About Marble Ass
Imagine John Waters touching down in mid-90s Belgrade, a city beset by international economic sanctions, criminality, and violent ethno-nationalism, and concocting a comedic docu-fiction with the city’s LGBTQ+ community - exposing the prevailing toxic masculinity of the world around them.
Marble Ass tells the story of Merlinka (Vjeran Miladinović), a local trans sex worker whose weapons aren’t guns and knives, but sex and love. She acts as a local matriarch, spreading her teachings to younger sisters - many of whom were drawn from the trans and queer community of Belgrade, playing fictionalised versions of themselves. A veteran of the radical Yugoslav Black Wave of the 1960s and still working today, director Želimir Žilnik won the Teddy Award at the Berlinale for Marble Ass, the first film from the former Yugoslavia to openly depict LGBT+ characters.
Booking info
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Duration includes trailers, adverts and any Q&A/panel. For events such as NT Live, Colour Box and Reel & Meal there will be minimal advertising. We do not admit latecomers after the main feature has started and we have a limited food & drink policy.
MAC’s cinema programme has been generously supported by BFI Film Audience Network and Film Hub Midlands.
