Between May 16 and June 15, Terceira will host a cycle of queer cinema, which includes the screening of 14 films, all in Portuguese.
Queer Terceira, conceived and produced by João Pedro Costa, a communication designer and cultural agent from Terceira, takes place in the context of a project of itinerancy and decentralization that the Queer Lisbon Film Festival has been developing since 2021, seeking to bring some of the most recent and relevant titles of queer cinema to places in mainland Portugal and the islands where access to this type of cinema, in theatres, is still very restricted.
The initiative, funded by the European Union and the Startup Europe Regions Network, as part of the Youth 4 Outermost Regions program, spans three stages, culminating on the dates of the Azores Pride celebrations.
The first event takes place from May 16 to 19 at the Ramo Grande Auditorium in Praia da Vitória, with the theme “Youth, Religion, and Family.” The films “Lobo e Cão” (Wolf and Dog) by Cláudia Varejão, shot in São Miguel, will be shown on the 16th at 10:30, “Pedágio” (Toll) by Carolina Markowicz on the 17th at 21:00, and “Intransitivo: um Documenta’rio sobre Narrativas Trans” (Intransitivo: a Documentary on Trans Narratives) by the Intransitivo collective on the 18th at 18:00.
The second event, on the theme of “Sexual health and mental health in queer people”, takes place between May 30 and June 1, at the Angra do Heroísmo Cultural and Congress Center and at Recreio dos Artistas.
In a special session in partnership with the company Cães do Mar, Rui Mourão’s “Carnival is a Stage, the Island is a Party” will be presented on May 30 at 9pm.
At the Angra Cultural Center, the films “E agora? Lembra-me”, by Joaquim Pinto, on May 31, at 21h00, and ‘A Metade de Nós’, by Flávio Botelho, on June 1, at 18h00.
After the screening of “A Metade de Nós” there will be a debate with psychiatrist and clinical sexologist Mariana Bettencourt, from Hospital da Horta and Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo, and Vanessa Barcelos, a specialist in Internal Medicine with a post-graduate degree in HIV/AIDS, moderated by Constança Carvalho Homem, Queer Lisboa programmer.
The third event, in partnership with the Cine Clube da Ilha Terceira, will take place from June 13 to 15, at Recreio dos Artistas and the Lar Doce Livro bookstore, on the theme of “Activism and queer voices”.
On June 13, from 6.15pm, at the Lar Doce Livro bookshop, there will be a debate with Jó Bernardo, owner of Esquina Cor de Rosa, the first LGBTQI+ bookshop to open in Lisbon, which this year published “Quem? ”, Rute Bianca’s autobiography; António Fernando Cascais, a lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova in Lisboa, author of numerous publications since the 1990s and who recently released the works “Estar Além – A Persona Queer de António Variações”, “Masculinidades debaixo de fogo: Homosociality and homosexuality in the colonial war” and ‘Homosexual Dissidence and Resistance in the Portuguese 20th Century’, and Isabel Rodrigues, vice-president of the board of the Amplos association and one of the authors of ‘Giving and Receiving Love in All Its Forms’. The debate will be moderated by João Ferreira, artistic director of Queer Lisboa.
On June 14, at 9:00 p.m., at Recreio dos Artistas, the documentary “As Fado Bichas” by Justine Lemahieu will be screened.
On the 15th, from 4pm, a series of recent short films by Paula Tomás Marques, Ary Zara, Sérgio Galvão Roxo, Joana de Sousa, Ricardo Branco, André Godinho, and David Pinheiro Vicente, a director from Terceira, will be screened.

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