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Adventures in the dark. (the Buzz).


Teddy winners Walking on Water(top, left) and All About My Father(above); Guardian of the Frontier(top, right)

WHAT MAKES FILM FESTIVAL parties sexier? Grim movies, apparently. "There were many parties with lots of flirting," joked Manuela Kay of Berlin's gay Siegessaule magazine about the 52nd annual Berlin International Film Festival, usually a launching pad for gay cinema, where this year the major films dealt with issues like Nazis and real-life violent tragedies. "Because of the lack [on-screen on·screen or on-screen  
adj. & adv.
1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen.

2. Within public view; in public.
], people had to get their share of eroticism Eroticism
Aphrodite

novel of Alexandrian manners by Pierre Louys. [Fr. Lit.: Benét, 783]

Ars Amatoria

Ovid’s treatise on lovemaking. [Rom. Lit.
 on a more social level."

The intensity of the festival's films was also reflected in the Teddy Awards for best GLBT GLBT Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered  movies, where Tony Ayres's Walking on Water, a heart-wrenching story of how friends and family cope with grief after euthanatizing a terminally ill Terminally Ill

When a person is not expected to live more than 12 months.

Notes:
Any gifts given out by the afflicted person at this time may be considered as a dispersion of the estate rather than a gift.
 gay man, came away with Best Feature and a Siegessaule readers' award.

Among the lower-profile films, however, there was festiveness and even joy to be found. Spanish director Venture Pons's Food of Love involves a cute young page turner--the fella that turns music pages for a pianist--who has a steamy affair with his musician idol, Kennington, while on vacation abroad with his kooky mother. Apparently novelist David Leavitt
For the editor of Greenwire, see David I. Leavitt.


David Leavitt (born June 23, 1961) is an American novelist. Biography
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Leavitt is a graduate of Yale University.
 approved of this adaptation of The Page Turner, E-mailing Pons a glowing letter to share before its premiere.

Maja Weiss's Deliverance Deliverance
See also Freedom.

Aphesius

epithet of Zeus, meaning ‘releaser.’ [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 292–293]

Bolivar, Simón

(1783–1830) the great liberator of South America. [Am. Hist.
 meets Blair Witch-esque feature, Guardian of the Frontier, saw a trio of hot Slovenian lasses encountering a mysterious guardian, plus some delicious lesbian sex.

Nonetheless, this year's Teddy award ceremony did provide one of the week's biggest laughs: Norway's Even Benestad won Best Documentary for All About My Father, which profiles his gender-bending transactivist pop, Esben, a.k.a. Esther. "Remember to call your mother!" the proud and glamorous Esther proclaimed to Even while accepting the award.
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Title Annotation:Berlin International Film Festival 2002
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:4EUGE
Date:Apr 2, 2002
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