art200 is a queer cultural festival in Bucharest, Romania. Queer is an umbrella term for the LGBT community: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender. The festival’s main purpose is to encourage queer filmmaking, expression and collaboration between local queer artists, to encourage just and complex representations of LGBTQ+ characters in movies, to promote equality and solidarity through art and culture. The project has the following components:
- An educational component, which includes literature, film, dance workshops, as well as masterclasses and discussions;
- The festival per-se, which includes film screenings, literature readings, concerts, performance.
We are organizing art200 because we realize how important it is to encourage queer film-making in Romania. There are very few LGBTQ+-themed film productions in Romania: only up to six or seven shorts are produced every year. We believe that the existence of the festival itself will encourage more filmmakers to produce queer film because of the fact that there is a space dedicated to them, where they can create collaborations, exchange ideas and discuss their works.
At the same time, art200 aims to show the general public complex and just representations of LGBTQ+ people, especially when it comes to intersectional identities, in the context in which this group constantly faces discrimination, violence and stereotypes.
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The fourth edition of art200 is looking for filmmakers! If you have an LGBTQ+ themed film and you are part of the community, we are waiting for your proposals until May 15th!
You can submit both short and feature films in the following categories:
- International short films with the following themes: Queer Horror, Radical Queers, Queer Roma, Queer Night Life, Masculinities;
- International feature films: any LGBTQ+ - themed films;
- Romanian & Moldovan films: any themes.
The selected films will be screened during the art200 festival, which will take place between the 23rd and 30th of September in Bucharest. There will be additional screenings in Iași, Timișoara, Brașov and online. Before registering, we kindly ask you to carefully look over the rules. Failure to follow the rules will result in disqualification of the film. Any films that do not respect this year's themes will be disqualified.
art200 does not have a competition and does not offer awards/ prizes.