Films / Programs
World Cinema
A dozen different countries are represented in this year's World Cinema section. From Korea to Australia, the United Kingdom to Switzerland, these films demonstrate the creativity and diversity of queer story telling around the world.
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France
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2004
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106 min.
French actress Nathalie Mann is captivating as a woman with the
ovarios and heart to reconnect with the family she abandoned a decade ago when she was a miserable man. Can this MTF doctor heal old emotional scars without causing new ones?...
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Israel
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2006
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117 min.
From the director of
Yossi and Jagger, this contemporary, queer
Romeo And Juliet is the story of the love between two young men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, and the forces that conspire to drive them apart....
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Spain
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2006
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105 min.
Israel questions his sexuality after discovering his father in a compromising position, while his best friend Jorge tries to balance two girlfriends and an invalid father with his own dreams in this Spanish film full of subtle wit and homoerotic curiosity...
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Canada
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2005
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73 min.
This unconventional love story between two women weaves back and forth between two different times, locations and stages of their relationship. The short
Tears of the Goddess is a tragic tale of love inspired by a Chinese legend....
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Spain
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2005
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89 min.
In a newly free Spain, teenage Sara joins an all-girl punk rock group at the pansexual nightclub El Calentito, but a military coup threatens the band's-and the country's-future in this high-energy, offbeat, coming-of-age comedy....
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Taiwan
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2006
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95 min.
In this elegy to summer in the Taiwan countryside, two teenage boys are inseparable-and a little confused as to the nature of their passionate friendship. Shown with
Dissolution of Bodies, in which two strangers defy the fleeting nature of desire....
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Canada
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2007
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88 min.
Family values, reproductive rights and pre-teen angst form the center of this contemporary Canadian drama. After her partner dies, successful doctor Finn Jefferies faces the biggest challenge of her life, raising an angry 11-year-old daughter....
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Germany
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2006
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112 min.
In a women's prison, a piano teacher with thwarted ambitions forms an unlikely alliance with a gifted prodigy locked up for murder. Together they risk intimacy to win a piano competition and redemption....
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Argentina
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2006
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108 min.
This sensuous, atmospheric portrait of three teenagers in rural Argentina renders a dreamlike portrait of youthful alienation, imagination and sexuality, in which friends rock out, trip out and make out with equal passion....
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France
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2006
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114 min.
Frédéric confronts his hidden desires when he meets the seductive and self-assured Hugo in this dreamlike portrayal of a summer vacation in the stunning French countryside....
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UK
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2006
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96 min.
Iron Chef meets lesbian love in this romantic comedy from 1993 Frameline Award recipient Pratibha Parmar. When closeted Nina returns to Glasgow for her father's funeral, the local curry cookoff becomes a recipe for romance....
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Korea
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2006
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114 min.
A handsome young orphan from the Korean countryside finds success as a well-dressed rent boy in Seoul, but a persistent young businessman derails his life. After a violent confrontation, the two young men fall in love, but happiness is elusive....
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France
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2006
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95 min.
When beautiful, bisexual Pierre, the object of desire for all in his tight circle of friends, turns up missing, his sister recalls the sensual times the group enjoyed together as she tries to solve the mystery of his disappearance....
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Italy
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2007
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100 min.
Returning from a Tunisian vacation, Anna and Mara find an Arab teenager stashed in their luggage. Good-hearted Anna takes him in, but their makeshift family is soon undermined by the outside world-and their own internal dynamics....
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Taiwan
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2007
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94 min.
A 2007 Berlin Film Festival Teddy Award winner for Best Queer Feature,
Spider Lilies is a trippy hybrid of traditional queer Asian tragedy and medicated magical realism....
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Switzerland
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2006
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112 min.
In this delightful human comedy, a young Swiss intellectual with a great career and boyfriend turns his life upside down when his obsession with his Polish roots leads him on a series of boisterous misadventures....
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UK
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2007
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86 min.
Are you being watched? You might wonder after seeing this dynamic and tense political thriller. Set in contemporary London, the fast-paced action follows a young urban professional who has a one-night-stand with the wrong guy....
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Australia
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2006
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97 min.
This gay surf film follows the tumultuous coming-of-age story of Midget, a sexually curious, bored teenager living in a small Australian town, who discovers he can no longer simply go with the flow....
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Australia
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2007
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65 min.
High school reunions can be minefields of trauma, yet sometimes the hardest encounter is the one with the former best friend. An alternately comic and serious take on old friends who've grown apart. Shown with
Sexy Thing, another look at childhood...
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UK
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2006
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73 min.
Bursting with smart, tender observations on the travails of prospective parenthood,
Tick Tock Lullaby is a sharply observed three-part exploration of sexuality and the search for sperm in hip, thirty-something London....
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Philippines
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2006
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105 min.
Sultry, unabashedly sexual young Filipino strippers begin their seduction during the opening titles and don't stop until the end credits finish rolling, as they struggle to survive with beauty as their only currency....
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Spain
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2005
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108 min.
When Marta leaves fiancé Javier at the altar for his best friend Pedro's girlfriend Raquel, it is just the start of the romantic complications in this sexy, musical comedy....
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UK
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2006
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88 min.
When a filmmaker chronicling a "weekend vampire" subculture falls in love with a bona fide bloodsucker, she'll stop at nothing to protect her new girlfriend. The squeamish beware: this horror film isn't afraid to go for the jugular....
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Germany
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2006
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97 min.
It's Christmas Eve in Rotterdam, and three enchanting women search for love and the meaning of life in this beautiful, sad and hopeful cinematic poem....
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France
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2007
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115 min.
In his latest masterpiece, André Téchiné (
Wild Reeds) tells a story of friendship, sex and love amid the early days of the AIDS crisis in France....
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