The 41st Santa Dandas Film Festival kicked off on Thursday in Parker, Utah, and 90 ministers from all over the world made a wonderful appearance. Each movie will also be screened at least once near the nearby salt lake city during the film festival, and the film festival will last until February 2.

For a long time, the St. Dandas Film Festival has been walking in the best and bold cutting edge of the LGBTQ film field, which will bring excitement again, including 15 dramas and documentary, which is exciting and optimistic.

"This list is indeed worth celebrating," said Ash Hoyle, a programmer of the Santa Dandas Film Festival. "Sometimes, the group of Queer, we are very good at examining and recorded our own history and our own struggles -this must also be related to many of them -but this year's tone is overwhelming, very optimistic and very celebrating of." ".

Jennifer Lopez and Diego Luna co -starred in a luxurious musical of remakes from the classic work "Spider Girl Kiss" in 1985, while Bowen Yang " He co -starred with Lily Gladstone and starred in the "Happy Banquet" of gayness in 1993.

Many directors who have returned to the St. Dandas Film Festival and the audiences loved by LGBTQ audiences will also premiere their latest works, including Ella Sax ("The Day of Peter Haljar") and Zacki Drucker ("" "" Highly review ") and elegant Blaton (" Move Ya Body: The Birth of House ").

Last year's St. Dandas Film Festival premiered the most well -received LGBTQ movies in that year, including Jane Schoenbrun's "I SAW The TV Glow", this should be. The film has recently won nine Mori Awards nominated by LGBTQ+ Entertainment Critics Association Galeca.

"I think this shows that the audience is longing for different things. The movie breaks the routine. Movie producers like Jane are willing to take risks at work," said Kim Yutani, the program director of the Santa Dandas Film Festival.

Fortunately, for those who cannot participate in the film festival, more than half of LGBTQ movies this year will also be screened online from January 30.

The following is the LGBTQ topic that will premiere this year:

"We will kick off the film festival on the first day with Sophie Hede's latest movie," said Yutney. "She made a lot of movies at the film festival -recently is" I wish you good luck, Lio Grand " -but it feels like her most personal movie, because she focuses on intergenerational relationships The character in the film is the movie producer played by Olivia Corman. Content.

"It is particularly exciting for Sam Fed's new movie, telling the story of the American Citizen Liberty League lawyer of the US Citizenship Liberty League who has filed a lawsuit this year," Hoil said. "This is just one of the many real and urgent movies this year's film festivals. Thank you very much for the voice of SAM in the show and can truly satisfy our moment in the United States this year."

"This movie must have caused heated discussion, and people will be very excited," Hoil said when talking about the movie, the film tells the two young people to meet and formed in the pain of twins. A story of inaccurate brotherhood. "Talking about bold -this is a movie about the messy Dark Kuner, which is very interesting. It is very interesting, very sexy, and it is actually the screenwriter of James Sweeney in the American Drama Competition this year. , One of the many movies of the director and starring.

"It has all the appropriate elements, such as interesting star actor lineups (including Yang and Gradestong) and the director of Andrew Ana -he produced the favorite" Hot Spring Night "and" Fire Island ", of course He is also the co -author of the script and cooperate with James Schamus.

"The Kiss of the Spider" is already the Classic Classic of the Rusai Movie in 1985, and it is also a musical of Tony in 1993. Starring Na, re -adapted it into a musical movie. "This film has amazing performances and the magnificent momentum of the old Hollywood. We are very happy that this will also become one of the hottest works on the film festival."

"This documentary shot by Elerabance Bratton was focused on the history of Haoyayo Music and its birthplace in Chicago. "" "The drama began, and how the ethnic history and gender politics of this city influenced the development of Haojue Music and which communities to promote its development and of course have obtained credit and economic success. Essence "

Zackary Drucker co -directed the 2023 "The Stroll", which discussed the life of the two legendary transgender women: British model April April Ashley) and French singer Amanda Lear. "This is a very interesting film, telling two very different lives, and how they explore and frustrate each other in how they control the Kuer community." He added that the film is the movie that this movie is the movie is that this movie is the movie is that this movie is the movie is that this movie is the movie is that this movie is the movie is that this movie is the movie. A fascinating story and rich perspective. Cross -gender history. "

Hoil said that this narrative feature "feels so delicate that I have never seen it before. It explores gays of gayness and strength space and how to adapt to and not adapt to these spaces. This is also a romantic love story, But it has not avoided the love and obsession of the love and competition that is really close to jealousy and competition. When we hear more and more discussions about belonging and tolerance, this movie really makes "what the hell is this" becomes complicated. What does it mean to get up?

"" Keep The Lights On "and" Passages "are one of the most filmmakers who have participated in the St. Dandas Film Festival, if not the most," Yutani said. "The reason why we are attracted by this work is because it is very different from his other works. One of the things I think is Ella's exciting thing is how he continues to challenge himself and works in almost different forms. This is right. The adaptation of an interview with artist Peter Hujar is basically the wonderful monologue of Ben Whishaw. And its production process is very delicate.

"This movie is a blow," Hoil said. "This is the beautiful portrait of the Corporal Crown Poet Andreia Gibson. She is a real genius and is dealing with a very difficult cancer diagnosis with her girlfriend. This is the beautiful portrait of their relationship and one of their death process. Of course, it is moving with a kind of love attitude full of love.

Hoyle said the documentary about the lives of astronauts Sally Ryder "really contains everything." "It has a strange love story, which analyzes the influence. This is a good way to track the changes in the way to go out in space. Since Sally Ride's career, this is also the public's to NASA culture. A profound look at, whether it is the staff of the Kuer or the female staff, it is very, very real to some extent. When seeing gender politics so fiercely in this field. "

"This is a semi -autobiographical movie, telling a young man who returns to his hometown in India and strives to be loyal to himself and his family." "The kind of gay story it tells is really special. This may also be one of the most explicit homosexual movies I have watched in India. "

This documentary "Dr. Bini, a doctor focusing on Milan, we have carefully observed how he communicates with patients, and many of them are dealing with their gender identification issues," said Utani. "If what this movie provides, it provides optimism and medical treatment provided by everyone. Seeing this doctor is really amazing at work."

"This is a period of work in the 1990s, which is an interesting review of the recent history. It tells that a plainclothes policeman trapped homosexual men in the mall bathroom, and then explores his sexual orientation through the role -playing he participated in." Hoil said. "One of our response to this movie is how beautiful its production is. We are glad to see the technical level of a movie producer for the first time reached the level of Kamen (Amy) in the first film . It is exquisite, very accurate and very interesting narrative terrain. "

According to the film on the website of the Santa Dandas Film Festival, this story film from Colombia is centered on a group of incompatible people who stroll around a diving bar that is also a purgatory. Yutani described it as "very attractive movie with a strange feeling of Gothic punk" and said it "fully build its own unique landscape."