Forget Eurovision, watch this instead!
Join us for a screening of John Greyson ’s surrealist camp docu-opera about BDS, pinkwashing, and gay penguins: PHOTO BOOTH
🎤 We will begin with a short talk about why LGBTQIA+ groups around the world are calling for a boycott of Eurovision
📅 Thursday 9 May 2024
⏰ Doors 18:30, Film starts at 19:00
📍 Biergarten Jockel, Ratiborstraße 14c, 10999 Berlin
💰 Bring cash for the soli-kasse – all donations go to support our friends and their families in Gaza
More about the film:
Watch the Photo Booth Trailer on Vimeo (login required)
Watch a Q&A with the director on YouTube
PHOTO BOOTH
Dir. John Greyson, Canada, 2022 (110 minutes)
Outraged by the 2021 bombing of Gaza, Palestinian queer activists Hamza (Sam Al Esai) and Walid (Ramzi Zain) recruit novelist Jean Genet (John Gilbert) to sabotage the Eurovision song contest in Jericho. Their method? Secure the collaboration of Buddy and Pedro, Toronto’s famous naked gay penguins…
The emergence of queer BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) as a dynamic Palestinian-led global movement is brought to vivid life through interviews and actions, opera and agitprop, protests and pranks. Recounting fifteen years of passionate activism in Toronto and worldwide, Photo Booth juxtaposes a surreal operatic narrative with documentary scenes that explore pride and pink-washing, gay soldiers and homo-nationalism, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, and the accelerating weaponization of anti-Semitism.
Queer activists Ghadir Shafie, Judith Butler, Ali Abunimah, and others recount the victories and set-backs of this emerging social justice movement. In his final performance, John Gilbert plays a bewildered Genet, attempting to engage with the digital queer activism of a new century, trying to navigate his way through the diverse challenges of megaphones and photo booths, twelve-tone and split-screen, frisbees and teargas, Gaga and Gaza, solidarity and silence…
Content Advisory: male nudity
Language: The film is mostly in English, parts featuring other languages are subtitled in English.
Mask-wearing at this event is encouraged. If you are feeling sick or have tested positive for Covid-19, we ask that you please stay home in order to care for fellow community members.