Streaming platform Mubi has canceled a four-day film festival in Istanbul to protest the Turkish city’s banning of the new Luca Guadagnino-directed film Queer.

The streamer MUBI says it has scrapped a film festival due to take place in Turkey this weekend. The decision was made after authorities said the streamer could not screen the new movie, Queer.

Queer, based on William S. Burroughs novel and starring Daniel Craig as a gay expat living in Mexico, was supposed to be opening film of the festival.

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

Mubi, the global streaming platform, production company and film distributor, has cancelled its Turkey film festival over local censorship of the film ‘Queer’. The company said it is taking a stand for “protecting freedom of expression.

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 ,