festival archives - 2006

100% Woman     
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(2004) Karen Duthie, USA, 59 min, English, drama
Shot over two years, 100% Woman is an adrenaline-fueled ride-along on Michelle's controversial foray into international women's competition.  Combining verite scenes, interviews, home movies and dynamic footage of some of the best mountain bikers in the world, we follow Michelle from her first local race, to the World Championships where she makes history as the first transgendered athlete on a national team, to the glare of the media spotlight.
     3/23 Thurs, 104 Thomas, 9 PM
     4/1   Sat,      217 Thomas, 9 PM

Both   
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(2005) Lisset Barcellos, USA, 86 min, English, drama
Hermaphrodites, or intersexuals, are not just subjects for mythology, freak shows or pornography. Genital ambiguity occurs in one out of every two thousand births, and countless parents around the world must make heartrending decisions about their newborn children every year. Both is based on the experiences of the filmmaker, as well as those of many other intersex adults.
     3/26 Sun,     101 Thomas, 9 PM
     3/30 Thurs, 104 Thomas, 7 PM

Goldfish Memory     
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(2003) Elizabeth Gill, Ireland, 86 min, English, comedy/drama
Goldfish Memory has a cute premise for a romantic comedy: A college professor woos his fresh-faced young female students with a tale of how goldfish have a memory of three seconds, making every experience seem as fresh and exciting as though it were for the first time. This launches the first of many stories, where characters of all stripes (straight, gay, and in between) fall in and out of love with each other, leaping from relationshipp to relationship, getting their hearts broken, then falling in love again and starting all over.
     3/23 Thurs, 104 Thomas, 7 PM
     3/31 Fri,       104 Thomas, 7 PM

El Favor    
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(2004) Pablo Sofovich, Argentina, 90 min, Spanish, comedy
Mora and Roberta are two girls living together, and they want to conciewe a child. With no scruples and hesitation they work out a plan: Roberta has to have sex with Felipe, Moras's brother. Felipe refuses with pain: Roberta is determined to do whatever it takes, and she is the kind of woman that makes men shake. Felipe feels like running away the three girls conspirate against him and the struggle is uneven, nobody can halt this hurricane: three determined women.
     3/30 Thurs, 101 Thomas, 9 PM
     4/1   Sat,      218 Thomas, 7 PM

Hard Pill   
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(2005) John Baumgartner, USA, 94 min, English, comedy
A smart comedy about relationships, based on the real-life love story of Lacie Harmon and Robin Greenspan. Actresses in L.A. , Lacie and Robin are cast as lesbian lovers in a stage play. As opening night approaches, they must disentangle reality from fiction, and determine the true nature of their relationship.
     3/26 Sun,     101 Thomas, 7 PM
     3/30 Thurs, 104 Thomas, 9 PM

In My Shoes     
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(2005) Jennifer Gilomen, USA, 31 min, English, documentary
In a time when LGBT families are debated and attacked in the media, courts and Congress, from school houses to state houses across the country, five young people give you a chance to walk in their shoes – to hear their own views on marriage, making change, and what it means to be a family.
    3/30  Thurs, 101 Thomas, 7 PM
    4/1    Sat,      218 Thomas, 3:30 PM

Just Between Us  
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(?) Ken Jackson, USA, 73 min, English, documentary
JUST BETWEEN US is a documentary that was inspired by its creator and director Ken Jackson to educate the community about its own limitations of being a voice in American society. Jackson traveled the United States to meet the legends, the pioneers and the revolutionaries of the 21st Century in the African-American Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual and Transgender community to gauge its position as a whole since the start of the new century. For Jackson, the documentary is both a test and a discovery, not only for the community, but himself as well.
    3/30  Thurs, 101 Thomas, 7 PM
    4/1    Sat,      218 Thomas, 3:30 PM

