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The Way He Looks

Daniel Ribeiro

2014

min

Academy Museum

This super-sweet Brazilian coming of age film, about a blind boy experiencing first love with a classmate, has a bopping soundtrack, and won the 2014 Teddy award at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.

Academy Museum

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Pedro Almodóvar

1988

min

Vidiots Eagle Theater

This madcap drama, with a whirling story of multiple women, their lovers, and some gazpacho laced with sleeping pills, is one of the greats from out Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. It's not one of his Queer films, but this is the film that put him on the map internationally.

Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.

Vidiots

Bradford Nordeen: We All Feel Better in the Dark

min

Author Bradford Nordeen

2220 Arts + Archives

Monday night gets steamy as we present We All Feel Better in the Dark: the bathhouse as queer utopia, a visual lecture by Dirty Looks’ Bradford Nordeen.

Dirty Looks

Soy Lo Que Nunca Fui

Hola Mexico Film Festival

Rodrigo Álvarez Flores

2023

123

min

Regal LA Live 13

Outfest alum Rodrigo Álvarez Flores, whose short "The Other Side" won Special Mention, makes his feature film debut with this story of a Mexican family torn apart when their father leaves the country, and three siblings who must grow up and find their way without him.

Renato, Abel, and Gabriela are a family divided by emotional borders; for them, the desire to be happy and break free from their current situation seems unattainable. The decisions they make independently will have an impact on each other's lives, demonstrating how fragile and delicate the way they are connected is.

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The Doom Generation

Teen Apocalypse Trilogy

Gregg Araki

1995

min

Gregg Araki and actor James Duval

Vidiots Eagle Theater

Gregg Araki followed 1992's angry The Living End with the Teen Apocalypse "trilogy"--three Gen X slacker films that feature angsty and sexually fluid teens, winking French New Wave references, hallucinations of the end times, killer soundtracks, and dreamy lead man James Duval.

Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex- and violence-filled journey through a United States of psychos and quickie marts.

Vidiots

Nowhere / Totally F***ed Up

Teen Apocalypse Trilogy

Gregg Araki

1997

min

Gregg Araki and actors James Duval and Nathan Bexton

Vidiots Eagle Theater

Described as “90210 on acid”, the film tells the story of a day in the lives of a group of high school kids in Los Angeles and the strange lives they lead.

Vidiots

TransMéxico

Hola Mexico Film Festival

Claudia Ymi Sanchez

2023

min

Regal LA Live 13

Transwomen face more difficulties in Latin America than in any other part of the world. In most of these countries, unchecked transphobia severely limits trans people’s access to education, employment, housing, and medical services. In Mexico, which has one of the highest murder rates of transwomen in the world, the prosecution of these crimes is regrettably uncommon. But despite these challenges, many transwomen live empowered lives; they live in truth and have found respect, acceptance, love, and fulfilling careers. Based on true stories –written and recounted by the protagonists themselves – “TransMexico” is built around the incredible lives of three such transwomen.

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Queer Sports & Joyous Expression

min

Director Barbara Bingley-Verseman, Muralist KATBING, & more Queer athletes

Los Angeles LGBT Center

Join the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and Outfest for a premiere screening of Le Mural followed by a panel conversation celebrating the many colors of queer identity, sports, and cultural expression.

Outfest

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Now In Theaters

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

Cukoo

Tilman Singer

103

min

Opens

Aug 9

This horror film stars trans actress and Euphoria star Hunter Schafer as a teen girl who moves with her family to German, only to find that their town hides sinister secrets.

After reluctantly moving to the German Alps with her father and his new family, Gretchen discovers that their new town hides sinister secrets, as she’s plagued by strange noises and frightening visions of a woman pursuing her.

Will and Harper

Josh Greenbaum

114

min

Opens

Sep 13

When Will Ferrell finds out his close friend of 30 years is coming out as a trans woman, the two decide to embark on a cross-country road trip to process this new stage of their relationship in an intimate portrait of friendship, transition, and America.

In The Summers

Alessandra Lacorazza

min

Opens

Sep 20

On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field

Michael Selditch

100

min

Opens

Sep 20

Enter the colorful world of Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated Patricia Field, the costume designer behind Sex and the City, Emily in Paris, Ugly Betty, and The Devil Wears Prada. A queer, first-generation Greek-American, this fiery redhead defied the odds to become a fashion icon. Features interviews with Kim Cattrall, Lily Collins, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael Urie, and more.

Unfightable

Marc Perez

100

min

Opens

Sep 20

Alana McLaughlin is a transgender woman beginning her career in the mixed martial arts. She’ll have to contend with athletes who refuse to fight her, find a gym willing to train her, and win a battle against her own personal demons.

All Shall Be Well

Ray Yeung

min

Opens

Sep 27

When her partner Pat unexpectedly dies, Angie is left to worry about the flat in which the couple lived together for over 30 years. Supported by her chosen family, Angie begins a later-life journey into emancipation.