Luca Guadagnino said on Saturday at the Marrakech Film Festival that he'll be 'happy' if people download "Queer" in Turkey where it's been banned.

Despite his latest film being censored, Luca Guadagnino remains cautiously optimistic about the power of filmmaking. After a screening of Queer was banned in Istanbul earlier this month, the Oscar-nominated director vowed to “fight any institution that wants to tarnish” cinema while speaking at the Marrakech International Film Festival,

Director Luca Guadagnino has criticized Turkey's decision to ban his latest film, 'Queer'. The film, set in 1950s Mexico City, features an American expat infatuated with a younger man. Guadagnino expressed his discontent with what he described as 'obtuse censorship' and emphasized cinema's powerful influence.

I know the story of Queer well — the book itself, the circumstances of it being written, and the mythology that preceded the publication of it, the “lost” William Burroughs manuscript. And so I was truly dreading seeing Luca Guadagnino’s $53 million Queer,

The director detailed his ambitions around the William S. Burroughs novella while the actor known for playing James Bond praised the daring script.