Mubi has scrapped an entire festival it had planned in Turkey after local authorities banned a screening of Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer.” The arthouse distributor and streamer was due to hold the annual Mubi Fest Istanbul between Nov. 7-10 with “Queer ...

The opening film was banned in the country for “provocative content that would endanger the peace of society.”

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.