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the

bentlens

2nd Edition

a world guide to gay & lesbian film

Lisa Daniel & Claire Jackson

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This edition first published in 2003

First edition published in 1997

Copyright © Lisa Daniel and Claire Jackson 2003

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Contents

Acknowledgements ............................................................................................ 6

Introduction ...................................................................................................... 7

How to use this book ..................................................................................... 8–9

Essays

Queer Cinema Since 1997 by Daniel Mudie Cunningham ............................. 10

Queer Asian Cinemas by Helen Hok-Sze Leung ............................................. 14

The Transgender Look by Judith Halberstam ................................................... 18

History Lessons: An interview with Barbara Hammer...................................... 22

A–Z of films .................................................................................................... 27

Indexes of films with

Bisexual Interest .......................................................................................... 457

Cross-dressing, Transgender & Transsexual Interest ..................................... 457

Fringe .......................................................................................................... 459

Gay Interest................................................................................................. 460

Lesbian Interest ........................................................................................... 468

Queer Interest ............................................................................................. 473

Indexes of films by Genre

Action ......................................................................................................... 477

Animation ................................................................................................... 477

Comedy ...................................................................................................... 477

Documentary .............................................................................................. 481

Drama ......................................................................................................... 485

Erotica ........................................................................................................ 492

Experimental ............................................................................................... 492

Horror ........................................................................................................ 493

Musical ....................................................................................................... 494

Sci-Fi ........................................................................................................... 494

Thriller ........................................................................................................ 494

Western ....................................................................................................... 494

Index of films by Country .............................................................................. 495

Distributors ................................................................................................... 515

Selected Queer Film Festivals ......................................................................... 549

Directors ........................................................................................................ 555

Selected Websites of Interest .......................................................................... 575

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Acknowledgements

What began as a two-person squad putting The Bent Lens 2nd Edition together very quickly became a team effort. We’d like to thank the essay writers, Judith Halberstam, Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Helen Hok-Sze Leung and Barbara Hammer, for sharing their specialist knowledge with us, and our readers. To the kind and patient folk at Allen & Unwin who came on board to make sure this 2nd edition saw the light of day—particularly Elizabeth Weiss, Alexandra Nahlous and Emma Sorenson. Thank you to the talented crew at Redback Graphix who provided the fantastic cover concept, as well as the generous filmmakers and distributors who provided their stills both for the cover, and throughout the book—big thanks in particular to Barry Gilbert who kindly provided the main cover still of the smooching gals. A very big nod of appreciation goes to everyone who provided synopses over the past few years, including Richard Watts, Madeleine Swain, Joseph Alessi, Ben Zipper, Paul Andrew, Laura Deriu, as well as all of the festivals and distributors who allowed us to use synopses and information from their programs, catalogues and websites—particularly Maura King and Desi del Valle at Frameline, Gaye Naismith, Faye Shortal and Amree Hewitt from the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Michael Lumpkin and the team at the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Jeff Crawford and Deidre Logue at Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre. The book is chock full of fantastic stills, and we will forever be grateful to Marcus Hu from Strand Releasing who helped us out with literally hundreds of images. Thank you also to Chris Berry for sharing his expertise with us once again, and to Peter Tapp for supporting the project from its inception as a first edition, to kind support of the second. Thanks to our families and friends for giving us time out from any social life during the final months of putting the book together, as well as to the Melbourne Queer Film Festival for excusing us from the office for several weeks whilst we put this baby to bed. And last but not least, thank you to Sheila Drummond, who never wavered in her commitment to helping us see this project through to print.

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Intro

Introduction

There’s been an enormous amount of activity in the queer filmmaking world since the 1st Edition of The Bent Lens appeared in 1997. During that time there has been somewhat of a frenzy of films made with a queer bent. For short filmmakers in particular, the ever-increasing availability of cheaper and easier film technologies has made picking up a camera and capturing stories on film that much more accessible. Audiences and film financiers too, have seemed more willing to embrace the depiction of diverse lifestyles on the screen. The increased commercialisation of mainstream queer film is evident in the number of queer narratives produced by the larger production houses over the past five years. The box office success of films such as Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998), Better than Chocolate (1999), Boy’s Don’t Cry (1999), Before Night Falls (2000) and Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) have seen an increased confidence in the ability of narratives about non-mainstream characters to attract audiences. Depictions of queer lives on television have increased in number and popularity also, with Queer as Folk (1999 and 2000) and Metrosexuality (2001) attracting huge audiences.

Even more inspiring is the success, and critical acclaim of films such as By Hook or By Crook (2001), and Walking on Water (2002), whose narrative concerns are real world problems experienced by characters who just happen to be queer. While ‘coming out’ stories and stories about being queer will always be relevant as long as queer people exist, it is refreshing, and perhaps a sign of the maturing of modern Western popular culture, that we can also enjoy and embrace narratives that celebrate the telling of a good story by a collection of characters for whom sexuality is just one part of a much bigger picture.

There are over 1000 new titles featured in this edition of The Bent Lens. Since there have been so many films both in long and short form released over the past five years it has been impossible to include them all. We have tried as best we can to include queer films of ten minutes and over that have either had a cinema release, are formally distributed, or that have played at least two queer film festivals somewhere in the world.

In the same way as the first edition, the second offers readers a practical guide to gay and lesbian film. Wherever possible we have included and updated selected distribution information about the films, or in the age of internet shopping, where you might be able to purchase your favourite titles over the web. The information is by no means exhaustive, and there are many companies that now offer the facility to purchase over the internet that we did not have the space to list here.

The Bent Lens offers an A–Z listing of over 2600 films which are also indexed according to director, country, sexualities and genre. Direct representations of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, as well as transgendered people are featured throughout, as well as mainstream films which Intro

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contain strong queer sub-texts, or sub-plots such as Velvet Goldmine (1998), Being John Malkovich (1999), Magnolia (1999) and American Beauty (1999). For filmmakers and festival audiences, we have included a selected listing of some of the major queer film festivals around the world, as well as some great websites to visit.

The Bent Lens is the only guide of its kind to include queer cinema from all parts of the world while representing all genres and formats including features, documentaries, shorts and experimental works, as well as work from the Asian and Australian regions. Nowhere in print will you find such a comprehensive listing of lesbian and gay short films. We hope that the support shown to short filmmakers will provide the encouragement to keep making films, and maybe even get that feature script up and running.

In order to provide some context to the wealth of information that is contained within, we have included a series of essays which highlight some of the changes that have taken place in lesbian and gay cinema in recent times, as well as some speculation about future directions.

Daniel Mudie Cunningham gives us his take on what has been happening in the world of queer cinema since 1997; Helen Hok-Sze Leung guides us through a recent history of queer Asian cinema; and Judith Halberstam tours through the fluid gender world of recent narratives with a transgender bent. Also featured is an interview with prolific and pioneering lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, who gives us an intimate insight into her significant body of film work, highlighting her most recent title History Lessons (2000).

We have endeavoured to make The Bent Lens 2nd Edition as inclusive, accurate and current as possible, and as it is an ongoing project, we encourage feedback, new information and suggestions, but above all we hope you enjoy the book.

Claire Jackson and Lisa Daniel

Email: bentlens@bigpond.net.au

How to use this book

All films are listed alphabetically and where possible we have included the following information in this order:

Title

Alternate Title (aka: first alternative; second alternative)

Director (last name, first name)

Year; Country; Running Time; Black & White; Genre

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P: (producer); W: (scriptwriter, screenplay); C: (cinematographer, director of photography or camera); E: (editor); M: (music)

Cast:

Synopsis: (including foreign language films with subtitle information) Awards: (selected listing from major festivals and organisations)

Prod Comp: (production company)

Dist/Sales: (distribution company, sales contact or print source)

Example:

Evening Dress

(aka: Tenue de Soirée; Menage)

Blier, Bertrand

1986; France; 84 min; Comedy

P: Philippe Dussart, René Cleitman; W: Bertrand Blier; C: Jean Penzer; E: Claudine Merlin; M: Serge Gainsbourg Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou, Michel Creton, Jean-François Stevenin This black comedy is a clever gay variation on the traditional romantic triangle. Everything changes when a thief talks a financially struggling couple into burglary: the thief then falls, not for the sexy wife, but the boring, balding husband. French with English subtitles.

Awards: Cannes Film Festival, 1986: Best Actor (Michel Blanc) Prod Comp: Ciné Valse, DD Productions, Hachette Première, Phillipe Dussart SARL

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, Cinecom, BFI

Distributor’s details can be found beginning page 513, and are listed in alphabetical order by code. Not all distributors provide titles internationally—some may only service limited regions, or distribute to particular organisations.

For ease of use and to help with locating films we have included indexes of directors, country, genre, and films of bisexual, cross-dressing, transgender, transsexual, fringe, gay, lesbian and queer interest. Films denoted as fringe interest include titles with central queer characters, but with limited queer story content. Films listed as queer include titles with storylines which contain elements relevant to multiple sexualities, gay, lesbian, bisexual etc.

When synopses have been taken from other sources we have credited the source in brackets at the end of the synopsis. Abbreviations used when crediting synopses are MQFF: Melbourne Queer Film Festival, WMM: Women Make Movies, ACMI: Australian Centre for the Moving Image, CFMDC: Canadian Filmmaker’s Distribution Centre.

Intro

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Queer Cinema Since 1997

Daniel Mudie Cunningham

By 1997, the year The Bent Lens was first published, queer cinema found itself at somewhat of a crossroads, staring into an uncertain future. Queer cinema was fast being absorbed into the mainstream, something that was certainly troubling considering ‘queer’ was a term injected with a range of meanings that included just about anything except mainstream, or normative, logic. The six or seven years preceding 1997 were identified, especially in the United States, as a time when queer film was electric, pulsing with the discordant rhythms of a period that came to be known—first by critics, second by audiences and lastly (if ever) by its practitioners—as New Queer Cinema.

In brief, the moniker New Queer Cinema was coined by film critic B. Ruby Rich to identify and categorise the larger-than-usual number of independent queer films lap-dancing around the US film festival circuit during 1991–92. Rich was referring primarily to the ‘flock of films that were doing something new, renegotiating subjectivities, annexing whole genres, revising histories in their image’.1 The films to which Rich referred included, among others, Poison (Todd Haynes, 1991), My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant, 1991), Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990), The Living End (Gregg Araki, 1992) and Swoon (Tom Kalin, 1992): landmarks of the emergent queer cinema, but more importantly, prime cuts of a new generation of filmmakers who were utilising the discontents of queerness to reconsider the very language of narrative cinema.

One of the problems for some critics, audiences and filmmakers was the fact that this growing wave of films were located in the boy-zone, where the splintering subjectivities of gay men dominated. Lesbian content was ensured, however, by filmmakers like Sadie Benning, Barbara Hammer, Ana Kokkinos, Pratibha Parmar and Monika Treut. But it wasn’t until Rose Troche’s Go Fish made a splash in 1994, that audiences everywhere recognised lesbian content in queer film had been sadly lacking. The success of Go Fish and others like it allowed viewers to whet their appetites (and perhaps even wet their legs) on lesbian narrative film.

Like many groundbreaking cultural forms, New Queer Cinema eventually became commercially viable. In the latter part of the 1990s, numerous New Queer filmmakers had abandoned strict queer criteria or simply opted for a more mainstream market. In 2000, Rich published another essay on the topic, this time reminiscing on the way New Queer had grown up and in many cases traded its independent origins for the mainstream. Rich argues that ‘the story is more complicated than that, its conclusions less clear-cut, the movement itself in question, if not in total meltdown’.2 Reasons for the ‘total meltdown’ abound, but it must be said that the ideas of ‘queer’—like all so-called cutting edge concepts—inevitably evolve into shrink-wrapped commodities, whose appeal depends on increased circulation within the mainstream.

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For some, queer cinema may have sold out, become co-opted in the process of being pushed towards commercialisation. For others, it is this commercialisation that finally makes queer film digestible and less obsessed with avant-garde attempts to trash the rules of both identity and cinematic form. As an avid consumer of all things queer, I have found it difficult to decide a position to which I should subscribe. Surely if I elect the first, I am living in a fantasy world that expects Rose Troche to preside over the lesbian go-fishbowl, Todd Haynes to make Poison 2 and Gregg Araki to get over his Larry Clark-like obsession with disaffected post-adolescent flesh. If I subscribe to the second position, I have to admit I enjoyed (and sometimes prefer) relatively mainstream fare like Boys Don’t Cry (Kimberly Peirce, 1999), The Broken Hearts Club (Greg Berlanti, 2000), The Opposite of Sex (Don Roos, 1998), Psycho Beach Party (Robert Lee King, 2000), as well as those I’m not likely to admit in print.

I must note, however, that an increasing number of commercial queer films do try and have it both ways. A recurring joke in All Over the Guy (Julie Davis, 2001) is at the expense of In & Out (Frank Oz, 1997), seemingly because any self-respecting queer who enjoyed In & Out has failed to see it as nothing more than a Hollywood exercise in safe-guarding thinly veiled homophobic sentiments. In & Out was hardly a great film, but it wasn’t that bad. At least the sight of Kevin Kline and Tom Selleck locked in an oral embrace was worth the price of a weekly video hire. In contrast, All Over the Guy could have been granted a scholarship to the Nora Ephron Academy of Het-Rom-Comedy had the queer couples been cast by the likes of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. But for something that better presents a brooding, contemplative idea of queer, I’d recommend we ditch the bitch fight sparked by All Over the Guy and rent instead the similarly titled All Over Me (Alex Sichel, 1997), a gritty teenage tale of sex, drugs and rock and roll set in Hells Kitchen, NYC, and starring Alison Folland.

This depiction of sex, drugs and rock and roll is not an isolated one. Such themes in queer cinema can be located when we connect some of the dots on Christine Vachon’s résumé as producer. Though Vachon openly dismisses being concerned only with queer product, she has produced a healthy dose of the more interesting queer films to come out of the United States.

Vachon’s post-1997 projects include the glam rock odysseys The Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998) and Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell, 2001): proof that queers and disco aren’t always synonymous. Moreover, these two films to a large extent re-write popular histories and myths through a queer framework; the former through music icons like David Bowie and Iggy Pop; the latter through its queer eurotrash take on Plato’s Symposium.

This is not to say that the distinct independent sensibility of queer film has been totally abandoned. Surely the two glam examples cited above are still distinctive in terms of narrative, style and content. They may have the ability to reach a rapidly growing, potentially 11

mainstream audience, but many viewers would agree that these films still inhabit the confines of the arthouse. Even Boys Don’t Cry, which was also produced by Vachon, is something of an arthouse film, despite its well-known cast of nineties/noughties brat-packers, its critical and commercial success, and the Oscar and Golden Globe accolades bestowed on Hilary Swank for her transgender turn. This is a major accomplishment for queer cinema, but had the film not been based around Brandon Teena’s tragic life, you have to ask whether it would have resonated on so many levels.

Even though queer cinema has become a relatively commercial zone, much of it still derives from the context of independent filmmaking. It seems that indie films now have a decidedly commercial edge. Gems like High Art (Lisa Cholodenko, 1998) and Head On (Ana Kokkinos, 1998) demonstrate that independent films can happily exist outside of the Hollywood system, and still make an impact with audiences and in the market-place. High Art asks the powerful question: What do you find when investigating a leaky roof? Answers don’t come easily, but when they do, you’ll find Ally Sheedy, playing a has-been photographer who seduces ‘the girl with the leak’, while trying to stage a career comeback one minute and a drug run the next.

Entertaining as the premise sounds, High Art is fiercely intelligent, darkly satirical, full of visual pleasure—clearly one of the best queer films of the last decade. The Australian film Head On finds raw poetry in its protagonist’s fucked-up everyday. Identity, moreover, is not limited to queerness, because Head On is equally concerned with the attempt to locate one’s sense of self within the nuclear family, and in relation to larger ethnic communities. High Art and Head On are successful examples of queer cinema primarily because their depictions of queer subjects and subjectivities is uncompromising. The simplistic demands for so-called

‘positive’ images of queer, lesbian and gay life has been replaced by beautifully flawed characters who resonate long after the final credits roll.

But the distinction between mainstream and independent (read Hollywood/non-Hollywood) has become increasingly blurred in recent times. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999) is a studio-financed, big budget piece that presents an unexpected and subversive lesbian happy ending for Catherine Keener and Cameron Diaz. On the one hand, this film is as commercial as it gets for queer. On the other, it goes beyond queer, and into territory that feels strangely new.

From American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999) to American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000), much Hollywood cinema engages to varying degrees with queer themes, characters, subplots and subtexts. This doesn’t mean such inclusiveness will always be embraced by queer audiences.

Whether it be in Hollywood, the indie world or elsewhere, queerness only stands a chance of being interesting if it continues to revise and reinvent itself. The better films of New Queer Cinema or the more commercial recent past explode conventional modes of narrative and subject matter, all the while maintaining that the language of queer is always on the move, but 12

also of the moment, from this moment on. By the time The Bent Lens is next revised, another moment will be upon us and up on the screen.

Daniel Mudie Cunningham is a writer specialising in screen cultures and art history.

Based in Sydney, Australia, Daniel has worked as an independent visual art and film curator, having staged numerous exhibitions since 1994. Daniel is nearing completion of his doctoral thesis on ‘white trash’ film aesthetics titled Trashing Whites: The ‘Film’ on Whiteness (University of Western Sydney). Daniel can be contacted through his web site: www.showpony.com.au.

Footnotes

1 B. Ruby Rich. ‘Homo Pomo: The New Queer Cinema’ [September, 1992]. Reprinted in Cook and Dodd, eds. Women and Film: A Sight and Sound Reader. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993, p. 164.

2 B. Ruby Rich. ‘Queer and Present Danger’ [2000] Reprinted in Hillier, ed. American Independent Cinema: A Sight and Sound Reader. London: British Film Institute, 2001, pp. 114–18.

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Queer Asian Cinemas

Helen Hok-Sze Leung

In and Out of the Festivals

In recent years, Asian films have become a significant and influential presence in queer film festivals all over the world. In 2001–2002 alone, Asian cinemas had inspired special programming, lectures, and panel discussions at such high-profile venues as the Transgender Film Festival in Amsterdam, Inside Out in Toronto, Frameline in San Francisco, and Out On Screen in Vancouver. Closer to home, queer film festivals in Asian cities such as Hong Kong, Tokyo, Manila, and Seoul are moving away from the earlier tendency to program material primarily from Western cinemas and returning the spotlight to their own regional film industries. Contrary to opinions circulating in some of the more established festivals, queer Asian cinemas are not just latecomers on the global queer scene, mirroring an earlier phase of development found in the West. Rather, the diversity of Asian cultures and the complex histories of their negotiation with non-normative forms of gender practices and sexual desire have produced films that suggest alternative models of queer identity, politics, and aesthetics.

Themes such as homophobia and colonialism ( Ke Kulana He Mahu, Brent Anbe and Kathryn Xian, 2001), indigenous queer identities ( Friends in High Places, Lindsey Merrison, 2000), local histories of queer desire ( The Intimates, Jacob Cheung, 1997), and gender identities that do not neatly correspond to the categories of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) ( Shinjuku Boys, Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams, 1995) are just a few examples of the ways in which Asian films are reconfiguring the parameters of queer cinema. Outside of the festival circuit, however, it becomes much more difficult to speak of the influence of these films as though they form a coherent body of work. The very notion of a ‘Queer Asian Cinema’ is in many ways a festival invention. It refers to films that differ immensely in local contexts of production and reception, in their relation to social and political movements for gender and sexual minorities, and in their status in mainstream culture. In the rest of the essay, I will briefly outline some of these differences to highlight the diversity of queer Asian films.

The Queer Mainstream

An interesting phenomenon in festival programming of queer Asian cinemas is the inclusion of ‘unintentionally queer’ films. These are mainstream films that implicitly or explicitly feature same-sex desire and/or gender transgressions without any commitment to queer politics or involvement of the queer community in their production. They tend to have high production value and an all-star cast. Because of the recent efforts amongst the film industries of east and southeast Asia to consolidate their film markets, many of these films also enjoy wide distribution amongst mainstream audiences throughout Asia. For instance, the majority of queer films from Hong Kong—from the 1991 martial arts epic Swordsman II to last year’s 14

period comedy Wu Yen (Johnnie To and Wai Kai-fai, 2001), both of which have recently been programmed in queer film festivals — are examples of this category. Although these films seldom provide a realistic glimpse into queer lives and do not usually offer the positive images or subversive politics that some queer audiences look for, they play an important role in the dissemination of queer representations and instigate a different kind of spectatorial pleasure.

Mainstream films that tackle queer themes often adhere to generic rules in order to ensure their general marketability. As a result, they end up revealing the repressed limits of the genre itself, exposing the queer undercurrent that has always been present. For instance, the Thai comedy Iron Ladies (Youngyooth Thongkonthun, 2000) derives many elements of its plot from a genre of Japanese TV drama that was immensely popular in Asia during the 1970s. In this genre, competitive sports create a homosocial space where same-sex players share an intense esprit du corp. Iron Ladies appropriates and transforms this space with a riveting story about a volleyball team made up of gay men, drag queens, and a trans woman. Memento Mori (Kim Tae-yong and Min Kyu-dong, 2000) from South Korea combines a girls’ school love drama with a Carrie-like horror plot. The anxious repression of queer desire is a recurrent subtext in both adolescent drama and the horror genre. Memento Mori simply pushes this latent anxiety of the genres into the foreground of the film. In Portland Street Blues (Yip Raymond, 1998), a butch woman with a strong transgender identification is cast into the role of a typical hero in the gangster action genre. Her intense affection for another man in the film replicates not heterosexual romance but the intense homoerotic bond between men that is a staple in the genre since John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow.

Aside from the queering of generic clichés, the casting of major stars in queer roles is another way in which mainstream films provide opportunities of queer appropriation. For example, the pairing of Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung in Happy Together (Kar-wai Wong, 1997) and the casting of Seiichi Tanabe as a gay man in Hush! (Ryosuke Hashiguchi, 2001) cast a much welcomed queer gaze over these heterosexualized idols. Conversely, the casting of queer icons in ostensibly straight roles—Akihiro Maruyama as the femme fatale in Black Lizard (Kinji Fukasaku, 1968) and Leslie Cheung as a homophobic straight man pondering his sexual identity in He’s a Woman She’s a Man (Peter Chan and Chi Lee, 1994) for instance—

introduces an ironic queer subtext that only audiences ‘in the know’ could appreciate. Such irony can empower queer spectators and return them to a rare position of privilege in relation to mainstream cinema.

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Because mainstream queer films reach such a wide audience and stay in the popular memory for a relatively long time, they provide a rich resource for innovative projects that reclaim queer spaces in everyday life. For instance, Stanley Kwan’s documentary Yin ± Yang: Gender in Chinese Cinema (1996) uncovers undercurrents of homoeroticism and gender transgressions throughout the history of popular Chinese cinema. The clip show Desi Dykes and Divas: Hindi Film Clips, compiled by Gayatri Gopinath and Javid Syed for the San Francisco South Asian LGBT festival QFilmistan in 2001, recovers and highlights the rich queer subtexts that are everywhere in Bollywood films. These projects are brilliant examples of the ways in which a

‘queer mainstream’ may be appropriated from popular Asian cinemas.

Queer Indies and the Queer Underground

A smaller but equally important body of queer Asian films are made by independent filmmakers with a consciously queer politics. These films are usually produced with the active involvement of the local queer community, often working voluntarily on the film crew. As a result, even when these films are not explicitly telling stories about the queer community, they give a much more intimate flavour of contemporary queer lives in Asia. Compared to mainstream films, independent films are far more inclined to represent explicit queer sexuality, and they do so in creative, unrestrained and at times humorous ways. Queer indie films from Asia have also moved away from the melodramatic plots more typical of mainstream features, which often dwell on themes like the difficulty of coming out, the tension with family, the tragedy of unrequited love. Instead, indie films are more interested in more abstract and universal themes such as urban alienation, national identity and histories of injustice. By exploring these questions from the perspectives of queer characters and in a recognisably queer cinematic style, queer indie films have reclaimed some of the grand narratives of cinema for queer audiences. Recent features such as Yau Ching’s Let’s Love Hong Kong ( Hoa Yuk, 2002) and Evans Chan’s Maps of Sex and Love (2001) from Hong Kong and Desiree Lim’s Sugar Sweet (2001) from Japan are fine examples of this exciting emergence of queer independent filmmaking from Asia. The problem faced by most independent films is that of distribution.

Many of these films play far more often in film festivals abroad than to audiences at home.

However, with the rise of digital media, indie films are widening their distribution through VCD and DVD releases. Many independent filmmakers also manage to show their work on television where they can reach a wider audience than film festival or arthouse theatre releases.

Similar in spirit but far more difficult in execution than the indie films is a flourishing body of work from the queer underground. These are works filmed in societies where queer content in the cinema is still outlawed. The underground character of these films results in a style that is typical of guerrilla cinemas, often with lots of handheld work, undercover location shoots, make-do sets, and active, passionate involvement of the crew in every aspect of the film’s production. Some examples of such underground works are In the Name of Allah, a film about queer Muslims in the Middle East that is still in progress, the documentary Just a Woman (Mitra Farahani, 2001) which follows the everyday life of a transsexual woman in Iran, and recent dramatic features from Mainland China like Man Man WomanWoman ( NanNan NuNu, 16

Liu Bingjian, 1999), Fish & Elephant ( Jin Nian Xia Tian, Li Yu, 2001) and Enter into Clowns, ( Enter the Clowns, Zi’en Cui, 2001) all of which cast a provocative look at queer lives in Beijing while starring some of the most prominent queer activists and artists from the community.

Queer Asian Diasporas

Finally, it is necessary to briefly mention the works of queer filmmakers in the Asian diaspora, which continue to be in active dialogue with the queer cinemas of Asia. Recent feature documentaries such as Rewriting the Script and I Exist (Peter Barbosa and Garrett Lenoir, 2002) explore being queer in, respectively, the South Asian and the Middle Eastern communities in North America. In their search for a culturally specific language, history and experience of queerness, filmmakers in the Asian diaspora draw from both their immigrant experience and the contemporary queer culture of Asia. Shorter works by directors such as Sheila James, Quentin Lee, Erin O’Brien, Winston Xin and Wayne Yung amongst many others, explore themes like racism and homophobia, inter-racial relationships, family negotiations, and the global movements and displacements of people and culture. Increasingly, these films are reaching audiences in the queer communities in Asia and opening new dialogues on intersecting concerns and experiences. They are an important part of a diverse queer Asian cinematic landscape that will continue to grow beyond and transform its borders.

Helen Hok-Sze Leung is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University, Canada, where she teaches queer theory, gender theory, literature and film.

Her current research focuses on Hong Kong's queer culture.

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The Transgender Look

Judith Halberstam, UC San Diego

‘We feel like we were thrown almost every curve in the game. And we managed to make this thing by hook or by crook.’1 Harry Dodge and Silas Howard, directors, By Hook or By Crook (2000)

The potentiality of the body to morph, shift, change and become fluid is a powerful fantasy in post- or trans-modern cinema. Whether it is the image of surgically removable faces in John Woo’s Face Off, the liquid mercury type of slinkiness of the Terminator in T2, the virtual bodies of Matrix or the living dead body in Sixth Sense, the body in transition indelibly marks late twentieth century and early 21st century cinematic fantasy. Nowhere has the fantasy of the shape-shifting and identity-morphing body been more powerfully realised, however, than in the transgender film. In films like The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992) and Boys Don’t Cry (Kimberly Peirce, 2000), the transgender character surprises audiences with his/her ability to remain attractive, appealing and gendered while simultaneously presenting a gender at odds with sex, a sense of gender identity not derived from the body and a sexual subjectivity which operates within the heterosexual matrix without conforming to it. But even as the transgender body becomes a symbol par excellence for flexibility, transgenderism also represents a form of rigidity, an insistence upon particular forms of gender recognition which are far from fluid.

Those bodies, indeed, which fail to conform to the postmodern fantasy of flexibility that has been projected onto the transgender body may well be punished in popular representations even as they seem to be lauded. And so, Brandon in Boys Don’t Cry and Dil in The Crying Game are represented as both heroic and fatally flawed. What would a transgender film look like that did not punish the transgender subject for his or her inflexibilities and for failing to deliver the fantasy of fluidity that cinematic audiences so desire? By Hook or By Crook (2000) by Harry Dodge and Silas Howard offers the spectator not one but two transgender characters and the two together represent transgender identity as less of a function of bodily flexibility and more a result of intimate bonds and queer, interactive modes of recognition.

By Hook or By Crook marks a real turning point for queer cinema. This no-budget, low-tech, high-concept feature, shot entirely on mini DV, tells the story of two gender bandits, Shy and Valentine. Described by its creators as ‘utterly post-post-modern a little bit of country and a little bit of rock and roll’, the film conjures up the twilight world of two loners living on the edge without trying to explain or rationalise their reality. The refusal to explain either the gender peculiarities of the heroes or the many other contradictions they embody allows Howard and Dodge instead to focus on developing eccentric and compelling characters. While most of the action turns on the bond between Shy and Valentine, their world is populated with a stunning array of memorable characters like Valentine’s girlfriend Billie (Stanya Kahn) and Shy’s love interest Isabelle (Carina Gia). The film also features fabulous guest appearances by queer celebrities like Joan Jett as a news interviewee, the late Kris Kovick typecast as a Crazy 18

Nut in the Park and Machiko Saito as the Gun Store Clerk. These cameos establish the world of By Hook or By Crook as a specifically queer universe and they clearly mark a studied indifference to mainstream acceptance by making subcultural renown rather than Hollywood glamour into the most desirable form of celebrity.

Both The Crying Game and Boys Don’t Cry relied heavily upon the successful solicitation of affect—whether revulsion, sympathy, empathy—in order to give mainstream viewers access to a transgender gaze. And in both films, a relatively unknown actor (Jay Davidson and Hilary Swank) performs alongside a more well-known actor (Stephen Rea and Chloe Sevigny); the relative obscurity of the transgender actors allow them to pull off the feat of credibly performing a gender at odds with the sexed body even after the body has been brutally exposed. By Hook or By Crook resists the seduction of crying games and the lure of sentiment and works instead to associate butchness and gender innovation with wit, humour and style.

The melancholia that tinges The Crying Game and saturates Boys Don’t Cry is transformed in By Hook or By Crook into the wise delirium of Harry Dodge’s character Valentine. Dodge and Howard knowingly avoid engaging their viewers at the level of sympathy, pity or even empathy and instead they ‘hook’ them with the basic tools of the cinematic apparatus: desire and identification.

In By Hook or By Crook, transgenderism is a complex dynamic between the two butch heroes: Shy and Valentine. The two collude and collaborate in their gendering and create a closed world of queerness which is locked in place by the circuit of a gaze which never references the male or the female gaze as such. The plot of By Hook or By Crook involves the random meeting of two trans-butches and the development of a fast friendship. Shy tries to help Valentine, who has been adopted, find his mother while Valentine introduces the lonely Shy, whose father has just died, to an alternative form of community. The dead or missing parents imply an absence of conventional family and afford our heroes with the opportunity to remake home, family, community and most importantly, friendship. As the story evolves into a shaggy dog tale of hide and seek, we leave family time far behind and enter the shadow world of queers, loners, street people and crazies. Transgenderism takes its place in this world as a quiet location outside the storm of law and order, mental health and financial stability. Unlike other trangender films which remain committed to seducing the straight gaze, this film remains thoroughly committed to the transgender look and it opens up, formally and thematically, a new mode of envisioning gender mobility.

Dodge and Howard pioneer some brilliant techniques of queer plotting in order to map the world of the wilfully perverse. As they say in interviews, neither director was interested in telling a story about ‘being gay’. Nor did Dodge and Howard want to spend valuable screen 19

time explaining the characters’ sexualities and genders to unknowing audiences. In the press kit, Dodge and Howard explain their strategy in terms of representing sexuality and gender as follows: ‘This is a movie about a budding friendship between two people. The fact that they happen to be queer is purposefully off the point. If you call them something, other than sad, rambling, spirited, gentle, sharp or funny—you might call them “butches”.’ Instead of a humanist story about gay heroes struggling to be accepted, Dodge and Howard tell a beautifully fragmented tale of queer encounter set almost entirely in a queer universe. In other words, the heroes are utterly unremarkable for their queerness in the cinematic world that the directors have created. In this way, Dodge and Howard offer a tribute to the San Francisco subcultural worlds that they inhabit. Howard explains: ‘We’ve always hoped this project would reflect the creativity and actual valour of the community of people we came from. And I think it does. From the get-go, this movie had its roots in our extended family of weirdos in San Francisco.’

In the film, Shy and Valentine visit cafés, clubs, shops and hotels where no one reacts specifically to their butchness. This narrative strategy effectively universalises queerness within this specific cinematic space. Many gay and lesbian films represent their characters and their struggles as ‘universal’ as a way of suggesting that their film speaks to audiences beyond specific gay and lesbian audiences. But very few do more than submit to the regulation of narrative that transforms the specific into the universal: they tell stories of love, redemption, family and struggle which look exactly like every other Hollywood feature angling for a big audience. By Hook or By Crook actually manages to tell a queer story that is more than a queer story by refusing to acknowledge the existence of a straight world. Where the straight world is represented only through its institutions such as the law, the mental institution, commerce, the queer cinematic world comes to represent a truly localised place of opposition, an opposition moreover that is to be found in committed performances of perversity, madness and friendship. While some of Harry Dodge’s comments in the press notes imply a humanist aim for the project (‘We wanted to make a film about people with big ideas and big dreams who end up dealing with the shadowy subtleties of human life...’ and ‘I want to make work that touches people’s hearts—I am interested in the human spirit...’), the film ultimately resists the trap of liberal humanism (making a film about gays who are, in the end, just like everybody else). So, By Hook or By Crook universalises queerness without allowing its characters to be absorbed back into the baggy and ultimately heterosexist concept of the ‘human’.

Different key scenes from the film build, capture and sustain this method of universalising queerness. In one scene soon after they meet, Shy and Valentine go to a club together. The club scene, filmed in San Francisco’s notorious Lexington Bar, is a riotous montage of queer excess. The camera lovingly pans a scene of punky, pierced, tattooed, perverted young queers.

The montage lasts much longer than necessary signalling that the beauty and intrinsic worth of this world transcends its diegetic purpose. While Valentine dances, Shy sits apart from the crowd watching and then he steals Valentine’s wallet before leaving. The theft of Valentine’s wallet should create a gulf of distrust and suspicion between the two strangers but in this looking glass world, it actually bonds them more securely within their underground existence.

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When Shy returns Valentine’s wallet the next day, she is greeted like a long lost brother—this has the effect of inverting the morality of the world represented in this film by the police.

Other scenes deepen this refusal of conventional law and order. The two wanna-be thieves try to hold up a drug store only to be chased off by an aggressive sales clerk, they try to scam a hardware store and, in a citation of De Niro’s famous scene from Taxi Driver, they pose with guns in front of the mirror in Shy’s run down motel room. All of these scenes show Shy and Valentine as eccentric but gentle outlaws who function as part of an alternative universe with its own ethics, sex/gender system and its own public space.

De Niro’s taxi driver, muttering ‘you looking at me’ as he pointed a loaded gun at his own mirror image, is a vigilante loner, a man turned inward and lost to the city he skims across in his yellow cab. But while De Niro’s character accidentally hits a vein of humour with his mohawked ‘fuck you’, Shy and Valentine deliberately ride butch humour rather than macho vengeance into the sunset. If the vigilante wants to remake the world in his image, the queer outlaws of By Hook or By Crook are content to imagine a world of their own making. When asked about the title of the film, Silas Howard responded: ‘The title refers to what is involved in inventing your own world—when you don’t see anything that represents you out there, how can you seize upon that absence as an opportunity to make something out of nothing, by hook or by crook. We take gender ambiguity, for example, and we don’t explain it, dilute it or apologize for it—we represent it for what it is—something confusing and lovely!’

Judith Halberstam is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at UC San Diego.

Halberstam teaches courses in queer studies, gender theory, art, literature and film. She is currently working on a book about queer subcultures called What's That Smell? and finishing a book about the Brandon Teena case titled The Brandon Archive.

Footnotes

1 All quotes from Silas Howard and Harry Dodge are taken from the Press Kit for By Hook or By Crook available at www.steakhaus.com/bhobc/ unless otherwise attributed.

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History Lessons

An interview with Barbara Hammer

Barbara Hammer is considered a pioneer of lesbian/feminist experimental cinema. She has made 80 films and videos and received the Frameline Award in 2000 for making a significant contribution to lesbian cinema. She chooses film/video as a visual art form to make the invisible visible. Her work reveals and celebrates marginalised peoples whose stories have not been told. Her cinema is multilevelled and engages an audience viscerally and intellectually with the goal of activating them to make social change. Her trilogy of documentary film essays ( Nitrate Kisses, 1992, Tender Fictions, 1995, History Lessons, 2000) on lesbian and gay history has received numerous awards.

Hammer’s most recent work has turned to global issues outside her community as she has investigated a revolutionary filmmaking ‘collective’ in Japan in the feature-length documentary, Devotion, A Film About Ogawa Productions, 2000, (Jurors’ Merit Award at the Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival) and My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities, 2001, funded by a grant from Soros Documentary Fund of the Open Society Institute.

Hammer is presently completing a 16 mm feature documentary film, Resisting Paradise, which compares the lives of Resistance Fighters with those of the painters Matisse and Bonnard during WWII in Provence, France.

In a film culture where lesbians have rarely been depicted, let alone acknowledged, Hammer’s extraordinary body of film work has gone a long way to help redress the missing realities of lesbian lives on the screen. In particular, History Lessons has encapsulated and appropriated a lesbian screen history that in real terms has been lost forever, or in some ways, never really existed. In acknowledging the absence of lesbian screen and cultural history, Hammer has seen fit to commandeer and reclaim found and archival footage shot by men, and rework it into an irreverent celebration of an imagined account of lesbian life on celluloid.

You have an extensive history as a filmmaker and you have made some groundbreaking and extraordinary films. How does your latest film History Lessons fit into the framework that you have created for yourself as a filmmaker?

It all began when I was trying to find lesbian representation from the beginning of film, 1896

until Stonewall, 1969. The first film I made was Nitrate Kisses in 1992, followed by Tender Fictions in 1995. In Nitrate Kisses I searched in the US, Germany and France for aural and visual images from the 1930s to Stonewall. Mainly, I found emptiness, cracks, broken windows and burned letters. This ‘unfinding’ led me to use blank spaces, destroyed buildings, 22

scratches and empty images in the film. I believe form and content cannot be separated, so the fragmentary nature of lesbian and gay history became snippets of montage images. At the end of Nitrate Kisses Joan Nestle, one of the founders of the Lesbian Herstory Archive in New York City, is speaking and asking the viewing audience to save every scrap of paper for a cultural archive of lesbians in the 20th and 21st century.

Tender Fictions grew directly out of this request as I realised I had boxes of archival materials of my own including 8mm and Super 8mm film. I needed to show my scraps to the world. After researching the fascinating questions revolving around ‘truth’ and ‘fiction’ in anthropology, sociology, literature and cinema studies, I incorporated these postmodern critiques of auto/

bio/graphy into the film.

The final question I had to ask was about lesbian representation before Stonewall was left.

Little did I know that this would be so much fun to research and find the images of lesbian pre-1969.

What kinds of images did you find in the archives?

Most of the images I found were made by men depicting what they thought were lesbians and the dominant mode of portrayal, was sexual. Are we surprised?

Why do you think these types of depictions were so prevalent?

Because we are so bad and mean and totally irreverent toward the heterosexual family unit!

Our ‘illicit’ behaviour was sexual and, after all, this is America founded by puritanical men. It was really all about control and regulation.

What were the dominant approaches used in these films and how have you dealt with them?

The films utilised measurements, statistics, misuse of ‘the scientific method’, sadistic and overly asexualised image-making. That’s why I focused on trying to overturn the existing

‘history’ and re-conceptualise the past through humour, irony and just plain naughtiness.

I really believe that history should not belong only to those who ‘make it’ but to those who unmake and remake it. History is not a dead and done activity of recorded novel events.

History is alive and can be changed in a flash by a scrap of paper, an old photograph, a memory. Every cultural item, every personal memory, every dream and vision for a future can be considered history.

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You have drawn on an extraordinary range of sources. How did you go about the actual research process? And how long did it take to finish?

I didn’t have time to spend my life in archives searching out these images so I found lesbian archivists who had dedicated their lives to finding representations and misrepresentations of women who could be gay. The first archivist I found was Ann Maguire at the Prelinger Archive. For years she had been collecting images that she thought could be read as lesbian.

These clips make up the majority of the images in History Lessons. Then I found Szu Burgess who scoured old bookstores for boxes of yellowing magazines and posters. She passed along a few of these images to me as well and assisted me in finding the ‘scandal journalism’ at the Lesbian Herstory Archive in Brooklyn. We had to burrow past the positive press and pull out old file drawers that I don’t think have been looked at for years.

Jenni Olson, Planet Out entrepreneur and filmmaker, lent me a film from her collection of lesbian porn and told me how to find old 8mm and super 8mm porn films. I would order these films on titles alone and either edit the men out of the three-ways or find amazing baton footage!

In France, I met curator and collector Bertrand Grimault who came to trust me enough to loan me the amazing found collection of 100 glass stereoscopic negatives of a lesbian couple, Marie Jeanne and Mouchette, that he found in an abandoned house in Bordeaux. Here were what may be the first images of lesbians documenting their own lovemaking. ( Dyketactics may have a mother after all!).

The music in the film is intriguing. How did you decide from what period to choose the music?

I can break down the music into four different sections. The first was the original 1950s lesbian renditions of popular songs by Lisa Ben. A friend introduced me to Lisa Ben who rewrote popular music with a lesbian cant and performed these transformed songs in lesbians’

cabarets and bars in Los Angeles in the ’50s. Lisa now lives with her 13 cats and when I located her she told me she had not heard her own music in over 30 years. She only had one tape, a large reel-to-reel, and no tape recorder to put it on. I was surprised and delighted when I listened to her music. It was perfect and I was also able to transfer the songs to a cassette for her so she could listen to them again. At 86, she attended the premiere in Los Angeles driven by one great young dyke over the hills from Burbank where she lives down to Hollywood where History Lessons premiered at The Director’s Guild of America as part of LA OutFest (the annual lesbian and gay film festival).

The second is a contemporary creation by Eve Beglarian of Twisted Tutus. I had always wanted to work with Eve who is a wizard with electronic music and computer files. Watching Twisted Tutus in performance was a trip and to find that she was willing to compose an opening score for the film, the archive scenes and the doctor scene was fantastic. I felt the film needed all kinds of sound montage, not just historical period music, so Eve and I met in her studio a few times and the more she worked the more she realised the sense of sound I had for these scenes.

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She brought her own creative innovations to the score as well which is what collaboration at its best promises.

The third section was done by Gretchen Phillips of Two Nice Girls, who was commissioned to create the sleazy music for the porn scenes. She had a lot of fun mixing sounds on a new drum machine she bought and tried to sync her voice in the pie-throwing scene.

The fourth section I can talk about is the music written and created by Mikael Karlsonn for the ‘Meat Market scene’. Mikael is a young Swedish student studying composing for film at a local university and was a friend of the Assistant Director, Anna Viola Hahlberg. The 12

minute section of the film shot near my studio with non-professional actors (with the exception of Carmelita Tropicana) was his assignment. This section sometimes eludes viewers.

It is a take-off on the work of the American 1940s photographer known as Weegee. Weegee followed police cars around Manhattan and filmed crime scenes, some of which were in lesbian bars or paddy wagons of lesbians after a police raid of a bar. I asked Mikael to create something a bit hokey that might sound like an old player piano.

Tell us about some of the written material you found.

I found some incredible written material, some of those that stick to memory are things like:

‘Lesbians signal one another with rapid motions of tongue and lips’. ‘The idea of lesbians holding open conventions—just as though they were Rotarians or Real Estate brokers is inconceivable’. ‘Lesbians find a delicious thrill belonging to a forbidden world’. ‘The most a psychiatrist can do for a confirmed lesbian is to convince her to live with her problem’.

‘Ancient aristocratic ladies with leisure on their hands would spend hours pulling at the clitoris to elongate it’. ‘Lesbians and nymphomaniacs can be found in any profession’. ‘Heterosexuals quit clubs when they saw too many bulldikers’. ‘Four hundred women transvestites fought in the civil war’.

Of course the lesbian convention idea worked perfectly with the Eleanor Roosevelt archival footage I had found. All I had to do was tweak the sound a bit and ask my lover who has a lovely voice if she wouldn’t put on her most affected Eleanor voice and read the line: Welcome ladies to this first-ever Lesbian Convention!

I use text as image in both Nitrate Kisses and Tender Fictions and I think it works with the flow of the films. But in History Lessons there was so much radical montage and diverse textures that the text held the quasi-narrative back and kept the film from advancing.

How do you think lesbian filmmaking has changed during the time you’ve been making films?

It has changed radically. There has been tremendous growth in terms of numbers of lesbians making films. Digital video and nonlinear home editing systems have put the medium in many wonderful lesbian hands. The range of work is as wide and varied as the filmmakers. The only problem I see is that many young filmmakers might think that the narrative form is the 25

queen of all forms and so forsake the impudent genre of experimental or the challenge of documentary essay film.

Do you see anything in current lesbian filmmaking that is inspiring, or has the potential to be groundbreaking?

No, but one never knows what is right around the corner. What I do see as groundbreaking is gay cinema from other countries and cultures, gay cinema that has not been allowed before.

For example, I recently saw the narrative gay Chinese film Lan Yu. Here was a story that hadn’t been told before. What if we had a Chinese lesbian film? That would be revolutionary. The specifics and details of other cultural lesbian representations is what I am looking for and has potential to be globally groundbreaking.

What would you say to aspiring lesbian filmmakers?

Make the work that intrigues you even if it is unpopular, others don’t understand what you are doing, and maybe even you can’t explain it. Trust your intuition and your critical skills. Read everywhere in all disciplines and develop to your full potential then give back—in film, in law, in medicine, in politics.

What can you tell us about your next project?

Oh, I thought you would never ask.

Resisting Paradise is a 90 minute documentary essay film set in France during WW II which asks what we would do during a time of war. Local villagers from Cassis tell stories of resistance during the Nazi occupation while the painters Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse exchange letters about their work. Walter Benjamin, the German philosopher/historian is smuggled out of France by Lisa Fittko and struggles over the Pyrenees Mountains with a heavy manuscript under his arm. His walk, like Sisyphus, is continual throughout the film and similarly to the myth, ends in suicidal despair as he is turned back by the Spanish border guards. So many different choices and circumstances during this difficult period as exemplified by the people in the film. The question asked is: What would you and I do given a similar situation?

Barbara Hammer

Radcliffe Fellow

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Cambridge, Massachusetts

February, 2002

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A-Z listing of films

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10 Attitudes

101 Rent Boys

Gallant, Michael

Bailey, Fenton / Barbato, Randy

2001; USA; 87 min; Comedy

2000; USA; 85 min; Documentary

P: Jason Stuart, Michael Gallant, Rob Bonet; W: Jason P: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato; C: Sandra Chandler; Stuart, Michael Gallant; E: Alan Roberts; M: David E: William Grayburn

Benoit

This voyeuristic, feature-length documentary

Cast: Jason Stuart, Jim J. Bullock, Christopher Cowan,

explores the world of male prostitutes in Los

David Faustino

Angeles. The men interviewed for the film (who are

The new millennium dawns in West Hollywood,

paid on camera for their time), talk candidly and

and with it comes upheaval in the life of Josh

openly about love, sex, turn-ons, turn-offs, drugs

Stevens. Josh is a semi-attractive, 30-something gay

and kinky stuff, and while showing us their assets

caterer originally from Cleveland, who feels his life is

and their vulnerability. Both arousing and unset-

happy and complete. While Josh has retained his

tling, viewers will possibly question the ethics of the

Ohio roots, his long-time partner Lyle, who has

filmmakers while simultaneously revelling in the

made the move with him, has gone all Hollywood.

admissions the hustlers make. (MQFF)

After catching Lyle in a compromising situation with

Prod Comp: Cinemax, World of Wonder

1

a young West Hollywood gay boy, Josh decides to

Dist/Sales: WorldOfWonder, Strand, Wolfe

move back to Ohio. His best friend Brandon

convinces him to stay by giving him a challenge:

find Mr Right in 10 dates. (10 Attitudes.com)

Dist/Sales: Gallant

10 Violent Women

Mikels, Ted V.

1982; USA; 97 min; Action

P: Ted V. Mikels; W: Ted V. Mikels; C: Yuval Shousterman; E: James Jaeger; M: Nicholas Carras Cast: Sally Gamble, Dixie Lauren, Sherri Vernon

A gang of women are thrown into a brutal prison

after they botch a million-dollar jewellery heist.

They are subjected to violent and degrading

treatment by sadistic lesbian guards.

Prod Comp: Cinema Features

100 Days Before the Command

(aka: Sto dnej do Prikaza)

Erkenov, Hussein

1990; Soviet Union; 67 min; Drama

W: Vladimir Kholodov, Yuri Polyakov; C: Vladislav Menshikov; E: Galina Dmitriyeva, Vladimir Portnov

Cast: Vladimir Zamansky, Oleg Vasilkov

Five young Red Army recruits struggle for survival

against the merciless violence that surrounds them

on a daily basis. Their only means of saving their

dignity is by preserving the humanity and compas-

sion they share for each other. Visually astonishing

and erotically charged, the film was banned by

101 Rent Boys

Soviet censors upon its initial release. Amazingly, all

101 Reykjavik

the roles are played by real-life soldiers except for

one professional actor. Russian with English

Kormákur, Baltasar

subtitles. (Water Bearer Films)

2001; Denmark, France, Iceland, Norway; 100 min;

Prod Comp: Gorky Film Studios

Comedy

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer, Salzgeber

P: Baltasar Kormákur, Ingvar H. Thordarson,

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Thorfinnur Omarsson; W: Baltasar Kormákur; C: Peter 2 or 3 Things But Nothing for Sure

Steuger; E: Stule Eriksen, Sigvaldi Karason; M: Damon DiFeliciantonio, Tina / Wagner Jane

Albarn, Einar Orn Benediktsson

1997; USA; 12 min; Documentary

Cast: Hilmir Snær Gudnason, Victoria Abril, Hanna

María Karlsdóttir, Baltasar Kormákur

Acclaimed author Dorothy Allison ( Bastard Out of

Carolina) is profiled in this moving, inspiring film.

Hlynur is about to hit 30 and stills lives the life of a

Combining poetic imagery with powerful readings,

slacker with his mother in their tiny cramped house,

it evokes Allison’s childhood in the poor white

ravenously trawling the internet for porn and never

American South of the 1950s, her birth as a writer

bothering himself with employment issues. His

and feminist, and her coming to terms with a family

appetite for sex takes an unexpected turn when he

legacy of incest and abuse. A beautifully realised

discovers that the woman he has just slept with

portrait of an artist and survivor, this stirring film

happens to be his mother’s lesbian lover, and may be

provides important insights into the roots of self-

carrying his child.

renewal and creativity. (WMM)

Prod Comp: Zentropa Entertainments

Prod Comp: Naked Eye Productions

Dist/Sales: Sagittaire

Dist/Sales: WMM

2 17 Rooms

2 Seconds

(aka: What do Lesbians do in Bed?)

(aka: 2 Secondes; Deux Secondes)

Sheldon, Caroline

Briand, Manon

1985; UK; 10 min; Comedy

1998; Canada; 100 min; Drama

What do lesbians do in bed? With a star-studded

P: Roger Frappier; W: Manon Briand; C: Louise soundtrack, we’re shown everything from knitting to

Archambault, Pierre Crépô, James Gray; E: Richard

drinking tea and pillow fights. In these 17 rooms

Comeau; M: Sylvain-Charles Grand, Dominique Grand

everything is shown...everything that is except ‘doing

Cast: Charlotte Laurier, Dino Tavarone, Jonathan

it’. 17 Rooms doesn’t satisfy the curiosity of male

Bolduc, Suzanne Clément

voyeurs but it does make the viewer examine visual

representations of women, sexual terminology, so-

Laurie is a professional bicycle racer who becomes a

called erotic fiction and semiotics on the way.

courier when her team drops her after losing a race

(Cinenova)

when she sacrificed the start by two seconds. While

out on a job she meets the grumpy owner of an

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, WMM

Italian bike shop, and despite her attraction to girls,

2 by 4

begins a quirky relationship with him. In the

meantime, she plots to win the employee’s bike race.

(aka: 2 x 4)

French with English subtitles.

Smallhorne, Jimmy

Prod Comp: Max Films, Sodec, Téléfilm Canada

1997; USA; 90 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: Cowboy, Wolfe, Millivres, ACMI

P: John Hall, Virginia Biddle; W: Jimmy Smallhorne, Terrence McGoff, Fergus Tighe; C: Declan Quinn; E:

21st Century Nuns

Laura Sullivan, Scott Balcerek; M: HuncaMunca Music

Stephan, Tom

Cast: Jimmy Smallhorne, Chris O’Neill, Bradley Fitts,

1993; UK; 15 min; Documentary

Joe Holyoake, Terrence McGoff

Since the establishment of the order of the Sisters of

Johnny, an Irish immigrant, is working as a foreman

Perpetual Indulgence in the late 1970s, the good

for his unsavoury uncle on a New York building site.

sisters have been a highly visible and important part

Tormented by his growing attraction for men, and

of gay communities across Europe, America and

by recurring nightmares, Johnny is torn between his

Australia. This British documentary follows the

love for girlfriend Maria, and the young hustler he

activities of Sister Brigid over Troubled Water, Sister

Frigidity of the Nocturnal Emission, and Sister

has befriended on the streets. Rather than glorify or

Belladonna.

fetishise the labourers who populate its scenes, the

film turns an unflinching eye upon them, and upon

Dist/Sales: LIFS

their gritty, claustrophobic environment. A difficult,

24 Nights

dark, often brutal film announcing the arrival of an

important new talent. (MQFF)

Turner, Kieran

Prod Comp: Electric Head, Red Horse Films

1998; USA; 97 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Cowboy

P: Kieran Turner; W: Kieran Turner; C: Scott Barnard; 30

E: Rachel Chancey

Hwang, her neighbour in 302, is rather bookish and

Cast: Kevin Isola, Aida Turturro, Stephen Mailer, Mary

becomes ill at the mere sight of food. They share

Louise Wilson, Mary Stout

some common obsessions—problematic relation-

Jonathan Parker is a chronically single 24-year-old

ships and eating disorders. But when 302 goes

pot-head and pill-popper who works in a gay

missing we discover in retrospect the development of

bookstore, and who still believes in Santa Claus.

their relationship and the truth of her disappearance.

When he writes to Santa and asks for a boyfriend for

Dist/Sales: Arrow

Christmas, no-one is more surprised than Jonathan

when Toby walks through the door. There’s just one

45 Minutes of Bondage

problem. Toby has a boyfriend. A very modern gay

Castro, Rick

black comedy for the cynical 1990s.

1995; USA; 45 min; Erotica

Prod Comp: Cynical Boy Productions

Cast: Conan, Stu Blake, Velvet, Alex Austin

Dist/Sales: TLA, Wolfe, 10%

Explores what can happens when you hook-up

27 Pieces of Me

willing street boys with various displays of bondage.

Prod Comp: Pyewackett Productions

Donahoe, Gerald

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Dist/Sales: Pyewackett

1995; USA; 90 min; Drama

W: Gina Hicks; C: Gina Hicks

4pm

Cast: Ezra Buzzington, Tina Denning, Angelique von

Halle

Bakhurst, Samantha / Morement, Lea

2000; UK; 13 min; Comedy

Two sisters, Tanya (a lesbian sculptor) and Ramona,

haven’t seen each other in 10 years when the younger

This award winning short is a sexy and humorous

sister, Ramona, arrives in Seattle for an unan-

take on a one-night stand which takes a turn for the

nounced visit that finds Tanya unprepared to

unexpected, including an unfortunate encounter

suddenly deal with ancient family issues. Tanya’s

with an aquarium, a closeted politician, and of

roommate Bold, a gay performance artist who

course, two gorgeous women. (MQFF)

dreams of being an Alaskan dogsledder, attempts to

Dist/Sales: WiseWomen

reconcile the two sisters, but when he inadvertently

shocks Ramona with the news that Tanya is a

lesbian, Ramona reveals the real reason behind her

sudden arrival.

$30

Cooke, Gregory

2000; USA; 19 min; Drama

W: Christopher Landon

$30 is a coming of age film told through the eyes of

Scott, a 16-year-old boy who finds his virginity on

trial when his father arranges a sexual liaison with a

$30

prostitute named Emily. For one hour, at thirty

bucks a pop in a cheap motel, an unlikely friendship

’68

is forged out of self-discovery, laughter and ulti-

mately, the comfort of strangers. With Sara Gilbert,

Kovacs, Steven

Erik MacArthur and Greg Itzin.

1987; USA; 89 min; Drama

P: Steven Kovacs, Dale Djerassi, Isabel Maxwell;

Dist/Sales: Strand

W: Steven Kovacs; C: Daniel Lacambre; E: Cari Coughlin 301 - 302

Cast: Eric Larson, Robert Locke, Neil Young, Sandor

Tesci, Terra Candergaw

Park, Chul-soo

A father who is an Hungarian immigrant and his

1995; Korea; 100 min; Thriller

two sons, one an activist, the other gay, collide head

P: Park Chul-soo; W: Lee Suh-goon

on when his old-world values conflict with the ideals

Cast: Bang Eun-jin, Hwang Sin-hye

and passions of the new generation of the late 1960s.

Bang, who lives in apartment 301, is an amateur

Prod Comp: New World, 68 Limited

cook and spends her time making lavish meals.

Dist/Sales: Roadshow

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7 Steps to Sticky Heaven

A women-in-prison film with lots of scantily clad

girls and lesbian sex. When women prisoners are

Nguyen, Hoang Tan

brutally abused, a sympathetic warden investigates

1995; USA; 24 min; Experimental

the conditions and treatment by the lesbian guards.

Gay Asian men talk about their lives and relation-

Prod Comp: Corona Filmproduktion, Towers of London

ships with other gay Asian men in this short

Productions

experimental piece.

A.K.A

90 Miles

Roy, Duncan

Zaldivar, Juan Carlos

2001; UK; 120 min; Drama

2001; USA; 79 min; Documentary

P: Richard West; W: Duncan Roy; E: Lawrence Catford, P: Juan Carlos Zaldivar, Nicole Betancourt; E: Zelda John Cross, Jackie Ophir; M: Matt Rowe

Greenstein

Cast: Matthew Leitch, George Asprey, Lindsey Coulson,

A personal account of how the tempestuous

Diana Quick

relationship between the US and Cuba impacts on a

Set in Thatcher’s London of the 1980s, A.K.A

a

man’s family. Shot over 5 years, director Zaldivar

follows Dean, a shy working-class lad from

recounts his personal journey back to his Cuban

Romford, on his quest for retribution. Kicked out of

homeland after 18 years in the US, with his

home by his abusive father, Dean introduces himself

homosexuality underscoring the film as an example

to Lady Gryffoyn, who he believes to be a friend of

of how family love and acceptance can conquer all in

his mother. Unbeknownst to him, his mother has

the end.

only ever served Lady Gryffoyn as a waitress.

Nevertheless Dean manages to wheedle his way into

99% Woman

the posh London set of artists, aristocrats and

Sloanes that are the very essence of Lady Gryffoyn’s

1999; USA; 50 min; Documentary

life. What unfolds is a mesmerising and engulfing

In October 1998, 45-year-old Benjy Nelson—

adventure of duplicity and deception as Dean gets

former high school athlete and United States Air

deeper into debt, and the credit card fraud team

Force airman—had a sex-change operation. During

close in on him. Split over three screens, A.K.A has

his air force career, he began to dress as a woman—

fleeting references to Pygmalion as Dean chases his

first at home, and then in public. For the last five

fantasy of being someone else. As toffs and rent boys

years before his operation, Benjy dressed as a woman

rub shoulders at parties, snorting cocaine, quaffing

full-time. However, Benjy was a family man. His

champagne and spending (other people’s?) money,

wife Debbie, appears to have been totally supportive

A.K.A is also a stark portrait of the British class

of his decision to have a sex change operation and

system. (2002 London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

become Bridget. Their three sons, however, a 14-

Dist/Sales: ThirdRock

year-old and 12-year-old identical twins, did not

take easily to having their father become a tall

Abandoned

blonde with stiletto heels and an almost comic sense

of the female. Confused and angry, they start getting

(aka: Torzók)

into trouble. The film finds no easy answers as it sets

Sopsits, Árpád

the freedom of individual choice against family well-

2002; Hungary; 98 min; Drama

being. (Filmakers Library)

P: László Kántor, Frerenc Kardos; W: Árpád Sopsits; Prod Comp: Worldview Pictures, France2

C: Péter Szatmári

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary

Cast: Tamás Mészáros, Szabolcs Csizmadia, Attila

Zsilák, Péter Müller, Imre Thúri

99 Women

Hungary in 1960—a few years after the revolution

(aka: Isle of Lost Women; 99 Mujeres)

and during a time of social uncertainty and harsh

living conditions. Young Aaron’s father leaves him at

Franco, Jesus

an orphanage where rigid discipline dominates and

1969; Germany, UK; 90 min; Drama

where children are subjected to extreme cruelties.

P: Erwin C. Dietrich, Luis L. Moreno; W: Milo G.

Bewildered at first, Aaron is punished by the other

Cuccia, Carlo Fadda, Jesus Franco; C: Manuel Merino,

boys but is soon accepted as a fellow sufferer. The

Xavier Pérez Grobet; E: Stanley Frazen; M: Bruno Nicolai director of the home is a devoutly religious martinet

Cast: Mercedes McCambridge, Maria Schell, Luciana

and takes every opportunity to punish the boys.

Paluzzi, Herbert Lom

Even under these brutal conditions, however, the

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innate goodness and humanity of these young

Abuse

children cannot be extinguished and provide

whatever redemption exists in their lives. Abandoned

Bressan Jnr, Arthur J.

is a moving story of the survival of a young boy’s

1982; USA; 95 min; Drama

spirit in the face of pervasive oppression by a society

P: Steven McMillin; W: Arthur J. Bressan Jnr;

that ignores the human condition. Recreating part of

C: Douglas Dickinson; M: Shawn Philips

his childhood, renowned Hungarian director Árpád

Cast: Richard Ryder, Raphael Sbarge

Sopsits presents an evocative and moving autobio-

A young man, who was abused as a child, finds love

graphical coming-of-age story about innocence,

with a homosexual filmmaker. A controversial and

cruelty, and sexual awakening. (Cinequest 12: 2002

enthralling love story between a filmmaker and a 14-

San Jose Film Festival)

year-old child-abuse victim based on the filmmaker’s

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!

own life.

Dist/Sales: TLA, Cinevista, VideoAmericain

About Vivien

Abysses, Les

Sport, Kathy

2000; Australia; 14 min; B&W; Documentary

Papatakis, Nico

a

Wartime service and 1950s repression never looked

1963; France; 90 min; Drama

so dazzling as in this remarkable documentary about

P: Nico Papatakis; W: Jean Vauthier; C: Jean-Michel a young gay man called up for active duty. The use

Boussaguet; E: Edwige Bernard, Denise de Casabianca,

of stills, re-enactments and stunning archival footage

Pascale Laverrière; M: Pierre Barbaud

from the Australian War Memorial vividly brings

Cast: Colette Bergé, Paul Bonifas, Pascale de Boysson,

this astonishing story to life. (MQFF)

Colette Régis

Drama about a family who decides to move to a

Above the Sea

smaller house from their large country mansion. The

(aka: Au essus de la Mar)

two maids working for the family become so

concerned about losing their jobs that they kill the

Hattu, Jean-Pascal

mother and daughter as the father helplessly looks

1998; France; 11 min; Drama

on. Based on a real-life incident and the inspiration

A older man wanders on a sunny beach and meets a

for Jean Genet’s The Maids.

young man who strangely resembles a friend he just

Prod Comp: Lenox

lost. French with English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: Kanpaï

Achilles

Absolutely Positive

Purves, Barry

1996; UK; 11 min; Animation

Adair, Peter

P: Glenn Holbertson; W: Barry Purves, Jo Cameron

1990; USA; 88 min; Documentary

Brown; C: Paul Smith; M: Nigel Hess

W: Peter Adair; C: Peter Adair, Janet Cole; M: Michael A brilliant, hard-hitting and erotic tale using

Becker

claymation to tell the story of the legendary love

Cast: Marlon Riggs

affair between the Greek hero Achilles and

A touching documentary about 11 people who speak

Patroculus, during the nine years of the Trojan War.

openly about being HIV-positive and how they cope

Voices by Derek Jacobi, Simon Green and David

with the uncertainty and fear of developing AIDS.

Holt. (MQFF)

Includes interviews with outspoken gays, a black

Awards: Turin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 1996:

filmmaker and ‘typical Americans’. Made for

Audience Prize

television.

Prod Comp: Bare Boards Productions, Channel 4

Prod Comp: Adair & Armstrong Productions

Dist/Sales: Flickerfest, Channel4

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Acla

Absolution of Anthony, The

(aka: La Discesa di Aclà a Floristella)

Slotar, Dean

Grimaldi, Aurelio

1998; USA; 12 min; Drama

1992; Italy; 86 min; Drama

An Hispanic youth struggles with his sexuality, and

P: Camilla Nesbitt, Pietro Valsecchi; W: Aurelio

especially his attraction towards the local priest.

Grimaldi; C: Maurizio Calvesi; E: Raimondo Crociani; Dist/Sales: Slotar

M: Dario Lucantoni

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Cast: Francesco Cusimano, Tony Sperandeo, Luigi

A tongue-in-cheek comic thriller, made for television

Maria Burruano

by an openly gay director, about a B-grade horror

Set in the harsh and punishing sulphur mines of

film goddess who is accused of murder when her

Italy, where a young 11-year-old boy, Acla, dreams of

producer is found dead.

escape from his brutal surroundings. During breaks

Prod Comp: Spectacor Films

the men indulge in the sexual exploration of each

Dist/Sales: Showtime

other. The film is reminiscent of a Caravaggio

painting with young beautiful men, dressed only in

Actions Speak Louder than Words

loincloths, displaying their sweaty bodies—a feast

for the eyes. Italian with English subtitles.

Kwietniowski, Richard

1992; UK; 23 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: Cines Europa, Nova Films

Dist/Sales: SACIS

A diverse, colourful and overwhelming collage of

interviews, discussion and performance by, and

Acquiring a Taste for Raffaella

between, six performers who bring their experiences

of being gay and deaf to bear on their art. British

Lepore, Sandy

sign language with subtitles for the hearing.

a 1996; Australia; 14 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Alfalfa, Channel 4

The onset of menstruation leads to a curious mix of

events when Raffaella shares the news with her

Adam

traditional Italian Aunt. Together they make some

special Italian love biscuits, ‘biscotti di amore’, with

Bugden, Paul

a secret ingredient intimately linked with Raffaella’s

1975; Australia; 38 min; B&W; Drama

menarche. When the object of her affections tastes

P: David Perry; W: Paul Bugden; C: David Perry; the love biscuits, surprisingly, he asks for the recipe.

E: Ronda MacGregor; M: Robert Hughes

(ACMI)

Cast: Wayne van Heekeren, Robert Hughes, David

Prod Comp: Australian Film TV & Radio School

Calcott, Luda Apinys, Noel Brady

Dist/Sales: ACMI, AFTRS, Atom

A short drama that concerns a young man’s inability

to cope with his own sexuality when confronted with

Across the Rubicon

an unfulfilled relationship with an older man.

Friedberg, Lionel

Prod Comp: Quest Films, Experimental Film &

1987; South Africa; 54 min; Documentary

Television Fund

Pieter-Dirk Uys is a South African female imper-

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

sonator/caricaturist whose finely-wrought satirical

Adam’s Rib

touring show elucidates apartheid while lampooning

it. Uys walks a thin line between censorship and

Cukor, George

arrest as he occasionally steps out of characters that

1949; USA; 97 min; B&W; Comedy

include P. W. Botha, Desmond Tutu, and Margaret

P: Lawrence Weingarten; W: Ruth Gordon, Garson

Thatcher, to deliver pointed attacks on apartheid

and the South African government. Uys’s popularity

Kanin; C: George Folsey Snr; E: George Boemlar;

with both white and black audiences insulates him

M: Miklós Rózsa

somewhat from government interference, but he

Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Judy Holliday,

describes his balancing act as being ‘like doing the

David Wayne, Tom Ewell

tango in front of a firing squad’. Across the Rubicon

Amanda Bonner is a defence attorney in the trial of

brilliantly portrays the humour and grace with

Doris Attinger who is being tried for the attempted

which Uys makes his contribution to the fight

murder of her husband whom she discovers has a

against apartheid. (www.tgwebbuilders.com)

mistress. Amanda’s husband, Adam is the prosecut-

Acting on Impulse

ing attorney in the same trial. As the trial progresses,

Amanda and Adam find they cannot confine their

(aka: Eyes of a Stranger)

battle to the courtroom, as the issues of sexual

Irvin, Sam

equality extend into their home. David Wayne plays

1993; USA; 73 min; Comedy, Thriller

Kip, a composer and closet gay, who is a confidant

P: David Peters; W: Mark Pittman, Alan Moskowitz; and friend to Hepburn, and who provides much

C: Dean Lent; E: Neil Grieve; M: Daniel Licht witty and bitchy repartee.

Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Linda Fiorentino, Nancy

Prod Comp: MGM

Allen, Dick Sargent

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ACMI, Warner, MGM, Swank

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Addicted to Love

Gabrielle Rose, Jennifer Dale

(aka: Boku wa koi ni Muchu)

Noah Render is an insurance adjuster who plays

saviour to men and women whose lives have been

Yoshiyuki, Yumi

uprooted by tragedy. His clients look to him for

1999; Japan; 60 min; Comedy

comfort, sexual and otherwise, and he obliges them

W: Koichi Imaizumi

all, losing his own identity in the process. Noah’s

Cast: Tomoo Okada

wife, Hera, is a censor for the Canadian government,

A romantic comedy about four gay guys in Tokyo.

who spends her days watching pornographic films

Tadashi fantasises about his best school friend, Kota.

which she secretly videotapes for her sister—but not

Hiroki and Shiji are a young, gay couple living in

for the purpose of titillation. Noah enters into a

Tokyo. The three meet and Hiroki and Shiji prove

troubled relationship with a homosexual client. Into

invaluable in Tadashi’s coming out journey. Japanese

their lives come Bubba and Mimi, a wealthy couple

with English subtitles.

and spend their money staging erotic fantasies to

sustain their relationship. Posing as a filmmaker,

Adieu Bonaparte

Bubba takes over Noah and Hera’s home as the

setting for their latest, and most dangerous,

Chahine, Youssef

immersion in play-acting.

a

1985; Egypt; 110 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Ego Film Arts, Alliance Entertainment,

P: Youssef Chahine; W: Youssef Chahine; C: Mohsen Nasr; E: Luc Barnier; M: Gabriel Yared

Téléfilm Canada

Cast: Michel Piccoli, Patrice Chereau, Mohsen

Dist/Sales: OrionClassics

Mohiedine, Mohsena Tewfik

Adventures in the Gender Trade

Set during Bonaparte’s assault through Egypt, Adieu

Bonaparte tells the story of an Egyptian family living

Marenco, Susan

in Alexandria and how they survive on 1 July 1798

1993; USA; 40 min; Documentary

when Napoleon lands with his troops. One of the

In this fascinating documentary, transsexuals,

sons begins a rather uneasy friendship with one of

feminists, drag queens and historians discuss the

Bonaparte’s advisers who obviously is sexually

limitations of 1990s thinking on gender. Excerpts

attracted to the young man. Contains homoerotic

from Kate Bornstein’s play ( Hidden: A Gender), in

elements. Egyptian with English subtitles.

which she investigates her own experiences of

Prod Comp: Lyric International, Misr International,

coming out as a transsexual lesbian, offer poignant

Renn Productions, TF1 Films

testament to the struggles involved in gaining

acceptance as a transsexual. As the title makes clear,

Adiós Roberto

this video explores gender not as a fixed category, but

as a highly politicised and socially constructed

Dawi, Enrique

division that binds all men and women into rigid

1984; Argentina; 90 min; Drama

and oppressive roles. (MQFF)

P: Enrique Dawi, Jorge Dawi

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, FilmakersLibrary

Cast: Víctor Laplace, Carlos Calvo, Ana María Picchio,

Héctor Alterio

Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the

Adios Roberto, is rumoured to be the first openly gay

Desert, The

film from Argentina. Roberto leaves his wife and

cannot afford to rent an apartment, so he goes to live

Elliott, Stephan

with his cousin’s friend, Marcelo, who lives openly as

1994; Australia; 98 min; Comedy

a gay man. They soon develop an intriguing

P: Al Clark, Michael Hamlyn; W: Stephan Elliott;

relationship, which creates conflicts for Roberto.

C: Brian J. Breheny; E: Sue Blainey; M: Guy Gross Spanish with English subtitles.

Cast: Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Bill

Awards: New York Gay Film Festival, 1987: Best Film

Hunter

Dist/Sales: Altermedia

Two drag queens and a transsexual leave Sydney in a

Adjuster, The

bus called Priscilla, and travel to Alice Springs to

climb a rock and put on a show. Along the way they

Egoyan, Atom

break down, get lost, paint the bus lavender, dress up

1991; Canada; 102 min; Drama

when they can, perform where they shouldn’t, and

P: Atom Egoyan, Camilla Frieberg; W: Atom Egoyan; encounter hilarity, hostility, incomprehension and,

C: Paul Sarossy; E: Susan Shipton; M: Mychael Danna occasionally, acceptance.

Cast: Elias Koteas, Arnsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin,

Prod Comp: Latent Image, New South Wales Film &

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TV Office, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

An orderly and analytical vision of Washington

Dist/Sales: RoadshowEnt, ReelMovies, Swank, Wolfe,

politics. Superbly acted by a large cast. When a

Sogepaq, NFVLS, ACMI, VideoAmericain

senator doesn’t back a candidate, he is blackmailed

for having an affair with a man when he was in the

army. Based on the novel by Allen Drury.

Prod Comp: Columbia, Sigma

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, Columbia

Affairs of Love, The

(aka: Las Cosas del Querer)

Chávarri, Jaime

1990; Spain; 100 min; Drama

W: Lázaro Irazábal, Antonio Larreta; C: Hans Burmann; E: Pedro del Rey; M: Gregorio García Segura

Cast: Ángela Molina, Ángel de Andrés López, Manuel

a

Bandera, María Barranco

Set in the 1940s in Madrid The Affair of Love follows

three performers in a vaudeville troupe: Juan, his

girlfriend Pepita and Mario a gay piano player.

When Mario’s advances are rejected by Juan he goes

about seducing a variety of men. When Mario breaks

up with a nobleman, his lover’s mother decides to

take revenge.

Prod Comp: Iberoamericana de Televisión SA, Lince

Films SA

Dist/Sales: Iberoamerica

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Affirmations

Adventures of Sebastian Cole, The

Riggs, Marlon

Williams, Tod

1990; USA; 10 min; Drama

1998; USA; 99 min; Drama

From the maker of Tongues United, an exploration of

P: Karen Barber, Jasmine Kosovic; W: Tod Williams; black gay male desires and dreams. Affirmations

C: John Foster; E: Alfonso Gonçalves; M: Elizabeth Swados starts with an affectionate, humorous confessional

Cast: Adrian Grenier, Clark Gregg, Aleksa Palladino,

and moves on to a wish for empowerment and

Margaret Colin

incorporation. (Frameline)

Sebastian’s first adventure begins when his step-dad,

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Hank, suddenly announces that he is going to

Afflicted

become a woman. While other family members run

for cover, Sebastian decides to stay with Hank, who

Guttman, Amos

becomes Henrietta. The two of them form a unique

1982; Israel; 25 min; B&W; Drama

and winning bond as Sebastian learns to cope with

Afflicted tells the story of a young, closeted Israeli man prejudice and the non-stop curve balls life keeps

who visits a drag bar one night in search of sexual

throwing him. (Wolfe)

expression. Hebrew with English subtitles. (Frameline)

Prod Comp: Culpan Productions

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Dist/Sales: ParamountClassics, Wolfe

After Hours

Advise and Consent

Scorsese, Martin

Preminger, Otto

1985; USA; 97 min; Comedy

1962; USA; 140 min; B&W; Drama

P: Amy Robinson, Griffin Dunne, Robert F.

P: Otto Preminger; W: Wendell Mayes; C: Sam Leavitt; Colesberry; W: Joseph Minion; C: Michael Ballhaus; E: Louis Loeffler; M: Jerry Fielding

E: Thelma Schoonmaker; M: Howard Shore

Cast: Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Walter Pidgeon,

Cast: Rosanna Arquette, Griffin Dunne, Tommy

Franchot Tone

Chong, Verna Bloom

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An ordinary man experiences the most bizarre

being in a relationship and being single again—how

happenings. Mild-mannered computer programmer

we sometimes cling onto feelings of pain rather than

Griffin Dunne starts out on a date and things just go

feel nothing at all. (Cinenova)

downhill: his date suicides before he can see her

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

home, he gets mixed-up with some goofy thieves, an

S/M freak—and that’s just the beginning. Along the

After the Game

way Dunne picks up a lonely homosexual, played by

Robert Plunket.

Gray, Donna

1979; USA; 19 min; B&W; Drama

Awards: Cannes Film Festival, 1986: Best Director

Prod Comp: Double Play

Nicole and Diana, both in their early twenties, have

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, ReelMovies, Warner

a very close and loving friendship. When one of the

women jokes that if she were a man they would get

After Stonewall

married, the other divulges she has a sexual attrac-

tion for her. Suddenly both realise their relationship

Scagliotti, John

has reached a turning point.

1999; USA; 88 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

P: John Scagliotti; E: Dan Hunt, Janet Baus

a

Cast: Sheila James Kuehl

After the War you have to Tell Everyone

Documentary that examines the enormous changes

about the Dutch Gay Resistance Fighters

in the gay rights movement since the Stonewall Riots

in 1969. Interviews include Larry Kramer, Rita Mae

Muller, Klaus

Brown and narration by Melissa Etheridge.

1991; The Netherlands; 60 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures, VideoAmericain

Documentary detailing the contributions made in

the Dutch Underground by gays and lesbians during

After the Bath

World War II.

Greyson, John

Afternoon Breezes

1995; Canada; 45 min; Documentary

In London, Canada in 1993 a bag of porn films was

(aka: Kaze tachi No Gogo)

dragged out of a river. The main subject of the films

Yazaki, Hitoshi

was teenage boys. The Police Chief Julian Fantino

1980; Japan; 105 min; B&W; Drama

was accused of creating a homophobic witch-hunt as

P: Mitsuhiko Akita, Shunichi Nagasaki, Shiro Oiwake;

over 60 men were arrested. This documentary uses

W: Shunichi Nagasaki, Hitoshi Yazaki

headlines and interviews with journalists, police, gay

The rather bleak story of a young Tokyo woman,

activists and social workers to describe how the

Natsuko, who becomes obsessed with her female

media and police manipulated the truth and blew

roommate, Mitsu. Based on an actual newspaper

out of proportion the threat of a child pornography

report, the film shows great insight into how a

ring.

suppressed lesbian crush becomes an obsession.

Dist/Sales: VTape

Natsuko attempts to break up Mitsu’s relationship

with her boyfriend by sleeping with him. When

After the Break (1992)

Mitsu discovers this, she kicks Natsuko out of the

apartment. As her obsession for Mitsu grows,

Guzmán, Mary

Natsuko begins to follow her everywhere.

1992; USA; 13 min; B&W; Documentary

P: Mary Guzmán; W: Mary Guzmán

Age 12: Love with a Little L

Personality clashes occur when co-dependency and

the ability to love are discussed in a lesbian therapy

Montgomery, Jennifer

group.

1990; USA; 22 min; Experimental

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Age 12 is a riveting amalgam of forbidden desire,

transgression and piercing self-recognition. Raw

After the Break (1998)

adolescent memories of girl cliques in kilts, cruel

games and a hidden stash of Playboys counterpoint

Kennerley, Annette

staged scenes exploring mechanisms of power and

1998; UK; 13 min; Comedy

submission.

This short poetic film looks at the gap between

Dist/Sales: WMM

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Age of Dissent

Based on San Francisco’s Theatre Rhinoceros stage

productions, this thoughtful and thought-provoking

Parry, William

documentary deals with the impact of the AIDS

1994; UK; 51 min; Documentary

epidemic on the community most affected by the

P: Greta Schiller

disease in America—gay men.

A video diary that follows the filmmaker and his

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

boyfriend in their involvement in the efoorts to

Film Festival, 1986: Audience Award for Best Docu-

lower the age of consent for homosexuals in Britain

mentary

from 21 to 16. We follow them for a year through

Dist/Sales: DirectCinema, Telling

their encounters with the media, politicians and

queerbashers.

