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 film by Nicola Bellucci, 106 min., CH 2024
Pride Award, Florence Queer Festival 2024
Best Film, ITA-DOC, RIDF 2024
Nominated for Prix du Public, Solothurn Film Festival 2025

With Gino Campanella, Massimo Milani, Charly Abbadessa, Vivian Bellina
and with Ernesto Tomasini

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 editor: Oscar Van Hoogevest
Sound design: Andrea Padovan, Oscar Van Hoogevest, Patrick Becker
Re-recording mixer: Patrick Becker, nurTon GmbH
Color grading: Roger Somm @8horses Postproduction
Video post-production & VFX: Hannes Rüttimann, Postino Post-Production
Titles sequence animation & artwork: Martin Wülser & Patrick Oser, Former Grafik
Titles design & website: Klaus Affolter, bytes & bones
Trailer: Aron Nick, Trinipix

www.quir-film.com

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