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Screenings & Events
Festivals, Special Guests, Retrospectives and more "one night only" queer cinema screenings.
Rains Over Babel
LA Latino International Film Festival
TCL Chinese Theaters
Today marks the end of Dante's contract with La Flaca, death personified. As Dante starts
recalling who he was before he died, he aids Monet, a ghost desperate to return to his body
before it decomposes.
Caught between his orthodox upbringing and his passion for drag, Jacob faces the ultimate
test as he prepares for his debut performance. But keeping secrets from his devout parents
threatens to derail his dreams.
To save his father's life, Timbí travels through the circles of hell accompanied by Uma, a
gypsy determined to settle a bet with La Flaca to save her dying daughter's life.
El Boticaro, the devil himself, and Erato, a fallen angel, act as the omniscient narrators of this
world. Against this backdrop, the lives of these characters intertwine at the mythical bar
Babel, one night where the living and the dead collide.
Withnail and I
Los Feliz 3
West Coast Premiere of New 4K Restoration
Depending who you ask, this British cult black comedy is either homophobic, due to its treatment of Withnail's lecherous gay uncle Morty, or a queer-coded romance, with something special lurking underneath the main characters' close-but-complicated friendship.
Two out-of-work actors – the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail – spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday “by mistake” at the country house of Withnail’s flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.
In the Best Interests of the Children
with Lesbian Custody
Legacy Project Screening Series
Hammer Museum
Filmmakers Frances Reid and S. Topiary Landberg.
Gay mothers argue for the right to custody of their children.
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
Eastwood Performing Arts Center
An orphaned teenager finds himself being dominated by his aunt who’s hell-bent on keeping him with her…at all costs.
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Lumiere Music Hall
Writer Peter Atkins and director Tony Randel
The Hellraiser series, from out writer/director/producer Cliver Barker, are horror films where queer themes run plainly across the surface. While Hellbound is less overtly gay than other entries in the series, Barker's kinky pleasure-demons are unmistakable icons of Queer horror.
Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family, Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain. But Channard has been searching for the doorway to Hell for years, and Kirsty must follow him to save her father and witness the power struggles among the newly damned.
Victor/Victoria
Vidiots Eagle Theater
Author Alonso Duralde
Julie Andrews stars in this musical remake of the 1933 German film about a woman singer who takes a job as a female impersonator.
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Beau Travail
Egyptian Theatre
Filmmaker Claire Denis
It's not gay but... those handsome soldiers, the beautiful cinematography, the bodies in the sun, woof. This tale of obsession and jealousy between an older sergeant and a young recruit from French master Claire Denis is a smoldering and sensual examination of men's worlds.
Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
Hammer Museum
30th anniversary screening!
Touching and poignant, the acclaimed coming-of-age comedy The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls In Love tells the story of two teenagers whose unexpected friendship grows into the joyful wildness of first love. Randy (Laurel Holloman), a rebellious working class tomboy, meets the beautiful, popular, well-to-do Evie (Nicole Ari Parker) when she brings her Range Rover into the repair shop where Randy works after school. Immediately intrigued by each other, the two girls start a romance that delights and disrupts their lives, causing Evie to lose her friends, Randy to lie to her parents, and sending the two of them on the run. Sensitive and romantic, funny and sincere, this daring film was hailed as a crossover success upon its release and is now celebrated as an iconic part of the 1990s queer cinema canon. Beloved by audiences, it was often referred to, with relief, as one of the few lesbian movies with a “happy ending where no one dies.”
Paris is Burning
Eastwood Performing Arts Center
This iconic documentary, filmed over seven years at the beginning of the AIDS crisis in New York City's ballroom scene, captures the end of a "Golden Age" drag scene--and introduced a whole lot of Queer vocabulary to mainstream audiences.
Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses,” from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza — PARIS IS BURNING brings it, celebrating the joy of movement, the force of eloquence, and the draw of community.
Theatrical runs
Now In Theaters
Prefer your movies with popcorn and trailers? Here some the queer films at LA cinemas right now...
The Wedding Banquet
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee's expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min's grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet.
On Swift Horses
In the 1950s, a seemingly sensible newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law undertake parallel journeys of risk, romance, and self-discovery.
Perfect Endings
Like the perfect ending of a great film - that is the way filmmaker João describes the end of his 10-year relationship with Hugo. Despite breaking up, they remained best friends. However, reentering the dating scene brought a whirlwind of emotions, revealing that reality can’t be controlled like a movie script.
Brokeback Mountain: 20th Anniversary
Rodeo cowboy Jack and ranch hand Ennis are hired as sheepherders in 1963 Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, they spark a physical relationship. Though Ennis marries his longtime sweetheart and Jack marries a fellow rodeo rider, they keep up their tortured, sporadic love affair for 20 years.