Left Lane    
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(2004) Samantha Farinella, USA, 94 min, English, documentary
She's outspoken, subversive, and she offers no apologies. Lesbian spoken-word artist and activist Alix Olson takes her one-woman tour-de-force to the screen in this revealing documentary. Director Samantha Farinella offers an extended glimpse into the mind and motivations of this thought-provoking artist, whose feminist poetry issues a slap in the face to the patriarchy. Behind the scenes during Alix's cross-country tour, Left Lane follows her through college campuses, women's festivals, and high schools, inspiring young poets and provoking audiences with her incisive wit.
    3/26  Sun, 104 Thomas, 7 PM
    3/31  Fri,    101 Thomas, 7 PM

Loggerheads  
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(2005) Tim Kirkman, USA, 95 min, English, drama
"Loggerheads" interweaves three separate but related stories that take place in different parts of North Carolina. On Mother's Day 1999, Mark, a young drifter with an interest in endangered loggerhead turtles, begins a relationship with motel handyman George. On Mother's Day 2000, Mark's adoptive mother Elizabeth wonders what has become of her estranged son. On Mother's Day 2001, Mark's birth mother Grace quits her job to begin a search for the child she gave up years before-a search that ultimately brings the stories together.
     3/24 Fri,   112 Chambers, 7 PM
     3/25 Sat, 112 Chambers, 7 PM

Mango Kiss  
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(2004) Sascha Rice, USA, 84 min, English, comedy/romance
"Mango Kiss" is a story about Lou whose world turns upside-down when she falls in love with her best friend Sassafras. They journey to San Francisco and stumble into the wild world of role-playing and non-monogamous S/M dykes. Comedy ensues as these wholesome girls get in over their heads.
    3/23 Thurs, 101 Thomas, 9PM
    4/1   Fri,        217 Thomas, 3:30PM

Strange Fruit     
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(2004) Kyle Schickner, USA, 115 min, English, comedy/romance
Set in contemporary rural Louisiana, Strange Fruit explores the tribulations of William Boyals, a successful New York lawyer and gay African-American who comes home to the life from which he escaped to investigate the lynching of his also-gay childhood friend, Kelvin. Amidst the sultry beauty of the bayou, William is forced to wade through a bog of conspiracy involving an insidious network of local law and a dangerously entrenched subculture. At the same time, he finds himself having to confront the reasons he left in the first place. The harder he looks, the deeper he gets, until the veil is pulled back to reveal a quagmire of racism and homophobia that threatens his life.
    3/26 Sun, 101 Thomas, 3:30PM
    3/31 Fri,    104 Thomas, 9PM

The Journey     
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(2004) Ligy Pullappalla, USA, 107 min, Malayalam with English subtitles, drama/romance
In Sancharram ("The Journey"), Kiran is mortified by her growing lesbian desire for the effervescent Delilah, in an idyllic Indian village where arranged marriage is the only acceptable form of coupling. It was on an auspicious day--the day of Kiran’s arrival from Delhi, and the wedding day of Delilah’s eldest brother--that the two girls first meet as children; and though they couldn’t be more different, they become fast friends.
    3/26 Sun, 104 Thomas, 9PM
    3/31 Fri,    101 Thomas, 9PM

Tropical Malady     
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(2004) Apichatpong Weerasethakul, USA, 118 min, Thai with English subtitles, drama/fantasy/romance
'Tropical Malady' explores the passionate relationship between two men with unusual consequences. The film is divided in two parts. The first half charts the modest attraction between two men in the sunny, relaxing countryside and the second half charts the confusion and terror of an unknown menace lurking deep within the jungle shadows.
    3/23 Thurs, 101 Thomas, 9PM
    4/1    Fri,       217 Thomas, 3:30PM

Zero Degrees of Separation    
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(2005) Elle Flanders, USA, 85 min, Arabic/English/Hebrew, documentary
The documentary feature Zero Degrees of Separation takes viewers on a unique journey through the complex lives of Israeli and Palestinian gays and lesbians in inter-ethnic relationships. Though living on the margins of society, these couples defy the odds, existing in the midst of conflict with a gentle humanity and mutual respect.
     3/23 Thurs , 101 Thomas, 7PM
     4/1   Sat,       218 Thomas, 9PM