Blue Jean and Discussion on LGBTQ+ People in Schools
In 1988 the conservative Thatcher government proposes Section 28, a law which equates gays and lesbians with pedophiles and bans the promotion of homosexuality in public. Sports coaches are the first victims of the resulting homophobic attacks and Jean is forced to live a double life. On weekdays she is popular with her high school students and colleagues, but on the weekends she and her girlfriend Viv venture into the nightlife of Newcastle’s queer clubs. When a pupil confronts her in a lesbian bar, Jean’s “secret life” is upended.
A brilliant debut film from British director Georgia Oakley. Alongside Charlotte Wells, who brilliantly explored a father-daughter relationship in Aftersun (2022), the two directors herald a bright, new generation of British cinema. Blue Jean won the Audience Award at the Venice Film Festival’s Giornate degli Autori section, screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival as well as gracing many other festivals exposing the tangles of social hypocrisy and a climate of intolerance. Blue Jean also won the Audience Award at Festheart Film Festival in Estonia in 2023.
A perceptive reconstruction of an era, this identity drama will sway to the rhythms of New Order dressed in torn jeans, shimmering in red and blue lights in search of better days.
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Discussion
Discussion on being LGBTQ+ in Estonian schools
Eduard Odinets
Member of the Parliament (Social Democratic Party), Chairman of the parliamentary support group for the LGBT+ community.
Chairman of the Law Committee of the Riigikogu, who was responsible for the adoption of the Marriage Equality Low..
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Mikhail Mogutov
Teacher and educational consultant, as well as youth worker and educational project manager. He has a bachelor's degree in psychology and recently completed a master's degree in education in the Netherlands and returned to Narva.
Mikhail sees the solution to various, including controversial and sensitive, issues in dialogue. He believes that it is necessary to build bridges, and not build walls between people.
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Jekaterina Smirnova
Head of the NGO "VEK LGBT", coordinator of psychosocial programs aimed at working with HIV+ people at the NGO "EHPV", head of the training center "EHPV KOOLITUSKESKUS", social worker, andragogist, coordinator of a charity program on sex education for teenagers, leader of seminars and trainings.
Jekaterina takes into account the needs of communities in her work, follows the latest trends and always keeps her finger on the pulse.
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Moderator Masha Pryven
Masha Pryven was raised in Luhansk (Ukraine) and studied in Kyiv and the USA.
Masha is an artist working primarily with photography and an educator. In her work, she explores the relationship between the private and the political, and she is interested in the forms of collaboration and pariticpation in art.
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