AIDS: Words from One to Another

Agora

Muxel, Paule / de Solliers, Bertrand

1993; France; 73 min; Documentary

Kinney, Donald / Kinney, Robert

This series of interviews provides an intelligent, in-

1992; USA; 75 min; Drama

depth and wide-ranging discussion of the social and

Cast: Randy Rovans, Kerry Snyder, Tammy Hopkins

a

political issues surrounding HIV/AIDS. The subjects

A complex melodrama in which an agoraphobic gay

describe with candour and eloquence how they

man meets a gay couple and a lesbian couple in

found out they were infected, how they envisage the

Midwest hotel. Parallels are drawn between homo-

future, and how their sex lives and daily relationships

phobia and repression.

have been affected. (MQFF)

Aide Mémoire

Dist/Sales: Point-Du-Jour

Brynntrup, Michael

1995; Germany; 16 min; Experimental

The filmmaker turns his camera on photographer

Jürgen Baldiga in a personal investigation of how to

deal with the complicated issues of life, death and

AIDS.

Dist/Sales: MBC

AIDS

Pugh, George

1985; Australia; 42 min; Documentary

P: George Pugh

Exames the history of the AIDS epidemic in the

United States and the spread to gay communities in

the Western World including Australia. Medical

authorities discuss their hopes to contain the spread

of AIDS, outlining symptoms and debunking myths

regarding transmission of the virus. A series of frank

Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer

interviews highlight the human cost of AIDS.

Prod Comp: ABC

Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial

Dist/Sales: ACMI

Killer

AIDS Show: Artists Involved with Death

Broomfield, Nick

and Survival, The

1992; UK; 85 min; Documentary

C: Barry Ackroyd

Adair, Peter / Epstein, Robert

Cast: Nick Broomfield, Arlene Pralle, Aileen Wuornos

1986; USA; 58 min; Documentary

Aileen Carol Wuornos, a 35-year-old lesbian and

P: Peter Adair, Robert Epstein; M: John Lewis, Doug prostitute, was convicted of killing seven men in

McKechnie

Florida between 1990 and 1991 who were clients

Cast: Steve Abel, William Barksdale, Robert Coffman,

she had picked up while hitchhiking. The FBI called

Donna Davis

her America’s first female serial killer. Nick

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Broomfield digs through layers of hype to unearth

Alexander moves to the big city but can’t find a job,

an accurate portrait of Aileen Wuornos, her crimes

so takes up prostitution with both male and female

and her fate. What becomes clear is the profiteering

clients. He finally moves in with an ex-football

of the law enforcement agency and her friends, and

player, all the time denying his sexuality.

the betrayal by her lover, Tyria.

Prod Comp: Douglas S. Cramer Company

Prod Comp: In Pictures, Channel 4

Dist/Sales: NBC

Dist/Sales: Ronin, 21stCentury, Strand, NFVLS

Alexandria... Why?

Aimée and Jaguar

(aka: Iskanderija... lih?)

Färberböck, Max

Chahine, Youssef

1998; Germany; 124 min; Drama

1978; Egypt; 132 min; Drama

P: Hanno Huth, Günter Rohrbach;

P: Youssef Chahine; W: Youssef Chahine, Mohsen

W: Max Färberböck, Rona Munro; C: Tony Imi;

Zayed; C: Mohsen Nasr; E: Rashida Abdel Salam;

E: Barbara Hennings; M: Jan A. P. Kaczmarek

M: Fouad El Zahiry

Cast: Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler, Johanna Wokalek,

Cast: Farid Shawki, Naglaa Fathi, Ezzat El Alayli

Heike Makatsch

a

Set in Alexandria in 1942, this film examines the

Set against snapshots of the glamorous illicit lesbian

illicit love affair of a Muslim man and a Jewish

salons of wartime Berlin, Aimée and Jaguar tells the

woman, and the relationship between an Egyptian

tragic true love affair between Lilly Wust (Aimée)

teenager and a British soldier. Although not

and Felice Schragenheim (Jaguar). An intense and

explicitly gay there is a very tender relationship

moody romance evolves when Lilly, the conventional

between the two men, and the film is important for

blonde-blue-eyed epitome of Nazi motherhood, falls

its Arabic treatment of the subject.

in love with Felice, a spirited Jewish lesbian who

Awards: Berlin Film Festival, 1979: Best Director

works for the underground and writes for a Nazi

newspaper. German with English subtitles. (MQFF)

Algie the Miner

Prod Comp: Sentor Film

Guy-Blaché, Alice

Dist/Sales: Senator, Zeitgeist, Mongrel, Wolfe, ACMI,

1912; USA; 13 min; Comedy

VideoAmericain

Rumoured to be one of the first queer comedies.

Airport

Algie is a Nancy-boy Easterner who travels out West

and finds a partner in a rough-around-the-edges

Dunkhorst, Silke / Kay, Manuela

miner.

1994; Germany; 33 min; Comedy

A group of female flight attendants end up in a

Alias

group sex session following a flight, and then finish

off the night at a dyke leather party.

Farrant, Kim

1998; Australia; 11 min; Documentary

Alabaster Lions

P: Kate Riedl; W: Andrew Duvall, Kim Farrant

Alias takes us into the daily life of a male sex worker

Butera, Angelo

and introduces us to Jae, Todd, Toby and Craig—the

1990; Australia; 18 min; Drama

four facets of his world. (MQFF)

A florid and dramatic story of homosexual men and

Prod Comp: Australian Film TV & Radio School

their lovers unfolds in this fast-moving and emo-

Dist/Sales: AFTRS

tional tale.

Prod Comp: Australian Film TV & Radio School

Alicia was Fainting

Dist/Sales: AFTRS

Olivé-Bellés, Nuria

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

1994; USA; 37 min; Drama

The story of a 14-year-old girl who, after her

Erman, John

mother’s death, must deal with her own sexual

1977; USA; 100 min; Drama

awakening. Alicia, who doesn’t like the idea of

P: Wilford Lloyd Baumes

traditional women’s roles, works in a butcher’s shop,

W: Walter Dallenbach, Dalene Young; C: Gayne

where she daydreams about her mother and writes

Rescher; E: Neil Travis; M: Fred Karlin

letters to her best friend, a girl she’s known all her

Cast: Leigh McCloskey, Eve Plumb, Jean Hagen, Juliet

life and with whom she must part upon their

Mills, Lonnie Chapman

graduation from school.

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Alien Prey

All about Alice

Warren, Norman J.

Harrison, Ray

1983; USA; 85 min; Horror

1974; USA; 80 min; Drama

P: Terence Marcel, David Wimbury; W: Max Cuff;

Cast: Warren Fremming

C: Derek V. Browne; E: Alan Jones; M: Ivor Slaney A drag reworking of All about Eve, where Frieda

Cast: Sally Faulkner, Glory Annan, Barry Stokes

plots to steal a Broadway star’s career and muscle-

An alien decides to satisfy its appetite by eating

bound boyfriend.

various people including two lesbian lovers. Graphic

sex, violence and cannibalism abound in this film.

All about my Father

Prod Comp: Continent, Tymar Film Productions

(aka: Alt om min Far)

Alive and Kicking

Benestad, Even

2001; Norway; 75 min; Documentary

(aka: Indian Summer)

W: Even Benestad, August B. Hanssen; E: Erik

Meckler, Nancy

Andersson, Anders Refn; M: John Erik Kaada

a 1996; UK; 100 min; Drama

All about my Father is a highly personal film about

P: Martin Pope; W: Martin Sherman; C: Chris Seager; Esben Benestad, a well respected doctor—who also

E: Rodney Holland; M: Peter Salem

happens to be a transvestite—from a small, very

Cast: Jason Flemyng, Antony Sher, Dorothy Tutin,

close-minded Christian town in Norway. The film

Anthony Higgins, Bill Nighy

was directed by the one person most likely to convey

Tonio’s ambition as a young dancer at the peak of his

the story with truth, warmth, humour and irony:

career has allowed him to submerge his emotions

Even Benestad, his son. ‘Contrary to my father’s idea

that this film would promote him as a colourful

under a carefree facade. The death of his best friend

character who uses all his time to combat conserva-

and mentor, Ramone, from an AIDS-related illness

tive bureaucracy,’ states the director, ‘I wanted to

and the impending closure of his dance company,

make a portrait of him where his transvestism and

force Tonio to deal with his own HIV status. Added

strong self-realisation forms the basis of the film. I

to this is the revival of Indian Summer, a pas de deux

could not compromise—personal confrontation was

for two men, with Tonio in the lead role originally

paramount in making this a genuine film.’ And

danced by Ramone. Escaping the pressure, Tonio

genuine he is. Benestad’s documentary is a candid,

meets Jack, an older, less flamboyant man, who

moving work exploring the two extremes of his

works as a HIV counsellor. An unlikely couple, their

dynamic dad’s life as medico, author and politician

relationship becomes a mirror to Indian Summer—a

juxtaposed with his identity as the exotic Esther

passionate expression of love, grief and an embrace

Pirelli, sexual therapist and occasional actress. (2002

of life.

Melbourne International Film Festival)

Prod Comp: Channel 4, Martin Pope Productions

Norwegian with English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: Channel4, FirstLook, Wolfe

Awards: Berlin Film Festival, 2002: Best Documentary

Prod Comp: Exposed Film Prods, Zentropa Real ApS

Alkali, Iowa

Dist/Sales: NorwegianFilm

Christopher, Mark

All about my Mother

1995; USA; 17 min; Drama

P: Ann Ruark; W: Mark Christopher

(aka: Todo sobre Mi madre)

Thoughtful and intelligent piece about the changing

Almodóvar, Pedro

nature of the gay experience in the wide open spaces

1999; Spain; 100 min; Comedy

of America’s heartland. J. D. Cerna plays a young

W: Pedro Almodóvar; C: Affonso Beato; E: José Salcedo; man struggling with his sexuality, whose discovery of

M: Alberto Iglesias

an old tin box in the ground leads him to think

Cast: Cecilia Roth, Penelope Cruz, Antonia San Juan,

again about his family and the opportunities that

Marisa Paredes, Candela Pena

were available to them in their lifetimes. With J. D.

Manuela is the perfect mother. A hardworking nurse,

Cerna and Mary Beth Hurt. (MQFF)

she’s built a comfortable life for herself and her

Awards: Berlin International Film Festival, 1996: Teddy

teenage son, an aspiring writer. But when tragedy

Award for Best Short Film

strikes and her beloved only child is killed in a car

Dist/Sales: Forefront, Strand

accident, her world crumbles. The heartbroken

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woman learns her son’s final wish was to know of his

All Men are Liars

father—the man she abandoned when she was

(aka: Goodnight Irene)

pregnant 18 years earlier. Returning to Barcelona in

search of him, Manuela overcomes her grief and

Lee, Gerard

becomes caregiver to a colourful extended family: a

1994; Australia; 91 min; Comedy

pregnant nun, a transvestite prostitute, and two

P: John Maynard; W: Gerard Lee; C: Steve Arnold; troubled actresses. (Wolfe)

E: Suresh Ayyar; M: Mark Moffatt, Wayne Goodwin

Awards: Academy Awards, 1999: Best Foreign Language Film

Cast: Toni Pearen, David Price, John Jarratt, Carmen

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, SonyClassics, ACMI

Tanti, Jamie Peterson

A deadpan comedy of teenage love gone wrong.

All Fall Down

Mick, a 16-year-old boy, cross-dresses and joins an

all-girl band in town for the local festival. He falls

Foiles, Stacey

hopelessly in love with band member Angela who is

1993; USA; 30 min; Drama

flirting with lesbianism. She’s hot for Mick, not just

P: Roberta Grossman

because he’s cute and talented but, being a woman,

Dark memories erupt when a lesbian and her

he’s honest.

estranged sister travel to their mother’s home on the

a

Prod Comp: Arena Films

anniversary of their brother’s suicide. As they scatter

Dist/Sales: 21stCentury, 16MM, VSM

his ashes in the spectacular Sierra Nevada moun-

tains, Virginia and Amanda begin to confront their

All of Me

loss, their anger towards one another, and finally the

incest suffered in their childhood and its profound

Wilhelm, Bettina

impact on their lives.

1990; Germany; 76 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: WMM

W: Georgette Dee, Bettina Wilhelm; C: Frank Grunert; M: Terry Truck

All Girl Action: The History of Lesbian Erotica

Cast: Georgette Dee, Mechthild Grossmann, Miroslaw

Baka

Bright, Susie

1989; USA; 90 min; Documentary

Orlanda is an androgynous performer who enter-

tains with chansons and bawdy conversation in the

Charts the recent history of lesbians making erotic

old German ‘Kleinkunst’ tradition of the twenties.

film for lesbians.

In a bewitching play on tradition and taboos

Orlanda decides to marry the woman with the

All God’s Children

lowest voice in the world. On a concert tour to

Mosbacher, Dee / Reid, Frances / Rhue, Sylvia

Warsaw, Orlanda and Elizabeth fall in love with a

charming Polish man. The result is a complicated

1996; USA; 29 min; Documentary

transcontinental love affair which resists the clichés

Documentary made as a response to the increasing

that normally result from such entanglement. The

and deeply disturbing trend towards fundamentalist

film manages to succinctly question the limits of

homophobia in the United States. The Traditional

sexuality, gender and sexual attraction without

Values Coalition’s notorious videotape, Gay Rights/

sacrificing its entertainment appeal. (MQFF)

Special Rights: Inside the Homosexual Agenda, was the

Dist/Sales: Wilhelm, VideoAmericain

spur that convinced the makers of All God’s Children

that a filmed response was definitely required. They

All Out Comedy

have taken as their focus the African–American

community in the US, highlighting what can often

Zachary, Bohdan

be a double dose of discrimination: racism and

1993; USA; 78 min; Comedy

homophobia. The talking heads in the documentary

The first gay and lesbian stand-up comedy video, by

include many religious figures such as the Reverend

the maker of Loverville I & 2. San Francisco

Jesse Jackson, while the political line-up features

comedians Scott Capurro, Marilyn Pittman, Tom

members of Congress, senators and the Mayor of

Ammiano and Karen Ripley strut their stuff in live

Cambridge, Massachusetts. (MQFF)

performances. (MQFF)

Dist/Sales: WomanVision

Dist/Sales: Zachary

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All Over Me

All Over the Guy

Sichel, Alex

Davis, Julie

1997; USA; 89 min; Drama

2001; USA; 95 min; Comedy

P: Dolly Hall; W: Sylvia Sichel; C: Joe DeSalvo; P: Susan Dietz, Donnie Land, Juan Mas, Dan

E: Sabine Hoffmann; M: Ani Difranco, Leisha Hailey, Bucatinsky; W: Dan Bucatinsky; C: Goran Pavicevic; Miki Navazio

E: Glenn Garland, Mary Morrisey; M: Peter Stuart Cast: Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Leisha Hailey,

Cast: Dan Bucatinsky, Richard Ruccolo, Christina

Wilson Cruz, Cole Hauser

Ricci, Lisa Kudrow, Doris Roberts

15-year-old Claude lives with her mom in New York

Tom and Eli meet on a blind date set up by friends,

City’s Hell Kitchen, and is inseparable from her best

but quickly find that they are complete opposites.

friend Ellen. Claude’s life revolves around the girl

Tom is a hunky, hard drinking, chain smoking

band she is trying to start with Ellen, working in the

school teacher who has a proclivity for one night

local pizza parlour with gay friend Jesse and the new

stands and vintage stores. Eli is a cute and hopeless

musician in the building, Luke. Ellen’s life increas-

romantic who loves The X Files, and flies the flag for

ingly revolves around drugs, and her new boyfriend,

monogamy. They don’t begin to hit it off until they

a

homophobic, macho Mark. But when Luke is

start talking about movies, and even then it’s obvious

murdered after a run-in with Mark, Claude’s life is

things will not happen over night. (MQFF)

turned upside-down; her relationship with Ellen

Prod Comp: Niche Pictures

begins to disintegrate and she ventures out to a girl-

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, 10%

punk club where she is attracted to Lucy.

Awards: Berlin International Film Festival, 1997: Teddy

All the Queens Men

Award for Best Feature

Ruzowitzky, Stefan

Prod Comp: Baldini Pictures, Meducas Pictures, Slam

2001; Austria, Germany, Hungary, USA; 105 min;

Pictures

Comedy

Dist/Sales: Palace, Alliance, FineLine, Wolfe, Millivres, P: Marco Weber, Gabrielle Kelly, Zachary Feuer, Danny

ACMI, VideoAmericain

Krausz; W: Daid Schneider, Jeff Stockwell; C: Wedigo von Schultzendorff

Cast: Matt LeBlanc, Eddie Izzard, Nicolette Krebitz,

James Cosmo, David Birkin

A crew of Special Forces agents lead by cross-dressing

Tony (a self-confessed ‘bisexual lesbian trapped in a

man’s body’) is sent to Germany, dressed as women,

to infiltrate an Enigma factory and steal the much-

coveted decoding device.

Prod Comp: Atlantic Streamline, Strand

All the Rage

Tec, Roland

1997; USA; 105 min; Comedy

P: Roland Tec; W: Roland Tec; C: Gretchen Widmer; E: John Altschuler; M: Paul Outlaw, Roland Tec

Cast: John-Michael Lander, David Vincent, Jay

Corcoran, Paul Outlaw

Gorgeous, intelligent, with a great career and a hot

gym sculpted body, Christopher is clearly a member

of the gay urban ‘A’-list. He is also an expert at one-

night stands, and a master at brushing men off, once

he’s had them. But lately, Christopher is looking for

a more meaningful relationship. Then he meets

Stuart, an attractive, slightly chubby and down-to

earth guy who spends as little time at the gym as he

does selecting his wardrobe. Christopher is thrilled

to finally be with a man who loves him for more

All Over the Guy

than his looks, and the two begin a serious relation-

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ship... until temptation emerges in the form of

Cast: Jennifer McGaugh, Justin Reed Early

Stuart’s hunky and horny roommate. (Mongrel)

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steve Okazaki’s

Prod Comp: Pinkplot Productions, Spade-a-Spade

powerful documentary shows the pain, frustration

Pictures

and extraordinary courage of nine young people

Dist/Sales: JourDeFete, Mongrel, Pinkplot

living with HIV. Some live on the street, some in

loving suburban families, while one is a professional

All–American Story, An

figure skater. All speak with uncanny insight into

their experiences. (MQFF)

Keitel, John

1991; USA; 28 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: Farallon

A sharp, funny snapshot of the filmmaker as a young

gay man, attending a Stanford reunion and shocking

himself more than his straight pals.

(www.cyborganic.com)

Alles Wird Gut

a

(aka: Everything will be Fine)

Maccarone, Angelina

1997; Germany; 88 min; Comedy

P: Claudia Schröder; W: Fatima El-Tayeb, Angelina Maccarone; C: Judith Kaufmann; E: Inge Bohmann;

M: Jakob Hansonis

Cast: Kati Stüdemann, Chantal de Freitas, Pierre

Sanoussi-Bliss, Isabella Parkinson

A warm and sexy comedy about two African women

living in Berlin. Kim is a cool career woman on her

way to the top, and is about to marry Dieter, her

boss. Nabou is a younger, unemployed slacker who

has just been dumped by her blue-haired girlfriend,

Alone Together: Young Adults Living with HIV

and would do anything to win her back. Sparks fly

Alpsee

when Kim and Nabou cross paths in the same

apartment building. German with English subtitles.

Mueller, Matthais

Prod Comp: Multimedia, Norddeutscher Rundfunk

1994; Germany; 15 min; Experimental

Dist/Sales: Multimedia

An autobiographical essay on childhood, family and

memory.

Alley of the Tranny Boys

Dist/Sales: Canyon

Lee, Christopher / Zapata, J.

1998; USA; 50 min; Erotica

Älskande par

Gender outlaws reclaim their erotic and porno-

(aka: Loving Couples)

graphic space in this celebration of transgender

Zetterling, Mai

sexuality and fantasy.

1964; Sweden; 118 min; B&W; Drama

Dist/Sales: LeeC

P: Göran Lindgren, Rune Waldekranz; W: Mai

Zetterling, David Hughes;; C: Sven Nykvist;

Almost the Cocktail Hour

E: Paul Davies; M: Roger Wallis

Lin, Lana

Cast: Harriet Andersson, Gio Petre, Gunnel Lindblom,

1997; USA; 56 min; Drama

Anita Björk, Eva Dahlbeck

A personal meditation on the writer Jane Bowles.

This drama, set at the beginning of the 20th century,

is about three women in hospital all waiting to give

Alone Together: Young Adults Living with HIV

birth. The three characters are Agda, a free spirit

who has an arranged marriage with a gay man;

Okazaki, Steven

Adele, stuck in a loveless marriage; and Angela, a

1995; USA; 17 min; Documentary

lesbian living with her lover. The film uses a series of

P: Nobuo Isobe, Steven Okazaki; C: Tomas Tucker; E: flashbacks to reveal the narrative.

Jay Hansell; M: Wade

Prod Comp: Sandrews

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Alternative Conceptions

Cast: Ada-Valery Tal, Sharon Alexander, Gal Hoyberger

Sunley, Christina

This moving film is widely regarded as Israeli director

1985; USA; 35 min; Documentary

Amos Gutman’s masterpiece, and his swan song—he

P: Christina Sunley, Vicki Funari

has since died of AIDS-related causes. Throughout his

career Gutman was determined to make Israeli gays and

An in-depth documentary, thoughtfully done, about

lesbians visible to wider society and give them images of

lesbian parenting. Filmed in New York, it features

their own lives. In this feature, set in gay Tel Aviv, he

interviews with several lesbian couples who talk

adds AIDS to the picture. Sometimes humorous,

about the problems associated with parenting, from

sometimes melancholic, Amazing Grace follows spunky

the insemination, the sperm donor, the birth, legal

young Jonathan’s move from carefree Miki to the older

aspects and the child’s perception of growing up

and HIV-positive Thomas, who has returned from New

with same-sex parents.

York to live with his mother. In the process, Jonathan

Dist/Sales: WMM

learns about the serious side of his sexuality in a society

where AIDS and homosexuality itself are hidden and

Alternative, The

young men like Miki have to do their stint in military

service. Hebrew with English subtitles. (MQFF)

Eddey, Paul

a 1976; Australia; 75 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Amazing Grace Productions

P: Robert Bruning; W: Tony Morphett; C: Russell Boyd; Dist/Sales: Mid-Bar, VideoAmericain

E: Trevor Ellis; M: Bob Young

Ambiguous Feeling, An

Cast: Wendy Hughes, Tony Bonner, Carla Hoogeveen,

Peter Adams, Alwyn Kurts

Doundakov, Ilko

Drama focussing on an unmarried mother and

1997; Bulgaria; 57 min; Documentary

magazine-editor who has to make a choice between

An in-depth look at homosexuality in Bulgaria.

her new boyfriend and a former lover, after discover-

Bulgarian with English subtitles.

ing she’s pregnant. When she falls in love with a

Dist/Sales: Bulgarian

woman she questions the value of the traditional

family unit.

Amelia Rose Towers

Prod Comp: Grundy

Farkas, Jackie

Always Walter! An Inner View of Walter

1992; Australia; 11 min; Experimental

Larrabee

A short film about perception, sexuality and

maturity.

O’Driscoll Gray-Lee, Geoffrey

Prod Comp: AFTRS

1999; USA; 117 min; Documentary

Walter Larrabee is a natural, intelligent, Salt Lake

American Beauty

City boy trying to be a model human being.

Believing his personal integrity to be truer than that

Mendes, Sam

of his family, young Walter cultivates himself as a

1999; USA; 121 min; Drama

multifaceted talent within the autocratic framework

P: Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks; W: Alan Ball; C: Conrad L.

of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Hall; E: Chris Greenbury, Tariq Anwar; M: Thomas Following discord and coldness at Brigham Young

Newman

University, Walter comes to terms with professional

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Wes Bentley,

and personal maturity in this frank documentary.

Thora Birch

Prod Comp: Balance Entertainment, World Class

Winner of 5 Academy Awards including best

Educational Entertainment

picture, American Beauty tells the story of a seem-

Dist/Sales: Gray-Lee

ingly perfect, but actually dysfunctional suburban

family. Lester, is a self-described middle-aged loser,

Amazing Grace

who is infatuated with a worldly teenage girl. His

(aka: Hessed Mufla)

career-driven wife Carolyn drinks too much and is

having an affair. Their daughter both loathes her

Guttman, Amos

parents, but falls for the new boy next door—whose

1992; Israel; 95 min; Drama

hobby is documenting his life on videotape. The

P: Doron Preiss; W: Amos Guttman; C: Yoav Kosh, most well-adjusted characters of all are the gay

Amnon Zlayet; M: Arkadi Duchin

couple next door who are happily ensconced in a

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long-term relationship. (Wolfe)

Amic/Amat

Awards: Academy Awards, 2000: Best Director, Best

(aka: Beloved/Friend)

Picture, Best Actor (Kevin Spacey)

Pons, Ventura

Prod Comp: DreamWorks SKG, Jinks/Cohen

1998; Spain; 90 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, UIP, Swank

P: Ventura Pons; W: Josep Maria Benet i Jornet; C: Jesús American Fabulous

Escosa; E: Pere Abadal; M: Carles Cases

Cast: José Maria Pou, Rosa Maria Sardà, Mario Gas

Dakota, Reno

Jaume Clara, a brilliant and accomplished professor

1992; USA; 100 min; Comedy

of medieval literature, should be enjoying the fruits

P: Reno Dakota; W: Jeffrey Strouth; C: Travis Ruse; of a life of hard work and achievement, but he is

E: Reno Dakota

beset with failing health and is distraught over a

Cast: Jeffrey Strouth

passionate fixation on his beautiful, intelligent but

A one-man performance by Jeffrey Strouth who,

withdrawn student, David. When a response to an

from the back seat of a Cadillac, pontificates on any

anonymous call-boy’s ad unexpectedly brings David

subject that enters his mind. Was released posthu-

to his door, Jaume foregoes the tempting opportu-

a

mously after Strouth’s death from AIDS.

nity for easy sex with his student and instead hatches

Prod Comp: Dead Jeffe Productions

an elaborate and dangerous plot to manifest his deep

love, one which risks his career, his friendship with a

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures, VideoAmericain

beloved colleague, and the possibility of cruelty and

American Gigolo

violence at the hands of heartless David. The two

men’s mismatched passions and their well-matched

Schrader, Paul

intellects make for a feverish war of wills, one from

1980; USA; 112 min; Drama

which neither one will survive unharmed. (Strand)

P: Jerry Bruckheimer; W: Paul Schrader; C: John Bailey; Catalan with English subtitles.

E: Richard Halsey; M: Giorgio Moroder

Prod Comp: Els Films de la Rambla, Generalitat de

Cast: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Jessica Potter,

Catalunya

William Dozier

Dist/Sales: Lauren, Strand, VideoAmericain

A male escort for hire becomes a casualty of his

profession when he is framed for murder. A rather

Amigos

homophobic film as all the gay characters are

(aka: Friends)

perceived as evil and/or murderous. There are scenes

that include a gay killer, a gay wife-beater and a

del Valle, Claudio

lesbian pimp.

1999; Chile; 21 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Paramount

A group of men who have been friends for many

Dist/Sales: Paramount

years meet in a bar to catch up. The dynamics

change considerably when it is revealed that at least

American Slices

one of them is gay.

Dist/Sales: Insomnio

Halwes, Shannon

2000; USA; 25 min; Comedy

Among Good Christian Peoples

Mitchell’s life is turned upside down when his

mother announces she’s a lesbian. Normally this

Gund Saalfield, Catherine / Woodson, Jacqueline

wouldn’t faze Mitchell who is gay himself, but it’s the

1991; USA; 30 min; Documentary

fact that she’s moving to a lesbian trailer park that’s

Demonstrates the pull between desire for religious

got him stunned.

community and personal freedom. Based on an

autobiographical essay by Woodson where she looks

Amerikanos

at growing up, being one of the only black families

on the block, the only writer in her family of

Dimas, Christos

Jehovah’s Witnesses and being a lesbian. A powerful

1999; Greece, USA; 22 min; Drama

story that explores, for African–Americans, the

Tony, a Greek immigrant arrives in San Francisco

relationship between their religious beliefs and their

hoping to start a new life, chasing his own kind of

forbidden homosexuality. (Frameline)

American dream.

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, Frameline, TWN

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Among Men

Based on the life of the Swedish author Agnes von

Krusenstjerna who is famous for her treatment of

Speck, Wieland

lesbianism. The story is set during her last years in

1980—1991; Germany; 80 min; Drama

an insane asylum where she is sent to recuperate after

A collection of five short films from German director

suffering a nervous breakdown. During her time

Speck. David, spends an anxious afternoon spent

there she reflects on her tumultuous life, relation-

with a man who struggles with his overwhelming

ships and affairs.

desires in Montgomery and I (1980). The Struggle of

Prod Comp: SVT Drama, Sandrews, Svenska

Fast Relief (1983), tells of a night of feverish dreams

Filminstitutet

and fantasies about an amorphous object of desire.

Chez Nous (1981): the architecture of Berlin and its

Amos Gutman, Filmmaker

rooms figure prominently in this portrait of people

(aka: Amos Gutman, Bamay Kolnoa)

‘loving life, living love’. November (1989), contrasts a

sense of alienation with desire. Somewhere, people

Kotzer, Ran

fight against state power, somewhere they celebrate

1997; Israel; 64 min; Documentary

afterwards. Room 303 (1991), is a poignant view

From 1977 to his untimely death in 1993, Amos

a

from a dying lover’s bedside; the survivor sees a

Gutman directed six films, all of them deeply

collage of scenes from the past: his lover, his lover’s

personal reflections of his own life. Interviews with

mother, his own mother and his father. (Frameline)

lovers, family and friends—including some of the

German with English subtitles.

most important people in Israeli cinema—tell the

Dist/Sales: Frameline

gripping story of a strikingly handsome, charismatic

and deeply passionate gay man who has become a

Among Others

revered cult figure in Israeli cinema. (Frameline)

Hebrew with English subtitles.

Vu, Trac

1998; USA; 17 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Frameline

On a quiet evening charged with emotion, two men

Anatomy of a Hate Crime

find themselves at intersecting crossroads. The life of

a young male Asian hustler comes into focus

Hunter, Tim

through his chance meeting with a grieving stranger.

2000; USA; 93 min; Drama

(Big Film Shorts)

P: Lawrence Bender, Bill Bannerman; W: Max Ember; Dist/Sales: USC, BigFilm

C: Dan Nowak; E: Sunny Hodge; M: Dan Licht Cast: Cy Carter, Brendan Fletcher, Ian Somerhalder,

Amor Maldito

Amanda Fuller

This MTV produced drama recounts the story of the

Sampaio, Adélia

gay hate murder of Matthew Shepard in the USA.

1983; Brazil; 90 min; Drama

W: José Louzeiro

Anatomy of Desire

Cast: Wilma Dias, Tony Ferreira, Monique Lafond,

Mário Petráglia

Boullata, Peter Tyler / Monette, Jean-François

Two women, who have been close friends, begin a

1995; Canada; 47 min; Documentary

lesbian affair. Unfortunately the affair ends in

P: Kenneth Hirsch, Jean-François Monette, Don Haig,

suicide, a murder charge and a trial. The lesbianism

David Wilson; W: David Wilson; C: Darren Biggs;

of the characters is described as an unnatural passion

E: Donna Reid, Jean-François Monette; M: Chris Crilly ending in murder. Supposedly the first Brazilian film

Cast: Brad Fraser

to deal with lesbian sexuality. Portuguese with

Documentary which looks at how science is used to

English subtitles.

dissect and probe the causes of sexual orientation.

Are lesbian and gay sexualities caused by

Amorosa

socialisation? Or are they physiologically based? Or

is it some complex interaction of the two? The film

Zetterling, Mai

takes a provocative look at the growing debate on the

1986; Sweden; 117 min; Drama

origins of homosexuality and how it impacts on the

W: Mai Zetterling; C: Rune Ericson; E: Darek Hodor, issues surrounding lesbian and gay rights. Skilfully

Mai Zetterling; M: Roger Wallis

weaving together archival footage and interviews, the

Cast: Stina Ekblad, Erland Josephson, Philip Zanden,

film traces the uneasy historical relationship between

Olof Thunberg

medicine and same-sex desire.

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Prod Comp: National Film Board of Canada, Bare

Anders als die Anderen

Bones Films

(aka: Different from Others)

Dist/Sales: Heathcliff, CinemaGuild, NFVLS, NFBC

Oswald, Richard

And the Band Played On

1919; Germany; B&W; Drama

P: Magnus Hirschfeld; W: Magnus Hirschfeld, Richard Spottiswoode, Roger

Oswald; C: Max Fassbender

1993; USA; 140 min; Drama

Cast: Conrad Veidt, Leo Connard, Fabers Vater, Ilse von

P: Sarah Pillsbury, Midge Sanford; W: Arnold

Tasso-Lind

Schulman; C: Paul Elliott; E: Daniel Craven, Lois Freeman-Fox; M: Carter Burwell

A famous pianist falls in love with one of his

students and the young man moves in with his

Cast: Matthew Modine, Richard Gere, Lily Tomlin,

teacher. Soon the pianist is blackmailed. Rather than

Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Ian McKellen

paying off his blackmailer he goes to court and is

And the Band Played On attempts to expose the

found guilty and then imprisoned. Upon his release

deadly role that inaction and infighting among

he suicides. His young lover makes a vow to change

government officials, blood banks, the scientific

the law regarding homosexuality. One of the very

community and segments of the gay community

first films to portray homosexuals in a positive light.

a

played in the early spread of AIDS. Made for TV

The film was banned in the 1920s, and all prints

and based on the original story by Randy Shilts.

were probably destroyed by the Nazis, but a short

Prod Comp: HBO, Odyssey Entertainment

version was found in 1976 in the Ukraine.

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Roadshow, Swank, Wolfe

Prod Comp: Richard-Oswald-Produktion

Anderson Tapes, The

Lumet, Sidney

1971; USA; 95 min; Thriller

P: Robert M. Weitman; W: Frank R. Pierson; C: Arthur Ornitz; E: Joanne Burke; M: Quincy Jones

Cast: Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam,

Christopher Walken, Ralph Meeker

This fast-paced caper is about an ex-con who

schemes to rob a luxury apartment complex unaware

that he is under surveillance. Martin Balsam plays a

cowardly gay thief and antique dealer. Based on the

And the Band Played On

novel by Lawrence Sanders.

Prod Comp: Columbia

And Then Came Summer

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, Columbia

London, Jeff

Andy Warhol and his Work

2000; USA; 115 min; Drama

W: Jeff London; M: Greg Zocher

Jokel, Lana

Cast: Jesse Petrick, Mathieu Smith

1973; UK; 51 min; Documentary

Teenage boys discover their feelings for each other,

This film is a fascinating insight into the man and

only to be found out by their families. The exposed

his work as seen through his own eyes and those of

relationship leads to finding out one of the boys had

his friends. As the sixties progressed, Warhol became

been previously institutionalised for his homosexual-

more and more involved in filmmaking. A number

ity. (Wolfe)

of his films are classic examples of underground

Prod Comp: 10% Productions

moviemaking and are valid reflections of the more

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, 10%

extreme ends of life in late-sixties America.

And/Or=One

Prod Comp: RM Productions

Dist/Sales: ACMI

Kearney, Brian

Angel

1978; Australia; 45 min; Drama

The true story of a Sydney prostitute and her lesbian

O’Neil, Robert Vincent

relationships, and the unusual desire of one of her

1983; USA; 88 min; Thriller

regular male customers.

P: Roy Watts, Donald P. Borchers; W: Robert Vincent 47

O’Neil, Joseph Michael Cala; C: Andrew Z. Davis;

Angels!

E: Charles Bornstein; M: Craig Safan

Martinez, Rico

Cast: Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrell, Dick Shawn

2000; USA; 90 min; Comedy

A young high-school honours student in Hollywood

P: T. J. Di Reda; W: Rico Martinez, John Stapleton; gets her kicks by spending nights working at the

C: Richard Avalon; E: Jim Makiej; M: Nazario Alonzo, world’s oldest profession. When a madman goes on

Craig Sherrad

the rampage she needs to use every trick in the book

Cast: John Stapleton, Ruben Zambrano, Raja, Monty

just to survive. Among the characters are a lesbian

alcoholic and a very tacky drag queen.

Freeman, Christian Campbell

Prod Comp: Adams Apple Film Company, Angel Venture

Three ‘female’ private investigators from an elite Los

Angeles Detective agency are brought back to life

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, WaterBearer

after 25 years of cryogenic sleep to fight crime in this

Angelic Conversation, The

campy crime flick.

Prod Comp: Diet Angels

Jarman, Derek

1985; UK; 78 min; Experimental

Anguished Love

a P: James MacKay; C: Derek Jarman, James Mackay; E: Peter Cartwright, Derek Jarman, Cerith Wyn Evans;

Akarasainee, Pisan

M: Coil

1988; Thailand; 105 min; Drama

Cast: Paul Reynolds, Phillip Williamson, Judi Dench,

A gay-themed pseudo-documentary about gritty life

Dave Baby, Timothy Burke

on the mean streets of Bangkok. A man now living

As fourteen of Shakespeare’s sonnets are being read,

with an ex-lesbian goes to his ex-boyfriend’s funeral.

we watch a young man isolated in a landscape of

The dead man’s brother falls for him and the woman

fierce physical terror. It is his confrontation with

has a relapse back into lesbianism and tracks down

another man—at first antagonistic, then hesitant,

her ex-lover. A gay aristocrat also emerges to borrow

and finally sexual—which liberates the man and his

money from his lesbian sister in order to open a new

environment: rocks turn to water, physical struggle

club. Thai with English subtitles.

turns to creativity. This beautifully shot experimental

Dist/Sales: TMPPA

film is a love poem dedicated to the artist’s muse;

this time the love celebrated is between men and the

Animal Factory

artist’s liberation is defiantly homoerotic. The

sonnets are read by Judi Dench.

Buscemi, Steve

2000; USA; 90 min; Drama

Prod Comp: BFI

P: Julie Yorn, Steve Buscemi, Andrew Stevens, Eliie

Dist/Sales: BFI, Salzgeber, ACMI

Samaha; W: Edward Bunker, John Steppling; C: Phil Angelos

Parmet; E: Kate Williams; M: John Lurie

Cast: Edward Furlong, Tom Arnold, Seymour Cassel,

(aka: Angel)

Mickey Rourke

Katakouzinos, George

Steve Buscemi’s second film as a director, after the

1982; Greece; 126 min; Drama

impressive Trees Lounge, is a scintillating adaptation

W: George Katakouzinos; C: Tassos Alexakis;

of legendary crime scribe Edward Bunker’s semi-

M: Stamatis Spanoudakis

autobiographical novel. Set inside an American

Cast: Michael Maniatis, Dionyssis Xanthos, Maria

penitentiary, Animal Factory follows the fortunes of

Alkeou, Katerina Helmi

Ron Decker, a novice criminal who finds himself

A downbeat film about a young man from a

plunged into the company of hardened cons. Luckily

dysfunctional family who meets and falls in love

for him, he is protected by the chief prison fixer and

with a macho sailor. Their relationship becomes

gang leader, Earl Copen, who initiates him into the

abusive and the young man is forced into prostitu-

ways of surviving prison life. Dark but not depress-

tion on the streets of Athens. Based on a real-life

ing, Animal Factory is a realistic and thoughtful

case, the film contains some brutally explicit love

story, which shows how friendship and honour can

scenes.

be maintained against all the odds. (BFI)

Prod Comp: Greek Film Centre

Prod Comp: Franchise Pictures

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer, VideoAmericain

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri

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Anita: Dances of Vice

Annie Sprinkle’s Herstory of Porn: Reel to Real

(aka: Anita: Tanze des Lasters)

Sprinkle, Annie / Harlot, Scarlot

von Praunheim, Rosa

1998; USA; 69 min; Documentary

1987; Germany; 85 min; Drama

An outrageous, irreverent and often hilarious review

P: Rosa von Praunheim; W: Marianne Enzensberger,

of lesbian performer, filmmaker, porn star

Lotti Huber, Hannelene Limpach, Rosa von

extraordinaire Annie Sprinkle’s 25 year career in film

Praunheim; C: Elfi Mikesch; E: Mike Shephard, Rosa porn as narrated by the ‘Queen of Piss’ herself.

von Praunheim; M: Ed Lieber, Alan Marks, Rainer

Situated at bottom left of screen, Sprinkle talks us

Ruppert

through excerpts from dozens of her films as she

Cast: Lotti Huber, Ina Blum, Mikael Honesseau

comments intelligently and humorously about

different porn genres and life in the risqué business.

An old woman thinks she is the reincarnation of

Sprinkle’s evolution through the sexual revolution

Anita Berber, an infamous nude dancer in Berlin,

begins with rare vintage hippie porn, and then

who was bisexual, a drug user and generally behaved

progresses through to her ‘kinky’ period before

outrageously. Black and white dance segments are

concluding with the era of women-made porn.

intercut throughout the film.

Despite the straight sex Sprinkle’s sensibility is as

a

Prod Comp: Exportfilm Bischoff & Company, Road

always inherently queer.

Movies Filmproduktion, ZDF

Dist/Sales: EroSpirit

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures

Anna und Edith

Anniversary, The (1968)

Baker, Roy Ward

Neuhaus, Gerrit

1968; UK; 95 min; Comedy

1975; Germany; 77 min; Drama

P: Jimmy Sangster; W: Jimmy Sangster; C: Harry Two female clerical workers fall in love while

Waxman; E: Peter Weatherly; M: Philip Martell

fighting for better conditions at work. Made for

Cast: Bette Davis, Sheila Hancock, Jack Hedley, James

German television.

Cossins

Anna und Elisabeth

Bette Davis hams it up as a widow who uses her

wedding anniversary as an excuse for reuniting her

Wysbar, Frank

family. She gathers her sons together to celebrate the

1933; Germany; 74 min; B&W; Drama

death of her husband, whom she hated. She seems to

W: Gina Fink, Frank Wysbar; C: Franz Weihmayr;

have an extraordinary hold over them, but when this

M: Paul Dessau

fails, she resorts to blackmail with her knowledge of

Cast: Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele, Mathias Wieman

their various sexual activities, hetero, homo etc.

Based on the play by Bill McIlwraith.

The paralysis suffered by the lady of the manor is

cured by the touch of a peasant girl. But the lady

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox, Hammer Film Produc-

soon discovers that she can’t live without the girl.

tions, Seven Arts Productions

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, 20thCenturyFox

Prod Comp: Kollektiv Film, Terra Film

Anne Trister

Anniversary, The (1995)

Christensen, Garth

Pool, Léa

1995; USA; 14 min; Comedy

1986; Canada; 115 min; Drama

P: Claude Bonin; W: Marcel Beaulieu, Léa Pool;

In this light-hearted comedy of errors from New

C: Pierre Mignot; E: Michel Arcand; M: René Dupéré York, a misplaced anniversary note leads to confu-Cast: Louise Marleau, Albane Guilhe, Lucie Laurier,

sion all round for two Manhattan couples and their

Guy Thauvette

nosy neighbour. When the five finally get together,

the cat gets let out of the bag with the help of a very

A young Jewish painter named Anne, leaves Israel

special dessert. (MQFF)

for Montreal after the death of her father to stay

with her friend Alix, a psychologist. While she is

Dist/Sales: Christensen

there she begins work on a huge mural. As the

Another 45 Minutes of Bondage

painting develops, so does Anne’s love for Alix,

causing confusion between the two women.

Castro, Rick

Prod Comp: Les Films Vision 4

1999; USA; 50 min; Erotica

Dist/Sales: BFI

More bondage hijinks from famed bondage

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photographer Rick Castro. With Orlando, John

Antonia’s Line

Law, Kip Jaffey and Ralph Lower.

Gorris, Marleen

Prod Comp: Pyewackett Productions

1995; The Netherlands; 93 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: Pyewackett

P: Hans De Weers, Gerard Cornelisse, Antonino

Another Country

Lombardo; W: Marleen Gorris; C: Willy Stassen;

E: Marina Bodbijl, Wim Louwrier, Michiel Reichwein;

Kanievska, Marek

M: Ilona Sekacz

1984; UK; 89 min; Drama

Cast: Willek van Ammelrooy, Els Dottermans, Dora van

P: Alan Marshall; W: Julian Mitchell; C: Peter Biziou; der Groen, Veerle van Overloop

E: Gerry Hambling; M: Michael Storey

The story of an independent-minded woman who

Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Cary Elwes, Michael

comes to live in a small Dutch farming community

Jenn, Robert Addie

at the end of World War II, and five generations of

Guy Bennett is nearing the end of his last year at a

women who work, love and bond with each other.

leading English boarding school. His best friend,

She looks back on her life and the lives of her

Tommy Judd, is a Marxist, committed to Lenin’s

daughter, granddaughter and great granddaughter,

a

brave new world. In a school permeated by homo-

who is a lesbian. Continues the feminist allegorical

sexuality, affairs between the boys are accepted,

themes in Gorris’s work already established with

provided discretion is practised. Bennett breaks this

films such as Broken Mirrors and The Last Island.

unwritten rule and the humiliating consequences

Dutch with English subtitles.

establish within him a rejection of the system that

Awards: Academy Awards, 1995: Best Foreign Language

excludes him. Scripted by Julian Mitchell from his

Film; Toronto International Film Festival, 1995:

own award winning play.

People’s Choice Award

Prod Comp: Castlezone, Goldcrest, Eastern Counties

Prod Comp: Bard Entertainments, Bergen

Newspapers, NFFC, Virgin

Dist/Sales: NewVision, 21stCentury, FirstLook

Dist/Sales: ACMI, OrionClassics, VideoAmericain,

Swank, BFI

Anxiety of Inexpression and the

Otherness Machine, The

Another Way

Lee, Quentin

(aka: Egymásra Nézve)

1993; Hong Kong, USA; 53 min; Drama

Makk, Károly

Quentin Lee takes his video camera with him

1982; Hungary; 107 min; Drama

everywhere. Multilayered and covering everything

P: Andras Ozorai; W: Erzsébet Galgóczi, Károly Makk; from his appearance in a porn video to a family

C: Tamás Andor; E: György Sívó; M: László Dés, Christmas, sex with his bisexual lover, to doing drag

Giorgio Moroder, János Másik

and prostitution, to psychotherapy, this film is

Cast: Hernadi Judit, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Jozef

saturated with discourse and totally unabashed in its

Kroner, Andorai Peter

approach.

Eastern Europe’s first film dealing with lesbian

Dist/Sales: VTape

issues, this moving drama looks at the effects of

political and social repression on the life of Eva, a

Any Wednesday

journalist working for a weekly called Truth. She

develops an obsessive passion for a fellow journalist,

Miller, Robert Ellis

Livia, whose resistance is gradually broken down.

1966; USA; 109 min; Comedy

Eva also finds that her investigative journalism is

P: Julius J. Epstein; W: Julius J. Epstein, Muriel Resnik; shackled by official censorship. These events are

C: Harold Lipstein; E: Stefan Arnsten; M: George revealed in flashback as Eva is shot trying to cross the

Duning

border. The love affair is treated lyrically while the

Cast: Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Dean Jones, Rosemary

scenes in the newspaper office are intense and

Murphy, Jack Fletcher

realistic. Hungarian with English subtitles.

A millionaire businessman spends every Wednesday

Awards: Cannes Film Festival, 1982: Best Actress

with his mistress, but complications arise when his

(Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak)

young associate is accidentally sent to use the

Prod Comp: Mafilm Dialog Filmstudio, Meridian Films

company flat. When he finds out the truth he tells

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ACMI, Sharmill

the businessman’s wife and together they plot the

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husband’s downfall. There is an effeminate interior

goodwill store? Hugh throws an anniversary party

designer, decorating the mistress’s apartment, who

for Collin, but will the man he loves still be there in

receives a large amount of flack from the very macho

the morning? (MQFF)

Robards, who plays the businessman.

Prod Comp: Motion Media Company

Prod Comp: Warner

Dist/Sales: TLA, WaterBearer, VideoAmericain

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, Warner

Apartment Zero

Anything Once

Donovan, Martin

Aeberhard, Dan

1988; UK; 121 min; Thriller

1998; USA; 23 min; Comedy

P: Martin Donovan, David Koepp; W: Martin Dono-

P: Antonio Manriquez, Joe Simon; W: Dan Aeberhard van, David Koepp; C: Miguel Rodriguez; E: Conrad M.

Comedy which follows the friendship of roommates

Gonzalez; M: Elia Cmiral

Joey, who happens to be openly gay, and Mike, who

Cast: Dora Bryan, Liz Smith, Colin Firth, Hart

is straight. After a party one evening it becomes

Bochner, Cipe Lincovsky

apparent that Joey has never slept with a woman,

A disturbing psychological thriller involving Adrian,

and Mike makes it his mission to try and persuade

a

a shy and sexually repressed young man who lives in

Joey to try it. As a result of Mike’s efforts, Joey

an apartment in Buenos Aires and has a passion for

makes him a bet; if Joey is able to seduce a woman,

old movie classics. He takes in a boarder, Jack, a

Mike must pick up a guy.

charming and outgoing American. When gruesome

murders begin to haunt the city, Adrian becomes

Apariencias

suspicious that Jack may be the serial killer. Through

the subtle use of suggestion, the film develops sexual

Lecchi, Alberto

tension between the two men.

2000; Argentina; 94 min; Comedy

C: Marcelo Iaccarino; E: Alejandro Alem; M: Ivan Prod Comp: Summit Company, Producers Representa-Wyszogrod

tive Organization

Cast: Andrea Del Boca, Favio Posca, Diego Pérez,

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, Skouras, Wolfe, ACMI

Fabian Mazzei

30-year-old Carmello has a crush on his co-worker

Verónica, and is devastated when he finds out that she

is about to get married. When he is spotted at a gay

rally where he has accidentally become a spokesperson

for the cause, Verónica naturally assumes that he’s gay.

Carmello goes along with the misunderstanding until

his subterfuge brings about a most unexpected

conclusion. Spanish with English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Patagonik Film Group, Pol-Ka Productions

Apart from Hugh

Fitzgerald, Jon

Apartment Zero

1994; USA; 87 min; B&W; Drama

Apartments

P: Randy Allred, Jon FitzGerald; W: Jon FitzGerald; C: Randy Allred; E: Randy Allred; M: James Clarke McMurchy, Megan

Cast: David Merwin, Steve Arnold, Jennifer Reed

1977; Australia; 10 min; B&W; Drama

Elegantly shot in black and white, Jon Fitzgerald’s

W: Megan McMurchy; C: Jeni Thornley, Wendy

thoughtful and intelligently written feature revolves

Freecloud; E: Megan McMurchy

around the first anniversary celebrations of Hugh

Cast: Jeune Pritchard, Sandy Edwards, Michael Snelling

and Collin. Unbeknownst to his lover, Collin is

Two women living in the same apartment block are

experiencing itchy feet and is already wondering

drawn to each other. Each is unaware of the other’s

whether leaving the relationship will make him

desire, but a shared erotic fantasy develops between

stronger. His feelings are compounded by the arrival

them. One woman’s relationship with her lover

of the impulsive Frieda, an old friend from his wilder

disintegrates as the focus of her sexual desire shifts

and more spontaneous days. Frieda has patently lost

towards the other woman. The final meeting ensures

none of her attractive unpredictability and flagrant

a happy ending. (Cinenova)

immorality. Who else would steal shoes from a

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

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Apostles of Civilised Vice

Arabian Nights

Achmat, Zackie

(aka: Il Fiore Delle Mille e una Notte)

1999; South Africa; 104 min; Documentary

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

P: Jack Lewis; W: Zackie Achmat

1974; France, Italy; 130 min; Comedy

Cast: Peter Krummeck, John Trengove, Denver

P: Alberto Grimaldi; W: Dacia Maraini, Pier Paolo Vraagom, Ashley Brownlee

Pasolini; C: Giuseppe Ruzzolini; E: Nino Baragli, Apostles of Civilised Vice is a history of same-sex

Tatiana Casini Morigi; M: Ennio Morricone

desire which investigates lesbian and gay experience

Cast: Franco Citti, Margarethe Clementi, Tessa Boucha,

and personalities from colonial times to the present.

Ninetto Davoli

Between 1910 and 1933 thousands of men were

An erotic, dazzling and funny tale from The Thousand

convicted of sodomy and ‘unnatural offences’. The

and One Nights: featuring a series of stories within a

majority of those tried, convicted and imprisoned

story about love and lovemaking, linked by the main

were black. For over two centuries of South African

character Mur-El-Din as he searches for his kid-

history, lesbian and gay stories have been silenced,

napped slave girl. The final instalment in the trilogy

depriving contemporary queer life of a history.

of films preceded by The Decameron and Canterbury

a

Apostles of Civilised Vice gives voice to gays and

Tales, it took Pasolini nearly two years to make.

lesbians silenced by colonial rule and apartheid laws

that criminalised and marginalised same sex desire.

Prod Comp: Les Productions Artistes Associés,

(Idol Pictures)

Produzioni Europee Associati

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, UA

Dist/Sales: Idol

Arch Brown’s Top Story

Brown, Arch

1993; USA; 118 min; Drama

Cast: John Finch, Jerry Ferracio

A gay soap opera from the 1990s about a group of

southern Californian men as they go about their

day-to-day life with all its traumas and problems.

The interlocking stories revolve around a group of

young men sharing a house together. An accurate

depiction of gay life through the lens of the director

of many adult, male porn flicks.

Are you Greedy?

Vuolo, Cristina / Tuzi, Federica

Apartments

2000; Italy; 60 min; Documentary

Aqueles Dois

Interviews with women both single and in couples

about relationships, sexual practices, roles and

Amon, Sergio

negotiations. The filmmakers talk to women from

1985; Brazil; 85 min; Drama

Europe, Africa, USA and South America.

P: Gilberto Baum; W: Sergio Amon, Pablo Vierci;

Dist/Sales: Tuzi

C: César Charlone; E: Sergio Amon, Roberto Henkin; M: Augusto Licks

Aren’t you Lucky you Brought your Own

Cast: Pedro Wayne, Beto Ruas

Chair

Raul is a lonely and sad man who has just left his

marriage. Saul is a shy and bitter man critical of the

Scott, Margaret

world around him. The two lonely men meet at

1999; Canada; 16 min; Experimental

their new workplace and become drawn to each

Discussions about disability, access and sexuality.

other. Although they are both clearly heterosexual,

their work colleagues believe differently and they

Dist/Sales: VideoOut

soon discover how far homophobia can go. A

thought-provoking study into male bonding and the

Armistead Maupin is a Man I Dreamt Up

thin line between homosexuality and heterosexual

Clarke, Kristiene / Meynell, Kate

affection. Portuguese with English subtitles.

1992; UK; 60 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: Roda Filmes, Z Produtora

P: Kate Meynell, Kristiene Clarke

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An entertaining portrait of one of America’s most

former lover, As Far Away as Here is an extended

famous gay writers, the author of the Tales of the City

visual metaphor exploring the nature of loss,

series of books. The documentary includes inter-

employing a visual rather than vocal narrative.

views with colleagues, friends and with Maupin

himself. There are also selected readings from his

As Good as it Gets

work, which are a nostalgic treat for those who love

Maupin’s writing.

Brooks, James L.

1997; USA; 138 min; Comedy

Army of Lovers: or Revolt of the Perverts

P: James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson, Kristi Zea;

W: Mark Andrus, James L. Brooks; C: John Bailey; von Praunheim, Rosa

E: Richard Marks; M: Hans Zimmer

1979; Germany; 97 min; Documentary

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Cuba Gooding Jnr,

P: Rosa von Praunheim, Mike Shephard; C: Rosa von Greg Kinnear, Skeet Ulrich

Praunheim; E: Rosa von Praunheim

Melvin Udall is the most dysfunctional of men, a

A controversial documentary about the rise of gay

romance novelist with a obsessive-compulsive

militancy in America from 1950 to the late 1970s. It

disorder. He goes out of his way to offend and

deals principally with the new gay consciousness that

a

repulse people, But the only person who will stand

developed as a result of the Stonewall riots in 1970,

up to him is Carol, a waitress and single mother. His

the later schisms in the gay movement, anti-gay

neighbour across the hall is Simon, an art dealer and

campaigns and official attitudes to the movement.

his gay lifestyle only further incites Melvin’s

The film is a deliberate attack on what von

malicious mouth. These three don’t appear to have a

Praunheim categorises as a ‘more straight, bourgeois,

hope in hell of finding happiness, but discover their

racist, sexist, middle-class gay audience’. As such, it

fates intertwined with the fourth complicated

is as much concerned with offending viewers as with

informing them, raising issues about the role of the

character, an ugly, tiny dog named Verdell.

documentary filmmaker as agent provocateur.

Awards: Academy Awards, 1997: Best Actress (Helen

Dist/Sales: Canyon, Exportfilm, NFVLS

Hunt), Best Actor (Jack Nicholson)

Prod Comp: TriStar Pictures, Gracie Films

Arrangement, An

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, 16MM, Wolfe

Blasco, Didier

As Is

1998; France; 31 min; Drama

Lindsay-Hogg, Michael

After closing his shoemaker shop in a high class

1985; USA; 85 min; Drama

neighbourhood, Alphonse Dutilleux goes to the Bois

P: Iris Merlis; W: William M. Hoffman; C: René de Boulogne, a place where male prostitutes are

solicited. His wife and his son are waiting for him...

Ohashi; E: Ruth Foster; M: Peter Matz

French with English subtitles.

Cast: Robert Carradine, Jonathan Hadary, Joanna Miles,

Colleen Dewhurst

Dist/Sales: Kanpaï

Based on the Broadway play by William Hoffman,

Art of Cruising Men, The

this powerful made for television drama focuses on

two ex-lovers who are drawn together through the

Litten, Peter McKenzie

AIDS crisis. Rich, a writer, leaves his long-time lover,

1995; UK; 70 min; Documentary

Saul, for another man. But when Rich is tested

P: Gary Fitzpatrick

positive for HIV, his new relationship ends and he is

Two cyber-hosts, the sexy and arrogant ‘He-male’

left alone. The only person who will stand by him is

and the acid, sharp-tongued drag ‘She-male’, host a

Saul. A humorous and revealing look at gay

light-hearted inquiry into the cruising habits of gay

lifestyles.

men. From prehistoric man to the present day, they

Dist/Sales: TLA, ACMI

delve into the bars and toilets to find out exactly

what the art of cruising men is all about.

Asa Branca: A Brazilian Dream

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer, Salzgeber, TLA,

Batista, Djalma Limongl / Pfahl, Berengar

VideoAmericain

1980; Brazil; 95 min; Drama

As Far Away as Here

W: Djalma Limonge Batista

Cast: Edson Celulari, Walmor Chagas, Gianfrancesco

Carolfi, Jerome

Guarnieri

1997; USA; 23 min; Experimental

A story of homosexual repression and desire, set on

Structured around footage shot on a road trip with a

the soccer field. A young man, Asa, finds he is

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becoming attracted to another man. This film

P: Panos H. Koutras; W: Panos H. Koutras;

provoked fury in Brazil when it was released as it

C: Zafiris Epaminondas; E: Elissavet Chronopoulou; suggested a homoerotic aspect to sport and its male

M: Konstantinos Vita

fans. Portuguese with English subtitles.

Cast: Myriam Vourou, Yiannis Angelakis, Christos

Mandakas, Grigoris Patrikareas

Ashley 22

Around the year 2000, a terrible occurrence shocks

Nolan, Monica

the city of Athens. A huge piece of moussaka appears

1999; USA; 12 min; Comedy

on the city streets spreading panic and death.

Everyone keeps wondering: why, where, how, for

Just when you think you’ve found the perfect date,

what reason? but no one can give an answer. The

you come to the stark realisation that everyone else is

ambitious Minister of Environment, his drug

dating the same woman.

addicted wife, the director of the Observatory, his

Astragale, L’

overweight girlfriend and a neurotic TV reporter,

each for reasons of their own, meet with the

Casaril, Guy

frightening mass. All these people will became

1968; France; 102 min; Drama

witness to a unique event, a new era will begin and a

a P: Pierre Braunberger, Artur Brauner; W: Guy Casaril; new family will be created. A camp comedy send up

of 1950s American sci-fi classics. Greek with English

C: Edmond Richard; M: Joss Baselli

subtitles.

Cast: Marlene Jobert, Horst Buchholz, Magali Noel,

Georges Géret

Prod Comp: 100% Synthetic Film Production

Dist/Sales: GFC, AdVitam

While escaping from prison to be with her lesbian

friend, a 19-year-old girl breaks her ankle and is

Audit

picked up by an ex-con, with whom she begins a

passionate affair. She finally turns to prostitution and

To, Brian

robbery to support herself.

2000; USA; 28 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Film De La Plaeiade, CCC Filmkunst

An unusual tax audit sets the stage for this biting

GmbH

satire of the Hollywood closet, featuring offbeat

performances by Sally Kirkland and Alexis Arquette.

At Home

Segal, Jonathan

Avenge Tampa

1987; Israel; 29 min; Drama

Dyke TV

Alex and his lover Gershon, both playwrights, have

1993; USA; 10 min; Documentary

been living together for more than 10 years in Tel

A shocking and disturbing film about homophobia

Aviv. Shadowed by artistic jealousy and questioning

in the United States. A woman’s home is burned

his relationship, Gershon spends his days at home,

when shi is discovered to be HIV-positive.

writing second-rate plays and sending articles out to

(Cinenova)

local home-decorating magazines. Meanwhile, Alex

is enjoying increased recognition as a playwright and

Prod Comp: Dyke TV

brief liaisons with other men.

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Away with Words

Atomic Sake

(aka: Kujaku)

Doyle, Christopher

Archambault, Louise

1998; Hong Kong; 90 min; Drama

1999; Canada; 33 min; B&W; Comedy

P: Hiro Tokimori; W: Christopher Doyle, Tony Rayns; Over dinner and sake, three women share secrets

C: Christopher Doyle; E: Anne Goursaud, Sozo

that will test the boundaries of their friendship and

Morisaki; M: Fumio Itabashi

possibly have permanent ramifications for their

Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Christa Hughes, Kevin

relationship.

Sherlock, Mavis Xu

Asano has an amazing memory—the sort where

Attack of the Giant Moussaka, The

words take on tangible shapes, tastes and colours. He

(aka: The Attack of the Giant Mousaka)

is a world traveller who finds himself in Hong Kong

and in the Dive Bar, which soon becomes a home

Koutras, Panos H.

away from home for him. The bar is run by Kevin,

1999; Greece; 103 min; Comedy

who has a terrible memory, and is an alcoholic. It

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seems that a relationship can develop between the

Baby Steps

two if only they didn’t have to rely on words...

Nauffts, Geoffrey

Prod Comp: Time Warp

1999; USA; 26 min; Drama

B. D. Women

Robert Kahn is a gay school teacher who wants to

adopt a child. However, he encounters difficulties

Blackman, Inge

when he meets with Rose Melon (Kathy Bates), a

1994; UK; 20 min; Documentary

Midwestern adoption agent who is resistant to the idea.

This moving documentary investigates the experi-

Dist/Sales: Rattled, Atom

ences of black lesbians in Britain. Disparagingly

referred to as ‘bulldaggers’, lesbians of colour occupy

Backroom

a precarious position that sees them confronting the

Morales, Guillem

homophobia of their ethnic communities, while at

1999; Spain; 13 min; Erotica

the same time having to challenge the racism of

Chronicles the action in the back room of a gay male

white-dominated queer spaces. A series of interviews

night club, providing an intimate look into the art of

with women of Caribbean, African and Asian

gay cruising.

descent is framed by a stylish fantasy set in the

b

lesbian clubs of the Harlem Renaissance. (MQFF)

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!

Dist/Sales: WMM

Bad Brownies

B.U.C.K.L.E.

Mitchell, Allyson

1997; Canada; 20 min; Comedy

Gund Saalfield, Catherine / Tolentino, Julie

1993; USA; 11 min; Comedy

A mockumentary of memoires of childhood

transgression. Former Brownies recall their lives in

A humorous fast-paced parody of women dancing,

the organisation and two modern-day recruits—one

cruising and picking up other women at New York

a good Brownie and one a bad one are—demon-

City’s legendary Clit Club. (Cinenova)

strate different reactions to the rules and rituals of

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

the Brownie circle. (CFMDC)

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

B/side

Bad News Bachelors

Child, Abigail

1996; USA; 37 min; Experimental

Di Chiera, Franco

B/side is an abstract portrait of a homeless woman at

1990; Australia; 26 min; Drama

the edge of dystopia which implicates us all in her

Set in gay Sydney, the film follows thirty-something

predicament.

Stuart as he roams the city’s cafés, bars and cruising

Dist/Sales: Canyon

areas looking for a man to love but finding only sex

with a series of likeable men—none of whom offer

baba-It

the likelihood of a relationship.

Prod Comp: Australian Film TV & Radio School

(aka: At Home)

Dist/Sales: AFTRS

Sagall, Jonathan (aka: Segal, Jonathan)

1991; Israel; 29 min; Drama

Badass Supermama

Two gay playwrights try to keep their relationship

Inyang, Etang

afloat, but it proves difficult when one achieves

1996; USA; 16 min; Comedy

success, and the other doesn’t.

This story of an African–American woman’s search

Baby

for identity mixes 1970s kitsch nostalgia with

insightful observations about the adolescent lesbian

Elliot, Steven

experience. (Frameline)

2000; UK; 14 min; Experimental

Dist/Sales: Frameline

A teenage boy revels in the pleasures of flesh and

Baise-moi

body collisions at a local swimming pool in this

beautiful, surreal and most extraordinary coming of

(aka: Fuck Me; Rape Me)

age film. (MQFF)

Trinh Thi, Coralie

Dist/Sales: BFI

2000; France; 77 min; Erotica

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P: Philippe Godeau; W: Coralie Trinh Thi, Virginie Ballot Measure 9

Despentes; C: Benoit Chamaillard, Julien Pamart;

MacDonald, Heather

E: Ailo Auguste, Véronique Rosa, Francine Lemaitre;

1995; USA; 72 min; Documentary

M: Varou Jan

Cast: Raffaela Anderson, Karen Lancaume, Delphine

Documentary about the 1992 ballot referred to as

MacCarty, Lisa Marshall

‘Measure 9 legislation’ which was created by the

Oregon Citizens’ Alliance. The legislation set out to

Controversial film based on the novel by Virginie

repeal and prohibit further state legislation that

Despentes. Manu (a victim of rape) and Nadine (a

would protect homosexuals from discrimination.

witness of violence) embark on a revenge-inspired

rampage of sex and murder. French with English

Awards: Berlin Film Festival, 1995: Best Gay Film;

subtitles.

Sundance Film Festival, 1995: Audience Award

Prod Comp: Oregon Tape Project

Prod Comp: Le Studio Canal+

Dist/Sales: TLA, Zeitgeist

Dist/Sales: Remstar

Balcony, The

Bar Girls

Giovanni, Marita

b Strick, Joseph

1994; USA; 93 min; Comedy

1963; USA; 84 min; B&W; Drama

P: Lauran Hoffman, Marita Giovanni; W: Lauran

P: Ben Maddow, Joseph Strick; W: Ben Maddow;

Hoffman; C: Michael Ferris; E: Carter De Haven;

C: George Folsey; E: Chester W. Schaeffer; M: Igor M: Lenny Meyers

Stravinsky

Cast: Liza D’Agostino, Nancy Allison Wolfe, Camilla

Cast: Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Lee Grant, Ruby Dee

Griggs, Michael Harris

Interesting American adaptation of Jean Genet’s

Bar Girls is a comedy about the amorous escapades

symbolic play about life in a Parisian brothel.

of eight grown-up urban women who meet, retreat,

Winters plays the madam of the brothel who holds it

and regroup in their home away from home, The

together during the revolution, and Grant is her

Girl Bar. The plot revolves around the mysterious

lesbian confidante.

bittersweet and funny ways that lesbians can get

Awards: Academy Awards, 1963: Best Cinematography

their hearts and bodies tangled up with each other.

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, Kino

(MQFF)

Prod Comp: Lavender Circle Mob, Orion

Ballad of Little Jo, The

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!, Wolfe, Millivres,

Greenwald, Maggie

VideoAmericain, Swank

1993; USA; 120 min; Western

Barbarella

P: Brenda Goodman, Fred Berner; W: Maggie

Greenwald; C: Declan Quinn; E: Keith Reamer;

Vadim, Roger

M: David Mansfield

1968; France, Italy; 98 min; Sci-Fi, Comedy

Cast: Suzy Amis, Bo Hopkins, Ian McKellen, David Chung

P: Dino de Laurentiis; W: Roger Vadim, Terry Southern, In the Wild West of the 1860s a woman had only

Claude Brule, Vittorio Bonicelli, Clement Biddle

two choices—she could be a wife or she could be a

Wood, Brian Degas, Tudor Gates, Jean-Claude Forest;

whore. Josephine Monaghan dared to be different—

C: Claude Renoir; E: Victoria Mercanton; M: Michel she realised that to survive in the West she needed to

Magne, Charles Fox, Bob Crewe

dress as a man. Inspired by a real-life legend.

Cast: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg,

Milo O’Shea, Marcel Marceau

Prod Comp: Joco, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

Dist/Sales: REP, FirstRelease, FilmsInc, FineLine

Set in the year 40,000 Barbarella is interrupted from

her float amidst zero gravity by a call from the

Ballad of Reading Gaol

President of Earth. A young scientist named Duran-

Duran is threatening the universal peace and

Kwietniowski, Richard

Barbarella must find him and save the world. Anita

1988; UK; 12 min; Drama

Pallenberg plays the lesbian Black Queen and John

An erotic, modern-day twist on Oscar Wilde’s

Phillip Law plays the beautiful angel. A fabulous

famous speech—delivered by Quentin Crisp—in

camp sci-fi classic from the 1960s.

defence of ‘the love that dare not speak its name’.

Prod Comp: Marianne, Dino de Laurentiis

(Frameline)

Cinematografica, Paramount Pictures

Dist/Sales: Frameline, BFI, Salzgeber

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, ReelMovies, Paramount

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Bare

comfort and safety in her basement apartment.

Mundane routines, a diet of junk food and the

Strutt, Deborah

warmth of the television insulate her from the pain

2000; Australia; 10 min; Comedy

and betrayal of her ill-fated relationship. Eventually,

P: Liz Baulch; W: Amanda Roberts

‘The Basement Girl’ emerges—transformed and

Tea Coffee? Scrambled eggs? Sex on toast? Erotic

ready to ‘make it on her own’. (WMM)

forces explode when two gay boys perve on their

Dist/Sales: WMM, CFMDC

lesbian neighbours doing it for breakfast.

Prod Comp: Wild Iris Productions

Basic Instinct

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

Verhoeven, Paul

1992; USA; 128 min; Thriller

P: Alan Marshall; W: Joe Eszterhas; C: Jan De Bont; E: Frank J. Urioste; M: Jerry Goldsmith

Cast: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza,

Jeanne Tripplehorn, Denis Arndt

Michael Douglas plays an ex-undercover cop, burnt

b

out and recovering from drug and alcohol addiction

who becomes involved with the investigation of a

brutal murder. The prime suspect is a very rich, very

beautiful bisexual woman whose calm and collected

exterior belies a predatory and hedonistic soul.

Sharon Stone has become a lesbian favourite on the

Bare

strength of the role, and the film has become

Bargain Lingerie

somewhat of a cult classic.

Prod Comp: Carolco, Canal Plus, TriStar Pictures

Marcos, Teresa

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Roadshow, ACMI, FilmsInc,

1999; Spain; 15 min; Comedy

Col-Tri, Wolfe

A young woman meets the big-breasted sales woman

of her dreams while out shopping for lingerie.

Spanish with English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: Deva

Barry Lyndon

Kubrick, Stanley

1975; UK; 178 min; Drama

P: Stanley Kubrick; W: Stanley Kubrick; C: John Alcott; E: Tony Lawson; M: Leonard Rosenman

Cast: Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Stephen Berkoff

An 18th century Irish rogue yearns for success

among the English aristocracy, but in his quest for

riches he loses his sense of perspective. There is a

very homophobic scene depicting two gay men

bathing in a river that is believed to have been

conceived by Ryan O’Neal. Based on a novel by

William Makepeace Thackeray.

Prod Comp: Warner, Hawk Films, Peregrine, Polaris

Dist/Sales: Warner

Basement Girl, The

Onodera, Midi

2000; Canada; 12 min; Experimental

Abandoned by her lover, a young woman finds

Basic Instinct

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Basic Necessities

Cast: Courtney Love, Norman Reedus, Ron Livingston,

Keifer Sutherland

Miller, Tanya

1993; USA; 10 min; Drama

The story of Beat author William Burroughs and his

wife Joan Vollmer.

A hauntingly beautiful poetic text swoops and loops

over home video imagery to explore the impact of

Dist/Sales: Nu-Image

sex work on a lesbian’s life and especially on her

relationship with her lover.

Beau Travail

(aka: Good Work)

Basketball Diaries, The

Denis, Claire

Kalvert, Scott

1998; France; 90 min; Drama

1995; USA; 100 min; Drama

P: Jerome Minet

P: John Brad Manulis, Liz Heller; W: Bryan Goluboff; Cast: Gregoire Colin, Dennis Lavant, Michel Subor

C: David Phillips; E: Dana Congdon; M: Graeme Loosely based on Herman Melville’s novella Billy

Revell

Budd, Beau Travail is set in the North African camp Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruno Kirby, Mark

of the French Foreign Legion. A new recruit, Sentain

b Wahlberg, Patrick McGaw, Lorraine Bracco

arrives and his physical beauty enraptures the whole

platoon including the commandant. Only the

The story of a young basketball star at a Catholic

Sergeant-Major, Galoup, remains resistant to

high school who in a few short months becomes a

Sentain’s beauty, and his attempts to destroy the

strung-out heroin addict turning tricks for drugs.

young recruit form the basis for the tragedy of this

His coach is a closeted homosexual who makes

tale. But very much like an opera or a ballet, the

passes at the young star. Jim’s life gradually slips into

narrative of this film is a thin pretext for a mesmeris-

the underworld of drug users, hookers and pimps.

ing spectacle that both celebrates the beauty of the

Meanwhile he records everything in his diary.

male form while critically analysing the destructive-

Prod Comp: Island Pictures, New Line Cinema

ness of the rituals that attend masculinity; and just as

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, Lauren, NewLine

these aggressive rituals assist in constricting men’s

freedom in the world, Denis draws a parallel with

Battle of Tuntenhaus

the colonisation of Africa which the Foreign Legion

represents. The stunning cinematography recalls the

Bashore, Juliet

transcendent beauty of early cinema, while the

1991; UK; 30 min; Documentary

imaginative music score creates an eloquent aural

P: Cheryl Farthing

equivalent to the ravishing strength of the images.

Originally produced as part of Channel Four’s Out

We have for so long been used to the male gaze

series, this engaging documentary tells the story of

dominating the voyeuristic pleasures of film that

thirty radical drag queens who claimed squatters’

Denis’ firm, sympathetic but critical feminine gaze is

rights in a section of East Berlin after the fall of the

experienced as a revolutionary moment in screen

Berlin Wall.

history: it is as if we are seeing men and women

Prod Comp: Maya Vision, Channel 4

anew—there is none of the objectifying dismember-

ment of the misogynist gaze; and women are not

Dist/Sales: MayaVision

made absent as so often happens in the aesthetics of

Be Careful what Kind of Skin you Pull

homoeroticism. Almost wordlessly, we come to

Back, you Never know what Kind of Head

understand the enormity of the questions the film

asks us about the connections between gender,

will Appear

sexuality and imperialism. (ACMI)

French with English subtitles.

Brüning, Jürgen

1994; Germany; 26 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: Pathe TV, SM Films, La Sept ARTE

Dist/Sales: ACMI

Ruminations on a gay skinhead lifestyle.

Beautiful Dreamers

Beat

Harrison, John Kent

Walkow, Gary

1990; Canada; 110 min; Drama

2000; USA; 93 min; Drama

P: Michael Maclear, Martin Walters, Sally Bochner;

P: Andrew Pfeffer, Alain Silver, Donald Zuckerman;

W: John Kent Harrison; C: François Protat;

W: Gary Walkow; C: Ciro Cabello; E: Peter B. Ellis, E: Ron Wisman; M: Laurence Shragge

Steve Vance, Gary Walkow; M: Ernest Troost

Cast: Rip Torn, Colm Feore, Wendel Meldrum, Sheila

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McCarthy, Colin Fox

Beauty Before Age

Dr Maurice Bucke is the superintendent of a mental

Symons, Johnny

asylum in the 1880s. He is at odds with the medical

1997; USA; 22 min; Documentary

establishment as he believes in treating patients with

P: Johnny Symons

love and kindness. When he meets one of America’s

greatest writers, Walt Whitman, the two strike up a

An exploration of the forces which divide gay men of

bond that sees them turn a place of horror into a

different generations. Men ranging in age from 19 to

place of beauty and joy. Whitman’s homosexuality is

77 reflect on the process and prospects of growing

only suggested when someone asks why he has never

older in a culture that objectifies young people and

married. Based on a true story.

disdains its elders. Amidst gyms, bars, dance clubs

and the streets, gay men discuss the cultural

Prod Comp: Famous Players, Cinexus, National Film

emphasis on appearance, the role of HIV, power

Board of Canada, Starway Films

dynamics between young and old, and mentorship

Dist/Sales: Hemdale, ACMI

and role modelling. Ultimately it reveals that

Beautiful Thing

glorifying youth and beauty has disturbing implica-

tions for gay men of all ages. (New Day Films)

MacDonald, Hettie

Dist/Sales: NewDay

b

1996; UK; 87 min; Comedy

P: Tony Garnett, Bill Shapter; W: Jonathon Harvey; Because the Dawn

C: Chris Seager; E: Don Fairservice; M: John Altman Goldstein, Amy

Cast: Glen Berry, Scott Neal, Linda Henry, Ben Daniels

1988; USA; 40 min; Comedy, Musical

An hilarious comedy set in a working-class east

Cast: Sandy Gray

London housing estate, which centres around two

An alluring modern day lesbian vampire musical

friends: Jamie, who hates sport and is constantly

comedy, set in the shadowy metropolis of New York

bullied at school, and Ste, who is good at sport but

City, Because the Dawn combines the smoky feel of

constantly bullied at home. When Ste has been

film noir with the dazzling beat of swing tunes. In

battered once too often, Jamie’s mother takes him in

this upbeat tale of obsession and transformation, the

and he must share a bed with Jamie. Meanwhile

singing, sax-playing vampire Marie, seduces sports

Jamie is toying with the idea he might be gay and in

photographer Ariel from behind the camera. A

love with Ste. Eventually Ste realises he’s in love with

contemporary fable of female desire.

Jamie also, and a love affair begins.

Dist/Sales: WMM, Salzgeber

Prod Comp: World Productions, Channel 4

Dist/Sales: REP, Wolfe, SonyClassics, ACMI,

Because this is about Love

VideoAmericain

1992; USA; 28 min; Documentary

P: Shulee Ong

This is a touching profile of five lesbian and gay

couples from multicultural backgrounds who have

made a life-long commitment to each other by going

through a marriage ceremony. Each couple tells their

own story of how they met, why they decided to

marry and how their family and friends responded.

(Filmakers Library)

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary

Becoming Colette

Huston, Danny

1992; Germany, USA; 100 min; Drama

P: Heinz J. Bibo, Peer J. Oppenheimer; W: Ruth

Graham; C: Wolfgang Treu; E: Peter Taylor, Roberto Silvi; M: John Scott

Cast: Mathilda May, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Virginia

Madsen, Paul Rhys

Based on the life of the famous writer. When the

Beatiful Thing

young Sidonie Colette is faced with the coldness of

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her philandering husband, she eventually enters into

Bedrooms & Hallways

a ménage à trois with him and his mistress.

Troche, Rose

Prod Comp: Les Films Ariane

1998; UK; 95 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: CastleHill

P: Ceci Dempsey, Dorothy Berwin; W: Robert Farra; bed

C: Ashley Rowe; E: Chris Blunden

Cast: Kevin McKidd, Julie Graham, Simon Callow, Con

Leder, Evie

O’Neill, Harriet Walter

1999; Canada; 14 min; B&W; Experimental

Rose Troche’s ( Go Fish) second feature film is a

Black and white images of two women making love

gentle and amusing study into the nuances of sexual

are juxtaposed with images of grainy images of city

preference, dating and masculinity. Using Leo’s 30th

life, illuminating the contrast between public and

birthday bash as a basis, the film traces Leo’s

private lives.

relationship to the guests; gay roommate Darren and

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

his real estate agent boyfriend who have a penchant

for using the bedrooms of the houses he’s selling for

Bed of Lies

their trysts; straight and single friend Angie; new

Age guru and leader of Leo’s men’s group, Keith;

b Graham, William A.

