LGBT Pride Month
PrideTue 6/4 Doors - 5:00 pm | Showtime - 6:00 pm
U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984. |
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Being ThunderTue 6/11 Doors - 5:00 pm | Showtime - 6:00 pm
Sherente, a two spirit-genderqueer teenager from Rhode Island's Narragansett tribe performs traditional dance in competitions at annual regional pow wows of New England tribes. There is no written rule which prohibits two spirit-genderqueer people to compete in dances different from their birth gender. Wearing traditional female dress, Sherente performs with joy and beauty. However, behind the scenes, tribal leaders manipulate scores or disqualify him outright because they believe in traditional (White) gender roles. |
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MonicaTue 6/11 Showtime - 8:00 pm
The intimate portrait of a woman who returns home to care for her dying mother. A delicate and nuanced story of a fractured family, the story explores universal themes of abandonment, aging, acceptance, and redemption. |
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The Watermelon WomanTue 6/18 Doors - 5:00 pm | Showtime - 6:00 pm
A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes. |
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Portrait of a Lady on FireTue 6/25 Doors - 5:00 pm | Showtime - 6:00 pm
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman. |
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Happy TogetherTue 6/25 Showtime - 8:00 pm
A couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions. |