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Screenings & Events

Festivals, Special Guests, Retrospectives and more "one night only" queer cinema screenings.

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The Color of Pomegranates

Three Homelands: A Sergei Parajanov Retrospective

  
Dec 4, 2024 7:00 PM
  
Los Feliz 3
  
Bisexual Soviet film director Sergei Parajanov was jailed for his art, his sexuality, and his support of nationalist movements within the USSR. None of his films are explicitly Queer by modern standards, but they play with gender, kitsch, and folklore in beautiful ways.
The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova’s dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.

The Holiday Club

  
Dec 4, 2024 7:30 PM
  
Laemmle NoHo 7
  
Writer/Director/Star Alexandra Swarens
Sam hates the holidays. Bailey loves the holidays. On a lonely Valentine’s Day the two meet-cute, quickly bond, and become friends. With every passing holiday Sam and Bailey spend together, they fall further in love with each other.

Bram Stoker's Dracula

  
Dec 4, 2024 7:30 PM
  
Academy Museum
  
Francis Ford Coppola set out to make a movie that was faithful to (possibly closeted) Bram Stoker's novel, though he removed some queer undertones and maybe added a few of his own to this indulgent production featuring a high camp Gary Oldman as Dracula.
In 19th century England, Count Dracula travels to London and meets Mina Harker, a young woman who appears as the reincarnation of his lost love.

Orpheus

  
Dec 4, 2024 8:00 PM
  
Whammy Analog Media
  
This surrealist, dreamlike interpretation of the Orpheus myth, with pioneering special effects, was directed by bisexual writer/filmmaker/critic Jean Cocteau, and stars his lover, French superstar Jean Marais.
A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.

Little Shop of Horrors

  
Dec 4, 2024 10:00 PM
  
Los Feliz 3
  
This musical classic, about a carnivorous plant and its meek owner, was co-written by out lyricist Howard Ashman. Ashman was openly gay during his career in the Disney Renaissance, and died of complications of AIDS while Beauty and the Beast was still in production.
Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik’s, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day Seymour finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for his supper.

By Hook or By Crook

Restoration Premiere

  
Dec 5, 2024 7:30 PM
  
Academy Museum
  
Filmmakers Harry Dodge, Silas Howard, and Steak House
This ahead-of-its-time low-fi "butch and trans buddy film" about trans friendship and petty crimes, which won numerous jury and audience awards during finally gets its due with a new restoration.
Shy is a transgender man who leaves his small town after the death of his father, and heads to the big city to live a life of crime. Along the way, he encounters Valentine, a quirky adoptee, in search of his birth mother. An immediate kinship is sparked between these men and they become partners in crime.

The Tree House

  
Dec 6, 2024 7:30 PM
  
Hammer Museum
  
Before he made this year's erotic gay drama Viet & Nam, queer director Minh Quy Truong made The Tree House, a science fiction documentary hybrid about a future astronaut seeking the memories of the people of Vietnam. The Tree House played Locarno and Rotterdam.

Female Trouble

  
Dec 6, 2024 9:30 PM
  
Alamo Drafthouse
  
The life and times of Dawn Davenport, showing her progression from bratty schoolgirl to crazed mass murderer - all of which stems from her parents' refusal to buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas.

The Young Girls of Rochefort

  
Dec 7, 2024 12:00 PM
  
Egyptian Theatre
  
Though married to Agnes Varda for most of this life, French New Wave icon Jacques Demy was bisexual and died of AIDS-related complications in 1990. He is best known for his sunny musicals of the 1960s, where his voice shines through with romantic optimism.
Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poetand a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon owns a music shop, he left Paris one month ago to come back where he fell in love 10 years ago. They are looking for love, looking for each other, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close…
Theatrical runs

Now In Theaters

Make space at the multiplex! Here are the queer films at LA cinemas right now...

Luther: Never Too Much
Dawn Porter
101
 min
Opens 
Oct 30

This documentary about R&B talent Luther Vandross, which premiered at Sundance this year, explores Vandross' triumphs and struggles, and the media's fascination, with his weight and sexuality.

Luther Vandross started his career supporting David Bowie, Roberta Flack, Bette Midler, and more. His undeniable talent earned platinum records and accolades, but he struggled to break out beyond the R&B charts. Intensely driven, he overcame personal and professional challenges to secure his place amongst the greatest vocalists in history.

Emilia Pérez
Jacques Audiard
132
 min
Opens 
Nov 1

Karla Sofía Gascón became the first Trans actor to win a major prize at Cannes, thanks to this extravagant musical about a Mexican drug lord who hires a lawyer to help stage her death and flee the country, in order to transition and live her true life abroad.

Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.

The World According to Allee Willis
Alexis Spraic
97
 min
Opens 
Nov 15

Fresh from the audience award at Frameline, this documentary follows the career of queer songwriter Allee Willis, who isn't a household name but wrote September, Boogie Wonderland, and the Friends theme song---and threw some of the best parties of the 1980s.

Take one look at award-winning songwriter / artist Allee Willis and you see someone unafraid to be themselves. Dressed in a cacophony of prints and colors, her signature asymmetrical haircut and famed parties at her real-life Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Allee didn’t waste any opportunity to tell you what she was about. But privately, Allee struggled with not fitting established gender and sexual norms. She buried herself in her work, until true love manifested her ultimate masterpiece - self-acceptance.

Queer
Luca Guadagnino
137
 min
Opens 
Nov 27

In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American expat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.

Playland
Georden West
72
 min
Opens 
Dec 2

Playland is a boundary-pushing, transdisciplinary, hybrid film centered around the raucous activity of a time-bending night in Boston’s oldest and most notorious gay bar, the Playland Café.

Sabbath Queen
Sandi Simcha Dubowski
105
 min
Opens 
Dec 5

Sabbath Queen is a remarkable 20 year journey in the life of Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, a 39th generation Orthodox rabbi — and drag queen.

Power Alley
Lillah Halla
92
 min
Opens 
Dec 13

On the eve of a future-defining championship, promising volleyball player Sofia (17) is faced with an unwanted pregnancy. Seeking an illegal termination, she becomes the target of a fundamentalist group determined to stop her at any cost – but neither Sofia nor those who love her are willing to surrender to the blind fervor of the swarm.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Jacques Demy
92
 min
Opens 
Dec 13

NEW RESTORATION! Though married to Agnes Varda for most of this life, French New Wave icon Jacques Demy was bisexual and died of AIDS-related complications in 1990. He is best known for his sunny musicals of the 1960s, where his voice shines through with romantic optimism.

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother’s chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy’s return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.