Specials
Near the Arthouse Movie, at the Cabaret Voltaire (Dada House), we invite you to join us for panel discussions, thematic discussions, a lecture and an exhibition.…
When coming out, homosexuals, especially adolescents, still face many obstacles. A recently published Swiss study proves this showing alarming numbers: the risk of…
In Northern Albania up until today so-called sworn virgins, “burneshas“ in the vernacular language, still live. A medieval corpus iuris that was orally passed down…
Comics and film have a lot in common. Not only is a storyboard a kind of script in form of images, but many comics have also inspired film realisations and can be…
Being different from others can be an issue in every schoolyard. In the future, we would like to work together with the project GLL (“Gleichgeschlechtliche Liebe…
The human rights situation in Russia has been in the centre of the world press not only since Pussy Riot. We now would like to gain more information from direct…
Alice Walker, author of “The Color Purple”, is viewed as one of the most notable exponents of African American literature. “Activism is the rent I pay to live on…
When a film is surprising or at times unsettling even 30 years after it was made, then evidently it is worth watching again. Pink Apple will show Simon Bischoff’s first film “Er moretto - Von Liebe leben” (“Living from Love”, 1984) in a retrospective together with “Mon beau petit cul” (1997) and “Aladin – Weg ins Paradies” (“Way to Paradise”, 2012).
Simon Bischoff, born 1951 in Berne, began to study Philosophy and Art History in Zurich and studied music at the Conservatory in Berne. He also works as an author and photographer. In 1993 his photo book “Wie hätte ich ein Foto in die Wüste schicken können?” (“How could I have sent a photograph to the desert?”), a portrait of the American author Paul Bowles.
Simon Bischoff, born 1951 in Berne, began to study Philosophy and Art History in Zurich and studied music at the Conservatory in Berne. He also works as an author and photographer. In 1993 his photo book “Wie hätte ich ein Foto in die Wüste schicken können?” (“How could I have sent a photograph to the desert?”), a portrait of the American author Paul Bowles.
Events in the context of this special:
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Reprise / Milestone Documentary
Rome in the summer of 1980. The young Franco brakes free from the social misery in his family home. He hangs about the big city and earns money as a hustler. Because of his dark skin he is named “er moretto”, “the moor”.
Simon Bischoff’s film debut is a stylistic firework with interviews, quotations and references to Thomas Mann and Federico Fellini, and montage sequences made from black and white stills – in short: a film style willing to take risks that maybe not everyone will like, but hardly anyone will forget even 30 years after it’s making.
Female prostitution is more visible and often featured as a topic in the media. The world of male hustlers – men that sell sex to other men – can only be found by…
This year we will once again be showing films dealing with the exceedingly tenuous situation of lesbians and gays in Africa. In the notorious hotspot Uganda, “God…
The Pink Apple Award will be granted by a jury of film professionals. It is a cash prize of 2000 Swiss Francs. The films in the contest will be presented on…
There will be lots of interesting material for lovers of South American films. Pink Apple will be showing films from the Equator down to Patagonia, with stopovers in…
Diederick Ebbinge’s deadpan, absurd and unbelievably entertaining dramatic comedy “Matterhorn” about loneliness, love and freedom captivates us with its gifted…
With “Peter” a well-known authority for social criticism goes into exile: the depression comedy. And whilst the bold comedy with two “men” in tuxedos kissing leads…
