No fags

Hello dear Festival-Team,
our debut-film about nine charming, politically active queer friends wants to be shown at your event!!!
We have the support of Rosa von Praunheim, the most important gay German filmmaker of his generation and Wieland Speck, former curator of the Berlinale.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19297226/
5 minutes cutout: https://youtu.be/AvgDoEUrRK4

World Premiere was on October 23rd 2021 at the Hamburg International Queer Film Festival, Germany
Official Selections + awards since then:
Brussels Capital Film Festival, Belgium - best documentary
Best Istanbul Film Festival, Turkey - best feature documentary
Indie For You Film Festival, Los Angeles/CA, USA
Pink Apple Festival, Zürich, Switzerland
Schwule Filmwoche Freiburg, Germany - second place audience award
WICA, New York, USA
Accolade Global Film Competition, La Jolla/CA, USA - award of merit documentary feature
APOX Film Festival, Veli Losinj, Croatia
Montreal Arthouse Film Festival, Canada - semi-finalist
FICAA, Navarte, Mexico
Cine Paris Film Festival, France - best first time director documentary
Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions @PinewoodStudios, Great Britain
The Hollywood First-Time Filmmaker Showcase, Los Angeles/CA, USA
Boden International Film Festival, Sweden, best first time director documentary
Stockholm City Film Festival, Sweden
Wallachia Int'l Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania - best documentary
Santo Domingo OutFest, Dominican Republic

The film is warmly discussed:"...is one of the most exciting films of the year - " - https://www.queer.de/video-des-tages.php?vid=1156
"A generational portrait and a very personal slice of the gay movement..." - https://www.arttv.ch/film/tunten-zwecklos-das-geheimnisvolle-leben-der-hamburger-bollenmaedels/
"...insights into her childhood, her coming out, her sexuality and the Aids crisis up to the care and death of her parents"
- https://www.arthouse.ch/aktuell/filme/1573/tunten-zwecklos/#
"Finally the audience was not underestimated... Impressive also in its openness, vulnerability... Afterwards you can breathe more freely"
- https://mannschaft.com/doku-die-schwulen-schwarzwaldmaedel-von-der-reeperbahn/?fbclid=IwAR33_t_uhS51GUmX02KiuuJtwAz97bhiu6pXnqujIZhZalyk23j9XBoAqDg

Synopsis:
"Faggot as a swear word: gay sow, the stupid faggot, faggy gait, faggy posture, the broken wrist. Loud gays, colorfully dressed, shrill, can they present the gays?.." asks Volker in the film.
"The documentary was discussed very controversially in the program group...as a document of gay history, gay solidarity and gay self-confidence. At the same time, there was ... concern that a part of the queer community will feel hurt by certain parts of the film..." Hamburg International Queer Film Festival
"...It made me cry, especially when it came to the topic of parents - rejection, distance, getting closer again, taking care of old parents, saying goodbye... the different aspects of being gay... A tribute to friendship and solidarity - even if it wasn't always there in the times of the HIV panic." Maria Dünnwald
"I am moved enthusiastic dynamized.... political film at its best... finally the audience was not underestimated for once, without a lecturing gesture.... Afterwards you can breathe more freely." Claudia Reiche
"... a lot of creativity, perseverance, good humor and cherry brandy.... I think the film transports this belief in the good and beautiful in the faggot, in the human being.... In addition, of course, it reflects a piece of contemporary history!" Matthias Möbius
"...Very impressed! The animated drawings and the music make the whole thing a contemporary historical document in idiosyncratic narrative, which I find valuable! And important for our time today!" Barbara Nestler
Voice from the Hamburg premiere audience: "I would also like to have a Bollenmädelsgruppe - a group of people that accompanies you through life and where you stand by each other despite all your differences."