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ONLINE FILMS AND STREAMING
There are 36 unique film programs and over 100 films to view at this year’s virtual film festival. Films will be-
come available starting Friday, October 9th until Sunday, October 18th. Each day, a new group of films will
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Opening Night SUBLET DIRECTOR: EYTAN FOX • 2020 ISRAEL, USA • 90 MINUTES SUGGESTED SCREENING TIME Friday, October 9th @ 7:00PM FILM AVAILABLE TO VIEW Friday, October 9th - Monday, October 12th Michael (John Benjamin Hickey), a New York Times travel writer, visits Tel Aviv to research his latest article, get some space from his relationship, and recharge his batteries amid the thriving gay scene. Intending to sublet an apartment in Israel’s most populous city, he spontaneously agrees to share the modest one-bedroom space when it becomes clear that handsome tenant Tomer (Niv Nissim) has nowhere else to go. The age gap between the reserved Michael and the free-spirited Tomer lends the film a subtle humor and charm that grows as the pair get to know one another. As Michael shares his wisdom and soaks up the youthful energy that surrounds them, his guard begins to drop and he finds the inspiration to embrace his life again. Structured around the passing days of his trip, the film has a walk-and-talk quality reminiscent of BEFORE SUNRISE, giving the viewer snapshots of the hedonistic vibe of the city. Eytan Fox has entertained us for three decades with gems like YOSSI & JAGGER and THE BUBBLE, and now gifts us this significantly more personal film, a heartfelt and heartwarming ode to gay men and to aging. — Lucy Mukerjee SPONSORED BY:
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brandingalbuquerque.comCenterpiece Shiva Baby Director: Emma Seligman • 2020 USA • 77 minUTES SUGGESTED SCREENING TIME Tuesday, October 13 @ 9:00PM FILM AVAILABLE TO VIEW Tuesday, October 13th - Friday, October 16th Family obligations can be stressful even under the best of circumstances. But for Danielle, a sexually-liberated, bisexual post-grad reluctantly dragged to a Jewish funeral service by her parents, the persistent questions about her weight, love life, and career goals can make the dead seem like they’re getting off easy. Also, who was it that died again? Confronted with the third degree from a cavalcade of characters—all while avoiding her overachieving, law student ex-girlfriend who happens to be lingering around the buffet table—Danielle finds that she is unable to escape her past, present, or future. When her current beau shows up, what was once merely awkward turns into a hilarious exploit in truth avoidance, one-uppance, and neuroses of the highest order. Writer-director Emma Seligman expands her 2018 short into a sharp, perfectly-paced, universal take on conflicting versions of self and how hard it is to live up to anyone’s expectations… even your own. This hysterical feature debut also stars Dianna Agron (GLEE), Jackie Hoffman (FEUD), and Fred Melamed (LADY DYNAMITE). — Angelique Smith AWARDS/ACCOLADES • Grand Jury Award, Outstanding Screenwriting in a U.S. Feature at L.A. Outfest 2020 SPONSORED BY:
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Director: Pablo Larraín • 2020 CHILE • 107 minUTES • SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
SUGGESTED SCREENING TIME
Wednesday, October 14 @ 7:00PM
FILM AVAILABLE TO VIEW
Wednesday, October 14th - Saturday, October 17th
Few films in recent memory have blazed a trail as passionately as Pablo Larraín’s EMA,
which signals the director’s return to the present and his native Chile via the incandescent
city of Valparaíso.
Mariana Di Girólamo, in a star turn you won’t be able to take your eyes off, plays the titular
dancer, mother and pyro-lover impervious to social norms. On a quest to reclaim her
adopted son Polo, whose absence explains her deteriorating marriage to choreographer
Gastón (Gael García Bernal), Ema sets out on a path of deliberate resistance, embracing
the orgasmic street movement of reggaeton and embarking on a fluid succession of
relationships with people of all genders in her orbit. For reasons that don’t need explaining,
she also owns a flamethrower and rejoices in burning shit down – a none-too-subtle
metaphor for her relentless pursuit of catharsis and the film’s white-hot energy through
which creative and sexual expression bursts forth.
Every bit the firecracker that had critics in Venice, where it premiered, clamoring for
superlatives, Larraín’s film is visually stunning, fueled with combustible symbolism and
physicality, and a genuine war cry for dancers, lovers and the matriarchy everywhere.
— Tim Wong
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• Official Selection: Venice International Film Festival 2019Closing Night
BREAKING FAST
Director: Mike Mosallam • 2020 USA • 92 minUTES
SUGGESTED SCREENING TIME
Sunday, October 18 @ 7:30PM
FILM AVAILABLE TO VIEW
Sunday, October 18th - Wednesday, October 21st
Cultures clash and passion blooms in this lively and insightful romantic comedy. Mo
(Haaz Sleiman, THOSE PEOPLE) is a gay Muslim living in West Hollywood — he’s a
dedicated doctor who prioritizes his faith. When his long-term relationship takes an
unexpected turn, leaving him suddenly single, he discovers that finding someone who
enjoys quiet evenings of cooking and conversation is challenging in a sea of guys who
are focused on partying and hook-ups. But when Mo meets Kal (Michael Cassidy,
THE DARE PROJECT), sparks fly, and the cute couple moves carefully into a romance
that is sweet and complicated at once.
True-to-life dialogue and richly complex and relatable characters breathe naturalistic
energy into writer-director Mike Mosallam’s gorgeously shot feature debut, which he
expanded from his 2015 short of the same name. Funny and thoughtful, Breaking
Fast — which also stars Veronica Cartwright (ALIEN) and Patrick Sabongui
(Homeland) — tackles deep issues of faith, friendship and sexuality with upbeat
energy and a big heart.
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• Official Selection: Frameline44 San Francisco
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Patrick Sammon & Bennett Singer • 2020 USA • 82 minUTES
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from its medical manuals.
