Boys are raised to become &#8216;real men&#8217; by living up to specific gender roles. This movie investigates masculinities as a concept and the norms connected to our stereotypical ideal of men. Through interviews with guys who talk about their personal experiences, we explore masculinity as something which is instilled in society and can reveal itself as harsh homophobia in sports and other cultural contexts. This documentary deals with shocking facts about our boys and the way we raise our kids, through a discussion about masculinity itself.<\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/soc.ba\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/merlinkina-ispovest1.jpg\" alt=\"merlinkina-ispovest1\" \/>From 4 P.M. the audience would see the recording of the hit performance piece <strong><em>Merlinka&#8217;s confession<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; (directed by: Stevan Bodro\u017ea, cast: Aleksandar Trm\u010di\u0107, \u010carni \u0110eri\u0107, text: Miladin \u0160evarli\u0107, producer: Predrag Azdejkovi\u0107, 45\u2032). This is a monodrama based on the autobiography of Vjeran Miladinovi\u0107 Merlinka, Theresa\u2019s son that was published in 2002 in Belgrade. The text was written in 2003 when Vjeran was tortured and killed, and has waited for more than ten years to be set on stage. Merlinka Festival produced this performance that premiered in January 2014. &#8211; as well as the review of the short regional films: <strong>Strawberries <\/strong>(Jelena Lela Milosevi\u0107, Montenegro, 2013, 23\u2032) The story follows a younger couple (Nje\u017eni, \u010cupka). They live isolated life. The emergence of Mladi\u0107, brings all their problems to the surface. They are childless. Nje\u017eni persuades \u010cupka to conceive a child with Mladi\u0107. She goes to Mladi\u0107 and they have a quite agonizing sex. Nje\u017eni saw that, and starts to run disturbed. \u010cupka looked for him followed by Mladi\u0107 and found him naked and then we realize that Nje\u017eni is a woman. Mladi\u0107 tries to rape him but Nje\u017eni takes a pitchfork and stabs him to death. Three years after, couple have two years old child. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/soc.ba\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/jagode.jpg\" alt=\"jagode\" \/><\/p> <p><strong>Just be Safe and sound <\/strong>(Tamara Skrozza\/\u017divojin \u010celi\u0107\/Predrag Azdejkovi\u0107, Serbia, 2015, 11\u2032) A film about parenthood, relationship between parents and children, relationship between parents and LGBT children. <strong>Like Other Girls Do, <\/strong>(Melissa Potter, USA\/Serbia, 2015, 26\u2032) In an old Balkan custom, a girl became her father\u2019s son to keep the home she would otherwise leave when she married. In a nearby city, five women live far from such traditions.<\/p> <p class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 mb-3\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yocjQE7psPo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"embed-responsive-item\"><\/iframe><br \/> At 6 P.M. the documentary film <strong><em>The New Man<\/em><\/strong> (2015, Uruguay\/Nicaragua\/Chile, 97\u2032) will be shown. <em>The New Man<\/em> is an intense and strong depiction of trans* Stephanie Mirza&#8217;s life. Growing up in Nicaragua as Roberto, Stephanie was interested in education and politics at an early age. However, due to unbearable family problems Stephanie was adopted away to Uruguay. In the finest way, director Aldo Garay portrays Stephanie&#8217;s turbulent life &#8211; including a psychologist conversation about sex change and childhood trauma, and not least her journey to meet her biological family for the first time since she was given up for adoption 38 years ago. The film won this year Teddy Award for best documentary at the Berlinale. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/soc.ba\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/LeZbor.PozitivanKoncert.jpg\" alt=\"LeZbor.PozitivanKoncert\" \/><\/p> <p>&nbsp;<\/p> <p>The special guests of the festival will be the members of <strong>Le Zbor<\/strong>, the first Croatian lesbian-feminist choir that was formed out of the desire to encourage and promote the lesbian-feminist socio-cultural visibility. Their concert will be the spectacular introduction to the big <strong>Merlinka party<\/strong> with regional super star <strong>Sonja Sajzor<\/strong>.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/soc.ba\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sonja.jpg\" alt=\"sonja\" \/><\/p> <p>The festival is supported by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Open Society Fund.<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 29th and 30th, Sarajevo Open Centre will organise and host, for the fourth time, the International Festival of Queer Film Merlinka at the Art Cinema Kriterion in Sarajevo. This Festival has been organised for seven years in Belgrade with the goal to promote films tackling LGBT topics. This year&#8217;s Merlinka in Sarajevo differs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/detailed-program-of-the-festival-merlinka-in-sarajevo\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lgbt-and-culture","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/plakat_vodoravno.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10921,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions\/10921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc.ba\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}