Mubi has scrapped an entire festival it had planned in Turkey after local authorities banned a screening of Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer.”

Maybe you can forgive the slowed-down, stripped-back cover song trailer cliché when it’s packaged as part of one of Luca Guadagnino ‘s lovely, seductive films. Like this rendition of “All Apologies,” the Queer trailer is full of tenderness and longing painted over something harder and uglier: the flop sweat of a man (Daniel Craig) awkwardly trying to lure a lover (Drew Starkey);

The arthouse streamer said it pulled the MUBI Fest in Istanbul in the "name of protecting freedom of expression and artistic expression."

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Streaming service Mubi cancelled their international film festival in Istanbul to protest the local government’s decision to ban the opening film, a gay romance drama starring Daniel Craig. The MUBI Fest was scheduled to open on Thursday evening with a screening of Queer ,