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Cannes cold shoulders its ‘Queer Palm’ prize

Cannes cold shoulders its ‘Queer Palm’ prize

Actor and director Nicolas Maury heads up the ‘Queer Palm’ award for LGBTQ movies.

CANNES: It has been won by big-name Hollywood directors and is headed by one of France’s top comic stars, but the “Queer Palm” prize celebrating LGBTQ movies at Cannes still has no official place at the world’s top film festival.

Awards for films with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer content are already an integral part of other major movie gatherings, including Berlin, which has handed out its “Teddy Award” since 1987 and made it…

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