Events: Film
Opening Night Drive-In: Potato Dreams of America
Friday, Apr 23, 2021 various times - English
Following the success of his Oscar-qualified, award-winning short documentary Little Potato, Wes “Potato” Hurley has created his feature autobiography Potato Dreams of America – a very timely take on the American Dream from an immigrant’s perspective. Lena and her 9-year-old son, affectionately called Potato, try to escape the harsh reality of their native Vladivostok after the fall of the Soviet Union by watching American movies. Swept up by the fantasy of a better life, Lena decides to become a mail order bride so she and Potato can go to the US. When they arrive in Seattle, circa 1990, to live with Lena's new husband John, Potato and Lena both realize some things in America are more different than they first appeared. This autobiographical work from director Wes Hurley mixes humor and heart in a feel-good coming-of-age story. Starring Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years), Lea DeLaria (Orange is The New Black), and Jonathan Bennett (Mean Girls), Potato Dreams of America is a true story so full of surprises, it proves that life is often much stranger than fiction.
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Dezerland Park
14401 NE 19th Ave,
North Miami,
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Aids Diva: The Legend of Connie Norman
Apr 24, 2021 to Apr 28, 2021 - various times - English
The number and range of people involved in the struggle for AIDS victims is larger and wider than we can possibly know. It’s proven once again by this intriguing portrait of Connie Norman, a local LA activist who worked tirelessly to make a difference. Director Dante Alencastre deftly handles this portrait of a political figure whose HIV diagnosis spurred her eloquent rage against complacency, hatred and denial as the AIDS virus ravaged the queer community. Yet Norman is also shown as a nuanced early spokesperson for trans rights, raising her head high above the parapet and creating an unbreakable bridge between sexuality and gender that we are still crossing today.
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Virtual Festival
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Beyto
Apr 24, 2021 to Apr 28, 2021 - various times - English
Talented, hunky swimmer, motivated apprentice, and cool buddy Beyto appears to have a bright future ahead of him. But when the only son of a Turkish migrant family falls in love with his coach, Mike, an ideal world falls to pieces. Ashamed and in shock, his parents only see one way out: Beyto must marry in order to save face and tradition. They lure him to their home village and plan his wedding with Seher, his childhood friend. Suddenly, Beyto finds himself in a disruptive love triangle. How can he get back to Mike without destroying Seher’s future? Beyto is a subtle, summerly sensuous love story about three young people caught in a situation none of them wanted, yet they all share.
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Virtual Festival - N/A
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Boy Meets Boy
Apr 24, 2021 to Apr 28, 2021 - various times - English
Harry has been partying for 48 hours when he meets Johannes on the dance floor of a club in Berlin. With 15 hours until his flight home, Johannes offers to help Harry print his boarding pass. This mundane task leads to a day together wandering the city. The contrasts in their lives and values force each one to confront their own truths. Boy Meets Boy is a feature-length mumblecore about the journey of a brief encounter and the mark left by a fleeting moment of joy.
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Virtual Festival - N/A
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Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters
Apr 24, 2021 to Apr 28, 2021 - various times - English
Beginning in 1980s New York City, this film chronicles the love story between dancers Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, the diverse dance company they founded, and the painful devastation of AIDS on the arts community as told through the company’s signature performance piece D-Man in the Waters. Following a millennial dance troupe’s effort to re-interpret the piece for their generation, directors Rosalynde LeBlanc and Tom Hurwitz offer an engrossing examination of dance, love, and loss - and the power of art to move through pain.
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Everything at Once (Todo a la Vez)
Saturday, Apr 24, 2021 at 12:00 AM - English
Paco and Manolo are two Catalan photographers from the outskirts of Barcelona who have been together for thirty years. Both have managed to work as photographers and have captured their images in a Kink magazine, a very personal photography fanzine with a Mediterranean homoerotic aesthetic. Paco and Manolo’s style can be defined as sophisticatedly simple - recording the sex appeal of the working class with use of natural light, abandoned places and stark rooms - a mix of aesthetics and style that reflects influences from Caravaggio to Pasolini. The artists become discreet witnesses of the subjects and intimacy of those men who want to be photographed. They contact the artists through social networks with the desire to be portrayed naked and in doing so not only bare their bodies but their inhibitions as well. The clothes fall, the bodies are freed, and the souls end up being captured by the lens of this intensely cultured, cinematic and urban couple. Everything At Once is a beautiful story of true artists, their art and a special relationship that has lasted for three decades.
