MIX Copenhagen LesbianGayBiTransQueer+ Film Festival is one of the oldest
LGBTQ+
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film festival
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s in the world, as well as being the oldest and one of the largest film festivals in Denmark.
History
The festival has first taken place in 1986 under the name CGLFF—Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, making it one of the world's oldest film festivals to deal with LGBT issues.
The festival adopted the MIX Copenhagen name in 2010. In 2016 it started referring to itself as an LGBTQ festival in order to be more inclusive and “give more space to stories about
intersex
Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical bina ...
,
queer
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, and
non-binary
Non-binary and genderqueer are umbrella terms for gender identities that are not solely male or femaleidentities that are outside the gender binary. Non-binary identities fall under the transgender umbrella, since non-binary people typically ...
identities”''.''
It has other small LGBTQ+ film festivals associated to it as MIX
Århus
Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwest ...
, MIX
Odense
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and MIX
Aalborg
Aalborg (, , ) is Denmark's fourth largest town (behind Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Odense) with a population of 119,862 (1 July 2022) in the town proper and an urban population of 143,598 (1 July 2022). As of 1 July 2022, the Municipality of Aalb ...
.
Selection and attendance
The festival takes place every year during the last week of October. It screens a selection of approximately 60 features, 25 documentaries and 30 short films.
The festival is attended by more than 12.000 people each year.
Awards
The most important award handed out at the MIX Copenhagen is the Lili Award, which is named after
Lili Elbe
Lili Ilse Elvenes (28 December 1882 – 13 September 1931), better known as Lili Elbe, was a Danish painter and transgender woman, and among the early recipients of sex reassignment surgery. She was a successful painter under her birth name Ein ...
, the first person to undergo
sex reassignment surgery
Gender-affirming surgery (GAS) is a surgical procedure, or series of procedures, that alters a transgender or transsexual person's physical appearance and sexual characteristics to resemble those associated with their identified gender, and alle ...
in the world.
It is given to the best feature, best documentary and best short film chosen by an international jury, and also to the audience's voted choice as favourite film. It consists of a statuette designed by artists Yassin Askar and Sarah Borup.
See also
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List of LGBT film festivals
An LGBT film festival or queer film festival is a specialized film festival that has an LGBTQ+ focus in its selection of films. LGBT film festivals often screen films that would struggle to find a mainstream audience and are often activist spaces ...
External links
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References
LGBT events in Denmark
LGBT film festivals
Recurring events established in 1985
1985 establishments in Denmark
Autumn events in Denmark
Film festivals in Denmark
LGBT festivals in Europe
Festivals in Copenhagen
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