Film Festival 2024

LGBTQ+ Stories


Fairyland

An audience favorite!

Based on Alysia Abbott’s memoir, a teenager (Emilia Jones) reflects on coming of age in San Francisco in the 1970s and ’80s while being raised by her widowed bisexual father, poet and activist Steve Abbott (Scoot McNairy). Read More

Running Time: 115


Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

Featuring a wealth of archival material and waspish witticisms, this fascinating portrait of a 20th-century great digs into the contradictions that marked the life of actor, singer, playwright, lyricist, style icon, closeted homosexual and British intelligence operative Noël Coward. Read More

Running Time: 91


Maurice

Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec. Read More

Running Time: 140


Amal

An audience favorite!

A Brussels literature instructor tries to inculcate a love of reading and freedom of expression as well as a sense of cohesion among her diverse class, but some of the students come from a fundamentalist background. Read More

Running Time: 107


Obsessed with Light

The groundbreaking early-20th-century dancer and performance artist Loie Fuller was a plump Chicago girl who conquered Paris with her astonishing spectacles of light, fabric and dance, and whose visionary creations have influenced everyone from Toulouse-Lautrec to Taylor Swift. Read More

Running Time: 90


Susan Feniger. Forked

Join us for post-screening Q&As with Susan Feniger and Director Liz Lachman on January 8, 13 and 14. Susan Feniger. FORKED…a culinary disaster film. This documentary follows celebrity chef Susan Feniger on her first solo restaurant and struggle to bring global street food under one roof: the LA restaurant, STREET. Shot by... Read More

Running Time: 92


Listen Up!

In this warm and lively family comedy exploring identity, gender and class, the Mahroofs are a Pakistani household living in East Oslo who don’t quite fit in, and whose lives are about to change when a family secret is revealed. Read More

Running Time: 86


Summer Qamp

This warm, uplifting documentary takes us to Camp fYrefly, a haven for trans and queer kids who befriend each other and blossom in a bucolic summer setting, mercifully free of the bullies and homophobes who have tormented them. Read More

Running Time: 80


We Have Never Been Modern

In this masterfully mounted drama about privilege, prejudice and gender identity, the discovery of a dead intersex infant amid the rubble of a factory town in 1937 sends shock waves through a society fixated on only one kind of progress. Read More

Running Time: 117



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Film Festival 2024