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Turkish film festival scrapped over Daniel Craig gay drama censorship
Mubi cancels four-day event in protest as local government blocks screening of Luca Guadagnino-directed movie Queer
Organisers of an Istanbul film festival announced its cancellation on Thursday to protest against a local authority ban on the screening of Queer, a drama starring Daniel Craig. “Hours before the start … we were told by the Kadikoy district authorities that the screening of Queer, the opening film, was banned … on grounds it contained provocative content that would disturb the peace,” it said. Although homosexuality was decriminalised in Turkey in 1858, it is frowned upon by large swaths of society, with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan regularly referring to LGBTQ+ people as “perverts” and accusing them of posing a threat to traditional families.
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