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the best experts on their own lives. Bennett Singer (BROTHER OUTSIDER: THE LIFE
OF BAYARD RUSTIN) and Patrick Sammon (executive producer of CODEBREAKER)
marshal fascinating archival material and eyewitness testimony to recount the hard-
won struggle for basic rights that continues today, as “conversion therapy” remains
legal in many states.
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® SERVICESShowcase Film Ahead of the Curve Director: Jen Rainin and Rivkah Beth Medow • 2020 USA • 95 minutes SUGGESTED SCREENING TIME Sunday, October 11th @ 6:00PM FILM AVAILABLE TO VIEW Sunday, October 11th - Wednesday, October 14th What made CURVE MAGAZINE (first published in 1990 as DENEUVE) ahead of its time wasn’t just the radical choice to boldly print “lesbian” on the cover next to out and proud figureheads such as Melissa Etheridge, Wanda Sykes and k.d. lang. CURVE was filled with unapologetic images and stories that radiated community and dignity from cover to cover, quickly becoming a cornerstone of lesbian culture. So in 2019 when founder Franco Stevens heard that the magazine might go out of print, she was left with two questions: Was a lesbian magazine still important for lesbian visibility? And, how had visibility changed over three decades? In AHEAD OF THE CURVE, director Jen Rainin and producer Rivkah Beth Medow craft a personal journey that follows Stevens’ process grappling with questions of community and legacy. Linking lesbian histories with contemporary viewpoints, the film moves between interviews with LGBTQ+ tastemakers, “celesbians” (including Jewelle Gomez, Kate Kendell, and Lea DeLaria) and rich archival footage. Rainin lovingly uplifts the personal and political struggles, adventure, and community that birthed an institution, honoring its visionary legacy while exploring whether a SPONSORED BY: groundbreaking print publication remains relevant in a digital age. — Sophia Lanza-Weil AWARDS/ACCOLADES • Official Selection: Frameline44 San Francisco • Official Selection: Outfest - Los Angeles 2020
Showcase Film Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt) Director: Monica Zanetti • 2020 Australia • 84 minUTES SUGGESTED SCREENING TIME Sunday, October 11th @ 8:00PM FILM AVAILABLE TO VIEW Sunday, October 11th - Wednesday, October 14th It’s hard enough being a high school student, but Ellie (Sophie Hankshaw) also has to stress about how to ask her crush Abbie (Zoe Terakes) to the formal without the certainty Abbie is into girls. If that’s not complicated enough, how about blurting out your plan and inadvertently coming out to your high-strung mum (Martha Dusseldorp), who did not seem to take the news very well? On top of that, Ellie gets a surprise visit from her dead aunt Tara (Julia Billington), in the form of a fairy godmother ghost, to help her coming out process! Along the way, Ellie discovers some family secrets that she might not be ready for. ELLIE & ABBIE may have all the hallmarks of a classic high school rom-com, but first- time director Monica Zanetti also manages to subvert the genre and bring some genuine surprises to the table, including salient reminders of historical LGBTQI+ struggles that came before. The charming young leads are supported by a great cast, including New Zealand’s own Rachel House, who gives a deeply moving performance as Ellie’s SPONSORED BY: surrogate aunt. Winner of the Audience Award at the Mardi Gras Film Festival, ELLIE & ABBIE combines romance, comedy and a nod to pride history in an impressive debut. — Vicci Ho AWARDS/ACCOLADES • Winner: Audience Award – Mardi Gras Film Festival
Showcase Film cicada Director: Matt Fifer & Kieran Mulcare • 2020 USA • 96 minUTES SUGGESTED SCREENING TIME Monday, October 12th @ 9:30PM FILM AVAILABLE TO VIEW Monday, October 12th - Thursday, October 15th Sexy, smart, and nakedly emotional, CICADA is the bold feature film debut of actor, co-writer, and co-director Matt Fifer. He stars as Ben, a promiscuous bi-sexual housepainter haunted by a childhood trauma. His life changes dramatically when a hookup with Ben, an IT professional, blossoms into a relationship. But Ben still deals with his own physical and psychic scars. And as an interracial couple, they also have to navigate the minefield of casual racism from Ben’s white friends. Anchored by excellent lead performances from Fifer and handsome newcomer Sheldon D. Brown, the film tackles intimacy, family, healing, and forgiveness, all against the backdrop of the 2012 child sex abuse trial of Jerry Sandusky. The striking cinematography delivers some memorably romantic images, accompanied by songs from acclaimed indie artists Tune-Yards, Grizzly Bear, and others. Reminiscent of such modern gay classics as WEEKEND and KEEP THE LIGHTS ON, CICADA delivers an artfully constructed story with vivid characters that’s unflinching about the realities of contemporary queer life. It’s a thought-provoking, relevant film that never loses touch with the wonder and sexual fire of a passionate new SPONSORED BY: relationship. Called “lush, erotic, and touching” by Indiewire, this is sure to be one of the breakout LGBTQ films of the year. — Frank Danay AWARDS/ACCOLADES • Official Selection: Cleveland International Film Festival • Official Selection: Frameline44 San Francisco
Showcase Film Two of Us / Deux Director: Filippo Meneghetti • 2019 France, Belgium, Luxembourg • 95 minUTES • French, German with English Subtitles SUGGESTED SCREENING TIME Tuesday, October 13 @ 7:00PM FILM AVAILABLE TO VIEW Tuesday, October 13th - Friday, October 16th Pensioners Nina (Barbara Sukowa) and Madeleine (Martine Chevallier) have hidden their deep and passionate love for many decades. From the point of view of those surrounding them, including Madeleine’s meddling daughter (Léa Drucker), they are simply two neighbours sharing a hallway during their sunset years. In reality, this landing is a bridge between two worlds: one belonging to a widowed, doting grandmother, the other to a free-spirited, fiercely independent woman who longs to spend her life with the person she loves. Clandestinely, Nina and Madeleine share a tender life, moving freely between their apartments until, one day, an unexpected event closes the portal. In this new reality, their secret cannot remain hidden if they are to stay together — and their unconditional love is put to the test. France-based Italian director Filippo Meneghetti, along with writer Malysone Bovorasmy, uses the utmost care and benevolence in crafting his bold, lustrous directorial debut. This is a film of longing and revelatory beauty. The performances of Sukowa, Chevallier, and Drucker are endlessly compelling — depicting characters both sincere and flawed, with each subtle movement adding to the seamless ballet of SPONSORED BY: raw human emotion. TWO OF US is a reminder of life’s key lessons: you can’t choose who you love — and you only live once. — Dorota Lech AWARDS/ACCOLADES • Official Selection: TIFF – Toronto International Film Festival 2019 • Official Selection: BFI London Film Festival
Festival at a Glance
All films listed below are in the order of their release date. Please
check the individual film listings in the program guide as each have
a unique streaming window of availability during the film festival.
