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1st Queer Lion Award: The Speed of Life

The Queer Lion is the trophy awarded starting in 2007 to the “Best Movie with LGBT Themes & Queer Culture” among those presented during the Venice International Film Festival.[1]

History

The idea of the Queer Lion comes from a 2003 interview, made by president of CinemArte association Daniel N. Casagrande for monthly magazine Venezia News, to then-Director of the Venice Film Festival Moritz De Hadeln. During that, Casagrande asked Mr. De Hadeln if the Venice Film Festival would have welcomed an award meant to specifically honor gay-themed movies, the same way Berlin International Film Festival had done 20 years earlier (with Teddy Bear Award). Although the answer was a positive one, the changing of the Festival’s director the following year caused a delay in the development of the project, which was greenlighted by the new director Marco Müller, who declared his will to back and sustain the creation of such a new collateral award.

All the movies containing LGBTQ themes, stories, plots, or characters, presented in any of the sections of the Venice Film Festival are considered eligible for the award. Specifically, these sections are: Concorso (Competition), Fuori Concorso (Out of Competition), Orizzonti (Horizons), Controcampo italiano (Italian Reverse Shot), Giornate degli Autori (Venice Days), and Settimana Internazionale della Critica (International Critics' Week).

The Queer Lion jury, composed of journalists, directors, critics, persons with a deep knowledge of cinema, views all the movies deemed to contain noteworthy LGBTQ elements during the Venice Film Festival, picking the "best film" among them.

Award

Year Winner Director Country Reference
2007 The Speed of Life Edward Radtke United States [2]
2008 One Day in a Life (Un altro pianeta) Stefano Tummolini Italy [3]
2009 A Single Man Tom Ford United States [4]
2010 In the Future (En el futuro) Mauro Andrizzi Argentina [5]
2011 Wilde Salome Al Pacino United States [6]
2012 The Weight Jeon Kyu-hwan South Korea [7]
2013 Philomena Stephen Frears United Kingdom [8]
2014 Summer Nights (Les Nuits d'été) Mario Fanfani France [1]
2015 The Danish Girl Tom Hooper United States [9]
2016 Heartstone (Hjartasteinn) Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson Iceland [1]
2017 Reinventing Marvin (Marvin ou la belle éducation) Anne Fontaine France [1]
2018 José Cheng Li Guatemala, United States [10]
2019 The Prince (El príncipe) Sebastián Muñoz Chile [11]

References