Weeks of Sep 8 & 15
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It's a lively September for Queer Film in LA, with newcomer festival CinePride brining a weekend full of new Queer flicks, on top of Out at Black Cat, and sold-out screenings of Saving Face and Mysterious Skin with filmmakers in attendance!
Out
Sep 08, 7:00 PM @ LOOK Dine-In Glendale
Director Dennis Alink in person
Tom and Ajani are outsiders in their small conservative village in The Netherlands. Together, they dream of freedom and a new life as film students in Amsterdam, where their relationship no longer has to be a secret. When they finally leave their old life in the countryside behind, they are confronted with the norms and social constructs of the big city that turn out to be completely different than what they imagined. While Ajani thrives in the Amsterdam queer scene, Tom struggles to find his place, putting a strain on their now public relationship. In this new world, freed from always being hated for who they are, who will they become?
CinePride Film Festival
Check out LA's newest Queer film festival at the Landmark Sunset this weekend, bringing a slate of features, documentaries and shorts in its inaugural year. With a focus on Queer films from creators of color, CinePride is a fresh new voice on the LA cinema scene.
Also This Week
FREE Advance Screening: The History of Sound
Sep 08, 7:30 PM @ NHM Commons Theater
Director Oliver Hermanus in person
Two young music students, Lionel and David, attending the Boston Conservatory in 1917, bond over their shared love of folk music. They reconnect a few years later, embarking on a song collecting trip in the backwaters of Maine.
American Theater
LA’s Rich and Successful Film Festival
Sep 10, 7:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Filmmaker Dylan Frederick in person
A "canceled" theater director summons a troupe of conservatives to an abandoned cabin in rural Georgia to plot revenge on the Atlanta theater community with a musical retelling of the 1692 Salem witch trials.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
A Room With a View
Sep 13, 4:00 PM @ Eastwood Performing Arts Center
A landmark (but not gay) film from gay power-couple James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, based on the classic novel by gay author E. M. Forster, this lush period piece stars young Helena Bonham Carter as a young woman torn between two suitors in 1900s Italy and England.
The Matrix
Sep 13, 9:15 PM @ Brain Dead Studios
When The Matrix came out in 1999, nobody thought it was a queer movie--but directors Lily and Lana Wachowski have come out as trans (and made the wildly queer series Sense8). Watching the Matrix today shines a new light on its epic battles for liberation and authenticity.
Tickets from Brain Dead Studios
Next Week
SOLD OUT: Saving Face
Sep 15, 7:30 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
Writer/director Alice Wu and actors Lynn Chen and Michelle Krusiec in person
Celebrate the release of this Queer classic in the Criterion collection! A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
Limited walk-ups will be available.
Sirens
Sep 21, 4:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Filmmaker Rita Baghdadi in person
On the outskirts of Beirut, SIRENS follows the emotional journey of Lilas and Shery, co-founders and guitarists of the Middle East's first all-female metal band, as they wrestle with friendship, sexuality and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars. Directed by Lebanese-American woman director Rita Baghdadi, SIRENS is a completely unprecedented look at a Beirut-based Lebanese queer women’s heavy metal band and their trials and tribulations of trying to be their authentic selves in the most liberal country in the Middle East.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
SOLD OUT: Mysterious Skin
Sep 19, 7:30 PM @ Academy Museum
Writer/director Gregg Araki, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and novelist Scott Heim in person
Restoration Premiere! A gay teenage hustler and another teen obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Limited tickets will go on sale at 9am on the 19th
FREE: Kiss of the Spider Woman
Special Sneak Preview
Sep 17, 7:00 PM @ University of Southern California
Star Tonatiuh in person
Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna.
Hombres Íntegros
Hola Mexico Film Festival
Sep 16, 5:00 PM & Sep 19, 7:30 PM @ Regal LA Live 13
17 year old Alf, returns to his catholic boy’s school after a year away. He no longer relates to his mates, who are popular and athletic. He finds himself drawn to Oliver, a gay pupil. In an attempt to dispel the rumours on his predisposition, he bonds with his old friends and ends up committing a crime to prove he still belongs
Tickets from Hola Mexico Film Festival
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Sep 19, 10:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Two drag queens and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a town in the remote Australian desert. As they head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla, the three friends come to the forefront of a comedy of errors, encountering a number of strange characters, as well as incidents of homophobia, whilst widening comfort zones and finding new horizons.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Billy Budd
Sep 20, 4:00 PM @ Los Feliz 3
Herman Melville was likely gay, and his iconic novel Billy Budd about the obsession between a young sailor and a senior officer was adapted into this 1962 film, as well as the homoerotic Beau Travail.
Tickets from American Cinematheque
Dog Day Afternoon
Sep 20, 6:30 PM @ Vidiots Eagle Theater
A true Story! Young Al Pacino plays John Wojtowicz, who tries to rob a bank in order to pay for his lover's sex-change operation. The real Wojtowicz was an active gay liberationist, and tells his own story in the 2013 documentary "The Dog."
2025 HUMP! Film Festival
Sep 20, 6:30 PM & 9:00 PM @ Art Theater Long Beach
After two decades of bringing independent, genre-bending, jaw-dropping adult short films to the masses, these days the HUMP! Jury receives way too many incredible, festival-worthy submissions each year to narrow them all down into one feature-length presentation. That means we ge
Tickets from Art Theater Long Beach
FREE: Made in Hollywood
Sep 21, 4:00 PM @ Getty Museum
A parable of the Hollywood image-making industry told through a pastiche of narrative cliches.
FREE: Blonde Venus
Sep 21, 7:00 PM @ Hammer Museum
Bisexual sexpot Marlene Dietrich, who went from Weimar chorus girl to Hollywood super star, takes the lead as a retired cabaret singer coming back to the stage. Co-starring newcomer (and fellow bisexual, by most accounts) Cary Grant.
Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive
