There is a store in Palermo unlike any other called Quir, a place of love defying any convention. The owners are Massimo and Gino, who have been together for forty-two years, perhaps the longest-lasting gay couple in Italy. Their small leather goods store has become an important meeting place of the local LGBTQI+ scene – here people chat about their love stories or seek advice – fighting for acceptance in Sicily, a stronghold of patriarchal culture.

A soap factory production
in co-production with SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRG SSR
and 3sat Schweiz
Written & directed by: Nicola Bellucci
Producer: Frank Matter
DOP: Pierre Mennel SCS
Camera 2nd unit & Location sound: Nicola Bellucci
Editing: Piero Lassandro, Anja Bombelli
Music: Roberto Lobbe Procaccini, Valerio Vigliar
Sound design: Andrea Padovan, Oscar Van Hoogevest, Patrick Becker
Re-recording mixer: Patrick Becker, nurTon GmbH
Video post-production & VFX: Hannes Rüttimann, Postino Post-Production
With: Gino Campanella, Massimo Milani, Charly Abbadessa, Vivian Bellina, Ernesto Tomasini

Original version in Italian and English with German/English/French subtitles, 106 min.

World rights: soap factory GmbH
Distributor Italy: Wanted, Milan

Festivals:
70th Taormina Film Festival, July 2024, Sicily
MT Queer Premia Film Festival, October 2024, Cuiabà, Brazil
41st Kasseler Dokfest, November 2024, Germany
Florence Queer Festival, November 2024, Italy
Rome International Documentary Festival, December 2024, Italy