FRI
OCT
9
Sublet Give or Take Thirst
Opening Night Feature Midnight Special
SAT
OCT
10
De Colores Cured Strange Twilight’s
Shorts Program Documentary Encounters Kiss
Showcase - Free Shorts Program Feature
Screening
SUN
OCT
11
The Whistle Fun in Girls Ahead of the Ellie & Abbie
Made in Shorts Curve (& Ellie’s Dead
New Mexico Shorts Program Showcase Aunt)
Showcase
MON
OCT
12
Foreign Keyboard Where the Cicada
Bodies Fantasies... Boys Are Showcase
Shorts Program Documentary Shorts ProgramTUE
OCT
13
Black + Queer Pier Kids Two of Us Shiva Baby
On Screen Documentary Showcase Centerpiece
Shorts Program
WED
OCT
14
Worldy The Teacher Ema International The Goddess of
Shorts Program Feature Centerpiece Fortune Feature
THU
OCT
15
Dramarama Gender Fabulous T11 Incomplete Monsoon
LGBTQ+ Youth Shorts Program Feature Showcase
FRI
OCT
16
Beautiful Dreamer lUZ dRY wIND
Feature Feature Showcase
SAT
OCT
17
Queer Youth United Through The Glass No Hard Feelings
Shorts Program Darkly Feature Showcase
SUN
OCT
18
Silver Linings Out Loud Breaking Fast
Shorts Program Documentary Closing NightShowcase Film Monsoon Director: Hong Khaou • 2019 U.K. • 86 minUTES • English and Vietnamese SUGGESTED SCREENING TIME Thursday, October 15 @ 7:30PM FILM AVAILABLE TO VIEW Thursday, October 15th - Sunday, October 18th The heartthrob star of CRAZY RICH ASIANS, LAST CHRISTMAS, and A SIMPLE FAVOR, Henry Golding breaks out in this extraordinary dramatic role. From Hong Khaou, director of the tear-jerking gay film, LILTING, MONSOON explores memory, loss, and new beginnings with a tale that’s as haunting as it is romantic. Golding stars as Kit, a Vietnamese man raised in London since childhood, when his parents escaped their war-torn homeland. Now, he’s returning for the first time to a country he doesn’t recognize, a language he’s forgotten, and the childhood friend who lived to tell. In his travels, he meets Lewis (Parker Sawyers, who played Barak Obama in the feature film SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU). An American entrepreneur, Lewis comes from a family impacted by the war in a very different way, and their mutual scars fuel their connection as much as their palpably mutual attraction. A travelogue of a country where the ancient meets the modern, MONSOON boasts stunning images of vibrant street life, lush landscapes, and of course, the gay nightlife. (The fresh lotus tea sequence is a visual knockout!) Filled with provocative ideas, relatable characters, and that wonderful feeling of a budding romance, SPONSORED BY: MONSOON will stay in your mind long after its final swoony moments. - Frank Danay AWARDS/ACCOLADES • Official Selection: BFI London Film Festival 2019 • Official Selection: Outfest Los Angeles 2020
Showcase Film Dry Wind / Vento Seco Director: Daniel Nolasco • 2020 brazil • 110 minutes • Portuguese with English Subtitles SUGGESTED SCREENING TIME Friday, October 16 @ 9:30PM FILM AVAILABLE TO VIEW Friday, October 16th - Monday, October 19th A lush, sexually explicit exploration of desire and fear, DRY WIND delivers bold colors, grand melodrama, a gorgeous soundtrack, and an unflinching look at gay intimacy. In a drought- stricken Brazilian town, Sandro keeps a low profile. He has unbridled sex with his friend, Ricardo, but only when hidden in the woods. His refusal to commit or leave the closet leads Ricardo’s eye to stray, and it lands on the ridiculously hot Maicon, a mysterious motorcyclist played by Tom of Finland drawing come to life, Rafael Teóphilo. But Sandro’s jealousy leads to betrayal, violence, and ultimately a reconsideration of living life in the shadows. In a vivacious supporting performance, trans actress Renata Carvalho plays a union organizer and Sandro’s friend, Paula. She tries to make Sandro see that the personal is political and that there’s no glory in a life lived on the sidelines. As he did in his playful, experimental documentary MR. LEATHER, director Daniel Nolasco stages lurid BDSM fantasies with a fresh eye and a sex-positive attitude. His first feature film, DRY WIND recalls the classics of Pedro Almodóvar and establishes Nolasco as a brash and promising queer filmmaker. It will leave you exhilarated, inspired, and at least a little turned on. - Frank Danay SPONSORED BY: This film contains sexually explicit material. Jeremy J. Olsen AWARDS/ACCOLADES • Official Selection: Guadalajara International Film Festival 2020 • Official Selection: Berlin International Film Festival 2020
