Poison, the first feature film directed by Todd Haynes, will end Queer Porto’s second edition. The film screens today at 10pm, in Teatro Rivoli, as part of the New Queer Cinema Retrospective, which had titles directed by filmmakers like Gus Van Sant, Rose Troche, Cheryl Dunye or Tom Kalin. The last two were in Porto to present their films.

Poison won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1991, and went down in history as one of the founding films of New Queer Cinema. The film recaptures the writing and imagery of Jean Genet, as it intercuts three different stories, filmed in different styles.

Before Poison, it will also screen during Queer Porto’s last day the film The Living End, by Gregg Araki. It was the first work in the New Queer Cinema movement to bring the issue of AIDS centre stage. The screens at 5pm in Teatro Rivoli.