Artistic Freedom Initiative's multidisciplinary arts festival BEAUTIFUL FORMS: QUEER ART UNBOUND is a celebration of the extraordinary queer artists and fierce allies who are fundamental to the fight for artistic freedom worldwide. Through this short film night, internationally acclaimed filmmakers Faraz Ansari (India) and Mehrdad Hasani (Iran) reveal how queer film narratives disrupt dangerous norms and uplift those that venerate free expression. Three groundbreaking shorts by Ansari and Hasani explore the intersection of LGBTQIAP+ identities and cultural paradigms. With filmmaker Q&A’s moderated by activist and artist Beyza BK (Upwardly Global, Wicked Queer), this film night is the inspiring conclusion to BEAUTIFUL FORMS: QUEER ART UNBOUND.

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