“Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers, released last year, was full of playful eroticism. Queer is like the flip side of it – a film that is at the same time exquisitely beautiful and deliberately distant, keeping both its characters and audience at arm’s length. It is not a statement about love or even passion; it’s a riddle about identity. Shot by a director who, like no other, knows how to dissect and reconstruct the world frame by frame, altering it along the way – no longer shaping it into reality but into something closer to a dream, a reflection, a replica.” (Programme curator Vladas Rožėnas)