The Agnes of lore – a young trans girl in the 50s who outsmarted her way to surgery – has been stuck in a binary between cautionary tale and folk hero, co-opted for demonization or celebration. The articulate, affecting Framing Agnes is here to try and understand and complicate that history. Filmmaker Chase Joynt and writer Morgan […]
Le soldat Ivin n’a pas pu abattre un fugitif qui s’échappait de la prison. Châtié par ses supérieurs, il s’ancre dans ses valeurs qui lui interdisent de disposer de la vie d’autrui. Mais qui est Ivin? Un lâche? Un prisonnier de sa conscience? En fait, c’est un personnage typique de la fin de l’ère soviétique: […]
The first Pakistani film officially selected for Cannes and Pakistan’s 2022 Oscars entry, Saim Sadiq’s feisty drama extends empathy to each complicated member of Haider’s fractious family and the trans woman he falls for as he trips his way into an erotic dance group, and into love. Cash-strapped Biba (trans actress Alina Khan) is wily, […]
A queer singer/artist becomes a father to his five-year-old niece when his sister’s mental health deteriorates, and finds himself awkwardly balancing fairy tales and playtime with his nightlife and underground art. Singer Tolik lays down provocative electro-pop tracks in his sparse loft while single-parenting his five-year-old niece, Katya. He takes food and money to his […]
An ex-roommate owes Pablo two months’ rent, he misses his “hilarious” YouTuber ex-boyfriend, and the dog he’s been saddled with keeps knocking over things in his apartment. Or so he thinks. A ghost is about to teach Pablo a lesson in connection – how it’s achieved and the ways it dissolves. To make ends meet, […]
Queer Fighters is a selection of shorts depicting both the history of queer people in Ukraine and their current life, struggles, and aspirations, including during full-scale war with Russia. THE SECRET, THE GIRL AND THE BOY OKSANA KAZMINA | UKRAINE | 2018 | 13 MIN | RUSSIAN S.-T.EN. The Girl and the Boy play in a […]
A sexual awakening and subsequent estrangement complicate the musical relationship of a soulful Shery Bechara (lead guitar) and live wire Lilas Mayassi (rhythm guitar), whose electric chemistry provides both the tension and potential death knell of their taboo-courting group. As they work through ideas, arguing about tempos and studying performances, their unspoken conflicts create an […]
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April 28th screening with filmmaker Catherine Martin in attendance Junichiro Tanizaki’s literary essay In Praise of Shadows, light and dark, and the origins of photography and cinema are among the strands interwoven in this “cinematic meditation” in three chapters. Fleeting shadows ebb and flow in a glistening half-light, an enchanted dreamlike state that reflects on […]
Unfairly shunned by critics at the time of its release in 2003, Jane Campion’s In the Cut is inspired by Susanna Moore’s novel of the same name, reclaiming the tropes of the erotic thriller with a new perspective. After witnessing an event related to a brutal femicide, a New York teacher gets tangled up with […]