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Virtual Festival
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Extinction of Fireflies, The
Apr 24, 2021 to Apr 28, 2021 - various times - English
Set over Labor Day Weekend in coastal New England, a middle-aged playwright invites longtime friend and legendary TV diva, Charlotte Christian, and occasionally working actor friend, Jay Mulch, to read his latest dramatic effort, "The Extinction of Fireflies", based on the epic romance of Roman Emperor Hadrian and his teenage lover Antinous. But when Jay brings along his new (and younger) lover Callisto, the feedback is spectacular and the fireworks begin to fly! The Extinction of Fireflies is written/directed by James Andrew Walsh, based on his play of the same title, and stars multi-award winner Michael Urie (Ugly Betty, Buyer & Cellar, Torch Song Trilogy), Olivier Award winner Tracie Bennett (End of the Rainbow, Follies), Drew Droege (Bob’s Burgers,Bright Colors and Bold Patterns), and Kario Marcel (Chicago Fire, Broad City).
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Virtual Festival
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Good Man, A
Apr 24, 2021 to Apr 28, 2021 - various times - English
Benjamin, a trans man still transitioning, and Aude are happily living in Brittany. The couple is about to step into uncharted territories, though, as there is no alternative for having a child other than Benjamin carrying the baby. Faced with answerless questions and dilemmas way out of the ordinary, they are forced to reshape their entire life. Deconstructing the sanctified image of feminine motherhood, this heartwarming journey of self-determination reflects our times’ fluidity, questioning all predetermined roles and identities.
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Virtual Festival
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Hustler White
Apr 24, 2021 to Apr 28, 2021 - various times - English
Bruce LaBruce (Saint Narcisse, also screening in OUTshine – Maimi) teams up with photographer Rick Castro in a wild re-imagining of Sunset Boulevard set on the hot hustling scene of 90’s Santa Monica Boulevard. Lovelorn anthropologist Jurgen Anger (Bruce LaBruce) heads to L.A. to research hustling as a social phenomenon, but after spotting angel-faced hustler Montgomery Ward (supermodel Tony Ward), he falls hopelessly in love. Featuring cameos by Ron Athey and Vaginal Davis, Hustler White is a roller coaster ride of sex, money, depravity… and romance!
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Virtual Festival
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I am SYD Stone
Apr 24, 2021 to Apr 28, 2021 - various times - English
Hollywood heartthrob Syd Stone finds a connection that immediately creates drama onscreen and off. Syd Stone, a former A-List Hollywood actor, has seen better days. In need of work, he reluctantly finds himself in a small town shooting a B-movie. While getting drunk one night in his hotel bar, he meets Matt, a handsome young lawyer on the verge of his biggest case yet. Through their work stresses, the men connect instantly and things become more than friendly. An intense affair ensues, putting Syd’s personal life and career in jeopardy. I Am Syd Stone is a beautifully directed six-episode series and an expansion of the award-winning 2014 short of the same name
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Virtual Festival
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ISAAC
Apr 24, 2021 to Apr 28, 2021 - various times - English
Nacho and Denis meet after sixteen years of not being in touch, and neither of them is who they used to be. They both have wives. Nacho and Martha are a perfect bourgeois married couple with good jobs, but they are not happy because Martha is unable to get pregnant. Denis and Carmen lead a more laid-back lifestyle but live from hand to mouth and try to get enough money to open up a restaurant. When Denis offers his partner to be Nacho and Martha’s surrogate in exchange for the money they need to open the restaurant, the two couples have to deal with secrets that were buried deep, really deep, inside Nacho and Denis’ closet. Based on a popular play, Isaac is an emotional and poignant drama about class, happiness and being your true, authentic self.
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Virtual Festival
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Ma Belle, My Beauty
Apr 24, 2021 to Apr 28, 2021 - various times - English
Lane, Bertie and Fred once shared a polyamorous relationship in New Orleans. Lane loved Bertie, Fred loved Bertie, they had a balance that worked... until it didn't, and Lane vanished from their lives. Two years later, Bertie and Fred have gotten married and are living at Fred's family home in the beautiful countryside of southern France. When Lane unexpectedly shows up in Bertie's seemingly idyllic new life, she finds her former lover much different than she remembers. Bertie is disillusioned in her jazz career, still grieving the loss of her mother, and clearly alienated in this small, white, European town. Lane attempts to recreate their old, carefree dynamic, hoping that her return might lighten Bertie's mood -- but Bertie isn't having it. It seems time hasn't healed all wounds... so Lane shifts her strategy when she meets Noa, a young artist and former soldier, quickly reigniting dormant jealousies. Narrative Film Winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s NEXT section, My Belle, My Beauty is a polyamorous cross cultural film in which the journey is as wonderful as the destination.
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Virtual Festival
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My First Summer
Apr 24, 2021 to Apr 28, 2021 - various times - English
16-year-old Claudia has grown up in isolation from the outside world. Stranded on a remote property after her mother's death, she is shocked when Grace, a spirited local teen, appears in the garden like a mirage, a breath of fresh, sugary air. The pair find in each other the support, love and intimacy they need and teach each other the restorative power of human connection. But their idyllic peace is a fragile one as the adult world closes in and threatens their secret summer love. Headlining some of Australia’s brightest young talent, Markella Kavenaugh and Maiah Stewardson, My First Summer takes girls seriously and sensitively.