Leo’s previous boyfriend, Brendan and Brendan’s

1992; USA; 90 min; Drama

current girlfriend, Sally, who also happens to be Leo’s

P: Andrew Gottlieb; W: John Ireland; C: Isidore high school sweetheart. Central to the film are the

Mankofsky; E: Christopher Nelson; M: David Shire gatherings of the men’s group for masculine

Cast: Susan Dey, Chris Cooper, Tom Nolan, Fred

assertiveness, and when Leo admits his attraction to

Thompson, G. W. Bailey

seemingly straight Irishman Brendan, it opens the

Texas political golden boy Price Daniel Jnr, the son

floodgates for other members of the group with

of one of the most popular Governors in Texan

surprising results. (ACMI)

history, divorces his wealthy debutante wife to marry

Prod Comp: ARP Selection, BBC, Pandora Cinema

a waitress. This brash decision ends his political

Dist/Sales: Lauren, FirstRunFeatures, Wolfe, Mongrel,

career and, ultimately, his life. He is murdered by the

ACMI, VideoAmericain

waitress in order to escape their abusive relationship.

He is depicted as a latent homosexual, which appears

to be the cause of his violence towards his wife.

Made for television and based on a true story, and

the novel Deadly Blessing by Steven Salerno.

Prod Comp: Elliot Friedgen & Company

Dist/Sales: Warner

Bedazzled

Donen, Stanley

1967; UK; 107 min; Comedy

P: Stanley Donen; W: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore;

C: Austin Dempster; E: Richard Marden; M: Dudley Moore

Cast: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel

Welch, Barry Humphries

This comedy cult film brings a new voice to the

Faust legend. The laughs might seem a little tired to

contemporary eyes, but Cook and Moore are

hilarious. Moore plays a short order cook in a burger

chain who is willing to give up his soul to have

Margaret the waitress—and he does—but only once

Beefcake

he sells his soul for seven wishes, along the way

meeting the seven deadly sins. Two of the deadly

Beefcake

sins, Vanity and Envy, are gay male stereotypes.

Fitzgerald, Thom

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox, Stanley Donen films

1999; Canada, France, UK; 93 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, ReelMovies, 20thCenturyFox

P: Thom Fitzgerald, Shandie Mitchell;

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W: Thom Fitzgerald; C: Tom Harting; E: Susan Shanks, Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay

Michael Weir

and Lesbian Community

Cast: Josh Peace, Daniel MacIvor, Carroll Godsman,

Jack Griffin Mazeika

Rosenberg, Robert / Schiller, Greta

1984; USA; 84 min; Documentary

This engaging, amusing and classically camp homage

to 1950s muscle magazines presents an alternate

P: Robert Rosenberg, John Scagliotti, Greta Schiller

glisteningly buffed portrait of this era in which

Stonewall is the name of a gay bar in New York

homoerotic images of musclemen were produced for

where gay resistance to frequent police harassment

an eager male subculture. In a seamless merging of

came to a head over three days and nights in 1969.

fact and fiction, Thom Fitzgerald ( The Hanging

This marked the beginning of a large scale campaign

Garden) uses interviews, dramatic re-enactments and

to gain rights and respect for being different. Even as

impressionistic fantasy sequences to trace male

far back as the 1920s lesbians and gays had formed

physique photography from its beginnings with Bob

groups, produced newspapers, opened restaurants

Mizer who controversially published Physique

and discussed their problems. This film traces half a

Pictorial Magazine and established the Athletic

century of a parallel culture using film, photographs

Model Guild.

and accounts from participants.

Prod Comp: Channel 4, Alliance Independent

b

Prod Comp: Before Stonewall Incorporated

Dist/Sales: Cowboy, Millivres, Strand, Wolfe, ACMI,

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild, FirstRunFeatures, Salzgeber,

VideoAmericain

NFVLS, ACMI, VideoAmericain

Beethoven’s Nephew

Beguines, The

(aka: Le Neveu de Beethoven)

(aka: Le Rampart des Beguines)

Morrissey, Paul

Casaril, Guy

1985; France; 99 min; Drama

1972; France, Italy; 90 min; Drama

W: Mathieu Carrière, Paul Morrissey; C: Hanus Polak; P: Raymond Hakim, Robert Hakim; W: Guy Casaril,

E: Claudine Bouché, Albert Jurgenson, Michèle Robert-

Françoise Mallet-Joris; C: Andréas Winding;

Lauliac

E: Louisette Hautecoeur; M: Roland Vincent, Michel Cast: Wolfgang Reichman, Keitmar Prinz, Jane Birkin,

Delpech

Nathalic Baye

Cast: Nicole Courcel, Anicee Alvina, Venantino

This film explores the touching, maddening and

Venantini, Ginette Leclerc, Jean Martin

humorous relationship between Beethoven and his

The lonely daughter of a widowed politician begins a

sole heir, his nephew Karl. Beethoven’s tragicomic

passionate affair with her father’s mistress. When the

obsession and the spiteful refusal by Karl of his

mistress finally marries her father, the girl realises it

uncle’s affections are depicted in this drama. French

is only for material gain and decides to take the

with English subtitles.

upper hand.

Prod Comp: Orfilm

Dist/Sales: Roadshow

Behind Glass

Before Night Falls

Van Leperen, Ab

1981; The Netherlands; 69 min; Drama

Schnabel, Julian

Two men, one a middle-class reporter, the other a

2000; USA; 130 min; Drama

lower-class window cleaner, become lovers despite

P: Jon Kilik; W: Julian Schnabel, Cunningham O’Keefe, their obvious class difference. In the beginning

Lazaro Gomez Carriles; C: Xavier Pérez Grobet,

things go smoothly, but after a while small battles

Guillermo Rosas; E: Michael Berenbaum; M: Carter begin to emerge and power games become predomi-Burwell

nant.

Cast: Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di

Stefano, Jonny Depp

Dist/Sales: TLA

An incredible journey through the personal life and

Behind Walls

work of the late, openly gay, Cuban poet Reinaldo

Arenas, whose courageous fight for personal

Castro, Abel

expression defied censorship and persecution.

1999; USA; 20 min; Drama

(Wolfe)

Josie is overcome with jealousy when her brother

Prod Comp: El Mar Pictures, Grandview Pictures

begins dating their cousin Papo.

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, FineLine, LolaFilms, Wolfe

Dist/Sales: Behind-Walls

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Being at Home with Claude

P: Guillermo Calderón Stell; W: Francisco Cavazos; C: Miguel Araña; E: José W. Bustos; M: Gustavo César Beaudin, Jean / Boisvert, Johanne

Carrión

1992; Canada; 90 min; Thriller

Cast: Lalo El Mimo, Sasha Montenegro, Rafael Inclan,

P: Léon G. Arcand, Louise Gendron; W: Jean Beaudin; Jorge Rivero

C: Thomas Vámos; E: André Corriveau; M: Richard Grégoire

When a young Mexican pimp gets in too deep with

Cast: Roy Dupuis, Jean-François Pichette, Jacques

gangsters, he must repay them with sexual favours.

Godin, Gaston Lepage, Hugo Dube

Prod Comp: Cinematográfica Calderón S.A.

A murder-mystery thriller, set in Montréal, about a

Belle

young male prostitute who is accused of murdering

his gay lover. He turns himself in and is interrogated

Achten, Irma

by a cop who is determined to find the motive. An

1993; The Netherlands; 99 min; B&W; Drama

absorbing drama dealing with gay passion and love.

P: Kees Kasander, Denis Wigman; W: Irma Achten;

Based on the play by René-Daniel Debois. French

C: Néstor Sanz

with English subtitles.

Cast: Reinout Bussemaker, Do van Stek, Wivineke van

b Prod Comp: Les Productions du Cerf, National Film Groningen

Board of Canada

The story is set in the early 1900s as a rebellious

Dist/Sales: Cowboy, 21stCentury, Strand,

young girl refuses to conform to the strict social and

VideoAmericain

sexual mores of the time. She develops a burning

passion for the housekeeper. As she grows older she

marries but, in her loveless marriage, she still

maintains her fascination with the housekeeper.

Considered by some to be the lesbian Citizen Kane.

Prod Comp: Allarts, Nos Television

Belle al Bar

(aka: Belles at the Bar)

Benvenuti, Alessandro

1994; Italy; 110 min; Comedy

P: Giorgio Leopardi; W: Alessandro Benvenuti, Ugo Chiti, Nicola Zavagli; C: Blasco Giurato; E: Carla Being at Home with Claude

Simoncelli; M: Patrizio Fariselli

Being John Malkovich

Cast: Alessandro Benvenuti, Eva Robins, Andrea

Brambilla, Assumpta Serna, Anna Casalino

Jonze, Spike

Leo’s life has changed after meeting a mysterious

1999; USA; 112 min; Comedy

woman. He soon realises the beautiful lady was once

P: Steve Golin, Michael Stipe, Sandy Stern, Vincent

his male cousin, Giulio who has had gender

Landay; W: Charlie Kaufman; C: Lance Acord; E: Eric reassignment surgery. A whole new world opens up

Zumbrunnen; M: Carter Burwell

to Leo where characters from every walk of life

Cast: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener,

surround themselves around his fabulous cousin. Leo

John Malkovich

must face returning to his old life, or risking

Deliciously bizarre comedy about a puppeteer who

everything to start afresh. Italian with English

discovers a portal into the eponymous actor John

subtitles.

Malkovich’s mind. Mainstream audiences may be

Prod Comp: Union PN

baffled, but this quirky, wildly imaginative oddity is

Dist/Sales: UIP

a must see for adventurous laugh-seekers. (Wolfe)

Belle de Jour

Prod Comp: Gramercy Pictures, Single Cell Pictures,

Propaganda Films

Buñuel, Luis

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, UIP, USAFilms, Swank

1967; France, Italy; 100 min; Drama

Bellas de Noche

P: Robert Hakim, Raymond Hakim, Henri Baum;

W: Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière; C: Sacha Vierny; Delgado, Miguel M.

E: Louisette Hautecoeur, Walter Spohr

1975; Spain; 110 min; Drama

Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli,

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Pierre Clémenti, Genevieve Page

believed to be happily married to her father, is

Catherine Deneuve plays a beautiful young woman

having an affair of her own.

married to a rich young surgeon. Their life is a

Dist/Sales: CFMDC, Cinenova

material success but the wife’s frigidity is a strain on

the marriage. Plagued by masochistic sexual

Ben Hur

fantasies, she takes a part-time job in a brothel,

Wyler, William

hoping that by playing the part of Belle de Jour, the

1959; USA; 209 min; Action

high class prostitute, she can overcome her dislike

for sex. This is a savagely funny, and often a very

P: Sam Zimbalist; W: Karl Tunberg; C: Robert L.

cruel film, as it pulls apart the consumerist psyche of

Surtees; E: Ralph E. Winters, John D. Dunning;

a bourgeois woman to reveal her as soulless and

M: Miklós Rózsa

empty of life. It is only as Belle de Jour that she can

Cast: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephan Boyd,

emotionally experience life. The brothel madam is a

Hays Harareet, Ramon Novarro

lesbian played by Genevieve Page. Based on the

Epic film about a Jewish prince who is betrayed and

novel by Joseph Kessel. French with English

sent into slavery by a Roman friend. When he

subtitles.

regains his freedom he returns for revenge. High-

Awards: Venice Film Festival, 1967: Best Film

lights include the centrepiece chariot race, and a host

b

Prod Comp: Paris Film, Five Film Roma

of gladiators. Steeped in homoeroticism.

Dist/Sales: 21stCentury, NFVLS, AlliedArtists,

Awards: Academy Awards, 1959: Best Actor (Charlton

Miramax, ACMI

Heston)

Prod Comp: MGM

Belle époque

Dist/Sales: Chapel, ACMI, MGM

Trueba, Fernando

Benjamin Smoke

1992; Spain; 108 min; Comedy

P: Fernando Trueba; W: Rafael Azcona; C: José Luis Cohen, Jem / Sillen, Peter

Alcaine; E: Carmen Frías; M: Antoine Duhamel

2000; USA; 72 min; Documentary

Cast: Penelope Cruz, Miriam Diaz-Aroca, Gabino

W: Jem Cohen, Peter Sillen; C: Jem Cohen, Peter Sillen; Diego, Fernando Fernan Gomez

E: Nancy Roach

Spain, spring, 1931. Fernando, a young deserter

Benjamin is a country boy with a sapphire-blue

fleeing through the Spanish countryside, meets

party dress singing for a punk-country-blues band

Manolo, a wise and wizened elderly painter—now

called Smoke. This highly unorthodox documentary

retired from both the art world and the world

follows his crooked path in a hidden neighbourhood

alike—who offers him assistance and protection.

of Atlanta, Georgia called ‘Cabbagetown’. Drag-

The day arrives, however, when Fernando must

queen, speed-freak, all-around renegade, Benjamin

leave, making way for Manolo’s four daughters who

left the straight (in every sense of the word) world

are coming from Madrid for a few days to see their

behind a long time ago. Introduced to Benjamin in

father. When Fernando sees the four girls descend

1989 by R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, the filmmakers

from the train, it isn’t as though he consciously

worked on and off for years, painting a complicated

decides to return to Manolo’s home, his feet decide

portrait of Benjamin and his environment. Both a

for him. One of the sisters is a lesbian and is treated

window on a rarely documented underground music

with dignity and respect by her family. Spanish with

scene and an exploration of what it means to be

English subtitles.

queer, the film is as hilarious as it is harrowing.

Awards: Academy Awards, 1993: Best Foreign Language

(Cowboy Pictures)

Film

Prod Comp: Gravity Films

Prod Comp: Animatógrafo, Producciones

Dist/Sales: Cowboy

Cinematográficas SA, Lola Films

Dist/Sales: NewVision, 21stCentury, SonyClassics

Bent

Below the Belt

Mathias, Sean

1996; UK; 118 min; Drama

Colbert, Laurie / Cardona, Dominique

P: Dixie Linder, Michael Solinger; W: Martin Sherman; 1998; Canada; 12 min; Comedy

C: Yorgos Arvanitis; E: Isabelle Lorente; M: Philip Glass P: Kate Gillen

Cast: Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Ian McKellan,

Two 17-year-old girls fall in love and grapple with

Rupert Graves, Mick Jagger

their feelings. Totally absorbed in each other, one

Martin Sherman’s famous play reminded the world

makes the discovery that her mother, who she always

that in the Nazi death camp a pink triangle could be

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more reviled than a yellow one. A success at Cannes,

Bertrand is Missing

this screen adaptation features a rich cast including

(aka: Bertrand Disparu)

Mick Jagger in drag. The decadent lives of Max and

Rudi are suddenly and irrevocably transformed when

1986; France; 44 min; Drama

they are exposed as homosexuals and eventually

Bertrand is a young runaway who is saved from

made to experience the debasement and brutality of

trouble by an older man who lets him stay at his

the concentration camp, where Max encounters

house. A relationship soon develops.

Horst. There Max learns that love between two

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

people can transcend and ultimately release from the

Film Festival, 1988: Audience Award Best Short Film

assumed power of the tormentor.

Prod Comp: Channel 4

Best In Show

Dist/Sales: Goldwyn, OrionHV, Wolfe, ACMI,

Guest, Christopher

VideoAmericain, Swank, Salzgeber

2000; USA; 90 min; Comedy

P: Karen Murphy; W: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy; C: Roberto Schaefer; E: Robert Leighton; M: Jeffrey C.

b

J. Vanston

Cast: Jay Brazeau, Parker Poey, Christopher Guest

Prissy poodles, droopy-eyed bloodhounds, and

neurotic Weimaraners compete for the gold in this

largely improvised comedy that takes place at the

Mayflower Kennel Club. A yuppie couple, a fly

fisherman, and a pair of hairdressers are a few of the

pet owners who primp, pamper, and prime their

pooches for the big day in this hilarious

‘dogumentary’. (Swank Motion Pictures)

Prod Comp: Castle Rock

The Berlin Affair

Dist/Sales: Warner, Wolfe, Swank

Berlin Affair, The

Best Man, The

(aka: Interno Berlinese)

(aka: Gore Vidal’s The Best Man)

Cavani, Liliana

Schaffner, Franklin

1985; Italy, West Germany; 121 min; Drama

1964; USA; 102 min; B&W; Drama

P: Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus,; W: Liliana Cavani, P: Stuart Millar, Lawrence Turman; W: Gore Vidal; Roberta Massoni; C: Dante Spinotti; E: Ruggero

C: Haskell Wexler; E: Robert Swink; M: Mort Lindsey Mastroianni, Michael J. Duthie; M: Pino Donaggio

Cast: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Margaret

Cast: Gudrun Landgrube, Kevin McNally, Mio Takaki,

Leighton, Edie Adams

Massimo Girotti, William Berger

A political thriller about two presidential candidates

Set in pre-war Germany, this film is an erotic and

in the same party who will stop at nothing to get the

provocative tale of sexual obsession and power.

nomination. Both have a skeleton in the closet:

Louise is the bored wife of a Nazi diplomat, Heinz.

Fonda had a mental illness and Robertson had a

She becomes intrigued by a beautiful young Japanese

homosexual liaison.

woman, Mitsuko, whom she meets in her art class.

Prod Comp: United Artists, Millar-Turman

The two begin a sensuous affair, but when Heinz

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, UA

begins to suspect something between the two

women, he also becomes sexually involved with

Best of Out and Out on Tuesday, The

Mitsuko. Mitsuko then becomes dominating and

Ardill, Susan / Kwietniowski, Richard / Main, Stewart /

manipulative through sex, drugs and blackmail. An

Wells, Peter

interesting examination of sexual power, but the

1991; UK; 82 min; Documentary

lesbian relationship is treated with tenderness.

P: Rebecca Dodds, Susan Ardill, Claire Beavan

Prod Comp: The Cannon Group

UK television series hosted by Julian Clary, which

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, MGM, VSM

was the first produced for a gay audience. Debuting

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in 1988 and running until 1994, the show was

Better Dead than Gay

consistently stylish, informed and audacious. This

collection brings together some of the best segments:

O’Hare, Christopher

‘Talking Hairs’, ‘Comic Cuts’, ‘Pride 91’, ‘Fasten

1995; UK; 52 min; Documentary

Your Seatbelts’, ‘Postcard From New Zealand’,

‘It hurts me to say goodbye. I wish ever so much that

‘Kush’ and ‘Girls in Boy Bars’.

I could stay and live a healthy, normal life’. These

Prod Comp: Channel 4

words were written by 26-year-old Simon Harvey in

Dist/Sales: MayaVision

a farewell letter to his parents. Simon wasn’t ill. He

decided to commit suicide, driving to the Sussex

Best Way, The

countryside where he killed himself with his car’s

exhaust fumes while the hymn To God The Glory

(aka: La Meilleure façon de marcher)

played on the car radio. Simon was a Christian and

Miller, Claude

gay and was tormented in his attempts to reconcile

1976; France; 85 min; Comedy

these two parts of his life. Treading carefully through

W: Luc Beraud, Claude Miller; C: Bruno Nuytten;

sensitive areas, Better Dead than Gay reconstructs the

E: Jean-Bernard Bonis; M: Alain Jomy

background of the tragedy with the help of Harvey’s

Cast: Patrick Deware, Claude Pieplu, Patrick Bouchitey,

diaries and the recollections of his parents and

b

Christine Pascal

friends and clergymen at whose churches he

worshipped. ‘To discover my son was gay was as bad

A summer camp counsellor finds it difficult to face

as losing him’, says Simon’s father. As a gay friend of

the fact that he has become attracted to another

Simon’s says, ‘Religion has a lot to answer for’. (20th

counsellor, after finding the young man dressed in

San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film

women’s clothes. Described by Vito Russo as ‘ Tea

Festival)

and Sympathy with a French accent and guts’. French

with English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: Convergence

Dist/Sales: VideoAmericain

Better than Chocolate

Bete Noire

Wheeler, Anne

Hunt, Victoria

1999; Canada; 98 min; Comedy

1994; Australia; 15 min; B&W; Drama

P: Sharon McGowan; W: Peggy Thompson; C: Gregory P: Lesley Dyer

Middleton; E: Alison Grace; M: Graeme Coleman, Ani Difranco

Lucinda Embers is cheating on her husband with a

Cast: Karyn Dwyer, Christina Cox, Ann-Marie

dazzling soprano. When she finds herself being

MacDonald, Wendy Crewson

blackmailed, she goes to the wrong side of town to

hire Gil McNabe, a big, strong private eye who’s

19-year-old Maggie is a law school drop out working

handy with a gun and a quip.

in a lesbian bookshop when she meets and falls in

love with Kim a travelling artist. Things are perfect

Dist/Sales: Flickerfest

until Maggie’s parents break up and her mother and

Betsy, The

teenage brother arrive and move in to her apartment.

Maggie madly juggles her new relationship and the

Petrie, Daniel

problem of how to tell her mother about her

1978; USA; 120 min; Drama

sexuality. Meanwhile, Maggie’s friends are involved

P: Harold Robbins, Robert Weston, Jack Grossberg;

in romantic dramas of their own. Her younger

W: William Bast, Walter Bernstein; C: Mario Tosi; E: brother explores his burgeoning sexuality, her

Rita Roland; M: John Barry

mother rediscovers her own long departed sexual

Cast: Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross,

self, while Maggie’s boss is pursued by a

Tommy Lee Jones

transgendered nightclub performer coping with the

rejection of her family. (MQFF)

The story of the sordid exploits, both sexual and

financial, of a family of wealthy automobile

Prod Comp: rave films inc.

manufacturers. The character of Loren Hardeman,

Dist/Sales: Cowboy, Alliance, Wolfe, Millivres, ACMI,

played by Paul Rudd, is a homosexual who suicides.

VideoAmericain

Based on the novel by Harold Robbins.

Betty Anderson

Prod Comp: Allied Artists, Harold Robbins Interna-

tional Company

Kamitsuna, Mako

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Warner, AlliedArtists

2000; USA; 40 min; Drama

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A female detective must overcome her mysterious

time arguing and getting drunk. One of the first

past before she can solve a homicide.

Fassbinder films to depict homosexuality.

Dist/Sales: PictureRoom

Prod Comp: Nova International Films

Between the Lines

Beyond Gravity

Constantinou, Sophie

Maxwell, Garth

1997; USA; 21 min; Experimental

1988; New Zealand; 50 min; Comedy

A luminous study of self-mutilation, which focuses

P: James H. Wallace

on sensual images and visual metaphors, as it

Cast: Robert Pollock, Iain Rea, Lucy Sheehan

explores the reasons behind the razor blade and the

Richard spends his time fantasising about outer

motivations of women who cut themselves.

space and the cosmos, an activity which antagonises

friends and family. Then one day he meets Johnny, a

Between Two Women

handsome Italian man, with an enormous appetite

for life, who offers him love and an escape from the

Woodcock, Steven

monotony of work. This short New Zealand film is a

2000; UK; 92 min; Drama

b

joyous celebration of the love between two eccen-

P: Steven Woodcock; W: Steven Woodcock; C: Gordon trics.

Hickie

Prod Comp: James Wallace Productions

Cast: Barbara Marten, Andrina Carroll, Andrew Dunn

Dist/Sales: ACMI

It is 1957 and Ellen Hardy, like many married

women in the industrial, working-class North of

Beyond the Catwalk: The Search for Mr

England, where men are the ‘providers’ and women

Gay Australia 2000

are ‘housewives’, feels vaguely dissatisfied. Ellen

becomes friends with her 10-year-old son’s teacher,

James, Grant

the attractive Kathy Thompson. Kathy has taken a

2001; Australia; 80 min; Documentary

special interest in the son’s artistic ability which

A pecs-fest, abs epic. Guys from around Australia vie

causes conflicts with Ellen’s husband, a factory

for the golden tanned adulation of Mr Gay Australia

worker, who cannot understand why people would

2000.

pay money for his son’s paintings. Ellen’s and Kathy’s

friendship begins to develop further over the course

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

of time, causing ripples in Ellen’s marriage. Ellen’s

sense of isolation grows during a disastrous seaside

Meyer, Russ

holiday when she is torn between her duty as a wife

1970; USA; 111 min; Comedy

and mother and her fear of admitting her growing

P: Russ Meyer; W: Russ Meyer, Roger Ebert;

affections for Kathy. Ellen searches for a way to

C: Fred J. Koenekamp; E: Dann Cahn, Dick Wormel; come to terms with her love for Kathy and the

M: Stu Phillips, William Loose

prison of her prescribed role. Her search for the

Cast: Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom,

strength and courage to fly in the face of the social

John La Zar, Michael Blodgett

mores of her time makes Between Two Women a

This is not a sequel to Susann’s Valley of the Dolls but

compelling drama. (12th Toronto Lesbian & Gay

it follows a similar theme—the sexual adventures of

Film & Video Festival)

three young women. In this case a rock trio out to

Prod Comp: North Country Pictures

make it big in show business. The three singers,

along with their manager, go to Hollywood to break

Beware a Holy Whore

into the big time. Erica Gavin plays the obligatory

lesbian. Classic vulgar exploitation from Meyer.

(aka: Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte)

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, 20thCenturyFox

1970; Germany; 100 min; Comedy

W: Rainer Werner Fassbinder; C: Michael Ballhaus; Beyond Therapy

E: Thea Eymèsz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder;

Altman, Robert

M: Peer Raben, Spooky Tooth

1986; USA; 93 min; Comedy

Cast: Eddie Constantine, Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

P: Steven M. Hart; W: Robert Altman, Christopher

Lou Castel, Hanna Schygulla

Durang; C: Pierre Mignot; E: Jennifer Auge, Stephen P.

A film crew wait in an opulent Spanish hotel for the

Dunn; M: Gabriel Yared

lead actor, director and production money, all the

Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Julie Hagerty, Tom Conti, Glenda

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Jackson, Christopher Guest

Rubel; C: Dean Cundey; E: Harry Keramidas;

Comic farce about two mixed-up Manhattanites

M: Lee Holdridge

who meet through the personal ads. Bruce, a

Cast: Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward, Edward

bisexual in a relationship with Bob, goes on a date

Herrmann, Barry Primus

with a woman. When all fails he heads back to his

Big business complexities are further complicated by

therapist.

the fact that the main characters are discovered to

Prod Comp: New World Pictures, Sandcastle 5 Produc-

have been exchanged at birth. Two of the corporate

tions

executives are homosexual lovers and have a great

Dist/Sales: Roadshow

time camping it up.

Bezness

Prod Comp: Silver Screen Partners III, Touchstone

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, ReelMovies, Touchstone,

Bouzid, Nouri

BuenaVista

1992; France; 100 min; Drama

W: Nouri Bouzid; C: Alain Levent; E: Kahéna Attia; M: Anouar Braham

Cast: Abdel Kechiche, Jacques Penot, Ghalia Lacroix

b

When a French photographer is sent to Tunisia to do

a story on the young male prostitutes there, he soon

befriends Roufa, one of the boys. The photographer

soon discovers the dichotomy of the boy’s life,

between the permissive ways of the West and the

puritanical Arab life.

Prod Comp: Le Studio Canal+

Biches, Les

(aka: The Does)

Big Eden

Chabrol, Claude

Big Eden

1968; France, Italy; 94 min; Drama

P: André Génovès; W: Paul Gégauff, Claude Chabrol; Bezucha, Thomas

C: Jean Rabier; E: Jacques Gaillard; M: Pierre Jansen 2000; USA; 117 min; Drama

Cast: Stephane Audran, Jean-Louis Trintignant,

P: Jennifer Chaiken; W: Thomas Bezucha; C: Rob Jacqueline Sassard

Sweeney; E: Andrew London; M: Joseph Conlan

A psychological thriller involving a triangle between

Cast: Arye Gross, Tim DeKay, Louise Fletcher, Eric

a predatory older woman, Frederique, a young waif,

Schweig

‘Why’, and Paul, an architect. Interest lies in the

A multi-award winner, Big Eden is a celebration of

complexity of the human relationships with their

the power of love, friends and family. Henry Hart is

changing combinations of homosexual and hetero-

a successful New York artist with plenty of money, a

sexual attraction and the special sense of the

cool New York loft and a non-existent love life. After

unspoken shifts in these relationships. In this

hearing news that his beloved grandfather is seriously

geometry of human relationships the triangle

ill, he returns to sleepy home town Big Eden. Once

ultimately becomes a circle, as one personality

there Henry rediscovers his unrequited love for high

consumes another. The milieu is rather more abstract

school friend Dean, while at the same time attracting

than in the subsequent series of psychological

the love of painfully shy, but handsome Pixie Dexter,

dramas constituting Chabrol’s mature phase, of

a Native American who owns the general store and

which Les Biches was the first. French with English

makes a mean Sunday roast. In a refreshing turna-

subtitles.

round on the standard theme of small town bigotry,

Prod Comp: Les Films la Boétie, Alexandra

the folks of Big Eden embrace Henry and prove that

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ACMI, BFI

love really does conquer all. A classic feel-good

romantic story of family, love and redemption.

Big Business

(MQFF)

Abrahams, Jim

Prod Comp: Chaiken Films

1988; USA; 97 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: JourDeFete, Mongrel, Wolfe, 10%,

P: Steve Tisch, Michael Peyser; W: Dori Pierson, Marc VideoAmericain

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Big House, The

sophisticated world of Warhol’s superstar friends—

Viva, Ingrid Superstar, Bridgit Polk to name a few.

Ward, Rachel

2000; Australia; 24 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Andy Warhol Films

Dist/Sales: NewVision, FilmmakersCoop

The Big House tells of the relationship between an

illiterate prisoner and his younger cellmate, who

Bilitis

teaches the former to read. Together they discover

the capacity to love.

Hamilton, David

Dist/Sales: NewTown

1977; UK; 100 min; Erotica

P: David Hamilton; W: Catherine Breillat; C: Bernard Big Sky, The

Daillencourt; E: Henri Colpi, Claire Painchault, Michel

Valio; M: Francis Lai

Hawks, Howard

Cast: Patti D’Arbanville, Mona Kristenson, Bernard

1952; USA; 122 min; B&W; Western

Giraudeau, Mathieu Carriere

P: Howard Hawks; W: Dudley Nichols; C: Russell A rather slow-moving but beautifully shot film that

Harlan; E: Christian Nyby; M: Dimitri Tiomkin

tells of a 16-year-old girl’s sexual and erotic awaken-

Cast: Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt,

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ing, particularly her relationship with an older

Arthur Hunnicutt

woman. This was the first feature film by the well-

A trailblazing journey by an 1830 keelboat expedi-

known photographer of erotic art, made primarily

tion of fur traders, and a handful of mountain men

for a straight male audience.

up the uncharted Missouri River through hostile

Prod Comp: Films 21

Indian territory, provides the context for the

realisation of personal interdependency and

Bill Called William, A

professional cooperation. This companion piece to

Red River contains all the core elements of Hawks’

Harvey, Alex

‘male genre’ films including male bonding (the

1997; UK; 51 min; Documentary

Douglas-Martin relationship) with homosexual

A Bill Called William concerns the controversial and

undertones closer to the surface than in most other

historic campaign to legalise homosexuality in

Hawks films.

Britain which resulted in the Sexual Offences Act of

Prod Comp: RKO, Winchester Pictures

1967. This dramatised documentary supplements

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, NFVLS

contemporary interviews and archive material with

original Parliamentary speeches and convincing re-

Bigger Splash, A

creations. In addition first hand accounts of

Hazan, Jack

pioneering gay rights campaigners are interwoven

1974; USA; 105 min; Documentary

with specially shot footage and evocative 1960s

P: Jack Hazan; W: David Mingay, Jack Hazan; C: Jack music tracks to provide vivid glimpses of what gay

Hazan; E: David Mingay; M: Patrick Gowers

life was like in London in the middle of the

Cast: David Hockney, Henry Geldzahler, Peter

‘swinging sixties’.

Schlesinger

Prod Comp: Channel 4

A revealing documentary about the famous British

Billy Turner’s Secret

gay artist and painter David Hockey. It is told

through a series of witty interviews with the artist,

Mayson, Michael

his ex-lover, his friends and contemporaries.

1990; USA; 26 min; Comedy

Prod Comp: Buzzy Enterprises, Circle Associates

W: Michael Mayson

Dist/Sales: NewLine, BFI

Billy and Rufus live together and share everything,

except Billy’s secret—he’s gay. When the cousin of

Bike Boy

Rufus’s girlfriend drops by unexpectedly, it looks like

Morrissey, Paul / Warhol, Andy

Billy’s secret might be out of the bag.

1967; USA; 96 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: Frameline, Forefront

P: Andy Warhol; W: Andy Warhol; C: Paul Morrissey Cast: Joe Spencer, Viva, Bridgit Polk, Ed Hood, Ingrid

Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss

Superstar

O’Haver, Tommy

Young working-class motorcyclist Joe Spencer, with a

1998; USA; 92 min; Comedy

physique to die for, is the object of everyone’s desire,

P: David Moseley; W: Tommy O’Haver; C: Mark but he’s completely out of his element in the

Mervis; E: Jeff Betancourt; M: Alan Ari Lazar

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Cast: Sean Hayes, Brad Rowe, Richard Ganoung,

caring, responsible and mature young man. So when

Meredith Scott Lynn

Val arrives home and announces his engagement to

Whimsical romantic comedy about Billy who

the daughter of an ultraconservative US senator,

becomes infatuated with handsome, but straight

what choice is there but to accept his decision of

Gabriel. Billy is inspired to find a unique way to

love? With the impending visit of his fiancee’s rigid

satisfy all three of his great obsessions—photography,

family, Val asks his father to straighten up the

old Hollywood movies and Gabriel.

apartment, just a bit. All it entails is the removal of

Armand’s art collection, furnishings, clothes,

Prod Comp: Revolutionary Eye

job...and Albert. The arrival of the senator and his

Dist/Sales: Trimark, Wolfe, VideoAmericain, 10%

wife sets off a comedy of errors as Armand and

Biloxi Blues

Albert attempt to play out the roles of your typical

American husband and wife.

Nichols, Mike

Prod Comp: United Artists, MGM, Nichols

1988; USA; 106 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: UIP, Wolfe, Warner, Swank, ACMI

P: Raymond Stark; W: Neil Simon; C: Bill Butler; E: Sam O’Steen; M: Georges Delerue

Cast: Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken, Corey

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Parker, Michael Dolan

A coming-of-age story set in a war-time boot camp

which involves a group of young men: Jerome, a

sensitive New York Jew who is harassed by a sadistic

sergeant; Arnold, an intellectual who refuses to fit in;

and Hennesy, a homosexual who is court-martialled

and sent to Leavenworth Prison because his private

sex life with another soldier is made public. It is

essentially a story about trying to fit in to a brutal

and insensitive system.

Prod Comp: Universal, Rastar

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, ACMI, Universal

Bird in the Hand

Gund Saalfield, Catherine / Nelson, Melanie

1992; USA; 25 min; Drama

An ever so true-to-life dyke drama set in New York.

Two women attempt to leave the city for a short

vacation, but they are hampered by an endless

The Birdcage

who’ll-look-after-the-cat type checklist and concern

over an ex-lover’s new conquest.

Birthday Time

Dist/Sales: Frameline, Cinenova

Ferber, Lawrence

Birdcage, The

2000; USA; 19 min; Comedy

Christopher is three days away from his 18th

Nichols, Mike

birthday and desperate to get his first gay kiss.

1996; USA; 120 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Lilliput

P: Mike Nichols; W: Elaine May; C: Emmanuel Lubezki; E: Arthur Schmidt; M: Jonathan Tunick, Mark Bisexual Kingdom, The

Mothersbaugh

Cast: Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest,

Schroder, Elizabeth G.

Nathan Lane, Dan Futterman

1987; Canada; 22 min; Comedy

A Hollywood reworking of the classic camp French

An erotic and funny video about the adventures and

comedy La Cage aux Folles but this time without the

misadventures of women and bisexuality. Entertain-

subtitles. Armand and Albert have a home life many

ing, dramatic and serious, The Bisexual Kingdom

would envy. They share a long-time committed

challenges and explores our assumptions about

relationship encompassing their lives and careers and

bisexuality. (Groupe Intervention Video)

have, together, raised Armand’s son Val to be a

Dist/Sales: GroupeIntervention

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Bishonen...Beauty

W: Randall Fontana; C: Adam Kane; E: Paul Petschek; (aka: Meishaonian zhi lian)

M: Michael Tavera

Cast: Patsy Kensit, Stephen Baldwin, Jennifer Rubin,

Yonfan

Adam Baldwin

1998; Hong Kong; 101 min; Drama

Travis Graham is a restless young man whose dreams

W: Yonfan; C: Henry Chung; E: Kam Ma; M: Chris of world travel are grounded when he inherits the

Babida

family ranch. He is soon joined by Kelly Ann Welsh,

Cast: Stephen Fung, Daniel Wu, Shu Qi, Jason Tsang

a young girl claiming to be lost, and Jolene Leder, a

Everyone is in love with the arrogant and aloof Jet, a

sophisticated beauty looking to purchase property.

star gigolo in Hong Kong. That is until he meets and

Jolene is used to getting what she wants—and she

falls in love with Sam, a policeman on his local beat.

wants Travis. He finds himself involved with both

Jet sets out to seduce Sam, but it seems Sam’s past is

women as he explores new emotional and sexual

as murky as Jet’s present. Cantonese & Mandarin

territories. But Travis soon realises the girls have a

with English subtitles.

secret. It’s a conspiracy that results in more adven-

Prod Comp: Far Sun Film Company

ture than he could ever have bargained for. Even

Dist/Sales: Margin, GoldenHarvest, Salzgeber

though there is a lesbian element to the women’s

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relationship, the film was made for a straight male

audience.

Prod Comp: Prism Pictures

Dist/Sales: Rocvale

Bitter Moon

Polanski, Roman

1992; France, UK; 139 min; Drama

P: Roman Polanski; W: Roman Polanski, Gérard Brach, John Brownjohn, Jeff Gross; C: Tonino Delli Colli;

E: Hervé de Luze; M: Vangelis

Bishonen...Beauty

Cast: Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant,

Kristin Scott-Thomas

Bit of Scarlett, A

A young English couple is spending their seventh

Weiss, Andrea

wedding anniversary on a cruise liner in the

1996; UK; 70 min; B&W; Documentary

Mediterranean. One evening they help a young

P: Rebecca Dobbs; E: Andrea Weiss

cabaret star and become involved in her life and her

relationship with her wheelchair-bound husband. A

With the use of rare film footage, Weiss has put

series of flashbacks reveals the tumultuous relation-

together a fascinating and personal look at the

ship between the cabaret star and her husband as

images of gays and lesbians in British cinema and

they share their most intimate sexual experiences.

culture. A queer post-modern 1990s soap opera—

There is a lesbian revelation at the end of the film

part musical, part comedy with heartbreak and a

where the two women end up in bed together, rather

last-minute happy ending. Narrated by Sir Ian

than the expected other man.

McKellen.

Prod Comp: Burrill Productions, Columbia, Le Studio

Prod Comp: Maya Vision

Canal+

Dist/Sales: BFI, MayaVision

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, FineLine

Bite Me Again

Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The

Jenkins, Scooter

(aka: Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant)

1999; USA; 42 min; Documentary

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner

Documentary about a hot and steamy erotic

1972; Germany; 125 min; Experimental

performance in San Francisco.

P: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler;

Dist/Sales: Valhalla

W: Rainer Werner Fassbinder; C: Michael Ballhaus; Bitter Harvest

E: Thea Eymèsz; M: Giuseppe Verdi

Cast: Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann, Hanna

Clark, Duane

Schygulla, Eva Mattes, Katrin Schaake

1993; USA; 98 min; Thriller

This is the story of fashion designer, Petra, her

P: Steven Paul, Gary Binkow, Eric M. Breiman;

young model lover, Karin, and their destructive and

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sadomasochistic relationship. Mind games become

asking what is ‘black enough’ and what isn’t.

rampant when the maid gets involved. A controver-

(Cowboy Pictures)

sial film and considered by some lesbians to be

Dist/Sales: CaliforniaNewsreel, Cowboy

misogynistic.

Prod Comp: Filmverlag der Autoren

Black Lizard

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, BFI

(aka: Kurotokage)

Bittersweet

Fukasaku, Kinji

1968; Japan; 112 min; Comedy

Brave, Alice B.

P: Akira Oda; W: Masashige Narusawa; C: Hiroshi 1993; USA; 16 min; Drama

Dowaki; E: Keiichi Uraoka; M: Isao Tomita

A steamy short film about a dominatrix who returns

Cast: Ko Kimura, Akihiro Maruyama, Yukio Mishima

home from work to her submissive lover and

A wild and campy detective-thriller starring Japan’s

continues her games of power and domination that

celebrated female impersonator, Akihiro Maruyama,

she performs in her job. A violent and passionate

who plays a female crime boss and a mad scientist

film examining lesbian sex, piercing and S/M

called the Black Lizard. Japanese with English

relationships. (Cinenova)

subtitles.

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Dist/Sales: Cinenova

Prod Comp: Shochiku Films

Black and White

Dist/Sales: Cinevista

(aka: Noir et Blanc)

Black Mama, White Mama

Devers, Claire

Romero, Eddie

1986; France; 80 min; B&W; Drama

1972; USA; 82 min; Action

W: Claire Devers; C: Daniel Desbois; E: Fabienne P: Eddie Romero, John Ashley; W: H. R. Christian; Alvarez, Yves Sarda

C: Justo Paulino; E: Asagni V. Pastor; M: Harry Betts Cast: Francis Frappat, Jacques Martial, Josephine

Cast: Pam Grier, Margaret Markov, Lynn Broden, Sid

Fresson

Haig

A shy accountant takes a job in a health resort and

Deliciously campy exploitation version of The

gradually enters into a bizarre sadomasochistic

Defiant Ones where two women who are chained

relationship with a black masseur. As they both

together escape from a Filipino prison camp. Lee

discover an attraction to pain, the massage sessions

(played by cult queen Pam Grier), and a revolution-

become more violent leading to an inevitable,

ary named Karen are brutalised by lesbian wardens

horrifying conclusion.

and plan their escape, despite despising each other.

Prod Comp: Les Films, Du Volcan

The remainder of the film details the women’s efforts

Dist/Sales: Greycat, ACMI

to be rid of each other whilst keeping one step ahead

of the authorities.

Black Glove, The

Prod Comp: American International Pictures, Four

Beatty, Maria

Associates

1996; USA; 30 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: Orion

More stylish S/M erotica from underground

Black Nations/Queer Nations?

filmmaker Maria Beatty who also made the short

film The Elegant Spanking. The Black Glove has a

Frilot, Shari

decidedly darker edge, further exploring the mistress

1995; USA; 59 min; Documentary

and slave scenario and playing with the boundaries

This is an experimental documentary chronicling the

of pleasure and pain.

March 1995 groundbreaking conference on lesbian

Prod Comp: OutSpoken! Productions

and gay sexualities in the African diaspora. The

Dist/Sales: VideoAmericain

conference brought together an array of dynamic

scholars, activists and cultural workers including

Black Is... Black Ain’t

Essex Hemphill, Kobena Mercer, Barbara Smith,

Urvashi Vaid and Jacqui Alexander to interrogate the

Riggs, Marlon

economic, political and social situations of diasporic

1995; USA; 87 min; Documentary

lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgendered

A lively journey, hosted by award-winning director

peoples. The film brings together the highlights of

Marlon Riggs ( Tongues Untied), exploring how

the conference and draws connections between

African–Americans are defining their identities and

popular culture and contemporary black gay media

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production. The participants discuss various topics:

horror actress.

Black and queer identity, the shortcomings of Black

Prod Comp: Galatea Films, Jolly Films

nationalism, and homophobia in Black communi-

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

ties. Drawing upon works such as Isaac Julien’s The

Attendant, this documentary illuminates the

Black Widow

importance of this historic conference for Black

lesbians and gays. (Third World Newsreel)

Rafelson, Bob

Dist/Sales: TWN

1987; USA; 102 min; Thriller

P: Harold Schneider, Laurence Mark; W: Ronald Bass; Black Sheep

C: Conrad Hall; E: John Bloom; M: Michael Small Cast: Debra Winger, Theresa Russell, Sami Frey, Dennis

Glover, Louise

Hopper, Terry O’Quinn

1999; Australia; 27 min; Documentary

A fascinating reworking of the film noir genre, with

P: Penny McDonald; W: Louise Glover

Teresa Russell as femme fatale Reni, who seduces

Lou Glover grew up in Western Australia repeating

then murders a string of unsuspecting men. Debra

the same homophobic and racist taunts she heard

Winger takes on the role of the unsatisfied FBI agent

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around her. Though she was raised in a white family,

Alex. Alex’s investigation is complicated by her

she was dark-haired and dark-eyed and was often

increasing obsession with Reni and the sexual

asked if she was Aboriginal—a suggestion she

tension between the two, which threatens to bring

vehemently denied. It wasn’t until she came out as a

about the downfall of both. A gripping and intricate

lesbian and left the racist and homophobic environ-

film that raises interesting questions about love,

ment in which she was raised that she began to

desire and death. Loaded with sexual tension and

explore her ancestry. And that’s when she uncovered

lesbian innuendo culminating with the two women

the secret that her father’s family had been hiding for

in a slightly-longer-than-usual kiss.

three generations. In this upbeat film from Australia,

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox, Amercent Films,

Lou Glover tells her own story as lesbian, one-time

police officer, and recently-discovered Aboriginal

American Entertainment Partners

woman. (WMM)

Dist/Sales: ACMI, FilmsInc, 20thCenturyFox

Prod Comp: Chili Films

Blair Princess Project, The

Dist/Sales: Chili, WMM

Goldberg, Paula

Black Sheep Boy

2000; USA; 20 min; Comedy

P: Joyce Marie Brusasco, Paula Goldberg, Christine

Wallin, Michael

Price

1995; 39 min; Drama

In August of 1999 three Jewish ‘girls’ set out to a

Black Sheep Boy explores the sexual thrill and

synagogue in Malibu to document their friend Blair’s

emotional obstacles inherent in fantasies of fetishized

wedding. A week later their footage was found.

youth.

Prod Comp: A Baby Tomata Production

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer, VideoAmericain

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!

Black Sunday

Blank Point: What is Transsexualism?, The

(aka: La Maschera del Demonio)

Wang, Xiao-Yen

Bava, Mario

1990; USA; 58 min; Documentary

1960; France, Italy; 83 min; B&W; Horror

P: Andy Martin; W: Xiao-Yen Wang, Andy Martin;

P: Massimo de Rita; W: Mario Bava, Ennio de Concini, C: Xiao-Yen Wang; E: Xiao-Yen Wang, Andy Martin; Mario Serandrei; C: Ubaldo Terzano, Mario Bava;

M: Jean-Pierre Tibi

E: Mario Serandrei; M: Robert Nicolosi

A focus on two male-to-female transsexuals and one

Cast: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Ivo Garrani

female-to-male transsexual who discuss their

This is the story of Princess Asa who was burnt to

psychological and physical changes. We learn to

death as a witch, her punishment for adultery. Two

understand transsexualism as a science that offers

centuries later she returns, along with her lover, to

those who are tormented by a misaligned gender

kill and destroy her cursed family. It shocked

identity the opportunity to alter their physical sexual

audiences in the sixties due to its strong sexual

characteristics to correspond with their psychological

(lesbian) suggestions and its explicit cruelty and was

gender identity.

banned for many years. It is Bava’s first solo feature

Prod Comp: Beijing-San Francisco Film Group

and it also launched Steele’s career as the ultimate

Dist/Sales: EMA, CinemaGuild, NFVLS

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Blazing Saddles

Blessed Art Thou

Brooks, Mel

(aka: A Question of Faith)

1974; USA; 86 min; Comedy

Disney, Tim

P: Michael Hertzberg, Peter Wooley; W: Mel Brooks, 2000; USA; 90 min; Drama

Alan Uger, Richard Pryor, Andrew Bergman, Norman

P: Bill Haney; W: Tim Disney; C: Claudio Rocha Steinberg; C: Joseph Biroc; E: Danford B. Greene, John Cast: Naveen Andrews, Bernard Hill, Paul Guilfoyle,

C. Howard; M: John Morris, Mel Brooks

Daniel Von Bargen

Cast: Gene Wilder, Cleavon Little, Mel Brooks, Slim

In this mystical parable about the inevitability of

Pickens, Don DeLuise

change, the monks in a monastery experience a test

Cleavon Little is a black railroad worker in the 19th

of faith when one of them undergoes a gender

century Midwest who with the assistance of an

transition. Ancient traditions, modern technologies,

alcoholic gunfighter tries to foil the plans of a

and the non-traditional attitudes of the younger

crooked attorney and his henchmen. In spite of the

members of the order become a catalyst for dishar-

so-called plot, Blazing Saddles is an hilarious and

mony. (2000 St Louis International Film Festival)

camp parody of Hollywood westerns (and Holly-

Prod Comp: Uncommon Productions

wood racism) featuring great comic performances.

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Dist/Sales: FirstLook, OFG

Prod Comp: Warner, Crossbow Productions

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, ACMI, Warner

Blind Fairies

Blessed are those who Thirst

(aka: Le Fate Ignoranti; His Secret Life)

(aka: Salige er de som Tørster)

Ozpetek, Ferzan

2000; France, Italy; 105 min; Drama

Kiønig, Carl Jørgen

P: Gianni Romoli, Tilde Corsi; W: Ferzan Ozpetek, 1997; Norway; 118 min; Thriller

Gianni Romoli; C: Pasquale Mari; E: Patrizio Marone; P: Tomas Backström, Petter Borgli; W: Axel Hellstenius; M: Andrea Guerra

C: Kjell Vassdal; E: Inge-Lise Langfeldt; M: Aasmund Cast: Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi, Serra Yilmaz,

Feidje, Carl Jørgen Kiønig

Andrea Renzi, Gabriel Garko

Cast: Kjersti Elvik, Gjertrud Jynge, Lasse Kolsrud, Nils

A woman’s encounter with her husband’s gay lover

Ole Oftebro

changes their lives forever. Antonia is a wealthy

Young medical student Kristine Håverstad is brutally

Italian doctor who has been married to Massima for

raped in her apartment in Oslo. She is afraid, and

15 years. Safe and secure in their relationship, she is

her neighbour, the Iranian refugee Afase is not home

shocked when he is suddenly killed. But nothing

that night. At the same time, police officer Hanne

could have prepared her for the shock of then

Wilhelmsen and police Inspector Håkon Sand are

meeting her late husband’s gay lover Michele, and

faced with a perplexing problem: the streets of Oslo

discovering his secret life. The two are initially

are awash with terror from the mysterious ‘Saturday

suspicious of one another, but eventually the

Massacre’—but there are no corpses. Only blood.

realisation that they loved the same man, brings

Attorney Karen Borg is working for refugees seeking

them together in ways they could never have

asylum in Norway. She is attacked by a disturbed

expected. By the director of Steam: The Turkish Bath.

Bosnian refugee but rescued by Olaf Frydenberg

Italian with English subtitles.

from the immigration authorities. And then, the

Dist/Sales: TF1, Strand

corpses surface and the scope of the brutalities

become even more shocking. At the same time, the

Blind Faith

rape victim’s father searches for the rapist. The

police, the revenge-driven father and the rape victim

Dickerson, Ernest

herself all manage to pick up the tracks of the rapist.

1998; USA; 118 min; Thriller

Set against the backdrop of racial tension in the

P: Nick Grillo; W: Frank Military; C: Rodney Charters; immigrant community of Oslo, the manhunt

E: Stephen Lovejoy; M: Ron Carter

becomes a question of life and death and the search

Cast: Charles Dutton, Courtney B. Vance, Kadeem

for justice. The rape and the ‘Saturday Massacre’

hardison, Lonette McKee

converge to raise the question: Is it the perfect crime,

A police officer’s son is arrested for the murder of a

or is it the perfect revenge? (Norwegian Film

white boy in the Bronx in the repressive 1950s. His

Institute)

brother, John who is a lawyer, agrees to defend him,

Norwegian with English subtitles.

but soon realises that there is more to this story than

Prod Comp: Nordic Screen Productions

meets the eye. The subsequent investigation leads

Dist/Sales: NorwegianFilm

John to uncover a conspiracy that goes beyond the

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police, and causes him to reassess how he looks at

Blonde Cobra

himself and his country. An entertaining examina-

tion of bigotry and repression.

Jacobs, Ken

1963; USA; 25 min; Experimental

Prod Comp: Neufeld Rehme Productions Showtime

Cast: Ken Jacobs, Jack Smith

Dist/Sales: Showtime, Wolfe

This very early gay avant-garde film, is a gritty and

Blind Moment, The

revealing investigation into homosexuals, transves-

tites and transsexuals. Very much made for a gay

Peer, Ellie / Zinc, Felix

audience and designed to offend straights.

1991; UK; 16 min; Drama

The Blind Moment opens with a particularly twisted

Blood and Concrete

lesbian-bashing attack that leaves the victim

comatose and totally helpless in her lover’s hands.

Reiner, Jeffrey

While the dream she experiences in this state is

1991; USA; 95 min; Drama

sensual and surreal, the film is still a disturbing

P: Richard LaBrie; W: Richard LaBrie, Jeffrey Reiner; encounter with illness and dependency. (MQFF)

C: Declan Quinn; E: Richard LaBrie, Jeffrey Reiner; M: Vinny Golia

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Cast: Billy Zane, Jennifer Beals, Darren McGavin,

James Le Gros

Joey Turks is a dim-witted car thief who has a knack

for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Joey

is on the trail of a missing drug shipment, caught in

the squeeze between a drug lord on a hell of a come

down and a hard-boiled detective looking to make

one final bust before he retires. Meanwhile the drug

lord’s gay psycho hoodlum, played by Le Gros, is hot

on Joey’s heals.

Dist/Sales: FirstRelease

Block Party

Block Party

Cronin, Laura Jean

2001; USA; 24 min; Comedy

P: Dillon Kreider; W: Laura Jean Cronin, Tara Morgan Two lesbians work together to put on their very first

street party, with a little love and friendship along

the way.

Dist/Sales: BiProduct

Blood and Roses

Blond Man, The

Blood and Roses

Luketic, Robert

(aka: Et Mourir de Plaisir)

1994; Australia; 24 min; Drama

P: Robert Luketic; W: Robert Luketic

Vadim, Roger

From his bedroom window Jason discovers the

1960; France, Italy; 74 min; Horror

entrance to an exciting new world. The object of his

P: Raymond Eger; W: Claude Brulé, Claude Martin,

love and jealous rage is unaware of the bleak

Roger Vadim, Roger Vailland; C: Claude Renoir;

consequences that arise from unrequited desire.

E: Victoria Mercanton; M: Jean Prodromidès

With Alex Dimitriades.

Cast: Annette Vadim, Elsa Martinelli, Mel Ferrer

Dist/Sales: VCA

In the great tradition of the lesbian vampire genre,

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Carmilla is seduced by her vampire ancestor who

P: Stephen Friedman; W: Walter Newman; C: Robert then takes over her body. Carmilla then goes about

Surtees; E: Sheldon Kahn; M: Elmer Bernstein

seducing and biting other beautiful young women,

Cast: Richard Gere, Paul Sorvino, Tony Lo Bianco, Lelia

including her cousin. This adaption of Sheridan Le

Goldoni

Fanu’s Carmilla, is lots of fun and Vadim plays up

Gere portrays a young man who is caught between

the lesbian aspects of the story.

the construction life of his father and the desire to

Prod Comp: Documento

break away from family tradition. Paralleling the

Dist/Sales: TLA, FilmsInc, Paramount

plot is the story of a gay jeweller played by Bruce

Blood for Dracula

French, who refuses to see his father. Based on the

novel by Richard Price.

Morrissey, Paul / Margheriti, Antonio

Prod Comp: Kings Road Entertainment, Warner

1974; France, Italy; 103 min; Horror

Dist/Sales: Warner

W: Paul Morrissey

Cast: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier

Bloodlust

Follow up to Flesh for Frankenstein. Morrissey at his

Hewitt, Jon / Wolstencroft, Richard

campy, trashy best.

1991; Australia; 84 min; Horror

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P: Jon Hewitt, Richard Wolstencroft; W: Jon Hewitt, Blood Money

Richard Wolstencroft; C: Gary Ravencroft;

Brown, Rowland

E: Jon Hewitt; M: Ross Hazeldine

1933; USA; 65 min; B&W; Drama

Cast: Jane Stuart Wallace, Kelly Chapman, Robert

W: Rowland Brown, Hal Long; C: James Van Trees;

James O’Neill, Max Crawdaddy, John Flaus

E: Lloyd Nosler; M: Alfred Newman

A stylish, macabre and ultra-violent action thriller

Cast: Sandra Shaw, Judith Anderson, George Bancroft,

exploitation flick laced with wicked humour that

Frances Dee, Blossom Seeley

follows the plot line of Fatal Attraction as well as

Sandra Shaw looks absolutely dashing in a tuxedo

featuring an assortment of lesbian vampires. Lear,

and has a passion for men’s clothes. Even though she

Frank and Tad are modern-day vampires who cruise

has a boyfriend, at one point she turns up dressed in

the bizarre world of clubs and groovy hangouts.

a tweed suit with a woman on her arm.

When their friend Dee is killed by a roving band of

Prod Comp: 20th Century Pictures, United Artists

religious fanatics, they decide to embark on a heist

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

they have been planning. The night before the heist

they go on a drug-crazed orgy of sex and violence.

Blood Splattered Bride, The

The heist is held at a casino run by a ruthless

syndicate boss Pastrioni and afterwards they find

(aka: La Novia Ensangrentada)

themselves on the run from the syndicate hit man

Aranda, Vincente

Steig.

1972; Spain; 95 min; Horror

Prod Comp: Windhover Productions

P: Antonio Perez Olea, Jaime Fernández-Cid;

Dist/Sales: ACMI

W: Vincente Aranda; C: Fernando Arribas; E: Pablo González del Amo; M: Antonio Pérez Olea

Bloodsisters: Leather Dykes and S/M

Cast: Simon Andreu, Alexandra Bastedo, Maribel

Martin, Dean Selmier

Handelman, Michelle

Susan, a young bride, has difficulty enjoying sexual

1995; USA; 70 min; Documentary

relations with her new husband at his Gothic

An examination of the political activities and sexual

mansion. When Carmilla, a mysterious woman who

choices of women in the leather S/M community.

is a vampire, arrives Susan is immediately attracted

The film focuses on nine central figures who

to her. They become lovers and plot the murder of

represent a cross-section of the leather S/M commu-

Susan’s husband. Watch out for the very erotic

nity, and by following them, the film provides an in-

blood-filled kiss.

depth look at the world of women into leather S/M.

Prod Comp: Morgana Films

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer

Bloodbrothers

Bloody Mama

(aka: A Father’s Love)

Corman, Roger

Mulligan, Robert

1970; USA; 89 min; Action

1978; USA; 120 min; Drama

P: Roger Corman; W: Don Peters, Robert Thorn;

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C: John A. Alonzo; E: Eve Newman; M: Don Randi Blue Haven

Cast: Shelley Winters, Don Stroud, Pat Hingle, Robert

Cautherley, Julian

De Niro, Bruce Dern

2001; USA; 17 min; Comedy

Sex crazy Ma Barker and her equally depraved gang

Join Fakie and Henry as they chase the Blue Haven

hit town after town in a wild spree of robberies.

pool of their skater dreams. The Blue Haven isn’t the

Nothing seems to stop Bloody Mama. The ad

only dream the boys are chasing, and pretty soon

promoting the film said ‘The family that slays

their harmless fun leads them into humorous times

together, stays together’. It is basically a spoof of the

as they try to save the $40,000 they need for Fakie’s

gangster-family genre with gritty characters includ-

gender reassignment surgery. (MQFF)

ing Ma and four her sons—one’s a junkie, another a

homosexual. The family is held together by incest

and murder. Look out for De Niro who’s great as the

glue-sniffing, model-plane making son.

Prod Comp: American International Pictures

Dist/Sales: Roadshow

b Blow Job

Warhol, Andy

1963; USA; 35 min; Experimental

Warhol depicts a man’s face as he receives the service

referred to in the title.

Blue

Blue Haven

Jarman, Derek

Blue Hour, The

1993; UK; 75 min; Experimental

(aka: Die Blaue Stund)

P: James MacKay, Takashi Asai; W: Derek Jarman;

M: Simon Fisher Turner

Gisler, Marcel

Cast: Nigel Terry, Tilda Swinton, Derek Jarman

1992; Germany; 87 min; Drama

Jarman’s last film before he died of AIDS, is a

W: Marcel Gisler, Andreas Herder, Rudolf Nadler;

startling experiment inspired by the works of the

C: Ciro Cappellari; E: Bettina Böhler; M: Paul Bley conceptual artist Yves Klein. A completely blue

Cast: Andreas Herder, Dina Leipzig, Cyrille Rey-

screen is used throughout the film as Jarman’s

Coquis, Christoph Krix

journals are read by various actors, such as Tilda

The Blue Hour deals with the ambiguous relationship

Swinton and Nigel Terry. At the time Jarman was

between a gay hustler and a straight woman. On the

working on the film his eyesight was severely

surface, magnetically attractive Theo’s life is calm

impaired, in a way the film is taking us into his

and ordered. His apartment is the height of

almost sightless world.

modernist decor, he dresses well and he even has two

Prod Comp: Uplink Co, Channel 4, Arts Council of

phones—one for work and one for his personal life.

Great Britain

He works when he wants to and says he is most

Dist/Sales: ArtificialEye, Zeitgeist, Salzgeber

comfortable with sex when he gets paid at the end of

it. However, still waters run deep and Theo is

Blue Boys

inexorably drawn into the messy world of emotional

involvement: with a friend, a steady customer and an

Marshall, Stuart

older female neighbour—at least until her boyfriend

1992; UK; 25 min; Documentary

returns. This subtle psychological portrait moves far

P: Rebecca Dobbs; W: Chris Woods

beyond the simple question of Theo’s sexual

A riveting look at police powers and obscenity laws

orientation to confront the more difficult issues of

in Britain, which focuses on the infamous Operation

how emotional needs relate to sex and whether it

Spanner case.

satisfies or blocks them. (MQFF)

Dist/Sales: MayaVision

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer, VideoAmericain

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Blue Jeans

Bodies in Trouble

Burin des Roziers, Hughes

Bociurkiw, Marusia

1981; France; 101 min; Drama

1991; Canada; 15 min; Experimental

C: Jacques Assuérus; E: Gilles Amado; M: David MacNeil A video about the lesbian body under siege. Short

Cast: Gilles Budin, Michel Gibet, Daniel Véry

vignettes describe a specific lesbian erotic language

A young French boy is sent to the English seaside to

and a sense of the absurd. Bodies in Trouble is a call

study English, where he falls in love with a young

to action against the danger that the new Right poses

girl. She unfortunately rejects him and falls for an

to lesbian/feminist organising. By describing lesbian

older boy. But the French boy soon becomes

humour, eroticism and social space, it also evokes the

interested in the older boy himself.

funny, sexy and charming aspects of lesbian

Prod Comp: Chloé Productions

existence.

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Blunt: The Fourth Man

Body of a Poet: A Tribute to Audre Lorde

Green, David

1985; UK; 85 min; Drama

1934–1992, The

b

P: Martin Thompson; W: Robin Chapman; C: John Fernando, Sonali

McGlashan; E: Jim Latham; M: Hector Berlioz

1995; UK; 29 min; Drama

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams

W: Sonali Fernando; C: Carolyn Chen; E: Nasser This made for television film centres around the

Aslam; M: Dominique Le Gendre

scandalous spy affair where Guy Burgess, Anthony

Cast: Rhetta Greene, Medusa, Nija Murphy

Blunt, Kim Philby and Donald McLean, were all

An imaginary biography of Audre Lorde—African–

accused of spying for Russia. Blunt was a well-

American, lesbian, feminist, professor, mother,

respected art historian for the Queen. He tries to

visionary and ‘warrior poet’—who died of breast

cover up the network of fellow spies and especially

cancer in 1992. (Cinenova)

the involvement of Guy Burgess, his ex-lover.

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, WMM

Prod Comp: BBC; Dist/Sales: TLA, BBC

Bob & Rose

Body without Soul

Grodecki, Wiktor

Farino, Julian / Wright, Joe

1996; Czech Republic; 90 min; Documentary

2001; UK; 6 x 45 min; Drama

P: Ann Harrison-Baxter; W: Russell T. Davies

A deep and intimate look at the adult video industry

Cast: Alan Davies, Lesley Sharp, Jessica Stevenson

in today’s Czech Republic. Through interviews with

the young models and by actually filming the

Set in Manchester, Bob & Rose expands the view of the

production of an adult video, this film delves into

city made famous by Davies’ previous series Queer as

the psyche of what it takes to sell your body to the

Folk. We see Canal Street and the Babylon again, but

camera for little reward. (Water Bearer Films)

we’re also introduced to Deansgate, where 30-year-old

Czech with English subtitles.

Rose hangs out with her best mates. Rose is funny,

sassy, down-to-earth, and, well, a bit bored with her

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer

life. Then she meets Bob...Bob is in his early thirties, a

teacher, and a gay man with an overly-supportive

Bolo! Bolo!

mum. Having recently ended a relationship, he seems

Rashid, Ian Iqbal / Saxena, Gita

uneasy being single again. He certainly isn’t expecting

1991; Canada; 30 min; Documentary

to meet someone like Rose. Meeting by chance, they

Cast: Himani Bannerji, Sunil Gupta

are both surprised by how fast they click. They can’t

deny that something more than friendship is develop-

More than one of the interviewees in this documen-

ing. Can they really be falling in love—a gay man and

tary about the South Asian community in Toronto

a straight woman? What will Holly, Bob’s scarily off-

remark that they often feel obliged to choose

kilter best friend, do about Bob choosing another

between being gay and being Asian. However, AIDS

woman over her? How do Bob & Rose themselves

and AIDS education are making the need for

deal with the doubts and questions their relationship

visibility within the community more pressing, and

cause? (2002 New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

this film is a powerful part of that process.

Prod Comp: Red Production Co; Dist/Sales: RedProd Dist/Sales: VTape

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Bombay Boys

sex, gender and survival in the harsh slums of

Bombay, the narration builds to a curiously

Gustad, Kaizad

optimistic ending—charged with almost heady irony

1998; India; 105 min; Drama

through the manner in which a few eunuchs find

P: Mahesh Naithani; W: Kaizad Gustad; E: Priya themselves able to exploit their low status for

Krshnaswamy; M: Brad Steven Bergbom

financial gain. (MQFF)

Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Rahul Bose, Naveen Andrews,

Prod Comp: Gidalya Pictures

Tara Deshpande

Dist/Sales: Gidalya

Nothing less than culture shocks and stunning self

realisations tumble down on strangers of West

BOMgaY

Indian descent from three continents who come to

share a flat and tumultuous life in the fast paced

Wadia, Riyad Vinci / Sethna, Jagu

Megalopolis of Bombay. At times reminiscant of the

1996; India; 11 min; Drama

heyday of Leslie Nielson, at others of key moments

Based around the poetry of R. Raj Rao, BOMgaY

of The Full Monty, this partially gay coming out

portrays the gay subculture in contemporary India,

comedy keeps true to its hilarious Bollywood roots.

in what is said to be the first gay film to openly

(1999 Verzaubert Queer Film Festival)

discuss the issue.

b Prod Comp: Kismet Talkies

Dist/Sales: WadiaMovietone

Dist/Sales: Kismet

Boots, Boobs and Bitches: The Art of G.

B. Jones

Parker, Candy

1991; Canada; 15 min; Documentary

In addition to her roles as co-editor of JD’s, co-

founder of New Lavender Panthers and bad-girl

filmmaker, G. B. Jones is a visual artist who has been

described as ‘the lesbian Tom of Finland’. This

‘straight’ documentary outlines the appeal of her

controversial drawings. (MQFF)

Border Line...Family Pictures

Griffith, C. A.

1998; Mexico, USA; 29 min; Documentary

Bombay Eunuch

The life of African–American woman Linden Jordan,

Bombay Eunuch

is evoked in this dramatised personal documentary

recollection of her life, her lovers and her family.

Gucovsky, Michelle / MacDonald, Sean / Shiva,

Dist/Sales: DosEspiritus

Alexandra

2001; India, USA; 71 min; Documentary

Borderline

P: Alexandra Shiva; C: Ajay Narohna, Bimal Biswas; MacPherson, Kenneth

E: Penelope Falk; M: John M. Davis

1930; UK; 61 min; B&W; Drama

Rare are opportunities for Western eyes to explore

W: Kenneth MacPherson

the realm of the Third Sex of India—the subconti-

Cast: Paul Robeson, Eslanda Robeson, Helga Doorn,

nent’s answer to the Castrati: once revered in seats of

Gavin Arthur

government and religious rites alike, now forced into

begging and prostitution to survive. The filmmakers

Set in a small Swiss village, Borderline is the story of

were offered the privileged place of documenting the

interracial love and, although not explicitly gay, there

plight of Meena, a 37-year-old hijra and her adopted

are a number of gay and lesbian undertones.

family of fellow eunuchs. Through their own voices,

Robeson holds the adoration of the inn’s piano

these ‘girls’ provide insights into why they volun-

player and the owner of the inn is a cigar-smoking

teered a life under the sari—which includes full

lesbian whose lover is the barmaid.

castration without anaesthetic, hostile families and

Prod Comp: Pool Group

near certain poverty. Whilst as much a story about

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, BFI

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Born in Flames

Boston Strangler, The

Borden, Lizzie

Fleischer, Richard

1983; USA; 79 min; Sci-Fi

1968; USA; 109 min; Thriller

P: Lizzie Borden; W: Lizzie Borden, Hisa Tayo;

P: Robert Fryer; W: Edward Anhalt; C: Richard Kline; C: Ed Bowes, Al Santana, Phil O’Reilly; E: Lizzie Borden E: Marion Rothman; M: Lionel Newman

Cast: Honey, Adele Bertel, Jeanne Satterfield, Flo

Cast: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Sally

Kennedy, Pat Murphy

Kellerman, James Brolin

In New York 10 years after a peaceful social

Based on the shocking true story of the murders that

democratic revolution, the achievements of the

took place in Boston between 1962 and 1964. This

revolution are celebrated by the official media but

unnerving thriller follows the tracks of schizophrenic

life in the streets remains the same—poverty, urban

Albert De Salvo and his strangulation rampage. A

decay, unemployment and male harassment of

homosexual man, played by Hurd Hatfield, was

women. A band of female anarchists, led by a black

originally accused of the crimes.

lesbian, battle an unresponsive government.

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox

Prod Comp: Jerome Foundation

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox

Dist/Sales: CinemaLibre, FirstRun/Icarus,

b

FirstRunFeatures, NFVLS, VideoAmericain

Bound

Borstal Boy

Wachowski, Andy / Wachowski, Larry

1996; USA; 108 min; Thriller

Sheridan, Peter

P: Andrew Lazar, Stuart Boros; W: Larry Wachowski, 2000; Ireland, UK; 93 min; Drama

Andy Wachowski; C: Bill Pope; E: Zach Staenberg; P: Pat Moylan, Arthur Lappin; W: Nye Heron, Peter M: Don Davis

Sheridan; C: Ciaran Tanham; E: Stephen O’Connell; Cast: Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly, Joe Pantoliano, John

M: Stephen McKeon

P. Ryan, Christopher Meloni

Cast: Shawn Hatosy, Danny Dyer, Lee Ingleby, Robin

A very stylish lesbian film noir thriller with two very

Laing, Michael York

beautiful women looking for lust, love and loot.

Borstal Boy is an Irish film based on the memoirs of

Violet and her Mafia boyfriend Caesar live next door

noted author and raconteur Brendan Behan. Behan,

to an apartment that Corky, a girl just released from

a 16-year-old Irish soldier, goes on a mission from

prison is renovating. Through the walls Corky listens

Ireland to Liverpool during World War II. His

to the comings and going of Violet, Caesar and

mission is thwarted when he is apprehended,

other mobsters. The two women meet, fall in love

charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform

and decide to rip off the Mafia. A modern lesbian

institution for young offenders in East Anglia,

classic, and deservedly so.

England. At Borstal, Brendan is forced to live face-

Prod Comp: Dino De Laurentiis Productions, Spelling Films to-face with those he perceived as ‘the enemy’, a

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, Wolfe, ACMI

confrontation that reveals a deep inner conflict in

the young Brendan, and forces a self-examination

Bound and Gagged: A Love Story

that is both traumatic and revealing. Events take an

unexpected turn and Brendan is thrown into a

Appleby, Daniel

complete spin. In the emotional vortex, he finally

1992; USA; 96 min; Comedy

faces up to the truth. (Strand Releasing)

P: Dennis J. Mahoney; W: Daniel Appleby; C: Dean Dist/Sales: Strand, Clarence

Lent, Vincent Donohue, Roger Schmitz; E: Kaye Davis;

M: William Murphy

Cast: Elizabeth Saltarrelli, Ginger Lynn Allen, Karen

Black, Chris Denton

Road movie featuring two bisexual women and a

confused straight man. Cliff is depressed after the

break up of his marriage, Elizabeth is a bisexual

determined to cheer him up and Leslie, Elizabeth’s

lover, is in a marriage she would prefer to be out of.

Comic and bizarre events happen as Leslie tries to

escape back to her husband and Cliff tries to kill

himself on numerous occasions.

Prod Comp: Cinescope Productions

Borstal Boy

Dist/Sales: NorthernArts

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Bounty, The

Boy Named Sue, A

Naczek, Jason

Wyman, Julie

2001; USA; 18 min; Comedy

2000; USA; 57 min; Documentary

Two women that desperately want to have a baby

Filmed over several years, A Boy Named Sue plots

steal a rare sperm sample. A cross-country chase

Sue’s transformation from butch dyke to Theo—

ensues with a male chauvinist bounty hunter on

‘self-confessed transman with pussy’. A unique

their tail.

insight into Theo’s changing experiences as well as

the difficulties encountered by his lesbian lover and

Box, The

friends. (MQFF)

Eddey, Paul

Dist/Sales: WMM

1975; Australia; 100 min; Comedy, Drama

Boy Next Door

P: Ian Jones; W: Tom Hegarty; C: Wayne Williams; E: Philip Reid; M: Gary Hardman

Pfirman, Carl

Cast: Barrie Barkla, Fred Betts, Belinda Giblin, Ken

1998; USA; 13 min; Comedy

James, Paul Karo

A teenage brother and sister fight it out over their

b

A spin-off from the Australian television series of the

mutual love for the attractive new boy in the

same name set in a television station featuring the

neighbourhood.

bawdy exploits of its staff, including bisexual

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

reporter Vicki Stafford and high camp director Lee

Film Festival, 1999: Audience Award Best Gay Short

Whiteman. The film version expands on the

Dist/Sales: Atom

television series by including high camp song and

dance numbers, great 1970s clothes, and loads of

Boy Next Door? A Profile of Boy George

gratuitous and explicit nudity.

Kidel, Mark

Prod Comp: Crawford Productions

1993; UK; 50 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: Roadshow

Intimate portrait of famed gay pop singer Boy

Boy Germs

George.

Franko, Justine

Prod Comp: Channel 4

1999; USA; 15 min; Comedy

Boychick

Short comedy about a girl who suffers from

blistering sores every time she kisses a boy. She is

Gaylord, Glenn

miraculously cured by her first kiss with a girl.

2001; USA; 12 min; Comedy

Prod Comp: All-Girl-Action Productions

A Jewish teenager’s crush on the handsome boy in

Dist/Sales: All-Girl-Action

school is helped along with a little assistance from an

almost-imaginary friend. (MQFF)

Boy Girl

Dist/Sales: NJB, FillingTheGap

Boschman, Lorna

Boyfriends (1995)

1999; Canada; 14 min; Documentary

Three artists talk about their tomboy past, butch

Hunsinger, Tom / Hunter, Neil

present and sexuality.

1995; UK; 82 min; Comedy

P: Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter; W: Tom Hunsinger,

Dist/Sales: VideoOut

Neil Hunter; C: Richard Tisdall; E: John Trumper Boy like many Others, A

Cast: James Dryfuss, Mark Sands, Michael Urwin,

David Coffey

(aka: Un Ragazzo come Tanti)

Boyfriends unfolds one Easter weekend as three gay

Minello, Gianni

friends and their partners spend the weekend

1983; Italy; 96 min; Drama

together at a country cottage. Paul and Ben have

Cast: Stefano Mioni

been together for five years. It’s beginning to seem a

The story of a fresh-faced young man who comes to

lot longer... Matt and Owen have going out for three

the big city where he encounters poverty and

months. Matt hears wedding bells but he’s going to

exploitation. He becomes a prostitute and gets

hear more than he bargained for by Sunday... Will

involved with drug dealing and crime as his

picked Adam up the night before but it turns out

depression mounts. He finally finds help and

that they already have a history. The question is

understanding with a male artist.

whether or not they have a future. Boyfriends is a

80

comedy about exploring the depths, and the

Awards: Academy Awards, 1999: Best Actress (Hilary

shallows, of gay relationships in the 1990s.

Swank)

(Mongrel)

Prod Comp: Killer Films, Hart-Sharp Entertainment

Prod Comp: Essex Features

Dist/Sales: FoxSearchlight, 20thCenturyFox, Wolfe,

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures, Wolfe, Mongrel,

ACMI

VideoAmericain

Boys from Brazil, The

Boyfriends (1999)

Davidson, John-Paul

Horton, Simon

1993; Brazil, UK; 70 min; Documentary

1999; UK; 11 min; Comedy

P: Trudi Styler; C: Vittorio Dragonetti, Flávio Ferreira, A classified ad, a coal shed, a threesome and a waiter.

Guy Gonçalves, Brian Sewell, Gigi Verga; E: Sara

A novel way to find your dream man.

Bhaskaran, Ray Frawley

Dist/Sales: Absolute

Documentary which explores the lives of transves-

tites, or ‘tranvesties’ and ‘she-males’ as they are called

in Brazil. It focuses on Samara, a once-famous male

performer known as Bobby Fontal, and Luciana, a

b

young ‘tranvestie’ who was befriended by Samara at

the age of nine. We follow them for two years,

confronting the horrible results of home silicon

insertions for extra cleavage or fleshy hips. Their

dream is to leave Brazil for Europe where they hope

to find greater fortune. Readily acknowledging the

European male attraction to dark-skinned Brazilians,

Samara and Luciana believe their success is depend-

ent on obeying the customs of ‘Candomble’, a

ergman

voodoo religion that came to Brazil via the black

rad BB

slave ships from Africa. Sacrifices to spirits must be

Boychick

made to ensure that travel to Europe will be possible.

A fascinating exploration of homosexuality, prostitu-

Boys Don’t Cry

tion and gender identity in Brazil. (MQFF)

Peirce, Kimberly

Some Portuguese with English subtitles.

1999; USA; 120 min; Drama

Prod Comp: BBC, Xingu Films

P: John Hart, Christine Vachon, Eva Kolodner, Jeffrey

Dist/Sales: Xingu

Sharp; W: Kimberly Peirce, Andy Bienen; C: Jim

Denault; E: Tracy Granger; M: Nathan Larson

Boys in the Backyard

Cast: Hilary Swank, Chloe Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard,

Kennerley, Annette

Brendan Sexton II

1997; UK; 22 min; Documentary

Based on the life and death of Brandon Teena, Boys

A slice of San Francisco life in the summer of 1993.

Don’t Cry is a gripping and very moving account of

Matt and Jo sit together in their back yard and talk

difference and intolerance. Believing herself to be a

about their daddy/boy relationship, transgender, life/

male, Brandon constructs a masculine persona for

love, tattoos and tomato plants. (Cinenova)

herself and acts and lives as a man in a poverty

stricken community in Nebraska. Within this ‘white

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

trash’ locale she attempts to live her identity as best

Boys in the Band, The

she can. She falls in love with Lana, and a tender

romance ensues, which results in a group of local

Friedkin, William

young men venting their homophobic violence on

1970; USA; 120 min; Drama

the lovers. One of a series of works in late 20th

P: Mart Crowley; W: Mart Crowley; C: Arthur Ornitz; century American cinema which attempted to deal

E: Carl Lerner, Jerry Greenburg

with the the increasing fracturing and alienation of

working class life caused by unemployment and the

Cast: Leonard Frey, Kenneth Nelson, Cliff Gorman,

rationalising of both economics and ethics, Boys Don’t

Frederick Combs, Robert La Tourneaux

Cry resonates deeply as both a story of damaged lives

This was the first Hollywood film in which all the

as well being an inspiring challenge to conservative

principal characters were homosexual. As such, it

understandings of gender and sexuality. (ACMI)

was viewed at the time as a serious study of gay men

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and mounted as a special project in which Crowley’s

Boys of Manchester, The

off-Broadway play was adapted with great fidelity to

the original text. To Vito Russo, The Boys in the Band

Catania, John / Ignacio, Charles

is ‘a perfunctory compendium of easily acceptable

2000; USA; 53 min; Documentary

stereotypes who gather at a Manhattan birthday

Those randy Manchester lads are at it again in this

party and spend an evening savaging each other and

US documentary that takes us deep behind the

their way of life’. Yet Russo also recognised it as a

action on Queer as Folk, one of the most audacious

landmark film, ‘part catharsis part catalyst’, which

gay TV programs ever made. Creator and writer,

opened the way for less stereotyped portrayals of

Russell T. Davies, and producer Nicola Shindler,

homosexuality.

chart the show’s astonishing progression from small

Prod Comp: Leo, Cinema Centre 100, National General

screen success to worldwide sensation. This candid

Pictures

‘behind-the-scenes’ peek also features interviews with

gay-for-pay actors Aiden Gillen, Craig Kelly and

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, 20thCenturyFox, Swank, BFI,

Charlie Hunnam. These men behaving badly

NFVLS, ACMI, VideoAmericain

happily expose all the dirty little secrets of the

Boys Next Door, The

production. (MQFF)

b

Dist/Sales: In-The-Life

Spheeris, Penelope

1985; USA; 90 min; Drama

Boys on the Side

P: Sandy Howard, Keith Rubinstein; W: Glenn Morgan, James Wong; C: Arthur Albert; E: Andrew Horvitch; Ross, Herbert

M: George S. Clinton

1995; USA; 112 min; Drama

Cast: Maxwell Caulfield, Charlie Sheen, Patti

P: Arnon Milchan, Steven Reuther, Herbert Ross;

W: Don Roos; C: Donald E. Thorin; E: Michael R.

