Five Min in 10 days: in St. Petersburg the festival "BOK ON BOK" ended

The film site of the LGBT festival "BOK O BOC" in 10 days of the show "mined" 5 times. The last message about the “mining” of the Skorokhod building, where the winners were awarded and a meeting with the filming group of the film “Milk”, headed by the American director Gus Van Sent. This time, to check the building, law enforcement agencies needed two hours. The closing ceremony began only nine in the evening

Director Gus Van Saint stretched a rainbow flag in support of Russian representatives of sex minorities at the festival

The best documentary film was recognized as the Tape “Valentine’s Road”, which tells about the murder of his classmate by an American teenager, after he confessed his love ... “Matterhorn” - the full -length debut of the Dutchman Didarik Ebbin, telling about difficult homosexual relations in the patriarchal village, became the best picture in the “Famous Cinema” nomination. The prize for the best coverage of the LGBTs in the media was received by the REN-TV film crew for the story of the life of gays in Chechnya.

“In our country, the authorities are friendly to homosexual relations. But this was not always the case. In order for the government to change, it is necessary that voters, society be pushed to this. If people will not do this, then the government will never change, ”said Bruce Turner, the Consul General of the USA in St. Petersburg at the closing of the festival. “The problem of LGBT references is an international problem. And in the States there are enough problems related to the theme of homosexual relations, ”Van Saint said in turn. His film “Milk” is the life story of an American politician known as “Martyr for Gay Rights” - the first open gay who was elected to the state post in California as a member of the City Supervisory Board of San Francisco and a member of the city council of San Francisco in 1978 - was the main competitor of Matterhorn in the nomination “Best Feature”. Thanks to the "mining" the show of the film dragged on far after midnight. In the discussion about the relations of the LGBT community and the authorities, Sergey Bugaev (Africa), who brought Gas Van Sent from the airport, and even the Benny dachshund, the prototype of the same plush toy, which is the main prize and the festival, was also noted.

In general, it is not clear to whom the attempt to break the show in the form of reports of “mining” could benefit. Unless the surrounding restaurants and shops, in which two hours were saved from minus temperature, who came to watch a rare movie Petersburgers ...

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