Take Bad News Bears and set it on Bend it Like Beckham’s playing field, and you’ve got Guys and Balls, a light-hearted send-up of all the macho sports movies your straight friends forced you to see. Ecki is a sweet, closeted gay man who works in his family’s bakery and plays goalie in his small town’s soccer team. When he both loses the big game, and is caught flirting with another player, his homophobic teammates throw him out. He vows to return one day with an all-gay team that will grind the heteros into the dust, so he sets off to find his “dream team.” The final game is a delicious clash of straight machismo and gay fabulousness that will have you both laughing and cheering down to the ultimate showdown. In German with English subtitles. Description adapted from the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.

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This timely film chronicles Shulamit Izen’s fight to start a gay-straight alliance at Gann Academy-The New Jewish High School of Greater Boston. Beyond the struggle to create a supportive environment for gay and lesbian students and teachers at the school, this is the story of a community wrestling with the very definition of pluralism and diversity in a Jewish context.

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Following the resounding success of the film version of her brilliant novel, Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters’s newest adventure is just as riveting. It is the story of two very different women: Sue, a fingersmith (Victorian slang for pickpocket), lives independently and survives by her wits. Maud, plucked from a women’s prison to live a life of privilege and sophistication, leads a sheltered life under the ever-watchful eye of her uncle. The two women meet, not by chance, but as the result of a cleverly devised plot to swindle Maud out of her inheritance. Nothing, however, is what it seems as the two women tell their sides of a story filled with betrayal and courage. Description adapted from the Reel Affirmations Film Festival.

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