D’Arbanville, Christopher McDonald

Miller; M: David Newman

Explores the violence unleashed when a young man’s

Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew

suppressed homosexuality is finally released through

Barrymore, Matthew McConaughey

anger and rage. Two teenage boys go on a killing

spree just before their graduation. In the opening

Three very different women share a car going west.

scene, the character played by Caulfield is shown as

During their road trip they go on a journey of self-

sexually repressed. He is contrasted with a high-

discovery, but best of all they find they have each

school friend, Tom, who is openly gay.

other. Parker plays a young uptight and conservative

woman dying of AIDS, Barrymore is an impetuous,

Prod Comp: Republic Pictures Corporation, New World

light-hearted white heterosexual and Goldberg is a

Boys’ Night Out

black lesbian who has fallen in love with Parker.

When Parker’s illness worsens, they settle in a small

Caise, Yule

town and make a life for themselves.

1996; USA; 34 min; Comedy

Prod Comp: Alcor Films, Hera Productions, Le Studio

A homophobic man is coerced into running an

Canal+, Regency Enterprises

AIDS charity race, where the only rule is the

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, ACMI, Warner, Swank

contestant must wear a minimum of 2-1/2" heels.

Brad

Boys of Cell Block Q

Noyce, Phillip

1977; Australia; 10 min; Drama

Daniels, Alan

P: Tom Manefield; C: Mike Edols

1992; USA; 90 min; Comedy

P: Kevin M. Glover; W: Ralph Lucas; C: Ron Hamill; Brad identifies as a homosexual. His mother

M: Shaun Guerin

expresses her feelings about Brad’s sexuality. Brad is

Cast: Lewis Alante, Andrew Addams, Slade Burrus,

shown in his employment at a service station, and

enjoying himself socially.

Larry Maraviglia

Prod Comp: Film Australia; Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ACMI A low-budget, humorous, tongue-in-cheek spoof of

boys-in-prison films featuring sex, sadism and sin.

Bradfords Tour America, The

They’re all there from the pretty boys to sadistic

priests. A very camp romp. Adapted from the play

Morgan, U. B. / Nunn, Jan

by John C. Will.

1999; USA; 60 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: Out & About Pictures

This brave, sometimes frightening and blackly

Dist/Sales: VideoAmericain

humorous mockumentary follows the adventures of

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US queer filmmakers U. B. Morgan and Jann Nunn

computer and one of the key figures in the breaking

as they assume identities as a nice married Christian

of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send

couple, Mr and Mrs Robert Bradford, and set off for

secret orders to their U-boats in World War II.

a three week tour infiltrating America’s religious

Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time

right and obtaining video footage of outspoken

when it was illegal. (Video Americain)

homophobic rhetoric. Their video diary includes a

Prod Comp: BBC, The Drama House

visit to Jerry Falwell’s church, The Jesse Helms

Dist/Sales: BBC, VideoAmericain

Centre, the ghost town that was Jim and Tammy

Faye Bakker’s Heritage USA, and a private meeting

Breaking the Silence

with ‘Reverend’ Fred Phelps.

Chait, Melanie

Brandon Teena Story, The

1985; UK; 66 min; Documentary

This film gives voice to a variety of women of

Muska, Susan / Olafsdottir, Greta

varying ages, races and class backgrounds who have

1997; USA; 90 min; Documentary

had children. Some were lesbians when they decided

P: Susan Muska; W: Susan Muska, Greta Olafsdottir; to have children, others became lesbians after being

C: Susan Muska; E: Susan Muska, Greta Olafsdottir involved in heterosexual relationships. As lesbian

b

The documentary behind the Oscar winning feature

mothers they all have to learn to cope with living in

film Boys Don’t Cry. Based on a true story, The

a hostile society, with the ever-present possibility of

Brandon Teena Story traces the last few weeks in the

losing their children (if they still have them), their

life of the real-life Brandon Teena, who arrived in

lovers or their work.

Falls City Nebraska in 1993. The revelation of

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, BFI

Brandon’s ‘true’ gender set off a chain of brutal

events which culminated in Teena’s horrific rape and

Breaking the Surface

murder at the hands of his girlfriend’s brother.

(MQFF)

Stern, Steven Hilliard

1996; USA; 95 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Bless Bless Productions

P: Mark Bacino; W: Alan Hines; C: Michael Slovis; Dist/Sales: Zeitgeist, Wolfe, FilmsTransit, ACMI

E: Peter Svab; M: Richard Bellis

Break of Day

Cast: Mario Lopez, Michael Murphy, Rosemary

Dunsmore, Jeffrey Meek

Hannam, Ken

Seoul Olympics, 1988: Greg Louganis, while

1977; Australia; 112 min; Drama

plunging towards the water, hits the diving board

P: Patricia Lovell, Cliff Green; W: Cliff Green; C: cutting his head open. Splashing into the water Greg

Russell Boyd; E: Max Lemon; M: George Dreyfus

begins to have flashbacks: Being ridiculed by the

Cast: Sara Kestelman, Andrew McFarlane, Ingrid

other neighbourhood children and his own

Mason, Tony Barry, John Bell

unaccepting, overbearing father; winning an

At the centre of this romantic drama set in a small

Olympic silver medal; the 1982 world champion-

Victorian rural community is the relationship

ship; two gold medals in Los Angeles; the struggles

between an older woman and a discontented

of an abusive relationship with Tom Barrett; his

returned soldier. She is a bisexual artist, escaping

father’s terminal cancer; Tom’s losing battle with

from city life, he is troubled by traumatic memories

AIDS and Greg’s own HIV-positive status. After

of combat at Gallipoli a few years earlier.

doctors in Seoul stitch Greg’s head wound, he

Prod Comp: Clare Beach Films

returns to competition and picks up two more gold

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, Roadshow, ACMI

medals. After his dad’s death and Tom’s lost AIDS’

battle, Greg courageously decides to go public with

Breaking the Code

every aspect of his life. (Wolfe)

Wise, Herbert

Prod Comp: Green/Epstein Productions

1997; UK; 90 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, VideoAmericain

P: Jack Emery; W: Hugh Whitemore; C: Robin Breaking up Really Sucks

Vidgeon; E: Laurence Mery-Clark

Cast: Derek Jacobi, Harold Pinter, Prunella Scales, Alun

McGlone, Jennifer

Armstrong

2001; USA; 11 min; Comedy

A biography of the English mathematician Alan

From infatuation to the U-haul move-in to boredom

Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital

and back again, this clever comedy sends up the

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foibles and follies of lesbian romance and one

P: Gene Rosow, Richard Glandstein; W: Jonathan

woman’s search for true love. With Baywatch’s

Bourne; C: David Carr-Brown; E: Sonja Schenck;

Alexandra Paul. (2002 Miami Gay & Lesbian Film

M: Alexander Bubenheim

Festival)

Cast: Mark Borchardt, Angel Benton, Mike Schank,

Shannon Walker Williams

Brian Epstein Story, The

When an up-and-coming young filmmaker gets

Wall, Anthony

bounced off a shoot with teen-diva Britney Spears,

1998; UK; 140 min; Documentary

he gloms on to the gay winner of a local Britney-

P: Anthony Wall; W: Jon Savage; C: Luke Cardiff, lookalike contest. Hitting the road on the heels of

Louise Caulfield; E: Guy Crossman, Roy Deverell

the real pop-queen, Dude sends footage of his

Britney-in-drag back to homebase—until the whole

This BBC documentary about the notorious

sorry masquerade inevitably starts to crumble. A

manager of The Beatles, a man whom Paul

loopy mockumentary spiked with spot-on observa-

McCartney calls ‘The Fifth Beatle’, is a well-rounded

tions about ‘celebrity’ docs. (2002 Seattle Interna-

look into the man behind the band which deals in

tional Film Festival)

part with his life as a gay man and Jew.

Prod Comp: Hungry Eye Lowland Pictures, Raphael

b Prod Comp: BBC

Films

Dist/Sales: BBC-Arena

Dist/Sales: R&BFilms

Bright Eyes

Broadcast Tapes of Dr Peter, The

Marshall, Stuart

Paperny, David

1984; UK; 85 min; Documentary

1993; Canada; 45 min; Documentary

Produced for Britain’s Channel 4, this is one of the

P: Arthur Ginsburg; W: Peter Jepson-Young; E: Arthur earliest films to deal with the AIDS crisis. It not only

Ginsburg

examines the historical facts but also deals with the

Spanning a two-year period, Dr Peter Jepson-Young

emotional aspects. It shows how the media, partly

(a physician and educator living in Vancouver,

due to its homophobia, ignored or badly handled

British Columbia, who died of AIDS in November

early information about the disease.

1992), made a series of two-minute videos diaries

Prod Comp: Channel 4

about his illness and life that were aired weekly on

Dist/Sales: VDB

Canadian television. They won widespread appeal

and captured the imagination of the country.

Bright Spell

Dist/Sales: DirectCinema

(aka: L’Embellie)

Broadway Damage

Erreca, Jean-Baptiste

2000; France; 30 min; B&W; Drama

Mignatti, Victor

W: Jean-Baptiste Erreca

1997; USA; 110 min; Comedy

Saïd and Noria compete for the attention and

P: David Topel; W: Victor Mignatti; C: Michael Mayers; affections of their adopted brother Karim when he

E: Victor Mignatti; M: Elliot Sokolov

returns from some time away from the family. Karim

Cast: Mara Hobel, Michael Lucas, Hugh Panaro, Aaron

also has a secret he is anxious to keep to himself.

Williams

Dist/Sales: NoSacrifice

In an age when cynicism is considered cool, New

York City is the perfect backdrop for three deter-

Brincando el Charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican

mined friends attempting to take the town by storm.

Marc dreams of his big Broadway break, songwriter

Negrón-Muntaner, Frances

Robert dreams of Marc, and ‘shop-a-holic’ Cynthia

1994; USA; 55 min; Documentary

dreams of landing her fantasy job at the top. When

A film portrait of Claudia Marin, a Puerto Rican

reality intervenes, the fun begins in this tale of

lesbian living in the United States, who attempts to

unrequited love and relentless optimism. (Wolfe)

construct a sense of community.

Prod Comp: Village Art

Dist/Sales: WMM

Dist/Sales: JourDeFete, Wolfe, Millivres

Britney Baby - One More Time

Broadway Melody, The

Boeken, Ludi

Beaumont, Harry

2001; USA; 82 min; Comedy

1929; USA; 105 min; B&W; Comedy, Musical

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P: Irving Thalberg, Lawrence Weingarten; W: Norman Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Dean Cain, Zach Braff, John

Houston, Edmund Goulding, James Gleason; C: John

Mahoney

Arnold; E: Sam S. Zimbalist; M: Herb Nacio Brown, A group of gay friends in West Hollywood have

Arthur Freed

gathered together to celebrate the 28th birthday of

Cast: Eddie Kline, Charles King, Bessie Love, Anita

Denis, a promising photographer. Among the boys

Page

are Denis’s actor house mate, Cole, the cynical

An MGM musical about a romantic triangle

Patrick, drama-queen Taylor, and Jack, the surrogate

involving two sisters and a song-and-dance man. A

mother to them all. Friendships are put to the test

costume designer is the target of sexual innuendo as

when tragedy strikes the group, resulting in unex-

he flits around the set with his hands forever in mid-

pected changes for all of the characters. A 21st

air.

century Boys in the Band, the film explores and

celebrates contemporary gay life in the West

Awards: Academy Awards, 1929: Best Film

Hollywood ghetto. (MQFF)

Prod Comp: MGM

Dist/Sales: MGM

Prod Comp: Banner Entertainment, Meanwhile Films

Dist/Sales: SonyClassics, Col-Tri, Wolfe, 10%

Broken Branches

Bubbeh Lee and Me

b

(aka: Naeil Ui Hyahae Hurunun Kang)

Wilson, Andy Abrahams

Park, Jae-ho

1996; USA; 35 min; Comedy

1995; South Korea; 95 min; Drama

W: Andy Abrahams Wilson

P: Sang-boem Kim; W: Jae-ho Park; C: Seung-ho Park; E: Kok-jee Park; M: Sang-hyon Cho

This Emmy-nominated documentary is an hilarious

Cast: Ye-ryung Kim, Hong-sung Lee, Dae-yun Lee, In-

portrait of an extraordinary, ordinary Jewish

chul Lee

grandmother and a touching account of her

grandson’s search for his place in the world. For her

A low-budget independent film that is said to be the

filmmaker grandson, a young gay man born to a

first gay film from Korea. The story spans the years

Jewish mother and Protestant father, 87-year-old

from 1955 to the present day and describes, in three

Bubbeh Lee is a vital link to self and cultural

chapters, the breakdown of traditional family

identity, and to unconditional love and acceptance.

structures, reflecting also the country’s social and

As the two of them relate feelings of love lost or

political change. The first chapter focuses on the

feudal family in the sixties and the children rebelling

hidden, kibbitz about strategies for shopping, and

against its patriarchal system. The second shows the

avoid meddling matchmakers, the strength of their

decline of the father figure, and the third shows the

bond emerges. (Open Eye)

narrator’s attempts at a relationship with a married

Dist/Sales: OpenEye, NewDay

man.

Bubbles Galore!

Prod Comp: SamWoo Media Centre

Dist/Sales: KMPPC

Roberts, Cynthia

1996; Canada; 93 min; Comedy

Broken Goddess

P: Greg Klymkiw; W: Cynthia Roberts, Greg Klymkiw; Dallas, Peter

C: Harald Bachmann; E: Cynthia Roberts, Su Rynard, 1969; USA; 29 min; B&W; Experimental

Sarah Peddie; M: Nicholas Stirling

Cast: Holly Woodlawn

Cast: Nina Hartley, Annie Sprinkle, Tracy Wright,

Daniel MacIvor

A rare underground short featuring Warhol superstar

Holly Woodlawn. A beautiful black-and-white salute

A porn superstar falls for naive ingenue Dory

to both silent films and the Woodlawn image, the

Drawers and considers her for her next film—against

film is camp in the richest sense with Holly lounging

the advice of her assistant Vivian, who argues that a

besides fountains while Debussy plays in the

virgin can’t possibly be convincing in a porn film.

background.

Bubbles decides to give Dory a personal crash course

in the sexual arts, upsetting Vivian, who harbours a

Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy, The

secret crush on Bubbles. All hell breaks loose when

rival porn kingpin Godfrey Montana hatches a plan

Berlanti, Greg

to kill the women in order to make a snuff film.

2000; USA; 95 min; Comedy

Some divine intervention is required from God,

P: Mickey Liddell, Joseph Middleton; W: Greg Berlanti; (played by Annie Sprinkle in a droll cameo) who has

C: Paul Elliott; E: Todd Busch; M: Christophe Beck been overseeing proceedings all the while. More

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erotica than narrative, Bubbles Galore! successfully

Bugis Street

revamps the whole porn genre—moody montage

(aka: Yao jie huang hou)

sequences replace the moaning, groaning crotch

close-ups, and the narrative, such as it is, focuses on

Yonfan

women’s love. (MQFF)

1994; Singapore; 100 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: Showcase

P: Katy Yew; W: Yonfan, Fruit Chan, Yuo Chan;

C: Jacky Tang; E: Ma Kam; M: Chris Babida Buck House

Cast: Hiep Thi Le, Michael Lam, Benedict Goh, Greg-

O, Ernest, Gerald Chen

Cummins, Stephen / Hindmarsh, Gary / Wells,

Set during the 1960s in Singapore, when Bugis

Brendon

Street was the centre for drag clubs and transvestite

1993; Australia; 18 x 20 min; Drama, Comedy

prostitution. The story centres on Lian, a young 16-

Cast: Jude Kuring, Anthony Hunt, Madeline Bridgett,

year-old from Malacca, who gets a job as a recep-

Glen McKenzie, Elizabeth Tolley

tionist at the Sin-Sin Hotel. It’s the home of a gaggle

A series of programs, in a soap-opera style, that

of drag queens, all of whom have stories of broken

centre on the comings and goings of a gay boarding

hearts and drunken sailors. Lian learns more about

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house in Sydney. With all the drama, comedy and

life, lipstick and eyeliner than most—mainly from

pathos expected from intertwining and complex

Drago, a Paris-based drag queen, back in town to

relationships.

look after her ailing mother.

Prod Comp: Buck House, National Audio Visual

Prod Comp: Jaytex Productions

Archives

Dist/Sales: Margin, VideoAmericain

Buckeye and Pinto

Pinder, Phil

1979; Australia; 29 min; B&W; Comedy

P: Tim Isaacson; C: Nino Martinetti

Cast: Mitchell Faircloth, Simon Thorpe

A spoof on American westerns that does not ignore

the homosexual subtext. A film about men and their

problems. A tale of two cowpokes who ride across

the United States of Australia. Together they shoot

everything that moves as they make their way from

Syd Francisco to the Kingaroy badlands and Miss

Kitty.

Prod Comp: Experimental Film & Television Fund

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

Buddies

Bressan Jnr, Arthur J.

1985; USA; 80 min; Drama

Bugis Street

P: Arthur J. Bressan Jnr; W: Arthur J. Bressan Jnr; C: Carl Teitelbaum; E: Arthur J. Bressan Jnr; M: Jeffery Bungee Jumping of their Own

Olmstead

(aka: Beonjijeonpeureul hada)

Cast: David Shachter, Geoff Edholm, Billy Lux, David

Kim, Dae-seung

Rose

2000; Korea; 99 min; Drama

A gay activist suffering from AIDS starts out hating

P: Nak-kwon Choi; W: Eun-nim Ko; C: Hu-kon Lee; the yuppie volunteer who comes to take care of him

E: Yu-kyeong Park

out of a sense of duty, but their brief relationship is

Cast: Byeong-heon Lee, Eun-ju Lee, Su-hyeon Hong,

both poignant and intense. One of the first narrative

Hyun-soo Yea

feature films to deal with the AIDS crisis in a very

When In-woo shares his umbrella with Tae-hee

personal way.

during a rainstorm in 1983, he falls hopelessly in love

Prod Comp: Film and Video Workshop

with her. So begins this unusual film, which was a

Dist/Sales: FilmsInc, Salzgeber, NewLine, BFI

box office hit in South Korea in 2001. In-woo is so

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dumbstruck that it takes him a while to figure out

Burning Boy, The

that Tae-hee has fallen in love, too. All he knows is

he’ll do anything for her—like pretending to be a

Galvin, Kieran

smoker just because she gave him a lighter as a gift.

2000; Australia; 12 min; Drama

On the night they finally go to a motel room to

Get Real meets Head On in this powerful and

consummate their love, she promises to stay with him

controversial drama of a teenage boy torn by his lust

forever. But then she mysteriously disappears.

for a fellow classmate. A disturbing film for anyone

Seventeen years later, In-woo is a married teacher

who has been 16, in love and in the closet. (MQFF)

riding herd on a classroom of boisterous boys. But

this semester, something is different. There’s some-

Burning Secret

thing about one of his students, a boy named Hyun-

bin... something that keeps taking In-woo back to the

Birkin, Andrew

past. Soon In-woo is making odd late-night phone

1988; Germany, UK, USA; 106 min; Drama

calls to the boy and fighting the urge to touch him in

P: Norma Heyman, Eberhard Junkersdorf; W: Andrew

class. After a series of strange coincidences, In-woo

Birkin; C: Ernest Day; E: Paul Green; M: Hans Zimmer begins to fear for his own sanity. And his students, co-Cast: Faye Dunaway, Klaus Maria Brandauer, David

workers and wife are starting to wonder as well.

Eberts, Ian Richardson

b

When Hyun-bin finally confronts his teacher and

While recuperating in a sanatorium in the moun-

demands to know what is going on, things really

tains, a young boy becomes very close friends with

begin to fall apart—only to fall back together again—

an older baron. But the baron is only using the boy

in this tragic love story. In the end, student and

to get to know his mother, the wife of an older

teacher are united, if only in their conviction that true

diplomat. When the boy realises the baron’s

love can transcend anything, even death. (26th San

intentions, he becomes jealous, moody and de-

Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

pressed. Queer audiences will spot the underlying

Korean with English subtitles.

homosexual subtext to the relationship between the

Prod Comp: Noon Entertainment

boy and the baron.

Dist/Sales: Cineclick

Prod Comp: NFH, BA, CLG

Burlesk King

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri

Chionglo, Mel

1999; Philippines; 109 min; Drama

P: Robbie Tan; W: Ricardo Lee; C: George Tutanes; E: Jess Navarro; M: Nonong Buencamino

Cast: Rodel Velayo, Nini Jacinto, Leonardo Litton,

Raymond Bagatsing

At the rough end of male desire, Burlesk King does

for South-East Asian cinema what films such as

Happiness have done for middle America. Harry, a

young Filipino–American, comes to Manila to look

for his father and avenge his mother’s death. Given

his own troubled past—his father used to pimp

him—Harry soon resettles into Manila’s underbelly.

Burnt Money

He finds love in a friend, James, and Brenda, a

Burnt Money

superstitious teenage hooker. When James is killed

by rival thugs, Harry starts pimping Brenda but

(aka: Plata Quemada; Burning Money)

realises he is mimicking his father’s ways. Eventually

Pineyro, Marcelo

he finds his father—dying of AIDS in a squatter’s

2000; Argentina, France, Spain, Uruguay; 125 min; Drama

shack—who tells him the truth about his mother.

P: Oscar Kramer; W: Marcelo Pineyro, Marcelo

Burlesk King is a powerhouse drama with wide-

Figueras; C: Alfredo F. Mayo; E: Juan Carlos Macías; reaching currency. That films such as this are

M: Osvaldo Montes

infrequently exported from the Philippines is

Cast: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Eduardo Noriega, Pablo

testimony to its potency. (MQFF)

Echarri, Letica Brédice

English & Tagalog with English subtitles.

Set in Argentina in 1965, Burnt Money is based on

Prod Comp: Seiko Films

the true story of the ruthless bank-robbing duo,

Dist/Sales: Fortissimo, Strand, Wolfe

Nene and Angel. Everyone calls them ‘Los Mellizos’

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(the twins), but they are actually lovers: lethal,

Busting

thieving lovers. It’s the story of a doomed relation-

ship, confined to four rooms where intense passion

Hyams, Peter

and violence push the extremes. They flee from

1974; USA; 89 min; Drama

Argentina across the border to Uruguay after a large-

P: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff; W: Peter Hyams; scale hold-up turns bloody. With the cops closing in,

C: Earl Rath; E: James Mitchell; M: Billy Goldenberg the two lovers must confront their demons to

Cast: Elliott Gould, Robert Blake, Allen Garfield,

survive. (Mongrel)

Antonio Fargas

Spanish with English subtitles.

Two Los Angeles vice squad officers find themselves

Dist/Sales: Strand, Mongrel, Wolfe

up against their corrupt superiors when they try

bringing a crime boss to justice. During the course

Bus Riley’s Back in Town

of their investigation, the two cops disguise them-

selves as gays and raid a gay bar. When the gays

Hart, Harvey

refuse to go quietly, a riot ensues. One of the most

1965; USA; 93 min; Drama

homophobic and offensive films to come out of

P: Elliot Kastner; W: William Inge; C: Russell Metty; Hollywood in the 1970s.

E: Folmar Blangsted; M: Richard Markowitz

b

Prod Comp: United Artists, Chartoff-Winkler Produc-

Cast: Michael Parks, Ann-Margret, David Carradine,

tions

Janet Margolin, Brad Dexter

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Warner, UA

Bus Riley returns to his small town after time in the

army. On his return, his ex-girlfriend wants to

But I was a Girl: The Story of Frieda

resume their relationship. The only problem is she

Belinfante

has married in the mean time. Searching for

fulfilment in his life, Bus decides to get a job with

Boumans, Toni

his gay friend who is a mortician. When the

1998; The Netherlands; 69 min; Documentary

mortician makes a pass at him, Bus quickly gets out.

P: Bernard Neuhaus; W: Toni Boumans; C: Maarten Prod Comp: Universal

Kramer

Dist/Sales: Universal

But I Was a Girl tells the story of Frieda Belinfante

(1905–1995), a remarkable woman who was the first

Business of Fancydancing, The

female conductor to have her own symphony

Alexie, Sherman

orchestra, first in Holland and later in Orange

2002; USA; 85 min; Drama

County, California. Controversial, because of her

sexuality, she showed a remarkably strong and

P: Larry Estes, Scott Rosenfelt; W: Sherman Alexie; positive will in everything she did. Born in a family

C: Holly Taylor; E: Holly Taylor

of musicians in Amsterdam, she joined the resistance

Cast: Evan Adams, Michelle St John, Gene Tagaban,

during World War II, then later fled to Switzerland.

Swil Kanim

After the war she moved to the US where she

Famed author Sherman Alexie, whose stories were

resumed her musical career in the Hollywood

adapted in the 1998 arthouse hit Smoke Signals,

studios, and formed her own symphony orchestra

makes his directorial debut with this complex and

with Hollywood musicians. The story of Frieda’s life

poetic drama focusing on the emotional reunion of

is told by herself, her older sister Renee, old students

former best friends. Seymour and Aristotle were best

and friends, and illustrated by the places she lived,

friends on the Spokane Indian Reservation growing

archive materials of her orchestras and some of her

up, but parted ways unhappily during college.

most beautiful music. (First Run/Icarus)

Seymour embraced the advantages offered by white

Dutch with English subtitles.

society, becoming a celebrated poet offering pre-

Prod Comp: Frame Media Productions

packaged ‘Native American wisdom’ to a guilty

white-liberal readership, and holding himself up as a

Dist/Sales: Neter, FirstRun/Icarus

spokesman for all Indians. Aristotle, meanwhile,

But, I’m a Cheerleader

floundered, returning to the reservation. Now,

sixteen years later, the death of a childhood friend

Babbit, Jamie

forces Seymour to leave his white lover, Steven, and

1999; USA; 85 min; Comedy

head back to the reservation to confront his past and

P: Andrea Sperling, Leanna Creel; W: Brian Wayne

the choices that separated him from his friends and

Peterson; C: Jules Labarthe; E: Cecily Rhett;

family. (2002 New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

M: Pat Irwin

Prod Comp: FallsApart Productions

Cast: Natasha Lyonne, RuPaul Charles, Cathy Moriarty,

Dist/Sales: WelbFilm

Mink Stole, Clea Du Vall

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There’s a high belly laugh quota in this hilarious tale

Butley

of a high school cheerleader whose suspect sexuality

sees her sent off to a ‘rehabilitation’ camp run by

Pinter, Harold

Mike. Megan’s parents are concerned by her

1974; Canada, UK, USA; 130 min; Drama

attachment to Melissa Etheridge, Tofu and her lack

P: Ely A. Landau; W: Simon Gray; C: Gerry Fisher; of passion for her high school jock boyfriend. High

E: Malcolm Cooke

camp hysterics and sorority house hi-jinks ensue

Cast: Alan Bates, Richard O’Callaghan, Jessica Tandy,

once Megan arrives at ‘True Directions’ where she

Susan Engel

finds herself amongst a choice collection of up-and-

Butley is set in Queen Mary’s College, London and

coming queers. Will any of the group make it to

focuses on two English instructors, Ben Butley, a

hetero graduation? (MQFF)

middle-aged former T. S. Eliot expert whose life is

Prod Comp: Ignite Entertainment, Kushner-Locke,

now in a shambles, and his protégé, Joey, a homo-

HKM Films

sexual. With both Joey and his wife leaving, Butley

Dist/Sales: Kushner-Locke, LionsGate, Wolfe,

faces a life alone, fighting back with wit, obscenity

VideoAmericain, Swank, 10%

and booze.

Prod Comp: Landau, American Express

Butch Camp

b

Butter & Pinches

De Gaetano, Alessandro

1997; USA; 101 min; Comedy

Matthews, Mary C.

P: Steve Gellman, Timothy E. Sabo; W: Alessandro De 2000; USA; 15 min; Comedy

Gaetano; E: Amy Harvey

Meet Butter & Pinches—eccentric, oddball, lesbian

Cast: Judy Tenuta, Paul Denniston, Jason Teresi, Jordan

detectives... without a clue.

Roberts, Bill Ingraham

Dist/Sales: Butter&Pinches

Matt Grabowski is a twenty-something sensitive gay

man who has been put down one too many times.

Butterflies on the Scaffold

He’s mad as hell and he’s not going to take it

(aka: Mariposas en el Andiamo)

anymore! Sam Rottweiller is an ageing sex God

turned neo-fascist commandant who kicks butt at

Bernaza, Lius Felipe / Gilpin, Margaret

Butch Camp, a hysterical pseudo S/M style boot

1996; Cuba; 70 min; Documentary

camp training centre for gay men to learn macho

P: Margaret Gilpin; W: Luis Felipe Bernaza, Margaret survival tactics. Matt and his fellow new recruits are

Gilpin; C: Raúl Pérez Ureta; E: Luis Felipe Bernaza guaranteed a masculine makeover of body, mind and

A remarkable documentary about how the local

soul. (Wolfe)

citizens of a neighbourhood in Havana have

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, VideoAmericain

befriended and accepted into their hearts, the drag

queens and the drag subculture of the ghettos.

Butcher’s Wife, The

Structured around interviews with the drag queens

and locals, it tells how several powerful women on

Hughes, Terry

the new local government decided to support rather

1991; USA; 101 min; Comedy

than suppress the drag culture, and asked them to

P: Wallis Nicita, Lauren Lloyd; W: Marjorie Schwartz, perform at a café where the local workers eat.

Ezra Litwak; C: Frank Tidy; E: Donn Cambern;

Spanish with English subtitles.

M: Michael Gore, Steven Jae Johnson

Cast: Demi Moore, Jeff Daniels, George Dzundza,

Prod Comp: Kangaroo Productions

Frances McDormand

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer, VideoAmericain

A country clairvoyant, played by Demi Moore,

Butterfly Kiss

transfers a New York neighbourhood into a won-

drous place of romantic awakenings and brings a

Winterbottom, Michael

sceptical psychiatrist under her spell. She begins

1995; UK; 85 min; Thriller

dispensing advice to a lesbian boutique owner, a

P: Julie Baines, Sarah Daniel; W: Frank Cottrell Boyce; spinsterish choir director, a soap opera actress and

C: Seamus McGarvey; E: Trevor Waite; M: John Harle others.

Cast: Amanda Plummer, Saskia Reeves, Paul Brown,

Prod Comp: Paramount

Kathy Jamieson, Des McAleer

Dist/Sales: Paramount

Eunice is a dangerously unstable young woman who

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is roaming the countryside looking for her girlfriend,

has big-town aspirations and hitches to San

Judith. While hitchhiking the motorways of

Francisco, determined to make a life out of petty

northern England, passing through towns and cities

crime. Along the way Shy stumbles into Valentine,

scarred by decade-long recession and unemploy-

the irrepressible and loveable eccentric who is on a

ment, she meets Miriam, a shy introverted woman

quest to find her birth mother. The two join forces,

who finds in Eunice the first person who has ever

and as they steal and grift their way through life they

taken her seriously. Told in flashback by Miriam as

forge a friendship that is as unpredictable and

she is interrogated by the police, Butterfly Kiss, is a

unexpected as their characters. Shy, whose name says

powerful and disturbing examination of the

it all, struggles with a constant urge to fly, while the

psychologies of two people left discarded by the

volatile and touchingly fragile Valentine unwittingly

economic and social policies of Thatcherite Britain.

keeps Shy grounded. With wonderful performances

A huge chasm emerges between the love shared by

and deft characterisation, San Francisco-based

the two women for each other and the hatred and

performance artists and directors Harry Dodge and

bitterness they share against a social order which

Silas Howard have crafted this unique urban tale of

ignores their existence and their desires. Though

friendship, trust and heroism with assurance and

Eunice is obviously psychologically ill, Michael

originality. Poignant and unforgettable, this is a story

Winterbottom refuses any easy psychological or

c

of misfits who subvert their stereotypes to confront

moral conclusions. For an audience torn between the

their own truths like you’ve never seen before.

intimate generosity shared between the two women,

Prod Comp: Steakhaus Productions & NGB

and the bloody results of their murderous rampage,

Dist/Sales: Howard, Wolfe

the film proves both emotionally moving and

intellectually confronting. (ACMI)

Prod Comp: British Screen, Dan Films, Lions Gate

Films

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Cowboy, FirstRunFeatures, ACMI

By Design

Jutra, Claude

1981; Canada, USA; 91 min; Comedy

P: Beryl Fox, Werner Aellen; W: David Eames, Claude Jutra, Joe Weisenfeld; C: Jean Boffety; E: Tony Trow, Ralph Rosenblum; M: Chico Hamilton

Cast: Patty Duke Astin, Sara Botsford, Saul Rubinek,

Sonia Zimmer

By Hook or by Crook

Helen and Angela are fashion designers, business

By the Dawn’s Early Light

partners and lovers. They decide to have a child but

are rejected by the adoption agency and have to

Vesterskov, Knud

make other plans. What follows are humorous

1993; Denmark; 77 min; Documentary

attempts to find the right donor. They finally decide

Road movie about the life of the writer, junkie,

on Terry, a photographer, but things turn out

hustler, and artist David Wojnarowicz.

differently than expected. Some very touching

moments are handled well and with sensitivity.

c-l-o-s-e-r

Prod Comp: Atlantic, BDF Productions, Fox, Seven Arts

Productions, Canadian Film Development Corporation

Mosvold, Frank

1997; Norway; 15 min; Drama

By Hook or by Crook

The spiky bud of love breaks through the fragments

Dodge, Harry / Howard, Silas

of a murky, muted colourless day in the life of a

2001; USA; 95 min; Drama

Police Captain father and his queer punk son.

P: Steak House, Silas Howard, Harry Dodge; W: Silas Dist/Sales: NorwegianFilm

Howard, Harry Dodge; C: Ann T. Rossetti; E: Silas Howard, Harry Dodge; M: Carla Bozulich

Cabaret

Cast: Silas Howard, Harry Dodge, Stanya Kahn, Carina

Fosse, Bob

Gia, Cash Askew, Joan Jett

1972; USA; 123 min; Drama, Musical

By Hook or by Crook is a riveting and intimate

P: Cy Feuer; W: Hugh Wheeler, Jay Presson Allen;

portrayal of life in the queer mecca. Small-town Shy

C: Geoffrey Unsworth; E: David Bretherton;

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M: Ralph Burns, John Kander

often funny and with lots of twists. French with

Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel

English subtitles.

Grey, Fritz Wepper

Prod Comp: Da Ma Produzione, Les Productions

Stylish film based on the Fred Ebbjohn Kander

Artistes Associés

Broadway musical, from John van Druten’s play I

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Warner, MGM, UA, Swank

Am a Camera. The story centres around nightclub

singer Sally Bowles in pre-Second World War Berlin.

Cage aux Folles III, La

The film also depicts the rise of the Nationalists and

Lautner, Georges

Fascism. York portrays Brian (the alter ego of openly

1985; France; 91 min; Comedy

gay writer Christopher Isherwood and based on his

Berlin stories), a bisexual who is swept off his feet by

P: Marcello Danon; W: Michel Audiard, Christine

the wealthy and debonair Maximillian.

Carère, Marcello Danon, Gérard Lamballe, Georges

Lautner, Philippe Nicaud; C: Luciano Tovoli;

Awards: Academy Awards, 1972: Best Actress (Liza

E: Michelle David; M: Ennio Morricone

Minnelli), Best Picture

Cast: Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Antonella

Prod Comp: ABC Pictures, Allied Artists, American

Interlenghi, Stephane Audran

Broadcasting Company

c

Dist/Sales: ACMI, AlliedArtists, BFI, Warner, Wolfe

In this third instalment of the La Cage aux Folles

series, female impersonator Albin learns that he is to

Cage aux Folles, La

inherit £10,000,000 providing that he marries and

fathers a child within 18 months. Unlike the earlier

Molinaro, Edouard

films, the gags have lost their freshness and the film

1978; France, Italy; 91 min; Comedy

lacks innovation. French with English subtitles.

P: Marcello Danon; W: Edouard Molinaro, Francis

Prod Comp: Columbia Films SA, Da Ma Produzione

Veber, Marcello Danon, Jean Poiret; C: Armando

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, 16MM

Nannuzzi; E: Monique Isnardon, Robert Isnardon;

M: Ennio Morricone

Caged

Cast: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru,

Claire Maurier

Cromwell, John

1950; USA; 95 min; B&W; Drama

The film’s title refers to the name of a nightclub run

P: Jerry Wald; W: Virginia Kellogg, Bernard Schoenfeld; by a pair of homosexual lovers, Renato and Albin.

C: Carl Guthrie; E: Owen Marks; M: Max Steiner Albin is a renowed female impersonator. When

Cast: Eleanor Parker, Ellen Corby, Betty Garde, Agnes

Renato’s son, from a heterosexual fling, decides to

marry the daughter of a respectable official and a

Moorehead, Hope Emerson

moral campaigner, her family wants to meets his.

A naive young woman is sent to prison for helping

Some high camp comedy ensues when they decide

her no-good husband in a robbery. On the inside she

to become ‘respectable’ themselves and Albin

meets a sadistic and closeted prison matron, as well

becomes ‘Mother’. Based on the play by Jean Poiret.

as Kitty, who tries to recruit her as an accomplice on

Very funny high camp romp but some subtle

her release. After several tragedies she becomes a

humour is lost due to the subtitling. French with

hardened criminal. Much better than the usual

English subtitles.

women-in-prison films, in fact it was nominated for

Prod Comp: United Artists France, Da Ma, Les

several Academy Awards including best actress.

Productions Artistes Associés

Prod Comp: Warner

Dist/Sales: Warner, MGM, UA, ACMI, Swank

Dist/Sales: Swank, Warner

Cage aux Folles II, La

Caged Fury

Molinaro, Edouard

Milling, Bill

1980; France; 100 min; Comedy

1990; USA; 95 min; Action

P: Marcello Danon; W: Francis Veber, Marcello Danon; P: Bob Gallagher; C: Kenneth Viatrak; E: Matthew C: Armando Nannuzzi, Luciano Tovoli; E: Robert

Mallinson; M: Joe Delia

Isnardon; M: Ennio Morricone

Cast: Erik Estrada, Blake Bahner, Richard Barathy,

Cast: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Gianni Frisoni

Roxanna Michaels

The lives of Renato and Albin take an unusual turn

Yet another lesbian-behind-bars film. Two young

when they become entangled in an international

women are en route to Hollywood to seek fame and

espionage ring and must deal with problems in their

fortune. But on their arrival in LA they are framed

club. This high camp sequel to La Cage aux Folles is

and found guilty of a sex crime they did not

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commit. They are imprisoned in the Honeywell

and her fiancé just before their marriage. Both Tinto

State Prison for Women where they are not only

Brass and Gore Vidal took their names off the credits

stripped of their dignity but their clothes as well.

when Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, had

Prod Comp: 21st Century-Fox

finished cutting the film, turning it into a sensation-

Dist/Sales: 21stCentury, Col-Tri

alist soft-porn flick.

Prod Comp: Penthouse, Felix

Calamity Jane

Dist/Sales: Roadshow

Butler, David

Call me your Girlfriend

1953; USA; 101 min; Comedy, Musical, Western

P: William Jacobs; W: James O’Hanlon; C: Wilfred Farthing, Cheryl

Cline; E: Irene Morra; M: Sammy Fain, Ray Heindorf 1992; UK; 20 min; Documentary

Cast: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn McLerie, Phil

Cast: Rita Lynch

Carey, Dick Wesson

A no-holds-barred peek into the world, work and

Doris Day plays the tomboyish, cross-dressing

wardrobe of Rita Lynch, leading lesbian poet, singer

Calamity Jane with great gusto. Her character

and songwriter, as she embarks on a national tour of

c

maintains her sense of independence even while

Britain.

falling for Wild Bill Hickok. There’s lots of fun and

Prod Comp: Alfalfa, Channel 4

camp humour in this great musical, and lesbians will

delight in creating their very own subtext.

Call to Witness

Prod Comp: Warner

Walton, Pam

Dist/Sales: ACMI

2000; USA; 60 min; Documentary

California Suite

P: Pam Walton; E: Pam Walton

Every mainstream Protestant denomination in the

Ross, Herbert

USA is wrestling with same-sex marriage and the

1978; USA; 97 min; Comedy

ordination of openly gay and lesbian pastors. Call to

P: Ray Stark; W: Neil Simon; C: David M. Walsh; Witness documents that struggle within the Evangeli-E: Michael A. Stevenson; M: Claude Bolling

cal Lutheran Church in America. By focusing on the

Cast: Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Walter

lives and trials of pastors who have taken a stand

Matthau, Elaine May, Maggie Smith

against their own church, this film explores the

This interesting drama delves into the personal

intersection of two communities of faith; those who

dilemmas of five couples staying at the Beverly Hills

support the ordination of openly gay and lesbian

Hotel. Michael Caine plays a bisexual antique dealer

pastors and their committed relationships and those

married to Maggie Smith, an actress who is in

who don’t. Call to Witness tells the stories of three

Hollywood for the Academy Awards ceremony.

Midwestern Lutheran pastors—Rev. Steve Sabin in

Based on the Broadway hit by Neil Simon.

Iowa, who has been outed by his bishop, supported

by his congregation, and ‘tried’ by the national

Prod Comp: Columbia, Rastar

church because he refused to resign; Rev. Jane Ralph

Dist/Sales: ACMI, Columbia

in Missouri, who was forced out of the ELCA with

Caligula

no process for recourse; and Pastoral Minister Anita

C. Hill in Minnesota, who is working to be ordained

Brass, Tinto

as an openly lesbian pastor in the year 2000.

1979; Italy, USA; 146 min; Drama

(Filmakers Library)

P: Bob Guccione, Franco Rossellini; W: Gore Vidal, Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary

Bob Guccione; C: Silvano Ippoliti; E: Nino Baragli; M: Paul Clemente

Came out, it Rained, went back in Again

Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Peter

O’Toole, Helen Mirren, John Steiner

Evans Morris, Betsan

1991; UK; 10 min; Drama

Set in Rome between 37 and 41 AD, the plot

Cast: Jane Horrocks

follows the rise and fall of the crazed emperor

Caligula Caesar. It primarily deals with the deca-

This short drama explores the perils of coming out

dence and sexual freedom of the time rather than the

as it follows a day in the life of one young lesbian.

actual facts. In one scene Caligula deflowers a virgin

Dist/Sales: WMM

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Camp

When a very untalented group of six dancers and

singers are sacked from a Kansas amusement park

Mead, Wrik

they decide to head off in a bus to Hollywood on a

2000; Canada; 14 min; Experimental

quest to find fortune and fame. They get one shot at

Based on real-life experiences, Camp recounts the

it by performing at the Miss Orange County Beauty

stories of homosexual survivors of World War II

Pagent. Will they ever make it and do they have

concentration camps. A series of short, expressionis-

what it takes?

tic vignettes weave together these horrific experi-

Prod Comp: PM Entertainment, Miramax

ences. Part documentary, part drama, Camp uses a

variety of mediums to explore the emotional reality

Can’t Stop the Music

of those marked with the pink triangle. (CFMDC)

Walker, Nancy

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

1980; USA; 120 min; Comedy, Musical

Camp Lavender Hill

P: Allan Carr, Jacques Morali, Henri Belolo;

W: Allan Carr, Bronte Woodward; C: Bill Butler;

Magnaye, Michael / Shepard, Tom

E: John F. Burnett; M: Jacques Morali

1997; USA; 28 min; Documentary

Cast: The Village People, Valerie Perrine, Bruce Jenner,

c

Documentary about the first summer camp for

Steve Guttenberg

children who have gay, lesbian, and bisexual parents,

A group of singers played by The Village People join

which expresses the point of views of the campers

together to break into the music scene. The whole

who range in age from 6–15.

film abounds with gay subtext, with all manner of

gay boy in-jokes and camp behaviour.

Campfire

Prod Comp: AFD, EMI

(aka: Kampvuur)

Dist/Sales: TLA, Swank

Defurne, Bavo

Can’t you Take a Joke?

1999; Belgium; 20 min; Drama

P: Yves Verbraeken

Dun, Viki

The temptation of nature takes over two young men

1989; Australia; 28 min; B&W; Comedy

when they spend a night alone in the bush. But after

Cast: Kim Trengove, Melainie Bedde

their bodies have met in a tangle of sexual explora-

This delightful, stylish comedy, in which boy meets

tion, their attitude over the experience is divided.

girl and girl meets girl, uses the romantic music and

Dutch with English subtitles. (MQFF)

visuals of Hollywood film noir to explore the ideal of

Dist/Sales: Laika

love at first sight. (Cinenova)

Can I be your Bratwurst, Please?

Prod Comp: Victoria College of the Arts

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, WMM

von Praunheim, Rosa

Cancer in Two Voices

1999; Germany, USA; 29 min; Comedy

Jeff Stryker (in his first non-porn role) plays a

Phenix, Lucy Massie

stranger from the Midwest who arrives in Holly-

1994; USA; 43 min; Documentary

wood, rents a motel room and becomes the fantasy

A lesbian couple’s eight-year relationship is put

of the owner, his mother and all the other guests.

under strain when Barbara is diagnosed with breast

Young and old, male and female, black and white—

cancer. Barbara is told she has three years to live, and

everybody finds him delectable.

so she and Sandy document their lives with courage

Prod Comp: Regina Ziegler Filmproduktion

and frankness. The two women talk about their

Dist/Sales: Ziegler

identity as Jewish women and lesbians and speak

openly about the difficult issues each is facing. A

Can’t Stop Dancing

moving but balanced documentary on love and

letting go.

Falick, Steven / Zook, Ben

1999; USA; 97 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: WMM

P: Joseph Merhi, Richard Pepin; W: Ben Zook, Steven Cap Tourmente

Falick; C: Mac Ahlberg; E: Tony Lombardo; M: Nick Phoenix, Fred Rapoport

Langlois, Michel

Cast: Ben Zook, Margaret Cho, Janeane Garofalo,

1993; Canada; 112 min; Drama

Melanie Hutsell, Noah Wyle

P: Bernadette Payeur; W: Marcel Beaulieu, Michel

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Langlois; C: Bernadette Payeur; E: Jean-Claude

to bridge the gap of centuries in recreating details of

Coulbois, Anne Whiteside

his own life.

Cast: Andrée Lachapelle, Roy Dupuis, Elise Guilbault,

Prod Comp: BFI

Gilbert Sicotte

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, NFVLS, ACMI, Cinevista, BFI

A son’s return home to his dysfunctional family

deeply affects both his mother and sister. The arrival

Caretaker, The

of an old lover causes chaos, as all members of this

(aka: The Guest)

tense and incestuous foursome struggle with their

inability to commit to each other or to their

Donner, Clive

individual futures. A first feature for screenwriter

1964; UK; 105 min; B&W; Drama

Michel Langlois, this elegantly shot family drama is

P: Michael Birkett; W: Harold Pinter; C: Nicolas Roeg; austere, maddening and moving, weaving a tangled

E: Fergus McDonell; M: Ron Grainer

web of suppressed passion. (MQFF)

Cast: Alan Bates, Robert Shaw, Donald Pleasence

French with English subtitles.

Bates plays the sadistic brother to Shaw, a mentally ill

Prod Comp: Association Coopérative des Productions

man who lives in a house owned by Bates. When a

Audio-Visuelles

tramp, Pleasence, is invited to stay, he finds himself

c Dist/Sales: Cinepix

moving in and out of favour between the two

brothers. Homosexual undertones abound as the

Car Wash

brothers compete for attention from the tramp,

particularly when the leather-clad Bates does his stuff.

Schultz, Michael

Prod Comp: Caretaker Films

1976; USA; 97 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee

P: Gary Stromberg, Art Linson; W: Joel Schumacher; C: Frank Stanley; E: Christopher Holmes; M: Norman Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst is your

Whitfield

Waffen

Cast: Richard Pryor, Franklin Ajaye, Sully Boyar,

George Carlin, Antonio Fargas

Troyano, Ela

A boisterous offbeat farce, primarily staged in a Los

1993; USA; 28 min; Documentary

Angeles car wash to the pop music of Rose Royce

A Latina performance artist who supports herself as a

and the Pointer Sisters. Antonio Fargas plays the

building superintendent on New York’s Lower East

transvestite, Lindy, who uses the fantastic line

Side winds up in jail with some riot girls. Humorous

‘Honey, I’m more man than you’ll ever be and more

monologues, soapy melodramas, and campy

woman than you’ll ever get’.

production numbers ensue. (First Run/Icarus)

Prod Comp: Universal

Dist/Sales: FirstRun/Icarus, FirstRunFeatures

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies

Carmilla

Caravaggio

Beaumont, Gabrielle

Jarman, Derek

1989; USA; 60 min; Horror

1986; Italy, UK; 93 min; Drama

W: Sheridan Le Fanu

P: Sarah Radclyffe; W: Derek Jarman; C: Gabriel Cast: Meg Tilly, Roddy McDowall, Roy Dotrice, Ione

Beristain; E: George Akers; M: Simon Fisher Turner Skye

Cast: Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Garry Cooper, Spencer

Set in a 19th century mansion, the story centres on

Leigh, Tilda Swinton

Marie, a lonely young woman. When legendary

Not a conventional biopic, but the portrait of the

vampire Carmilla arrives at the mansion the two

homosexual artist as a ‘murderer imaged as a god’.

women soon form a bond and a friendship blos-

Caravaggio, according to Jarman, identified with the

soms—before long Carmilla is seducing Marie and

murderer in St Matthew. The artist’s extreme self

sucking her blood. But all this comes to a swift end

analysis becomes self destruction. In the film the

when a famous vampirologist, played by McDowall,

young painter lies dying, his mind drifting back over

arrives.

his short life of intense passion, a triangle formed

with two of his models. One was the inspiration for

Carrington

his repeated portrayal of the assassin in pictures of

martyrdom, the other the model for Mary

Hampton, Christopher

Magdalene and the dead virgin. The paintings are

1995; France, UK; 122 min; Drama

the source of the film’s characters as Jarman sought

P: John C. McGrath, Ronald Shedlo; W: Christopher 94

Hampton; C: Denis Lenoir; E: George Akers;

C: Alex Thomson; M: Steven Cagan

M: Michael Nyman

Cast: Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Edward Fox,

Cast: Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven

Olivia Hussey

Waddington, Samuel West, Rufus Sewell

Glencliff Manor, 1934...a dark and stormy night.

Dora Carrington devoted her life to the gay writer

The family of a recently deceased, eccentric

Lytton Strachey—a tall, thin, bearded bachelor and

millionaire has been summoned for the reading of

member of London’s famed Bloomsbury artistic set.

his final will and testament. Joining this group of

Even though their desire for each other was strong,

eight is an unexpected visitor: the chief psychologist

their relationship was based on friendship, a bond

from the local mental hospital who is searching for a

that survived until the very end.

dangerous criminal escapee from the psychiatric

Prod Comp: Gramersy, PolyGram Filmed Entertain-

ward! So turn off the lights, snuggle up to your loved

ment, Le Studio Canal+

one, and get ready for a horrific night of suspense,

Dist/Sales: TLA, PolyGram, Sogepaq

mystery and murder! (First Run Features)

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures

Cass

Cat Nip

Noonan, Chris

c

1978; Australia; 77 min; Drama

Taylor, Amanda

P: Don Harley; W: Laura Jones; M: Rory O’Donoghue 1994; USA; 14 min; B&W; Experimental

Cast: John Waters, Michele Fawdon, Max Cullen, Peter

P: Amanda Taylor; W: Amanda Taylor; C: Amanda Carroll

Taylor

After making a documentary on tribal women, a

The age-old and often mythical relationships

young female filmmaker finds it very difficult to

between lesbians and their cats are whimsically

settle down to life with her husband on her return to

explored in this short film.

Australia. Her situation becomes even more

Prod Comp: Rocketgirl Productions

problematic when she finds herself attracted to

another woman. Made for television.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Prod Comp: Nine Network, Film Australia

Brooks, Richard

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

1958; USA; 104 min; Drama

Casta Diva

P: Lawrence Weingarten; W: Richard Brooks, James

Poe; C: William Daniels; E: Ferris Webster

de Kuyper, Eric

Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Judith

1982; The Netherlands; 100 min; B&W; Experimental

Anderson, Jack Carson

W: Eric de Kuyper; C: Michel Houssiau; E: Ton De Graaf In this original film version, the censors stepped in

Cast: Jack Post, Emile Poppe, Paul Verstraten

and made the filmmakers remove all references to

A celebration of the male form. A series of observa-

homosexuality. The character played by Newman

tions of men, filmed in beautiful black and white,

becomes weak and insipid rather than a man dealing

with an almost total absence of the spoken word.

with his sexual identity. The patriarch of the family

learns he is dying and his family visit him, some out

Castro, The

of greed, others to make their peace. Newman and

Taylor are a young married couple whose relation-

Stein, Peter

ship is deeply troubled after the death of his closest

1997; USA; 86 min; Documentary

friend. Based on the play by Tennessee Williams.

Fascinating documentary which tells the story of

how a quiet, working-class neighbourhood of

Prod Comp: MGM, Avon

European immigrants transmogrified into what is

Dist/Sales: Chapel, ACMI, MGM

now internationally recognised as the mecca of gay

Cat People

liberation and lifestyle. Brilliant presentation of

archival material and interviews with noted San

Tourneur, Jacques

Franciscans.

1942; USA; 73 min; B&W; Horror

P: Val Lewton; W: DeWitt Bodeen; C: Nicholas Cat and the Canary, The

Musuraca; E: Mark Robson; M: Roy Webb

Metzger, Radley

Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jack

1979; UK; 98 min; Comedy

Holt, Jane Randolph

P: Richard Gordon; W: Radley Metzger;

Irena, a New York fashion artist, believes she

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descended from Serbian witches who could turn

William and Jamie’s illicit affair threatens to disrupt

themselves into cats. She becomes obsessed with the

William’s committed relationship with another man,

fear that if she makes love to her husband she will

in this handsome tale of love found and lost. (2002

undergo the same transformation. Ambiguity and

Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival)

restraint abound as it becomes unclear whether Irena

is undergoing a supernatural metamorphosis, or

Caught in the Crossfire

whether she may be a lonely, neurotic, possibly

lesbian woman driven to violence by her obsessive fears.

Williams, Sandra R.

1997; USA; 26 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: RKO

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ACMI

Black and Hispanic kids discuss their feelings about

having queer parents.

Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks!

Caught Looking

Pietrobruno, Ileana

1996; Canada; 75 min; Experimental

Giannaris, Constantine

P: Ileana Pietrobruno; W: Ileana Pietrobruno; C: John 1991; UK; 35 min; Comedy

Houtman; E: Ileana Pietrobruno

P: Rebecca Dobbs; W: Paul Hallam; C: Denzil Armour-c Cast: Alex Ferguson, Rebecca Godin, Tara Frederick, Brown, James Welland; E: William Diver, Deborah

Christine Taylor

Field; M: John Eacott

Ambitious experimental drama that traces the

Cast: Louis Selwyn, Bette Bourne

troubled relationship between women and their

The ultimate gay computer game: pick your

bodies.

favourite sexual fantasy any time, any place and the

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

boys of your choice. A voyeur selects four fantasy

scenarios and, at the press of a virtual-reality button,

Cater Waiter

takes part in them. Originally scheduled for the

BBC’s Out series, the film was dropped for being too

Lane, Eric

explicit.

1996; USA; 14 min; Comedy

Awards: Berlin Film Festival, 1992: Teddy Award

Follows the lives of two gay waiters over a four year

Dist/Sales: Salzgeber, TLA, WaterBearer, MayaVision

period. Witty, moving and very human, it stars

award winning actor David Drake.

Prod Comp: Orange Thought Productions

Dist/Sales: Forefront

Cats, The

(aka: Kattorna)

Carlsen, Henning

1964; Denmark; 93 min; B&W; Drama

P: Lorens Marmstedt; W: Valentin Chorell; C: Mac Ahlberg; E: Henning Carlsen

Cast: Eva Dahlbeck, Gio Petré, Monica Nielsen

The story of a group of women who work in a

laundry, all of whom seem to be sexually starved.

When Rike accuses Marta, the manager, of making

sexual advances towards her, all hell breaks loose.

When pressure is applied by the other women, Rike

caves in and admits to lying about the sexual

advance. In a turnaround Marta is attracted to Rike

and Rike responds in a positive way.

Caught

Gotschall, Christopher

2000; USA; 21 min; Drama

Where does friendship end and romance begin, and

what about the sex that comes between the two?

Caught Looking

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Cavafy

relationship becomes one of caring companion and

(aka: Kavafis)

friend. German with English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Artificial Eye Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk,

Smaragdis, Yannis

Pelemele Film

1996; France, Greece; 90 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, NewYorker

P: Helen Smaragdis; W: Yannis Smaragdis; C: Nikos Smaragdis; E: Andreas Andreadakis; M: Vangelis

Celestial Clockwork

Cast: Manos Meletiou, Dimitris Katalifos, Vassilis

Diamantopoulos, Maya Lyberopoulou

(aka: Mecaniques Celestes)

The life of the famous Greek poet Constantine P.

Torres, Fina

Cavafy is told in flashback from his death bed.

1994; Belgium, France, Spain; 86 min; Comedy

While he is in hospital he receives a visit from a

P: Gerard Costa; W: Fina Torres; C: Ricardo Aronovich; young writer who reads passages from his biography

M: Francois Farrugia, Michel Musseau

of Cavafy. It tells the story of his life as a young

Cast: Ariadna Gil, Arielle Dombasle, Alma Rosa

wealthy man in Alexandria and his beautiful

Castellanos, Evelyne Didi, Frederic Longbois

widowed mother, and his partaking in the homo-

Opera and song play a key role in the romantic

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sexual night life which he passionately wrote about.

comedy Celestial Clockwork from award-winning

Greek with English subtitles.

Venezuelan director Fina Torres. The Cinderella

Prod Comp: Alexandros Film, Greek Films Centre,

story stars Ariadna Gil (one of the stars of the Oscar-

Greek Television ET-1, Lumiére Services

winning Spanish film Belle Epoque) as Ana, the

Dist/Sales: Alexandros

Venezuelan girl who leaves her fiancé at the altar and

hops a plane to Paris to fulfil her dream to become

Cecil B Demented

an opera singer. What follows is a screwball comedy,

charting Ana’s adventures with an apartment full of

Waters, John

crazy roommates and her seemingly improbable

2000; France, USA; 88 min; Comedy, Action

destiny as the star of an impending production of

P: Joseph M. Caracciolo Jnr, John Fielder, Mark Tarlov;

Rossini’s La Cenerentola. The film’s soundtrack

W: John Waters; C: Robert M. Stevens; E: Jeffrey Wolf; includes arias by Rossini and art songs by Schubert

M: Basil Poledouris, Zoe Poledouris

and Schumann, as well as salsa numbers performed

Cast: Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Rikki Lake,

by Venezuelan music star Alma Rosa, who also

Patricia Hearst, Alicia Witt, Mink Stole

appears in the film.

Cecil B. DeMented is a quirky action-comedy about a

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young underground filmmaker and his loyal cult of

French & Spanish with English subtitles.

film fanatics who declare war on bad cinema. As the

Prod Comp: Bastille Films, Paradise Films

movie begins, Cecil and his ‘Sprocket Holes’ gang

Dist/Sales: October, Palace

kidnap Honey Whitlock, a long-time Hollywood

movie star visiting Baltimore for the premiere of her

Celine and Julie go Boating

latest blockbuster. They then force Honey to star in

(aka: Céline et Julie vont en Bateau)

their outlaw film, Raving Beauty. Though initially

she objects, Honey eventually converts to the group’s

Rivette, Jacques

cause, and joins them as they wreak cinematic havoc

1974; France; 185 min; Experimental

on the city of Baltimore. Eventually, even ordinary

P: Barbet Schroeder; W: Juliet Berto, Eduardo de

citizens rally to DeMented’s cause. (Wolfe)

Gregorio, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-

France Pisier, Jacques Rivette; C: Jacques Renard;

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, ACMI

E: Nicole Lubtchansky; M: Jean-Marie Sénia

Celeste

Cast: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Marie-France

Pisier, Bulle Ogier

Adlon, Percy

A Librarian (Julie) begins a friendship with a

1981; Germany; 106 min; Drama

magician (Celine), who leads her to a haunted

P: Eleonore Adlon; W: Percy Adlon; C: Jürgen Martin; house. The women eventually become involved with

E: Clara Fabry; M: César Franck

the ghosts who live there. Although little happens

Cast: Eva Mattes, Jürgen Arndt, Norbet Wartha, Wolf

between the women, there is a subtle lesbian subtext,

Euba, Joseph Manoth

and both women are physically affectionate towards

The moving drama of a young, uneducated peasant

one another. French with English subtitles.

girl who is hired as the housekeeper for the ac-

Prod Comp: Action Films, Les Films 7, Les Films du Losange claimed writer and homosexual Marcel Proust. Their

Dist/Sales: ACMI, NFVLS

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Celluloid Closet, The

Cha-Cha for the Fugitive, A

Epstein, Robert / Friedman, Jeffrey

(aka: Gai Tao-wan-je de ChaCha)

1995; USA; 102 min; Documentary

Wang, Tsai-sheng

P: Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman; W: Robert Epstein, 1996; Taiwan; 83 min; Drama

Jeffrey Friedman, Sharon Wood, Armistead Maupin;

W: Wang Tsai-sheng; C: Wang Tsai-sheng; E: Christine C: Nancy Schreiber; E: Jeffrey Friedman, Arnold

Huand; M: Tseng Shu-mei

Glassman; M: Carter Burwell, k. d. lang

Cast: Chieh-i Chen, Tsung-sien He, Hsien-yu Liu,

Cast: Lily Tomlin, Tom Hanks, Whoopi Goldberg,

Julien Chen

Shirley MacLaine

Whatever else you may think about A Cha-Cha for

The film version of the late Vito Russo’s

the Fugitive, it certainly doesn’t look or sound like

groundbreaking book, The Celluloid Closet, explores

any other Taiwanese movie you’ve ever seen. The

the history of the onscreen representations of gays

nameless bisexual protagonist, a young male dancer

and lesbians with perception and wit. Lily Tomlin

with avant-garde leanings and dreams of escaping to

delivers the narration written by Armistead Maupin,

New York to his male lover, works nights in a sleazy

which serves as a link between film clips and

club and spends his days feeling trapped in his

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interviews. Includes classic scenes from Red River,

studio in a grungy apartment block. His confused

with Montgomery Clift and John Ireland comparing

thoughts about Taiwan, materialism, corrupt

pistols, and Dietrich in a tuxedo giving mouth-to-

politicians and murderous gangsters are splashed all

over the screen in shards of splintered imagery and

mouth to a female customer in Morocco. A highly

shades of blue and yellow. Tsai-sheng Wang, the

entertaining and, above all, important film.

film’s writer-director-designer-cinematographer,

Awards: Berlin International Film Festival, 1996: Teddy

pursues his protagonist’s fantasies to the point that

Award for Best Documentary

they subside into memories of a more innocent

Prod Comp: Telling Pictures, Channel 4, HBO, Sony

childhood. Along the way, he offers intriguing

Pictures Classics

glimpses of Taipei’s neo-punk subculture and

Dist/Sales: Palace, SonyClassics, Telling, Wolfe, Cowboy, explores the polymorphous hang-ups of Taiwan’s

ACMI, VideoAmericain, FilmsTransit

frustrated Generation-X kids. Taiwanese with

English subtitles. (1997 Berlin Film Festival)

Prod Comp: Fountain Films; Dist/Sales: Fountain

Chaero

Hayes, Matt

1989; Ireland; 15 min; Drama

Richie and his pal Chaero are two Dublin youths

who inhabit a world without rules. Cigarettes are big

currency and alcohol is the only escape. A nitty-

gritty short involving sex and blackmail with a trick

ending.

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Chain of Desire

The Celluloid Closet

López , Temistocles

Certain Grace, A

1992; USA; 103 min; Drama

P: Brian Cox; W: Temistocles López; C: Nancy Nettlebeck, Sandra

Schreiber; E: Susanne Fenn; M: Nathan Birnbaum

1992; USA; 40 min; B&W; Comedy

Cast: Linda Fiorentino, Malcolm McDowell, Elias

Zelda meets Alice and together they begin working

Koteas, Angel Aviles, Patrick Bauchau

on a photography project. The erotic tension builds

A witty observation about sexual yearning and

as Zelda’s boyfriend gets jealous. Slowly feelings

unrequited love in the time of AIDS. When Ann,

develop between the two women.

the owner of a nightclub, sleeps with Jesus, she starts

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

a chain reaction of erotic entanglements crossing

Film Festival, 1992: Audience Award for Best Lesbian

social and psychological boundaries.

Short

Prod Comp: Distant Horizons

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Dist/Sales: Warner, TLA

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Chained Girls

Chanel Solitaire

Mawra, Joseph P.

Kaczender, George

1965; USA; 62 min; B&W; Comedy, Erotica

1981; France, UK; 118 min; Drama

Cast: June Roberts

P: Larry Spangler; W: Julian More; C: Ricardo History lessons don’t come much funnier than this.

Aronovich; E: Georges Klotz; M: Paul Jabara, Jean This ‘exposé of Sapphic sexuality’ apparently passed

Musy

for serious documentary way back in the mid 1960s,

Cast: Marie-France Pisier, Karen Black, Rutger Hauser,

but we doubt whether any of the practices depicted

Timothy Dalton

here will ring any bells of recognition. It may,

The story of Gabrielle Chanel, the woman who

however, prompt more than a few howls of derisive

revolutionised the fashion industry and created the

laughter. Check out this strange twilight world,

world famous perfume Chanel No. 5. Her torrid

where a gang of deviant dykes initiate a newcomer

love affairs were once the talk of Europe. At one

into their sinful fold by drawing straws to see who

point she has a lesbian relationship but the film

will get to do the (dis)honours. Funniest of all is the

treats it only as an aberration.

grave announcement during the opening credits,

Prod Comp: United Film Distribution, Fodrest,

which tells us that the poor unfortunate creatures we

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are about to meet are each portrayed by a ‘profes-

Gardenia Films

sional’.

Change

Prod Comp: QC Film and Video

Dist/Sales: SomethingWeird, VideoAmericain

Philpott, Ger

1995; Ireland; 12 min; Drama

Chained Heat

A brilliant and involving monologue-driven drama

that takes a look at a love affair cut short by AIDS.

Nicholas, Paul

Both sad and sensual, this remarkable piece of gay

1983; Germany, USA; 95 min; Drama

Irish filmmaking leaves the heart aching. (MQFF)

P: Billy Fine; W: Vincent Mongol, Paul Nicholas;

C: Mac Ahlberg; E: Nino di Marco; M: Joseph Conlan Dist/Sales: Caspar

Cast: Linda Blair, Stella Stevens, John Vernon, Sybil

Change of Heart, A

Danning, Tamara Dobson

A shocking and explosive (exploitative?) look at the

Brown, Arvin

violence, cruelty and corruption which takes place in

1998; USA; 96 min; Drama

women’s prisons. With the usual amount of shower

P: Aaron Mendelsohn; W: Aaron Mendelsohn; C: John scenes, along with cruel and sadistic lesbian guards.

J. Campbell; E: Michael A. Hoey; M: Patrick Williams The sleaze classic of the women-in-prison genre.

Cast: Jean Smart, John Terry

Definitely made for a straight male audience.

This above average made-for-television movie tackles

Prod Comp: Intercontinental, TAT, Heat GBR, Jensen

the subject of bisexuality and its effects on a

Farley Pictures

seemingly happy, close-knit family. Jean Smart is

Dist/Sales: Roadshow

quite memorable as a blindly contented mother of

two teens who works as the efficient office manager

Chained Heat II

at her medical doctor husband’s offices. Her stability

and her family’s unity comes under a wrenching

Simandl, Lloyd

challenge when she discovers that her husband is

1993; USA; 99 min; Drama

having an affair with another man. Not only is she

P: Lloyd Simandl, John Curtis; W: Chris Hyde; C: stunned, but their daughter and son are unable to

Danny Nowak; M: Bruce Curtis

deal with their father’s homosexuality. The fascinat-

Cast: Brigitte Nielsen, Paul Koslo, Kimberley Kates

ing drama delves into how each member of the

Deep inside the concrete jungle of an infamous

household must deal with the dramatic change in

communist-bloc prison, an innocent woman

their lives. Smart is especially good as a Stepford

Wife who is smacked with a dose of life-changing

struggles to stay alive. Described as an exploitative

reality. (Wolfe)

lesbian Midnight Express, a young woman is wrongly

imprisoned and now must contend with a warden

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

into S/M, and a butch, knife-wielding henchwoman.

Not for the politically correct, but you can still find

Change the Frame

a laugh or two at the ridiculous plot and ludicrous

Rey, Cristina

script.

1995; USA; 93 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: NewLine

P: Cristina Rey; W: Cristina Rey; C: Ian Hardin; 99

E: Ian Hardin, Alex Kelly

This fascinating documentary is a biography of Dr

Cast: Stephani Shope, Cristina Rey, Sarah Harmon,

Evelyn Hooker, whose research into the psychologi-

Cecila Saglio, Alex Kelly, Jan Hardin

cal profiles of homosexual men was instrumental in

Rey’s film focuses on the relationship between

the eventual declassification of homosexuality as a

Angela and Rachel, a couple who have been together

mental illness. This moving biography includes

for a while and are now having to re-evaluate their

interviews with Hooker, and archival documentation

relationship. It seems they are both heading in

of the ‘underground’ lesbian and homosexual

different directions. The catalyst arrives in the form

communities in America during the 1950s and

of another woman—a footloose and fancy-free

1960s. Narrated by Patrick Stewart.

singer from San Francisco who persuades Angela

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

that there is something missing in her life. Change

Film Festival, 1992: Audience Award for Best Docu-

the Frame is often humorous, but strikes plenty of

mentary

emotional chords. (MQFF)

Prod Comp: Intrepid Productions

Dist/Sales: FearlessProd

Dist/Sales: Ronin, Frameline, Salzgeber, NFVLS, ACMI

Changing Face

Chant d’Amour, Un

c Roznowski, Robert / Tate, Robert

Genet, Jean

1993; USA; 103 min; Drama

1950; France; 26 min; B&W; Drama

P: Jean Genet; W: Jean Genet; C: Jacques Natteau; An involving soap opera about a gay couple in the

throes of a domestic mid-life crisis and their wacky

E: Jean Genet

group of friends.

Cast: Lucien Sénémaud

Prod Comp: Rob Squared Films

Set in a men’s prison wing housing convicted

murderers in solitary confinement, the action shifts

Dist/Sales: TLA

from individual cells to the minds of the prisoners

and the guard-voyeur. The narrative depicts life in

the prison and the prisoner’s sexual misery and

fantasies of homosexuality.

Dist/Sales: FilmmakersCoop, BFI, NFVLS

Charlie

Rosenzweig, Joshua

1999; USA; 49 min; Comedy

Camp, drag send up of 1970s US television show

Charlie’s Angels.

Dist/Sales: Tomorrow

Chasing Amy

Smith, Kevin

1997; USA; 111 min; Drama

P: Scott Mosier, Kevin Smith; W: Kevin Smith;

C: David Klein; E: Scott Mosier, Kevin Smith;

M: David Pirner

Cast: Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Lee,

Dwight Ewell, Jason Mewes

The concluding chapter of Kevin Smith’s New Jersey

Trilogy, Chasing Amy is a drama/comedy about

Changing our Minds: The Story of Dr Evelyn Hooker

Holden, a successful comic-book creator, whose life

Changing our Minds: The Story of Dr

takes a turn when he falls madly in love with Alyssa,

Evelyn Hooker

a fellow artist. The first major shock awaiting

Holden is Alyssa’s apparent lesbian orientation. The

Schmiechen, Richard

second one comes after the two develop a strong

1991; USA; 75 min; Documentary

friendship, and Alyssa decides not to limit her

P: David Haugland; W: Richard Schmiechen, James

chances of love to women only. The two begin an

Harrison

affair, despite Holden’s nagging doubts about her

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promiscuous past. (ACMI)

Chicks in White Satin

Prod Comp: Viwe Askew Productions

Holliman, Elaine

Dist/Sales: Alliance, Lauren, Miramax, Wolfe, ACMI,

1993; USA; 25 min; Documentary

Swank

P: Jason Schneider

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short

Film in 1993, this film packs a feature-length’s worth

of drama and comedy into a sparkling 20 minutes. It

documents the formal Jewish wedding of two San

Diego women, and the reverberations among each of

their families, at the same time incorporating a sly

critique of the traditional trappings of nuptials,

straight or gay. Tensions mount among the families

until the wedding day, when a miraculous transfor-

mation takes place and the previously alienated

mothers of the two brides waltz together on the

dance floor. (MQFF)

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Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

Film Festival, 1993: Audience Award for Best Short

Documentary

Dist/Sales: USC

Chick in White Satin

Chastity

Child-Play

Mohabeer, Michelle

de Paola, Alessio

1997; Canada; 15 min; Experimental

1969; USA; 83 min; Comedy

P: Sonny Bono; W: Sonny Bono; C: Ben Coleman; Ateesha Mansara, a woman in her late 60s has lived

E: Hugo Grimaldi; M: Sonny Bono

her life haunted by the spirit of a child molester she

Cast: Cher, Barbara London, Stephen Whittaker, Tom

met as a young girl—50 years later in an attempt to

Nolan

‘claim her soul’ he returns. (Third World Newsreel)

Pop star Cher shares an intimate encounter with a

Dist/Sales: CFMDC, TWN

butch brothel madam in this trashy, hippy tale about

Children of Hannibal

a mixed up teen. The film’s title is steeped in irony

given that Cher named her daughter (lesbian activist

(aka: Figli di Annibale)

Chastity Bono) after her character’s name, and

Ferrario, Davide

apparently became pregnant with her during

1998; Italy; 93 min; Comedy

filming.

P: Maurizio Totti; W: Davide Ferrario, Diego

Prod Comp: American International Pictures, Progress

Abatantuono; C: Giovanni Cavallini; E: Claudio

Motion Pictures

Cormio, Luca Gasparini; M: Damiano Rota, Daniele

Chelsea Girls, The

Sepe, Fabio Piazzalunga

Cast: Silivo Orlando, Diego Abatantuono, Valentina

Warhol, Andy

Cervi, Flavio Insinna

1966; USA; 210 min; Experimental

Domenico is a chronically unemployed southerner

P: Andy Warhol; W: Ronald Tavel, Andy Warhol;

struggling to survive in Italy’s unfriendly North.

C: Andy Warhol; M: The Velvet Underground

Desperate to change his destiny once and for all, he

Cast: Nico, Eric Emerson, Ingrid Superstar, Robert

plans to rob a bank and head across the border to

Olivio, Ondine

Switzerland. Things go wrong, however, and

Set in New York’s famous Chelsea Hotel, this art-

Domenico is forced to take a hostage: Tommaso, a

house classic presents stories from different rooms

bankrupt businessman trapped in a loveless mar-

with the use of twin screens. The characters who live

riage. Tommaso is soon in command, and convinces

in the hotel include an array of lesbians, homosexu-

his captor to change direction and drive south. The

als and drug users. One of the earliest underground

plan is to meet Tommaso’s friend Orfeo in Puglia

films, this is possibly Warhol’s most famous.

and sail from there to Egypt. But once again things

Dist/Sales: MOMA

don’t go quite as planned. Domenico is shocked to

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discover that Orfeo is not only a policeman—he’s

Chill Out

Tommaso’s secret lover! (23rd San Francisco

International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

Struck, Andreas

Italian with English subtitles.

2000; Germany; 90 min; Drama

P: Jost Hering; W: Andreas Struck; C: Andreas Doub; Prod Comp: Mediaset, Colorado Film Production

E: Philipp Stahl; M: Erlandas

Dist/Sales: Intra

Cast: Tatjana blacher, Sebastian Blomberg, Barnaby

Children of the Regime

Metschurat

Three dissimilar drifters find themselves intimately

Deocampo, Nick

entwined in this cleverly constructed powerhouse of

1985; Philippines; Documentary

New Wave German cinema. At the heart is Anna,

W: Nick Deocampo

investigating family trees for a living and after work

Children of the Regime is a graphic story about

indulging in the occasional one-night stand. Anna

children forced by poverty into prostitution in the

crosses paths with Johann, always on the run with a

Philippines. Tagalog with English subtitles.

stash of stolen credit cards from which he etches out

a rough living. Johann moves in with Anna, and two

becomes three when Max (one of Anna’s fleeting

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lovers) arrives. Max sleeps with both Anna and

Johann, but how long can lovers stay friends?

Emerging German filmmaker Andreas Struck cut his

teeth alongside Derek Jarman on Edward II and

Wittgenstein. Like Jarman before him, Struck

conveys a strong sense of interiority in this, his debut

feature. His background in live theatre equally

informs his ability to extract minutely refined

performances from his actors, and convey character

through minimal gestures and nuances. (MQFF)

German with English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Jost Hering Filmproduktion, Studio

Babelsberg

Dist/Sales: Fortissimo, Mongrel

The Children’s Hour

Children’s Hour, The

Wyler, William

1961; USA; 107 min; B&W; Drama

P: William Wyler; W: John Michael Hayes; C: Franz Planer; E: Robert Swink; M: Alex North

Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James

Garner, Miriam Hopkins, Fay Bainter

This film version of Lillian Hellman’s play These

Three is more explicit in its depiction of lesbianism,

than the original. The film lacks impact despite good

performances by MacLaine and Hepburn as two

teachers who operate a girls’ boarding school. All is

Chill Out

destroyed when a student accuses the two of having

an affair and the unsubstantiated rumour runs wild

China Dolls

in the self-righteous school community. In a

Ayres, Tony

turnaround at the end one of the women admits to

1997; Australia; 30 min; Documentary

having lesbian feelings and to being attracted to the

P: Helen Bowden; W: Tony Ayres

other woman. An interesting film, full of suggestions

of McCarthyism and one of the earliest films in

This stylish and moving portrayal of gays of Asian

Hollywood to openly mention lesbianism.

descent in Australia explores the relationship

between race and sexuality. China Dolls probes the

Prod Comp: Mirisch, United Artists

uncomfortable reality of racial stereotyping and

Dist/Sales: TLA, UA, NFVLS, ACMI, VideoAmericain,

discrimination in the gay world through interviews

Swank

with Asian men who talk frankly, and often

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humorously, of their experiences living within a

handled in a rather homophobic way as the cops

double minority. The filmmaker himself tells a

clean up all the perverts in the city. Based on the

highly personal story of his journey from denial to

novel by Joseph Wambaugh.

self acceptance. China Dolls themes of diversity and

Prod Comp: Airone, Lorimar

acceptance make it a contemporary, universal story.

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, Universal

(Filmakers Library)

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary, ACMI

Choosing Children

Chinese Characters

Chasnoff, Debra / Klausner, Kim

1984; USA; 45 min; Documentary

Fung, Richard

Documentary about the issues faced by women who

1986; Canada; 22 min; Documentary ; P: Richard Fung

become parents after coming out as lesbians. Six

Asian men relate their histories and relationships to

families share their experiences about donor

pornography.

insemination, non-biological motherhood, adoption,

co-parenting with gay men and the impact on the

Chocolate Babies

children of growing up in a lesbian household. It

challenges myths about gay people and children, and

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Winter, Stephen

expands popular images of the family.

1996; USA; 83 min; Comedy, Drama

P: Jason Kliot, Joana Vicente; W: Stephen Winter

Awards: New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 1985:

Cast: Suzanne Gregg Ferguson, Dudley Findlay Jnr, Jon

Best Short Film

Lee, Michael Lynch

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, NFVLS, Frameline, WoMedia,

Cambridge

An underground band of HIV-positive, queer,

urban, transvestite activists of colour is making

headlines in New York. In an effort to expose

political corruption surrounding the AIDS epidemic,

these urban guerrillas stage a series of surprise attacks

against conservative politicians whom they believe

are collecting secret lists of HIV-positive individuals.

