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

Festivals:
Taormina Film Festival, July 2024, Sicily
MT Queer Premia Film Festival, October 2024, Cuiabà, Brazil