{"id":2333104,"date":"2026-03-17T13:45:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2333104"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:45:28","slug":"bruce-labruce-and-castration-movie-director-louise-weard-to-be-honored-by-italys-sicilia-queer-filmfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bruce-labruce-and-castration-movie-director-louise-weard-to-be-honored-by-italys-sicilia-queer-filmfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Labruce and \u2018Castration Movie\u2019 Director Louise Weard to Be Honored by Italy\u2019s Sicilia Queer Filmfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Canadian filmmakers Bruce Labruce and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3326323\/\">Louise Weard<\/a>, both known for pushing boundaries in the LGBTQ film space, are set to be honored by Italy\u2019s Sicilia Queer Filmfest that will run in Palermo from May 25-31.<\/p>\n<p>Labruce, whose most recent thought-provoking feature \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0857191\/\">The Visitor<\/a>\u201d \u2014 a London-set reimagining of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001596\/\">Pier Paolo Pasolini<\/a>\u2019s 1968 film \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0063678\/\">Teorema<\/a>\u201d \u2014 premiered positively at Berlin in 2024, will receive the fest\u2019s career award dedicated to avant-garde Sicilian multi-hyphenate <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10394275\/\">Nino Gennaro<\/a>. The fest praised Labruce, who is also a well-known photographer and artist, as a \u201cmaster of queercore cinema and of New Queer Cinema \u2014 a movement that revolutionized contemporary cinema, spreading from the Americas to the rest of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Labruce\u2019s body of work comprises his first feature \u201cNo Skin Off My Ass!\u201d (1991), followed by \u201cSuper 8\u00bd\u201d (1994) and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0116587\/\">Hustler White<\/a>\u201d (1996). There\u2019s also \u201cSkin Flick\u201d (2000),\u201d<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0390418\/\">The Raspberry Reich<\/a>\u201d (2004), \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1815717\/\">Gerontophilia<\/a>\u201d (2013) and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7768720\/\">Saint-Narcisse<\/a>\u201d (2020).<\/p>\n<p>The Sicilia Queer fest will also honor&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian filmmakers Bruce Labruce and Louise Weard, both known for pushing boundaries in the LGBTQ film space, are set to be honored by Italy\u2019s Sicilia Queer Filmfest that will run in Palermo from May 25-31. Labruce, whose most recent thought-provoking feature \u201cThe Visitor\u201d \u2014 a London-set reimagining of Pier Paolo Pasolini\u2019s 1968 film \u201cTeorema\u201d \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2333105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2333104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Bruce-Labruce-and-\u2018Castration-Movie-Director-Louise-Weard-to-Be.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333106,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333104\/revisions\/2333106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2333105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}