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Location | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Belgrade, Serbia Podgorica, Montenegro |
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Founded | 2009 |
Language | International |
Website | www |
The International Queer Film Festival Merlinka or Merlinka Festival is an annual LGBT-themed film festival which is annually organized in Belgrade (since 2009), Sarajevo (since 2013) and Podgorica (since 2014). The Belgrade edition is organized in the Belgrade Youth Center during the second week of December, and it lasts for five days. The Sarajevo and Podgorica editions are organized in January and February of each year, with the former being organized in the Art Cinema Kriterion, and the latter being organized in the PR Centre. The festival was founded in 2009 by the Gay Lesbian Info Centre and Belgrade Youth Center. It screens feature, documentary and short films from all over the world that deal with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, intersex and queer issues. [1]
The festival was named after Vjeran Miladinović Merlinka , a transgender sex worker and actress who was murdered in 2003. She is best known for her role in the Teddy award winning film Marble Ass directed by Želimir Žilnik. The festival was established to promote LGBT art and culture. In 2014, the festival produced a theater play about Vjeran's life, Merlinka's confession, directed by Stevan Bodroža. Merlinka is the only active film festival to be annually organized in several countries.
The Festival awards the Dorothy's slipper award for the best short film. Until 2012 the festival awarded prizes for the best feature and documentary film.
Year | Film | Genre | Country |
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2009 | Otto; or Up with Dead People | Featured | ![]() |
2010 | Tools 4 Fools | Short | ![]() |
2010 | The Big Gay Musical | Featured | ![]() |
2010 | Familiensache | Documentary | ![]() |
2011 | Frischluft-Therapie | Short | ![]() |
2011 | Weekend | Featured | ![]() |
2011 | East Bloc Love | Documentary | ![]() |
2012 | I've Only Just Begun | Short | ![]() |
2012 | Gayby | Featured | ![]() |
2012 | I Am a Woman Now | Documentary | ![]() |
2013 | Camionero | Short | ![]() |
2014 | Through The Mirror I call it love | Short Short | ![]() |
2015 | 09:55-11:05, Ingrid Ekman, Bergsgatan 4B | Short | ![]() |
2016 | Open Wound | Featured | ![]() |
2016 | Strike A Pose | Documentary | ![]() |
2016 | Dove | Short | ![]() |
2016 | Transition | Short | ![]() |
2017 | BPM (Beats per Minute) | Featured | ![]() |
2017 | Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution | Documentary | ![]() |
2017 | Fish Curry | Short | ![]() |
2017 | Quiero decirte | Short | ![]() |
2018 | Hard Paint | Featured | ![]() |
2018 | Tranny Fag | Documentary | ![]() |
2018 | Whole | Short | ![]() |
2018 | Two of Every Kind | Animated | ![]() |
2018 | Sisak | Short | ![]() |
2018 | Zid | Short | ![]() |
2019 | This is not Berlin | Featrued | ![]() |
2019 | Until Porn Do Us Part | Documentary | ![]() |
2019 | Dante vs. Mohammed Ali | Short | ![]() |
2019 | Butterflies in Berlin | Animated | ![]() |
2019 | Support | Short | ![]() |
2019 | Ficus | Short | ![]() |
2019 | Crocodile | Short | ![]() |
2020 | Summer of 85 | Feature | ![]() |
2020 | Maria Luiza | Documentary | ![]() |
2020 | Fabiu | Short | ![]() |
2020 | Carrousel | Animated | ![]() |
2020 | Prom Night | Short | ![]() |
2020 | Snake | Short | ![]() |
2020 | Let there be colour | Short | ![]() |
2020 | I'm not gay | Short | ![]() |
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Vjeran Miladinović, also known as Merlinka, was a transgender sex worker and actress best known for the 1995 film Marble Ass, directed by Želimir Žilnik. Merlika identified as both gay and a crossdresser, and is believed to have been the first openly trans person in the Balkans.