FRIDAY MAY 27 8:30 PM / THE PLAZA THEATRE
HIP-HOP DRAMA

OFF BEAT
Directed by Jan Gassmann
2011 | Switzerland | 95 mins | RATING: 14A

It’s November and 26-year-old Lukas is not so much living but barely surviving. His dream of making it as a musician is on the wane and his great passion – rap – has also passed its heyday. Lukas lives with his producer, 46-year-old Mischa, in an old loft where they cultivate cannabis. They have been having a turbulent affair for years – but this is a closely guarded secret. Lukas has grown cold inside and only really feels himself in moments of excess. Drunk and coked up to the eyeballs he toils his way through a gig in a small club, in the audience his sixteen-year-old brother Sämi – an ambitious rapper himself – feels nothing but shame for his brother’s embarrassing performance. Mischa decides that he has had enough of Lukas’ escapades and suggests they ask Sämi to join the band. Not wanting to be substituted, Lukas rejects Mischa’s idea and launches into a drug binge on coke that almost finishes him off. When he wakes up in hospital and Mischa announces his intention to leave him, he realizes that he has gone too far. While Mischa begins to groom Sämi as Lukas’ successor, Lukas finds himself oscillating between jealously and concern for his younger brother, who he fears could wind up sharing his own fate.

Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival 2011

May 26th – June 2nd, 2011 | The Plaza Theatre | 1133 Kensington Road NW

Plaza Pass: $99 (+ service charge) call 403-263-0079

HAPPILY EVER AFTER-PARTY 11 – June 3rd, 2011 | the Uptown Stage & Screen | 612- 8th Ave SW

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Fairytales Presentation Society is a not-for-profit, charitable organization located in Calgary, Alberta that focuses on showcasing local and national queer artists. As our name suggests, and bylaws state; we showcase and celebrate queer artists of all artistic mediums including but not limited to film. Our artistic endeavors strive to provide a safe and respectful venue for members of all communities to celebrate queer culture. While the term queer often refers to people who are LGBTTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit and questioning), Fairytales understands queer to also include those who subscribe to culturally, politically, artistically, and otherwise alternative and innovative ways of contributing to society. We see queer as a vista, a way of looking at the world differently- with an eye towards diversity, criticality and inclusion.

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