Salzgeber represents a selection of films internationally. Working together with our filmmakers, we offer recent festival hits, exciting new features and also restored classics to festivals and distributors outside of Germany.
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Bones and Names
a film by Fabian Stumm
Boris and Jonathan have been a couple for many years. But their relationship has reached a point where they might as well spend their evenings together separately: One lies in bed reading, the other works at a desk in the next room. While Boris immerses himself deeper and deeper into rehearsals for a new film with an ambitious director, Jonathan tries to redefine his voice as a writer. Ghosting through these days of wrestling with distance, closeness, trust, desire and fear of loss is Jonathans’ young niece Josie, who is trying out idiosyncratic ways to deal with the approaching end of her childhood.
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Drifter
a film by Hannes Hirsch
Moritz (22) follows his boyfriend Jonas to Berlin only to be abandoned by him within a few weeks. For some time he finds security with the older Noah, but then moves on. He changes his looks and dives into the city’s vibrating techno world. He learns to express his repressed desires, but he also starts to lose himself in drugs and emotional alienation. With the help of his queer friends, Moritz develops his own ideas of sexuality and masculinity, leading him a little closer to himself.
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Captain Faggotron Saves the Universe
a film by Harvey Rabbit
A campy fantasy film about internalized homophobia, the tyranny of the closet and the fear of a gay planet, „Captain Faggotron Saves the Universe“ is a direct response to the Orlando night club shooting, the rising power of the alt-right in the USA, the persecution of homosexuality in Russia, and the violence that follows queer people of all genders throughout their lives. The film follows a tradition deeply rooted in queer survival history: By confronting heteronormative structures, camp exposes absurdities of the mainstream in a way that allows us to laugh. Humor is a weapon, and camp is a tool of joyful resistance.
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Genderation
a film by Monika Treut
Monika Treut revisits the queer protagonists of her ground-breaking documentary „Gendernauts“ (1999), who once were the pioneers of the trans movement in San Francisco. Today only a few of them can still afford to live in the city. How have their lives changed in the intervening years?
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Gendernauts
a film by Monika Treut
Monika Treut takes an illuminating and compassionate look at the world of transgender identity, as seen through portraits of some of San Francisco’s leading gender mixers.