The Lisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival was founded in 1997 by Celso Junior (Festival Director from 1997 to 2004) and Gonçalo Diniz (then President of ILGA – Portugal), organized by the Portuguese section of the LGBT association ILGA. In 2000 a new cultural non-profit organization was created to exclusively organize the Festival – the Associação Cultural Janela Indiscreta - making the Festival independent of any political context.
From 2004, the Festival has been directed by João Ferreira. In 2005 the Festival started its Competition Section, awarding the Best Feature Film (Jury Prize), the Best Documentary (Jury Prize) and the Best Short Film, Documentary or Fiction (Audience Award). Although the Festivals’ main purpose is that of promoting the most recent cinematography of this genre, it has organized a number of retrospectives (such as a Derek Jarman retrospective), and paid tribute to a number of Portuguese and foreign artists.
Some of the Festival’s honored guests, who visited the Festival, have been: Isaac Julien (UK), Monika Treut (Germany), Rosa Maria Sardà (Spain), Rose Troche (USA), Rosa Von Praunheim (Germany), Simone de Oliveria (Portugal), Werner Schroeter (Germany), John Scagliotti (USA), Vicente Molina Foix (Spain), Bruce LaBruce (Canada), Antonia San Juan (Spain), among others.
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Director: Stefan Westerwelle
Germany, 2006, 77’
Prize: 1.000,00€
“The majority of the Jury decided to give the Award for Best Feature Film to Stefan Westerwelle’s “Solange du hier bist”. The Jury appreciated the coherence of the film’s theme and form. The film is narrated in a visual language characterized by artful composition with great attention to detail. Loneliness and the proximity of death are rarely explored in cinema, thus making the film appealing to audiences regardless of their sexuality.”
-Jury statement
Special Mention: Carla Ribas for "A Casa de Alice"
Director: Chico Teixeira
Brazil, 2007, 90’
“The Jury decided to award a Special Mention to Carla Ribas for her excellent portrayal of the character Alice, in “A Casa de Alice”, directed by Chico Teixeira.”
-Jury statement
Best Documentary: "Estrellas de la Línea" (The Railroad All-Stars)
Director: Chema Rodríguez
Spain, 2006, 90’
Prize: 1.000,00€
“The winner of the best documentary award is Estrellas de la línea/ The Railroad All-Stars, by Chema Rodríguez. It’s about a group of prostitutes from Guatemala who decide to create a football team to give visibility to their fight against discrimination, violence and exclusion. It´s not a gay film, nor a lesbian or a transgender film. It’s all that and more. It´s a universal, clever, unexpected and moving film about the ability to resist, to defy one’s destiny and sexual, social, cultural and gender conventions. The hookers ‘de la linea’ don´t want to be perceived as victims. They laugh as they fight, and they make us laugh a lot. There’s really no better way to bring people together. And that’s what this fight is all about.”
-Jury statement
Best Short Film – Audience Award: "Singularidades"
Director: Luciano Coelho
Brazil, 2006, 35’
Prize: 500,00€