Showcase Film No Hard Feelings Director: Faraz Shariat • 2020 germany • 92 minUTES • German, Persian, Arabic with English Subtitles SUGGESTED SCREENING TIME Saturday, October 17 @ 9:30PM FILM AVAILABLE TO VIEW Saturday, October 17th - Tuesday, October 20th A young German-Iranian raver forms an inseparable bond with two Iranian immigrant siblings over the course of a summer, as threat of deportation looms and a secret romance becomes too explosive to contain, in the winner of the prestigious Teddy Award at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival. Parvis (a radiant Benjamin Radjaipour) whiles away his youth in voracious party mode, alternating between dancing in clubs and going out on sexually acrobatic Grindr dates. But even at the raves he’s made his safe havens, Parvis struggles to belong. When Parvis meets Amon (Eidin Jalali), a newly-arrived Iranian immigrant living in a German shelter with his sister Banafshe (Banafshe Hourmazdi), the trio become immediately inseparable, barreling through night till morning, finding in each other the home they’ve been lacking. Filmmaker Faraz Shariat draws from his own experiences and elegantly weaves them into his exuberant, heartfelt, and slyly funny debut that is above all a love letter and tribute to a generation of displaced youth finding their place in the SPONSORED BY: world. — Jesse Knight Diego Lopez AWARDS/ACCOLADES • Winner: Teddy Award for Best Queer Feature Film – Berlin IFF
Film Program
Beautiful Dreamer Dramarama
Director: Amy Glazer • 2020 USA • 94 minUTES Director: Jonathan Wysocki • 2020 USA • 91 minUTES
SUGGESTED SCREENING TIME SUGGESTED SCREENING TIME
Friday, October 16 @ 5:00PM Thursday, October 15th @ 12:00PM
FILM AVAILABLE TO VIEW FILM AVAILABLE TO VIEW
Friday, October 16th - Monday, October 19th Thursday, October 15th - Monday, October 18th
Starring Erin Daniels of The L WORD and adapted from Patricia In Jonathan Wysocki’s feature directorial debut, a group
Cotter’s play THE SURROGATE, BEAUTIFUL DREAMER is a of high school drama fanatics explore the ties of their
charming, light-hearted dramedy about family, friendship, and friendship and their fears for the future. The year is
love within a tight-knit group of fortysomethings, shot in and 1994, and the setting is the conservative community of
around the Bay Area. Plagued with a case of writer’s block, Escondido, California. Gene loves the theatre and the tight-
Margaret (Daniels) is desperately trying to finish her second knit community around it, but is terrified to come out to
novel, but her long-time partner Jen (Kathryn Smith-McGlynn) his friends. This all changes as Gene and his friends throw
just wants to start planning their wedding. a final murder mystery slumber party on the last day of
summer, giving him one last chance to be honest with the
Meanwhile, her best friend Billy (Louis Ozawa Changchien) people he loves before they leave for college. However, the
wants the couple to be godparents to his young daughter group receives an unexpected visitor, calling into question
Tallulah and soon-to-born (through a surrogate) son. Billy’s Gene and his friends’ readiness for the future ahead of
wife Sarah (Jennifer Mudge), however, is frantically trying them.
to keep her meddling mother Rita (a scene-stealing Wendie
Malick) from finding out that she used the kitchen remodel Wysocki’s film is a love letter to late-bloomers, drama
money she gave them to pay for the surrogacy. Toss into fanatics, and the intense friendships that only youth can
the mix the angelic surrogate Crystal (newcomer Tate bring.
Moore), who just wants to have the baby so she can get
back to her true love in life: surfing.
— Victoria Jaschob
AWARDS/ACCOLADES
• Official Selection: Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival 2020
• Official Selection: FilmOut San Diego LGBTQ Film Festival 2020
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BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
SAM & EMMA
Director: Vanessa Leigh, Year: 2020,
Country: USA, Running Time: 15 Minutes
Two women try to piece together their
relationship.Film Program
Give or Take The Goddess of Fortune
Director: Paul Riccio • 2020 USA • 120 minUTES Director: Ferzan Ozpetek • 2019 italy • 115 minUTES • Italian with
English Subtitles
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When his father Ken passes away, Martin (Jamie Effros)
With a stellar cast and a gentle touch, Turkish-Italian
returns to Cape Cod to settle his affairs, which includes
auteur Ferzan Ozpetek (FACING WINDOWS; STEAM:
selling a valuable home with the help of realtor Patty
THE TURKISH BATH) explores the ways love shifts and
King (SNL’s Cheri Oteri). Complicating matters is Ted
redefines itself in long-term relationships when a handsome
(BLOODLINE’S Norbet Leo Butz), Ken’s former lawn guy
gay couple unexpectedly find themselves taking care
and late-in-life boyfriend, who lives in the house he shared
of their friend’s two adolescent children. After 15 years
with Ken for years. Ted was not in the will, and faces
together, Arturo (Ozpetek regular Stefano Accorsi, HIS
eviction in the midst of grieving his significant loss. In
SECRET LIFE) and Alessandro (Edoardo Leo) have hit a lull
the meantime, Martin reconnects with former friends and
in their relationship, with their troubles boiling to the surface
questions whether he has really been living his best life.
at their friends’ gay wedding.
