Earlier this year during the Berlin Film Festival, the Teddy Awards ran, which brings together some of the best LGBT films from around the world, handing out its gongs to the Best Feature Film and Best Documentary.
This year’s Best Queer Feature winner was In The Name Of (aka W Imie…), which joined the ranks of previous winners including Ira Sachs’ excellent Keep The Lights On, Marco Berger’s Absent, Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right and John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig And The Angry Inch.
Now a trailer has been released, so we can all get a taste of the film.
Malgorzata Szumowska’s Polish movie is about Adam, a Catholic priest who lives in a village in rural Poland where he works with teenagers with behavioural problems who fight and yell abuse. After turning down a woman’s advances, it turns out that celibacy is not the only reason for his rejection. Adam knows that he desires men and that his embrace of the priesthood has been a flight from his own sexuality. When he eventually meets Lukasz, the strange and taciturn son of a simple rural family, Adam’s self-imposed abstinence becomes a heavy burden.
Peccadillo Pictures will release the film In the UK later in the year (it’s currently set for November). No US release is currently set. [Read more…]
