Hi Raindancers, I’m Sibyl, lead academic administrator from Raindance Film School. As part of the queer community, I am very impressed with the dynamic films in this year’s LGBTQIA+ category at Raindance Film Festival, 2024. I urge you to check out films within the selection.
Cuckoo Opening Night Gala
Nominated for Best International Feature
Nominated for Best International Feature
Q&A with Director Tilman Singer moderated by Finn Halligan
The 32nd Raindance Festival kicks off with the UK premier of Cuckoo, directed by Tilman Singer. Starring the iconic break-out star of Euphoria, Hunter Schafer, this haunting horror piece will make for a spine-chilling viewing at the opening gala.
Your Ticket to the screening also includes:
Also this night: The presentation of the Icon Award
PLUS Opening Night Summer Drinks at Wonderville
Avant Drag!
Content warning: Nudity and sexual references
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature
Q&A with Director Fil Ieropoulos
Avant Drag! showcases the lives of drag kings, queens and creatures living in Athens, Greece.
As a performer on London’s queer and gothic music scene myself, I thoroughly enjoyed peering through the looking glass into the nightlife and entertainment scene of Greece’s capital.
If you’re looking for a colourful perspective on queer Athens, Fil Ieropoulos’ film is the way to go.
Prepare for a pantheon of pride.
Arni
Q&A with Director Dorka Vermes
Sensitive and bird-like Árni works as a handyman at a small and dingy traveling circus touring rural areas. He lives like a monk, his days revolving around feeding the animals and doing odd jobs. As Árni begins taming the circus’s new python, the process gradually makes an impact on him.
Endless Summer Syndrome
Director: Kaveh Daneshmand | Czech Republic/France 2023 | 98 minutes | UK Premiere
June 23, 2024 |5:20 pm | Curzon Soho | Tickets
Q&A with Director Kaveh Daneshmand + cast members
Delphine has it all — an affluent life, a prestigious career, an intelligent husband, and an adopted son and daughter. However, her splendidly idyllic holiday with the family by the pool takes a macabre turn when she learns that her husband may be having an affair with one of their kids.
National Anthem, Closing Night Gala
Nominated for Discovery Award for Best Debut Feature,
Best Debut Director and Best Performance in a Debut
Q&A with Director Luke Gilford
A heartwarming (and breaking) feature about trans lives and queer
relationships within small southern communities in the USA, shines a fresh light onto LGBTQIA+
experiences. So often queer identities are associated with the metropolis, where amongst the
urban skylines, under the cover of darkness, the queer raves, dark/alternative parties, fetish
clubs, gay and lesiban bars nestle. Luke Gilford casts a ray of sun over the southern desert, and
through the gates of The House of Splendor.
Did You Know?
- Raindance Film Festival is considered one of the top fifteen film festivals in the world?
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Sibyl Cooper is a London based writer and musician working for Raindance Film School. Their writing explores neurodivergent perceptions of the natural world, with their most recent essay, ‘Metamorphosis’, available in Speculative Nature Writing: An Anthology, set for release in Summer 2023. Under the alias Scarlet Early, they write and produce gothic metal and industrial music.