Martin and Ted struggle to find common ground as they
When Alessandro’s best friend and former girlfriend
compare and fight with their respective versions of a man
Annamaria (Jasmine Trinca, AN ALMOST ORDINARY
they both deeply loved. A quirky and original story told by a
SUMMER) asks them to look after her kids for a while,
talented cast, and filmed entirely on location in Cape Cod,
Arturo and Alessandro’s world is thrown into hyperdrive.
this charming film has true laugh-out-loud moments and a
This new responsibility manages to bring out buried
deep reservoir of heart as it addresses questions of identity,
resentments alongside touching reminders of what
love, loss, connection and acceptance.
made the two men fall in love in the first place. Warm
and engaging, THE GODDESS OF FORTUNE splendidly
showcases the true meaning of “chosen family,” juggling
its interpersonal drama with a healthy dose of humor and
heart. — Joe Bowman
SpOnsored by: SpOnsored by:
Bruce W. HinrichsFilm Program
Keyboard Fantasies: Luz
The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story Director: Jon Garcia • 2020 USA • 118 minUTES
Director: Posy Dixon • 2019 U.K. • 63 minUTES
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Monday, October 12th - Thursday, October 15th
From Emmy Nominated Director Jon Garcia (THE FALLS
His fans include pop diva Robyn, influential DJ Four Tet, and TRILOGY), comes this new film about two incarcerated
freak-folk icon Devendra Banhart. His unclassifiable music men who find each other. Ruben and Carlos are cellmates
embraces the warmth of folk, the fluidity of jazz, the grace in a minimum-security prison. As Ruben struggles to learn
of new age, and the soul-shaking power of Negro spirituals. the ropes of daily life and his place within the complex
Meet Beverly Glenn-Copeland, a black trans man who hierarchal prison system, Carlos becomes his mentor and
has quietly built a cult following for his ahead-of-their-time eventually his lover. The two men develop feelings for
recordings and heart-centered live performances. each other which are not easily expressed. After Carlos is
released, Ruben must deal with his heartbreak until he is
In this inspirational profile, Glenn-Copeland, now 74, released and has a chance at reconciliation with Carlos.
presents a model of aging not just gracefully, but with humor,
curiosity, and an open heart to embrace the present. He LUZ is a heart-wrenching drama and a story of survival, not
speaks candidly about his experimentation with lesbianism only for the lives of both men, but for their relationship as
and 1980s electronic music and about the wisdom he’s it transitions to the world outside their cell. Were they just
acquired along the way. To track his one-of-a-kind journey, filling the void of loneliness during lock up or truly locked in
this documentary employs candy-colored digitization and love?
animation along with vintage super-8 film and electrifying
AWARDS/ACCOLADES
concert footage. As he tours with his band of mixed-race
• Official Selection: Reeling Film Festival – Chicago
and mixed-gender twenty-somethings, he delivers a true
master class in living life to its fullest as a queer elder.
- Frank Danay
AWARDS/ACCOLADES
• Winner: Audience Favorite – Hot Docs Festival
• Official Selection: BFI Flare London Film Festival SpOnsored by:
Deep SinghFilm Program
Out Loud Pier Kids
Director: Gail Willumsen • 2020 USA • 54 minUTES Director: Elegance Bratton • 2019 USA • 86 minUTES
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You’re invited to an historic event: the first concert by an all-trans “The problem in the West Village isn’t drugs or prostitution,”
chorus led by a trans Artistic Director. In 2016, the Trans Chorus explains DeSean, “it’s the homeless youth who come to the area
of Los Angeles gave their inaugural performance, just six months looking for a safe zone.” These pier kids—homeless queer and
after being formed. This documentary tracks the group from their trans youth, almost universally POC—name themselves after the
first meeting up through their acclaimed debut with a program that space they’ve claimed, the Hudson piers in lower Manhattan.
includes a 16th century French chanson, the glam rock classic “All Director Elegance Bratton, himself a former pier kid, spent five
the Young Dudes,” and an uplifting original composition by one of years filming this “world within a world,” and the result is a raw
the chorus members. portrait of a segment of the LGBTQ+ community that has been
left behind in the rush to legalize marriage and obtain mainstream
Composed entirely of trans, non-binary, and gender non- acceptance.
conforming singers, the group represents an extraordinary
diversity. One member attended Julliard. Another fronted a Bratton’s vérité camera plunges viewers into the midst of the
heavy metal band. Many had no previous musical background. chaos, following transwomen on the stroll, observing arguments,
Together, they transform their roughly two dozen unique voices drag balls, and visits to uncomprehending relatives. The film also
into something singular and dynamic, informed by their intimate captures the more comfortable visitors to the piers, who sunbathe
experiences with transitioning and evolving. This thrilling, or pose for pictures in the renovated waterfront park, apparently
inspirational musical diary is sure to leave you smiling, even if you oblivious to the kids. By the end of this urgent film, we no longer
need a box of Kleenex within reach. have that luxury—these kids are impossible to ignore.
- Frank Danay — Monica Nolan
AWARDS/ACCOLADES This film contains depictions and discussions of transphobic
• Official Selection: Outfest Los Angeles 2020 violence.
• Official Selection: Translations: Seattle Transgender Film Festival
2020
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CASA QFilm Program
T11 Incomplete The Teacher / El Maestro
Director: Suzanne Guacci • 2020 USA • 105 minUTES Director: Cristina Tamagnini and Julian Dabien • 2020 Argentina • 69
minUTES • Spanish with English Subtitles
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Thursday, October 15th - Sunday, October 18th
Wednesday, October 14 - Saturday, October 17th
Kate is a divorced woman in her 50s who is struggling
Natalio is a passionate and dedicated primary school
both financially and emotionally. She is trying to repair
teacher. He displays his concerns for his students both in
her relationship with her adult son, damaged by her years
and out of the classroom through his relationship with a
of alcohol abuse when he was younger. Now, 10 years
troubled student, Miguel, whom he mentors and sponsors.
sober, middle-aged and living alone with her declining cat,
His life revolves around his students and his mother, with
she is barely making ends meet. Working as a caregiver,
whom Natalio lives. Natalio’s comfortable and ordered
Kate is assigned to a new client, another damaged soul,
life is disrupted when Natalios’ friend Juani moves to
Laura, who has been paralyzed from an accident. Laura
town. Natalio’s and Juani’s relationship becomes the focal
is drawn to Kate and the two help each other heal from
point of speculation and conjecture among the town’s
their respective losses. As they fall in love, Laura’s brother
inhabitants.
disapproves but it’s Kate’s own actions that end up
betraying Laura’s trust.
The arrival of Juani and the fact he and Natalio are living
together embodies the reality of living in a small Argentine
Stellar direction by Suzanne Guacci (STUFF) with a
town where everyone knows everyone else and their
powerful performance by Karen Silas as Kate, along
business. The protagonists’ relationship rips the thin veneer
with strong supporting performances by Zachary Booth
from the town exposing the town’s residents’ prejudices
(KEEP THE LIGHTS ON) and Kristen Renton (SONS OF
and hypocrisies.
ANARCHY) as Laura, highlight this a very important drama
that explores the themes of love, loss, disability and
This film is based on the real life relationship of director
redemption.
Cristina Tamagnini (who also wrote the screenplay) and her
AWARDS/ACCOLADES own school teacher, whom she considers to be a “great
• Official Selection: Outfest Los Angeles 2020 maker of culture”.
• Official Selection: Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival 2020
THIS SHORT FILM PRECEEDS THE TEACHER
• Official Selection: BFI Flare Film Festival
BLACK LIPS
Director: Adrian Chiarella, Year: 2019, Country:
Australia, Running Time: 15 Minutes
An immigrant in Australia lives a solitary life of
routine.Film Program
Thirst Through The Glass Darkly
Director: Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson, Gaukur Úlfarsson • 2019 Director: Lauren Fash • 2020 USA • 103 minUTES
Iceland • 84 minUTES • Icelandic with English Subtitles
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Friday, October 9th - Monday, October 12th
The sleepy hamlet of Elrod, Georgia—a mysterious town
It’s a wildly unlikely friendship: Hjörtur, a thousand-year-old
where girls have a habit of vanishing—is the setting of
gay vampire, meets Hulda, a recovering addict mourning
director Lauren Fash’s tense, psychological thriller. Since
her brother’s recent overdose. The two misfits bond in the
the sudden disappearance of her daughter a year ago,
bonkers, cartoonishly gory THIRST, the campy yet heart-
Charlie (Robyn Lively of both TEEN WITCH and TWIN
centered horror-comedy that you didn’t know you needed.
PEAKS fame) has never given up hope, still plastering
Together, Hulda and Hjörtur take on Jens, a cop who
telephone poles with “Missing” signs. But at home, the
suspects Hulda of killing her brother while he investigates
relationship with her partner Angela (OZARK’S Bethany
Hjörtur’s series of bloody murders. Jens’ wife, Ester, is an
Anne Lind) has become increasingly frayed, and her only
unhinged televangelist with a cult following, and they’re
solace is a drink at the local bar. When another girl goes
prepared to do anything to keep the evils of blood-sucking
missing, Charlie sets out to find answers, digging deeper
and drug abuse out of Reykjavík.
into the community’s dark past and being forced to
confront her own destructive secrets.
A comic freak-out of a movie, THIRST features lurid dream
sequences, an animated detour into rogue taxidermy, a
Fash’s impressive thriller smartly uses genre trappings to
re-animated corpse, and literal gallons of blood splattering,
explore the inner workings of its heroine as she struggles to
squirting, and pooling everywhere! Through all the insanity,
cope with reality. With a rich supporting cast which includes
the movie also explores grief, family, religious hypocrisy,
Shanola Hampton (SHAMELESS) and Michael Trucco
and forgiveness. It’s an off-the-hook movie that works
(BATTLESTAR GALACTICA), THROUGH THE GLASS
grisly sight gags into a profoundly queer story of love and
DARKLY rests confidently on Robyn Lively’s complex,
belonging.
nuanced lead performance, which adds an emotional depth
- Frank Danay
to its intriguing mysteries.
AWARDS/ACCOLADES — Cindy Lou Peeples
• Official Selection: Damn These Heels Queer Film Festival 2020
AWARDS/ACCOLADES
• Official Selection: ScreamFest 2020
• Official Selection: Frameline44 San FranciscoFilm Program
TWILIGHT’S KISS / SUK SUK The Whistle
Director: Ray Yeung • 2019 Hong Kong • 92 minUTES • Cantonese Director: StormMiguel Florez • 2019 USA • 57 minUTES
with English Subtitles
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Saturday, October 10th @ 8:30PM
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Sunday, October 11th - Wednesday, October 14th
Saturday, October 10th - Tuesday, October 13th
In the 1970’s, a group of lesbian youth in Albuquerque had a
One of the miracles of Hong Kong’s indestructible cinema is that particular way of finding each other and others like themselves.
it can still produce gentle, humane, subtle gems like TWILIGHT’S They created a special whistle that was both hard to learn and
KISS. The Special Administrative Region may be riven by existential easy to go unnoticed by unsuspecting bystanders. It would go on
crisis, but Ray Yeung’s lovely film shows Hong Kong at its best. to be known by their peers and by those who came up and out
after them as the “dyke whistle.”
This is a domestic love story about two seniors. One, Pak (the
veteran Tai-Bo, brilliantly low-key while cast against type), is a It was a rite of passage taught to newly out dykes by their peers.
taxi driver and family man who cruises public toilets for discrete It was used to find friends in a crowd, to find out if other young
gay sex. He finds and befriends divorced Hoi (Ben Yuen, in a women were also lesbians, and was used as a sort of friendly nod
finely detailed, richly inhabited performance). They try to explore to groups of lesbians passing by at the mall or at the State Fair.
how they might imagine a future together in a society where
the demands of home, family, and religion remain the defining Decades later, director StormMiguel Florez returns to Albuquerque
elements of individual and collective identity. to tell the story of that secret code created by and shared among
young lesbians in 1970s and 80s, as a means of self-identification
The film’s gentle, natural pacing and texture don’t idealize or and finding community during that time.
sentimentalize its important story: Pak’s and Hoi’s experiences
subtly evoke different ways of being gay in one of East Asia’s most AWARDS/ACCOLADES
socially conservative yet paradoxically tolerant societies. • Official Selection: Wicked Queer – Boston
AWARDS/ACCOLADES THIS SHORT FILM PRECEEDS THE WHISTLE
• Winner: Best Film – Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award The Fabulous TBDs
Director: Sarah Kennedy & Kelli Trapnell;
• Winner: Best Actor - Hong Kong Film Awards Running Time, 10 minutes
• Winner: Best Supporting Actress - Hong Kong Film Awards Betty & Inez attempt to become a band during
COVID19.
