Queer Porto is back in October featuring Dennis Cooper

Queer Porto is back in Rivoli from 10 to 14 October. This is the 4th edition of this International Cinema Festival and the main guest is the American writer Dennis Cooper, who will attend the festival to present the film "Permanent Green Light" that he has co-directed with Zac Farley. The festival's organization also highlights Carolee Schneemann's Film Paintings, a range of eclectic documentaries on how the Queer culture has impacted the fashion industry, the Mont de Dutor and Liad Hussein Kantorowicz's performances, as well as an Alexander Geist concert.

"Pursuing its purpose to establish itself as an eclectic show of the most meaningful queer productions nowadays, this 4th edition of Queer Porto brings Dennis Cooper to the city", as stated by the organisation.

American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist, Cooper was influence by the punk and queercore scenes.
In total, the festival will present eight feature films, fiction or documentaries: "1985", by Yen Tan, "Call her Ganda", by PJ Raval, "Permanent Green Light", by Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley, "The rest I make up", by Michelle Memran, "Soldiers. Story from Ferentari", by Ivana Mladenovic, "L'Animale", by Katharina Mückstein, "Dykes, Camera, Action!", by Caroline Berler, and "Les Garçons Sauvages", by Bertrand Mandico. 

Together with the official competition, the festival features the short-films "In my Shorts", by Portuguese schools.

Queer Porto 4th edition cinematic opening is the documentary "Bixa Travesty", by Claudia Priscilla and Kiko Goifman. The closing film is "Shéhérazade", by Jean-Bernard Marlin.

In the context of the programme devoted to fashion, the line-up includes the documentaries "We Margiela", "Kevyn Aucoin -- Beauty & the beast in me" and "George Michael: Freedom -- Director's Cut.

In this edition, the Queer Pop programme, taking place at Maus Hábitos, is devoted to The Knife/Fever Ray.

Also at Maus Hábitos, the festival presents "Pussy. An ongoing performative research", by Liad Husssein Kantorowicz, "which addresses concerns about discrimination against women and the feminine as a sexual object/subject", and the concert by Alexander Geist, "Speculative".

The performance "#LOSMICRÓFONOS", by the Spanish group Mont de Dutor will be presented at mala voadora, the main subject being pop culture.