With the dreary fall weather movies are BIG this season. So don’t spend the your evenings at home since the weekday lineup of the Lesbian & Gay Film Festival is every bit as hot as the weekend. At 6pm tonight, October 20, 2008, the Northwest Film Forum hosts 66 minutes of FIVE short films from the “Queer World” all for only $9.
The Queer World: Shorts presentation features the 18 minute Brazilian short YOU, ME & HIM (Subtitled). Danilo and Marcos decide to move in together, but tragedy strikes Danilo as his parents are killed in an accident and he finds himself caring for his little brother. Can the three of them become a family, or will responsibility force Danilo and Marcos apart
Also part of Queer World: Shorts –
HOCK HIAP LEONG (Singapore – subtitled)- A coffee shop closing results in a delightful and delicious daydream of the ‘60s, including a flamboyant musical number with platform shoes and beehives.
WRESTLING
Two wrestlers struggle with their smoldering love (and lust) for each other in Iceland. That should melt the ice, huh?
BYE BYE DARLING (Italy – subtitled)
In a nightclub, a belly dancer entices with golden veils, a man asks a woman to go to bed with him…and the truth about who wants whom is tantalizingly revealed.
THE PREMIERE (Norway – subtitled)
An older woman makes an untraditional choice, showing it’s never too late to choose love.
Here are the other performances just for today, October 20th:
6:00pm: When I Knew at Harvard Exit Theatre.
In this candid, funny, poignant, and heartbreaking documentary, men and women discuss the exact moment in their lives—as toddlers, grade-schoolers, teens, or young adults—they discovered they were gay. Additionally, preceded by the winners of SHOUT: The HBO LGBT Short Film Competition of three short films – Trophy, Reunion, and No Second Acts.
7:30pm: The Polymath, Or The Life And Opinions Of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman at Northwest Film Forum
Documentary that captivatingly chronicles the life of Samuel R. Delany, a prolific writer, literary and social critic, gay activist, scholar, straight talker, and raconteur, the world has been a more colorful place thanks to Delany.
7:30pm: The Way I See Things at Harvard Exit Theatre
A remarkable achievement of subtle beauty, powerful emotion, and intelligent perspective, this is both an understated and quirky comedy and a deeply satisfying emotional journey about processing grief, self-discovery, and moving forward.
9:30pm: Ask Not at Northwest Film Forum
Gay soldiers tell how the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy affected them during their tours of duty as they struggled to serve their country and maintain a double life.
9:30pm: Antarctica (Subtitled) at Harvard Exit Theatre
Omer meets Danny, an enthusiastic 20-year-old aspiring dancer. Danny lives with his ex-boyfriend Ronen, who is dating Omer’s best friend Mickey. With a collar-grabbing montage of male nudity and a subplot about alien abductions, ANTARCTICA pushes the bounds of Israeli cinema.
Here is the trailer for this movie:
