Film Categories: LGBTQ
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camp
Based on real-life experiences, “camp” recounts the stories of homosexual survivors of the WWII concentration camps. A series of short, expressionistic vignettes weave together these horrific experiences. Part documentary, part drama, “camp” uses a variety of mediums to explore the emotional reality of those marked with the pink triangle.
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Take-Out
In this coming-of-age tale, Rory is a typical high school student – he runs track, smokes up, and has a lousy after-school job. His career so far consists of delivering chicken to suburbanites. But on a delivery like any other, Rory meets Pete, a middle-aged man in the midst of a breakdown, and Rory is drawn into a friendship with him. Their platonic friendship proves to be a catalyst: Rory’s sexuality forces him to reconsider his small world, as his curiosity propels him to take a risk. This film explores the challenging, heady and painful process of a teen’s understanding…
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Diva, BS
A thinking man’s look at the supremo diva, Barbara Striesand. Is she still relevant? Is she still necessary? Has it all been worth it?
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Wilma’s Sacrifice
This film tells the tale of young Wilma’s (Kat Lanteigne) romantic escapades with Christine (Jen Wilson) a woman from the “outside” world. Surrealistically set in the 1950s, the town of Eden is a place where the air is haunted with silence. Wilma has to choose whether to redeem herself in the eyes of her religiously obsessed brother James (Mar Andersons), her neurotic chain-smoking Mother (Carole McCormick), and her opprobrious Father (David Fredericks), or escape Eden, a place where one can never feel quite clean enough.
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Odessa
In a threnody for the losses of a century, and his own hundred deaths, the androgyne Odessa reflects on brutality borne from a hundred years of sexual theory. This film, through the eyes of its pan-sexual hero/ine, is Beveridge’s polemic against progressivism, eugenics and technology.
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Difference, La
A wild animation about a wild imagination. In a bar, a place of mystic scenes, Kim is dreaming of his wish of being a woman. His dreams turn into reality through the help of a bartender who is not as he seems to be. This is a story about gender confusion and confusion of transexuality and transvestitsm.
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Licked
A go-go-get-it girl looks for love in the fine features of many a plate, only to end up falling face first into her one true dish.
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Grasp
A gang of girlfriends plays together. Through their games one wonders when we stop feeling what we play at and start becoming a reflection of what others have told us to feel, particularly in a landscape where people seem to conjure up the deepest of emotions for the simplest of objects.
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Snap
A collection of pictures and old autograph-book rhymes capture a particular glance at a life.
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Rock
Rocker dude takes us on a tour of the prestigious sites of his past gigs, including the local post office, hair cutting salon, and grocery store.
