Wieland Speck’s Take on the 40th Teddy Award Anniversary

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Together with Manfred Salzgeber, Speck launched the Teddy Award in 1987 as an independent queer-film prize at the Berlinale — the first prize for queer cinema at an A-list film festival worldwide. Queer film is more present than ever — because we, the queer community, keep it visible. How do you, as a longtime observer, view the current state of queer cinema? Why hasn’t this queer bear ever been included in Berlinale’s official Bear Collection? The first festival to pick up the idea was the Kiev International Film Festival Molodist!