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39. Teddy Awards, a prestigious LGBTQ+ honors of the Berlin International Film Festival, also celebrated the emergence talents and experienced pioneers in Queer cinema.
The best recognition on the feature film has left Lesbian space princessdirected by Leel Varghese and Emma Hough Hobbs. This animated comedy is accompanied by Princess Sair in the “Inter-Gay-Laktica” mission to save her ex-girlfriend from the “Straight White Maliens” couplings.
In the best documentary/essay film, 82-year-old Queer cinema pioneer Rosa von Praunheim took top honors for her autobiographical Doc-Fiction Mash-up Satanic sow (Satanic sow). The film contains von Praunheim as the titular “Satanic stern”, which was presented by actor Armin Dallapiccola, in a survey of a directorial wild journey through fame, faith and family, and his conflict with death.
The jury award was presented If you are afraid to catch your heart in your mouth and smile (if you are afraid you have put your heart in your mouth and smile)directed by Marie Luise Lehner. The film shows twelve -year -old Anna, who comes from a working -class family, moving in social shame and personal growth as she tries to find his place and his own identity among his classmates at the school school.
Lesley Loksa Chan’s Lloyd Wong, unfinished received the award for Best Short Film. The documentary film revides videos made by Chinese-Canadian artist Lloyd Wong, who chronicled his experience of living with HIV in the 1990s. Wong died before he finished his movie. Chan discovered his shots 30 years later.
The Award for Special Lifetime Life Award went to Todd Haynes (Away from the sky,, Song), President of this year’s Berlinale International Jury and Trailblazer in the new 1980s and 90s Queer Cinema Movement. Haynes won Teddy in 1991 for his debut debut, Poisonwhich premiered in Berlin.
