Passiflora

Year Published: 1985

Creator: Fernand Bélanger and Dagmar Gueissez-Teufel

Description: Fernand Bélanger and Dagmar Gueissez-Teufel, 1985. "NFB brass were so put off by the film’s “brazen queerness” that they refused to provide English subtitles for the French language film’s showing at the Toronto Festival Of Festivals (now TIFF), “a clear way to censor the film, given that the vast majority of those lining up to see [it] almost certainly would not be able to understand it.”" (Now Magazine) "Regulation of sexuality at the NFB" https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2019/feature-articles/archived-passions-censored-bodies-passiflora-and-the-regulation-of-sexuality-at-the-nfb/

Complete Record: Fernand Bélanger and Dagmar Gueissez-Teufel, 1985. "NFB brass were so put off by the film’s “brazen queerness” that they refused to provide English subtitles for the French language film’s showing at the Toronto Festival Of Festivals (now TIFF), “a clear way to censor the film, given that the vast majority of those lining up to see [it] almost certainly would not be able to understand it.”" (Now Magazine) "Regulation of sexuality at the NFB" https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2019/feature-articles/archived-passions-censored-bodies-passiflora-and-the-regulation-of-sexuality-at-the-nfb/