The 3-day event of gay & lesbian cinema will show European previews, meetings with directors and a window to the Australian queer movies, twinned with Circuito Off International Short Films Festival, with its glbt section and a queer party with dj and vj. The “Days of Gay & Lesbian Cinema”, at their second edition, will be at Lido with new partners and the will to be under the lights of the Mostra -International Film Festival of Venice.

Every night at the Cinema Astra in Lido, the “Days” will open at h.20.00, with an episode of “The line of beauty”, the tv series produced by the BBC and drawn on the beautiful novel by Alan Hollingurst [published this year in Italy by Mondadori] about the hedonist, cynical and violently Thatcherian London of the 80'es.

So, every night you could watch European previews: on September the 5th, “Rag Tag” by Adaora Nwandu (UK/Nigeria, 2006), a story of friendship and love between two young Nigerian guys, grown in London, a contradictory city full of conflicts and social discomfort. A preview with an outstanding hip-hip soundtrack.

On the 6th, an absolutely preview "Ma la Spagna non era cattolica?" by Peter Marcias (Italy, 2006) regarding the reactions of Italian people about the novelties brought by Zapatero.

On September the 7th it will close the event “Colma: the Musical" by Richard Wong (Usa, 2006), an Asian-American musical about the life and desires of three best friends.

The three days will be also marked by short films, among which “Gueule de Princesse" by Pépita Mars (France, 2006) and eight Australian productions brought by Circuito Off, one of the most important international short film festival, which takes place just in Venice during those days [in the island of S.Servolo], at its seventh edition.

Produced and distributed by the “Queer Screen Vision” Australian organization, the Venetian festival has selected for the Astra Cinema theatre nine short films, with a selection focused on the gay and lesbian imagery. Since two years it is a fixed appointment of Circuito Off. This festival dedicates to the queer cultures also some meetings with Lgbt dj and vj, intermingling different cultural languages.

Everyday, at 13.30, at the Venice Film Commission stand [inside the Palace of the ex-Casinò in Lido], the press conferences will take place, with film directors participating in the three-day event of gay cinema.

The Days of Homosexual cinema and the Queer Screens are promoted by CinemArte and Artecolica associations, with the support of the LGBT Observatory of the Muncipality of Venice, the Province of Venice [the Culture Dept.] and Gay.tv in collaboration with Arcigay.

The three-day of cinema is an important appointment to the LGBT Observatory. It is also a step of the “Queer too queer” project, the urban laboratory which is involving young artists about the subjects of identity, bodies, cultures. A laboratory built over workshops and creative productions, for which the three-day event of glbt cinema represents a very useful depository of imagery and visual cultures.