Under the rainbow: how directors make LGBT films in countries hostile to gay rights

Under the rainbow: how directors make LGBT films in countries hostile to gay rights

by Ryan Gilbey

Retablo, directed by Alvaro Delgado Aparicio, is part of the Barbican’s Forbidden Colours, featuring films from countries hostile to LGBT rights.

From bodyguards on set in Georgia to lies about the script in Peru, how do filmmakers in repressive regimes get round the hostility to gay movies?

Once Pride in London ends this weekend, the banks, supermarkets and sandwich chains will drop their rainbow-coloured logos and revert to business as usual.

Perfect timing, then, for the Barbican, in the east of the capital, to launch Forbidden Colours, a series of films made in countries hostile to the rights of LGBT people.

The season begins this month with Retablo, an understated but powerful study of the relationship between a teenager and his closeted father in the Peruvian Andes.

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/04/under-the-rainbow-how-directors-make-lgbt-films-in-countries-hostile-to-gay-rights