Showtime in Cairns
The 2012 Cairns Queer Film Festival starts this Friday with a line-up selected by community members.
The weekend of screenings will open with festival circuit favourites Cloudburst and Weekend together with an opening night party to celebrate queer film.
The festival will also feature Silent, a documentary chronicling how the generation that fought the hardest to come out is now going back into the closet to survive in nursing homes.
With gay parenting still a hot topic in Queensland, the festival will show Fatherhood Dreams, which highlights the lives of four gay parents.
Australian documentary Holding Hands, about a homophobic attack, is also on the program.
The Cairns Queer Film Festival runs May 18 – 19 at the Jute Theatre, Cairns. It is now in its sixth year, having started out as the Tropical Alternatives Film Festival.
The festival will travel to Brisbane, Townsville and the Sunshine Coast for screenings later in the year.
INFO: www.qahc.org.au/films
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