SpOnsored by: SpOnsored by:Short Films
BLACK + QUEER ON SCREEN De Colores
Acclaimed shorts that explore the black queer experience. This collection of shorts honors a multitude of queer and trans
voices of color.
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2 Dollars After You Left
Director: Robin Cloud • Year: 2019 • Country: USA • Running Time: 15 Minutes Director: April Maxey • Year: 2019 • Country: USA • Running Time: 9 Minutes
Syd has the job from hell where their queer look and artistic ambitions Andrea, unable to move on from a past relationship, meets up with her ex-
bother some small-minded co-workers. Could a lottery win mean their girlfriend, Alex, to get the last few items from their life together.
freedom?
Dance Dance Evolution
Buck Director: Jules Rosskam • Year: 2019 • Country: USA • Running Time: 18 Minutes
Director: Elegance Bratton • Year: 2020 • Country: USA • Running Time: 14 Minutes A short, powerful, and joyful documentary explores the ways in which the
From the director of must-see doc Pier Kids and Viceland’s My House body in motion can open up the spaces between gender, race, and time.
comes this sobering look at depression, race, and the perilous party-and-
play scene.
Faith Alone
Director: Jess Kung • Year: 2019 • Country: USA • Running Time: 10 Minutes
Pineapple This critical examination of the church as an institution is told through the
Director: Max r Lincoln • Year: 2019 • Country: U.K. • Running Time: 13 Minutes dual perspectives of the queer director and their mother, an unconventional
Are Black bodies art? Two women find their romance challenged by a minister.
White curator’s influence in this wild look at objectification and the creative
process.
Red Ants Bite
Director: Elene Naveriani • Year: 2019 • Country: Georgia • Running Time: 23 Minutes
Freed Obinna and Afame, two Nigerians stranded in the country of Georgia,
Director: Josza Anjembe • Year: 2019 • Country: France • Running Time: 20 Minutes navigate the sleeping city of Tbilisi together and find solace despite the
Bullied in the prison yard, Issa should be thrilled at his upcoming parole. But hostile environment.
an intriguing new inmate just might give him reason to stay.
Were You Gay in High School?
Down Dog Director: Niki Ang • Year: 2020 • Country: USA • Running Time: 13 Minutes
Director: Shae Xu • Year: 2019 • Country: USA • Running Time: 9 Minutes Two friends spend a lunch time meet-up recalling their awkward and
What does a trans woman need to divulge to her new boyfriend? Will he closeted high school days filled with kissing boys and crushing on flirty
connect the dots when he attends her mostly queer yoga class? straight girls.
Where My Girls La Gloria
Director: Mads Engel • Year: 2019 • Country: USA • Running Time: 22 Minutes Director: Mary Evangelista • Year: 2020 • Country: USA • Running Time: 15 Minutes
Get ready to throw down with Skizo, Shanthony, and Dai! These queer black In the days following her suicide attempt, a queer lovelorn teen finds needed
women are busting through hip-hop stereotypes with their swagger, beats, connection and solace with her abuela through the secret language of
and determination. dreams.
Total Running Time - 93 minutes Total Running Time - 88 minutesShort Films
Foreign Bodies Fun in Girls Shorts
This collection of shorts will titillate and provoke as we travel the Join the fun (and drama) in this powerful collection of queer
globe in search of foreign bodies. women’s shorts.
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After That Party The Secret Gardener
Director: Caio Scot • Year: 2019 • Country: Brazil • Running Time: 15 Minutes Director: Lorena Russi • Year: 2019 • Country: USA • Running Time: 3 Minutes
Leo saw his dad kissing a guy at a disco last night. So, how do you bring up A garden party goes off the rails when ladies who brunch devolve into ladies
that topic over breakfast? who munch when they see the sexy gardener.
Are You Hungry? CC Dances the Go-Go
Director: Teemu Niukkanen • Year: 2019 • Country: Finland • Running Time: 12 Minutes Director: Erin Buckley • Year: 2019 • Country: USA • Running Time: 11 Minutes
Being a gender-queer kid can be tough enough. For Tomi, it gets even Nicky questions if the go-go dancer at the lesbian bar is real.
tougher when mom tries to arrange a hookup!
I Know Her
The Last Romantics Director: Fawzia Mirza • Year: 2019 • Country: USA • Running Time: 3 Minutes
Director: João Cândido Zacharias Year: 2019 Country: Brazil Running Time: 12 Minutes In the afterglow of a seemingly fated hookup, two women realize that
They groped in a movie theater, and now they’re ready to tell all! Hear both perhaps they have a little too much in common.
sides of the story in this sweet, sex-positive mumblecore short.
Nulliparous Women
Listening In Director: Fabia • Year: 2020 • Country: Spain • Running Time: 16 Minutes
Director: Omer Sterenberg • Year: 2019 • Country: Israel • Running Time: 11 Minutes Lucia doesn’t know if she is pregnant or not.
A baby-faced soldier is charged with tapping Amir’s sex-fueled phone
conversations with Karam. But is he learning more about himself than about When Abbie Met Emmy
Director: Kevin Walls • Year: 2018 • Country: UK • Running Time: 10 Minutes
the lovers?