Caught up in their extreme methods of activism and

self-destructive drug and alcohol binges, the group

becomes torn by infighting and begins to lose sight

of their mission and loyalty to each other. Will they

find the peace and justice they seek? Between

fantasy, tragedy and comedy, Chocolate Babies is a

roller-coaster ride that is sure to provoke laughter

and dialogue. (Frameline)

Choosing Children

Awards: New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 1996:

Best Feature

Chop Suey

Prod Comp: Open City Films

Weber, Bruce

Dist/Sales: Frameline, Wolfe, WaterBearer

2000; USA; 98 min; Documentary

Choirboys, The

P: Leonard John Bruno; W: Bruce Weber, Maribeth

Edwards; C: Lance Acord, Douglas Cooper, Jim Fealy;

Aldrich, Robert

E: Angelo Corrao; M: John Leftwich

1977; USA; 119 min; Drama

Bruce Weber’s discovery of a gorgeous young hunk

P: Lee Rich, Merv Adelson, William Aldrich, Lynn

named Peter Johnson was the beginning of a

Guthrie; W: Christopher Knorf; C: Joseph Biroc;

marvellous collaboration that continued over four

E: Maury Winetrobe, Irving Rosenblum, William

years. Plucking the young man from over a thousand

Martin, Joseph Guresky; M: Frank de Vol

boys in training as wrestlers, Weber turned Johnson

Cast: Charles Durning, Louis Gossett Jnr, Perry King,

into a highly-paid photographic model for Ralph

Clyde Kusatsu

Lauren, Versace, and Karl Lagerfeld. Chop Suey uses

Inside view of rank-and-file Los Angeles police life

still photographs and live action footage to chart

depicting both the fun and frustration of being a

Johnson’s transformation from a pretty young boy

cop. One of the officers is chained naked to a tree in

into a homoerotic icon. (Zeitgeist)

MacArthur Park and is confronted by a gay man

Prod Comp: Just Blue Films

walking his poodle. The gay subtext of the film is

Dist/Sales: Zeitgeist

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Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town

Based on the true story of George, a rather asexual

man, who from a young age enjoyed dressing up in

Hoskins, Dan

women’s clothes. He believed he was trapped in the

1989; USA; 86 min; Comedy, Horror

wrong body, and so finally decided to have a sex-

P: Maria Snyder, Arthur Sarkissian, James Hardy;

change operation, turning him into Christine.

W: Dan Hoskins; C: Tom Fraser; E: W. O. Garrett; Prod Comp: Edprod

M: Dan May

Dist/Sales: UA

Cast: Vicki Farrell, Kristina Loggia, Lycia Naff, Jamie

Rose

Chuck and Buck

This camp comedy contrasts the rampant hetero-

sexuality of the Cycle Sluts with the outspoken

Arteta, Miguel

lesbianism of their gang leader. An evil undertaker is

2000; USA; 96 min; Comedy

resurrecting dead bodies to work as zombies in a

P: Matthew Greenfield; W: Mike White; C: Chuy radioactive mine. The Cycle Sluts ride into town and

Chavez; E: Jeff Betancourt

reluctantly save the day.

Cast: Mike White, Chris Weitz, Lupe Ontiveros, Beth

Prod Comp: Chelsea Partners

Colt

c Dist/Sales: TLA, Troma

Buck is an unemployed, infantile 27-year-old who

becomes fixated on his childhood best friend,

Chosen Family, The

Chuck. Chuck, on the other hand, has moved on to

living a successful adult life that includes a beautiful

Bradley, Maureen

fiancée and a high-level job—and has no interest in

2001; Canada; 13 min; Comedy

rekindling this childhood friendship. Buck’s

Families, whether chosen or biological, have a single

obsession to re-friend Chuck motivates him to move

aim—to drive us nuts, as this astute and comic film

to Los Angeles where he begins stalking Chuck and

demonstrates.

his fiancée. He calls continuously, hangs around in

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

front of Chuck’s office, appears at Chuck’s home

uninvited. With Chuck rejecting all these efforts,

Chrissy

Buck takes dramatic measures and puts on a

Children’s Theatre play that he is certain will make

North, Jacqui

Chuck become his best friend again. Finally, in great

1999; Australia; 52 min; Documentary

despair, Chuck finds a way to get Buck to leave him

P: Jessica Douglas-Henry, Jacqui North

alone. (Wolfe)

A far cry from the usual media depiction of women

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, ACMI

with HIV/AIDS as ‘virgins, vamps or victims’,

Chrissy provides a revealing insight into the life of a

Chuck Solomon: Coming of Age

young lesbian living with full-blown AIDS in inner-

city Sydney. At 18, Chrissy Napier, the eldest in a

Dallas, Wendy / Huestis, Marc

family of four girls, was diagnosed with HIV. A

1986; USA; 60 min; Documentary

teenage runaway and diabetic, she kept her positive

P: Wendy Dallas, Marc Huestis

status from her family for eight years. Filmmaker

An intimate portrait of Chuck Solomon, a mainstay

Jacqui North—Chrissy’s best friend began recording

of the San Francisco theatrical community, who was

Chrissy’s life shortly after she reveals her illness to

diagnosed with AIDS in 1985. Includes interviews

her family. The result is a film of great intimacy,

with many of Solomon’s friends and colleagues, as

compassion and sadness, as much about Chrissy’s

well as with Chuck himself, in which he traces his

courage and resourcefulness as about her family’s

growth as a gay man, his career as a committed gay

ultimate acceptance and unconditional support.

artist and his courage in facing his illness.

Prod Comp: North Productions

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild, Salzgeber

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Chutney Popcorn

Christine Jorgensen Story, The

Ganatra, Nisha

Rapper, Irving

1999; USA; 92 min; Comedy

1970; USA; 98 min; Drama

P: Susan Carnival, Nisha Ganatra; W: Susan Carnival, P: Edward Small; W: Robert Kent, Ellis St Joseph; Nisha Ganatra; C: Erin King; E: Jane Pia Abramowitz; C: Jacques Marquette; E: Grant Whytlock; M: Paul M: Karsh Kale

Sawtell, Bert Shefter

Cast: Nisha Ganatra, Jill Hennessey, Madhur Jaffrey,

Cast: John Hansen, Joan Tompkins, Quinn K. Redeker

Sakina Jaffrey

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Reena is an aspiring photographer and beautician.

Hollywood. Here he is introduced to the beautiful

As an Indian American lesbian she is happy living

people of the Circuit Party set, and their attendant

with her girlfriend Lisa, but struggles to find

lifestyle of sex, drugs, and gay abandon. Rapidly

acceptance from her traditional mother, especially

entrenched in a vicious cycle of hustling and

when she continually finds herself compared to her

deception, John must decide between his old and his

less radical sister, Sarita. Things become much more

new friends and his conflicting loyalties. (MQFF)

complicated when Sarita finds that she can’t have

Prod Comp: Sneak Preview Entertainment

children and Reena offers to become a surrogate

Dist/Sales: JourDeFete, TLA

mother. Sarita’s hubby Mitch is all for the idea, but

naturally nothing goes according to plan. Chutney

Citizen Cohn

Popcorn is a refreshing comedy about the ever-

evolving tensions of modern life, individual desires,

Pierson, Frank

American queer lifestyles and Indian traditions.

1992; USA; 108 min; Drama

(MQFF)

P: Doro Bachrach; W: David Franzoni; C: Paul Elliott; Prod Comp: First Look Pictures, Mata Productions,

M: Thomas Newman

Cast: James Woods, Joe Don Baker, Joseph Bologna, Ed

Seneca Falls, Tribeca Productions

Flanders

c

Dist/Sales: Mongrel, Wolfe, VideoAmericain

Based on the life of Roy Cohn, Senator Joseph

Cicely

McCarthy’s right-hand man, who helped destroy

some of the most powerful people in America during

Thompson, Rob

the McCarthy period of the 1950s. Told in a stream-

1992; USA; 52 min; Drama

of-consciousness style as he lies dying on his hospital

Lesbian lovers arrive in Cicely, a small town on

bed. He was a closeted homosexual and died of

Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, at the turn of the century,

AIDS in 1986. Made for TV and based on the novel

determined to turn the little backwater mining town

by Nicholas Von Hoffman.

into a cultural mecca.

Dist/Sales: Warner, TLA, Swank

Cinema Fouad

City of Lost Souls

Soueid, Mohammed

(aka: Stadt der Verlorenen Seelen)

1994; Lebanon; 28 min; Documentary

von Praunheim, Rosa

A documentary on the life and ambitions of a young

1983; Germany; 90 min; Comedy, Musical

Lebanese cross-dresser. The filmmaker follows her

W: Rosa von Praunheim; C: Stephan Köster; E: Rosa journey from soldier to cabaret dancer in an effort to

von Praunheim

raise funds for her sex change operation. Shot in

Cast: Jayne County, Angie Stardust, Tara O’Hara,

Beirut, Cinema Fouad weaves a complex and

Lorraine Muthke

multilayered story of sexuality, identity and desire

An hilarious low-budget musical satire about a group

and paints a compelling portrait of its subject.

of expatriate Americans living in Berlin and working

(Third World Newsreel)

in a sleazy diner called the Burger Queen. The

Prod Comp: Tele Liban

outrageous group include the transsexual Angie

Dist/Sales: TWN

Stardust and transvestite Tara O’Hara. Described as

a cross between Warhol, John Waters and The Rocky

Circuit

Horror Picture Show.

Shafer, Dirk

Dist/Sales: Exportfilm

2001; USA; 120 min; Drama

P: Gregory Hinton, Michael Roth, Steven J. Wolfe;

W: Dirk Shafer, Gregory Hinton; C: Joaquin Sedillo; E: Glen Richardson; M: Tony Moran

Cast: Jonathan Wade-Drahos, Andre Khabbazi, Kiersten

Warren, Brian Lane Green

From director Dirk Shafer ( Man of the Year 1994)

comes this controversial new film which puts the

circuit party scene on the screen and under the

microscope. John is an ex-cop who has left small-

town life in search of an open new existence in West

Circuit

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Claire

Clancy’s Kitchen

Thomas, Milford

Roy, Duncan

2001; USA; 60 min; B&W; Drama

1997; UK; 53 min; Comedy

P: Milford Thomas; W: Milford Thomas; C: Jonathan Black comedy about Clancy who whilst a successful

Mellinger; M: Anne Richardson

and handsome television chef, just can’t seem to get

Cast: Toniet Gallego, Mish P. Delight, James Ferguson,

his personal life in order. Trapped between his

Allen Jeffrey Rein

boyfriend and his girlfriend, he’s terrified of the

Atlanta filmmaker Milford Thomas’ Claire is a 60-

consequences of being outed, and so plots to dump

minute black and white silent film shot on an

the boyfriend and marry the girlfriend. But things

antique hand-crank 35 mm camera. The film is

don’t go quite to plan.

designed to be accompanied by the ‘Orchestra de

Dist/Sales: ThirdRock

Lune’, a live 11-piece chamber orchestra performing

an original score by Atlanta composer Anne

Richardson. Claire’s story is loosely based on

Kaguyahime, one of the oldest known Japanese fairy

c

tales. Thomas’ version tells the story of an elderly

male couple on a farm in the rural 1920s South who

find a girl from the moon and adopt her as their

own. (www.clairefilm.com)

Prod Comp: Put Down the Plow Productions

Dist/Sales: Put-Down-the-Plow

Claire of the Moon

Conn, Nicole

1992; USA; 82 min; Drama

P: Pamela S. Kuri; W: Nicole Conn; C: Randolph Sellars; E: Michael Solinger; M: Michael Allen Harrison Cast: Trisha Todd, Karen Trumbo, Faith McDevitt,

Caron Graham

Two professional women meet at a writer’s retreat

and openly discuss their lesbianism and preconcep-

tions of sexuality. An issue arises about Noel’s

decision about her sexuality and whether she could

have a future with Claire who is so different from

herself. The film sees a passionate affair slowly

develop between the two women interspersed with

much intellectualising about sexuality. Filled with

simmering sexual desire, heavy breathing and

hovering lips. The film is very slow moving as Noel

painfully makes her decision. Finally when the deed

is done, the film ends.

Prod Comp: Demi-Monde Productions

Claire of the Moon

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Strand, Potential, Millivres, ACMI

Clay Farmers, The

Clancy Street Boys

Gonzalez, A. P.

Beaudine, William

1988; USA; 60 min; Drama

1943; USA; 66 min; B&W; Comedy

P: Michael Moore; W: Michael Moore; C: Meg P: Sam Katzman, Jack Dietz; W: Harvey Gates; C: Mack Partridge; E: A. P. Gonzalez; M: Robert Stine

Stengler; E: Carl Pierson

Cast: Todd Fraser, Nicholas Rempel, Asbury Ward,

Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Bennie Bartlett Liam McGrath

Farcical eastside kids yarn, with Muggs enlisting the

Set in a small farming community, two young men,

boys to be his siblings for the benefit of Uncle Beery.

Dan and Mike, take in a 10-year-old boy, Gary, who

Hall in drag is a comic highlight.

has been abused. Soon homophobic hatred is stirred

Prod Comp: Monogram Pictures Corporation

up by the boy’s father against the two men. When

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their friends and community turn against them they

C: Ian Baker; E: Edward McQueen-Mason; M: Red Symons must confront their relationship.

Cast: Chris Haywood, Simon Burke, Gerda Nicolson,

Dist/Sales: VideoAmericain

Rona McLeod

A hilarious send up of the day-in-the-life running of

Cleopatra Jones

a STD clinic, with characters including a relaxed,

Starrett, Jack

experienced young doctor with a hangover, a young

1973; USA; 89 min; Action

homophobic medical student, other doctors with

various problems, a gay doctor and a bunch of

P: Max Julien, Bill Tennant; W: Sheldon Keller, Max patients. It reaches its highest point when the gay

Julien; C: David Walsh; E: Allan Jacobs; M: Carl doctor, played by Haywood, has some anxious

Brandt, Brad Shapiro, J. J. Johnson

moments when he must meet his lover’s parents.

Cast: Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Shelley Winters,

Brenda Sykes, Antonio Fargas

Prod Comp: Film House, Generation Films

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, NFVLS

A black, female former CIA martial-arts expert keeps

the violence going until she has captured or killed all

Clips

members of an international drug ring. Shelley

c

Winters plays Mommy, the lesbian gang leader.

Kinney, Nan / Sundahl, Debi

Standard exploitation flick with a high mortality rate.

1988; USA; 30 min; Experimental

Prod Comp: Warner

An independent production that is a collection of

Dist/Sales: Warner

three experimental vignettes which detail an erotic

and safe-sex perspective to lesbianism. Areas covered

Cleopatra’s Second Husband

include penetration, oral sex, dental dams, sex toys,

power, and role playing.

Reiss, John

2001; USA; 92 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Blush Productions

W: John Reiss; C: Matta Faw; E: Toby Yates; M: Cary Close to Home

Berger

Cast: Radha Mitchell, Boyd Kestner, Paul Hipp, Bitty

Evans, Rodney

Schram

1998; USA; 24 min; Documentary

Blackly comic, perversely erotic, and thoroughly

Documents the filmmaker’s journey as he comes out

unpredictable, this genre-bending story of sexual

to a conservative Jamaican family and negotiates a

mind games stars indie favourite Radha Mitchell.

painful relationship with a 21-year-old heterosexual

(First Run Features)

man. (TWN)

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures

Dist/Sales: TWN

Clinic E

Closer

Ward, Mark

Gharavi, Tina

1996; USA; 27 min; B&W; Drama

2000; UK; 24 min; Documentary

Cast: David Fenner

An experimental documentary which is a poignant

A summons to be tested for HIV sends Jack Everhart

character study of a 17-year-old lesbian living in

on a mission to track down the anonymous person

Newcastle, England, Closer innovatively explores the

who gave his name to the clinic. As he calls on the

process of documentary filmmaking and boldly

men and women he’s had unprotected sex with,

challenges traditional forms of storytelling. From the

while keeping the whole thing secret from his

streets of Newcastle—where we find Annelise

current committed partner, he gradually comes to

speaking frankly to the camera about her experiences

realise the destructive power of denial. By the time

as a young lesbian—to the emotionally charged re-

Jack gets the results of his test, he’s learned a few

enactment of her coming out to her mother, this

lessons, but life still has a nasty trick or two in store.

highly original film provides a rare auto-portrait

(Big Film Shorts)

where fiction and documentary collide. (WMM)

Dist/Sales: BigFilm

Dist/Sales: WMM

Clinic, The

Closet Space

Stevens, David

Farrelly, Colleen

1982; Australia; 92 min; Comedy

2000; Australia; 38 min; Documentary

P: Robert Le Tet, Bob Weis; W: Greg Millin;

P: Karen Taylor

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Honest and frank, this South Australian PFlag

affair—with another man. She, for some reason,

documentary delves into the minds of different

meets and befriends the man, and thus becomes

mums and dads of gay, lesbian and bisexual children.

aware of the world of AIDS.

Prod Comp: PSPFlag, Cindigo Vision

Dist/Sales: FilmFour

Dist/Sales: ACMI

Club de Femmes

Closet, The

(aka: The Women’s Club; Girl’s Club)

(aka: Le Placard)

Deval, Jacques

Veber, Francis

1936; France; 90 min; B&W; Comedy

2000; France; 85 min; Comedy

W: Jacques Deval; C: Jules Kruger

P: Patrice Ledoux; W: Francis Veber; C: Luciano Tovoli; Cast: Elize Argal, Danielle Darrieux, Josette Day,

E: Georges Klotz; M: Vladimir Cosma

Valentine Tessier

Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Thierry

This rarely seen comedy, Club de Femmes, is set in an

Lhermitte, Michele Laroque

all-women’s hotel in Paris where the ideal is moral

Francois Pignon is a lonely, dull accountant at a

security and the motto is ‘Men—keep out’. The

c

condom factory. At home, he sits alone and pines for

main characters include Alice, an attractive lesbian, a

his ex-wife and his son, who find him too boring to

young dancer who’ll do anything to get her boy-

visit. At work, he’s the butt of many jokes, usually

friend inside, and a foreign student who becomes

instigated by fellow worker Felix. To make things

involved in a prostitution ring. With traces of the

worse, it’s all over the office that he’s going to be

classic American screwball comedy, Club de Femmes

fired. But all that changes one day when a rumour

expresses a variety of sexual attitudes. (MQFF)

spreads that Francois is gay. Much to his surprise, his

French with English subtitles.

life takes an unexpected and hilarious turn for the

Prod Comp: S.E.L.F.

better. French with English subtitles. (Wolfe)

Dist/Sales: BFI

Prod Comp: Le Studio Canal+, TF1 Films

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Miramax, Sharmill, Swank, ACMI

Coal Miner’s Granddaughter

Closets are for Clothes

Dougherty, Cecilia

1991; USA; 85 min; Drama

Dezu

Cast: Leslie Singer, Kevin Killian

1995; Japan; 21 min; Comedy

This humorous epic about a brutally realistic

A young Japanese lesbian is taken by surprise when

American family does for lesbians what John Waters

her straight male friend starts to hit on her.

did for Baltimore. Dougherty’s sharp and skilfully

Dist/Sales: TokyoILGFF

original visual style recreates moments, like memo-

ries, which will resonate with an audience’s own

Closets are Health Hazards

deeply felt emotions about family, illness and

sexuality. Video artist Leslie Singer plays the

Mosbacher, Dee

protagonist Jane Dobson. Under the thumb of her

1986; USA; 22 min; Documentary

sleazy, evil father, Jane is not the hero of her own life,

Closets Are Health Hazards is a slideshow transferred

she’s simply there. But when Jane escapes from the

to video in which sixteen lesbian and gay physicians

structured life of her family back in Pennsylvania,

discuss the medical profession and sexual orienta-

Coal Miner’s Granddaughter opens up into the

tion. (Woman Vision)

impressionistic world of her sexuality. (MQFF)

Dist/Sales: WomanVision

Dist/Sales: VDB

Closing Numbers

Cockettes, The

Whittaker, Stephen

Weber, Bill / Weissman, David

1993; UK; 96 min; Drama

2002; USA; 100 min; Documentary

P: Jennifer Howarth; W: David Cook; C: Nic P: David Weisman; C: Marsha Kahm; E: Bill Weber; Knowland; E: Max Lemon; M: Moya Burns

M: Richard Koldewyn

Cast: Jane Asher, Tim Woodward, Nigel Chernock,

A feature length documentary that chronicles the

Hazel Douglas, Jamie Glover

flamboyant ensemble of hippies (women, gay men

The life of a married couple is almost destroyed

and babies) who decked themselves out in gender-

when the wife finds out her husband is having an

bending drag and tons of glitter for a series of

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legendary midnight shows at the Palace Theatre in

Cold Footsies

San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s. It

featured elaborate costumes, rebellious sexuality and

Manzart, Richard

exuberant chaos. (Strand Releasing)

1991; Australia; 12 min; Comedy

Prod Comp: Blackfern, GranDelusion

Does Bradley love Cheryl and does Cheryl really love

Dist/Sales: Strand

Bradley? Did Gerard love Bradley, and does Bradley

love Gerard, or does Bradley love anyone at all?

Prod Comp: Australian Film TV & Radio School

Dist/Sales: AFTRS

Cold Lands, The

(aka: Les Terres Froides)

Lifshitz, Sébastien

1999; France; 62 min; Drama

W: Sébastien Lifshitz, Stéphane Bouquet; C: Pascal Poucet; E: Yann Dedet; M: Arvo Part

c

Cast: Yasmine Belmadi, Bernard Verley, Valérie

Donzelli, Sébastien Charles

Djamel is a good looking young Arab who comes to

Grenoble to meet a Frenchman he thinks may be his

father. The ‘father’ gives him a poorly paid job at his

factory, but rejects the notion that Djamel is his son.

In the meantime, Djamel seems enamoured by his

‘father’s’ gay and very handsome son, but it seems he

has a hidden agenda that brings a conclusion he, nor

we expected. French with English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Agat Films, La Sept-Arte

Dist/Sales: ArteFrance

Colegas

The Cockettes

(aka: Pals)

Coconut/Cane and Cutlass

de la Iglesia, Eloy

1980; Spain; 120 min; Drama

Mohabeer, Michelle

P: José Antonio Pérez Giner; W: Eloy de la Iglesia, 1994; Canada; 30 min; Drama

Gonzalo Goicoachea; C: Hans Burmann, Antonio

A poetic rumination on exile, displacement and

Cuevas; M: Miguel Botafogo

national identity from the perspective of a young

Cast: Antonio Gonzalez Flores, Rosario Gonzalez Flores,

Indo-Caribbean lesbian who migrated to Canada 20

José Luis Manzano, José Manuel Cervino

years ago. Her autobiographical journey and the

The story of two young men who—in order to raise

history of indenture and oppression of Indian people

money so the girlfriend of one can have an abortion—

in the Caribbean are illuminated through beautifully

prostitute themselves in a gay bathhouse. Unfortu-

layered imagery, location footage from Guyana,

nately this doesn’t work, and raising the money looks

stylised dramatic sequences, personal narration,

very difficult until they meet a gay drug-runner and

poetry and dance.

get work smuggling drugs into Madrid. When they

Dist/Sales: WMM, CFMDC

finally get the money, their friendship ends tragically.

Coffee Date

Dist/Sales: VideoAmericain

Wade, Stewart

Colonel Redl

2000; USA; 17 min; Comedy

(aka: Oberst Redl)

A straight guy is set up by his brother and acciden-

Szabó, István

tally meets the boy of dreams instead of the girl of

1985; Hungary; 140 min; Drama

his dreams on an email personals date.

P: Manfred Durnick, József Marx; W: István Szabó, Dist/Sales: CoffeeDate

Péter Dobai; C: Lajos Koltai; E: Zsuzsa Csakany; 109

M: Zdenkó Tamássy

outlaw and a gay cowboy—find escape from life in

Cast: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech,

the creation of colourful alter egos. This Melbourne-

Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gudrun Landrebe

produced docudrama examines sexuality and

Alfred Redl is one of the most infamous and

identity and their place within the urban landscape.

ambitious figures of modern European history. The

Prod Comp: Film Fatale

son of a poor railway worker, he invented the story

Dist/Sales: ABC-International

of his life to gain acceptance to the ranks of the

aristocracy, and to climb to the pinnacle of the

Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy

Austro-Hungarian military regime. At his peak in

Dean, Jimmy Dean

the Austrian Intelligence, he was blackmailed by the

Russians for being homosexual and a transvestite,

Altman, Robert

and was forced to become a double agent. His case is

1982; USA; 110 min; Drama

often used as an example of how gays in the military

P: Scott Bushnell; W: Ed Graczyk; C: Pierre Mignot; are a security risk. German with English subtitles.

E: Joseph Rosenfield

Awards: Cannes Film Festival, 1985: Jury Prize; BAFTA

Cast: Karen Black, Cher, Sandy Dennis, Sudie Bond,

Award, 1986: Best Foreign Language Film

Kathy Bates

c Prod Comp: MOKEP-Kerszi, Mafilm Studio Objektiv, Set in a small town in Texas in 1975, five female

Manfred Durniok Produktion, ZDF

members of the James Dean Fan Club hold their 20-

Dist/Sales: NewVision, ACMI, OrionClassics

year reunion at a five-and-dime store. The different

directions their lives have taken, and the various

Color Purple, The

degrees of success they have had, create numerous

striking contrasts. The action works on two levels as

Spielberg, Steven

incidents occurring at the reunion are paralleled with

1985; USA; 152 min; Drama

events 20 years earlier. One of the characters, exuber-

P: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall,

antly well-played by Karen Black, is a transsexual.

Quincy Jones; W: Menno Meyjes; C: Allen Daviau; E: Prod Comp: Sandcastle 5, Viacom

Michael Kahn; M: Quincy Jones

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, Cinecom

Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah

Winfrey, Margaret Avery

Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts, A

The Color Purple centres on a African American girl’s

Oxenberg, Jan

struggle in America’s deep south. Spanning a period

of 40 years, the film tells of Celie who is mistreated

1975; USA; 25 min; B&W; Comedy

by two men for 15 years until a blues singer enters

P: Jan Oxenberg; W: Jan Oxenberg

her life and her real self begins to emerge. However,

A satire on the stereotyped images of lesbians, each

with one small scene deleted, the film dilutes the

scene is a takeoff of a different genre of Hollywood

lesbian aspect that was present in the novel written

film—the source of so many of our stereotypes.

by Alice Walker.

(Cinenova)

Prod Comp: Amblin, Warner, Guber-Peters Company

Prod Comp: Good Taste Productions

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Warner

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, Frameline, NFVLS

Come and Go

Comfort of Strangers, The

Lau, Mishann

Schrader, Paul

1998; Canada; 13 min; B&W; Drama

1990; UK; 102 min; Drama

A single woman has a night out in a lesbian bar.

P: Angelo Rizzoli Jnr; W: Harold Pinter; C: Dante Spinotti; E: Bill Pankow; M: Angelo Badalamenti

Dist/Sales: VTape

Cast: Christopher Walken, Helen Mirren, Rupert

Come as you Are

Everett, Natasha Richardson

A chance encounter with a strangely seductive

Croghan, Emma-Kate / McGann, Brad

couple in Venice draws two young lovers into a

1996; Australia; 27 min; Documentary

forbidden zone of dark sexuality and hidden secrets,

P: Franziska Wagenfeld; W: Emma-Kate Croghan, Brad where pain equals pleasure and murder is the result.

McGann; C: Susan Thwaites; E: Andrew Narozny;

Based on the novel by Ian McEwan.

M: John Phillips

Prod Comp: Erre, Sovereign, Rank Organisation,

Cast: Miss Candy, Bridget Haire, Ron Walker

Reteitalia

Three diverse individuals—a drag queen, a sexual

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, FirstRelease, Skouras

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Coming Home

An idealistic schoolteacher forms a relationship with

Tanya and they move in together. But when he has a

Crary, Ashley

chance meeting with an old school friend to whom

2000; USA; 57 min; Documentary

he was sexually attracted, his relationship with Tanya

An intimate investigation of the coming out

is put in jeopardy. He begins to delve into the gay

processes of five gay and lesbians.

underground life of the city as he questions his

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild

heterosexuality. German with English subtitles.

Coming of Age

Prod Comp: DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, FirstRunFeatures, NFVLS

Gorn, Phil

Coming Out, Coming Home: Asian and

2001; USA; 81 min; Drama

P: Phil Gorn, Michael L. Pryfogle, Randi Acton;

Pacific Islander Family Stories

W: Phil Gorn; C: Don Starnes; E: Phil Gorn B., Hima

Cast: Ron Guinto, Marceia Fogg, Norman Gee, Kevin

1996; USA; 44 min; Documentary

Lasit

Five proud and very confident Asian Pacific Islander

Stevie is apprehended for a gay bashing and

c

families speak frankly, and emotionally about their

sentenced to serve community time in an AIDS

children’s sexual orientation.

hospice. While there he realises that love can cross

many borders.

Dist/Sales: API-PFLAG

Dist/Sales: Wonderphil

Coming Out of the Iron Closet

Coming Out (1972)

Peloso, Larry

1995; Canada; 40 min; Documentary

Tarrant, Crea

1972; UK; 32 min; Documentary

Of all the places in the world, the former USSR is

still one of the least secure for a gay man or lesbian

The issues and problems associated with transvestism

to live. The reason for this isn’t so much due to the

and transsexualism are discussed in this film,

traumas of living under an ongoing oppressive

primarily using interviews.

regime, but rather those of living under such an

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

unstable one. Perestroika may have opened the closet

doors in some respects, but the political climate

since then has been so inconstant that what is

sanctioned one day may well be strictly taboo the

next. Shot during a fortnight’s train trip through

Moscow, Riga and Tallinn, the video examines the

state of play for gay men and lesbians in the former

USSR, and includes an interview with the proud

editor of Russia’s first gay magazine. (MQFF)

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

Film Festival, 1995: Audience Award for Best Video

Coming Out under Fire

Dong, Arthur

1994; USA; 71 min; Documentary

P: Arthur Dong; W: Allan Berube, Arthur Dong;

C: Stephen Lighthill; E: Veronica Selver; M: Mark Adler The Comfort of Strangers

Cast: Salome Jens

Coming Out (1989)

An extraordinary documentary about gays and

lesbians in the American military during the Second

Carow, Heiner

World War. It goes beyond mere historical documen-

1989; East Germany; 109 min; Drama

tation to include riveting personal stories and

W: Wolfram Witt; C: Martin Schlesinger; E: Evelyn carefully chosen archival material. The film uncovers

Carow; M: Stefan Carow

the stories of men and women who found them-

Cast: Mathias Freihof, Dagmar Manzel, Dirk Kummer,

selves fighting two wars: one for their country, and

Walfriede Schnitt, Michael Gwisdek

the other against the armed forces who sought to

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discharge them as undesirables.

the powerful story of the first decade of the AIDS

Prod Comp: DeepFocus Productions

epidemic, as told through the lives of five very

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Zeitgeist, DeepFocus,

diverse individuals who shared a common fate.

VideoAmericain, ACMI

Using the monumental Names Project AIDS

Memorial Quilt as its central metaphor, the film

Coming to Terms

weaves together personal memories and television

news stories to expose the US government’s failure to

Postoff, Shawn

respond to the growing epidemic, and the vibrant

2000; Canada; 16 min; Drama

protest movement that was born as a result. From

Damian sinks into desperation when he realises that

the Olympic athlete to the inner-city recovering

both he and his family have an arduous journey

drug addict, from the conservative naval commander

ahead if they are to heal old wounds and come to

to the New York gay activist, to the 11-year-old

terms with his dawning sexuality. (CFMDC)

suburban boy with haemophilia, the film uses

intimate details to tell an epic story of love, loss,

Dist/Sales: CFMDC, Frameline

anger and healing. (Telling Pictures)

Common Flower, A

Awards: Academy Awards, 1989: Best Documentary

c

Prod Comp: Mainstream, Telling Pictures

Bartoni, Doreen

Dist/Sales: Ronin, BFI, Cowboy, Telling, FilmsTransit

1992; USA; 26 min; Drama

This moving short film concerns older couple Paula

Companions: Tales from the Closet

and Sylvia. They plan a trip to Sylvia’s homeland,

Russia, but when Sylvia dies Paula prepares to go

Bergström, Nina / Neant-Falk, Cecilia

anyway. This simple story gains poignancy and

1996; Sweden; 53 min; Documentary

depth from its exploration of the difficulty of silent

In this documentary about lesbian love, five elderly

bereavement, when no-one knows the friend who

Swedish women, ages 60 to 75, discuss their lives

has died is more than just a friend. (MQFF)

during a period when homosexuality was considered

a perversion. In a poignant and often humorous

Common Ground

manner, they talk about budding love and first

relationships with women as well as the forced

Deitch, Donna

secrecy and loneliness, tracing their personal

2000; USA; 105 min; Drama

development from self loathing and forbidden love

W: Paula Vogel, Terrence McNally, Harvey Fierstein;

to a hard-won sense of emotional liberation and

C: Jacek Laskus; E: Robin Katz; M: Frederic Talgorn social openness. (Cinema Guild)

Cast: Beau Bridges, Ed Asner, Helen Shaver, Jonathan

Swedish with English subtitles.

Taylor Thomas, Margot Kidder

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, CinemaGuild

Common Ground tells stories of three generations of

gays in Homer, Connecticut. Friends of Dorothy, set

Company of Strangers, The

in the 1950s, is about the rejection suffered by a

local woman when she is discharged from the Navy

(aka: Strangers in Good Company)

under Section 8 (sexual deviancy). Mr Roberts, set in

Scott, Cynthia

1978, concerns a gay student/athlete who turns to

1990; Canada; 97 min; Drama

his closeted French teacher for support after things

P: David Wilson; W: Gloria Demers, Cynthia Scott, get rough in the locker room. 2000 shows the pre-David Wilson, Sally Bochner; C: David De Volpi

wedding jitters a gay man goes through, and explores

E: David Wilson; M: Marie Bernard

his relationship with his military dad. (Wolfe)

Cast: Alice Diablo, Constance Garneau, Winifred

Prod Comp: Winsome Entertainment

Holden, Cissy Meddings

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Showtime, ParamountHV

Seven old women are stranded at a deserted

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

farmhouse, miles from civilisation after their bus

breaks down. Through the ensuing days the group of

Epstein, Robert / Friedman, Jeffrey

strangers share their life stories, exchange once secret

1989; USA; 89 min; Documentary

thoughts, and turn the crisis into a triumph of the

P: Bill Couturie, Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman;

human spirit. The group includes a shy Mohawk

W: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Cindy Ruskin;

woman, a free thinker, a literary lesbian and an

C: Dyanna Taylor, Jean De Segonzac; E: Jeffrey

irrepressible woman from Dorset named Cissy.

Friedman, Rob Epstein; M: Bobby McFerrin

Prod Comp: National Film Board of Canada, First Run

In the late 1970s, a mysterious new disease began

Features

infecting and killing gay men. Common Threads tells

Dist/Sales: NewVision, CastleHill, Wolfe, ACMI, BFI

112

Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter

experiences range from the London Blitz to Japanese

prisoner-of-war camps in Singapore, and from the

Hoffmann, Deborah

drag show at the front line in Burma to Special

1994; USA; 44 min; Documentary

Operations in Southeast Asia.

With profound insight and a healthy dose of levity,

Prod Comp: Channel 4

Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter chronicles the

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary, Salzgeber, MayaVision

various stages of a mother’s Alzheimer’s Disease and

the evolution of a daughter’s response to the illness.

Conception

The desire to cure the incurable, to set right her

mother’s confusion and forgetfulness, to temper her

Sigal, David

mother’s obsessiveness, gives way to an acceptance

1995; USA; 20 min; Comedy

which is finally liberating for both daughter and

An amusing and inventive look at the trials and

mother. Neither depressing nor medical, Complaints

tribulations of conceiving a child when one vital

of a Dutiful Daughter is much more than a story

ingredient is missing. Sigal is, however, keen to stress

about Alzheimer’s and family caregiving. It is

that it’s not just dykes who suffer the baby blues.

ultimately a life-affirming exploration of family

Conception also includes a pregnant straight teen and

relations, ageing and change, the meaning of

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memory, and love. (WMM)

a gay man with relationship problems. (MQFF)

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

Confession, The

Film Festival, 1994: Best Documentary

Dist/Sales: WMM, Ronin, FilmsTransit, Cowboy

Pfirman, Carl

2000; USA; 22 min; Drama

Compromised Immunity

Nearing the end of his life, Joseph creates tension in

Lipman, Andy

his long-term relationship when he attempts to

1985; UK; 47 min; Drama

resurrect his Catholic faith.

A film version of one of the earliest stage dramas

about AIDS, The Normal Heart. Compromised

Immunity is the story of the developing friendship

between Britain’s first AIDS patient, a gay man, and

a straight orderly in a typical London hospital.

Compulsion

Fleischer, Richard

1959; USA; 103 min; B&W; Thriller

P: Richard Zanuck; W: Richard Murphy; C: William C.

Mellor; E: William Reynolds; M: Lionel Newman

Cast: Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Orson Welles,

Diane Varsi

Recreation of the Leopold-Loeb murder case in

Confessions of a Pretty Lady

1920s Chicago, in which two young gay men, killed

Confessions of a Pretty Lady

a boy for the thrill of it. The film contains well-

dramatised courtroom scenes with Orson Welles

Clarke, Kristiene / Mortimer, Sarah

playing the defence lawyer. See also Tom Kalin’s film

1993; UK; 70 min; Documentary

Swoon relating the same story.

W: Kristiene Clarke

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox

Cast: Sandra Bernhard, Camille Paglia, Martin Scorsese

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, 20thCenturyFox

Engaging documentary by transsexual producer

Comrades in Arms

Kristiene Clarke, which follows Sandra Bernhard

through the streets of tinsel town. Features snippets

Marshall, Stuart

of Bernhard’s own celluloid footage, live shows,

1990; UK; 50 min; Documentary

home movies and interviews with family and friends

P: Rebecca Dobbs; W: Stuart Marshall

like Martin Scorsese, LA’s Dykes on Bikes and

Six lesbians and gays recount their humorous and

controversial enfant terrible academic, Camille

poignant memories of living, loving and serving in

Paglia.

the armed forces during World War II. Their

Dist/Sales: BBC-Enterprises

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Confessions of a Window Cleaner

P: Didier Boujard; W: Ilan Duran Cohen, Philippe

Lasry; C: Jeanne Lapoirie; E: Fabrice Rouaud; M: Jay Guest, Val

Jay Johanson

1974; UK; 90 min; Comedy

Cast: Nathalie Richard, Pascal Greggory, Cyrille

P: Greg Smith; W: Val Guest, Christopher Wood;

Thouvenin, Vincent Martinez

C: Norman Warwick; E: Bill Lenny; M: Sam Sklair Cast: Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth, Linda Hayden,

Alain is a fortyish, bisexual attorney considering

Bill Maynard, Dandy Nichols

settling down with his long-time law partner and

occasional lover Laurence. But suddenly the

A bawdy British sex comedy about a window cleaner

beautiful young Christophe appears on the scene,

who doesn’t quite clean up his act. The first of the

promising a taste of life on the wild side. And there’s

UK ‘Confessions’ series of films. The window

also Babette, the enigmatic girlfriend of one of his

cleaner is the voyeur who spends his time spying on

clients, Marc, who himself is rather cute.

a nymphomaniac, a lesbian and a frustrated teacher.

(www.frenchculture.org)

Prod Comp: Columbia; Dist/Sales: 16MM, Col-Tri

French with English subtitles.

Confessions of Felix Krull, The

Prod Comp: Alta Loma Films, Fugitive Productions

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!, Haut-et-Court

c (aka: Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull)

Connections: Gay Aboriginal Men in Sydney

Hoffmann, Kurt

1957; Germany; 116 min; B&W; Drama

Dal, Reno

P: Hans Abich, Eberhard Krause; W: Robert Thoeren, 1997; Australia; 58 min; Documentary

Erika Mann; C: Friedl Behn-Grund; E: Caspar van den P: Reno Dal

Berg; M: Hans-Martin Majewski

Connections is the first film to attempt an in-depth

Cast: Horst Buchholz, Liselotte Pulver, Ingrid Andree,

understanding of gay Aboriginal men in Australia.

Susi Nicoletti

Filmed over two years, it sets out to understand what

A rogue, in turn-of-the-century Germany, uses his

it means to be gay and Aboriginal while living in the

charm and good looks to acquire the finer things of

urban environment of Sydney.

life without working. He indulges in a variety of

Prod Comp: Reno Dal Pty Ltd

heterosexual and homosexual liaisons. His life takes a

strange twist when he falls in love with a trapeze

Consenting Adult

artist. Based on the original story by Thomas Mann.

German with English subtitles.

Cates, Gilbert

1985; USA; 92 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Filmaufbau

P: David Lavica, Ray Aghayan; W: Laura Z. Hobson, Conformist, The

John McGreevey; C: Frank Stanley; E: Melvin Shapiro; M: Laurence Rosenthal

(aka: Il Conformista)

Cast: Martin Sheen, Marlo Thomas, Barry Tubb, Talia

Bertolucci, Bernardo

Balsam

1970; France, Germany, Italy; 108 min; Drama

Drama about a family in turmoil when their ‘perfect’

P: Maurizio Lodi-Fe; W: Bernardo Bertolucci;

son discloses he’s gay. A movie which explores the

C: Vittorio Storaro; E: Franco Arcalli; M: Georges Delerue ties that bind parent to child, wife to husband, lover

Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone to stranger, body to soul. It’s about becoming an

Moschin, Enzo Taroscio

adult, a time when these ties often become tangled.

In 1938 an inhibited and repressed homosexual

Based on the novel by Laura Z. Hobson, and

young man tries to conform to the prevailing mood

originally made for television.

of Fascism, but after a series of events he gets out of

Prod Comp: David Lawrence and Ray Aghayan

his depth when he turns informer and becomes an

Productions, The Starger Company

unwilling murderer. Based on the original story by

Dist/Sales: ABC-US

Alberto Moravia. French with English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Mars, Marianne, Maran

Consequence, The

Dist/Sales: Potential, Paramount

(aka: Die Konsequenz)

Confusion of Genders

Petersen, Wolfgang

1977; Germany; 100 min; B&W; Drama

(aka: La confusion des genres)

P: Peter Genée; W: Wolfgang Petersen, Alexander

Cohen, Ilan Duran

Ziegler; C: Jörg Michael Baldenius; E: Hannes Nikel; 2000; France; 94 min; Comedy

M: Nils Sustrate

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Cast: Jürgen Prochnow, Ernst Hannawald, Werner

circulation for nearly a decade and then later re-

Schwuchow, Hans-Michael Rehberg

released under the less offensive title Street Fight.

The story of two men’s illicit sexual relationship. One

is an actor who is in prison for seducing a minor, the

Corpo, O

other is the teenage son of one of the guards. They

(aka: The Body)

attempt to make a life together, but with interference

from the boy’s family, tragedy ensues.

García, José Antonio Fernández

1991; Brazil; 84 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Solaris Film

P: Adone Fragano, Anibal Massaini Neto; W: Alfredo Conta Pra Mim

Oroz; C: Antonio Meliande; E: Eder Mazzini, Danilo Tadeu; M: Paulo Barnabé

(aka: Trust Me)

Cast: Antônio Fagundes, Marieta Severo, Cláudia

Machado, Andre

Jimenez, Sérgio Mamberti

2001; Brazil; 10 min; Drama

Story about a ménage à trois involving two women

Anything can happen when a 17-year-old boy find

and a man. When the women find their man has

himself in love with his best mate.

been cheating on them with a prostitute, they become

c

even closer. Their hatred for him begins to grow, they

Dist/Sales: MixBrasil

decide he must die and begin to plot his death.

Conversation Piece

Prod Comp: Cinearte, Olympus Filmes

(aka: Gruppo di famiglia in un interno)

Corps Imagé, Le

Visconti, Luchino

Cummins, Stephen

1974; Italy; 117 min; Drama

1986; Australia; 12 min; Experimental

P: Giovanni Bertolucci; W: Luchino Visconti, Suso Cecchi d’Amico, Ennric Medioli; C: Pasqualino de

Le Corps Imagé is a mood piece of photographs

Santis; E: Ruggero Mastroianni; M: Franco Mannino projected onto nude models. The images, ranging

Cast: Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Claudia Marsani,

from classic nudes to a three-dimensional movie

audience, are projected so that the distinction

Silvana Mangano

between the projected image and the model/screen is

When a reclusive professor is persuaded to let his

obscured. (Frameline)

top floor to a young couple he is brought face to

Prod Comp: Australian Film TV & Radio School

face with his latent homosexuality and his approach-

ing death.

Dist/Sales: AFTRS, Frameline

Prod Comp: Rusconi, Gaumont

Corps Ouverts, Les

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, NewLine

(aka: Open Bodies)

Coonskin

Lifshitz, Sébastien

(aka: Street Fight)

1997; France; 44 min; Drama

18-year-old Rémi, studies commerce, works part-

Bakshi, Ralph

time in an Arab grocery, and, answering an ad for

1974; USA; 95 min; Comedy

film actors, finds himself in a relationship with

P: Albert S. Ruddy; W: Ralph Bakshi; E: Donald W.

Marc, the director. His sexual identity, however, is an

Ernst; M: Chico Hamilton

open book. French with English subtitles.

Cast: Barry White, Charles Gordone, Philip M.

Dist/Sales: Kanpaï

Thomas, Scatman Crothers

This controversial animated feature from the man

Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality, A

who made Fritz the Cat has superb design and a

great voice track. The story attempts to trace the

Frilot, Shari

history of the African–American experience in

1992; USA; 20 min; Experimental

America using rather misshapen animal characters.

A humorous comparison between female sexuality

One of the characters is a black drag queen called

and cosmic structures, this video interviews five

Snowflake who spends most of his time having sex in

different women on topics such as menstruation,

the back of trucks or being beaten up, supporting

masturbation and ejaculation. The video proposes

the myth that homosexual behaviour is synonymous

how sexuality may connect us with much more than

with sex and violence. A number of interest groups

just our partners. (Third World Newsreel)

found the film offensive and it was taken out of

Dist/Sales: TWN

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Costa Brava

Denham, Lesley-Anne Down

Balletbò-Coll, Marta

Countess Elizabeth Bathory masquerades as her own

1994; Spain; 92 min; Comedy

daughter, but she must bathe in the blood of virgins

P: Marta Balletbò-Coll; W: Marta Balletbò-Coll, Ana to maintain her facade of youth. When her young

Simon Cerezo; C: Teo López García; E: Olaguer

lover discovers the truth the countess reverts to an

old hag and tries to kill her own daughter to

Cordoba; M: Miguel Amor, Emil Remolins Casas,

rejuvenate herself. It is more a poignant study of

Xavier Martorell, Ikal Sena

parents and the jealousy their children can inspire in

Cast: Marta Balletbo-Coll, Desi Del Valle, Montserrat

them rather than a vampire film.

Gausachs

Prod Comp: Hammer, Rank

Set in Barcelona, Costa Brava displays a clever,

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, 20thCenturyFox, Carlton

simplistic style. A whimsical comedy, it weaves

through the day-to-day life of Anna, a tour guide

Coup de Grace

and struggling playwright. Anna’s work brings her

into contact with Montserrat, a scientist who has

(aka: Der Fangschuss)

recently arrived in Barcelona from Israel. A friend-

Schlöndorff, Volker

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ship begins and the two women eventually fall in

1976; France, Germany; 95 min; B&W; Drama

love. Negotiating their way through the trials and

P: Anatole Dauman; W: Genevieve Dormann, Jutta

tribulations of a new relationship results in a few

Bruckner, Margarethe von Trotta; C: Igor Luther;

comically confronting episodes. (MQFF)

E: Jane Sperr; M: Stanley Myers

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

Cast: Margarethe von Trotta, Matthias Habich, Rüdiger

Film Festival, 1995: Audience Award Best Film; Los

Kirschstein, Valeska Gert

Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 1995: Best Film

Set in the 1918 civil war between German sympa-

Prod Comp: Marta Balletbò-Coll

thisers and Communist insurgents. Sophie, the

Dist/Sales: Forefront, Millivres, NorthernArts,

daughter of a once wealthy family, opens her house

VideoAmericain

to German soldiers and falls in love with Erich, the

Could be Worse

commander of the unit. But her love for Erich is

unwelcomed as he is secretly in love with Sophie’s

Stratis, Zach

brother. Spurned by him and in desperation Sophie

2000; USA; 84 min; Documentary

finally turns to Communism, becoming a political

W: Zach Stratis, Vilma Gregoropoulous; C: Vilma

enemy. German with English subtitles.

Gregoropoulous; E: Tom Ohanian, Jonathan Sahula,

Prod Comp: Argos, Bioskop Film

Lynne Schwahn Parrella

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

Zach is making a film about his Greek–American

Crash and Burn

family in Boston for his parents’ 50th wedding

anniversary party. Zach is the youngest in the family,

Graham, David

and wants to investigate what holds the family

1999; USA; 25 min; Drama

together. He also wants to uncover how his family

P: David Graham, Brian Ash, Elizabeth Malcolm;

feels about his homosexuality. But, he also doesn’t

W: David Graham, Stephanie Urdang

want to offend, so he decides to make a cheerful

musical comedy, rather than a straight documentary.

Short film about a couple whose schedules keep

What follows is the Stratis family breaking into a

them apart at nights. One of the men’s interest in

litany of lame songs, awful vocals, creeky choreogra-

S/M bars almost gets him in to trouble one night.

phy and completely over the top costumes. But it’s

so utterly endearing that you can’t help but fall in

Crazy Richard

love with them.

Francis, Dean / Mathers, Katrina

Prod Comp: Midburb Productions

2001; Australia; 64 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Could-Be-Worse

P: Dean Francis; W: Dean Francis, Katrina Mathers Countess Dracula

Cast: Richard Viede, Dominic McDonald, Bonnie

Smith, Geoffrey Smith, Nick Farnell

Sasdy, Peter

From an early age Richard Viede led a charmed

1971; UK; 94 min; Horror

life—a household-name starring in a top Australian

P: Alexander Paal; W: Jeremy Paul; C: Kenneth Talbot; television soap opera. Then his life took a darker

E: Henry Richardson; M: Harry Robertson

turn when a drug overdose saw him vanish from the

Cast: Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Green, Sandor Elès, Maurice

nation’s screens. Crazy Richard is a ‘fly-on-the-wall’

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mockumentary following Viede as he attempts to

Crimes of Passion

resurrect his illustrious career by taking a part in gay

soap I Can’t Even Think Straight!

1991; UK; 17 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: Long Shot Films

A short documentary about writers Ruth Rendell,

Mary Wings and Katherine Forrest, who write books

Creation of Adam, The

that represent contrasting lifestyles among lesbian

detectives and share an interest in explicit eroticism.

(aka: Sotvoreniye Adama)

Prod Comp: Channel 4

Pavlov, Yuri

1993; Russia; 90 min; Drama

P: Dzhavanshir Kamandar, Anatolli Kasimov;

W: Vladimir Maslov, Vitaly Moskalenko; C: Sergei Machilsky; E: Raisa Lissova; M: Andrei Sigle

Cast: Irina Matlitskaya, Anzhelika Nevolina, Saulis

Balandis, Sergei Vinogradov

Andrei’s marriage is on the rocks because his wife

c

thinks he’s gay, and he gets himself into trouble

when he helps a young gay man escape from some

queer-bashers. But a work visit from a charismatic,

wealthy businessman turns Andrei’s life around.

Russian with English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer, VideoAmericain

Criminal Lovers

Criminal Lovers

(aka: Les Amants Criminels)

Ozon, François

1999; France; 96 min; Comedy

P: Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier; W: François

Ozon; C: Pierre Stoeber; E: Dominique Petrot;

M: Philippe Rombi

Cast: Natacha Régnier, Jérémie Rénier, Miki

Manojlovic, Salim Kechiouche

When Alice convinces her naive boyfriend Luc to

prove his love for her by helping her murder a cocky

classmate, the stage is set for a cross-country crime

spree. While trying to dispose of the body the pair

crosses paths with, and are ultimately trapped by, a

terrifying hermit who brings their fling to a not-so-

happy fairy tale ending. In Criminal Lovers,

acclaimed director François Ozon weaves the story of

Creature

a pair of lethal lovers-on-the-run with the fairy tale

Creature

of Hansel and Gretel, twisting together a story of

psychosexual tension that’s guaranteed to titillate.

Patton, Parris

French with English subtitles. (Strand)

1998; USA; 77 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: Fidélite Productions, La Sept Cinéma, Le

P: John Lepore; C: John Travers; E: Parris Patton; Studio Canal+

M: Chad Smith

Dist/Sales: Celluloid-Dreams, Strand, Millivres,

Cast: Stacey Hollywood Dean, Butch Dean, Dusty

VideoAmericain

Dean, Filberto Barbarella Ascencio

Documentary which chronicles four years in the life

Critical Mass: Gay Games Amsterdam

of Stacey as she transforms her gender from male to

Manuel, William L.

female.

1998; USA; 60 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: Grapevine Films

P: William L. Manuel; C: Jose Lopez; E: Antonio Dist/Sales: 7thArt

Benetiz

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A complete coverage of the Gay Games in Amster-

father he has never met in a land where he has never

dam in 1998.

been, America. Close-up, honest and self aware, each

Prod Comp: Manmade Multimedia

frame of the The Crossing documents the unfolding

Dist/Sales: Manmade

reality which it is artistically and respectfully

observing. (16th London Lesbian & Gay Film

Crocodile Tears

Festival)

Prod Comp: Lancelot Films, CNC

Coppel, Ann

Dist/Sales: AdVitam

1998; USA; 84 min; Horror

Cast: Dan Savage, Ted Sod, George Weiss Vando Wade

Cruel

Madsen

Del Valle, Desi

A remake of ‘Faust’ with a gay twist. An HIV-

positive middle-school art teacher who has recently

1994; USA; 20 min; Drama

lost a drag-queen friend to suicide writes a letter to

P: Desi Del Valle; W: Desi Del Valle; C: Tracy the devil asking for help. After a demon shows up at

Thompson; E: Amy E. Duddleston, Wendy Chien

his door, he finds the price he has to pay to be very

Cast: Kristen Ochoa, Susan Papa

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high, as he slowly transforms himself into a racist

Isabel and Melanie are at the end of their relation-

and homophobic heterosexual.

ship but, unwilling to let go, they remain together in

(www.queerhorror.com)

the same household. Melanie avoids Isabel’s pleas for

reconciliation and begins dating another woman.

Crocodiles in Amsterdam

Already wounded by the break-up, Isabel becomes

outraged when she discovers that the woman

(aka: Krokodillen in Amsterdam)

Melanie is seeing is white. Isabel questions whether

Apon, Annette

her being Latino, and not Anglo, is cause for

1989; The Netherlands; 88 min; Comedy

Melanie to no longer love her. Melanie is unable to

W: Annette Apon, Yolanda Entius, Henriëtte Remmers;

communicate her feelings and leaves Isabel alone to

C: Bernd Wouthuysen; E: Danniel Danniel; M: Henk cope with the meaning of their break up.

van der Meulen, Michel Mulders

(Frameline)

Cast: Joan Nederlof, Yolanda Entius, Hans Hoes,

Prod Comp: Chula Pictures

Marcel Musters

Dist/Sales: Frameline

When a flighty blonde and a sulky activist meet up

with Amsterdam as the backdrop, anything goes!

Crueles, Las

And it sure does in this wacky girl-adventure movie.

(aka: The Cruel Ones)

Gino and Nina meet under odd circumstances, and

set about hatching a plan to blow up an arms

Aranda, Vincente

factory. Apon creates a comedy that tests the limits

1969; Spain; 100 min; Thriller

of the female buddy film, without being overtly

W: Vincente Aranda, Antonio Rabinad; C: Juan

lesbian.

Amorós; E: Maricel Bautista, Bautista Treig; M: Marco Rossi

Dist/Sales: WMM, Netherlands, WaterBearer,

Cast: Haydée Politoff, Carlos Estrada, Raymond

VideoAmericain

Lovelock, Capucine

Crossing, The

After being jilted by her husband, Esther takes up

(aka: La Traversée)

with Parker who is a lesbian. Eventually, however,

Esther takes her own life. To revenge her lover’s

Lifshitz, Sébastien

death Parker entices the ex-husband to her house

2001; France; 85 min; Documentary

and shows him Esther’s corpse which she keeps in

W: Stáphane Bouquet; C: Pascal Poucet; E: Stéphanie the fridge. She begins to send him belongings of his

Mahet

ex-wife, such as dresses, but then begins to send

The Crossing is a film about trying to make sense of

severed pieces of the body.

family and, to some extent, friendship. Stéphane’s

Prod Comp: Films Montana

absent father has been banished to dreams. His

mother, however, has become, in his eyes, the

Cruising

woman who has abandoned her own dreams to live

her life through his. Somewhere, between those

Friedkin, William

dreams is the reality of Stéphane’s life. An exquisite

1980; USA; 102 min; Drama, Thriller

selection of stilled frames and CinemaScope captures

P: Jerry Weintraub; W: William Friedkin; C: James a poetic image of one young man’s search for the

Contner; E: Bud Smith; M: Jack Nitzsche

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Cast: Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard

women. Were they lovers or ex-lovers, or just

Cox, Don Scardino

friends? A dark, modern fable about the teenage girl’s

One of the most controversial films of the 1980s,

developing awareness of her power and sexuality.

which tells the story of an undercover cop who

Prod Comp: Hibiscus Films, Movie Partners, New

enters the gay scene of Manhattan to search for a

Zealand Film Commission

psychotic killer. Set in the leather bars of Greenwich

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Strand, Cowboy, ACMI

Village, the straight cop not only begins his

investigation into the murders but also his awaken-

Crush (2000)

ing sexuality. Based on the novel by Gerald Walker.

Bartell, Phillip J.

Prod Comp: Lorimar, United Artists

2000; USA; 27 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, Warner, TLA, FilmsInc,

12-year-old Tina meets 16-year-old Robbie. They

UA, ACMI, Swank

immediately strike up a friendship, which soon turns

into a crush on Tina’s part. But Robbie has a crush

on a boy around town.

Dist/Sales: GoinBack

c

Crying Game, The

Jordan, Neil

1992; UK; 113 min; Thriller

P: Stephen Woolley; W: Neil Jordan; C: Ian Wilson; E: Kant Pan; M: Anne Dudley

Cast: Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker,

Miranda Richardson, Adrian Dunbar

Full of surprises, this film has done more than win

extraordinary critical acclaim throughout the world.

It upstaged all competition by receiving six Academy

Award nominations. Set in Ireland, this spellbinding

thriller tells the story of a black British soldier, Jody,

who befriends his reluctant IRA captor, Fergus.

When Jody is killed in an ambush, Fergus fulfils his

dying wish—to find his girlfriend Dil in England.

When Fergus and Dil become romantically involved,

the crying game begins. Electrifying and seductive,

Cruising

this groundbreaking movie had everyone talking.

Cruising in the Channels

Awards: Academy Awards, 1992: Best Screenplay

Prod Comp: Miramax, British Screen, Channel 4,

1991; UK; 21 min; Documentary

Eurotrustees, Palace

Short documentary which lokks at the depiction of

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, TLA, FilmsInc, Wolfe, Miramax,

lesbians and gays television.

ACMI, Swank

Prod Comp: Channel 4

Crush (1992)

MacLean, Alison

1992; New Zealand; 97 min; Drama

P: Bridget Ikin; W: Alison MacLean, Anne Kennedy; C: Dion Beebe; E: John Gilbert; M: JPS Experience, Anthony Partos

Cast: Marcia Gay Harden, Caitlin Bossley, William

Zappa, Donough Rees

Debut film from Alison MacLean about revenge and

jealousy between two women and a 15-year-old girl

after one of the women is crippled in a car accident.

There is an unclear relationship between the two

Crush (1992)

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Curse of the Queerwolf

Mercury figure prominently in this tribute to one of

the world’s great gay artists. (MQFF)

Pirro, Mark

Some Finnish with English subtitles.

1987; USA; 90 min; Comedy

P: Sergio Bandera, Mark Pirro; W: Mark Pirro;

Prod Comp: Filmtakemo, Yleisradio

M: Gregg Gross

Dist/Sales: Zeitgeist, Salzgeber, VideoAmericain

Cast: Kent Butler, Michael Palazzolo, Taylor Whitney

When an all–American guy is bitten on the behind

by a gay werewolf, he becomes a campy drag

queen—a ‘queerwolf ’—when the moon is full.

Prod Comp: Pirromount Productions

Dist/Sales: TLA

Cuz it’s Boy

Gund Saalfield, Catherine

1994; USA; 13 min; Experimental

d

Have you ever wanted to be a boy? Would that be

different from being a lesbian or a passing woman?

Daddy & Papa

What does the story of Brandon Teena have to offer

Daddy & Papa

lesbians? (Kitchen)

Dist/Sales: Kitchen

Symons, Johnny

2002; USA; 57 min; Documentary

Cynara: Poetry in Motion

Daddy & Papa explores the growing phenomenon of

Conn, Nicole

gay fatherhood and its impact on American culture.

1996; USA; 40 min; Drama

Through the stories of four different families, Daddy

Cast: Johanna Nemeth, Melissa Hellman

& Papa delves into some of the particular challenges

facing gay men who decide to become dads. From

A sweeping romance set against the moody backdrop

surrogacy and interracial adoption, to the complexi-

of the Northwest Coast of the USA in 1883. The

ties of gay divorce, to the battle for full legal status as

story begins with the simple elegance of girl meets

parents, Daddy & Papa presents a revealing look at

girl on a haunting shoreline. One is a sculptress in

some of the gay fathers who are breaking new

exile, the other is an expatriot—each woman is in

ground in the ever-changing landscape of the

search of herself—what they find is each other.

American family. (www.daddyandpapa.com)

Finally, lesbian romance and erotica meet on the

silver screen in this resplendent romantic tale.

Dist/Sales: Daddy&Papa, NewDay, FilmsTransit

Cynara is a high seas, Heathcliff on the Moors, larger

Dads

than life romance. It is a lush, textured lesbian

Wuthering Heights for our time. (Wolfe)

(aka: Papas)

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, VideoAmericain

Gypkens, Martin

2000; Germany; 35 min; Documentary

Daddy and the Muscle Academy

An in-depth and intimate look at the realities (good

Pohjola, Ilppo

and bad) of gay parenting.

1992; Finland; 65 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: HFF

P: Kair Paljakka, Alvaro Pardo

Cast: Isaac Julien

Dads Wanted

Tom of Finland’s drawings have had an enormous

Pemberton, Justin

impact on gay identity, not only for their intense

2001; New Zealand; 44 min; Documentary

physicality, but also for the permission they granted

Fascinating New Zealand documentary featuring

a whole generation to fantasise freely. This documen-

three very different experiences of queer parenting.

tary centres on Tom’s work and concentrates

Theresa and Erin are a couple with twin baby boys

primarily on the impact that his drawings have had

who they are raising without any donor involve-

on focusing gay identity—particularly leather

ment. Leigh is a single lesbian looking for a gay

identity. With commentary provided by artist

father for her second child, and Glenn and Robert

Nayland Blake and filmmaker Isaac Julien, among

are a couple who share their two children with their

others, the phenomena of Madonna and Freddie

lesbian mums. (queerDOC 2001)

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Dadshuttle, The

Prod Comp: Film Du 20ème Créations

Cinématographiques

Donoughy, Tom

Dist/Sales: CaliforniaNewsreel

1995; USA; 30 min; Drama

W: Tom Donoughy; C: Ellen Kuras

Dallas Doll

Cast: Peter Maloney, Matt McGrath

Turner, Ann

Based on the critically acclaimed play by Donoughy,

this is the story of the change in the relationship

1993; Australia; 104 min; Comedy

between a father and son. A father drives his son to

P: Ross Matthews, Ann Turner, Tatiana Kennedy;

the station on Thanksgiving Night. Along the way

W: Ann Turner; C: Paul Murphy; E: Mike Honey; the son tells his father that his lover is dying of

M: David Hirschfelder

AIDS.

Cast: Sandra Bernhard, Victoria Longley, Frank

Gallacher, Jake Blundell, Rose Byrne

Daisies

A happy suburban family is thrown into chaos by

(aka: Sedmikrásky)

the arrival of Dallas Adair—an American with no

past but definite plans for the future. She manages to

Chytilová, Vera

seduce all members of the family, bar one. A comic

d

1966; Czechoslovakia; 78 min; Comedy

allegory of seduction, synchronicity ... and golf.

P: Bohumil Smida, Ladislav Fikar; W: Ester

Prod Comp: Dallas Doll Productions

Krumbachová, Vera Chytilová; C: Jaroslav Kucera;

Dist/Sales: 21stCentury, ArtisticLicense, VSM

E: Miroslav Hajek; M: Jiri Slitr, Jiri Sust

Cast: Jitka Cerhova, Ivana Karbonava, Julius Albert

This film is a study of the relationship between two

bored young women, who decide to react to

consumer-oriented society by performing a series of

outrageous acts. These include destroying material

goods owned by various people. It all ends with a

banquet in a slapstick orgy of destruction. Although

not obviously lesbian, the close relationship between

the two women has helped this to become widely

adopted as a lesbian film.

Prod Comp: Ceskoslovensk, Státní Film

Daisy Chain Project, The

D’Souza, Kevin / Noorani, Arif

Damned if you Don’t

1998; Canada; 15 min; Documentary

Documentary which brings together five South-

Damned if you Don’t

Asian men from across Canada. Each of the men

Friedrich, Su

expresses in a short video-vignette a particular

1988; USA; 41 min; B&W; Experimental

experience of their carnal body in relation to queer

P: Su Friedrich; W: Su Friedrich; C: Su Friedrich;

‘male’ sexualities. (Video Pool)

E: Su Friedrich

Dist/Sales: VideoPool

Cast: Peggy Healey, Ela Troyano

Dakan

Damned if you Don’t is an experimental narrative

about the seduction of a nun by another woman.

Camara, Mohamed

Beginning with an amusing critique of the classic

1997; Guinea, France; 87 min; Drama

nun film, Black Narcissus (1947), the central

P: René Féret; W: Mohamed Camara; C: Gilbero narrative is interwoven with documentary footage of

Azevedo; E: Dos Santos; M: Kouyate Sory Kandia

nuns in public places. In the audacious and beauti-

Cast: Mamady Mory Camara, Aboucar Touré, Cécile

fully choreographed final scene, Friedrich rejects the

Bois, Koumba Diakite

split between the spiritual and the sexual in Catholi-

Said to be the first West African film to deal with

cism and, on another level, the denial of sensual

homosexuality. Dakan a coming out story which

pleasure in feminist filmmaking.

challenges the myth of a global gay culture, as well as

Awards: Athens Film Festival, 1988: Best Experimental

traditional African attitudes towards homosexuality.

Film

French with English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: WMM, CFMDC, NFVLS

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Damned, The

woman who is distracting the hero’s attentions away

(aka: Gotterdammerung; La Caduta degli Dei)

from her. Naturally it all ends heterosexually-ever-

after, but in the meantime there is plenty of

Visconti, Luchino

transgender fun and girl-girl tension.

1969; Germany, Italy; 164 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Keystone Film Company

P: Alfred Levy, Ever Haggiag; W: Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti; C: Armando

Danny

Nannuzzi, Pasquale de Santis; M: Maurice Jarre

Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger,

Kybartas, Stashu

Charlotte Rampling, Helmut Griem

1987; USA; 20 min; Documentary

Visconti’s film probes the German soul on the eve of

Danny is a moving personal documentary about

Nazi power, meticulously dissecting the emotional

filmmaker Kybartas’ friend Danny, who died of

lives of members of a powerful munitions dynasty.

AIDS in 1986. This powerful work explores the

Dirk Bogarde portrays a modern Macbeth who

reason for Danny’s return home and his attempts to

ruthlessly gains control of the steel empire during

reconcile his relationship with his family, who had

Hitler’s rise to power. Helmut Griem plays

difficulty facing their son’s homosexuality and his

d

Aschenbach, a leader in Hitler’s SA troops whose

imminent death.

power grabbing schemes end when he is slaughtered

by the SS in a spectacular re-creation of the infa-

Danza Macabra, La

mous ‘Night of the Long Knives’. What develops is a

(aka: Castle of Blood)

complex study in intrigue and obsessions, culminat-

ing in the weird power struggle involving Friedrich

Margheriti, Antonio

and Martin. Visconti was forced to edit out much of

1963; France, Italy; 87 min; B&W; Horror

the homosexually-charged orgy that occurred just

P: Marco Vicario, Giovanni Addessi; W: Jean Grimaud, before the slaughter. Look for Helmut Berger in drag

Sergio Corbucci; C: Riccardo Pallottini; E: Otello impersonating Dietrich.

Colangeli; M: Riz Ortolani

Prod Comp: Pegaso, Praesidens

Cast: Barbara Steele, George Rivière, Margaret Robsahn,

Dist/Sales: Warner

Henry Kruger

Our young hero is challenged by a friend to stay one

Dandy Dust

night in a very spooky castle. It turns out to be

inhabited by a pack of ghosts who act out the crimes

Scheirl, Hans

of passion for which they were killed. He realises

1998; Austria, UK; 94 min; Experimental, Sci-Fi

that they are after his blood and tries to flee the

P: Hans Scheirl; W: Hans Scheirl; C: Jana Cipriani; castle only to be impaled on the gate. Steele returns

E: Hans Scheirl; M: Yossarian, Emma EJ Doubell, Bent to her favourite genre and plays the central ghost

Cast: Suzie Krueger, Leonora Rogers-Wright, Tre

figure.

Temperilli, Hans Scheirl, Svar Simpson

Prod Comp: Vulsinia Films, Jolly Films, Leo Lax, Ulysee

This wild romp through a gender-fucked universe

Dist/Sales: Sinister

was five years in the making, and what results is a

transgressive science-fiction splatter epic incorporat-

Danzón

ing live action, miniature work, and computer and

film animation. The narrative follows a split-

Novaro, María

personality cyborg of fluid gender, as s/he travels

1991; Mexico, Spain; 96 min; Drama

through time while battling a genealogically-

P: Jorge Sanchez; W: María Novaro, Beatriz Novaro; obsessed family. A trippy and thought provoking

C: Rodrigo García; E: María Novaro, Nelson Rodriguez; film, equal parts Akira and Alice in Wonderland, that M: Agustín Lara, Pepe Luis, Felipe Pérez, Consuelo

is everything reactionaries are afraid of. (MQFF)

Velázquez

Prod Comp: Dandy Dust Filmproduktion

Cast: Tito Vasconcelos, María Rojo, Carmen Salinas

Dist/Sales: Peccadillo, ACMI

40-year-old Julia is a Mexican telephone operator.

Danger Girl, The

When her long-time ballroom-dancing partner of 20

years suddenly goes missing, her search takes her to

Badger, Clarence G.

the coastal town of Vera Cruz where she finds a new

1916; USA; 26 min; B&W; Comedy

friend, Susy, a transvestite nightclub entertainer. Susy

P: Mack Sennett

and her friends take on the task of lifting Julia’s spirits.

Cast: Gloria Swanson, Mack Swain

Prod Comp: Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía

Gloria Swanson dons up in male attire to seduce the

Dist/Sales: SonyClassics

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Dark and Lovely, Soft and Free

Darkness before Dawn

(aka: Nega Do Cabelo Duro)

Wu, Feng

Alberton, Paulo

1996; China; 80 min; Documentary

2000; Brazil, South Africa; 52 min; Documentary

Not so long ago the Chinese government declared

Based on research done by the Gay and Lesbian

that homosexuality did not exist in China. This

Archives of South Africa, this delightful documen-

brave and telling documentary shows the day-to-day

tary explores small town gay life in rural South

lives of lesbians and gays in China in the 1990s.

Africa. Our host Zakhi Radebe introduces us to a

People from all areas of society, former stars of the

variety of gay men—all of them hairdressers—and

Peking Opera, workers, intellectuals and one of the

through them, their communities and their country.

filmmakers, have been interviewed and allowed the

camera into their very private worlds. Chinese with

Dist/Sales: Vidiola

English subtitles.

Dark Habits

Dist/Sales: Frameline

(aka: Entre Tinieblas)

Darling

Almodóvar, Pedro

d

Schlesinger, John

1984; Spain; 116 min; Comedy

1965; UK; 127 min; B&W; Drama

P: Luis Calvo; W: Pedro Almodóvar

P: Joseph Janni; W: Frederic Raphael; C: Ken Higgins; Cast: Cristina Pascual, Carmen Maura

E: James Clark; M: John Dankworth

When nightclub singer Yolanda’s boyfriend dies of

Cast: Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey,

an overdose, she seeks help from a group of over-the-

Roland Curran, Jose Villalonga

top sexually ambiguous nuns in a local convent.

Julie Christie won an Academy Award for her

Dark Sun: Bright Shade

performance as an ambitious young model who uses

all her assets to achieve social success. Ultimately, she

Kwoi

finds that the life to which she aspired is meaningless

1993; Canada; 57 min; Drama

and empty. Her relationships with journalist Dirk

Bogarde, company director Laurence Harvey, an

Focusing on themes of conflict between Eastern and

effeminate photographer and an Italian Prince are

Western values, feudalism and democracy, father and

never really satisfying. Darling was ground breaking

son, friend and lover, Dark Sun: Bright Shade follows

in its time because it exposed the ‘swinging sixties’

the relationship of an exiled Tiananmen Square

with its more ‘modern’ attitudes towards sexuality,

dissident and his lover as Confucian ethics collide

homosexuality and infidelity in a frank and adult

with the temptations of Western complacency.

manner.

(Frameline)

Awards: Academy Awards, 1965: Best Actress (Julie

Dist/Sales: Frameline, CFMDC

Christie), Script

Darker Side of Black, The

Prod Comp: Embassy, Anglo-Amalgamated Productions,

Vic Films

Julien, Isaac

Dist/Sales: ACMI

1993; UK; 55 min; Documentary

P: Lina Gopaul, David Lawson; W: Isaac Julien;

Darling International

C: Arthur Jafa, David Scott; E: Joy Chamberlain; Reeves, Jennifer Todd / Serra, M. M.

M: Trevor Mathison

2000; USA; 22 min; Drama

The Darker Side of Black is a provocative investiga-

A dark and sensual narrative that explores a metal

tion of the social and political influences of hip-hop

worker’s sexual fantasies during her nights as a

and dance-hall music: its proponents, fans, detrac-

femme on Manhattan’s lower east side in this

tors and critics. Allowing for a more complex

travelogue of desire.

response to his subject—which ritualises machismo,

misogyny, homophobia and gun glorification—

Dist/Sales: FilmmakersCoop

Julien never opts for easy judgements. Rather, the

Das Trio

film explores issues of class, commercial marketing,

the legacy of colonialism, fundamentalist faith and

(aka: The Trio)

the fears governing accepted notions of masculinity.

Huntgeburth, Hermine

Prod Comp: Arts Council of Great Britain, BBC

1997; Germany; 97 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Drift, VTape, FilmakersLibrary

P: Laurens Straub; W: Horst Sczerba, Volker Einrauch, 123

Hermine Huntgeburth; C: Martin Kukula; E: Renate women in the countryside, Shahriar takes a brave

Merck; M: Niki Reiser

look at a controversial subject. Locks of Amagol’s

Cast: Götz George, Christian Redl, Jeanette Hain, Felix

beautiful long black hair fall to the ground and are

Eitner

blown away by the wind, her father shaves her hair

so that she looks like a boy. As the eldest of six

When partners in crime become partners in bed, all

daughters in a poor peasant family, Amagol is sent to

hell breaks loose in this outrageous sex comedy that

a remote village, where she can work as a carpet

keeps it all in the family. (Wolfe)

weaver. Dressed in boy’s clothes, she works, eats and

German with English subtitles.

sleeps in the small workshop. She remains a solitary

Prod Comp: Next Film

figure since no one must find out that she is a girl.

Dist/Sales: MediaLuna, Attitude, TLA, Wolfe

Her situation gets even more complicated and

Daughter of Dykes

increasingly difficult when another girl from the

workshop falls in love with her. (2001 Lesben Film

Palmer, Amilca

Festival Berlin) Iranian with English subtitles.

1994; USA; 14 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: Farabi Cinema Foundation

An upbeat approach is adopted as young teenage

d

David & Goliath

girls speak candidly about how they felt when they

discovered their mothers were lesbians, their own

McHenry, Bryan

coming-out process of being the daughter of a

2001; USA; 28 min; Experimental

lesbian and feelings about their own sexual orienta-

A skinny ‘David’ falls for a ‘Goliath’, in this

tion.

rewriting of the David and Goliath story. A witty

Dist/Sales: WMM

rumination on the idea of body image in gay male

culture.

Daughters of Darkness

(aka: Le Rouge aux Lévres)

David Searching

Kümel, Harry

Smith, Leslie L.

1971; Belgium, France, Germany, Italy; 96 min; Horror

1996; USA; 103 min; Comedy

P: Henry Lange, Paul Collet, Alain C. Guilleaume;

P: John P. Scholz, Leslie L. Smith; W: Leslie L. Smith; W: Pierre Drout, Jean Ferry, Harry Kumel; C: Edward C: John P. Scholz; E: Toni Blye

van der Enden; E: Denise Bonan, August Verschueren,

Cast: Anthony Rapp, Camryn Manheim, Julie Halston,

Hans Zeiler; M: François de Roubaix

Joseph Fuqua

Cast: John Karlen, Delphine Seyrig, Danielle Ouimet,

David Searching is the story of an idealistic inde-

Andrea Rau

pendent filmmaker’s quest for romance. David is

In an opulent Ostend hotel, eerily deserted in the off

unable to pay his rent so he takes in a roommate,

season, a young, but hardly innocent couple on their

Gwen. The two become comrades-in-arms in the

honeymoon encounter the apparently ageless,

never ending search for a meaningful relationship.

sunlight-fearing, lesbian Countess Bathory. Kümel

(Water Bearer Films)

imaginatively balances the erotic malaise and

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer, Millivres, VideoAmericain

violence of vampire folklore and a European

surrealistic tradition with 1930s Hollywood camp

Day for Night

and comic strip tableaux. Perverse sexuality is located

in a setting of decadent high life which seems to

(aka: La Nuit Américaine)

immobilise the victims.

Truffaut, François

Prod Comp: Showking Films, Maya Films

1973; France, Italy; 120 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ACMI

P: Marcel Berbert; W: François Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman; C: Pierre-William Glenn;

Daughters of the Sun

E: Martine Barraqué, Yann Dedet; M: Georges Delerue Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre

Shahriar, Maryam

Aumont, Alexandra Stewart

2000; Iran; 90 min; Drama

P: Jahangir Kosari; W: Maryam Shahriar; C: Homayun Immensely enjoyable, richly detailed insider’s view of

the goings-on in a film studio. An ageing bisexual

Payvar; E: Shahrzad Pouya; M: Hossein Alizadeh

actor brings his new young lover onto the set but the

Cast: Altinay Ghelich Taghani, Soghra Karimi, Zahra

actor is killed before shooting begins. Even though

Mohammadi, Habib Haddad

the relationship is presented in a positive light, it all

In her debut film about the bitter fate of Iranian

ends in tragedy. Dubbed into English.

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Awards: Academy Awards, 1973: Best Foreign Language

pilots assume that they are all gay. The pilots must

Film

keep themselves hidden and can’t contact the rescue

Prod Comp: Les Films du Carrosse, PECF, PIC

team. The secrecy causes a comedy of errors that

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, ReelMovies, Warner

barely inspire a chuckle.

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox

Day I Decided to be Nina, The

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee

Jansen, Ingeborg

Days

2000; The Netherlands; 15 min; Documentary

11-year-old Guido doesn’t want to be a jet pilot or a

(aka: Giorni)

policeman when he grows up. He’d rather be a girl.

Muscardin, Laura

(queerDOC 2002)

2001; Italy; 90 min; Drama

P: Francesco Montini; W: Laura Muscardin, David

Day in the Life of a Bull-Dyke, A

Osorio, Monica Rametta; C: Sabrina Varani; E: Walter Fasano; M: Ivan Iusco

Dempsey, Shawna / Millan, Lorri

Cast: Thomas Trabacchi, Riccardo De Filippis, Monica

1995; Canada; 11 min; Experimental

Rametta, Davide Bechini

d

This experimental documentary tells the story of a

big boned butcher looking for love. A unique chance

Claudio is 35 years old, works as a bank manager

to see the conventional world through unconven-

and has been HIV-positive for ten years. One night,

tional eyes.

he meets Andrea and realises he has a particular

attraction for him. There is a hidden aspect of

Dist/Sales: VideoPool

Andrea’s personality which induces Claudio to keep

Day of the Jackal, The

a distance from him. But Claudio soon abandons

himself causing all the rules and restrictions which

Zinnemann, Fred

define his life to become superfluous. Italian with

1973; France, UK; 114 min; Thriller

English subtitles. (Picture This! Entertainment)

P: Julien Derode, John Woolf, David Deutsch;

Prod Comp: Movie Factory

W: Kenneth Ross; C: Jean Tournier; E: Ralph Kemplen; Dist/Sales: PictureThis!

