""Every character is me and because I'm queer, every character is queer. In the world [of Satisfaction], queerness is not questioned; it's a baseline for a human story.""
""It's healing for queer young people to see how queerness can just be. Cinema has gone through such a big evolution over the past few decades. We started out with films that really centre on coming out and traumatic events connected to being queer. Now queerness is just a background, a state of the world as stories unfold.""
""I'm fortunate to say I didn't have major trauma connected to my queerness. It was really easy for me.""
Satisfaction, directed by Alex Burunova, features a cast of queer characters, reflecting the director's personal journey. Growing up in a conservative USSR but raised in a liberal family, Burunova experienced a supportive coming out at age 12. The film, which took eight years to complete, presents queerness as a natural aspect of life rather than a source of trauma. It tells the story of British composers Lola and Philip, exploring their relationship from a London film school to their struggles on a Greek island, emphasizing the evolution of queer representation in cinema.
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