Festival Data:

• Established: 1998
• Genre: Gay - Lesbian (click to see)
• Attendance: 7000
• Total Number of Films Screened: 90
• Total Screenings: 70
• # of Shorts Screened: 50
• # of Features Screened: 20

• Competitive

Festival Website:

Festival Description:

Pink Apple is the largest lesbian and gay film festival in Switzerland. In 1997 the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Pink Apple was founded by a handful of film enthusiasts in Frauenfeld in the Canton of Thurgau. The Swiss ”Apple Canton“, also nicknamed ”Cider India“, was the reason for its naming. Initially its aim was to promote the emancipation and acceptance of homosexuality in the provinces on the basis of a cultural activity. The festival was first held in 1998, showing ten films to a large crowd in the tiny Cinema Luna in Frauenfeld. Pink Apple landed in Zurich in the wake of the lesbian and gay Eurogames held there in the year 2000.

In order to encourage film making with lesbian and gay topics, a short film competition was established in 2001. Ever since, the Pink Apple Award worth 2000 Swiss Francs has been presented every year by a jury consisting of film experts. Also since 2001, the audience itself determines the most popular feature or documentary film by vote, granting it the Pink Apple Audience Award. Since 2008 a separate prize each is given to the most popular feature and to the most popular documentary film.

Film Submissions:

• Accepts direct submissions
• Call for Entry: http:/ / www.pinkapple.ch/ cms/ front_content.php?idcat=152&idart=326&client=1&changelang=2