M: Georges Delerue

Cast: Edward Fox, Alan Badel, Tony Britton, Cyril

De Colores

Cusack, Michel Auclair

Mosbacher, Dee

The complex story of an assassination attempt on

2001; USA; 28 min; Documentary

French President General de Gaulle. Fox picks up a

De Colores is a bilingual documentary about how

gay man in a bathhouse and uses his apartment as a

Latino families are replacing the deep roots of

hide out. When the man sees Fox’s photograph on

homophobia with the even deeper roots of love and

television, he is killed. The plot is revealed in great

tolerance. Through moving personal stories we learn

detail and can be hard work, but some great

about how families are breaking cultural barriers and

performances make it very engaging. Based on the

how love always prevails. (Eye Bite Productions)

novel by Fredrick Forsyth.

Prod Comp: EyeBite Productions, Woman Vision

Prod Comp: Universal, Warwick Film Productions

Productions

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Universal

Dist/Sales: Eyebite, WomanVision

Day the Fish Came Out, The

Dead Boys’ Club, The

(aka: Otan ta Psaria Vgikan sti Steria)

Christopher, Mark

Cacoyannis, Michael

1992; USA; 25 min; Drama

1967; Greece, UK; 109 min; Comedy

P: Mary Weisgerber Meyer; W: Mark Christopher;

P: Michael Cacoyannis; W: Michael Cacoyannis; C: C: Jamie Silverstein

Walter Lassally; E: Vassilis Syropoulos; M: Mikis Cast: Nat Dewolfe

Theodorakis

The Dead Boys’ Club is the story of a young man in a

Cast: Tom Courtenay, Candice Bergen, Colin Blakely,

world haunted by the absence of an entire generation

Sam Wanamaker, Ian Ogilvy

of men: a generation that he should have known but,

A plane carrying dangerous weaponry goes down off

because of AIDS, that he can, for the most part, only

the coast of Greece. To keep the locals calm the US

imagine. Awkward and shy, Toby is visiting his New

officials arrive dressed as tourists to investigate. Only

York cousin Packard, who gives him a pair of shoes

trouble is they are dressed so casually that the plane’s

previously owned by Packard’s recently deceased

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lover. When Toby dons the shoes, he’s transported to

Deal, The

1970s the pre-AIDS world of promiscuity, hot guys

and glitter balls. The Dead Boys’ Club is an evocative,

Girolami, Lisa

sexy and humorous exploration of a young man’s

1999; USA; 10 min; Comedy

coming out, and homage to the generation that

Some Hollywood deals are more interesting than

paved the way (some with their lives) before him.

others. An aspiring actress is faced with a rather

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

interesting deal proposed by a successful lesbian

Film Festival, 1992: Best Short

producer. (2000 Phoenix Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

Dist/Sales: Frameline, Forefront, BFI

Dear Boys

Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men

(aka: Lieve Jongens)

Hinton, David

De Lussanet, Paul

1990; UK; 60 min; B&W; Musical

1980; The Netherlands; 90 min; Comedy

In this surprisingly homoerotic British film version

P: Matthijs van Heijningen; W: Paul de Lussanet,

of a dance/performance piece by the London-based

Chiem van Houweninge; C: Paul van den Bos; E: Hans DV8 Physical Theatre, anonymous sex is sweat-van Dongen; M: Matthijs van Heijningen

d

soaked, serious business with arousing, if sombre,

Cast: Hans Dagelet, Bill Van Dijk, Albert Moll, Hugo

consequences. The piece is based on the real-life

Metsers

murders of several gay men who were picked up in

This film tells the story of Wolf, a middle-aged

discos by a gay serial killer. Filmed in starkly-lit,

alcoholic writer who spends his time in self-absorbed

muscle-enhancing black and white, Dead Dreams

sexual fantasies, and Tiger, a young man who is the

looks like a series of living George Platt Lynes

centre of Wolf ’s obsession. Tiger befriends another

photographs set in a fevered, prison-like bar world,

young man, Muskrat, who is also in a relationship

pulsating with wordless sexual narratives, twitchy

with an older man. Finally the two younger men

erotic appetites and well-shorn, hunky men. DV8’s

leave their relationships with the desperate older

extreme choreography, while at times almost

men. Based on the novel by Gerald Reve.

acrobatic, is appropriately rooted in urban sexual

realism. (MQFF)

Dist/Sales: Netherlands

Deadfall

Dear Jesse

Kirkman, Tim

Forbes, Bryan

1997; USA; 82 min; Documentary

1968; UK; 120 min; Thriller

P: Mary Beth Mann; W: Tim Kirkman; C: Norwood P: Paul Monash; W: Bryan Forbes; C: Gerry Turpin; Cheek, Ashley McKinney; E: Joe Klotz

E: John Jymson; M: John Barry

Cast: Michael Caine, Giovanna Ralli, Eric Portman,

Filmmaker Tim Kirkman returns to his North

Nanette Newman

Carolina hometown to come to grips with his own

homosexuality while exposing the anti-gay sentiment

A jewel thief falls in love with a beautiful woman

led by Jesse Helms. A deeply moving and often

who is married to a homosexual man who turns out

hilarious meditation on controversial issues, Dear

to be her father.

Jesse has universal appeal and timely political

Prod Comp: Salamander, 20th Century-Fox

significance. (Cowboy Pictures)

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox

Prod Comp: Bang Prods, North Caroline Film Foundation

Deaf Heaven

Dist/Sales: Cowboy, Wolfe, NewYorker, VideoAmericain

Levitt, Steve

Dear Mom

1993; USA; 25 min; Drama

Bonder, Diane

A man must find the strength to battle his lover’s

1996; USA; 15 min; Experimental

parents who want to bring him home to die. An

The story about the formation of a girl’s identity in

unexpected meeting with a Holocaust survivor at a

relation to her powerful mother. When the young

sauna teaches him much about what it means to live

girl’s fantasy of matricide comes true due to the

through the pain of AIDS. (MQFF)

ultimately death of her mother, she finds herself at a

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

crossroads. She is left to reconstruct her own identity

Film Festival, 1993: Audience Award for Best Short

and finds out that her mother is more complex than

Dist/Sales: Frameline

she imagines.

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Dear Rock

Vincent; E: Poppy Das; M: Adam Fields

Cast: Robert Glen Keith, Nick Rafter, Shirley Knight

Walsh, Jack

1992; USA; 18 min; Documentary

This update of Thomas Mann’s novella sees

W: Jack Walsh; E: Jack Walsh

handsome scholar Mason Carver’s seaside convales-

cence interrupted by his landlady’s vamping, hunky

Dear Rock is a powerful posthumous fan letter to

son. He is suddenly plunged into a passion he has

Rock Hudson that uses Hudson as a springboard for

studied but never known—with drop-dead gorgeous

an exploration of AIDS and homophobia.

18-year-old Sebastian Dickens.

Death in the Family, A

Prod Comp: First Run Features

Dist/Sales: DesiFilms

Main, Stewart / Wells, Peter

1987; New Zealand; 48 min; Drama

Deathtrap

P: James H. Wallace; W: Peter Wells

Lumet, Sidney

Cast: John Bazier, Nancy Flyger, Bernadette Doolan,

1982; USA; 116 min; Comedy

Ray Adkins

P: Burtt Harris; W: Jay Presson Allen; C: Andrzej Although this is a dramatisation it is based on actual

Bartkowiak; E: John J. Fitzstephens; M: Johnny Mandel d

group experience of the process of dying. It covers

Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan

the final 16 days of a man’s life. Dying of AIDS he

Cannon, Irene Worth, Henry Jones

has returned to New Zealand to spend his last days

A no longer productive playwright conceives a

with this friends. This film is perhaps unique in its

complex plan to murder an upcoming rival and

portrayal of dying as both a practical process and a

journey into ‘a strange and foreign land’, as one of

former student, and steal his script. But as it turns

the participants describes it. Despite the sadness, the

out, the two are gay lovers who actually concoct a

group seems to be overcome by a kind of euphoria.

plan to kill Caine’s wife. The plot is so laden with

twists and turns that not even the nosey psychic

Prod Comp: New Zealand Film Commission, Television

from next door can figure out the truth.

New Zealand

Dist/Sales: Ronin, Salzgeber, Heathcliff, ACMI

Prod Comp: LAH, Warner

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Warner, Swank

Death in Venice

Deathwatch

(aka: Morte a Venezia)

Morrow, Vic

Visconti, Luchino

1966; USA; 88 min; B&W; Drama

1971; Italy; 128 min; Drama

P: Leonard Nimoy, Vic Morrow; W: Vic Morrow,

P: Luchino Visconti; W: Luchino Visconti, Nicola

Barbara Turner; C: Vilis Lapenieks; E: Verna Fields; Bandalucco; C: Pasquale de Santis; E: Ruggero

M: Gerald Fried

Mastroianni; M: Gustav Mahler

Cast: Michael Forest, Paul Mazursky, Leonard Nimoy

Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Bjorn Andresen, Silvana Mangano,

Marisa Berenson, Mark Burns

Rarely seen film version of Jean Genet’s play about a

brutal prison love triangle. Three prisoners are

Gustav Aschenbach is a distinguished man, a world-

thrown together—one a murderer, one a thief and

famous conductor who embodies all the civilised

the other a homosexual—as they fight for survival.

virtues of the European culture he represents. Yet on

a solitary holiday in Venice, he spies an innocent

See also No Exit which is based on a similar story.

boy—and abandons himself to a secret passion that

Prod Comp: Castle Hill Productions, Beverly Productions

carries him to his doom. Lyrical, intelligent and

heartbreakingly beautiful, Death in Venice, accompa-

Debutantes, The

nied by the haunting music of Gustav Mahler, will

Oliver, Bill

leave its echo in your memory for years to come.

1996; USA; 26 min; Drama

Awards: Cannes Film Festival, 1971: Grand Prix

Crisis erupts over a dinner when an expatriated gay

Prod Comp: Warner, Alfa Cinematografica, PECF

man returns to Savannah on the occasion of his

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Warner, ACMI, NFVLS

sister’s coming out—her debutante ball, that is.

Death in Venice, CA

Every crisis presents an opportunity, and this one

offers our hero and his sister a chance to come to

Ebersole, P. David

terms with Southern tradition, family history, and

1994; USA; 30 min; Drama

their own truths. (Big Film Shorts)

P: Maricel Pagulayan; W: P. David Ebersole; C: Amy Dist/Sales: BigFilm

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Deccada

Deflatable Man, The

Sartain, Claudine

Bettell, Paul

1999; Australia; 14 min; Experimental

1989; UK; 24 min; B&W; Experimental

Sweet, sexy, lyrical and visually gorgeous look at

Follows the mental wanderings of a loner in a quiet

modern girls.

English suburb. Drawn towards the couples he sees,

Dist/Sales: Queerscreen

and the barber shop he has a fetish for, the pensive

‘deflatable man’ slips in and out of daydreams on the

Decodings

fears of loneliness and the absolution of the physical,

and winds up sitting on the sidewalk. Bettell has

Wallin, Michael

long been seen as one of the leading filmmakers of

1989; USA; 15 min; B&W; Experimental

Britain’s gay avant-garde.

A strongly affecting, allegorical compilation of found

Dist/Sales: Frameline

footage from the 1940s and 50s. Filmmaker Michael

Wallin’s unadorned narration describes the lonely

Defying Gravity

social transition from boyhood to manhood, stapled

to images of cliff-divers, stunt drivers and boys

Keitel, John

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boxing blindfolded.

1997; USA; 92 min; Drama

P: Jack Koll, David Clayton Miller; W: John Keitel; Dist/Sales: Canyon, WaterBearer

C: Tom Harting; E: Matthew Yagle

Deep End, The

Cast: Daniel Chilson, Niklaus Lange, Don Handfield,

Lianna Carter

McGehee, Scott / Siegel, David

Griff is the ultimate boy-next-door. Affable and cute,

2001; USA; 100 min; Thriller

he’s never had a problem fitting in. But Griff also has

P: Scott McGehee, David Siegel; W: Scott McGehee, a secret—one that he has skilfully and diligently

David Siegel; C: Giles Nuttgens; E: Lauren Zuckerman; hidden from his fraternity brothers, his best friend

M: Peter Nashel

Todd, and most of all, himself. Griff is in love with

Cast: Tilda Swinton, Jonathan Tucker, Goran Visnjic,

Pete, another member of his house. Rather than

Peter Donat

acknowledge his true feelings, though, Griff has

With her navy officer husband away at sea, Margaret

conveniently convinced himself that it’s only a phase.

Hill has no one to turn to when the body of her gay

The tactic has worked, enabling him to operate,

son’s older lover washes up on the beach, and she

undetected, between two divergent worlds. But

suspects Beau of murder. Her decision to hide the

when Pete, no longer content with their surreptitious

body propels her into an increasingly complicated

arrangement and string of one-night stands, moves

and frightening situation—especially when black-

out of the house and begins to explore his own

mailers show up to threaten her with videotapes of

sexuality more openly, Griff ’s two worlds stand ready

her son. (Wolfe)

to collide. (Jour de Fete)

Prod Comp: i5 Films

Prod Comp: Boom Pictures

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, FoxSearchlight, Wolfe

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, JourDeFete, Millivres, 10%

Deep Inside Clint Star

Deliverance

Alberta, Clint

Boorman, John

1999; Canada; 89 min; Documentary

1972; USA; 109 min; Drama

P: Louise Lore, Silva Basmajian; C: Marcos Arriaga; P: John Boorman; W: James Dickey; C: Vilmos E: Katharine Assals; M: James Cavalluzzo

Zsigmond; E: Tom Priestley; M: Eric Weissberg

The filmmaker, as title character ‘Clint Star’,

Cast: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny

interviews six friends about topics such as sex,

Cox, James Dickey

identity, racism, suicide, and survival. The documen-

The story of four ordinary men who embark on a

tary careens up gritty city streets and down reserva-

canoe trip in the backwoods of America, determined

tion roads into the hearts and minds of young

to test themselves against a wilderness they only

Native men and women who are edgy, cool-and

think they understand. Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds,

vulnerable. (Film & Video Centre: National

Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox play the four friends

Museum of the American Indian)

whose three-dimensional roles heighten the film’s

Prod Comp: National Film Board of Canada

impact and broader significance. Director John

Dist/Sales: NFBC

Boorman, renowned for his mastery of visual beauty

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and compelling mystery, maintains a narrative

Demons

tension that never falters. This film is like a phan-

tom; its images linger in our minds long after the

Kinney, Donald / Kinney, Robert

river slows and returns us to real life. They meet up

1994; USA; 70 min; Drama

with some toothless hillbillies with buggery on their

This contemporary folk tale of survival is set in the

minds. Based on the original story by James Dickey.

rural Midwest in the early 1960s. Allie is a widow

Prod Comp: Warner, Elmer Productions

struggling to operate a small hog farm with the

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ReelMovies, Warner, ACMI

support of her teenage son, Dip, in spite of debts

and vulturous corporate land prospectors. In the

midst of these difficulties arrives her brother-in-law,

Gray, who attempts to incorporate himself back on

to the farm. Circumstances begin to knot when Grey

pursues Dip, who reciprocates with the full passion

of his burgeoning sexuality. Fearing that Dip will

abandon both her and the farm, Allie devises a plan

that will circumvent their desire.

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Depart to Arrive

(aka: Weggehen um Anzukommen)

von Grote, Alexandra

1982; Germany; 89 min; Drama

Cast: Ute Cremer, Gabrielle Osburg

The debut film of Alexandra von Grote, who later

went on to direct November Moon. Anna and Regina

have been in a relationship for a year, but Regina

slowly drifts away and begins an affair with another

woman, Gaby. Anna, in trying to deal with the

break-up, runs away to France to meditate. Even in

The Delta

this new location the wounds from the past keep

Delta, The

surfacing. In order for Anna to move on to a new

future she must look back and deal with the past,

Sachs, Ira

which holds a painful revelation.

1996; USA; 85 min; Drama

P: Margot Bridger; W: Ira Sachs; C: Benjamin P. Seth; Derrière, Le

E: Alfonso Gonçalves; M: Michael Rohatyn

(aka: From Behind)

Cast: Shayne Gray, Thang Chan, Rachel Zan Huss,

Colonious Davis

Lemercier, Valérie

1999; France; 100 min; Comedy

Lincoln is a nice Jewish boy with a car and a blonde

P: Aissa Djabri, Manuel Munz, Farid Lahouassa;

girlfriend, a respectable family in the suburbs and

W: Valérie Lemercier, Aude Lemercier; C: Patrick Blossier; nocturnal habits he’d rather they didn’t know about.

E: Maria Castro-Vasquez; M: Grégori Czerkinsky

He is compulsively drawn to danger but not quite

Cast: Valérie Lemercier, Claude Rich, Dieudonné

game for anything until he meets John, a troubled

Vietnamese–African–American. They escape their

After the death of her mother, Frédérique resolves to

lives by running away together on a boat down the

find her father, whom she has never met. She

Mississippi River. The film uses non-actors to give a

discovers the identity of her father on the back of an

real sense of, and insight into, the American South,

old photograph and sets out for Paris where he now

teenagers, gay life, Jewish families and life as an

lives. She is staying with some gay friends when she

is persuaded to dress up as a gay man so that she can

Asian immigrant.

accompany them to a gay club. Frédérique later uses

Awards: LA Outfest, 1997: Special Programming Commit-

the same disguise when she discovers that her father

tee Award Outstanding Emerging Talent (Ira Sachs)

is gay and is living with a younger, black man,

Prod Comp: Charlie Guidance Productions

hoping that her father will be more likely to accept a

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Strand, Cowboy, VideoAmericain

lost gay son than a lost straight daughter. To

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complicate matters, Frédérique is simultaneously

two-timing girlfriend, and, the film’s title notwith-

dating her boyfriend... French with English subtitles.

standing, would rather curl up and die than look for

Prod Comp: TF1 Films, TPS Cinema, Vertigo

a replacement. But cajoled by friends, soon enough

Dist/Sales: AMLF

Desi’s on the prowl. From a New Age-type who’s

allergic to tea bags to a glamorous bombshell who

Desert Hearts

likes to act straight, Desi’s dating misadventures will

make you laugh and cringe. Her family, amazingly

Deitch, Donna

supportive, nags her in Spanish that she needs a

1985; USA; 91 min; Drama

girlfriend. Her ‘married’ lesbian friends’ precocious

P: Donna Deitch; W: Natalie Cooper; C: Robert Elswit; daughter won’t stop bugging Desi about her ex.

E: Robert Estrin

Meanwhile, J.T. has her own romantic fish to fry,

Cast: Helen Shaver, Audra Lindley, Patricia

positively obsessed with lesbian performer Marga

Charbonneau, Andra Akers

Gomez. She’s certain that, someday soon, she’s

Set in Nevada in 1959, Vivian Bell, a repressed

destined to meet her idol. The entire ensemble

college professor from New York, arrives at a ranch

delivers uniformly understated and down-to-earth

in Reno for a temporary stay to obtain a quickie

performances, and in the title role, the irresistibly

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divorce. Anticipating a quiet time reading and

cute Desi del Valle plays miserably-single with

preparing for the academic year, she finds herself

winning charm. Punctuated by skateboard tricks and

distracted and drawn to the ranch owner’s fiery

clever animated sequences, this groundbreaking

stepdaughter Cay Rivvers. As their friendship

diamond-in-the-rough first feature offers an

develops and Vivian’s restrained and latent passion is

irreverent and vibrant take on Latina lesbian life, and

unleashed, their lesbian relationship becomes an act

that universal and elusive quest for love. (2001

of defiance against the accepted rules of society.

Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival) English &

Based on the novel Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule.

Spanish with English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Samuel Goldwyn Company, Desert Heart

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer, Vagrant

Productions

Desire (1989)

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, BFI, Wolfe, ACMI, TLA,

SamuelGoldwyn, VideoAmericain

Marshall, Stuart

1989; UK; 52 min; B&W; Documentary

Deserter

P: Rebecca Dobbs; W: Frank Godwin

(aka: Lipotaktis)

Cast: Peter Marc, Josie Bissett, Tamara Longley, Kay

Parker, Dale Wyatt

Korras, Giorgas / Voupouras, Christos

1988; Greece; 121 min; Drama

An extraordinary documentary which looks at the

P: Greek Film Centre; W: Giorgos Korras, Christos history of homosexuality from the 1890s, with

particular emphasis on the imprisonment of

Voupouras; C: Andreas Bellis; E: Giorgos Korras, homosexuals by the Nazis during World War II.

Christos Voupouras; M: Eleni Karaindrou

Cast: Stelios Mainas, Leonidas Nomikos, Toula

Awards: Turin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 1991:

Stathopoulou, Stelios Pavlo

Audience Prize

Dist/Sales: MayaVision, WaterBearer

A fresco of life in a small provincial spa town. A

comment on Greek society and the homosexual

Desire (1999)

relationship between two young men, seen through

the eyes of one of them. (www.hri.org)

Torregrossa, Jorge

1999; Spain, USA; 15 min; Drama

Desi’s Looking for a New Girl

A married couple whose relationship is in trouble

Guzmán, Mary

encounters a couple of handsome gay sailors in the

woods, who offer a distraction.

2000; USA; 72 min; Drama

P: Fontana Butterfield, Mary Guzmán; W: Mary

Prod Comp: Reigen Films

Guzmán; C: Sophia E. Constantinou; E: Lidia Szajko; Dist/Sales: OasisPC

M: Alfred O. Guzman Jnr

Desperate Acquaintances

Cast: Desi del Valle, Rosa Medina, Sandr Carola

From Cuban–American director Mary Guzmán

(aka: Desperate Bekjentskaper)

comes a smart, sexy and exuberant trip through the

Wam, Svend

world of Latina lesbian romance. A skateboarding

1998; Norway; 74 min; Drama

baby-butch named J.T. narrates the tale of Desi, a

P: Svend Wam; W: Svend Wam, Dag Anders Rougseth;

cute young San Franciscan who’s just dumped her

C: Anders Leegaard; E: Frank Mosvold; M: Dag Anders 130

Rougseth

Very camp, humorous and highly stylised, with an

Cast: Anders Dale, Bjornar Teigen, Bjarte Hjelmeland,

overt lesbian relationship.

Kim Kolstad

Prod Comp: James Wallace Productions, New Zealand

Three young men try to live up to masculine

Film Commission

demands and myths When they can’t find a sense of

Dist/Sales: NZFC, 21stCentury, NewVision, TLA,

belonging or identity, they drift away from society—

Swank, Miramax, ACMI

and protect themselves with bitter humour and

drugs. Norwegian with English subtitles.

Destiny’s Children

Dist/Sales: Mefistofilm

O’Keefe, Kevin

Desperate Living

2001; Canada; 18 min; Documentary

The extraordinary story of David McInstry and his

Waters, John

quest to be a father, against all odds. A moving and

1977; USA; 90 min; Comedy

heart-warming story of someone who always believed

P: John Waters; W: John Waters; C: Chris Lobingier, his destiny was to raise children of his own. (queerDOC

Allen Yarus; E: Charles Roggero; M: Chris Lobingier, 2001)

Allen Yarus

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Cast: Divine, Susan Lowe, Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Edith

Destroying Angel

Massey

Hoffman, Philip / Salazar, Wayne

Features a transvestite cop, leather-clad biker boys,

1998; USA; 32 min; Documentary

tough-talking dykes and much more in this very

P: Wayne Salazar

queer and funny film from Waters. Peggy Gravel and

Destroying Angel relates two stories of illness and

her black maid kill her husband and escape to

weaves them into a tapestry of family history,

Mortville, a refuge for murderers, perverts and

memory and loss. The narrator, confronted with his

worse.

own mortality, guides us through a landscape of

Prod Comp: Charm City Productions

recollections, dreams, close friendships and family

Dist/Sales: NewLine, NFVLS, ACMI

ties. This is a moving portrait of the struggles

involved in dealing with AIDS, cancer, memory and

intimate relationships. (Frameline)

Prod Comp: Bar Nothin’ Productions

Dist/Sales: Frameline, CFMDC

Detective, The

Douglas, Gordon

1968; USA; 114 min; Drama

P: Aaron Rosenberg; W: Abby Mann; C: Joseph Biroc; E: Robert Simpson; M: Jerry Goldsmith

Cast: Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker, Jack

Klugman

Desperate Remedies

A detective is assigned to find the killer of a wealthy

gay man. He and his homophobic partner cruise the

Desperate Remedies

gay bars and areas in search of the murderer. Finally

they coerce the murdered man’s ex-lover to confess

Main, Stewart / Wells, Peter

and he is sent to the electric chair. But it turns out

1993; New Zealand; 93 min; Comedy

he is innocent and the detective beings to uncover

P: James Wallace; W: Peter Wells, Stewart Main;

corruption in the police force.

C: Leon Narbey; E: David Coulson; M: Peter Scholes Cast: Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Kevin Smith, Lisa

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox

Chappell, Clifford Curtis

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies

Dorothea schemes to separate her opium-addled,

Devil in the Holy Water, The

sexpot sister from the lewd, addictively decadent

Prince impersonator, Fraser. Dorothea engages the

Balass, Joe

assistance of Lawrence, a penniless out-of-work hunk

2001; Canada; 94 min; Documentary

with a shady past and a fetching pout. A luscious,

P: Joe Balass; W: Joe Balass; C: Joe Balass, Andrei extravagant-looking film with fantastic art direction.

Khabad, Marjo Ferwerda, Giampaolo Marzi;

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E: Joe Balass; M: Simon Carpentier

Sheila is enjoying the company of her partner and

Two events collide in the Eternal City. As Catholics

friends and the familiarity of performing in her

converge for the most important Church pilgrimage

home town, Vancouver. Enter a childhood flame,

in modern times in Rome, thousands of gays and

throw in a theme of unrequited love and everything

lesbians from around the planet gather for the first

else in Sheila Caston’s life begins to take a downward

international Gay Pride Celebration. Joe Balass crafts

turn. Sheila gets a career break in the form of an

a compelling portrait of the clash and controversy.

offer of her own television show. Arriving at a

The Vatican opposes the Pride March as an insult to

preliminary meeting she is thrown off-balance when

Catholics. Parade organisers say the marchers will be

confronted with Lynn Webster—the object of her

‘an army of peace’. A Catholic activist calls the event

love 15 years ago. Both women are forced to

‘an act of war against the Catholic Church’, a fact he

confront the past, and tensions reach boiling point

claims is proven by the march’s support from

as respective partners realise something is awry.

‘radical’ politicians, Masons and Jews—‘always

Interspersed with excerpts from Sheila’s comedy

united... against the Catholic civilisation’. No

routines, which poke fun at lesbian life and rituals,

wonder the church’s allies in opposing the march are

Devotion is sexy, funny, involving, and as satisfying as

right-wing and neo-fascist parties. Organisers finally

reading a good pot-boiler on a long flight. (MQFF)

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get permission from the waffling city officials to

Prod Comp: Auntie Em Productions, Dancing Arrow

proceed with their rally just three days before it is set

Productions

to begin. Ultimately, the march becomes a defining

Dist/Sales: Forefront, NorthernArts, VideoAmericain,

moment, not just for the Italian gay pride movement

ACMI

but for hundreds of thousands of proud queers from

around the world. French & Italian with English

Diabolique

subtitles. (2002 Vancouver Queer Film & Video

Festival)

Chechik, Jeremiah

1996; USA; 107 min; Thriller

Prod Comp: Compass Productions

P: Marvin Worth, James G. Robinson; W: Don Roos;

Dist/Sales: CinemaLibre

C: Peter James; E: Carol Littleton; M: Randy Edelman Devil’s Playground, The

Cast: Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri,

Kathy Bates, Spalding Gray

Schepisi, Fred

This film is essentially a remake of Les Diaboliques

1976; Australia; 98 min; Drama

(1955), which was directed by Henri-Georges

P: Fred Schepisi; W: Fred Schepisi; C: Ian Baker; Clouzot. For far too long, Nicole and Mia have

E: Brian Kavanagh; M: Bruce Smeaton

suffered at the hands of Guy Baran, a cruel and

Cast: Arthur Dignam, Nick Tate, Simon Burke, Charles

heartless manipulator. As his mistress, Nicole has

McCallum, John Frawley

endured his lies and selfishness, while his wife, Mia,

A film told in a semi-autobiographical style about

is nearly suicidal over his infidelities and callous

young boys at a Roman Catholic boarding school,

humiliation of her. The two women form an

reacting in different ways to puberty and their

intimate bond in their repression (although not

sexuality, and to their schoolmasters and priests.

obviously lesbian, the sexual nature of their relation-

Schepisi’s first feature is a powerful and insightful

ship is very ambiguous) and devise a plan to murder

film.

him. With a seemingly foolproof scheme they kill

him...or do they?

Awards: Australian Film Institute Awards, 1976: Best

Film, Director, Actor (Simon Burke, Nick Tate),

Prod Comp: Morgan Creek, Warner

Screenplay

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, ReelMovies, Warner

Prod Comp: Film House

Diaboliques, Les

Dist/Sales: Sharmill

(aka: Diabolique)

Devotion

Clouzot, Henri-Georges

Kaplan, Mindy

1955; France; 106 min; B&W; Thriller

1994; USA; 120 min; Drama

P: Henri-Georges Clouzot; W: Henri-Georges Clouzot, P: Arlene Battishill; W: Mindy Kaplan, Arlene Battishill; Jérome Géronimi, René Masson, Frédéric Grendel;

C: Mario Araya; E: Mindy Kaplan; M: Arlene Battishill C: Armand Thirard; E: Madeleine Gug;

Cast: Jan Derbyshire, Kate Twa, Eileen Barrett, Cindy

M: Georges Van Parys

Girling

Cast: Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse,

Sheila Caston is a stand-up lesbian comic whose life

Charles Vanel, Michel Serrault, Pierre Larquey

is going just fine. After a tour of the comedy circuits

A sadistic headmaster at a private boys school is

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murdered by his long-suffering wife and his

years later they met up again in London. But things

brutalised mistress. But when the two women return

are a little different now that Karl has become Kim,

to the school and pretend no knowledge of the

a transsexual. Amidst their problems they begin to

headmaster’s disappearance they are unsettled by the

fall in love, and after Kim seduces Paul he freaks out

schoolboys’ sightings of his ‘ghost’. Clouzot’s famous

and the whole thing ends up in court. Now Kim has

horror film is imbued with a dark, malevolent

run away but will true love triumph?

atmosphere and perversity seems to lurk in every

Prod Comp: BBC

corner. The relationship between the two women is

Dist/Sales: UIP, FirstLook, Wolfe, ACMI

very ambiguous. Based on the book Celle Qui

N’Etait Plus by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac

Different Kind of Black Man, A

(who also wrote Vertigo). French with English

subtitles.

Wise, Sheila J.

Prod Comp: Filmsonor, Vera Films

2001; USA; 15 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, SomethingWeird

A powerful look at the ideas and feelings of success-

ful, black gay men on such issues as sexuality,

Diane Linkletter Story, The

masculinity and their perception of and their role

within the black community. (Frameline)

d

Waters, John

1969; USA; 15 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Frameline

W: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, John

Different Kind of Love, A

Waters; C: John Waters; E: John Waters

Cast: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce

Mills, Brian

Queer cult director Water tells the story of Diane

1981; UK; 60 min; Drama

Linkletter, which suggests that the daughter of

Cast: Nigel Havers, Joyce Redman, Rupert Frazer

famous television celebrity Art deliberately threw

A possessive mother, not long after her husband’s

herself out of a window to get away from her stifling

death, pushes her son to get married by introducing

home life.

him to a number of single women. She doesn’t seem

Prod Comp: Dreamland

to understand that, at 30 and living with another

man, he is not in the least bit interested.

Diary of a Male Whore

Different Shades of Pink

Wael, Tawfik Abu

2001; Palestine; 15 min; Drama

Ku, Alexander

A haunting tale of a young man’s sexual awakening

2001; Australia; 45 min; Documentary

and commodification, this short film by Palestinian

Different Shades of Pink takes an intimate look at the

filmmaker Tawfik Abu Wael depicts libidinal scenes

lives of three Sydney multicultural gay couples as

and violent episodes without any sense of guilt.

they relate their experiences of racism and Anglo

(www.arabfilm.com)

angst.

Dist/Sales: Trabelsi

Dist/Sales: Pinq

Different Corner, A

Different Story, A

Pham, Van M.

Aaron, Paul

2001; UK, Wales; 12 min; Documentary

1978; USA; 108 min; Comedy

A Different Corner is a documentary about the

P: Alan Belkin; W: Henry Olek; C: Philip Lathrop; positive relationships between lesbian parents and

E: Lynn McCallon; M: David Frank

their children.

Cast: Perry King, Meg Foster, Peter Donat, Valerie

Curtin, Richard Bull

Different for Girls

A gay man and a lesbian marry to prevent his

Spence, Richard

deportation from America, but somehow, despite

1996; UK; 100 min; Comedy

initially hating each other, they fall in love. The film

P: John Chapman; W: Tony Marchant; C: Sean Van is terribly homophobic and they both come out of

Hales; E: David Gamble; M: Stephen Warbeck

dysfunctional homosexual relationships and through

Cast: Rupert Graves, Steven Mackintosh, Miriam

their heterosexual tendencies maintain the status

Marglyes, Saskia Reeves, Charlotte Coleman

quo.

Karl and Paul were best friends at school. Some 20

Prod Comp: Peterson Productions

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Ding Dong

Dirty Fingernails

Hughes, Todd

Kennedy, Sarah

1995; USA; 40 min; B&W; Comedy

1996; USA; 21 min; Comedy

P: David Carpender, David Colman, Todd Hughes;

A love story about a girl and her motorbike.

W: Todd Hughes; C: David A. Carpender; E: Laurie Dist/Sales: Goodvibes

House; M: Cary Berger

Cast: Shawm Brydon, Marya Dosti, Mary Scheer,

Dirty Laundry

Sandra Kinder

Reminiscent of early John Waters, Ding Dong is a

Fung, Richard

very camp and decidedly warped account of two

1995; Canada; 31 min; Documentary

beauty product saleswomen turned serial killers.

Dirty Laundry explores the hidden and lost histories

Working from the premise that if you can’t beat ‘em,

of Asian–Canadian culture, while investigating issues

join ‘em, Hughes conjures up a witty riposte to the

of sexual and social behaviours that were misinter-

mainstream trend of lethal lesbians in such films as

preted by the dominant culture.

Butterfly Kiss and Heavenly Creatures. Ding Dong has Dist/Sales: VDB

an utterly queer sensibility, both in its outrageous

d

narrative and skewed cinematography. Ding Dong

also features celebrity cameos from the likes of Bob

Hoskins and lesbian supermodel, Jenny Shimizu.

(MQFF)

Prod Comp: Feminette Productions

Dist/Sales: KillerPix, DesiFilms

Dinner Guest, The

Wood, Andrew

1995; USA; 24 min; Drama

Soap opera style melodrama about a group of yuppie

friends and their behind-the-scenes machinations.

Coming together for a dinner party, a group of

friends await one of their number with increasing

trepidation. Wood’s film shows how each of the

characters reacts when they learn that their expected

chum has tested HIV-positive. Although they have

been asked to keep the information secret, one by

one the story spreads and, once they realise they are

all aware of the situation, they must decide how they

will deal with this information when their friend

arrives. In a short space of time they have to consider

their relationships to him, his state of mind and,

most difficult of all, the spectre of his death.

(MQFF)

Diputado, El

The Disco Years

(aka: The Deputy)

Disco Years, The

de la Iglesia, Eloy

1978; Spain; 111 min; Drama

King, Robert Lee

W: Eloy de la Iglesia, Gonzalo Goicoachea; C: Antonio 1991; USA; 30 min; Drama

Cuevas; E: Julio Peña; M: Julio Pena

P: Robert Lee King, John Peter James, Richard

Cast: José Sacristán, María Luisa San José, José Luis

Hoffman; W: Robert Lee King; C: Greg Gardiner;

Alonso, Enrique Vivó

E: Paul McCudden; M: Wendell Yuponce

When a prominent Spanish politician becomes

Cast: Matt Nolan, Dennis Christopher, Gwen Welles

involved in a love affair with a teenage boy, he

Filmmaker Robert King tells the story of Tom Peters,

becomes the target of blackmailers, putting his career

a gay teenager coming of age in the time of pet

in jeopardy.

rocks, washing lines, and macramé. His proclivities

134

become clear when Tom has his first sexual encoun-

Doctors’ Wives

ter with a male friend. While his mother is the

epitome of the ‘liberation’ age, Tom finds that her

Schaefer, George

permissiveness has some major limits and that he

1971; USA; 100 min; Drama

cannot seek the help he needs with her.

P: Mike Frankovich; W: Daniel Taradash; C: Charles Lang; E: Carl Kress; M: Elmer Bernstein

Prod Comp: RLK Productions

Cast: Dyan Cannon, Richard Crenna, Gene Hackman,

Dist/Sales: Strand, ACMI

Carroll O’Connor, Rachel Roberts

Disgraceful Conduct

A group of surgeons join forces when one of their

sexually distraught wives is mysteriously murdered.

Weber, Eva

One of the women, played by Rachel Roberts,

1995; UK; 17 min; Drama

confesses to having a lesbian affair.

Cast: Catherine White, Glynis Growe, Barry

Prod Comp: Frankovich Productions

McCormick

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri

Tells the story of Callum Morgan, a lesbian officer

with the Royal Air Force, and the threats to her

career that arise from the public knowledge that she

d

is a lesbian.

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

Divine Trash

Yeager, Steve

1997; USA; 105 min; Documentary

P: Steve Yeager; C: Steve Yeager, Jeff Atkinson, Jim Harris; E: Terry Campbell, Tim Kahoe, Steve Yeager;

M: Don Barto

An in-depth look at the early career of cult film-

maker John Waters, from his childhood puppet

shows in his native Baltimore to the successful

release of what is widely regarded as the most

important underground film ever made— Pink

Flamingos (1972). Divine Trash features never-

before-seen documentary footage shot behind the

scenes during the rehearsal and filming of Pink

Flamingos and 1972 interviews with a 25-year-old

John Waters and many of the film’s now-deceased

Disgraceful Conduct

cast members including Waters’ discovery, the 300

pound drag superstar Glenn Milstead, aka Divine.

Does your Mother Know?

(Wolfe)

Littleboy, Helen

Prod Comp: Stratosphere

1994; UK; 18 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Wellspring

Gay and lesbian teenagers discuss aspects of their

Do you Think we can Talk about Anything

lives to the tunes of ‘Que Sera Sera’ and Abba’s ‘Does

but Love?

Your Mother Know?’. They talk about everything

from coming out at home and at school to first

Ballyot, Sylvie / Kordon, Beatrice

sexual experiences, age of consent, labelling and role

2000; France; 40 min; Experimental

models. (MQFF)

Three lesbians take us on a passionate excursion into

Prod Comp: Channel 4

melancholy, nomadism and ecstasy. An erotic,

Dist/Sales: Piranha

breathy French road movie with a difference.

Together they traverse beautiful vistas and the

Dog Day Afternoon

psychobabble highways of a lesbian ménage à trois.

Lumet, Sidney

True Gallic joie de vivre! (MQFF)

1975; USA; 130 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: AMIP

P: Martin Bergman, Martin Elfand; W: Frank Pierson; 135

C: Victor J. Kemper; E: Dede Allen

demanding neighbour, how will they ever spend

Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Sully

time together?

Boyar, Penelope Allen

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

A New Yorker and his two accomplices are trapped

in a bank with all the bank employees after his

Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die

attempt to steal money to pay for his male lover’s sex

(aka: N’Oublie pas que tu vas Mourir)

change operation goes horribly wrong. At times very

humorous and tragic. Based on a ture story.

Beauvois, Xavier

1995; France; 118 min; Drama

Awards: Academy Awards, 1975: Best Screenplay

P: Christophe Lambert; W: Xavier Beauvois, Emmanuel Prod Comp: Warner, AEC

Salinger, Anne-Marie Sauzeau, Zoubir Tligui;

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Warner, ACMI, Swank

C: Caroline Champetier; E: Agnés Guillemot;

Dog’s Dialogue

M: John Cale

Cast: Xavier Beauvois, Chiara Mastroianni, Roschdy

(aka: Colloque de chiens)

Zem, Bulle Ogier

Ruiz, Raoul

Benoit is desperate to avoid military service and so

d 1977; France; 22 min; Comedy

fakes a suicide attempt. As a result he is shocked to

P: Hubert Niogret; W: Nicole Muchnik, Raoul Ruiz; C: find out that he is HIV-positive. He escapes to Italy

Denis Lenoir; E: Valeria Sarmiento; M: Sergio Arriagada and meets Claudia, and for a time things are good.

Cast: Eva Simonet, Robert Darmel, Silke Humel

However, he is still in denial about his condition and

Footage of barking dogs, shots of streets and off-

falls into prostitution and drug dealing. French with

screen narration make up a hilariously tawdry

English subtitles.

melodrama of murder, prostitution, transsexuality

Prod Comp: Why Not Productions

and abandoned children.

Dist/Sales: Leonor

Prod Comp: Filmoblic, L’Office de la Création

Don’t Tell Anyone

Cinématographique

(aka: No Se Lo Digas a Nadie)

Doing Time on Maple Drive

Lombardi, Francisco J.

Olin, Ken

1998; Peru; 114 min; Drama

1992; USA; 88 min; Drama

P: Gustavo Sanchez; W: Giovanna Pollarolo

P: Paul Lussier; W: James Duff; C: Bing Sokolsky; Cast: Santiago Magill, Lucia Jiménez, Christian Meier,

E: Elba Sanchez-Short; M: Laura Karpman

Carmen Elias

Cast: James B. Sikking, Bibi Besch, William McNamara,

Joaquin is a troubled youth from a well-to-do family

Jayne Brook, Lori Loughlin, Jim Carrey

in Peru who must overcome the domineering

Made for TV movie about the Carter family who

influences of his macho, racist father and obsessively

have gathered together to celebrate the impending

religious mother to discover his true sexual nature.

marriage of their youngest son. As matters proceed,

Spanish with English subtitles.

the gathering becomes confrontational as the secrets

Prod Comp: Andres Vicente Gomez production

of each of the Carter’s three children are unveiled—

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!, Wolfe

including the sensitively handled homosexuality of

one of the sons. The mother and father are forced to

Dona Herlinda and Her Son

take a closer look at reality and, at the same time,

(aka: Doña Herlinda y su hijo)

keep their family from falling apart.

Prod Comp: FNM Films

Hermosillo, Jaime Humberto

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, VSM

1985; Mexico; 90 min; Comedy

P: Manuel Barbachano Ponce; W: Jaime Humberto

Domestic Bliss

Hermosillo; C: Miguel Ehrenberg; E: Luis Kelly

Cast: Arturo Meza, Marco Antonio Trevino, Leticia

Chamberlain, Joy

Lupersio, Guadalupe del Toro

1984; UK; 52 min; Comedy

A cheerful yet subversive comedy about two gay

A situation comedy revolving around a lesbian

men, one a surgeon and the other a student, who

couple Emma and Diana, who can’t seem to find

move in with the former’s wilful mother. Liberating

time to be alone. Emma has just left her husband

and she and her daughter have moved in with

in its depiction of homosexual love.

Diana, who is a welfare doctor. Between Emma’s

Prod Comp: Clasa Films Mundiales

unthinking husband, her daughter and Diana’s

Dist/Sales: Cinevista, VideoAmericain

136

Doom Generation

his lesbian wife with a car bomb, only to find he is

haunted by her image in pornographic films.

Araki, Gregg

1995; France, USA; 84 min; Comedy

Prod Comp: Colt Produzioni Cinematografich, Mega

P: Gregg Araki, Andrea Sperling; W: Gregg Araki;

Film

C: Jim Fealy; E: Gregg Araki, Kate McGowan;

Dist/Sales: Constantin

M: Dan Gatto

Double Strength

Cast: James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon

Schaech, Cress Williams

Hammer, Barbara

Add one hot chick, her loser boyfriend and a

1978; USA; 20 min; Experimental

bleeding dude. Backdrop with a nightclub’s techno

The study of four stages of a lesbian relationship.

music, race through fast food restaurants and rob a

Dist/Sales: WMM

convenience store. In the end they are way more

than friends and are being chased by crazy neo-Nazi

Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun

jocks who want to kill them and end their Dorito-

eating lives. Gregg Araki’s homoerotic heterosexual

Parmar, Pratibha

movie. (Wolfe)

1992; UK; 25 min; Drama

d

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Trimark, Palace, Haut-et-Court

Parmar profiles a man who is Indian, disabled and

gay. As he searches for his community he has some

Doors Cut Down

revealing confrontations.

Hens, Antonio

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

2000; Spain; 17 min; Drama

Double Trouble

W: Antonio Hens

Amazingly self-assured, 16-year-old Guillermo

Ayres, Tony

cruises the bathroom of the local mall on a regular

1991; Australia, UK; 24 min; Documentary

basis. Well versed in the art of the cruise, the boy has

An insightful film with a sharp sense of humour that

little trouble satisfying his desires with his daily

provides a response to the common white Australian

partner of choice in any available stall. Problems

refrain of, ‘Lesbian and gay Aborigines? I didn’t

arise, though, when the homophobic mall police cut

think there were any’.

down the bathroom stall doors to deter potential

Prod Comp: Big & Little Films, Channel 4

cruisers. Irritated, but undaunted, Guillermo has a

Dist/Sales: Big&Little

few plans of his own to keep his sexual desires both

fulfilled and defiantly public. (Picture This!

Dozens, The

Entertainment)

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!

Conrad, Randall / Dall, Christine

1981; USA; 80 min; Drama

Double Entente

P: Christine Dall, Randall Conrad; W: Randall Conrad, Christine Dall, Marian Taylor; C: Joe Vitagliano;

Lawrence, Jacquie

E: Christine Dall, Randall Conrad

1994; UK; 11 min; Comedy

Cast: Deborah Margolis, Jessica Hergert, Edward

It’s been a hard day at the office, and Dulcie’s not

Mason, Michele Greene, Ethel Michelson

happy when her lover cancels their afterwork drink.

Based on a true story, The Dozens centres around

Dulcie heads to the bar anyway, only to encounter a

Sally, a 21-year-old mother who has recently been

forward and mysterious stranger. Say hello to power

released from prison. She is determined to create a

dressing lipstick lesbians with attitude!

normal life for herself and her daughter. Out in the

Double Face

wide world, she finds her only emotional support is

from her lover who is still in prison.

Freda, Riccardo

Prod Comp: Calliope Films

1970; Italy, West Germany; 85 min; Thriller

P: Oreste Coltellacci, Horst Wendlandt; W: Robert Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde

Hampton, Paul Hengge; C: Gábor Pogány; E: Anna

Price, David

Amedei, Jutta Hering; M: Joan Christian

1995; UK, USA; 90 min; Comedy

Cast: Klaus Kinski, Annabella Incontrera, Christiane

P: Frank K. Isaac, Jerry Leider, John Morrissey, Robert

Krüger

Shapiro; W: Tim John, Oliver Butcher, William Davies,

Klaus Kinski plays a wealthy industrialist who kills

William Osborne; C: Tom Priestley; E: Tony Lombardo; 137

M: Mark McKenzie

Prod Comp: Dr T Inc, Sandcastle 5 Productions,

Cast: Sean Young, Timothy Daly, Lysette Anthony,

Splendid Medien AG

Harvey Fierstein, Stephen Tobolowsky

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, ACMI

Based in New York, Dr Richard Jacks creates

Dracula’s Daughter

perfumes. But when he discovers that his great

grandfather was Dr Jekyll, he tries to follow in his

Hillyer, Lambert

footsteps and creates a potion that turns him into a

1936; USA; 70 min; B&W; Horror

superwoman: Helen Hyde.

P: E. M. Asher; W: Garrett Fort; C: George Robinson; Prod Comp: Rank, Rastar/Leider-Shapiro, Savoy

E: Milton Carruth; M: Heinz Roemheld

Pictures

Cast: Gloria Holden, Otto Kruger, Marguerite Church-

Dist/Sales: 16MM, HBO, Rank

ill, Edward Van Sloan

Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde

Made as the sequel to Dracula (1931), a young

vampire, Dracula’s daughter, tries to escape her

Baker, Roy Ward

nocturnal vampire life with the help of a sympathetic

1971; UK; 93 min; Comedy, Sci-Fi

psychologist. But her lust for blood and young

d P: Albert Fennell, Brian Clemens, Samuel Z. Arkoff; female flesh cannot be controlled. Considered to be

W: Brian Clemens; C: Norman Warwick; E: James one of the earliest films to depict a lesbian as a

Needs; M: David Whitaker, Philip Martell

vampire, even though the lesbianism is subtle.

Cast: Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim,

Prod Comp: Universal

Dorothy Alison, Lewis Fiander, Susan Broderick

Dist/Sales: Swank

Comic variation on the classic tale. Dr Jekyll

Drag Attack

experiments on himself with female hormones that

he gets from prostitutes he has murdered. He turns

Kruger, Ken / Sodo, Mario

into a big-breasted woman, who has an insatiable

1994; Austria; 14 min; Comedy

appetite for sex. In one scene Jekyll makes a pass at

The humorous exploits of two very glamorous,

his girlfriend’s brother, who is in fact Hyde’s lover.

globe-trotting drag queens. German with English

The film attempts to examine sexual ambiguities but

subtitles.

only just manages to scratch the surface of what

could be a truly interesting idea.

Dragtime

Prod Comp: Hammer, EMI

Dist/Sales: Warner, OrionClassics, HBO, Republic

Kaplan, Patti

1997; USA; 70 min; Documentary

Dr T & the Women

Get out your boas, your press-on nails, and your size

Altman, Robert

thirteen pumps. Dragtime, a full-length documen-

2000; Germany, USA; 120 min; Comedy

tary, attempts to answer three burning questions

P: Robert Altman, James McLindon; W: Anne Rapp;

about drag performers: Why do they do it? How do

they do it? And where did they get that cleavage?

C: Jan Kiesser; E: Geraldine Peroni; M: Lyle Lovett From a trendy lounge in Manhattan to a New

Cast: Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Kate

Orleans Mardi Gras, from a popular revue in

Hudson, Laura Dern

Atlanta, to a visit with Charles Busch in sunny

Dr Sullivan Travis ‘Dr T’ is a Dallas gynaecologist

California, Dragtime takes us on a tour of a cultural

whose clients are among the wealthiest women in

phenomenon, replete with poignant interviews,

Texas. Dr T is wealthy himself, but finds his cushy

fabulous musical numbers, and plenty of chic, hip-

life taking a turn for the worse when his wife suffers

hugging ensembles. (22nd San Francisco Interna-

a nervous breakdown, and is committed to an

tional Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

institution. Meanwhile his daughter Dee Dee’s

Dist/Sales: PKProd

wedding is approaching, despite the fact that she is a

lesbian and in a relationship with Marilyn, her maid

Drama in Blonde

of honour. His youngest daughter has an obsessive

liking for conspiracy theories, while his secretary is

Lambert, Lothar

attracted to him. The only sense he can make of the

1985; Germany; 90 min; Comedy

whole situation is through golf instructor Bree, who

P: Lothar Lambert; W: Lothar Lambert; C: Helmut brings comfort and stability to him while everything

Röttgen; E: Lothar Lambert

else is falling down around him.

Cast: Lothar Lambert, Dagmar Beiersdorff

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If you’ve never seen this seldom screened, outrageous

Dreamers of the Day

classic, you’ve probably heard of it. Lothar Lambert

portrays a pudgy, middle-aged bank clerk who fulfils

Spencer, Patricia / Wood, Philip

his secret desire to become a fabulous female

1990; Canada; 94 min; Drama

impersonator. Dagmar Beiersdorff plays his

Cast: Lorna Harding, Julie Lemieux

sympathetic neighbour, who would like to have him

The story revolves around Andra, an openly lesbian

as his beau but supports his endeavours selflessly.

filmmaker dedicated to making lesbian films, and

Awards: New York Gay Film Festival, 1985: Audience

Claire, a married film producer. They begin to

Favourite

develop a friendship but Claire becomes increasingly

uncomfortable with her own feelings and Andra’s

Drama Queen

sexual attraction to her. They constantly deny any

sexual relationship but in the end love and sex win

Herd, Kelli

out. A well-handled and tender film that deals with a

2001; USA; 45 min; Documentary

very believable subject.

This comedy concert video showcases the talents of

famed Canadian lesbian stand up comic Georgia

Dreck

Ragsdale.

d

(aka: Dirt)

Drawing Girls

Reding, Benjamin / Reding, Dominik

1995; Germany; 18 min; Experimental

McHenry, Bryan

A love story between a squatter, and the son of the

1999; USA; 15 min; Drama

policeman who is trying to evict him, and the

Autobiographical short about two Midwestern teen

consequences.

boys who draw comic books together. However,

Dist/Sales: Schlammtaucher

Bryan likes to draw his comic-book heroes with

muscles while his best friend prefers drawing girls.

Dreaded Experimental Comedies, The

Topping, John

1992; USA; 16 min; Comedy

Three hysterical comic shorts ( How to Lessons, Body

Rhythms and My New Lover) in which the filmmaker

uses another guy’s backside as his drum, then tries to

teach his soft-hearted lover how to be butch and

sadistic and finally gives up altogether, becoming so

desperate for the perfect lover that he creates his

own. (MQFF)

Dream Girls

Longinotto, Kim / Williams, Jano

1993; UK; 50 min; Documentary

This fascinating documentary, produced for the

BBC, opens a door into the spectacular world of the

Takarazuka Revue, a highly successful musical

theatre company in Japan. Each year, thousands of

girls apply to enter the male-run Takarazuka Music

School. The few who are accepted endure years of a

highly disciplined and reclusive existence before they

Dream Girls

can join the Revue, choosing male or female roles.

Dress Gray

Dream Girls offers a compelling insight into gender

and sexual identity and the contradictions experi-

Jordan, Glenn

enced by Japanese women today. (WMM)

1986; USA; 192 min; Drama

Japanese with English subtitles.

P: Glenn Jordan; W: Gore Vidal; C: Gayne Rescher; Prod Comp: BBC

E: Paul Rubell, David A. Simmons; M: Billy

Dist/Sales: WMM, Cinenova, NFVLS

Goldenberg

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Cast: Alec Baldwin, Eddie Albert, Lloyd Bridges, Patrick

agent’s party, Ryan meets Leo, an aspiring novelist

Cassidy

and college student. His confusion mounts when he

Set in a military establishment, a classman is falsely

imagines that Leo understands him like no one has

accused of murdering a young gay cadet. In order to

ever before. He soon becomes infatuated with Leo

clear his name he decides to investigate the crime

and eventually decides to leave Joel. Drift then

himself. A two-part series made for television.

unfolds into a type of three pronged narrative

structure where the audience gets to see how Ryan’s

Dist/Sales: NBC, Wolfe

life would have turned out had he made different

Dressed to Kill

decisions in life.

Prod Comp: De/Center Communications

De Palma, Brian

Dist/Sales: Margin, Wolfe, VideoAmericain

1980; USA; 105 min; Thriller

P: George Litto; W: Brian De Palma; C: Ralf D. Bode; E: Jerry Greenberg; M: Pino Donaggio

Cast: Michael Caine, Nancy Allen, Angie Dickinson,

Keith Gordon

d

Dr Elliot is a psychiatrist with a split personality:

Robert, a man and very attracted to women, and

Bobbi, a woman trapped in a man’s body. When

Bobbi is refused a sex-change operation, she takes

her revenge by killing the women to whom Robert is

attracted. The only witness to the murders is a

prostitute, played by Nancy Allen, who becomes

Bobbi’s next victim.

Prod Comp: Filmways, Cinema 77, Warick Associates

Drift

Dist/Sales: MGM, Orion, Warner

Drifting

Dresser, The

(aka: Nagu’a)

Yates, Peter

Guttman, Amos

1983; UK; 118 min; Drama

1982; Israel; 104 min; Drama

P: Peter Yates, Ronald Harwood; W: Ronald Harwood, P: Malka Assaf, Enrique Rottenberg; W: Amos

Peter Yates; C: Kelvin Pike; E: Ray Lovejoy; M: James Guttman, Edna Mazia; C: Yossi Wein; E: Anna

Horner

Finkelstein; M: Erich Rudich

Cast: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox,

Cast: Ben Levine, Ami Traub, Jonathan Sagalle, Dita

Eileen Atkins, Zena Walker

Arel, Amos Guttman

The compelling study of the intense relationship

A gay Israeli filmmaker, while trying to finance his

between the exhausted and ageing leader of a

next project, runs into problems in homophobic

wartime Shakespearean company, ‘Sir’, and his

Jerusalem, and with his family. They are ashamed of

homosexual dresser, Norman. Adapted by Ronald

him and believe that if only he met the right woman

Harwood from his own play, The Dresser is based on

he would be ‘cured’. Considered to be a

the touring career of Donald Wolfit whose dresser

groundbreaking film for Israeli cinema as it is one of

the author was. A film rich in comedy, compassion

the first films from there to deal openly with

and love for the theatre.

homosexuality and its place in that society.

Prod Comp: World Film Service, Goldcrest

Prod Comp: Kislev Films

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, TLA

Dist/Sales: Nu-Image

Drift

Drop Dead Georgeous: The Power of HIV

Positive Thinking

Lee, Quentin

2000; USA; 85 min; Drama

Bailey, Fenton / Barbato, Randy

W: Quentin Lee; C: Quentin Lee; E: Suan Toon Teo; 1997; USA; 53 min; Documentary

M: Steven Pranoto

HIV-positive comedian Steve Moore takes us on a

Cast: R. T. Lee, Greyson Dayne, Jonathon Roessler

tour of his life—from his Southern upbringing, to

Ryan, an Asian-Canadian writer has been with Joel

one nights stands both of the comedy and sexual

for three years. Ryan loves Joel, but can’t help

kind.

questioning the intensity of their bond. At his

Dist/Sales: WorldOfWonder, HBO

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Drowning Lessons

E: Luc Barnier; M: Edouard Dubois

Cast: Miou-Miou, Charles Berling, Stanislas Merhar,

Kennedy, Gregory

Mathilde Seigner

2001; USA; 20 min; Drama

This unusually compelling French psychosexual

Brother and sister, Jeremy and Barbara, share a flat

drama revolves around a staunchly ‘normal’ married

and, even as adults, remain close. Both become

couple and how their dormant sexuality is ignited

attracted to a new neighbour and a battle ensues

when a young man—a bisexual drag queen per-

between them. Jeremy’s fear of water is set up as a

former—enters their lives. Nicole and Jean-Marie are

metaphor for him not being able to stand up to his

a strait-laced married couple who operate a small-

sister and move forward with his life.

town dry cleaning shop. On a rare night out, they

Drugs ‘R’ Us

visit a club where they become enthralled by a

brother-sister drag act. Through circumstances, the

Gregory, Tony

brother, Loic—an enigmatic but sexily androgynous

1994; Australia; 24 min; Documentary

young man—begins to work at the couple’s shop.

P: Rebecca Dobbs

The story focuses on how both Marie and Jean-

Marie are attracted to him (her, obviously for the

A provocative and anonymous comment that goes

sexual thrills, him either paternally, fraternally or

d

directly to the heart of the debate over drug

homoerotically). (Wolfe)

use/abuse and queer lifestyles. This video charts the

French with English subtitles.

history of drug use in the gay scene from the 1890s

to the present day.

Prod Comp: Maestranza Films, Cinéa, Région Franche-

Comté

Dist/Sales: MayaVision

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Strand

Dry Kisses Only

Brooke, Kaucylia / Cottis, Jane

1990; USA; 75 min; Documentary

Dry Kisses Only is a transgressive look at the cultural

icons of femininity and feminism through lesbian

films. Clips of Hollywood films (which explicitly

portray lesbians, or can be read as a narrative about

the desire between women) are interwoven with

tongue-in-cheek critical commentary, ‘lesbians on

the street’ interviews, and gossip column revelations,

among other media texts.

Dist/Sales: WMM

Duffer

Despins, Joseph

1971; UK; 75 min; B&W; Drama

Cast: Kit Gleave, Erna May, James Roberts, Marcelle

McHardy

A musing of fantasy verses reality. Using voice-overs,

the film tells its account of an attractive young man

who spends most of his life submitting to a homo-

sexual sadist and the rest of his time with a whore.

Dyke Blend

Dry Cleaning

Dry Cleaning

Weber, Eva

1996; UK; 11 min; Comedy

(aka: Nettoyage à sec)

W: Eva Weber

Fontaine, Anne

A superior blend of film expertly created to capture

1997; France; 97 min; Drama

the distinctive taste of sex, doubts and coffee. Eva

P: Alain Sarde, Philippe Carcassonne; W: Anne

Weber’s humorous and passionate parody unfolds

Fontaine, Gilles Taurand; C: Caroline Champetier;

over nine mini-episodes. The story introduces the

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Dyke Blend couple, Donna and Louise, and follows

A wacky, gender-bender spoof from Hong Kong,

their evolving romance. (Cinenova)

produced and acted by some of the biggest names in

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

Chinese cinema. The characters include two evil

cousins who are fighting to take control of a

Dykes and their Dogs

kingdom, a young male priest played by a woman,

and an emperor who in order to achieve nirvana

Godges, Mary Jo / Sotile, Renee

must get a man to tell him he loves him. The plot is

2000; USA; 17 min; Comedy

difficult to follow as the characters constantly swap

An uproarious musical/comedy ‘dyke-umentary’

genders but it is a huge amount of fun, and a great

about the popular Dykes and Their Dogs contest

send-up of the martial arts films. Cantonese with

held annually in West Hollywood, California.

English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Jet Tone Production Co.

Dykes and Tykes

Dist/Sales: RimFilm

Devine, Christine

Early Frost, An (1985)

2000; Australia; 18 min; Documentary

e

Australian lesbians talk about their experiences of

Erman, John

raising children.

1985; USA; 97 min; Drama

P: Perry Lafferty; W: Ron Cowen, Daniel Lipman;

Dist/Sales: Devine

C: Woody Omens; E: Jerrold L. Ludwig; M: John Kander e-male

Cast: Ben Gazzara, Aidan Quinn, Gena Rowlands,

Sylvia Sidney

Gibbs, Rolf

An emotional drama about a family who discover

1998; UK; 23 min; Drama

that their son is gay, and is also suffering from AIDS.

A young woman intercepts the emails meant for her

A moving, powerful and sensitive drama, based on a

ex-boyfriend, and starts to write back. Her reply sets

story by Sherman Yellen. Made for television.

in motion a love affair on the net with surprising

Prod Comp: NBC

consequences.

Dist/Sales: NBC, Wolfe, ACMI

Dist/Sales: SweetChild

Early Frost, An (2000)

Each Other

Pinaud, Pierre

(aka: Rega’im)

1999; France; 17 min; Comedy

Bat-Adam, Michal

P: Laurent Lavolé, Isabelle Pragier; W: Pierre Pinaud 1979; France, Israel; 90 min; Drama

A 10-year-old girl learns that her pet rabbit is

P: Moshé Mizrahi; W: Michal Bat-Adam; C: Yves attracted to other boy rabbits. The news causes chaos

Lafaye; E: Sophie Coussein; M: Hubert Rostaing

with her parents and gay next door neighbours.

Cast: Michal Bat-Adam, Brigitte Catillon, Assaf Dayan

With Amandine Sroussi. French with English

With the use of flashback the film’s narrative is

subtitles.

structured around two women, Yola, an Israeli

Dist/Sales: Gloria, ACMI

writer, and Anne, a French photographer on

vacation. They meet on a Tel Aviv-Jerusalem train

East Palace West Palace

and become friends and, eventually lovers. The

(aka: Dong Gong Xi Gong)

relationship between the two women endangers

Yola’s marriage to her husband, Avi.

Zhang, Yuan

1996; China; 90 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Mica Films, Rosa Productions

P: Yuan Zhang, Christophe Jung, Christophe Ménager;

Eagle Shooting Heroes, The

W: Yuan Zhang, Xiaobo Wang; C: Jian Zhang;

E: Vincent Levy; M: Min Xiang

(aka: Sediu yinghung tsun tsi dung sing sai tsau)

Cast: Han Si, Jun Hu

Lau, Jeffrey

After a random raid one night in a local park, A Lan,

1994; Hong Kong; 115 min; Comedy

a young gay writer is held for intensive interrogation.

P: Sung-lin Tsai; W: Louis Cha; C: Peter Pau; E: Kit-wai His questioning quickly transforms into an unex-Kai; M: James Wong

pected reminiscence of his tumultuous life: his

Cast: Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung,

childhood, parents, school, politically mandated

Tony Leung Chiu Wai

peasant work in the country, and the slow drift into

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the quest for true love. These brief, intimate glances

become romantically involved but when Charley’s

of A Lan’s life blur the feelings Hu Jun, the interro-

father finds out about their relationship, Eban must

gating officer, has for the prisoner. An awkward love-

decide whether he is willing to risk imprisonment in

story unfolds. East Palace West Palace was shot

order to be with Charley.

without permission from Chinese authorities, and

Prod Comp: Monqui Films, Harcamone Films

post-produced in France. Mandarin with English

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!, Wolfe, 10%, VideoAmericain

subtitles.

Prod Comp: Amazon Entertainment, Quelqu’un d’Autre

Echte Kerle

Productions

(aka: Regular Guys)

Dist/Sales: Palace, Fortissimo, Wolfe, Strand

Silber, Rolf

1996; Germany; 97 min; Comedy

P: Gerd Huber, Silvia Koller, Renate Seefeldt, Jochen

Löscher; W: Rolf Silber, Rudi Bergmann; C: Jürgen Herrmann; M: Peter Schmitt

Cast: Christoph M. Ohrt, Carin C. Tietze, Oliver

e

Stokowski, Tim Bergmann

Christoph, a cop and confirmed macho, wakes up

after a night on the town in the bed of Edgar, a

handsome gay car mechanic, who has fallen

impetuously in love with him. Christoph’s world

seems to be coming apart at the seams when he loses

both his girlfriend and his apartment shortly

afterwards, and then gets a new and very self-

East Palace West Palace

confident colleague called Helen, who is clearly as

Eat the Rich

interested in him as he is in her. What’s more, he

finds out that Edgar occasionally steals cars, and he

Richardson, Peter

is also no longer sure whether he likes guys or girls.

1987; UK; 89 min; Comedy

A cop, an attractive detective, and a gay car thief

P: Tim Van Rellim; W: Peter Richardson, Pete Richens; cross paths in this turbulent romantic comedy.

C: Witold Stok; E: Chris Risdale

German with English subtitles.(www.goethe.de/uk)

Cast: Lanah Pellay, Nosher Powell, Fiona Richmond,

Prod Comp: Cobra Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk

Ronald Allen, Koo Stark

Dist/Sales: BuenaVista

The exploits of a transsexual waiter, who after losing

Eclipse

his job at a restaurant called ‘Bastards’ gets his

revenge by finally taking it over. He changes the

Podeswa, Jeremy

name to ‘Eat the Rich’ and serves the management

1994; Canada; 95 min; Drama

and rich customers for main course. Some rather

P: Camelia Frieberg, Jeremy Podeswa; W: Jeremy

wasted cameos that include Paul McCartney and

Podeswa; C: Miroslav Baszak; E: Susan Maggi;

Miranda Richardson.

M: Ernie Tollar

Prod Comp: Iron Fist Motion Pictures, New Line

Cast: Von Flores, Jon Gilbert, Pascale Montpetit,

Cinema

Manual Aranguiz

Dist/Sales: Palace, NewLine

Sex circulates like a good rumour as ten people

Eban and Charley

unwittingly form a complex network of friends,

lovers and casual encounters in an eerie game of

Bolton, James

carnal musical chairs—a business man picks up a

2000; UK, USA; 89 min; Drama

rent boy, then goes home and sleeps with the family

P: Chris Monlux; W: James Bolton; C: Judy Irola; au pair, who in turn seduces a stranger. At the

E: Elizabeth Edwards; M: Stephin Merritt

epicentre of all this feverish activity is an imminent

Cast: Brent Fellows, Giovanni Andrade, Drew Zeller,

solar eclipse set to plunge all into momentary

Ellie Nicholson, Ron Upton

darkness. English, French & Spanish with English

29-year-old Eban has returned to his hometown to

subtitles.

live with his parents. He befriends a 15-year-old boy

Prod Comp: Fire Dog Films

Charley, whose mother has just died. Gradually they

Dist/Sales: Palace, Strand

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Ed Wood

and is well-supported by a brilliant musical score by

Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins. (MQFF)

Burton, Tim

1994; USA; 124 min; B&W; Comedy

Prod Comp: Blue Streak Films, Luna Pictures

P: Denise De Novi, Tim Burton; W: Scott Alexander, Dist/Sales: Potential, PictureThis!, Strand, Wolfe,

Larry Karaszewski; C: Stefan Czapsky; E: Chris

Mongrel

Lebenzon; M: Howard Shore

Educate your Attitude

Cast: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica

Parker, Patricia Arquette

Berggold, Craig / Marshall, Teresa

A dramatised biography of Edward D. Wood Jnr, a

1992; Canada; 30 min; Documentary

director who is generally considered to have made

Young men and women, aged 15 to 27, share their

some of the trashiest films ever committed to

thought-provoking, humorous, and sometimes

celluloid. They include the cult greats Glen or Glenda

painful reflections on growing up. They speak from a

and Plan 9 from Outer Space. Wood was a well-

wide range of experiences about love and fantasies,

known transvestite, and often directed in a frock.

gay identity, interracial relationships, masturbation,

Martin Landau puts in a superb performance as Bela

peer pressure, media images, pornography, sexism,

e

Lugosi and Bill Murray is fantastic as a screaming

sexual abuse, STDs, living with AIDS, condoms,

queen.

safer sex and more. (Frameline)

Prod Comp: Touchstone

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, ReelMovies, Touchstone,

BuenaVista, Swank

Edward II

Jarman, Derek

1991; UK; 91 min; Drama

P: Steven Clark-Hall, Anthony Root; W: Ken Butler, Steve Clark-Hall, Derek Jarman, Stephen McBride,

Antony Root; C: Ian Wilson; E: George Akers;

M: Simon Fisher Turner

Cast: Steven Waddington, Andrew Tiernan, Tilda

Swinton, Nigel Terry, Annie Lennox

Set in the 14th century and adapted from the 16th

century Christopher Marlowe play of the same

name, this is the story of King Edward’s relationship

with a courtier, in what is believed to be the first

explicitly gay play written in English. The drama

Edge of Seventeen

revolves around Britain’s only acknowledged gay

monarch, whose preference for his lover over his

Edge of Seventeen

queen sparked conflict with his barons and,

(aka: Edge of 17)

eventually, led to civil war.

Prod Comp: BBC, British Screen, Working Title Films

Moreton, David

Dist/Sales: NewVision, NFVLS, BFI, FineLine

1998; USA; 99 min; Comedy

P: David Moreton, Todd Stephens; W: Todd Stephens; Eiger Sanction, The

C: Gina DeGirolamo, Zak Othmer; E: Tal Ben-David; M: Tom Bailey

Eastwood, Clint

Cast: Chris Stafford, Tina Holmes, Andersen Gabrych,

1975; USA; 113 min; Thriller

Stephanie McVay

P: Robert Daley; W: Hal Dresner, Rod Whitaker,

1984. Boy George, Bronski Beat, Toni Basil, big

Warren B. Murphy; C: Frank Stanley; E: Ferris Webster; hair, skinny ties! Set in Ohio, in a decade where

M: John Williams

make-up on boys was de rigeur and greed was good,

Cast: Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta

Edge of Seventeen traces the sexual turbulence and

McGee, Jack Cassidy, Heidi Bruhl

insecurities of Eric, a sensitive high school boy. To

A James Bond type film about a retired hit man and

hide his lust for hunky gay co-worker Rod, Eric

mountain climber, who returns to his former

begins a relationship with Maggie. His naive sexual

profession to assassinate a climber in an international

fumblings and hopeless romanticism make for

team attempting to climb the Eiger Mountain in

painfully honest yet upbeat viewing. Moreton’s

Switzerland. To prepare himself for the ordeal he

recreation of the feather-haired era is picture perfect,

begins training in the magnificent cliffs of

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Monument Valley. The climax includes some

result is an exquisite fusion of documentary, audio

exciting action scenes in the Swiss Alps. Jack Cassidy

and dramatic fiction that flows gracefully from scene

plays a gay murderer with a dog named ‘Faggot’.

to scene. (Cinenova)

Prod Comp: Universal, Jennings Lang, The Malpaso

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

Company

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Universal

Ein Toter Hing im Netz

Eight Million

(aka: Girls of Spider Island)

Böttger, Fritz

Child, Abigail

1959; Austria, Germany; 80 min; B&W; Horror

1991; USA; 24 min; Experimental

P: Gaston Hakim, Wolfgang Hartwig; W: Fritz Böttger; Eight Million is a video album combining documen-C: Georg Krause; M: Karl Bette, Willy Mattes

tary and narrative elements to rewrite women’s

Cast: Helga Frank, Barbara Valentin, Alex d’Arcy, Helga

drama. Short songs charting erotic tales in an urban

Neuner

environment profile the romantic myths of popular

A group of eight women are stranded on a deserted

culture but with a twist, the genders are mixed, the

island after an air crash. Their manager is turned

social order is questioned and the narrative is

e

into a spider after being bitten by an insect. The

fragmented.

whole film appears to be an excuse to show scantily

dressed women doing their hair, taking showers and

Eika Katappa

tugging at each other’s breasts.

Schroeter, Werner

Prod Comp: International Film Management, Rapid-

1969; Germany; 144 min; Comedy, Musical

Intercontinetal

P: Werner Schroeter; W: Werner Schroeter; C: Werner Dist/Sales: SomethingWeird

Schroeter, Robert van Ackeren; E: Werner Schroeter;

M: Georges Bizet

Eine Tunte zum Dessert

Cast: Magdalena Montezuma, Gisela Trowe, Rosa von

(aka: A Fairy for Dessert)

Praunheim

Beiersdorf, Dagmar

A hysterical celebration of grand opera. It opens with

1992; Germany; 85 min; Comedy

previews of coming attractions and closes with a

P: Wolfgang Krenz; W: Dagmar Beiersdorf;

survey of past highlights. In between it shows scenes

C: Christoph Gies; E: Lothar Lambert

from some of the most loved and hated operas,

Cast: Suzanne Gautier, Lothar Lambert

which form the basis of the narrative, culminating in

a tragic gay love story. Very high camp.

Very funny, low-budget celebration of adopted

families and colourful characters, featuring an

Eileen is a Spy

overweight transvestite who takes parenting in his

stride. German with English subtitles.

Frey, Sayer

1998; USA; 74 min; Documentary

Einstein of Sex: The Life and Work of Dr

P: Sayer Frey, John Kremer; W: Sayer Frey;

Magnus Hirschfeld, The

C: Moe Flaherty; E: Sayer Frey; M: Barbara Cohen Cast: Tami Hinz

von Praunheim, Rosa

1999; Germany; 100 min; Drama

Minneapolis based writer/director Sayer Frey draws

P: Rosa von Praunheim; W: Chris Kraus, Valentin

inspiration for her debut feature from Harriet the

Passoni; C: Elfi Mikesch; E: Michael E. Shephard; Spy. This is the story of an eccentric and painfully

shy loner who prefers to scrutinise the lives of others

M: Karl-Ernst Sasse

rather than pursue her own (sexual) desires. Like

Cast: Friedel von Wangenheim, Ben Becker, Otto

Harriet, the preteen heroine of Louise Fitzbugh’s

Sander, Wolfgang Volz

children’s books, the thirty-something Eileen peers

In 1897 Dr Magnus Hirschfeld (known as ‘The

through binoculars and scribbles notes as if gather-

Einstein of Sex’ for his revolutionary work in sexual

ing information about a world she is not yet part of.

science) founded the first gay political group in

Frey explores female friendships and same-sex

history. In 1920 he opened his Institute of Sexual

attraction as Eileen meets Jayne, a hitchhiking free

Science in Berlin. The film reveals Hirschfeld

spirit who helps our anti-heroine overcome her

through the major figures in his life: from the

disabling isolation. Frey combines the quirky details

unfulfilled love affair with Baron von Teschenberg to

of Eileen’s story with surrealistic digressions, snippets

the happy years with young Karl Giese; from his

of home movies and audio taped interviews. The

struggle with his major gay opponent, right-wing

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writer Adolf Brand, to the presence of his guardian

Elevation

angel, the transvestite Dorchen. Dr Hirschfeld died

in 1935 only two years after the Nazis destroyed his

Cummins, Stephen

Institute. Since this time, all attempts to organise an

1989; Australia; 11 min; Drama

equivalent institute for sexual science have failed. Up

An elegant and lyrical celebration of gay sexuality

to this day no one has surpassed the accomplish-

and flirtation. A story of love between two men set

ments of Dr Hirschfeld in the field of sexology. The

in an elevator. Elevation proves that passion can start

Einstein of Sex tells the true story of the passion that

in the strangest places.

drove his exceptional work and the destruction that

Prod Comp: Australian Film TV & Radio School

lead to his exile and death. (Mongrel)

Dist/Sales: AFTRS, Frameline, ACMI

German with English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: TLA, Mongrel

Elegant Criminal, L’

(aka: Lacenaire)

e Girod, Francis

1990; France; 120 min; Drama

P: Ariel Zeitoun; W: Georges Conchon, Francis Girod; C: Bruno de Keyzer; E: Geneviève Winding; M: Laurent Petitgirard

Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Jean Poiret, Jacques Weber,

Francois Perier, Genevieve Casile

A period drama based on the life of the infamous

gentleman criminal Pierre-Francois Lacenaire who

scandalised (and entertained) 19th century France.

Set in 1836, he is facing the gallows after commit-

ting a series of murders just for the thrill of it. He is

a homosexual, very intelligent, and is able to charm

both men and women. Based on the original story

by Georges Conchon and Francis Girod.

Prod Comp: Centre National de la Cinématographie, Le

Studio Canal+, UGC

Dist/Sales: 21stCentury

Elegant Spanking, The

Elevation

Beatty, Maria / Delain, Rosemary

Ellen DeGeneres: The Beginning

1994; USA; 30 min; B&W; Erotica

M: John Zorn

Gallen, Joel

Cast: Rosemary Delain, Maria Beatty

2000; USA; 65 min; Documentary

A lesbian porn film featuring performance artist

Cast: Ellen DeGeneres

Rosemary Delain, who acts out the role of the

Live from the Beacon Theatre in New York, after

Mistress and dominates and humiliates her lover

seven years on TV and the big screen, Ellen

Kitty. An exploration of S/M, power, dominance and

DeGeneres is back on stage, live, outspoken,

submission.

outrageous and out. It’s Ellen, back to stand-up at

Prod Comp: Bleu Productions

her most hilarious. From her secret for how to deal

with forgetting people’s names to the harsh realities

Dist/Sales: TLA

of videotaping your sex life. (Wolfe)

Elegy in the Streets

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

Hubbard, Jim

Elton John: Tantrums and Tiaras

1990; USA; 30 min; Experimental

Furnish, David

A political and personal perspective on the AIDS

1997; USA; 72 min; Documentary

crisis in the USA.

P: Claudia Rosencrantz, Polly Steele; C: David Furnish; Dist/Sales: Canyon

E: Martin Cooper

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Cast: Elton John, David Furnish

C: Tony Imi; E: Chris Kelly; M: Steve Parsons Warts and all documentary by David Furnish about

Cast: Ray McAnally, Lee Drysdale, Cathryn Harrison,

his partner—one of Britain’s most successful modern

Martin Landau

pop musicians, Sir Elton John.

A crime-thriller that involves a former male

Prod Comp: Rocket Pictures

prostitute who attempts to take over a nightclub in

Dist/Sales: Cinemax

the seedy East End of London. He gets caught

between his old boss, Frank, and Chuck, an

Emergence

American businessman with whom he has tried to

set up a deal. Features a strong gay sensibility,

Parmar, Pratibha

together with Jimmy Sommerville on the sound-

1986; UK; 18 min; Documentary

track, as well as a wide variety of rent boys.

Common themes of identity, alienation and herstory

in the context of the diasporan experience emerge in

Empty Bed, An

this powerful film. Four Black and Third World

women artists, among them African–American

Gasper, Mark

feminist poet Audre Lorde and Palestinian perform-

1990; USA; 60 min; Drama

e

ance artist Mona Hatoum, speak forcefully through

P: Mark Gasper, Victoria Larimore; W: Mark Gasper; their art and writing. (WMM)

C: Oren Rudavsky; E: Gloria Whittemore; M: Glen Roven Cast: Kevin Kelly, Thomas Hill, Harriet Bass, Conan

Dist/Sales: WMM, GroupeIntervention

McCarthy

Emily and Gitta

Captures a day in the life of an elderly gay man

living in Greenwich Village as he battles with a

Gold, Tami

homophobic America. Using flashbacks, he spends

1996; USA; 30 min; Drama

the day recalling his youth. The only relationships he

Emily, a painter, is the child of concentration camp

has had have all ended unhappily, leaving him full of

survivors. Gitta, a photographer, grew up in

regret and loneliness.

