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This year's Festival Award for merits in lesbian and gay filmmaking goes to Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, who will be receiving the award in person. «The Celluloid Closet» (USA 1995) was the first film to be seen at Pink Apple back in 1998. In cooperation with Filmpodium Zurich, we will be showing a selection of both authors' / oscar winners' filmwork.
Pink Apple Festival Award
Wir danken Luzius Sprüngli für die grosszügige UnterstützungZu diesem Fokus gehören:
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Pink Apple Festival Award Documentary
An Olympic athlete; a gay activist; a boy with hemophilia; a recovering heroin addict; a closeted Navy commander: five very diverse lives that shared a common fate. Their lives - along with thousands of others - are woven together in a giant memorial patchwork quilt that is solemnly unfolded in the U.S. capitol to protest the government's refusal to respond to a growing epidemic. Common Threads tells the powerful story of the first decade of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S.