Mubi has scrapped an entire festival it had planned in Turkey after local authorities banned a screening of Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer.”
The arthouse distributor and streamer was due to hold the annual Mubi Fest Istanbul in the Turkish capital between Nov. 7-10 with “Queer” — based on William S. Burroughs novel and starring Daniel Craig as a gay expat living in Mexico — set as the opener. But when it was told to pull the screening at the last minute by authorities who deemed it to contain “provocative content,” it opted to cancel the entire event altogether, saying it did that the ban targeted the “very essence and purpose” of the
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