Germany thinking of herself as innocent, removed

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures

from the actions of her parents and their generation

under Hitler. The two meet and begin a dance of

Enchantment, The

emotional and erotic intimacy. But almost as soon as

it gets under way, their relationship threatens to be

(aka: Yuwakusha)

undone by the personal and historical legacies they

Nagasaki, Shunichi

do and do not share. (WMM)

1989; Japan; 109 min; Thriller

Dist/Sales: WMM

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi, Masao Kusakari, Kiwako

Harada, Takeshi Naito, Tsutomu Isobe

Emmanuelle

An involving and complicated drama about a Tokyo

Jaeckin, Just

psychiatrist who becomes obsessed with a female

1974; France; 94 min; Erotica

patient when she reveals her bruises, given to her by

P: Yves Rousset-Rouard; W: Jean-Louis Richard;

her jealous girlfriend. Another patient turns up dead

C: Richard Suzuki, Marie Saunier; E: Claudine Bouché; with a knife in his back and the film takes on a

M: Pierre Bachelet, Francis Lai

femme fatale twist.

Cast: Sylvia Kristel, Marika Green, Daniel Sarky

Prod Comp: Fuji Television Network, Nippon Herald

Emmanuelle is a naive young bride of an older and

Films

more knowledgeable man. While in Bangkok her

Endangered

husband introduces her to a world of sexual and

sensual pleasures, both straight and lesbian.

Hammer, Barbara

Although primarily made for a straight male

1988; USA; 19 min; Experimental

audience, the lesbian love scenes are quite erotic.

Examines the imminent disappearance of animals

Prod Comp: Trinacra, Orphee

and life (and possibly the artist and her work), using

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Columbia, ACMI

split frames and featuring a prominent soundtrack.

Empire State

All forms of life are considered: spiders, seals, tigers,

birds and microbes. The final cuts include a litany:

Peck, Ron

‘extinct, done, gone, marginal, obliterated’.

1987; UK; 102 min; Thriller

(Frameline)

P: Norma Hayman; W: Ron Peck, Mark Ayres;

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, Frameline

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Enfants Terribles, Les

C: Wolfgang Suschitzky; E: John Trumper;

(aka: The Strange Ones)

M: Georgie Fame

Cast: Peter McEnery, Beryl Reid, Alan Webb

Melville, Jean-Pierre

Joe Orton’s plays eroticised the ‘kitchen-sink’ realist

1949; France; 106 min; B&W; Drama

theatre of the 1960s. In Entertaining Mr Sloane a

P: Jean-Pierre Melville; W: Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean young man lodges with a safely bourgeois brother

Cocteau; C: Henri Decaë; E: Monique Bonnot; M: Paul and sister only to find that they are both interested

Bonneau, Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi

in sleeping with him, and they will let nothing get in

Cast: Edouard Dermithe, Nicole Stéphane, Renee

the way of satisfying their sexual desires.

Cosima, Jacques Bernard

Prod Comp: Canterbury Film Productions

With narration by the great gay poet, novelist and

Dist/Sales: ACMI

filmmaker, Jean Cocteau, Melville has created a film

which exemplifies Cocteau’s particular vision of

Entre Nous

childhood and fantasy, poetry and death. A brother

and sister exist in a room together and rarely venture

(aka: Coup de Foudre)

out. When they do, it leads to hilarious escapades as

Kurys, Diane

e

they wander about the world outside. Their

1983; France; 110 min; Drama

confused narcissism and intense passion for each

P: Ariel Zeitoun; W: Diane Kurys, Alain le Henry; C: other, and the brother’s sexual fluidity, finally leads

Bernard Lutic; E: Joële Van Effenterre; M: Luis Bacalov to their destruction. French with English subtitles.

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Miou-Miou, Guy Marchand,

Prod Comp: Melville Productions

Jean-Pierre Bacri

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee

Lena, a housewife locked into the boring security of

marriage and family, meets an artist. In contrast to

Englishman Abroad, An

Lena, Madeleine is vibrant and alive but like Lena

Schlesinger, John

she too is dissatisfied with her marriage. The two

meet at the school that their children attend and

1983; UK; 64 min; Comedy

become instant soul mates. They find in each other

P: Innes Lloyd; W: Alan Bennett; C: Nat Crosby; what is missing in their marriages and begin to drift

M: George Fenton

together and away from their families. Through their

Cast: Alan Bates, Coral Browne

complex but strong friendship Lena embarks on a

This made for TV movie is a dramatisation of an

journey of self-discovery. Diane Kurys based the

actual unexpected meeting in Moscow, 1958,

story on her mother, and her mother’s deep friend-

between actress Coral Browne and the former British

ship with another woman.

spy Guy Burgess. Browne returns to Burgess’s flat

Prod Comp: Partners Production, Alexandre Films,

where she is introduced to his male lover. Browne

Films A2

approved the script based on her account of the

Dist/Sales: UAClassics, Wolfe

incident and plays herself in the recreation of this

humorous encounter.

Entwined

Prod Comp: BBC

Harrington, Raquel Cecilia

Enter into Clowns

1997; USA; 118 min; Drama

P: Raquel Cecilia Harrington, Jacqueline B. Frost; W:

(aka: Enter the Clowns; Choujue Dengchang)

Raquel Cecilia Harrington

Cui, Zi’en

Cast: Verónica Sánchez, Koim Ostrenko, Iris Delgado,

2001; China; 82 min; Drama

Marilyn Romero

P: Tongwei Zhang, Weifang Wu, Shujing Liu, Zi’en

The passion that has ignited between a film student

Cui; W: Zi’en Cui; C: Deqiang Yuan; E: Haixin Hu and her lecturer causes drama as each is already

Cast: Bing Chen, Na-ren-qi-mu-ge, Yu Bo, Xiaoyu Yu

committed to someone else.

Amazing narrative which explores sexual identity

Prod Comp: Corazón Films

and gender orientation in modern Chinese society.

Équilibristes, Les

Dist/Sales: Cuizi Film Studio

(aka: Walking a Tightrope)

Entertaining Mr Sloane

Papatakis, Nico

Hickox, Douglas

1991; France; 130 min; Drama

1970; UK; 90 min; Comedy

P: Humbert Balsan; C: William Lubtchansky

P: Douglas Kentish; W: Clive Exton;

Cast: Michel Piccoli, Lilah Dadi, Polly Walker,

148

Doris Kunstmann, Patrick Mille

Barbara Alberti; C: Camillo Bazzoni; E: Sergio

Based on an episode in the life of Jean Genet, Piccoli

Montanari; M: Carmelo Bernaola

plays a great writer and poet who picks up a young

Cast: Martin Halm, Virna Lisi, Michele Placido, Renato

man whose job is to sweep the floors. He falls in love

Salvatori, Turi Ferro

with him and resolves to make him into a tightrope

The story of a young Jewish boy’s first sexual

walker. But soon he tosses the boy aside when he

encounter with an older male worker at his uncle’s

falls for a woman who is an aspiring racing driver.

factory. He discards the man and becomes attracted

Dist/Sales: UGC

to twins—a brother and sister. He chooses hetero-

sexuality and finally marries. But while he is truly

Equus

loved by others, he is incapable of loving them.

Based on the autobiographical novel by Umberto

Lumet, Sidney

Saba.

1977; USA; 137 min; Drama

P: Denis Holt, Elliott Kastner, Lester Persky; W: Peter Prod Comp: International Spectrafilm, Albatros

Shaffer; C: Oswald Morris; E: John Victor Smith; Produktion

M: Richard Rodnet Bennett

Dist/Sales: Facets

Cast: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Joan Plowright,

e

Erotica: A Journey into Female Sexuality

Eileen Atkins, Jenny Agutter

Peter Firth plays Alan Strang, a young man working

Gallus, Maya

as a stable boy at an upper-class riding school who

1997; Canada; 75 min; Documentary

one night brutally blinds the horses. Richard Burton

P: Julie Sereny; C: Zoe Dirse; E: Cathy Gulkin; is psychiatrist Dr Martin Dysart who is investigating

M: Celina Carroll, Chip Yarwood

the reasons for the young man’s apparent senseless

An evocative, sensuous, celebratory and, at times,

crime. Based on Peter Shaffer’s acclaimed play, Equus

dark journey through the female erotic imagination,

is a film that explores and manages to traverse a rich

Erotica travels behind-the-scenes with ten different

field of themes and concerns: psychoanalysis and

women who reveal their inner fantasy lives and

mythology; sexuality and repression; class and

expose their most intimate secrets for the camera.

family; sex and power. The relationship between

Produced, directed and edited by women, and shot

analyst and patient becomes increasingly complex as

with an all-female crew, Erotica explores the range

the mysteries of the boy’s repressions become

and variety of female eroticism, from the sadomaso-

unravelled. The men’s exchanges begin to be

chistic rituals of a Parisian dominatrix, to the San

complicated by the echoes of homoeroticism and the

Francisco lesbian nightclub scene. The film also

psychological overtones of the Oedipal Complex.

features celebrity porn-star-turned filmmakers Annie

Initially dividing critics, Equus has become a cult

Sprinkle and Candida Royale, renowned photogra-

favourite through the years and is acknowledged as

phers Bettina Rheims and Phyllis Christopher, urban

one of Lumet’s darker and innovative works.

American rapper ‘Lique’, butch drag king ‘Fairy

(ACMI)

Butch’ and erotic novelist Alina Reyes. They openly

Prod Comp: United Artists

discuss how their personal and professional lives

Dist/Sales: ACMI

merge. And they reveal the struggles and conflicts

that they, like many women, have encountered,

Erika’s Passions

thereby illuminating the complex nature of female

sexuality and its place in our ever-changing society.

(aka: Erika’s Leidenschaften)

(Films Transit)

Stöckl, Ula

Prod Comp: Swept Away Productions

1978; Germany; 67 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: FilmsTransit

C: Thomas Mauch

Cast: Karin Baal, Vera Tschechowa

Erotique

A butch lesbian and her femme lover are accidentally

Borden, Lizzie / Law, Clara / Treut, Monika

locked in a room together after a long separation and

1993; Germany, USA; 90 min; Drama

are forced to confront each other’s differences and

P: Christopher Wood, Vicky Herman, Monika Treut,

complaints.

Michael Sombetzki, Teddy Robin Kwan, Eddie Ling-

Ernesto

Ching Fong; W: Lizzie Borden, Susie Bright, Monika

Treut, Eddie Ling-Ching Fong; C: Larry Banks, Elfi

Samperi, Salvatore

Mikesch, Arthur Wong; E: Jill Bilcock; M: Andrew 1979; Italy; 98 min; Drama

Belling, Tats Lau

P: José Frade; W: Amadeo Paganini, Salvatore Samperi, Cast: Kamela Lopez-Dawson, Liane Curtis, Bryan

149

Cranston, Priscilla Barnes, Marianne Sagebrecht

Klaus and Erika Mann, played out against the

A compilation of three films by three female

tumultuous history of the Roaring Twenties, the rise

directors, each dealing with the erotic and sexual

of Fascism and World War II. The openly gay

fantasies of women. Let’s Talk About Sex: in Los

children of German novelist Thomas Mann, Klaus

Angeles, a young Latina works in a phone sex office

and Erika were authors, cabaret performers, and

to pay bills. She becomes obsessed with one of the

committed antifascists. Their intense sibling

male clients and finds him willing to participate in

relationship, which took root through the imagina-

her fantasy. She enlists the aid of a policewoman

tive, make-believe world they shared as children, was

friend to find out where he lives and a ‘kidnap’ is

strained by the demands of life in exile, by Klaus’s

arranged where the resolution is a surprise to

drug addiction and Erika’s gradual shift in loyalty

everyone. Taboo Parlor: in Hamburg, Claire and Julia

from brother to father, with fatal consequences.

are two stunning women in a lesbian relationship.

Bringing together rare archival footage and period

The gentle, vulnerable and younger Julia receives

music, revealing anecdotes from colleagues and

Claire’s approval for a heterosexual fling. Together,

friends, TV interviews with Erika Mann, and re-

they search Hamburg’s underbelly for the right

created scenes based on Klaus Mann’s writings,

young man. The ménage begins but jealousy flares

Escape to Life is a fascinating tribute to a extraordi-

e

and ends in the spectacular sequence where only two

nary couple. (Cinema Guild)

survive. Wonton Soup: An Australian-born Chinese

English & German with English subtitles.

boy travels out of Australia for the first time. In

Prod Comp: Jezebel Productions, Zero Film

Hong Kong he reunites with his old girlfriend whom

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild

he met when she studied at his college in Mel-

bourne. Though both are Chinese, they are products

of totally different cultures. He is determined to

prove that he can overcome all obstacles to restore

the happy relationship they shared at school.

Dist/Sales: 21stCentury, Beyond

Escalier C

Tacchella, Jean-Charles

1985; France; 100 min; Comedy

P: Marie-Dominique Girodet; W: Jean-Charles

Tacchella, Elvira Murail; C: Jacques Assuérus; E: Agnés Guillemot; M: Raymond Alessandrini

Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story

Cast: Robin Renucci, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jacques

Bonnaffé, Catherine Leprince, Jacques Weber

Escorte, L’

The tenants of Paris, 14 arrondissement, Stairs C,

Langlois, Denis

have one thing in common: their average age is 30.

1996; Canada; 92 min; Comedy

They include a widow, a novelist, an alcoholic and a

very rude art critic. After a neighbour is murdered,

P: Bertrand Lachance, Denis Langlois; W: Bertrand the art critic has a moral turnaround and decides to

Lachance, Denis Langlois; C: Yves Beaudoin; E: Meiyen move in with a caring gay man. He also goes on a

Chan; M: Bertrand Chénier

pilgrimage to Jerusalem. An interesting character

Cast: Robin Aubert, Paul-Antoine Taillefer, Éric

study which falls short of being a great film as it only

Cabana, Marie Lefebvre

superficially examines the issues raised. French with

In his first feature, a bittersweet comedy of manners,

English subtitles.

Langlois continues his study of love, hate, truth, lies,

Prod Comp: Films7, FR3 Films Cinéma

fidelity and promiscuity among a set of Montreal

Dist/Sales: AMLF, NFVLS

friends and lovers in the age of AIDS. The lives of

Jean-Marc and Philippe, a gay couple struggling as

Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story

their restaurant fails, are altered forever when the

catalytic Steve, a young escort, enters their lives. He

Speck, Wieland / Weiss, Andrea

inspires the couple, and their friends, to act up and

2000; Germany, UK; 84 min; Documentary

act out their desires. Long kept silences about HIV

P: Thomas Kufus, Greta Schiller; W: Weiland Speck, status are broken and confronted. French with

Andrea Weiss; C: Nuala Campbell, Uli Fischer, Ann T.

English subtitles.

Rossetti; E: Prisca Swan, Andrea Weis; M: John Eacott Prod Comp: Castor & Pollux

This compelling docudrama chronicles the lives of

Dist/Sales: CinemaLibre

150

Et L’Amore

burglary: the thief then falls, not for the sexy wife,

but the boring, balding husband. French with

Kumiss, Mary / Seidler, Ellen

English subtitles.

1993; USA; 23 min; Drama

Awards: Cannes Film Festival, 1986: Best Actor (Michel

This film is about a purely sensuous, erotic encoun-

Blanc)

ter between two women who meet and spend the

Prod Comp: Ciné Valse, DD Productions, Hachette

rest of the film exploring each other’s bodies in a

Première, Phillipe Dussart SARL

realistic and passionate way.

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, Cinecom, BFI

Eve’s Daughters

Evenings, The

Ankele, John / Macksoud, Anne

(aka: De Avonden)

1995; 27 min; Drama

Van den Berg, Rudolf

‘Beware of Eve the Temptress,’ says St. Augustine,

1989; The Netherlands; 120 min; Drama

who was talking, apparently, about women who love

P: René Solleveld, Peter Weijdeveld; W: Jean Ummels; other women. Eve’s Daughters poignantly tells their

C: Willy Stassen; E: Maria Steenburgen; M: Bob story. (First Run Features)

Zimmerman

e

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures

Cast: Thom Hoffman, Rijk de Gooyer, Viviane de

Muynck, Pierre Bokma

Even Cowgirls get the Blues

The Evenings is based on Catholic gay author Gerald

Van Sant, Gus

Reve’s autobiography (Reve also wrote The Fourth

1994; USA; 100 min; Comedy

Man) and follows Frits, a 20-year-old clerk, through

P: Laurie Parker; W: Gus Van Sant; C: John Campbell, six days leading to New Year’s Eve of 1947. Frits is a

Eric Alan Edwards; E: Curtiss Clayton, Gus Van Sant;

Holden Caulfield figure, with a flatulent father and

M: k. d. lang, Ben Mink

solicitous mother. He stumbles through parties,

offices, school reunions and sexual encounters with

Cast: Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, Rain Phoenix,

Dutch boys. His sexually charged and anxiety-ridden

Angie Dickinson, Pat Morita, Keanu Reeves

daydreams are hilariously depicted as are his

Cowgirls tracks the adventures of an unconventional

obsessions with time, thinning hair, the dark, sanity

heroine, a little girl born into the repressive 1950s

and bellybutton lint. Ardently inquisitive and an

with abnormally large thumbs. She transcends what

endearing bumbler, Frits attempts to assert his

would surely have been a huge handicap to most

selfhood in a strange and hostile world. (MQFF)

people by becoming the world’s greatest hitchhiker.

Prod Comp: Concorde

But though the lure of the wild and free open road is

Dist/Sales: Netherlands

great, she comes to yearn for the security of a settled

life and true love. She ends up at the Rubber Rose

Everlasting Secret Family, The

Ranch, falls in love with the head cowgirl, Bonanza

Jellybean, and fights to save the whooping crane

Thornhill, Michael

from extinction. Based on the cult novel by Tom

1988; Australia; 94 min; Drama

Robbins.

P: Michael Thornhill, Sue Carleton; W: Frank

Prod Comp: New Line Cinema, Fourth Vision

Moorhouse; C: Julian Penney; E: Pamela Barnetta; Dist/Sales: Roadshow, FilmsInc, FineLine, Lauren,

M: Tony Bremner

ACMI

Cast: Arthur Dignam, Mark Lee, Dennis Miller,

Heather Mitchell

Evening Dress

A beautiful and ambitious youth becomes the lover

(aka: Tenue de Soirée; Menage)

of a powerful Senator who is a member of ‘The

Secret Family’, a group of homosexual men who

Blier, Bertrand

regularly meet to discuss politics. The young man

1986; France; 84 min; Comedy

(known as ‘The Lover’) soon realises that he can

P: Philippe Dussart, René Cleitman; W: Bertrand Blier; manipulate his position only as long as he retains his

C: Jean Penzer; E: Claudine Merlin; M: Serge youth. With the help of an elderly judge, the young

Gainsbourg

man hatches a plan to make a change in the world.

Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou,

To succeed, he must manipulate the Senator, his wife

Michel Creton, Jean-François Stevenin

and the family chauffeur. Based on a book of short

This black comedy is a clever gay variation on the

stories, The Everlasting Secret Family and Other Secrets

traditional romantic triangle. Everything changes

by Frank Moorhouse.

when a thief talks a financially struggling couple into

Prod Comp: International Film Management, FGH

151

Everything in Between

was he whom Lucas really loved. (Mongrel)

Spanish with English subtitles.

Rony, Fatimah Tobing

2000; USA; 27 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Cristal Producciones Cinematográficas

Dist/Sales: Sogepaq, Col-Tri, Mongrel

Rosa Wong Benitez, a struggling fashion designer of

mixed Asian descent, protects herself from the

Execution of Justice

vulnerability of falling in love by having a string of

dead-end relationships. Abandoned by her mother

Ichaso, Leon

when she was a baby, Rosa is obsessed with the old-

1999; USA; 103 min; Drama

style Hollywood movie star, Anna May Wong, who

P: Jeff Freilich; W: Michael Butler; C: Claudio Chea; she fantasises to be her mother. Raised in downtown

E: Gary Karr; M: Daniel Licht

Los Angeles by her ‘Uncle Otto’, an older queen and

Cast: Peter Coyote, Tyne Daly, Stephen Young, Khalil

former hairdresser, Rosa’s deepest emotional

Kain, Timothy Daly

relationships are with gay men, including her best

The true story of the assassination of San Francisco

friend Michael. Realising that she is in a rut, Rosa

Mayor George Moscone and openly gay City

has decided to move to New York City. Before her

Supervisor Harvey Milk on 27 November 1978.

departure, events force Rosa, Michael and Otto to

e

end the masquerade that they play with each other

Prod Comp: Justice Productions, Paramount

and reveal their true feelings. (Frameline)

Dist/Sales: Daly/Harris, Showtime, Wolfe,

ParamountHV

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Everything Relative

Execution of Wanda Jean, The

Garbus, Liz

Pollack, Sharon

2001; USA; 88 min; Documentary

1996; USA; 110 min; Drama

P: Rory Kennedy, Liz Garbus; C: Tony Hardmon;

P: Sharon Pollack; W: Sharon Pollack; C: Zakaela E: Mary Manhardt; M: Wendy Blackstone

Rachel Othmer; E: Meredith Paige; M: Frank London Cast: Stacey Nelkin, Monica Bell, Ellen McLaughlin,

Wanda Jean Allen was an attractive young woman

Harvey Fierstein

with an appealing personality. In 1981 Allen served

time for killing a friend, and in 1998, she shot and

The story of a group of women, some lesbian and

killed her lover, Gloria Leathers, after Leathers

some straight, who went to school together and

threatened to leave her. The Execution of Wanda Jean

reunite after one of them has a baby. They come

chronicles the last three months of her life, which

together for the weekend and travel to their old

culminated in her death by lethal injection on 11

haunts, where they recount their old lives and

January 2001. Using interviews with Allen, her

discuss how they have changed since the 1970s.

clemency team and family members from both

Dist/Sales: Millivres, Wolfe

Allen’s and the victim’s families, Academy Award

nominated director/producer Liz Garbus explores

Excuse me Duckie, but Lucas Loved Me

the many layers of her subject’s complex personal

(aka: Perdona Bonita, pero Lucas me queria a mi)

history. (7th Art Releasing)

Sabroso, Félix / Ayaso, Dunia

Prod Comp: HBO

1997; Spain; 92 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Moxie

C: Arnaldo Catinari

Exiles of Love

Cast: Jordi Mollà, Repón Nieto, Roberto Correcher

Zany comic thriller in which three gay men fall for

Kalitowski, Toby

the same straight guy. Toni, Carlos, and Dani, best

1992; UK; 30 min; Documentary

friends and roommates, need to find a fourth

P: Toby Kalitowski

roommate to help pay the rent. Enter tall, sexy

Cast: Neil Bartlett, Derek Jarman, Constantine

Lucas, who immediately sets each man’s heart

Giannaris, Robert Chevara

aflutter. Petty jealousies and fierce rivalries for

Inspired by the life and works of Jean Genet, this

handsome Lucas’ attention come to a wickedly

short video includes interviews with four contempo-

comic crescendo when Lucas’ body is found, half-

rary gay filmmakers/writers—Derek Jarman, Neil

naked, with a complete set of kitchen knives buried

Bartlett, Constantine Giannaris and Robert

in his chest. Only a repressed police inspector can

Chevara—to investigate the pleasure, the danger, the

solve this mystery as flashbacks reveal three very

joy and fear involved in homosexual love and sex.

different versions of Lucas’ life with the roommates.

Each of the characters, instead of trying to prove his

Prod Comp: 4BC, Greater London Arts

(or her) innocence, tells a story to try to prove that it

Dist/Sales: ACMI

152

Exploding Oedipus

E: Paul Wiesepape; M: James Harry

Lafia, Marc

Documentary wonderboys Fenton Bailey and Randy

2001; USA; 84 min; Drama

Barbato ( 101 Rent Boys, The Real Ellen Story) have P: Kenneth Peralta; W: Marc Lafia; C: Joplin Wu; E: Joe done it again in this brilliant exploration of the life

Bini; M: Petey Reniche, Juliana Hatfield

of one of the greatest living camp icons and

Christian television poster girls of our time: Tammy

Cast: Bruce Ramsay, Juliana Hatfield, Charlotte

Faye Bakker Messner. Narrated by RuPaul Charles

Chatton, Tania Meneguzzi

this hilarious and at times moving documentary

When his father has a near-fatal heart attack, Hilbert

paints a fascinating and revealing portrait of a

descends into a surreal journey of self-discovery.

woman whose main crime was acceptance. Unlike

Passionately experimenting with bisexuality, drugs,

her fundamental Christian contemporaries, Tammy

and art and testing his memories against home

Faye’s brand of religion was always inclusive and

movies, he comes to realise that he can, in a sense,

celebratory. Her successes and failures, including her

rewrite his past by confronting the future.

traumatic times with ex-husband Christian TV

(www.seattleweekly.com)

preacher Jim Bakker, are included, along with vital

Dist/Sales: FDFilms

tips on make-up and hair, and the art of hand-

puppetry. (MQFF)

f

Extramuros

Prod Comp: Cinemax, Channel 4, World of Wonder

(aka: Beyond the Walls)

Dist/Sales: LionsGate, Wolfe, Swank

Picazo, Miguel

F. is a Bastard

1985; Spain; 120 min; Drama

P: Antonio Martín; W: Jesús Fernández Santos, Miguel (aka: F. est un Salaud)

Picazo; C: Teodoro Escamilla; M: José Nieto

Gisler, Marcel

Cast: Carmen Maura, Mercedes Sampietro

1998; France, Switzerland; 92 min; Drama

A bleak tale about Sister Angela and her lover Sister

P: Pierre-Alain Schatzmann, Ruth Waldburger; W:

Ana who conceive a plan to stop the demise of their

Marcel Gisler, Rudolf Nadler; C: Sophie Maintigneux;

convent. Sister Angela injures her hands and tells the

E: Bettina Böhler; M: Rainer Lingk

people a miracle has happened—she has the mark of

Cast: Frédŕic Andrau, Vincent Branchat, Urs Peter

the stigmata. A bizarre and beautiful film using the

Halter, Jean-Pierre von Dach

ravages of the plague as a backdrop for the drama

Beni is a 16-year-old student who gets a job as a

and isolation of the convent and the sensual

roadie for a rock band called ‘The Minks’. He

relationship of the two nuns. Spanish with English

quickly develops a man size crush on the sexy and

subtitles.

rebellious Fögi, the band’s lead singer. Much to his

Dist/Sales: Frameline, TLA, Wolfe

surprise and delight the two become lovers. Fögi’s

career takes a turn for the worse and the singer’s life

spirals into a merry-go-round of drug use and

insecurity, and he begins to take his failures out on

Beni. But despite Beni’s continuing devotion, the

abuse careers out of control, and Beni has to decide

between his lover and his own survival. French with

English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Arena Films, Vega Film Productions

Dist/Sales: Vega

F2M

Latta, Cayte

1992; Australia; 15 min; Documentary

Extramuros

Jasper Laybutt is a well-known face on the Sydney

Eyes of Tammy Faye, The

queer scene, and through his involvement with the

Ms Wicked events. Here he talks about his life as a

Bailey, Fenton / Barbato, Randy

pre-operative female-to-male transsexual and about

2000; UK, USA; 79 min; Documentary

his love of uniforms, women, and the arduous

P: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato; C: Sandra Chandler; journey of recreating his identity as a man. (MQFF)

153

Fag Hag

chronicles a trip to Taylor’s uncle’s funeral. The video

humorously examines the complexity of family

Dietz, Damion

dynamics, family histories and hereditary illness

1998; USA; 75 min; Comedy

through Taylor’s eyes as a lesbian.

W: Damion Dietz; E: Vince Filippone

Prod Comp: Rocketgirl Productions

Cast: Stephanie Orff, Damion Dietz, Saadia Billman,

Darryl Theirse

Family Affair, A (2001)

John Waters styled tongue in cheek story of how two

hopeless no-talent losers find each other in a cruel

Lesnick, Helen

world, and through the strength of their deep bond

2001; USA; 108 min; Drama

are empowered to become...two hopeless no-talent

P: Valerie Pichney; W: Helen Lesnick; C: Jim Orr; losers.

M: Natasha’s Ghost

Prod Comp: Potemkin Productions

Cast: Helen Lesnick, Arlene Golonka, Erica Shaffer,

Dist/Sales: Potemkin, Troma

Barbara Stuart

Wayward New Yorker Rachel Rosen flees New York

Faggots are for Burning

City and her capricious girlfriend for California in

f

desperate pursuit of Ms Rightowitz. However, when

McKay, Barry

she finds her, she’s not so sure it’s not Ms

1997; Australia; 10 min; Experimental

Wrongowitz she wants after all...

P: Barry McKay

Prod Comp: Atta Girl Productions

A young man is forced to seek a cure for his

Dist/Sales: AttaGirl, Wolfe

homosexuality when his tranquillity is unsettled by

desire in this short film, which merges documentary

and dramatised footage with a disturbing overlaid

vocal collage.

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Fairy who didn’t want to be a Fairy, The

Lynd, Laurie

1992; Canada; 17 min; Comedy

P: K. Lee Hall; C: Miroslaw Baszak; E: Miume Jan Cast: Michael Kennard, John Turner

This black comedy is a musical fairy/morality tale

for those who feel the grass is always greener on the

other side of the fence. (MQFF)

Dist/Sales: BFI

Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay

A Family Affair (2001)

Pornography, The

Family Fundamentals

Jones, William E.

Dong, Arthur

1998; USA; 19 min; Documentary

2002; USA; 75 min; Documentary

An intriguing documentary made up entirely of

P: Arthur Dong; W: Arthur Dong; C: Arthur Dong; images taken from gay pornography made in the

E: Arthur Dong; M: Mark Adler

Eastern bloc. It is constructed of images of young

In this feature documentary, filmmaker Arthur

men being exploited.

Dong ( Licensed to Kill, Coming Out Under Fire)

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

continues his quest to understand American

contempt for homosexuality and its effects on

Family Affair, A (1995)

family, culture and the nation’s political landscape.

Armed with a digital camera, Dong takes viewers

Taylor, Amanda

into the private, and sometimes very public lives, of

1995; USA; 17 min; Experimental

three conservative Christian families with gay and

P: Amanda Taylor; W: Amanda Taylor; C: Amanda lesbian children. (Deep Focus Productions)

Taylor

Prod Comp: DeepFocus Productions

A Family Affair is an experimental documentary that

Dist/Sales: DeepFocus

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Family Values: An American Tragedy

Walton, Pam

1996; USA; 57 min; Documentary

This intensely personal film documents lesbian

videomaker Pam Walton’s attempt to reconcile with

her long estranged father. It is also her search for

what family means to her. After her mother’s death

and her father’s remarriage, her father Rus Walton

broke off ties with his daughters. He evolved into a

right wing fundamentalist and a ‘family values’

Family Pack

activist. In his writing he considered invoking the

Family Pack

death penalty for practising homosexuals. Although

Pam surrounded herself with a new lesbian family of

(aka: Que Faisaient les Femmes Pendant que L’homme

nurturing and supportive friends, she yearned for her

Marchait sur la Lune?)

blood ties. Despite the emotional cost, she made

Stappen, Chris Vander

repeated attempts to connect with him. This

f

2000; Canada, France; 105 min; Comedy

emotional saga is a journey through uncharted

P: Catherine Burniaux, François Charlent, Jean-Luc

family terrain, evoking suspense, pain and wisdom.

Van Damme; W: Chris Vander Stappen; C: Michel

Told in the form of a video diary, Family Values

shows how the longing for parental acceptance can

Houssiau; E: France Duez; M: Frédéric Vercheval

never be extinguished. (Filmakers Library)

Cast: Marie Bunel, Hélène Vincent, Tsilla Chelton,

Masha Grenon

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary

It’s 1969, man is about to walk on the moon and

Fanci’s Persuasion

Odile has an ultimatum for her girlfriend Sascha—

come out to your mother or I’m leaving. And so

Herman-Wurmfeld, Charles

Sascha travels from Montreal to her family home in

1995; USA; 80 min; Comedy

Brussels with the intention of granting Odile’s wish.

C: David Rush Morrison; E: Michael A. Worrall

However, first there is the small matter of admitting

Cast: Jessica Patton, Justin Bond, Robert Coffman, Boa,

that she dropped out of medical school long ago. As

Alyssa Wendt

Sascha hilariously tries to tell her family the truth,

but is stifled at every turn, she begins to see that not

The night before Fanci’s wedding to her luscious

all is as she had assumed. Her dwarf sister seems to

girlfriend Loretta, a spell settles upon San Francisco.

enjoy the company of fish more than the family, and

Fanci’s friends and family are catapulted into a

her father and grandmother both disappear mysteri-

tantalising dream world where magic takes precedent

ously. What’s more her mother’s smelling salt

over reality, and conventions crack. By the morning

addiction may be getting out of hand. (MQFF)

light, all of the players are transformed but one thing

French with English subtitles.

is certain: For Fanci and company, love is a many-

gendered thing. (Water Bearer Films)

Prod Comp: Le Studio Canal+, Banana Films

Dist/Sales: M6

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer

Family Values

Fantasm

Saks, Eva

Bruce, Richard (aka Richard Franklin)

2001; USA; 25 min; Documentary

1975; Australia; 90 min; Erotica

P: Antony I. Ginnane; W: Ross Dimsey; C: Vince Becky and Donna are a nice lesbian couple with a

Monton; E: Tony Paterson

house in the suburbs, who run a family business

Cast: Dee Dee Levitt, Maria Arnold, Bill Magold,

cleaning up death scenes. They are an American

family with traditional family values: two parents,

Gretchen Gayle, Rene Bond

two cars, one child, one day job, and a family

Ten sexual fantasies of women in the 1970s are

business. But they’re not exactly The Donna Reed

presented episodically, and include sex in the beauty

Show. The two parents are women; their child Justin

salon, fruit fetishism, and lesbianism in a sauna.

is Donna’s son from a previous marriage; her day job

Each episode is introduced by a German psychiatrist,

is working as a Philadelphia police officer; the family

Professor Jurgen Notafreud.

cars are Donna’s ‘Homicide unit’ van and Becky’s

Prod Comp: TLN Film Productions, Australian

‘Trauma Scene Restoration’ van. (Big Short Films)

International Films

Dist/Sales: Reilly, BigFilm

Dist/Sales: VSM

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Fantasm Comes Again

opera partner. It begins in the 1920s and describes

(aka: Fantasm 99)

50 years of social and political turmoil in China. A

beautiful and lavish film and at times touching and

Eggleston, Colin / Ram, Eric

brutal. Chinese with English subtitles.

1977; Australia; 94 min; Erotica

Awards: Cannes Film Festival, 1993: Best Film

P: Antony I. Ginnane; C: Vince Monton; E: Tony Prod Comp: Mirimax, Maverick Picture, Tomson Films,

Paterson; M: John Mol

Beijing Film Studio

Cast: Angela Menzie-Willis, Clive Hearne, Uschi

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, Swank, BuenaVista, Miramax,

Digart, Rick Cassidy, Liz Wolfe

ACMI, Swank

Libbie, a cadet newspaper reporter, is assigned to her

paper’s sexual advice column. She becomes privy to a

Farewell, The

number of colourful sexual experiences submitted by

(aka: Avskedet)

the readers.

Niskanen, Tuija-Maija

Awards: Asian Film Festival, 1977: Special Award

1982; Finland, Sweden; 90 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Australian International Film Corporation

W: Eija-Elina Bergholm, Tuija-Maija Niskanen; C: Lasse Dist/Sales: VSM

f

Karlsson, Esa Vuorinen

Fantasy Dancer

Cast: Carl-Axel Heiknert, Sanna Hultman, Pirkko

Nurmi, Kerstin Tidelius, Gunnar Björnstrand

Vista, Linda

Set between 1930s and 50s, The Farewell the story of

1990; USA; 33 min; Drama

Valerie, who lives in a household totally repressed by

An erotic fantasy dealing with voyeurism and the

her stern father. When Valerie has a brief affair with

power of the gaze. A man takes his girlfriend, Nicole,

another woman, her father is extremely angry and

to a strip club. She is shocked not at the club but at

tries to end the affair with physical force. However

her own reaction to it. She becomes sexually drawn

Valerie’s determination, independence and lesbian

to an erotic black stripper, and is taken into the

feelings cannot be crushed. Finnish with English

stripper’s uninhibited world.

subtitles.

Prod Comp: Swedish Film Institute

Dist/Sales: NewYorker

Farewell to Charms

Pontiac, Carla

1985; Australia; 13 min; Experimental

W: Carla Pontiac; C: Steve MacDonald, Alison Tilson, Natalie Green; E: Carole Sklan, Chris Oliver

Cast: Radda Jordon, Helen Pankhurst

An experimental feminist film that questions the

goals of love and romance as a woman’s ultimate

fulfilment. Highlights the relationship between

Farewell my Concubine

Emma and Cecily, two old school friends, and how

that relationship changes when they meet a ‘bionic

Farewell my Concubine

bike dyke’ called Stretch.

(aka: Ba wang bie ji)

Prod Comp: Swinburne Film & TV School

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

Kaige, Chen

1993; China; 157 min; Drama

Fascination

P: Feng Hsu; W: Lilian Lee, Wei Lu; C: Changwei Gu; E: Xiaonan Pei; M: Jiping Zhao

Rollin, Jean

Cast: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong, Qi Lu,

1979; France; 78 min; Horror

Da Ying

P: Joe De Lara; W: Jean Rollin; C: Georges Fromentin, Daniel Lacambre; E: Dominique Saint-Cyr;

Farewell my Concubine is based on Lilian Lee’s

popular novel and covers the changing fortunes and

M: Philippe d’ Aram

an intense relationship between two stars of the

Cast: Brigitte Lahaie, Franca Mai, Jean-Marie Lemaire,

Peking Opera. One is a specialist in female roles,

Fanny Magier

who has a lifelong attraction to his heterosexual

The visual delights of this film include sensual

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lesbian lovemaking, the beautiful Lahaie as a scythe-

Fear of Love

wielding avenger and a group of blood-addicted

women living in a castle, who must find a man to

Vellenga, Frank

ritually slaughter. They capture a hoodlum but Mai,

2000; The Netherlands; 24 min; Documentary

one of the women, falls in love with him and decides

This insightful documentary reveals how Islamic

he must be saved. Eventually, her overwhelming

gays in the Netherlands must reconcile their

hunger for blood drives her to kill him. French with

sexuality with the heavy burden of Islamic culture.

English subtitles.

(queerDOC 2002)

Prod Comp: Les Films, ABC, Comex

Dist/Sales: Siren

Fearless Vampire Killers, The

(aka: Dance of the Vampires)

Polanski, Roman

1967; UK, USA; 110 min; Comedy

P: Gene Gutowski; W: Gérard Brach, Roman Polanski; C: Douglas Slocombe; E: Alistair McIntyre;

M: Christopher Komeda

f

Cast: Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, Jack MacGowran,

Alfie Bass, Jessie Robbins

Polanski plays the weird assistant to an even more

weird professor from Transylvania who has come to

obliterate the local vampires and rescue the sexy

Sharon Tate from the bloodthirsty beasts. Filled with

hilarious touches, including the Jewish vampire who

Fassbinder’s Women

is unfazed at the sight of a crucifix and the vampire’s

gay son who has a thing for Polanski.

Fassbinder’s Women

Prod Comp: MGM, Filmways Pictures, Cadre

von Praunheim, Rosa

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, MGM

2000; Germany; 88 min; Documentary

P: Gerold Hofmann, Holger Prebe; C: Elfi Mikesch; Feed them to the Cannibals!

E: Mike Shephard; M: Peer Raben

Cunningham Reid, Fiona

Rosa von Praunheim’s new documentary focuses on

1992; Australia; 75 min; Documentary

Rainer Werner Fassbinder through the people who

P: Fiona Cunningham-Reid

knew him best—the women in his life and films.

In 1972 a small number of lesbians and gay men

Hanna Schygulla, Jeanne Moreau, Irm Hermann,

held the first Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in

Juliane Lorenz, and many others relate their

Sydney, a then militant solidarity march for gay

experiences working with the difficult auteur, and

rights. Since then the Sydney Gay and Lesbian

recount the influence he had on their personal and

Mardi Gras has become one of the biggest festivals in

professional lives. Their memories and observations

the world, attracting hundreds of thousands of

help illuminate the persistence of Fassbinder’s

international and domestic tourists every year. The

legend, almost 20 years after his death. Fassbinder’s

film explores the history of the Sydney lesbian and

Women is a fascinating and enlightening examination

gay community, and Mardi Gras. Many of the

of one of the most influential filmmakers in German

activists interviewed discuss the changes in Austral-

film history by one of the most renowned German

ian gay and lesbian politics over the last 20 years and

directors working today. (2002 New York Lesbian &

the changes in the lived experiences of non-

Gay Film Festival) German with English subtitles.

heterosexuality.

Prod Comp: ARTE, ZDF

Prod Comp: Dangerous to Know, Baobab Productions

Dist/Sales: ZDF

Dist/Sales: ACMI

Fated to be Queer

Felicity

Bautista, Pablo

Lamond, John D.

1992; USA; 25 min; Documentary

1978; Australia; 60 min; Erotica

Filipino men discuss the issues surrounding being

P: John D. Lamond, Russell Hurley; W: John D.

queer and of colour in San Francisco.

Lamond; C: Gary Wapshott; E: Russell Hurley

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Cast: Glory Annen, Christopher Milne, Joni Flynn,

sadomasochist who explains the appeal of breast

Jody Hansen, Marilyn Rodgers

torture, born again ex-porn star Annie Sprinkle; the

The central character is Felicity, a student at a

enfant terrible of academia and infamous author of

Catholic boarding school who tentatively explores

Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia; and a Native

her sexuality with other young female students.

American lesbian who has crossed the gender barrier

Which of course includes the obligatory nude

and now identifies as a heterosexual man. (MQFF)

shower scenes. She receives a letter from her father

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, FirstRunFeatures

which invites her and a couple of friends to Hong

Kong on a holiday where her sexual adventure

Female Perversions

continues. She meets Miles and begins an open and

Streitfeld, Susan

non-monogamous relationship with him.

1996; USA; 110 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Krystal Motion Pictures

P: Mindy Affrime; W: Susan Steitfeld, Julie Hebert; Dist/Sales: Roadshow

C: Teresa Medina; E: Curtiss Clayton, Leo Trombetta; Female Closet, The

M: Debbie Wiseman

Cast: Tilda Swinton, Karen Sillas, Amy Madigan,

Hammer, Barbara

Frances Fisher

f 1998; USA; 60 min; Documentary

Based on the book by Louise J. Kaplan, Female

P: Barbara Hammer; E: Barbara Hammer;

Perversions is the story of Eve Stephens who is on her

M: Ikue More

way to a meeting with the Governor prior to

Renowned filmmaker Barbara Hammer combines

proposing her for a judgeship. Even though she is

rare footage, interviews, and rich visual documenta-

self-confident, she goes through somewhat of an

tion to survey the lives of variously closeted women

identity crisis, moving into wild sexual fantasies and

artists from different segments of the 20th century:

winds up entering a relationship with a psychiatrist,

Victorian photographer Alice Austen, Weimar

Renee who shares a building with Eve.

collagist Hannah Höch, and present day painter

Prod Comp: Trans Atlantic Entertainment

Nicole Eisenman. In a compelling examination of

Dist/Sales: NewVision, 21stCentury, October, Wolfe

the art world’s treatment of lesbians, Hammer

documents how the museum devoted to Austen

Female Trouble

ignores the implications of her crossdressing photos,

how the Museum of Modern Art glossed over Höch’s

Waters, John

sexuality in a major exhibit, and how Eisenman’s

1975; USA; 95 min; Comedy

work based on patriarchal porn is described by critics

P: John Waters; W: John Waters; C: John Waters; as ‘liberating, fun, and over the top’. Examining the

E: Charles Roggero

museum as closet, and the negotiation of visibility

Cast: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivien Pearce, Mink

and secrecy in lesbian history, this thoughtful video

Stole

is a provocative look at the relationship between art,

The story of the outrageously insane life of Dawn

life, and sexuality. (WMM)

Davenport (played by 300-pound transvestite—

Dist/Sales: WMM, Cinenova, VTape

Divine) who ends up in the electric chair after her

professions as waitress, go-go girl, hooker, mugger,

Female Misbehavior

acid-throwing victim, superstar and mass murderer.

Treut, Monika

Classic cult camp.

1992; Germany, USA; 82 min; Comedy

Prod Comp: New Line Cinema, Dreamland

P: Monika Treut, Raymond Wagner; W: Dennis

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, FineLine, NewLine

Shryack, Jeff Levine, Michael Butler; C: Steven C.

Brown, Elfi Mikesch; E: Renate Merck, James Mitchell;

Fete des Peres, La

M: Peter Bernstein

(aka: Dad’s Day)

Cast: Camille Paglia, Annie Sprinkle, Robert

Springsteen

Fleury, Joy

1989; France; 80 min; Comedy

This fascinating work from cult lesbian director

P: Jean-Claude Fleury; W: Pierre Grillet, Joy Fleury; Monika Treut is actually several films in one. Two

short films from the past, Bondage (1983) and Annie

C: Manuel Terán; E: Jacques Comets; M: Bob Telson (1989) have been combined with two new docu-Cast: Thierry Lhermitte, Alain Souchon, Gunilla

mentaries, Dr Paglia and Max. The result is a series Karlzen

of portraits of ‘misbehaving’ women’: a lesbian

Stephane and Thomas are a gay couple who have

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been living together for five years. They both work,

Fighting Chance

share the same hobbies, and are very content, except

for one thing: they want a child. They decide to

Fung, Richard

adopt a baby, but while they are trying to set up the

1990; Canada; 30 min; Documentary

adoption, they are tricked out of their money. They

Fighting Chance is a combination of Fung’s previous

then meet a girl who appears to be an ideal candi-

documentary, Orientations and newer footage, which

date to become a surrogate mother for them.

tells of the personal struggles of Asian-Canadian gays

Prod Comp: TF1 Films

and lesbians to express their sexual identities. When

Fung produced Orientations in 1984, AIDS had not

Fiction and Other Truths: A Film about

yet fully manifested itself, but by 1990 the epidemic

Jane Rule

had become widespread. Individuals and couples

candidly discuss the various hurdles and challenges

Fernie, Lynne / Weissman, Aerlyn

that AIDS has presented. Those affected must

1995; Canada; 56 min; Documentary

confront families, friends, the community and, most

P: Rina Fraticelli

importantly, their inner selves.

An exceptional documentary about lesbian writer

Fighting in South-West Louisiana

and activist Jane Rule, best known for her first novel,

f

The Desert of the Heart, from which the classic

Brunet, Jean-Francois / Friedman, Peter

lesbian film Desert Hearts was made. Beginning with

1991; USA; 27 min; Documentary

that book’s initial publication in 1964, the film

Along his mail delivery route in his native Louisiana

presents a seamless exploration of Rule’s writing, her

back country, Danny Cooper relates his experiences

ideas, and the political climate within which she

and struggles of being openly gay in his hometown.

worked. From the 1950s and 60s, when liberals

generously pronounced that homosexuality was not

Awards: LA Outfest, 1991: Best Short

an abomination but a treatable disease, and that

Film for Two

homosexuals should be accorded compassion, up to

the present, the film skilfully contextualises Rule’s

Mignatti, Victor

fiction within that history of prejudice and struggle.

1981; USA; 30 min; Drama

Central to the film’s structure are the eloquent

Two young men struggle to maintain their relation-

comments of Rule herself, intelligently balanced

ship.

with sources as rich and diverse as news footage and

reviews, the novels and film extracts, Rule’s own

Final Programme, The

correspondence, and interviews with friends and

colleagues including Margaret Atwood, Donna

(aka: The Last Days of Man on Earth)

Deitch and partner Helen Sonthoff. (MQFF)

Fuest, Robert

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

1973; UK; 85 min; Comedy

Film Festival, 1995: Best Documentary

P: Sandy Lieberson, Jon Goldstone; W: Robert Fuest; Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary, NFBC

C: Norman Warwick; E: Barrie Vince; M: Paul Beaver, Bernard Krause

Fight to be Male, The

Cast: Jon Finch, Hugh Griffith, Patrick Magee, Jenny

1979; UK; 50 min; Documentary

Runacre

P: Edward Goldwyn; W: Edward Goldwyn

Comedy about a man’s quest to rescue his sister and

the rest of the world from his brother’s plot for

How do people become male or female? Scientific

world domination. Along the way he has to fight off

work in the past decade has revealed a remarkable

the advances of a bisexual computer programmer.

battle within the womb in the fight to be male. In a

Caribbean village, a few decades ago, forty young

Prod Comp: Goodtimes Enterprises, Gladiole

girls changed into muscular and active young men.

Evidence is presented that says male and female

Finding North

brains are physically different and that homosexuals,

Wexler, Tanya

through a lack of testosterone prior to birth, develop

1998; USA; 95 min; Comedy

a female brain.

P: Stephen Dyer, Steven A. Jones; W: Kim Powers;

Prod Comp: BBC, Horizon

C: Michael Barrett; E: Thom Zimny; M: Cafe Noir Dist/Sales: Roadshow, ACMI, NFVLS

Cast: Wendy Makkena, John Benjamin Hickey,

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Jonathan Walker, Anne Bobby

character) cast in the form of a dream, remarkable

Rhonda, a love-starved, big-haired girl, finally spots

for its intense self-analysis at a time when any direct

her ideal man, Travis. Unfortunately, Travis, suicidal

allusion to homosexuality in the cinema was taboo.

and naked, is gay and on the verge of jumping off

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, BFI

the Brooklyn Bridge. Thus, this modern day fairy

tale begins with a multitude of misconceptions and

First Base

mistaken identities to follow. A quirky chain of

Siler, Megan

events finds them on the road together in Texas. This

1991; USA; 14 min; Drama

journey becomes a gift of life for both of them.

(Wolfe)

A coming of age comedy about two young girls

masquerading as women. One tries for her first kiss

Prod Comp: Redeemable Features, So No Productions

from a boy but soon realises that it’s better with her

Dist/Sales: Cowboy, Millivres, Wolfe

girlfriend. (Frameline)

Fingered!

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

Raymond, James

First Breath

1992; USA; 12 min; Comedy

f

Georgiades, Jimmy

A sexually frustrated lesbian stalks a dextrous concert

2002; USA; 19 min; Drama

pianist, who will eventually become the answer to

W: Eric Lane

her chronically solo sexual peaks. (Frameline)

First Breath tells the story of a high school girl

Dist/Sales: Frameline

getting ready for her prom. Her life is touched by a

Finished

gay garbage man who discovers a baby in the trash

by her home. Their journey brings together two

Jones, William E.

separate worlds and takes them to a place neither

1997; USA; 75 min; Documentary

expected to travel. The film subtly explores the

An investigation into the life and death of porn star

purpose we are born with—starting with an infant’s

Alan Lambert.

first breath.

Prod Comp: Orange Thought Productions

Fire

Dist/Sales: Forefront

Mehta, Deepa

First Comes Love (1991)

1996; Canada, India; 104 min; Drama

P: Bobby Bedi, Deepa Mehta; W: Deepa Mehta; C: Friedrich, Su

Giles Nuttgens; E: Barry Farrell; M: A. R. Rahman 1991; USA; 22 min; B&W; Experimental

Cast: Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, Kulbushan

This contemplative short provokes a flow of

Kharbanda, Jaaved Jaafri, Ranjiy Chowhry

ambivalent and intensely personal meditations on

Set in a household in contemporary New Delhi.

love and the ritualised institutions of marriage, and

Jetin’s young prearranged bride Sita comes to live

shows how incredibly evocative pop music can be

with the family. She becomes friends with Jetin’s

when used on a well-chosen soundtrack. Controver-

sister-in-law Radha. Sita’s remarkably modern

sial in some gay and lesbian film festivals—its images

personality has a profound effect on Radha. Radha is

of heterosexual weddings alienating some—this

at once surprised and fascinated. Eventually they

work nonetheless provides a distinctly queer take on

develop a physical relationship that makes them

of society’s most sacred institution.

both question every notion they ever had about their

Dist/Sales: WMM, CFMDC, Canyon

places in the world.

Prod Comp: Trial by Fire Films

First Comes Love (1997)

Dist/Sales: Globe, Haut-et-Court, Zeitgeist, NFVLS

O’Brien, Kelly

Fireworks

1997; Canada; 13 min; Comedy

Two best friends in their early 20s gaze into each

Anger, Kenneth

other’s eyes and recollect their sexcapades with a

1947; USA; 14 min; B&W; Experimental

stupefying succession of boyfriends. The only true

P: Kenneth Anger

love here is their mutual adoration. (CFMDC)

This is a psychodrama (with Anger as the central

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

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love and life. Along the way they befriend a gay man

who has lost most of his friends to AIDS.

Chung, Simon

2000; Hong Kong; 48 min; Comedy

Prod Comp: Columbia

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, 16MM

A Hong Kong college student is smitten with his

English instructor, an older, frustrated British

Fixing Frank

playwright. Their common love of great literature

leads both men into an erotic affair—the tenuous

Selditch, Michael

beginnings of a romance spanning two different

2001; USA; 103 min; Drama

worlds. (Wolfe)

P: Michael Selditch, Randi Snitz; W: Ken Hanes;

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures, Wolfe

C: Tamas Bojtor; E: Randi Snitz; M: Mark Strano Cast: Dan Butler, Andrew Ellis Miller, Paul Provenza

Fish & Elephant

Adapted by Ken Hanes from his stage play, and

(aka: Jin Nian Xia Tian)

directed by Michael Selditch in his feature directorial

debut, Fixing Frank is a powerful and unsettling

Li, Yu

drama exploring conversion therapy—the scientifi-

2001; China; 96 min; Drama

cally unproven method of turning homosexuals

f

P: Yong Cheng; W: Yu Li; C: Xiaoping Fei; M: Wei He straight. Reporter Frank Johnston is sent undercover

Cast: Pan Yi, Jilian Zhang, Tou Shi, Qiangian Zhang

by his boyfriend, psychotherapist Jonathan Baldwin

Rumoured to be the first-ever lesbian film from

to write an exposé on Dr Arthur Apsey. Apsey claims

mainland China, Fish & Elephant is an underground

to be able to successfully convert gays to straight,

film with non-professional actors that honestly

and Jonathan wants Frank to pose as a patient

captures lesbian life in Beijing. Xiao Qun, an

wanting to convert. But Jonathan and Frank

elephant keeper at a local zoo, has been meeting

underestimate Apsey’s brilliance, leading Frank to

secretly with with Xiao Ling, a saleswoman in a

doubt himself and his relationship with Jonathan.

clothing store, as the love between the two women

Caught in a psychological tug of war between the

grows. As if their secret love weren’t enough to

two therapists, Frank makes a series of life-changing

handle, Qun’s life is further complicated by her

decisions affecting all three men. (2002 New York

mother’s continuing obsession with marrying her off.

Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

Many humorous dates result, as Qun tries to placate

Dist/Sales: Maximum-Vacuum

her mother in order to prolong her time with Ling.

As if all of this weren’t enough to handle, Qun’s ex-

Flames of Passion

girlfriend suddenly appears back in her life, fleeing

the police and asking for help. Qun decides to hide

Kwietniowski, Richard

her ex in the zoo, while hiding even more truth from

1989; UK; 18 min; B&W; Drama

the ones she loves. (21st Chicago Lesbian & Gay

A commuter steals an intriguing set of photographs

International Film Festival)

from a train station photo booth, then comes face-

Mandarin with English subtitles .

to-face with the handsome doctor they depict.

Dist/Sales: Yong

(Frameline)

Awards: Turin Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 1990: Best Fisher King, The

Film; San Francisco Lesbian & Gay International Film

Gilliam, Terry

Festival, 1990: Best Short Film

1991; USA; 137 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Frameline, ACMI, BFI, Salzgeber, NFVLS

P: Debra Hill, Lynda Obst; W: Richard La Gravenese; Flaming Creatures

C: Roger Pratt; E: Lesley Walker; M: George Fenton Cast: Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Amanda Plummer,

Smith, Jack

Mercedes Ruehl, Harry Shearer

1961; USA; 43 min; B&W; Experimental

After each falls from grace, Parry and Jack become

Cast: Joel Markman, Delores Flores

friends and saviours to each other. Parry needs love

An underground film set in the 1920s depicting a

but has an imperfect vision of the perfect woman

world populated by drag queens and camp vampires

and cannot approach the woman he secretly loves.

and containing a rather innocent orgy. Interesting

Jack, the cynic, needs hope and is trying to redeem

for its time as an examination of so-called perverse

himself and erase the blight from his soul. Together

desire.

these pure-hearted friends discover the true nature of

Dist/Sales: Canyon, NFVLS

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Flaming Ears

drags, though all of them stand up for themselves

(aka: Rote Ohren Fetzen Durch Asche)

against anyone and everyone. Walt is a homophobe

who slowly befriends Rusty and his friends. The only

Hans Schierl, Angela / Pürrer, Ursula / Schipek,

other gay characters are a group of gay Republicans

Dietmar

with whom they come in conflict, and some butch

1991; Austria; 83 min; Sci-Fi

lesbians who act as peacekeepers. (Wolfe)

P: Ursula Pürrer, A. Hans Schierl; W: Ursula Pürrer, Prod Comp: MGM, Tribeca

Dietmar Schipek; C: Margarete Neumann, Manfred

Dist/Sales: MGM, Wolfe, ACMI

Neuwirth; E: A. Hans Schierl; M: Dietmar Schipek Cast: Susanna Heilmayr, Angela Hans Schierl, Ursula

Pürrer, Margarethe Neumann

Flaming Ears is a pop sci-fi lesbian fantasy feature set

in the year 2700 in the burnt-out city of Asche.

Following the tangled lives of three women, Volley,

Nun and Spy, Flaming Ears becomes a story of love

and revenge, and an anti-romantic plea for love in its

f

many forms. An avowedly underground film, shot

on super-8 and blown up to 16 mm, it is original in

its playful disruption of narrative conventions, its

witty approach to film genre and its visual splen-

dour. German with English subtitles. (Cinenova)

Dist/Sales: WMM, Cinenova, WaterBearer

Fleeing by Night

Flavor of Corn, The

Fleeing by Night

(aka: Il Sapore del Grano)

(aka: Ye Ben)

de Campo, Gianni

1986; Italy; 90 min; Drama

Hsu, Li-kong / Yin, Chi

P: Chantal Lenoble-Bergamo, Enzo Porcelli; W: Gianni 2000; Taiwan; 123 min; Drama

Da Campo; C: Emilio Bestetti; M: Franco Piersanti P: Li-kong Hsu , Shi-hao Chang; W: Hui-ling Wang, Cast: Lorenzo Lena, Marco Mestriner, Egidio Termine,

Ming-xia Wang; C: Cheng-hui Tsai; E: Po-wen Chen; Alba Mottura

M: Chris Babida

Cast: Rene Liu, Lei Huang, Chao-te Yin, Li-jen Tai,

A gentle and compassionate story of a handsome

Ah-leh Gua

young high-school teacher, who, in spite of his best

attempts at a heterosexual relationship, helplessly

Set in China during the 1930s, Fleeing by Night

drifts into an intense and emotionally devastating

recounts the unsettling relationship between three

relationship with a 12-year-old male student. Italian

young characters. Ing’er, the daughter of a theatre

with English subtitles.

owner is excited about the return of her cellist

fiancee Shaodung, from a trip to America. Shaodung

Flawless

soon finds himself captivated by the opera Fleeing by

Night, and its lead actor Lin Chung. Lin Chung is so

Schumacher, Joel

immersed in his role, he has adopted the character’s

1999; USA; 112 min; Comedy

name and identity. The three begin to spend more

P: Joel Schumacher, Jane Rosenthal; W: Joel

time together, and eventually find themselves in an

Schumacher; C: Declan Quinn; E: Mark Stevens;

increasingly ambiguous relationship. While

M: Bruce Roberts

Shaodung attempts to blend eastern and western

Cast: Robert De Nero, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry

music without harmonious results, Ing’er is torn

Miller, Chris Bauer, Skipp Sudduth

between her affection for both men, and an

De Niro is Walt, a retired cop living in the same run-

awareness of the growing intimacy between them.

down building as Rusty, a flamboyant drag queen.

The makers of Eat Drink Man Woman have once

When Walt suffers a stroke which partially paralyses

again offered a sensuous visual feast and a complex

his speech, he takes singing lessons from Rusty to

story of forbidden emotions. (MQFF)

strengthen his vocal cords. As expertly played by

Mandarin with English subtitles.

Hoffman, Rusty is a larger-than-life, cliché-quoting,

Prod Comp: Zoom Hunt International, Central Motion

all-out drag queen who doesn’t seem to stop ‘being

Pictures, Broadband Films

on’ for a minute. He’s surrounded by an entourage of

Dist/Sales: Fortissimo, Strand

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Flesh

Flesh on Glass

(aka: Andy Warhol’s Flesh)

Turner, Ann

Morrissey, Paul

1981; Australia; 40 min; Experimental

1968; USA; 105 min; Comedy

The graduation film from the director of Dallas

P: Andy Warhol; W: Paul Morrissey; C: Paul Morrissey Doll. Kate is a young woman who has fallen in love

Cast: Joe Dallesandro, Geraldine Smith, Patti

with her brother’s wife, Aggie. In her frustration

d’Arbanville, Candy Darling

Kate enters a religious order and becomes a nun. A

A day-in-the-life look at a gay hustler, Joe, who sells

story of lesbian suppression.

his body so that his wife’s lesbian lover can have an

Prod Comp: Swinburne Film & TV School

abortion. An independent classic from the 1960s

Dist/Sales: ACMI

sexual revolution that unfortunately lacks technical

quality, particularly in the sound recording, making

Flight of Fancy

it difficult to decipher a lot of the dialogue.

Sully, Andrew

Prod Comp: Warhol, Factory Films

1992; Australia; 15 min; Drama

Flesh and Paper

An adolescent who conjures up angels in his sexually

f

charged dreams comes face-to-face with the living

Parmar, Pratibha

figments of his imagination. A vivid evocation of the

1990; UK; 26 min; Documentary

confusion and games we play when we first discover

Flesh and Paper weaves a sensual tapestry of the life

we are gay. (MQFF)

and writings of Indian lesbian poet and writer, Suniti

Namjoshi. Born into an Indian royal family and now

Flirt

living in England, her poems and fables are charac-

Hartley, Hal

terised by her wry and satirical humour, informed by

1996; Germany, Japan, USA; 85 min; Drama

both lesbian consciousness and a deep Indian

P: Ted Hope; W: Hal Hartley; C: Michael Spiller; cultural framework. (WMM)

E: Steve Hamilton; M: Ned Rifle, Jeffrey Taylor

Prod Comp: Channel 4

Cast: Bill Sage, Dwight Ewell, Miho Nikaidoh, Parker

Dist/Sales: WMM, VTape, Cinenova

Posey, Martin Donovan

Flesh for Frankenstein

Flirt is the same story set in three different places and told in three different ways; an exploration of the

Morrissey, Paul / Margheriti, Antonio

universal themes of commitment, betrayal, indeci-

1974; France, Italy, USA; 95 min; Horror

sion, catching a plane, losing a lover and getting shot

W: Paul Morrissey, Tonino Guerra

in the face. New York: Bill’s girlfriend Emily gives

Cast: Joe Dallesandro, Monique van Vooren, Udo Kier

him an ultimatum to make a commitment before

leaving for Paris, but Bill has another romantic

Baron Frankenstein attempts to create a new race of

interest, Margaret, a married woman. Berlin:

humans with leftover body parts.

Dwight, an American, lives on and off with Johan,

an art dealer. As Johan leaves for a trip to New York

Flesh Gordon

he demands to know whether their relationship has a

future. Dwight asks for 90 minutes to think about it

Benveniste, Michael / Ziehm, Howard

and sets up a rendezvous with Werner, a married man

1972; USA; 84 min; Erotica

he is fascinated with. Tokyo: Miho, a dance student,

P: William Osco, Howard Ziehm; W: Michael

is kissed by her teacher, Mister Ozu. When Mister

Benveniste; C: Howard Ziehm; E: Abbas Amin;

Ozu’s wife finds out she gets a gun and threatens to

M: Ralph Ferraro

shoot herself. At the same time Miho’s boyfriend is

Cast: Jason Williams, Suzanne Fields, Joseph Hudgins,

packing to go to Los Angeles and wants to know if

William Hunt, John Hoyt

they have a future together. English, German &

Japanese with English subtitles.

It’s the 1930s and Flesh Gordon has to fight the

mysterious sex ray that has plunged the Earth into

Prod Comp: Pandora Films; Dist/Sales: Dendy, Col-Tri chaos. A sex-orientated, but quite competent spoof

on the Buster Crabbe serials of the 1940s. It features

Flora’s Garment Bursting Into Bloom

the queeny Prince Precious who saves the life of Flesh

Baggott, Kevin

Gordon and is rewarded with ‘blow job privileges’.

2002; USA; 92 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Graffiti

P: Sarah Pirozek; W: Kevin Baggott; M: David Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Ascanbee, TLA

Mansfield

163

Cast: Aldo Diaz, Marissa Manzanares, Claudina Del

film are scenes of safer-sex instruction from a gay bar

Guidice, Otto Sanchez, Jenette Sampson

owner and two handsome young men.

Terry hits rock bottom after his girlfriend of nine

Dist/Sales: VideoOut

years leaves him due to his sex addiction. This

plunges him into the underbelly of New York City.

He meets Flora in a chance encounter on the

subway, a transsexual working in the peep shows,

beaten but not broken, a survivor with an ascerbic

wit. Despite Terry’s reticence, Flora pushes him

towards a relationship. The dramatic tension

surrounding the mismatched couple leads them

through a journey that becomes a powerful love

story. (Damework)

Dist/Sales: DameWork

Florida Enchantment, A

f Drew, Sidney

The Fluffer

1914; USA; 63 min; B&W; Comedy

W: Marguerite Bertsch, Eugene Mullen;

Fluffer, The

C: Robert A. Stuart

Cast: Edith Storey, Sidney Drew, Charles Kent

Glatzer, Richard / West, Wash

2000; USA; 94 min; Comedy

While visiting her aunt in Florida, a young woman

P: Victoria Robinson, John Sylla; W: Wash West;

comes across an old chest containing seeds that can

C: Mark Putnam; E: John Binninger; M: John Vaughn change a woman into a man and a man into a

Cast: Scott Gurney, Michael Cunio, Roxanne Day,

woman. She swallows the seeds and turns into a

man. The next day, after shaving off her moustache,

Taylor Negron

she pretends to still be a woman but her male

Smear on the lip balm and grease up your bod for

instincts take over and she goes about seducing other

The Fluffer, one of the raunchiest and funniest feature

women. Her maid and a male friend also partake of

films about the gay porn industry you’ll see. This

the seeds and go nightclubbing with hilarious results.

melodramatic romp zooms in on a world of sex,

Prod Comp: Vitagraph Company of America

sleaze and sin. A ‘fluffer’, for those unfamiliar with

Dist/Sales: Frameline, Salzgeber

hard-core porn, performs oral services to ready hunky

actors for throbbing onset action. A dream job? Well

Flow

Sean, the sexy and sweet lead character thinks so as

he becomes the personal ‘assistant’ to Johnny Rebel, a

Lee, Quentin

gay-for-pay porno god. Obsessed with the well-

1996; Canada, USA; 80 min; Experimental

endowed star, Sean has to contend with Johnny’s

P: Quentin Lee; W: Quentin Lee; C: Nathan Adolfson, girlfriend Babylon who similarly worships the self-Justin Lee, Christopher Smith; E: Quentin Lee;

involved stud. Loaded with sticky fumblings, the film

M: Lee Yen, Scott Starrett

also stars the legendary Deborah Harry and features

Cast: Tedd Szeto, Lela Lee, Ray Chang, B. P. Cheng

drag porn director Chi Chi LaRue. (MQFF)

Experimental, episodic investigation of the personal

Prod Comp: Fluff and Fold LLC

lives of four young men, one of whom is gay.

Dist/Sales: MediaLuna, TLA, Wolfe, Mongrel,

Prod Comp: De/Center Communications

FirstRunFeatures

Dist/Sales: Margin

Flush

Flowing Hearts: Thailand Fighting AIDS

MacCubbin, Jeffrey

Goss, John

2001; USA; 68 min; Drama

1992; Thailand, USA; 32 min; Documentary

P: Jeffrey MacCubbin; W: Jeffrey MacCubbin; C: Jeffrey This document of grassroots AIDS education in

MacCubbin; E: Jeffrey MacCubbin; M: John

Thailand presents the unique approach of the White

Stormrohn, Jeffrey MacCubbin

Line Dance Troupe, who combine traditional Thai

Cast: Tai Little, Brett Coy, Arlene Cooney, Shawn

dance, modern dance and Thai popular music in

Quinlan

their educational performances. Also featured in the

This feature-length film tells the story of Shannon, a

164

15-year-old student searching for a hobby, and her

awakening to the harsh reality of life. (TLA)

interesting relationship with two sexually ambiguous

Prod Comp: Els Films de la Rambla

male classmates. One by one we meet the characters

Dist/Sales: TLA

in Shannon’s life, from her lonely mother to a

indecisive pair of lovers. Seducing her two friends

For a Lost Soldier

into encountering their growing love for each other,

Shannon finds enough stimulus in this activity to

(aka: Voor een Verloren Soldaat)

keep her active mind satisfied. Through the film’s

Kerbosch, Roeland

experimental camera work and complex characters,

1992; The Netherlands; 92 min; Drama

the viewer is taken through an atmospheric, erotic

P: Matthijs van Heijningen; W: Roeland Kerbosch; C: tale of youthful curiosities. (21st Chicago Lesbian &

Nils Post; E: August Verschueren; M: Joop Stokkermans Gay International Film Festival)

Cast: Maarten Smit, Jeroen Krabbe, Andrew Kelley,

Dist/Sales: LittleBelly

Elsje de Wijn, Feark Smith

Fly Away Homo

During World War II a group of adolescents are

evacuated from Amsterdam to a small fishing village.

Hiller, Andrew

One of them, Jeroen, forms an intense attachment to

f

1998; USA; 15 min; Experimental

Walt, a young soldier from the liberating Canadian

army. Dutch & English with English subtitles.

Revealed: the horrible consequence of being

surrounded by straight men and never getting laid.

Awards: Turin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 1993: Best Feature Film

Dist/Sales: Fever

Prod Comp: Sigma Films, AVRO

Fontvella’s Box

Dist/Sales: Potential, Strand, Fortissimo, Wolfe, ACMI

Hayn, Stefan

1992; Germany; 17 min; Comedy

This surreal fairytale tells the love story of a ‘queen’

who lives in a Fontvella bottled water-plant and a

bicycling farm boy in overalls.

Food of Love

Pons, Ventura

For a Lost Soldier

2001; Spain, USA; 105 min; Drama

P: Ventura Pons; W: Ventura Pons; C: Mario Montero; For Better or for Worse: A Celebration of

E: Pere Abadal; M: Carles Cases

Enduring Relationships

Cast: Juliet Stevenson, Paul Rhys, Allan Corduner

Paul, a handsome and talented music student is

Collier, David

employed as the page-turner at one of the world

1993; 55 min; Documentary

famous pianist Kennington’s concerts in San

P: David Collier; C: David Collier

Francisco. Not only is Paul diligent but also extremely

Nominated for an Academy Award, this is a film that

attractive, a fact noticed by Kennington and his agent

presents intimate portraits of five culturally diverse

Mansourian, two men at the top of their chosen

couples married for 50 years or longer, including a

careers. Kennington and Paul meet again in Barce-

gay male couple (Mero and Harwood). We learn of

lona, where the boy is on holiday with his mother,

Mero and Harwood’s years of living secretly, of their

Pamela, who is trying to get over her husband leaving

becoming Grand Marshals for the Gay Pride parade,

her. Paul and Kennington fall in love but this has very

and finally the onslaught of Alzheimer’s that left one

different implications for both men. Kennington

of them institutionalised.

rushes back home escaping from commitment.

Dist/Sales: DirectCinema

Pamela, meanwhile, begins to recover her self-

confidence but Paul is no longer a child. Back in the

For Straights Only

United States Paul learns that his musical career is not

going to progress as desired; he simply is not talented

Gupta-Smith, Vismita

enough. Paul and Pamela will learn through their

2001; USA; 22 min; Documentary

living experience how to build a deeper relationship.

Explores the prejudices faced by the South Asian

Food of Love is the story of these two simple characters

queer communities.

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Forbidden Fruit

Against a backdrop of book covers from lesbian pulp

novels, tabloid headlines referring to homosexuality,

Bruce, Sue Maluwa / Kunath, Beate / Zuckmantel,

archival photographs and film clips, these women talk

Yvonne

about love, beer parlours and bars for lesbians in

2000; Germany, Zimbabwe; 30 min; Documentary

Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, male harassment

Zimbabwean filmmaker, Sue Maluwa Bruce, breaks

and intolerance, and the butch/femme subculture.

long held taboos about sexual identity and lesbian

Their stories are interwoven with a fictional love story

love in African society in this groundbreaking film.

inspired by the then-popular lesbian paperback novels.

Dist/Sales: WMM

Novelist Ann Bannon compares how lesbians were

fictionalised with the reality of their lived experiences.

Forbidden Fruit: Unfinished Stories of

Prod Comp: National Film Board of Canada

our Lives

Dist/Sales: REP, WMM, Salzgeber, EMA, NFVLS,

ACMI, NFBC

Wagner, Anton

1999; Canada; 27 min; Documentary

Forbidden Passion: Oscar Wilde the Movie

A moving and entertaining video documentary on

Herbert, Henry

f

the gay community in Toronto as seen through the

1986; UK; 120 min; Drama

life stories and performances of female impersona-

Cast: Michael Gambon, Norman Rodway, Robin

tors/drag queens from the 1940s to the present.

(CFMDC)

Lermitte, Emily Richard

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

A dramatisation of the last six years of the life of gay

writer Oscar Wilde, including the dramatic court

Forbidden Justice

case where his sexuality and relationship with Lord

Alfred Douglas became public knowledge, resulting

(aka: Short Eyes)

in his imprisonment in Reading Gaol.

Young, Robert M.

1977; USA; 92 min; Drama

Forever (1991)

P: Lewis Harris, Robert M. Young; W: Miguel Pinero; Black, Emma

C: Peter Sova; E: Ed Beyer; M: Curtis Mayfield 1991; UK; 10 min; B&W; Drama

Cast: Bruce Davison, Jose Perez, Nathan George,

Donald Blakely, Shawn Elliott

The point of departure in a relationship is a time

when feelings and memories are heightened. A

Set in an American men’s prison, this gritty,

woman is leaving her lover. She is unable to tell her.

compelling film realistically tells of the lives of the

Words no longer express anything. (Cinenova)

prisoners as they endure violence, male rape and

brutality in their fight for survival.

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

Forbidden Love of the Hero, The

Forever (1994)

Graves, Chris / Wright, Douglas

Minerba, Giovanni

1994; New Zealand; 54 min; Experimental

1995; Italy; 36 min; Drama

A striking and stylish performance piece, featuring

A deceased Israeli Medical Corps Colonel’s surviving

the work of a Maori dance company, this atmos-

partner attempts to obtain widower rights from the

pheric and energetic film covers numerous issues,

State of Israel.

including romance, death, AIDS, drag, gay-bashing,

Dist/Sales: L’Altra

sex and show tunes. Meanwhile, homoerotic tension

lingers throughout, and voyeurism is unambiguously

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories

invited. (MQFF)

of Lesbian Lives

Forever Mary

Fernie, Lynne / Weissman, Aerlyn

1992; Canada; 85 min; Documentary

(aka: Mery per sempre)

P: Margaret Pettigrew, Ginny Stikeman; W: Aerlyn

Risi, Marco

Weissman, Lynne Fernie; C: Zoe Dirse; E: Cathy

1989; Italy; 100 min; Drama

Gulkin, Denise Beaudoin

P: Claudio Bonivento; W: Stefano Rulli, Sandro

Ten women are interviewed about lesbian sexuality

Petraglia, Aurelio Grimaldi; C: Mauro Marchetti;

and survival in Canada during the 1950s and 1960s.

E: Claudio di Mauro; M: Giancarlo Bigazzi

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Cast: Alessandro Di Sanzo, Michele Placido, Claudio

Fortune and Men’s Eyes

Amedola, Francesco Benigno

Hart, Harvey

An engaging and well-acted film about an idealistic

1971; Canada, USA; 102 min; Drama

teacher, Marco, who volunteers to work in a Sicilian

P: Lester Persky, Lewis M. Allen; W: John Herbert; reform school, home to some of the toughest

C: Georges Dufaux; E: Douglas Robertson; M: Galt delinquents in the area. He works hard to win the

respect and affection of the boys, in part, by teaching

McDermot

them about poetry and love. Mario, a young

Cast: Wendell Burton, Zooey Hall, Michael Greer,

transvestite (or Mary as he is called by the other

Danny Freedman, Larry Perkins

boys) falls in love with Marco. But Marco rejects

A shocking account of homosexuality in prison,

him and feels the need to punch him in the face to

directed with brilliant economy and force. Young

prove his manhood.

Smithy, in prison for the first time, finds himself the

Prod Comp: Int Sel, Numero Uno International

prized sexual catch. Sexual domination, humiliation

Dist/Sales: Cinevista, BFI

and abuse are to follow. Based on a play by John

Herbert.

Forgive & Forget

Prod Comp: MGM

f

Walsh, Aisling

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, MGM, BFI, Swank

1999; UK; 96 min; Drama

Forty Deuce

P: Simon Passmore; W: Mark Burt; C: Kevin Rowley; E: Chris Buckland; M: Hal Lindes

Morrissey, Paul

Cast: Steve John Shepherd, John Simm, Laura Fraser,

1982; USA; 90 min; Drama

Maurice Roeves

P: Jean-Jacques Fourgeaud; W: Alan Bowne; C: Steven Traces the tumultuous journey towards self-Fierberg, François Reichenbach, Stefan Zapasnik;

acceptance and coming out. David is a construction

E: Ken Eluto; M: Manu Dibango

worker in London and unable to admit to himself or

Cast: Kevin Bacon, Orson Bean, Harris Laskaway, Mark

his best mate Theo that he is gay, and attracted to

Keyloun

Theo. Sexual tensions arise and secrets are bared in

A seedy look at the tough street life of New York as a

this hard-hitting drama. (10%)

male hustler tries to pin the murder of a 12-year-old

Prod Comp: Scottish Television

boy on to a rich john he is blackmailing. Based on a

Dist/Sales: TLA, Wolfe, 10%

play by Alan Browne.

Forms and Motifs

Prod Comp: Island Pictures

Hetherman, Margaret

Fostering

1994; USA; 40 min; Comedy

1991; UK; 18 min; Documentary

A young woman, CeCe, is not satisfied with the

A look at the subject of fostering children with

direction her life is taking when she discovers her

particular reference to lesbians and gay men.

grandfather’s portfolio of designs. She decides that

these exquisite patterns need to come to life and

Four Weddings and a Funeral

enlists the help of her surrogate family, three lively

drag queens.

Newell, Mike

1994; UK; 117 min; Comedy

Forsaken

P: Duncan Kenworthy; W: Richard Curtis; C: Michael Mosvold, Frank

Coulter; E: Jon Gregory; M: Richard Rodney Bennett 1994; USA; 11 min; Drama

Cast: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Simon Callow,

Kristin Scott Thomas, James Fleet

An ageing priest recalls the struggle between

sexuality and faith that led to his life-choice, as he

This is the story of 8 friends, 5 priests, 11 wedding

remembers the man he left behind. The sensuality

dresses, 16 parents-in-law, 2000 champagne glasses

and melancholy of the flashbacks that describe the

and 2 people who belong together—perhaps!

passion of his youth are contrasted with the

Among the friends are a gay couple, one of whom

restrained sadness of a meeting, decades later, with

dies suddenly during one of the weddings, hence the

that same man. (MQFF)

‘funeral’ of the title. Nominated for a couple of

Dist/Sales: Mosvold

Academy Awards including best film and screenplay.

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Awards: Australian Film Institute Awards, 1994: Best

Fassbinder) is naive and good natured; he virtually

Foreign Film

gives away half a million marks won in a lottery.

Prod Comp: Channel 4, Working Title, PFE

Fassbinder saw the homosexual theme as secondary

Dist/Sales: REP, Col-Tri, ACMI, MGM, PolyGram

to the theme of manipulation and exploitation that

is possible within any sexual relationship. German

Fourth Man, The

with English subtitles.

