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Mubi Cancels Turkish Film Festival Over Istanbul City Hall ‘Queer’ Ban


Streamer Mubi has cancelled Turkish film fest at 11th hour after city governor banned Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, which was to have been opening film.

In a statement issued on its dedicated Turkish-language Instagram page for Mubi Turkey, the streaming platform said it was pulling the entire event in response to the ban. The platform thanked the artists, audience and supporters who had planned to participate in the festival and promised refunds in the coming days. An encounter with Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), an expat former soldier new to the city, shows him, for the first time, that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody

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