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Virtual Festival
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Narcissus and Goldmund (Narziss und Goldmund)
Apr 24, 2021 to Apr 28, 2021 - various times - English
In the dark middle ages, young unruly Goldmund is sent to a monastery by his father to atone for the sins of his mother who abandoned them. It is there that he meets Narcissus, a brilliant, scholarly novice, who is introverted and aloof. A unique and deep life-long friendship is born. Narcissus chooses to remain detached from the world in prayer and meditation. Goldmund, who is passionate, sensual and impulsive, runs away from the monastery to live a picaresque wanderer’s life, his amorous and artistic adventures leading him to discover the extremes of both ecstasy and pain. Several thrilling years pass, until one day these friends cross paths again...will they continue the friendship they had before going their separate ways or will the relationship grow into one of unrequited love?
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Virtual Festival
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Playdurizm
Apr 24, 2021 to Apr 28, 2021 - various times - English
Something happens. Something the best of us would want to forget. And that’s exactly what Demir does when he wakes up like a blank canvas with his entire past forgotten and a stranger with a pet pig sharing his new fancy designer style home. But he couldn’t care less about the black-out or the TV-like reality - because the stranger is not strange at all - he is Andrew, a vision of Hollywood holiness in a man. And an unscrupulous auctioneer with a dark passion no less. By accepting the hand of friendship extended by Andrew, Demir does everything he can to be possessed by this man and ignore the violent clues of how he got there.
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Virtual Festival
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Saint-Narcisse
Apr 24, 2021 to Apr 28, 2021 - various times - English
Commencing with a crotch shot before launching into a rambunctious laundromat sex scene, Saint-Narcisse puts us on notice: Bruce LaBruce is going to take us for a ride. It’s 1972 in Montreal and gorgeous Dominic states his narcissism by snapping Polaroid selfies and gazing longingly at his own hot and hunky reflection. When he learns that his birth mother is still alive, he embarks on a quest to find her. Not only does he discover her living with another woman, but he also learns that he has a twin brother Daniel who’s serving as a whipping boy-toy for a particularly depraved priest. Laying eyes on Daniel, Dominic can see the appeal. LaBruce puts his own irreverent spin on the notion of self-discovery in this occasionally twincestuous tale of doppelgängers, doppelbängers and skewed family values. Bawdy yet affectionate, ribald yet resonant, this singular redemption tale will leave you reeling until the end credits roll in this deliciously camp quest for identity.
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Virtual Festival
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See You Then
Apr 24, 2021 to Apr 28, 2021 - various times - English
Kris, a transgender computer programmer, and Naomi, an Asian-American performance artist, used to date in college. They haven't seen each other for 15 years, since Kris left town without a word. Over the course of a one-night encounter, they engage in a series of increasingly intimate and revealing conversations before a revelation sends everything spiraling out of control. See You Then focuses on the universal truth that no matter how much you change, a part of you will always stay the same.
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Virtual Festival
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Shorts - Reel Stories: Ladies' Documentary Shorts
Apr 24, 2021 to Apr 28, 2021 - various times - English
This Is The Way We Rise is an exploration into the creative process, following Native Hawaiian queer slam poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio as her calling to protect sacred sites atop Maunakea, Hawai`i reinvigorates her art.
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Virtual Festival
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Shorts - Where the Men Are
Apr 24, 2021 to Apr 28, 2021 - various times - English
Eden is the queer re-telling of Adam and Eve’s story in modern times. A visually striking story about first love in Berlin.
Location
Virtual Festival
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Tove
Apr 24, 2021 to Apr 28, 2021 - various times - English
Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. Modern art, dizzying parties and an open relationship with a married politician, her unconventional life puts her at odds with her sculptor father’s strict ideals. Tove’s desire for liberty is put to the test when she meets theatre director Vivica Bandler. Her love for Vivica is electric and all-consuming but Tove begins to realize that the love she truly yearns for has to be reciprocated. As she struggles with her personal life, her creative endeavors take her in an unexpected direction. While focusing her artistic dreams on her painting, the work that started as a side project - the melancholic, haunting tales she told scared children in bomb shelters - rapidly takes on a life of its own. The exploits of the Moomins, infused with inspiration from her own life, bring Tove international fame and financial freedom. There’s a daily comic strip, a stage play and stories that continue to delight people around the world. But as she begins to find her artistic identity, she has to learn to find herself. Her unrequited love for Vivica is preventing her true liberty and only by learning to break away from her can she truly be free. Tove is a captivating drama about the creative energy of an iconic talent and her turbulent search for identity, desire and freedom.
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