A Home Called Vogue

by Yazeed Kamaldien

New Media Room: 07.08.25 - 25.09.25

A Home Called Vogue is a short documentary film that explores the importance of the Vogue ball scene in Cape Town for its main protagonists, among them dancer and choreographer Kirvan Fortuin.

Fortuin was from Macassar, about 40km from central Cape Town, where he was killed in a hate crime on 13 June 2020. He was 28 years old. The Vogue balls he curated were meant as a safe space, but that was not enough to protect him from hate.

Winner of the Stockholm City Film Festival – Best Short Documentary. Festival selections for 2024 and 2025 include Stockholm City Film Festival (Sweden), New York Istanbul Short Film Festival (Turkey), Golden Bridge İstanbul Short Film Festival (Turkey), QueerCine International Film Festival (Belgium) and Melbourne Queer Film Festival (Australia).

Ruby Wilson