A young woman encounters her perfect match in a movie theatre.
Infinite While It Lasts 6:23 AM
Director: Akira Kamiki • Year: 2019 • Country: Brazil • Running Time: 18 Minutes
Director: Geoffrey Breton • Year: 2019 • Country: UK • Running Time: 4 Minutes
Seiji is falling in love with Danny. But would you take a chance on a
Two women who met in a club watch the sun come up together when one of
relationship with a man who’s intelligent, handsome and also asexual?
them realizes something which could ruin everything.
Beauty Boys A Single Evening
Director: Florent Gouëlou • Year: 2020 • Country: France • Running Time: 18 Minutes
Director: Ashlei Hardenburg-Cartagena • Year: 2020 • Country: USA • Running Time: 13 minutes
As if full drag with kinky boots aren’t enough for 17-year-old Leo to navigate,
A single bisexual navigates her way through lonely nights and dating apps.
he also has to manage his macho brother’s fragile ego.
1981 Peach
Director: Sophie Saville & Rowan Devereux • Year: 2020 • Country: Australia • Running
Director: Dawid Ullgren • Year: 2018 • Country: Sweden • Running Time: 13 Minutes
Time: 8 Minutes
A night at a sex club can present challenges to an open relationship. In the A socially anxious young woman lands a hot date. There’s only one problem,
year that AIDS emerged, the adventure feels even more fraught. she’s not sure if it’s really a date.
Magnetic Harvest Friends Like That
Director: Marine Levéel • Year: 2019 • Country: USA • Running Time: 24 Minutes
Director: Francesca de Fusco • Year: 2019 • Country: USA • Running Time: 8 Minutes
Two studly young farmers hunt for a wayward pig in the beautiful French After getting dumped by her girlfriend, Maia crashes with her ex.
countryside. What they end up finding is something neither of them
expected! Square One
Director: Emily Jo Sargent • Year: 2019 • Country: UK • Running Time: 12 Minutes
A semi-autobiographical film about the writer/director’s experiences of being
Total Running Time - 123 minutes in a closeted relationship and of using fishing as a way to avoid sex.
Total Running Time - 88 minutesShort Films
GENDER FABULOUS Queer Youth United!
What is gender? An identity? An experience? An expression? A This empowered collection of shorts shines with the spirit and
journey? A destination? These six provocative shorts will show you voices of our younger generation.
a fabulous time exploring these questions.
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Bind
Out of the Shadows Director: Emory Chao Johnson • Year: 2019 • Country: USA • Running Time: 3 Minutes
Director: Rafael Samanez • Year: 2019 • Country: USA • Running Time: 14 Minutes Mail addressed to Jules opens a conversation with their mother and
Joselyn flees anti-transgender violence in Mexico. In Queens, she is part provides a glimpse into navigating cultures and gender within a trans Asian
of a family of transgender women fighting together to lift themselves out of diasporic experience.
poverty.
Go, Go Boy
Frog Catcher Director: Oriana Oppice • Year: 2019 • Country: USA • Running Time: 6 Minutes
Director: Reina Higashitani • Year: 2019 • Country: USA • Running Time: 18 Minutes By performing for himself, Bobby discovers his fabulousness. He transcends
The cross-dressing laws of 1876 San Francisco don’t deter a humble frog his popular culture references to envision masculinity on his own terms.
catcher in their pursuit of the wife of a powerful businessman. Based on a
true story. LoverGirl
Director: Shawna Khorasani • Year: 2019 • Country: USA • Running Time: 16 Minutes
Dungarees Dakota’s friend and long-time crush just came out as bisexual. Now, Dakota
Director: Abel Rubinstein • Year: 2020 • Country: UK • Running Time: 5 Minutes needs to figure out how to ask Danny on a date.
Young transgender Blake and their cisgender boyfriend Cane hang out and
play video games, while exploring and debating vulnerable questions of Public Life
Director: Mathew Allen • Year: 2019 • Country: USA • Running Time: 17 Minutes
identity and place.
Navigating high school in the age of social media is easier when not alone.
Zucchini Cake Eric’s haunted by a friend’s death; meeting John inspires him to look at life
Director: Fernando Diaz • Year: 2019 • Country: Venezuela • Running Time: 18 Minutes anew.
The fulfilling life that Joan and Ricardo have built begins to change when one
of the men starts to live his truth. My Brother is a Mermaid
Director: Alfie Dale • Year: 2019 • Country: UK • Running Time: 19 Minutes
Making Samantha Set in a desolate and prejudiced coastal town, the film examines how a
Directors: T Cooper, Allison Glock-Cooper • Year: 2020 • Country: USA • Running Time: child’s unconditional love can be a powerful and disruptive force for good.
10 Minutes
Singer-songwriter Benjamin Scheuer honors his friend Samantha with a song Tape
about identity, acceptance and love. Here, 27 transgender actors gather to Director: Jojo Erholtz • Year: 2020 • Country: USA • Running Time: 12 Minutes
create the music video. Sometimes being teammates is about more than just the sport. Rooney tries
to repair her relationship with Alex, her hockey teammate, before their next
Sole Mio game.
Director: Maxime Roy • Year: 2019 • Country: France • Running Time: 23 Minutes
Daniel is lying to his mother to protect his father’s secret: he is transgender. Wishes
When his father returns to town as Lisa, Daniel demands he tell the truth. Director: Amy Jenkins • Year: 2019 • Country: USA • Running Time: 6 Minutes
Each year, Audrey/Adam makes a birthday wish. Over the course of a
decade, the filmmaker captures her child’s hopes and dreams.
Total Running Time - 88 minutes
Miss Chazelles
Director: Thomas Vernay • Year: 2019 • Country: France • Running Time: 22 Minutes
Clara and Marie only appear to be rivals. After they participate in the town
beauty pageant, their friends and family amplify the competition. The girls
have other ideas.
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