Come enjoy the festival atmosphere in a summer setting! This year, a refreshing mix of debates, workshops, and film screenings will take place in two new venues: Cross Club and Letní kino Kinská
Admission is voluntary. In the event of bad weather, the program will be relocated––follow our website, Instagram, and Facebook for updates.
All screenings (except the Wednesday one) are English-friendly.
MONDAY 28/7
Queer Pub Quiz
QUIZ | 18.00 | Cross Club – summer cinema | EN
Let’s celebrate the 10th anniversary of our queer pub quiz together! Sign up your team of 2–5 people and win prizes. You can find the registration form on our website, Instagram, and Facebook from Monday, July 21. Hosted by drag icon Melancholia Blackbile.
Best of Shorts 2024
FILM | 21.00 | Cross Club – summer cinema | CZ, EN
Coffee Grapefruit Cacao, Bunk, Hello Stranger, Falling for Greta, Bolero
Czech Republic, France, Italy, Canada, UK | 89 min
The best of the short films screened at Mezipatra 2024, including last year’s winner! Explore the Czech countryside with a couple of young men. Join a search for a protagonist’s gender identity. Immerse yourselves in the iconic music of Bolero, fall in love animation style, and discover alternative options to build a family.
TUESDAY 29/7
Kroužek intersekce: Chosen Family
WORKSHOP | 18.00 | Cross Club – summer cinema | CZ
Kroužek intersekce is a student-led, independent, and imaginative space for collective reading and learning. In this meeting, we will reflect on the concept of chosen family, which arose from the experiences of queer people rejected by their own nuclear families.
What a Feeling
FILM | 21.00 | Cross Club – summer cinema | CZ, EN
Austria | 2024 | 110 min
Life was going well for Marie until her husband announced he wanted a divorce. While drowning her sorrows in a lesbian bar, she encounters Fa. But the charismatic heartbreaker refuses to be pinned down… A romantic comedy made for summer cinema.
In cooperation with Austrian Cultural Forum in Prague.
WEDNESDAY 30/7
Těla, gender a sexualita: workshop pro vyučující
WORKSHOP | 18.00 | TBA | CZ
Sneak an exclusive peek into the upcoming interactive installation about bodies, gender, and sexuality and try out activities for working with attitudes. This limited-capacity workshop is for teachers only––please reserve your spot through a form published on the Mezipatra website and social media.
Everything Needs to Live
FILM | 21.00 | Cross Club – summer cinema | CZ
Polsko, Ukrajina | 2024 | 70 min
Anna Kurkurina is a fitness trainer and multiple world champion in the power triathlon. After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, she used her platform to start a project helping animals threatened by war. The documentary follows her daily struggle to make the world at least a little more sensitive to all living beings. In cooperation with the One World Festival.
THURSDAY 31/7
Queer geography – Where do we feel (un)safe?
DISCUSSION | 19.00 | Cross Club – ground floor hall | EN
A panel discussion with social geographer Michal Pitoňák (he/him), co-founder of the Horse Hug Café community space Olena Kushyna (she/they), and Michael (he/him), a sociologist working with queer people in Southwest Asia and North Africa.
Baby
FILM | 21.00 | Cross Club – ground floor hall | CZ, EN
Brazil, France, Netherlands | 2024 | 107 min
After he’s released from a youth detention centre, eighteen-year-old Wellington finds himself all alone in the busy São Paulo. His situation changes when he meets Ronaldo, an older sex worker. A peculiar bond develops between them, something much more complicated than mere love.
FRIDAY 1/8
Queer Sex Work
DISCUSSION | 19.00 | Open Air Cinema Kinský Garden | CZ
Sex work is now receiving more attention––but is it being portrayed authentically? Joining us to discuss this will be a sex worker and queer activist from Alt*Prajd, a member of the Dekrim kolektiv, and a guest with sexual assistant experience.
Sebastian
FILM | 21.00 | Open Air Cinema Kinský Garden | CZ, EN
UK | 2024 | 111 min
Max is willing to do whatever it takes to make it as a writer in London. Polished intellectual by day, he spends his nights meeting clients from erotic dating sites, experiencing the story of his novel first-hand. What happens when the wall between the two worlds comes crashing down?