(aka: Di Vierde Man)

Prod Comp: Tango Film Produktion,

City-Film GmbH

Verhoeven, Paul

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, BFI, Wolfe, ACMI, Wellspring

1983; The Netherlands; 95 min; Thriller

P: Rob Houwer; W: Gerard Soetman; C: Jan De Bont; Fox, The

E: Ine Schenkkan; M: Loek Dikker

Cast: Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk, Thom

Rydell, Mark

Hoffman, Dolf de Vries, Geert de Jong

1968; Canada, USA; 110 min; Drama

P: Raymond Stross; W: Lewis John Carlino, Howard

Dutch black comedy-thriller with a winning

combination of thematic preoccupations—sex, death

Koch; C: William Fraker; E: Thomas G. Stanford;

f

and the occult. It is the story of Gerard Reve, a

M: Lalo Schifrin

bisexual novelist with a very vivid imagination who

Cast: Keir Dullea, Sandy Dennis, Anne Heywood, Glyn

becomes involved with a murderous and rich widow

Morris

and her lover. He becomes obsessed with the young

Adapted from the D. H. Lawrence novella of the

man and fantasises about him. Reve, using of his

same name, the film centres on two lesbians, played

voyeuristic talents, discovers the woman’s mysterious

by Dennis and Heywood, living on an isolated farm.

past and realises what his own fate will be—death.

Paul, a drifter, arrives at the farm and goes about

But he cannot leave the young man of his obsession.

seducing Heywood’s character which causes great

Dutch with English subtitles.

distress to Dennis. And, if that isn’t enough, she ends

Prod Comp: De Verenigde Netherlandsche

up being crushed by a tree. A deceptively homopho-

Filmcompagnie

bic film where the truly lesbian character must die.

Dist/Sales: NewVision, TLA, BFI

Prod Comp: Warner, Seven Arts, Motion Pictures

International

Fourth Sex, The

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Warner, Swank, ACMI

(aka: Le Quatrième sexe)

Foxfire

Wichard, Michel

1961; France; 82 min; B&W; Drama

Haywood-Carter, Annette

P: José Bénazéraf

1996; USA; 100 min; Drama

Cast: Nicole Burgot, Brigitte Juslin, Richard Winckler

P: Jeffrey Lurie, John Bard Manulis, John P. Marsh;

W: Elizabeth White; C: Newton Thomas Sigel;

A wealthy Parisian woman who likes to paint her

girlfriends in the nude is smitten by a beautiful,

E: Louise Innes; M: Michel Colombier

young newcomer in this cult classic of 1960s

Cast: Hedy Burress, Angelina Jolie, Jenny Shimizu,

sexploitation. (First Run Features)

Jenny Lewis

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures

It took them 17 years to learn the rules and one

week to break them all. A breakthrough film about

Fox and his Friends

female friendship and rebellion. Based on the

controversial novel by Joyce Carol Dates, Foxfire

(aka: Faustrecht der Freiheit)

follows four suburban high school girls who are

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner

united when a mysterious stranger inspires them to

1975; Germany; 117 min; Drama

take revenge on a sexually abusive teacher. But when

W: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Christian Hohoff;

the local jocks decide to teach the girls a lesson, their

C: Michael Ballhaus; E: Thea Eymèsz; M: Peer Raben, hard-won freedom becomes a violent trap. (Wolfe)

Josef Niessen

Cast: Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karl-

Framed Youth

Heinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven, Karl Boehm

(aka: Revolt of the Teenage Perverts)

This tragicomedy of manners recounts the exploita-

tion and ultimate destruction of Franz Fox at the

1983; UK; 50 min; Documentary

hands of his lover Eugene. Fox (played by

Young lesbians and gay men—including a youthful

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Jimmy Sommerville—hit London’s streets with

Frankenstein Created Woman

cameras and microphones to confront heterosexuals

with homosexuality, the results are humorous,

Fisher, Terence

musical and revealing. (Frameline)

1967; UK; 92 min; Horror

P: Anthony Nelson Keys; W: John Elder; C: Arthur Prod Comp: Lesbian & Gay Youth Project

Grant; E: Spencer Reeve, James Needs; M: James

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Bernard

Framing Lesbian Fashion

Cast: Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters,

Robert Morris, Duncan Lamont

Everett, Karen

Baron Frankenstein covets the body of a young

1992; USA; 58 min; Documentary

woman but bemoans her lack of life. He captures the

This documentary explores how clothing has helped

soul of a young man who has been recently executed

to shape and define the lesbian culture and image. It

and installs it into the young woman. However, the

combines the personal story of the filmmaker with

memories from the young man are still within and

interviews with women including Sally Gearhart,

the woman begins to kill the people whose false

JoAnn Loulan, Arlene Stein and Kitty Tsui. It

accusations led to the young man’s execution.

chronicles the change in look from the butch/femme

Prod Comp: Seven Arts, Hammer

f

image to the more androgynous look of the 1990s.

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, 20thCenturyFox

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, Frameline, Wolfe, Everett

Frankie and Johnny

Franchesca Page

Marshall, Garry

Sane, Kelley

1991; USA; 113 min; Comedy

1996; USA; 105 min; Comedy

P: Garry Marshall, Nick Abdo; W: Terence McNally; P: Pietro Cuevas, D. J. Paul, Mark Downie; W: Kelley C: Dante Spinotti; E: Battle Davis, Jacqueline Cambas; Sane; C: Chris Norr; E: Thomas Ostuni

M: Marvin Hamlisch

Cast: Franchesca Leon, Rossy de Palma, Mark Dendy,

Cast: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hector Elizondo,

Linda Smith, Varla Jean Merman

Kate Nelligan, Nathan Lane

Franchesca has finally accomplished her dream role in

This warm romantic comedy stars Michelle Pfeiffer

a Broadway musical. Unfortunately she doesn’t quite

as Frankie, a cynical waitress who is wooed by the

have the skill to pull it off in this campy trashy tale.

gentle Johnny, a recently released petty criminal who

Prod Comp: Franchesca Page LLC, Ocelot Films

takes a job as a chef in the restaurant in which

Frankie works. Set around the working class

Francis Bacon

neighbourhoods of New York City, the film is an

engaging comedy about the fears and difficulties

David Hinton

involved in learning to trust another person.

1985; UK; 54 min; Documentary

Terrence McNally wrote the script which is based on

This seminal documentary, edited and narrated by

his acclaimed play, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair

Melvyn Bragg remains one of the ‘stand out’

de Lune. The cast includes Kate Nelligan as Frankie’s

documentaries that surveys the life, work and

fellow waitress; Nathan Lane as her generous spirited

motivations of British painter, Francis Bacon,

gay flatmate; and the underrated Hector Elizondo as

through a series of interviews. Bacon, an extraordi-

Nick, the owner of the Greek restaurant where

nary man, laconically introduces the relationship

Frankie and Johnny work.

between broad formalist concerns and attempts to

Prod Comp: Paramount

connect with the subconscious. He articulates his

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, ACMI, Paramount, UIP

response to images of a distressed humanity,

revealing his deep fascination with the human body

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

and its connection with much of Bacon’s life

philosophies. Gritty in content, Bacon’s paintings

Julien, Isaac

reveal much of the ‘violence of life and death’ but

1996; UK; 52 min; Documentary

seek to describe the normality of this with controlled

P: Mark Nash; W: Isaac Julien, Mark Nash

sense of chaos, ‘capturing the moment’. (ACMI)

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask explores for

Prod Comp: London Weekend Television, RM Arts

the first time on film the pre-eminent theorist of the

Dist/Sales: ACMI

anti-colonial movements of this century. Fanon’s two

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major works, Black Skin, White Masks and The

Freebird

Wretched of the Earth, were pioneering studies of the

psychological impact of racism on both colonised

Silver, Suzie

and coloniser. Jean-Paul Sartre recognised Fanon as

1993; USA; 11 min; Comedy

the figure ‘through whose voice the Third World

What if there was an Academy Award for Having

finds and speaks for itself ’. This innovative film

Loud Raucous Sex in a Women’s Dressing Room at

biography restores Fanon to his rightful place at the

Bloomingdales? Nam June Paik meets Lynyrd

centre of contemporary discussions around

Skynyrd with a glimpse of slippery sex and some

postcolonial identity. (California Newsreel)

dirty girl-talk. (MQFF)

English & French with English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: VDB

Prod Comp: Normal Films

Dist/Sales: CaliforniaNewsreel

French Dressing

Freddie Mercury: The Untold Story

(aka: Furenchi doressingu)

Hisashi, Saito

Dolenzal, Rudi / Rosacher, Hannes

1997; Japan; 100 min; Drama

2000; UK; 68 min; Documentary

P: Tsutomu Tsuchikawa, Atsuyuki Shimoda; W: Hisashi f

An intimate portrait of the personal and professional

Saito; C: Jun’Ichiro Hayashi

life of Freddie Mercury—flamboyant lead singer of

Cast: Munehisa Sakurada, Hiroshi Abe, Miako Tadano

the rock band Queen, who died from AIDS in 1991.

Kishida thinks he is River Phoenix from My Own

Dist/Sales: DoRo

Private Idaho, complete with narcolepsy. Mercilessly

teased and bullied by his schoolmates, Kishida reacts

Freebie and the Bean

to stress and emotional turmoil by falling asleep. The

Rush, Richard

film opens with the depressed schoolboy about to

1974; USA; 111 min; Comedy

commit suicide. The person who pulls him back

from the brink is his teacher, the enigmatic Mr

P: Floyd Mutrux; W: Robert Kaufman; C: László Murai, who is supposed to have killed his own wife.

Kovács; E: Michael McLean, Franz Steinkamp;

Murai’s brutal rape of Kishida jerks him back into

M: Dominic Frontiere

life, and soon he is drawn into the vortex of a strange

Cast: James Caan, Alan Arkin, Loretta Swit,

intense relationship with his teacher. His classmate

Christopher Morley, Paul Koslo

Mari’s curiosity gets the better of her and soon she is

Two San Francisco cops nearly demolish the entire

sucked into their relationship as well. Murai, with

city while attempting to keep a known gangster

his glasses and tousled hair, becomes a rather

alive. The cops are protecting him so he can testify

unlikely ‘papa’ in their curious little family. Their

against the mob who are involved in a numbers

ménage à trois makes French Dressing a disturbing

rackets. But the gangster is abducted by a transvestite

and provocative film that looks at power, sexuality,

and the chase is on. They almost meet their match,

family, the disaffection of youth, death, and in a

but unfortunately the transvestite is brutally killed

perverse way, the reason to go on living. Deliberately

by the cops.

understated, with an almost deadpan style, Saito

Prod Comp: Warner

Hisashi’s moody debut feature is both disturbing and

Dist/Sales: Warner

at the same time strangely compelling. (25th San

Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film

Festival) Japanese with English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Daiei Studios

Dist/Sales: Tokuma

French Twist

(aka: Gazon Maudit)

Balasko, Josiane

1995; France; 100 min; Comedy

P: Pierre Grunstein; W: Patrick Aubrée, Josiane Balasko; C: Gérard de Battista; E: Claudine Merlin; M: Manual Malou

French Twist

Cast: Alain Chabat, Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko

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A love triangle with a (French) twist. A madcap

Fried Green Tomatoes

comedy that breaks the traditional formula of a love

triangle, French Twist traces the hilarious adventures

Avnet, Jon

of Loli, a sexy yet scorned housewife and mother,

1991; USA; 130 min; Drama

who discovers a delicious way to avenge her two-

P: Jon Avnet, Jordan Kerner; W: Carol Sobieski, Fanny timing husband. French with English subtitles.

Flagg, Jon Avnet; C: Geoffrey Simpson; E: Debra Neil; M: Thomas Newman

Prod Comp: Le Studio Canal+

Cast: Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates, Mary-Louise Parker,

Dist/Sales: NewVision, 21stCentury, Swank, Wolfe, ACMI

Mary Stuart Masterson

Fresh Blood: A Consideration of Belonging

Fried Green Tomatoes centres on the touching

relationship between two pairs of women, one in the

Yael, B. H.

present day and the other in the 1930s. Evelyn meets

1996; Canada; 55 min; Documentary

the elderly Ninny who tells her of the relationship

A hybrid documentary involving personal narrative

between Idgie and Ruth: their friendship, partner-

and a video essay style. The piece engages issues of

ship in business and possible romantic involvement.

Jewish racialised identity; Arab/Jewish dichotomies

A celebration of the verbal tradition of storytelling, it

and the ways these come together in Iraqi Jewish

is also a tale of family, friendship, love, murder, and

f

culture, and the personal implications of the politics

the compelling intimacies of life. Unfortunately

of Palestine and of the Jewish holocaust. As a lesbian

most of the textual references to lesbianism found in

and Iraqi Jew, she examines issues of Jewish racialised

the book are downgraded to subtextual readings in

identity and women’s roles. (CFMDC)

the film version.

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

Prod Comp: Universal, Act III

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, Swank, Wolfe, Carlton

Fresh Kill

Cheang, Shu Lea

1994; USA; 80 min; Drama

W: Jessica Hagedorn; C: Jane Castle; E: Lauren Zuckerman; M: Vernon Reid

Cast: Sarita Choudhury, Erin McMurty, José Zúñiga,

Karen Finely

Tells the story of a lesbian couple in New York, their

child, and the effects of living in a cloud of toxic

waste. As a refuse barge full of nuclear waste circles

the world in search of a port willing to accept it,

strange things begin to happen. Pets start glowing in

the dark, it begins to snow, not snow flakes but soap

flakes, and people begin speaking in weird tongues.

When the two women become involved, their child

suddenly goes missing and it appears that the

multinational corporation in charge of the waste is

responsible.

Prod Comp: Independent Television Service, The

Airwaves Project

Dist/Sales: Strand

Freunde: The Whiz Kids

Krüger, Jan H.

2001; Germany; 22 min; Drama

This intimate and luminous film explores the

growing relationship between two young friends,

and the challenges of a dangerous new identity.

Dist/Sales: AMAC

Fried Green Tomatoes

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Friend of Dorothy, A

Friends in High Places

O’Connell, Raoul

Merrison, Lindsey

1994; USA; 12 min; Drama

2000; Germany, Switzerland; 86 min; Documentary

P: Raoul O’Connell; W: Raoul O’Connell

P: Lindsey Merrison; W: Lindsey Merrison; C: Lars Winston a young gay man follows his best friend

Barthel; E: Stewart Young

Anne to college in New York with a desperate yet

In Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), the cult of

understated desire to fall in love and find himself a

nat spirit worship has survived both the triumph of a

boyfriend.

devastating military dictatorship and the widespread

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

adoption of Buddhism. At the centre of the cult are

Film Festival, 1994: Audience Award Best Gay Short

the spirit mediums, often homosexual men, who

Dist/Sales: Strand

communicate with the nats and take on their

flamboyant characteristics in ecstatic rituals. Guided

Friends and Family

by two lively 70-year-olds, director Lindsey Merrison

explores the role of the spirit mediums in Burmese

Coury, Kristen

society in this fascinating documentary. (2002 New

2000; USA; 87 min; Comedy

York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival) Burmese with

f P: Joseph Triebwasser, Linda Moran, Kristen Coury; English subtitles .

W: Joseph Triebwasser; C: John Leuba;

Prod Comp: Arte/WDR, DRS, YLE, SBS

E: Tom Swartwout; M: Kurt Hoffman

Dist/Sales: Merrison

Cast: Tony Lo Bianco, Greg Lauren, Christopher

Gartin, Tovah Feldshuh

Stephen and Danny are a gay male couple who are

enforcers for a New York Mafia family. Stephen’s

parents, who know that their son is gay but not that

he works for the Mafia, decide to pay a surprise visit,

sending Stephen and Danny into a panic. Hilarious

complications ensue, as an ever expanding crazy-

quilt of characters adds to the fun.

(www.friendsandfamilythemovie.com)

Friends Forever

Frisk

(aka: Venner for Altid)

Henszelman, Stefan

Frisk

1986; Denmark; 95 min; Drama

Verow, Todd

P: Jens Ravn; W: Stefan Henszelman, Alexander

1995; USA; 87 min; Drama

Korschen; C: Marcel Berga; E: Stefan Henszelman, P: Marcus Hu, Jon Gerrans; W: James Dwyer, Todd

Camilla Skousen; M: Kim Sagild, Christian Skeed,

Verow; C: Greg Watkins; E: Todd Verow; M: Coil, Lee Morti Vizki

Ranaldo, New E-Z Devils, Octarine

Cast: Claus Bender Mortensen, Thomas Sigsgaard,

Cast: Michael Gunther, Alexis Arquette, Craig Chester,

Thomas Elholm, Lill Lindfors

Parker Posey

A sensitive drama about a young boy, Kristian, who

A first person narrative about the exploits of Dennis

is transferred to a new school and becomes friends

a gay serial killer. Verow’s cogent and dispassionate

with two very different classmates. Henrik, inde-

cinematic study of Dennis Cooper’s 1991 epony-

pendent and handsome, and Patrick, a troublemaker

mous dark tale of the same name is inflected with

who is dealing with his homosexuality. Kristian is

chilling and cheerless humour as it traces the

thrown into emotional turmoil when Patrick tells

protagonist’s slide into insanity through sex, sadism

him he’s homosexual and introduces him to his

and serial killing.

lover. He rejects Patrick but after realising his loss, he

re-establishes their friendship. Henszelman was an

Dist/Sales: Cowboy, TLA, Strand, Wolfe

openly gay filmmaker who died of AIDS in 1991.

Frisson des Vampires, Le

Danish with English subtitles.

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

(aka: Sex and the Vampire)

Film Festival, 1988: Audience Award for Best Feature

Rollin, Jean

Prod Comp: Jens Ravn Film Produktion

1970; France; 90 min; Horror

Dist/Sales: DanishFilm

P: Jean Rollin; W: Monique Natan, Jean Rollin;

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C: Jean-Jacques Renon; E: Olivier Grégoire; M: Acanthus Fruit Machine, The

Cast: Sandra Julien, Dominique, Michel Delahaye,

(aka: Wonderland)

Jacques Robiolles, Jean-Marie Durand

Saville, Philip

Based on the conventional plot of a honeymoon

1988; UK; 107 min; Drama

couple who find themselves at a medieval castle

P: Steve Morrison; W: Frank Clarke; C: Dick Pope; inhabited by two ageing hippies and the mistress

they share. At midnight a gorgeous vampire emerges

E: Richard Bedford; M: Hans Zimmer

from a grandfather clock and proceeds to make the

Cast: Emile Charles, Tony Forsyth, Robert Stephens,

bride one of her victims in a very sensuous scene in

Clare Higgins, Bruce Payne, Robbie Coltrane

the cemetery. Mixing visually striking images, naked

Set in Liverpool, against the backdrop of deprivation

women and cryptic dialogue, this film conveys a

found in any modern city, The Fruit Machine follows

bizarre, ritualistic sadism. Dubbed into English.

the story of two 17-year-old gay boys, Eddie,

Prod Comp: Les Films, ABC, Films Modernes

innocent and on the run from home, and Michael,

Dist/Sales: Siren

streetwise and a hustler who lives by his wits. They

both desire to escape their less-than-perfect family

From the Ashes

lives, but end up on the run for different reasons

when they witness the murder of a transvestite in

f

Cottam, Kevin

their local gay bar. From the creator of A Letter to

1997; Canada; 13 min; Drama

Breshnev.

Against a Chopinesque score and answering-

Prod Comp: Granada Television, Ideal Communications

machine messages narrative, Mark emerges from the

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, Roadshow

paralysing ‘survivor guilt’ and grief over the death of

his partner, David. A sensitively framed story told in

Fucked in the Face

tender images and colours.

Durr, Shawn

Dist/Sales: BigFilm

2000; USA; 70 min; Comedy

From the Edge of the City

Henry Normal is a young gay man who is not having

a good time of it lately. He’s been kicked out of his

(aka: Apo tin akri tis polis)

apartment, he hasn’t got a cent to his name, and he’s

Giannaris, Constantine

being stalked by a rabid gang of lesbians out for

1998; Greece; 94 min; Drama

blood. Henry gets so desperate he starts to believe

P: Dionyssis Samiotis, Anastasios Vasiliou;

that his only salvation is a hunky gay serial killer he’s

W: Constantine Giannaris; C: Yorgos Argiroiliopoulos; seen on FBI wanted posters in his neighbourhood.

E: Ioanna Spillopoulou; M: Akis Daoutis

His search finds him in a hellish world of drugs, sex,

Cast: Stathis Papadopolous, Nicos Camondos,

lust and violence that he can’t control.

Panagiotis Chartomatsidis, Panayiotis Hartomatzidis

Dist/Sales: Eccentric

Violent and energetic in its headlong rush into the

abyss, From the Edge of the City takes an unsparing

Fuga, La

look at the lives of a gang of Pontian immigrants

(aka: The Escape)

returning to Greece from the USSR. 17-year-old

Sasha, sharp, streetwise and ambitious, is the leader

Spinola, Paolo

of the gang. They roam Athens, hang out in clubs,

1966; Italy; 120 min; B&W; Drama

hit brothels and cruise the streets. They make their

P: Alberto Casati, Mario Mariani, Vittorio Musy Glori;

money from petty crime and selling their bodies in

W: Sergio Amedei, Piero Bellanova; C: Marcello Gatti, Omonia Square. Adolescents hungry for adventure,

Armando Nunnuzzi; E: Nino Baragli; M: Piero Piccioni they’ll stop at nothing to get what they want. Kazakh

Cast: Giovanna Ralli, Anouk Aimée, Paul Guers, Enric

with English subtitles. (Millivres)

Maria Salerno

Prod Comp: Hot Shot, Mythos, Rosebud

A well-to-do wife who has everything finds fulfil-

Dist/Sales: GFC, Millivres, PictureThis!, Wolfe, ACMI, 10%

ment with an interior decorator who just happens to

Frostbite

be a lesbian. Italian with English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Cine 3 SRL

Mead, Wrik

1996; Canada; 12 min; Experimental

Full Blast

A lonely lighthouse keeper rescues his fantasy: a

Rodrigue, Jean

frost-bitten man on the rocks.

1999; Canada; 92 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

P: Ian Boyd, Jean Rodrigue; W: Jean Rodrigue, Nathalie 173

Loubeyre; C: Stefan Ivanov; E: Mathieu Bouchard-

Prod Comp: Yu Raymond, Shio-bu Film, Golden Glory

Malo; M: Robert Marcel LePage

Productions

Cast: David La Haye, Louise Portal, Patrice Godin,

Dist/Sales: Kwan

Martin Desgagné

Full Speed

Inspired by Martin Pître’s Acadian novel L’ennemi

que je connais, Full Blast tells the tale of four young

(aka: À Toute Vitesse)

adults—Steph, Piston, Charles and Marie-Lou—set

Morel, Gaël

against the backdrop of a strike at the local sawmill,

1996; France; 85 min; Drama

which threatens the economic stability of the town.

P: Laurent Bénégui; W: Catherine Corsini, Gaël Morel; Full Blast touches upon the universal themes of

C: Jeanne Lapoirie; E: Catherine Schwartz

human suffering, alienation and the never-ending

search for love. Rodrigue Jean guides us on a realistic

Cast: Stéphane Rideau, Élodie Bouchez, Pascal Cervo,

yet sensitive journey into a Canadian landscape

Mezziane Bardadi

rarely seen by outsiders. It is a story that draws us

Jimmy is the confident, sexy gang leader and best

quickly into a web of social and personal upheavals.

friend of Quentin, a young writer who betrays his

(Domino)

background and his friends. Julie is the girlfriend of

f Prod Comp: Transmar Films, Les Films de I’sle

Quentin, but has designs on Jimmy. Samir is still

healing from the loss of his first love, Rick, and falls

Production

for the sexually confused Quentin. When Samir is

Dist/Sales: Domino

spurned, he starts to let go of his past and forms a

Full Monty, The

close friendship with Julie and Jimmy—a bond so

close, it will change his life permanently. (Millivres)

Cattaneo, Peter

French with English subtitles.

1997; UK; 91 min; Comedy

Prod Comp: Magouric Productions

P: Uberto Pasoloni; W: Simon Beaufoy;

Dist/Sales: Strand, Wolfe, Millivres

C: John de Borman; E: David Freeman, Nick Moore; M: Anne Dudley

Cast: Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, William Snape, Steve

Huison

You can’t help pulling for these six unemployed guys

in their attempt to make some real money. But will

they have the guts to strip away all of their inhibi-

tions and go the ‘full monty’? This irresistible and

heart-warming comedy reveals just about everything.

(Wolfe)

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox, Channel 4, Fox

Searchlight, Redwave Films

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, 20thCenturyFox, FoxSearchlight

Full Moon in New York

Full Speed

(aka: Ren zai Niu Yue)

Fun

Kwan, Stanley

Zielinski, Rafal

1989; Hong Kong, USA; 88 min; Drama

1993; USA; 105; Drama

P: Henry Fong; W: Acheng Zhong, Yau Tai On Ping;

C: Jens Sturup; E: Monika Lightstone, Barry S. Silver; C: Bill Wong; E: Steve Wang, Cheung-kan Chow;

M: Marc Tschanz

M: Hung-yi Chang

Cast: Renée Humphrey, Alicia Witt, William R. Moses,

Cast: Gaowa Siqin, Maggie Cheung, Sylvia Chang

Leslie Hope

Three women, representing three different Chinas, end

up in New York: Chao Hong from China’s mainland,

This controversial tale of a murder committed by

Li Feng Jiao from Hong Kong and Wang Hsiung, a

two teenage girls interweaves fictional psychiatric

Taiwanese actress. Through the characters, we see the

interviews after the fact with events from their

differences and similarities of their backgrounds, and

quickly-famed and very intense friendship before the

the manner in which they try to deal with Western

event. (Cowboy)

Culture. Chinese with English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: Cowboy

174

Fun Down There

road movie through the French countryside. At the

outset he becomes embroiled as a witness to a

Stigliano, Roger

bashing and ends up on-the-run from the perpetra-

1989; USA; 110 min; Comedy

tors. Through some kooky misadventures—

W: Roger Stigliano, Michael Waite; C: Peggy Ahwesh, including spontaneous sex amongst the nettles—

Eric Saks

Felix encounters a succession of chatty, quirky

Cast: Harold Waite, Michael Waite, Nickolas Nagurney,

individuals who impart their streetsmart wisdom and

Kevin Och

become part of his ‘family’. Will Felix find his father?

A young man from upstate New York decides to

French with English subtitles. (MQFF)

move to New York City to explore his sexuality. He

Prod Comp: Le Studio Canal+, Pyramide Productions,

finds what he is looking for in Greenwich Village. A

Les Films Pelléas

well-meaning coming-of-age film, but let down by

Dist/Sales: FPI, Mongrel, Wolfe, Wellspring, ACMI,

some poor performances.

Salzgeber

Awards: Berlin Film Festival, 1989: Best Gay Feature

Dist/Sales: Frameline, Salzgeber, WaterBearer

Funny Lady

Fun with a Sausage

Ross, Herbert

f

1975; USA; 136 min; Musical

(aka: L’Ingenue)

P: Ray Stark; W: Jay Presson Allen, Arnold Schulman; Wilhite, Ingrid

C: James Wong Howe; E: Marion Rothman, Maury

1985; USA; 30 min; Drama

Winetrobe; M: Peter Matz, John Kander

Cast: Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Ben Vereen, Omar

This pair of shorts packaged together offers a now

Sharif, Roddy McDowall

dated look at lesbian life. In the first piece, a young

filmmaker from Idaho finds her sexual initiation in

Barbra Streisand is the exuberant Fanny Brice,

San Francisco at the command of a leather woman.

Zeigfeld performer extraordinaire in this sequel to

The second film is a silent piece about the adven-

the outstanding film Funny Girl. She is supported by

tures of a young woman who decides to dress up as a

her close friend and confidant, a gay man, played by

man—all the way down to the sausage she stuffs in

Roddy McDowall. This lively, lavish musical opens a

her jeans to obtain that proper ‘bulging’ silhouette.

new chapter in Fanny’s career and love life. Now

divorced from the wealthy Nicky, she teams up with

Funeral Parade of Roses

songwriter Billy Rose, a brash and unkempt

showman who is bursting with enthusiasm and

(aka: Bara No Soretsu)

theatrical ambitions. Funny Lady is a poignant story

of their show business magic, unbridled tempera-

Matsumoto, Toshio

ments and passionate romance.

1969; Japan; 105 min; Drama

W: Toshio Matsumoto; C: Tatsuo Suzuki; M: Joji Yuasa Prod Comp: Columbia, Rastar, Vista

Cast: Emiko Azuma, Shinno Ikehata, Osamu

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, ACMI, 16MM, Columbia

Ogasawaro

Future is Woman, The

A modern parody of the Oedipus legend, except that

the Oedipus character, Eddie, must eliminate his

(aka: Il Futuro è Donna)

obstructive mother for the wild embrace of his

Ferreri, Marco

father. The first Japanese film to deal openly with

1984; Italy; 100 min; Drama

homosexuality. Japanese with English subtitles.

P: Achille Manzotti; W: Marco Ferreri, Piera Degli Esposito, Dacia Maraini; C: Tonino Delli Colli;

Funny Felix

E: Ruggero Mastroianni; M: Carlo Savina

(aka: Dróle de Félix; The Adventures of Felix)

Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Ornella Muti, Niels Arestrup,

Ducastel, Olivier / Martineau, Jacques

Maurizio Donadoni

1999; France; 97 min; Comedy

Gordon and Anna are a bored bourgeois couple who

P: Philippe Martin; W: Olivier Ducastel, Jacques

have decided not to have children. When Anna

Martineau; C: Matthieu Poirot-Delpech; E: Sabine rescues Malvina, a young pregnant woman, in a

Mamou

nightclub and brings her home to live with them,

Cast: Sami Bouajila, Patachou, Ariane Ascaride, Pierre-

her relationship with Gordon is put under stress as

Loup Rajot

both vie for Malvina’s body and her child.

Cool and sexy Felix hits the road to Marseilles in

Prod Comp: Faso Films, Ascot Films, UGC

search of his father in this charming, light-hearted

Dist/Sales: UGC

175

Gaea Girls

Steven Hill, Harvey Fierstein

Longinotto, Kim / Williams, Jano

An eccentric dying woman has one final wish. She

2000; Japan, UK; 106 min; Documentary

has worshipped Garbo for her entire life and now

C: Kim Longinotto; E: Brian Tagg

wants to meet her. Trying to fulfil her request, her

divorced son begins an amusing search for the

This fascinating film follows the physically gruelling

reclusive legend of the silver screen. There is a

and mentally exhausting training regimen of several

touching scene when the son befriends a gay man on

young wannabe ‘Gaea Girls’, a group of Japanese

the beach at Fire Island.

women wrestlers. The idea of them may seem like a

total oxymoron in a country where women are

Prod Comp: United Artists, MGM

usually regarded as docile and subservient. However,

Dist/Sales: Warner, MGM

in training and in the arena, the female wrestlers

Garden, The

depicted in this film are just as violent as any

member of the World Wrestling Federation, and the

Jarman, Derek

blood that’s drawn is very real indeed. (WMM)

1990; UK; 92 min; Drama

Japanese with English subtitles.

P: James MacKay; W: Derek Jarman; C: Derek Jarman; g Dist/Sales: WMM

E: Peter Cartwright; M: Simon Fisher Turner

Cast: Tilda Swinton, Derek Jarman, Spencer Lee,

Gang Girls 2000

Johnny Mills, Philip MacDonald

del Mar, Katrina

In this lush, innovative and complex film, Jarman

1999; USA; 25 min; Comedy

leads the viewer on a magical journey through

P: Katrina del Mar; W: Katrina del Mar

moods ranging from horror to humour, from

melancholy to exhilaration, along the way contem-

Forget The Sopranos, this gang of riot grrrls are ready

plating the role of the Church in the persecution of

rumble! Who will reign supreme—The Blades, The

homosexuals through the centuries. Considered an

Glitter Girls, The Sluts or The Ponies?

allegory for the AIDS epidemic.

Gang of Four, The

Prod Comp: Channel 4, Screen Arts, Basilisk Produc-

tions, British Screen, Uplink Co, ZDF

(aka: La Bande des Quatre)

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, TLA, Cowboy, BFI, ACMI

Rivette, Jacques

1988; France; 150 min; Drama

Gasp

P: Pierre Grise, Martine Marignac, Cyrus I. Yavneh; W: Bernstein, Daniel

Pascal Bonitzer, Jacques Rivette, Christine Laurent; C:

1995; USA; 20 min; Drama

Caroline Champetier; E: Catherine Quesemand; M:

This expansive and engaging short film follows an

Claudio Monteverdi

Ivy League college student’s efforts to quell his

Cast: Bulle Ogier, Benoît Régent, Nathalie Richard,

anxieties about his attraction to other men. A

Laurence Côte, Fejria Deliba

sophisticated and mature coming out story, the

Gang of Four, like many of Rivette’s other films,

young man’s debates with friends and professors

focuses on the way women relate to each other. A

about gay stereotypes and lifestyles is expertly

renowned drama teacher, played by Bulle Ogier,

interwoven with fantastical images from his study of

hand picks four female actors to study for the

the classics and visual recollections of his casual

performance of a play. They all share the same

sexual encounters with men in semi-public places on

apartment and gradually the play begins to take over

campus.

their real lives, which become disrupted when the

Dist/Sales: USC

lover of an ex-student of the drama teacher arrives.

Awards: Berlin Film Festival, 1989: Critic’s Prize

Gaudi Afternoon

Prod Comp: Limbo Films

Seidelman, Susan

Garbo Talks

2001; Spain; 93 min; Comedy

W: James Myhre; C: Joseph M. Civit; E: Deidre Slevin; Lumet, Sidney

M: Bernardo Bonezzi

1984; USA; 102 min; Comedy

Cast: Judy Davis, Marcia Gay Harden, Lili Taylor,

P: Burtt Harris, Elliott Kastner; W: Larry Grusin; Juliette Lewis

C: Andrzej Bartkowiak; E: Andrew Mondshein;

Film noir takes a syringe of satire in this gender-

M: Cy Coleman

inverting, genre-twisting comedic thriller that owes

Cast: Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher,

as much to Bound as it does The Maltese Falcon.

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Femme fatale Frankie Stevens plays little-lost-

was formerly ‘the love that dare not speak its name’.

American-sheep in Barcelona, lapping at the high

We’ve come a long way from the days of Nazi

heel of straight-and-narrow translator Cassandra

concentration camps and blackmailing. For von

Reilly. For a fee, Cassandra takes on the job of

Praunheim there’s no clearer picture of that change

finding Frankie’s husband who’s mysteriously

than present day San Francisco. He portrays the city

disappeared, but when hubbie Ben turns out to be

over the rainbow as the nexus of a broader queer

less the man she expected, all eyes turn to Frankie

sensibility, a place where our identities have moved

who suddenly seems more fatale than femme.

well beyond closed doors and into city hall. Von

Kidnap, double-crossing and mistaken identities

Praunheim captures bear love at the annual Folsom

only go part way to dropping the penny on the

Street Fair, lesbian parents speaking out at a local

endless twists of this punchy tale of queer family

PTA meeting, and drag queens campaigning for

values. (MQFF)

Presidential office. (www.queerculturalcenter.org)

Prod Comp: Lolafilms, Antena 3 Television, Via Digital

Dist/Sales: Praunheim

Dist/Sales: LolaFilms, Wolfe, ACMI

Gay Cuba

de Vries, Sonja

g

1995; Cuba, USA; 57 min; Documentary

P: Sonja De Vries, Marlene Moleon; C: Ariel Fernández, Rafael Ruiz; E: Merle Mason, Catherine Ryan; M: Pablo Milanés, Silvio Rodríguez

Cast: Jennifer Maytorena Taylor

In Cuba the human rights of gays and lesbians are a

controversial issue. This important work documents

the lives and the history of gay and lesbian people in

Cuba through the telling of their own stories—of

harassment, coming out, expulsion from political

Gaudi Afternoon

organisations, and election to political leadership. De

Gay Agenda, The

Vries has assembled a dynamic cast that demon-

strates the diversity and changing reality of Cuban

1992; USA; 20 min; Documentary

society. Her use of stunning archival footage provides

Doctors, scholars, religious leaders, and ‘recovering’

the historical context central to an understanding of

gay men discuss the ‘ills’ of gay life.

Cuba’s sometimes contradictory contemporary

political climate. In the words of a soldier inter-

Prod Comp: Christian Action Network

viewed by de Vries, ‘there may be lesbians or

Gay Bombay

homosexuals who are more revolutionary than

anyone, not in theory, but in practice’. (MQFF)

Khanna, Natthalie

Spanish with English subtitles.

1996; UK; 29 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: Cuba’s Felix Varela Centre

Khanna investigates the structures of emerging gay

Dist/Sales: Frameline

life in India, and discusses the issues relevant to

contemporary queers.

Gay Deceivers, The

Kessler, Bruce

Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay Movement

1969; USA; 90 min; Comedy

von Praunheim, Rosa

P: Joe Solomon; W: Jerome Wish; C: Richard C.

1998; Germany; 90 min; Documentary

Glouner; E: Renn Reynolds, Reg Browne;

M: Stu Phillips

Rosa von Praunheim’s documentary begins with

Cast: Kevin Coughlan, Brooke Bundy, Michael Greer

19th century gay personalities—including Oscar

Wilde, sexologist Dr Magnus Hirschfeld, and lawyer

Two young men pretend that they are homosexual to

Karl Heinrich Hossli—and ends in the queer mecca

escape being drafted into the army. They set up

of San Francisco. Along the way, von Praunheim

house in a gay neighbourhood, but realise that to

takes on the immense task of chronicling a mostly

complete the illusion, women are off limits. Basically

Western-European gay history. Using historical re-

homophobic and uses ridiculous stereotypes to

enactments as well as interviews with German

represent gays.

historians and citizens, the film details some of the

Prod Comp: Fanfare Films Inc.

atrocities inflicted on gays through the ages for what

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, ACMI

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Gay Games

Gay USA

Kotzer, Ran

Bressan Jnr, Arthur J.

1999; Israel; 55 min; Documentary

1977; USA; 78 min; Documentary

The story of the Israeli delegation to the Gay Games

Bressan commissioned filmmakers throughout the

held in Amsterdam in 1998. Get a chance to meet

USA to record all June 1977 Lesbian and Gay Pride

some of the participants and a feel for the event and

parades and marches. He then cut on-the-street

the night life during the games.

interviews (gay men and women talking about their

Dist/Sales: GilProd

lovers and how they came out) with the resulting

footage, including lesbians marching against

Gay & Gray in New York City

housework and drag queens protesting fascism.

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Chesla, Nicholas / Creager, Cindi / Englander, Julie

1999; USA; 22 min; Documentary

Gay Voices, Gay Legends

Award winning documentary about the many silent

pioneers whose ‘long lives well lived’ preceded the

Various

g

activism and reforms of the watershed 1968

1988; USA; 58 min; Documentary

Stonewall riots by several decades. An awe inspiring

Some famous and some not-so-famous gay men talk

film that also ushers in the new millennium adage

about their lives and their sexuality. Featuring

‘Life begins at 70’.

Charles Pierce (female impersonator), Al Parker

Dist/Sales: Fanlight

(porn star), Leonard Matlovich, Michael Murray,

Norris Knight, Michael Hardwich and more.

Gay Rock and Roll Years, The

Gay Voices, Gay Legends 2

Brown, Shauna

1991; UK; 50 min; Musical

Various

P: Clare Beavan

1989; USA; 58 min; Documentary

In a stylish, witty and stunningly edited film, pop

More famous and some not-so-famous gay men talk

music clips starting from the 1950s encompass

about their lives and their sexuality. Featuring

significant queer moments in recent British music

Michael Kearns (gay actor), Rev. Troy Perry, Paul

history.

Monette (gay writer) and more.

Prod Comp: Fulcrum, BBC

Gay Youth

Gay Sera Sera

Walton, Pam

Ardill, Susan

1992; USA; 40 min; Documentary

1992; UK; 23 min; Documentary

Young queer adolescents discuss the pressures of

P: Rebecca Dobbs

coming out within the school and home. Includes

Are gay men and lesbians ‘born that way’ or is sexual

interviews the mother of Bobby Griffith who

orientation shaped later in life? It’s the old nature/

suicided in 1983 and whose diary is an eloquent

nurture debate with a new twist in the form of

testament to the painful oppression suffered by

Californian scientist Simon Levay’s claim to have

teenagers coming out in a conservative fundamental-

pinpointed the area of the brain that determines

ist environment. The Bobby Griffith Memorial

sexuality. Charting the changing attitudes through

Award is now awarded annually to teenage lesbians

the decades to the nature of sexual identity up to the

and gays who have contributed to fighting homopho-

‘queer politics’ of the nineties, the question ‘What

bia. Gina Gutierrez, a young Asian–American

made you this way?’ is asked once again.

recipient of the award, describes her own painful

coming out. In a brave move she performed a

Dist/Sales: MayaVision

monologue about homophobia to a school audience

Gay Tape: Butch and Femme

and her friends and family discuss the consequences

of her bravery. Although this documentary deals with

Dougherty, Cecilia

often tragic material, the testimonies of the young

1985; USA; 29 min; Documentary

people who are proud to forge ahead with queer lives

and relationships are ultimately uplifting. (MQFF)

Examination of attitudes surrounding the

butch/femme dichotomy in California, USA.

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, FilmakersLibrary, Wolfe

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Gay’ze in Wonderland

Genesis Children, The

Bocahut, Laurent / Brooks, Philip

Aikman, Anthony

1997; France; 52 min; Documentary

1972; Italy, USA; 85 min; Drama

An irreverent look at the burgeoning contemporary

P: Billy Byars; W: Anthony Aikman, Billy Byars; C: Bill gay lifestyle. Filmed during June 1997 when Paris

Dewar; E: Jeremy Hoenack; M: Jerry Styner

hosted Europride, this documentary gives us an

Cast: Vincent Child, Peter Glawson, Greg Hill, Jack

inside view of the European gay community.

Good

Prod Comp: Dominant 7

A controversial film about a group of young

Dist/Sales: Dominant7

American boys who go to a summer camp near

Rome. They all answer a ‘boys wanted’ ad and are

Gaymes, The

taken to an isolated beach by a mysterious man, for a

reason that remains unknown. The boys decide that

Spiro, Ellen

frolicking naked with each other is loads of fun and

1991; USA; 16 min; Documentary

do it for the rest of the film.

Ellen Spiro provides a visual diary of an event,

Prod Comp: Lyric Films International

celebrating the collective lesbian/gay body while

g

focusing a critical eye on the oppressive nature of

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

ruthless competition. (MQFF)

Hawks, Howard

Gemini Affair, The

1953; USA; 91 min; Comedy, Musical

P: Sol C. Siegel; W: Charles Leaderer; C: Harry J.

Cimber, Matt

Wilde; E: Hugh S. Fowler; M: Jule Stynem, Leo Robin 1974; USA; 88 min; Drama

Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn,

Cast: Anne Seymour, Marta Kristen, Kathy Kersh

Tommy Noonan, Elliot Reid

Jessica, a New York actress trying to break into the

Two American girls head for Paris to find love and

business, flies to Los Angeles to stay with her best

money. Features Monroe’s rendition of Diamonds are

friend, Julie, from high school. The two catch up

a Girl’s Best Friend. Her best friend and fellow

and reminisce, finding they are close again and,

performer is played by Jane Russell. A classic

despite Julie’s house being rather large, they sleep in

favourite for gay and lesbian audiences who will

the same bed. Finally they make love, but afterwards

enjoy the lesbian subtext.

Jessica is repulsed and runs away. Julie chases her and

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox

they discuss what’s happened and, despite being

attracted to each another, they know it is going to be

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, Fox, ACMI, 20thCenturyFox

difficult.

Gently down the Stream

Prod Comp: Unicorn V

Dist/Sales: Moonstone

Friedrich, Su

1983; USA; 14 min; B&W; Experimental

Gendernauts

A haunting succession of images and hand-scratched

Treut, Monika

texts takes the viewer on a voyage down a stream of

consciousness, suggesting that ‘life is but a dream’. A

1999; Germany; 86 min; Documentary

film about conflict, rage and sexuality. (Cinenova)

P: Monika Treut; W: Monika Treut; C: Elfi Mikesch; E: Eric Schefter; M: Georg Kajanus

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, Cinenova, WMM

Cast: Sandy Stone, Texas Tomboy, Susan Stryker, Jordy

Jones, Stafford, Annie Sprinkle

Georgie Girl

A journey through shifting identities, Gendernauts

Goldson, Annie / Wells, Peter

explores gender fluidity at the end of the millennium

2001; New Zealand; 70 min; Documentary

in the Bay Area, California. It’s a film about cyborgs,

P: Annie Goldson; W: Craig Wright

people who alter their bodies and minds with new

Born George Beyer, one-time prostitute turned

technologies and chemistry, with particular focus on

politician Georgina Beyer was elected to New

biological women who use the male sex hormone

Zealand’s Parliament in 1999, becoming the world’s

testosterone.

first transsexual to hold a national office. Amazingly

Prod Comp: Hyena Films

a mostly white—and naturally conservative—rural

Dist/Sales: Millivres

constituency voted this former sex worker of Maori

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heritage into office. Chronicling Georgina’s transfor-

Cast: William Dieterle, Mary Johnson, Carl Goetz, Paul

mations from farm boy to celebrated cabaret diva to

Henckels, Gunnar Tolnaes

grassroots community leader, the documentary

After accidentally killing a man in a fight Franz

couples interviews and sensual images of Beyer’s

Sommer ends up in prison where he falls in love

nightclub and film performances with footage from

with one of the male convicts, who on departing

a day in the life of the Minister of Parliament. The

prison promises to take care of Franz’s wife. Franz is

film presents a remarkable account of Beyer’s

traumatised by the affair, and the effects it may have

precedent-setting accomplishment, revealing her

on his marriage. In the meantime his former prison

intelligence, charisma, and humour. (Women Make

lover has begun a relationship with Franz’s wife.

Movies)

When he finally leaves prison he attempts to

Dist/Sales: WMM

rekindle his relationship with his long-suffering wife,

but his past catches up with him with tragic results.

Gertrude Stein and a Companion

German with English subtitles.

Cirker, Ira

Prod Comp: Essem Film

1986; USA; 80 min; Drama

P: Nancy Walzog; W: Win Wells

Get Bruce

g Cast: Jan Miner, Marian Seldes

Kuehn, Andrew J.

This film is a compelling exploration of the

1999; USA; 75 min; Documentary

tempestuous 40 year relationship between the

P: Andrew J. Kuehn; C: José Louise Mignone;

legendary American writer and lecturer, Gertrude

E: Maureen Nolan; M: Michael Feinstein

Stein, and her beloved companion, Alice B. Toklas.

This touching and often funny documentary profiles

Based entirely on historical materials and the

one of the comedy industry’s unsung heroes, Bruce

personal letters of Toklas, it provides an intimate

Vilanch. Bruce writes for some of the biggest names

portrait of these two unique and unconventional

in Hollywood including Bette Midler, Billy Crystal,

women. Stein’s thoughts on Alice, the arts, America’s

Whoopie Goldberg, Robin Williams and Paul

Hemingway and other characters are revealed.

Reiser. An outspoken and lively person with

Scenes from their public and private lives are

enormous talent and a generous heart.

interwoven with Alice’s recollections of their time

together.

Prod Comp: AJK

Dist/Sales: Miramax, Wolfe

Dist/Sales: ACMI

Gertrude Stein: When you See this

Get Out

Remember Me

Lewis, Pat

1999; USA; 20 min; Documentary

Miller Adato, Peter

An investigation of the depictions of queer life in the

1970; USA; 82 min; Documentary

US media.

P: Peter Miller Adato; W: Marianna Norris; C: Gardner Compton, Gerald Cotts, Jean Monsigny, Eliot Noyes,

Get Over It

Ray Witlin; E: Alan Pesetsky

Documentary about the life of lesbian writer, famous

Katsapetses, Nicholas

personality and art collector Gertrude Stein and her

1995; USA; 90 min; B&W; Comedy

relationship with Alice B. Toklas. With the use of

P: Marcus Hu; W: Nicholas Katsapetses

newspaper articles and film clips, the film pays

Cast: Nicholas Katsapetses, Tony Morgan, Deborah

special attention to their days in Paris in the 1920s.

Cordell, Christian Canterbury, Dave McCrea

Dist/Sales: BFI

To help Steven get over his broken heart (having

being dumped by his boyfriend Derek), his best

Geschlecht in Fesseln: dei Sexualnot der

friend Pam invites a group of people to stay. The

Gefangenen

guest-list comprises a rather mixed bag, including a

lesbian couple, a straight man who believes he’s

(aka: Sex in Chains)

fully in touch with his sexuality, and Robert with

Dieterle, William

his new bratty young boyfriend. As it turns out, the

1928; Germany; 76 min; B&W; Drama

boys keep swapping partners, the girls drive back to

P: Leo Meyer; W: Herbert Juttke, Georg C. Klaren; C: Los Angeles, and Steven is more miserable than

Robert Lach; M: Pasquale Perris

ever.

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Get Real

Cast: Cameron Watson, Anthony Paul Meindl, Elaine

Hendrix, Kimberly Scott

Shore, Simon

1998; UK; 110 min; Drama

Comedy about a young successful gay couple who

P: Stephen Taylor; W: Patrick Wilde; C: Alan Almond; find themselves hosting two foster kids from hell in

E: Barrie Vince; M: John Lunn

their exquisite Beverly Hills home.

Cast: Ben Silverstone, Charlotte Brittain, Brad Gorton,

Prod Comp: Peoples Productions, Wey-Man Produc-

Stacy Hart

tions, reVision Films

What does growing up mean to an average, middle

Dist/Sales: reVision

class adolescent who ‘doesn’t play football and has an

Getting it On

IQ of over 20?’ 16-year-old Steven Carter, with the

help of his sassy best friend, Linda, is about to show

Meyer, Armgard

us. Get Real is an engaging and entertaining journey

1998; USA; 17 min; Drama

through a crucible of suburban angst, which

A young woman finds love where she least expects it.

highlights the chasm some youth feel between social

acceptance and individual freedom. The stage is set

for melodrama when Steven’s unrequited crush on

Getting of Wisdom, The

g

the school’s most eligible and popular student, John

Beresford, Bruce

Dixon is acknowledged and returned. John, who is

1977; Australia; 100 min; Drama

the material wet dreams are made of, is confused,

P: Phillip Adams; W: Eleanor Witcombe; C: Donald scared and determined to keep his new relationship

McAlpine; E: William Anderson; M: Sigismund

with Steven a secret. Steven on the other hand wants

Thalberg

to openly acknowledge his lover and their sexual

Cast: Susannah Fowle, Hilary Ryan, Terence Donovan,

status. What unfolds is a warm and sensitive

Sheila Helpmann, Candy Raymond

exploration of teenage sexuality that is at once gut-

wrenchingly honest and incredibly humorous.

Laura Tweedle-Ramsbotham is about to enter

Despite what he stands to lose, Steven finally ‘comes

another world. From her home in sleepy, rural

out’ to his parents, teachers and peers declaring, ‘it’s

Australia, she ascends to the spires of an exclusive

only love—what’s everyone scared of?’ His brave

college for young ladies, a very strict Victorian

question reverberates in our minds, capturing the

boarding school in Melbourne. Laura is strong willed

central premise of this award winning film, whilst

and rebellious, which creates conflict with her peers

highlighting the tensions associated with sexual

and her teachers. In a desperate attempt to find

rights of passage. (MQFF)

acceptance with her peers, she weaves the most lurid

stories imaginable. The only real soul mate she finds

Prod Comp: Distant Horizons, Graphite Film Produc-

is one of the senior girls. This novel by Henry

tion

Handel Richardson was published in 1910, and was

Dist/Sales: NewVision, Alliance, ParamountClassics,

so shocking at the time that the author’s name was

Wolfe, Cowboy, ACMI, Swank

stricken from the records of the school in which she

Get the Bowheads

set the thinly disguised autobiography.

Prod Comp: Southern Cross Film Productions, AFC,

Hildebrand, David / Miller, Courtney

Nine Network

1997; USA; 22 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, Sharmill, NFVLS, Ascanbee,

P: Mark Holden; W: Courtney Miller, David

ACMI

Hildebrand

Short horror/comedy spoof about a US sorority

Ghost of Roger Casement, The

house which is infiltrated by lesbians.

Gilsenan, Alan

Prod Comp: Revolution Entertainment

2002; Ireland; 107 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: Miller/Hildebrand

P: John Murray; W: Alan Gilsenan

Get Your Stuff

Filmed over two years in Ireland, England, the US,

Europe and South America, this Irish television

Mitchell, Max

documentary brings back to life one of the great gay

2000; USA; 93 min; Comedy

heroes of world history—whether the homophobes

P: Max Mitchell, Jasper Cole, Carl Peoples;

who still insist on denying the truth about his

W: Max Mitchell; C: Jeff Orsa; E: Christopher Koefoed; sexuality like it or not. Born in Dublin in 1864,

M: Barry Coffing

Roger Casement gained fame and British knight-

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hood for exposing the abuses inflicted by white

jeans, drugs and disco. She’s living life in the fast

colonial traders on the indigenous peoples of the

lane, and has her pick of men and women alike.

Congo, Brazil and Peru. But after returning to

However, her life takes a tragic course. (Wolfe)

Ireland, he realised that the Irish were as viciously

Prod Comp: Citadel Entertainment

oppressed by their British masters as any of the

Dist/Sales: HBO, Wolfe, Swank

‘natives’ he had worked so hard to save. So, Sir Roger

went from loyal subject of the king to proud Irish

Gilda

nationalist. When he sought help for the rebellion

from England’s enemies in World War I, he was

Vidor, Charles

labelled a traitor, captured by the British and

1946; USA; 110 min; B&W; Drama

sentenced to death. At first it seemed that an

P: Virginia Van Upp; W: Marion Parsonnet; C: Rudolph international outcry would force his captors to spare

Maté; E: Charles Nelson; M: Hugo W. Friedhofer

his life. But when the British government produced

Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready,

Casement’s ‘black diaries,’ which recorded in his

Joseph Calleia

own handwriting his extensive homosexual exploits

Film Noir classic which tells the story of an emo-

with young men, his support vanished. He was

tional triangle between casino owner Macready, his

g

executed without further protest. Ever since, the

assistant Ford and Macready’s wife. It can also be

diaries’ authenticity and meaning have been hotly

read from a gay perspective, with insider references

contested by those who refuse to believe that a

such as when Ford tells Macready, ‘I was born the

humanitarian and hero could also be a homosexual,

night I met you’.

or that a patriot could be a pederast. Now, this

fascinating film takes us into the heart of that

Prod Comp: Columbia

debate. (26th San Francisco International Lesbian &

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, ACMI

Gay Film Festival)

Ginger Beer

Prod Comp: Crossing the Line Films

Dist/Sales: Crossing-the-Line

Rea, Seamus

1999; UK; 17 min; Comedy, Musical

Ghosts of the Civil Dead

Short musical comedy about an ugly duckling who

Hillcoat, John

meets his prince during ballroom dancing lessons.

1989; Australia; 90 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: Cheek2Cheek

P: Evan English

Shattering experience set in an imaginary prison

Girl in Every Port, A

institution somewhere in the not too distant future.

Hawks, Howard

A crammed prison is the breeding ground for

1928; USA; 64 min; B&W; Comedy

violence, drug trafficking and homosexual sadism.

P: William Fox; W: Howard Hawks, Seton I. Miller, Authorities allow it all to breed in order to justify

retaliatory crackdowns, in an escalating spiral of

James K. McGuinness, Reginald Morris, Malcolm S.

violence. The end product discharged from the

Boylan; C: William O’Connell, R. J. Berquist; E: Ralph institution is a new breed of social, disruptive

Dixon

misfits. (ACMI)

Cast: Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong, Louise

Brooks, Natalie Joyce

Dist/Sales: ACMI, Sharmill

A friendship or ‘love story’, as Hawks described it,

Gia

between two womanising sailors is temporarily

threatened by McLaglen’s romance with a two-

Cristofer, Michael

timing side show entertainer in this buoyant comedy

1998; USA; 126 min; Drama

which has a touch of romantic melodrama. The ‘love

P: James D. Brubaker; W: Jay McInerney, Michael

story’ anticipates male relationships in some later

Cristofer; C: Rodrigo Garcia; E: Eric Sears; M: Terence Hawks’ films, particularly The Big Sky.

Blanchard

Cast: Angelina Jolie, Mercedes Ruehl, Faye Dunaway,

Prod Comp: Fox

Elizabeth Mitchell

Girl King

Gia dreams of sex, money, glamour and fame.

Unfortunately her best laid plans don’t come to

Pietrobruno, Ileana

fruition. Based on the tragic life and times of

2001; Canada; 80 min; Comedy

America’s first supermodel Gia who enjoyed the high

W: Ileana Pietrobruno; C: John Houtman; E: Ileana life in 1970s New York City—Studio 54, designer

Pietrobruno

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Playful and seductive, with a fistful of fetish in every

gradually she begins following him. She begins to

frame, Girl King delivers an unabashedly original

understand that The Man is threatening The Girl.

drag-king pirate adventure. The King has made off

Suddenly, The Girl disappears. The Painter looks

with the Queen’s precious jewels, and without them

everywhere and eventually learns that The Girl and

there will be no more life on the island. Virgin Butch

The Man have left Paris together. Then, all at once,

is pure and strong enough to recover her stolen

The Girl is back, more elegant than ever. When The

treasure. In exchange for the return of her jewels, the

Painter finds The Girl in the arms of The Man, she

Queen promises Butch the love of his life, the

is crushed. She attempts to lose herself in her work

femme and beautiful Claudia. Lit by oversized

but she knows that she must return to The Girl’s

moons and saturated by translucent waters, at times

hotel room where she will find The Man and The

erotic and surreal and always camp, Girl King is, at

Girl together. She also knows that it will be for the

heart, a sweetly perverse fable—a modern myth for

last time... (Mongrel)

our gender skewed times. (21st Chicago Lesbian &

English & French with English subtitles.

Gay International Film Festival)

Prod Comp: Method Films, Dolly Hall Productions

Dist/Sales: ArtisticLicense, Mongrel, Wolfe

Girl Power

Girl Thing, A

g

Benning, Sadie

1992; USA; 15 min; B&W; Comedy

Rose, Lee

Shot on her usual Fischer-Price toy video camera,

2001; USA; 240 min; Drama

and set to music by Bikini Kill, an all-girl band from

W: Lee Rose; C: Eric Van Haren Noman;

Washington DC, this is a raucous vision of what it

E: Christopher Rouse; M: Terence Blanchard

means to be a radical girl in the 1990s. It is informed

Cast: Elle Macpherson, Kate Capshaw, Stockard

by the underground riot-girl movement, an attitude

Channing, Camryn Manheim, Mia Farrow

that is transforming the image politics of female

A Girl Thing tells four stories featuring women

youth today. (MQFF)

dealing with life’s twists and turns. All are seeking

Dist/Sales: VDB, NFVLS

advice from Psychiatrist Dr Beth Noonan. Facing

her own personal struggles, Dr Noonan assists each

Girl Stroke Boy

of the women in making successful transitions in

their lives. The first story features Lauren, an

Kellett, Bob

attorney who finds herself in an unexpected romance

1971; UK; 88 min; Comedy

with Casey, an advertising executive. In the second

P: Ned Sherrin, Terry Glinwood; W: Caryl Brahms

story, three sisters learn how to deal with each other

Cast: Joan Greenwood, Michael Hordern, Patricia

while coping with their controlling mother’s death.

Routledge

The third story involves revenge, as a wronged wife

Laurie’s very straight parents are concerned when he

and a private investigator collaborate with her

arrives home with a West Indian ‘girlfriend’ of

husband’s lover to give the cheater a taste of his own

indeterminate gender.

medicine. In the final story, an emotionally dis-

turbed patient threatens Dr Noonan and her staff

Girl, The

with a gun, with surprising results. (Wolfe)

Prod Comp: Hallmark, Showtime Networks

Zeig, Sande

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Showtime, 10%

1999; France, USA; 84 min; Drama

P: Dolly Hall; W: Sande Zeig, Monique Wittig;

Girl with the Golden Eyes, The

C: George Lechapois; E: Keiko Deguchi, Geraldine (aka: La Fille aux yeux d’or)

Peroni; M: Richard Robbins

Cast: Claire Keim, Agathe de la Boulaye, Cyril Lecomte,

Albicocco, Jean-Gabriel

Sandra N’kake

1961; France; 105 min; B&W; Drama

P: Gilbert de Goldschmidt; W: Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, A beautiful painter who frequents a Paris nightclub

Pierre Pelégri, Philippe Dumarçay; C: Quinto

has an affair with a singer. The Painter tells the story

of her increasing obsession with the singer. She calls

Albicocco; E: Georges Klotz; M: Narcisco Yepes,

her The Girl. The Painter and The Girl continue to

Arcangelo Corelli

see each other but carry on relationships with other

Cast: Marie Laforet, Paul Guers, Jacques Verlier,

people. One night, a suspicious looking man, who

Françoise Prévost, Françoise Dorléac

seems to know The Girl, appears in the club. At first

A man working in the Paris fashion industry in the

The Painter observes him from a distance, but

early 1960s falls for a woman he knows nothing

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about. He soon discovers she is the lover of one of

A rather strange and graphic film about two lesbian

his female colleagues. He in turn becomes a threat to

serial killers, Pearl and her lover Wanda, who pick up

the women’s relationship and it ends in a crime of

men, kill them and steal their wallets. During the

passion with one of the women being stabbed to

course of all the killing, Pearl decides she wants to

death.

have a baby.

Prod Comp: Madeleine Films

Prod Comp: Riot Pictures

Girls Can’t Swim

(aka: Les filles ne savent par nager)

Birot, Anne-Sophie

2000; France; 101 min; Drama

P: Philippe Jacquier; W: Anne-Sophie Birot, Christophe Honore; C: Nathalie Durand; E: Pascale Chavance; M: Ernest Chausson

Cast: Isild Le Besco, Karen Alyx, Pascale Bussieres,

g

Pascal Elso

Gwen is a sunny, free-spirited 15-year-old who lives

on the Brittany coast with her mother and fisherman

father. Lise is her best friend, an intense city girl who

comes every year with her mother and sisters to

spend the summer. But this summer will be

different: the death of her estranged father keeps Lise

at home, the impassioned letters she exchanges with

her cherished friend being the only thing that

sustains her amidst the turmoil. Gwen, on the other

The Girl with the Golden Eyes

hand, gets on with her life: hanging out with friends,

Girlfriends (1978)

sleeping on the beach, finding hideaways to have sex

with local boys. Then, suddenly, Lise shows up at

Weill, Claudia

Gwen’s house to stay for a couple of weeks. Their

1978; USA; 86 min; Drama

reunion is soon soured by Lise’s resentment over the

P: Claudia Weill, Jan Sanders; W: Vicki Polon;

rapidly maturing Gwen’s interest in the opposite sex.

C: Fred Murphy; E: Suzanne Pettit; M: Michael Small The following days are filled with awkwardness,

Cast: Melanie Mayron, Eli Wallach, Anita Skinner, Bob

tenderness and rage as the two girls revaluate their

Balaban, Christopher Guest

friendship, clinging to their fragile bond as the

realities of ruthless, impending adulthood threaten

This film explores the relationship between two

to tear it apart. (www.frenchculture.org)

women, Susan, a photographer and artist, and Ann,

French with English subtitles.

a writer, housewife and mother. In the past they have

been best friends and roommates, but now that Ann

Dist/Sales: Millivres, Wellspring

is married, jealousy and tension enter into the

friendship as they negotiate each other’s lifestyles and

Girls in Boy’s Bars

characters. Susan picks up a hitchhiker who ends up

1991; UK; 16 min; Documentary

staying with her. When the young hitchhiker tries to

seduce Susan, she is asked to leave. The lesbianism is

Looks at the role of straight women and drag in gay

not handled well and there is the usual heterosexual

male bars.

triumph.

Prod Comp: Channel 4

Prod Comp: Cyclops

Girls Who Like Girls

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, Warner, Swank

Edwards, Pauline

Girlfriends (1993)

2001; USA; 90 min; Documentary

Bosko, Mark / Harold, Wayne

A collection of favourite lesbian lovemaking scenes

1993; USA; 90 min; Comedy

from the 1960s and 1970s including clips from

P: Mark Bosko; W: Wayne Harold; C: Alan Stevens; landmark erotic films such as Thérèse and Isabelle,

E: Dick Myers; M: Sean Carlin, Matt Patterson

Score, Olga’s Girls and many more.

Cast: Lori Scarlet, Nina Angeloff

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures

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Gladys, A Cuban Mother

Go

Daniel, Xavier

Liman, Doug

2001; Spain; 11 min; B&W; Documentary

1999; USA; 103 min; Comedy

A mother tells her son that her greatest loves have

P: Paul Rosenberg, Matt Freeman, Mickey Liddell;

been women. She recounts the story of raising two

W: John August; C: Doug Liman; E: Stephen Mirrione daughters left behind after the death of their mother,

Cast: Sarah Polley, Katie Holmes, Desmond Askew,

one of Gladys’ former lovers. Shot clandestinely in

Taye Diggs

Havana, Gladys, A Cuban Mother depicts the

Told from three perspectives, Go is the story of a

poignant experience of a lesbian mother living in a

group of young Californians doing drugs, dealing

society driven by machismo. (Frameline) Spanish

drugs, experimenting with sex, and trying to make

with English subtitles.

money in Las Vegas. Jay Mohr and Scott Wolf play

Dist/Sales: Frameline

two gay soap studs who agree to take part in an

elaborate drug bust. After they successfully fulfil

Glasses Break

their duties, they accidentally run over a pedestrian

while still wearing their police issue wires.

Buchanan, Justine

g

1991; UK; 18 min; B&W; Drama

Prod Comp: Banner Entertainment, Saratoga Entertain-

ment

A bittersweet recollection of a love affair. The

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, SonyPictures, Wolfe, ACMI, Swank

lingering power of an ex-lover is explored and finally

exorcised in this stylish black-and-white film.

(MQFF)

Dist/Sales: WMM

Glen or Glenda

Wood, Edward D.

1953; USA; 61 min; B&W; Drama

P: George Wiess; W: Edward D. Wood; C: William C.

Thompson; E: Bud Schelling

Cast: Bela Lugosi, Dolores Fuller, Daniel Davis, Lyn

Talbot, Timothy Farrell

A turgid but sincere docudrama about transvestism

and sex-change operations. An all-time great cult

movie that is autobiographical in nature—Glen

(played by Wood, under the name Daniel Davis)

Go Fish

can’t bring himself to tell his fiancée that he likes to

wear frocks. By the director of that all-time turkey,

Go Fish

Plan 9 from Outer Space.

Troche, Rose

Prod Comp: Screen Classics

1994; USA; 85 min; B&W; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Salzgeber, Englewood, Sinister, ACMI

P: Rose Troche, Guinevere Turner;

W: Guinevere Turner, Rose Troche; C: Ann T. Rossetti; Glider, The

E: Rose Troche; M: Brendan Dolan, Jennifer Sharpe, (aka: Le Planeur)

Scott Aldrich

Cast: Guinevere Turner, V. S. Brodie, T. Wendy

Cantraine, Yves

McMillan, Anastasia Sharp

1999; France; 17 min; Drama

A fresh comedy about the contemporary lifestyles of

Bruno is obsessed with a mysterious thief.

lesbians living in San Francisco. Refreshing because it’s

Dist/Sales: Need

not the usual coming-out story; these girls are out and

about. The plot revolves around Max and her friend

Glitterbug

Kia. Kia decides to set up a date between Max and

another woman, Ely, an ex-student of Kia’s. Things

Jarman, Derek

don’t run smoothly in the beginning. Ely must end a

1994; UK; 60 min; Experimental

long-distance relationship with another woman first,

Brian Eno provides the soundtrack for this atmos-

but with help from their friends, things finally work

pheric reminiscence of Jarman’s life.

out. A neatly performed, well-written comedy.

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Prod Comp: Can I Watch, Islet, KPVI, Samuel Goldwyn

M: Carter Burwell, Steve Plunkett

Company

Cast: Ian McKellen, Lynn Redgrave, Brendan Fraser,

Dist/Sales: Dendy, Col-Tri, TLA, SamuelGoldwyn,

Lolita Davidovich

Wolfe, ACMI

Biography of film director James Whale who created

Goblin Market

one of the screen’s great mythic heroes in the classic

version of Frankenstein. Beginning in the 1950s

Smith, Jo

when Whale is largely forgotten or only remembered

1993; UK; 10 min; Drama

through camp nostalgia, the film traces Whale’s

increasing obsession with his gardener, Clayton. As

Based on the erotic lesbian poem by Christina

Whale’s health deteriorates, his memory increasingly

Rossetti about two sisters who are tempted to eat the

draws him back to the pivotal moments of his life:

fruit given to them by a goblin. One of the sisters

his rejection of his harsh working-class youth; his

does and becomes ill. The only antidote is to eat

service in World War I and his loving affair with a

more fruit.

fellow soldier; and his years directing in the classic

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

Hollywood era. Combining biography and a mature

examination of the possible love between homo-

g God, Gays and the Gospel

sexual and heterosexual men, Gods and Monsters ends

McEwen, Mary Anne

up being a loving tribute to both the classic

1991; USA; 58 min; Documentary

Hollywood era and the possibility of transcendence

for working-class people. (ACMI)

A profile of the Universal Fellowship of Metropoli-

tan Community Churches that was founded by gays

Awards: Academy Awards, 1998: Best Adapted

and lesbians under the premise that God loves

Screenplay

everyone including homosexuals. After years of

Prod Comp: BBC, Lions Gate Films, Regent Entertain-

attacks, including fire bombings, it is one of the

ment, Showtime, Spike Productions

fastest-growing parishes in the world.

Dist/Sales: Globe, LionsGate, Wolfe, NFVLS, ACMI

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild

Gohatto

God, Sreenu & Me

(aka: Taboo)

Main, Stewart

Oshima, Nagisa

2000; New Zealand; 52 min; Documentary

1999; Japan; 95 min; Drama

P: Nobuyoshi Otani, Jeremy Thomas, Jean Labadie;

The celebration of male beauty as form of gay

W: Nagisa Oshima; C: Toyomichi Kurita; E: Tomoyo religion is called into question by Stuart Main as he

Oshima; M: Ryuichi Sakamoto

and his young Indian assistant Sreenu travel the

subcontinent to interview New Zealanders who have

Cast: Ryuhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano,

relocated in search of spiritual fulfilment.

Takeshi Kitano

Dist/Sales: MF-Films

Set in Kyoto in the Spring of 1865, Gohatto begins

at the Temple Nishi-Honganji, where the

Godass

Shinsengumi militia is choosing new recruits to

become Samurai warriors. Commander Isami Kondo

Bell, Esther

and lieutenant Toshizo Hijikata are supervising the

2000; USA; 73 min; Drama

recruiting process. Those hoping to be chosen must

P: Rob Hall, Esther Bell, Lori Cheatle; W: Esther Bell; face off the best man in the militia, Soji Okita. Out

C: Milton Kam; E: Rob Hall

of all the men present, only two are chosen: Hyozo

Cast: Fred Schneider, Julianne Nicholson, Tina Holmes,

Tashiro, a low-level samurai from the Kurume clan

Anna Grace

and Sozaburo Kano, a handsome young man whose

A young punk rock girl reconciles with her gay

good looks are bewitching. Tashiro is immediately

father.

attracted to Kano. Rigid rules and regulations keep

order among this group of men and are the unifying

Dist/Sales: HellsBells

force in the face of adversity... But suddenly the

Gods and Monsters

militia finds itself prey to rumours and jealousies...

the fascination that the others hold for the young

Condon, Bill

samurai Kano creates confusion all around. (New

1998; UK, USA; 105 min; Drama

Yorker Films)

P: Paul Colichman, Gregg Fienberg, Mark R. Harris;

Prod Comp: Shochiku Films

W: Bill Condon; C: Stephen M. Katz; E: Virginia Katz; Dist/Sales: Canal+, RimFilm, NewYorker

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Going West

action packed gay Japanese crime flick. Japanese

with English subtitles.

Mew, Michael

2001; Canada; 28 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Phaedra

Going West is an hilarious gay satire that follows

Good Citizen: Betty Baker

small town boy Ben to the big city, where he gets

caught up in a militant gay organisation, The Gay

Dempsey, Shawna / Millan, Lorri

Liberation Army, determined to set the standard for

1996; Canada; 27 min; Comedy

a new generation. Their leader, Hared Banks,

An hysterical, madcap adventure featuring Betty

becomes obsessed with Ben, and goes to extraordi-

Baker—wife, mom and PTA member. Featuring

nary lengths to get him. (www.goingwest.ca)

cardboard cut-outs for sets and cut-out dolls clothes

for costumes, this kitsch parody of 1950s suburbia is

Gold Diggers, The

outrageous, camp fun. Good Citizen comprises five

Potter, Sally

serial chapters, providing cliff-hangers and climaxes

1983; UK; 90 min; Drama

all the way through.

P: Nita Amy, Donna Grey; W: Lindsay Cooper, Rose

Prod Comp: Finger in the Dyke

g

English, Sally Potter; C: Babette Mangolte; E: Sally Dist/Sales: CFMDC, VideoPool

Potter; M: Lindsay Cooper

Cast: David Gale, Julianne Christie, Colette Laffont

Good Family, The

A feminist adventure tale about a beautiful blonde

(aka: Thanksgiving Day)

movie star who’s saved from a life of being passed

Tanasescu, Gino

from man to man by a Black Frenchwoman on

1990; USA; 90 min; Comedy

horseback.

P: Marvin Miller; W: Steve Zacharias, Jeff Buhai; Golden Threads

C: Fred Moore; E: Seth Flaum; M: Tom Hensley, Alan E. Lindgren

Winer, Lucy

Cast: Mary Tyler Moore, Tony Curtis, Andy Hirsch,

1999; USA; 56 min; Documentary

Jonathon Brandmeier, Kelly Curtis

P: Karen Eaton

Paula Schloss’s family life is a whirl of people she

Profiling the life of 93-year-old lesbian activist

can’t seem to control...and when her husband dies

Christine Burton, founder of a global networking

unexpectedly—while carving the turkey—it sets off

service for mid-life and elder lesbians, this documen-

a chain of events that send the Schloss family on a

tary, exuberantly overturns our most deeply rooted

wild and wacky roller-coaster ride. Eldest son Randy

stereotypes and fears of ageing. By adding the wry

takes over the family business and it goes bankrupt

and introspective narrative of the director undergo-

within a year. Daughter Barbara announces she’s

ing a mid-life crisis, the film generates a

going to live with another woman and no-one

groundbreaking, intergenerational dialogue about

notices any change in young son Michael.

sexuality, life choices, and ageing. (WMM)

Prod Comp: NBC

Prod Comp: Independent Television Service

Dist/Sales: WMM

Good Father, The

Gonin

(aka: Fathers’ Rites)

Newell, Mike

(aka: The Five)

1986; UK; 86 min; Drama

Ishii, Takashi

P: Ann Scott; W: Christopher Hampton; C: Michael 1995; Japan; 110 min; Thriller

Coulter; E: Peter Hollywood; M: Richard Hartley

P: Kazuyoshi Okuyama; W: Takashi Ishii; C: Yasushi Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Jim Broadbent, Frances Viner,

Sasakibara; M: Goro Yasukawa

Harriet Walter, Simon Callow

Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Koichi Sato, Masahiro Motoki,

Magazine designer, Bill Hooper, is distraught

Jinpachi Nezu, Naoto Takenaka

following the break-up of his marriage and the loss

Five down and out men, desperate to make some

of contact with his six-year-old son. His wife has left

cash, get together and plot to perform a huge

him for another woman. Bill is a member of the

robbery. Unfortunately things don’t go as planned,

‘forever young generation’ who believed in open

and the group are confronted by the local Yakuza.

marriages and women’s lib until he tried them and

Lots of male bonding ensues in this drag infused,

discovered the pain they can cause. Bill’s friend,

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Roger, is in a similar situation and when he learns

circuit itself contributes to the spread of the disease

that Roger’s ex-wife plans to move to Australia, Bill

and encourages the widespread use of drugs such as

is urged to fight a custody battle for his son in the

crystal meth and GHB. This provocative film gives

courts.

ample time to both sides. Shot at circuit events

Prod Comp: Channel 4, Greenpoint Films

across North America, it combines throbbing

Dist/Sales: NewVision, Skouras

footage of thousands of buffed, sweating torsos with

a who’s who line-up of commentators including

Goodbye Emma Jo

party promoter Jeffrey Sanker, DJs David Knapp,

Susan Morabito, Julian Mash and Buc and circuit

Newbrough, Cheryl

critic Michelangelo Signorile. (CFMDC)

1997; USA; 40 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!, CFMDC

This is an unabashed story of erotic love and

passion. Alex is mourning the loss of her beautiful

Gotta Have Heart

Emma Jo on what would have been their anniver-

(aka: Ba’al Ba’al Lev)

sary. She has never felt more angry and alone—her

day only gets worse when her car breaks down.

Fox, Eytan

g

Stranded, she is rescued by Haley, a gorgeous local,

1997; Israel; 36 min; Comedy

who offers her a place to spend the night. ‘Come on,

Gay fantasy film set in a small Israeli town. Guri is

I’m not going to bite’, promises Haley, yet Alex is

anxious to get to school in Tel Aviv before anyone

wary. The two women turn a disastrous chain of

learns that he’s gay. Mitzi worries that she’ll be left

events into a series of heightened sexual interludes,

on the shelf. Nohav dreams of winning the local

and it’s more than a pleasure to watch them unfold.

song contest.

(Wolfe)

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

Grace of God, The

Goodbye Girl, The

L’Ecuyer, Gerald

1997; Canada; 75 min; Drama

Ross, Herbert

P: Ann Medina; W: Gerald L’Ecuyer

1977; USA; 110 min; Comedy

Cast: David Bolt, David Cronenberg, Robbie Pennant,

P: Ray Stark; W: Neil Simon; C: David M. Walsh; Michael Riley

E: John F. Burnett; M: Dave Grusin

A dark yet humorous psychological journey about

Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn

the filmmaker’s efforts to reconcile his socially

Cummings, Paul Benedict, Barbara Rhoades

awkward and sexually naive past with his mature

An actor, played by Dreyfuss, and a divorcee, Mason,

present. Putting himself in front of and behind the

become unwilling co-tenants of an apartment. In

camera, L’Ecuyer has forged a stunning hybrid of

spite of themselves they fall in love. One highlight of

fiction and documentary. The Grace of God crackles

the film is a camp version of Richard III, put on by a

and gleams with L’Ecuyer’s aesthetic innovations and

gay stage director, where Dreyfuss camps it right up

his impressive gifts for story telling and directing.

as the limp-wristed and lisping king.

The Grace of God is a labour of love, comprised of

Awards: Academy Awards, 1977: Best Actor (Richard

scenes gathered sporadically over a ten-year period.

Dreyfuss)

The resulting stream of consciousness film takes us

on a metaphoric train ride home that slowly reveals

Prod Comp: MGM, Warner, Rastar Pictures

the timeworn truth that moving is generally more

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Warner, MGM

important than arriving. (8th Inside Out Lesbian

Got 2B There

and Gay Film and Video Festival of Toronto)

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

Torrealba, José M.

1998; Canada; 88 min; Documentary

Grapefruit

Got 2B There offers guest-list access into the world of

Dougherty, Cecilia

gay circuit dance parties—the hedonistic social

1989; USA; 40 min; Comedy

epicentre of North America’s ‘A’ list gay men. Born

Cast: Suzie Bright

out of the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, the circuit

scene has become somewhat of a paradox. On one

A mapping of lesbian content over the story of Yoko

hand, the parties raise thousands of dollars for AIDS

Ono, John Lennon, and the break-up of the Beatles.

organisations. On the other, critics charge that the

Dist/Sales: VDB

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Grass is Greener, The

people of America’s deep south, including the granny

with a shotgun who runs the local pet cemetery and

Raine, Amanda

an out gay postman.

1999; UK; 17 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: VDB

A butch lesbian and an affeminate gay man find

themselves unexpectedly thrown together on a

Greetings from Washington

camping holiday in Wales.

Winer, Lucy

Dist/Sales: PotentPussy

1981; USA; 27 min; Documentary

Green Plaid Shirt

P: Robert Epstein, Frances Reid, Greta Schiller, Lucy

Winer

Natale, Richard

A kaleidoscope of music, dance, stories and laughter

1996; USA; 87 min; Drama

shared at the first gay and lesbian rights march on

P: Lusa Norcen, Denis Chicola; W: Richard Natale; Washington. (WMM)

C: Amit Bhattacharya; E: Hugo Rynders; M: Norman Noll Cast: Gregory Phelan, Kevin Spirtas, Tony Campisi,

Prod Comp: Greetings Films

Richard Israel

Dist/Sales: WMM

g

It’s the 1970s. Phil and Guy fall in love, have

Grief

unrealistic expectations and an open relationship.

Guy becomes ill, with ‘the gay thing’. His departure

Glatzer, Richard

is gradual. Flashback takes the viewer back to the ten

1993; USA; 92 min; Comedy

years from gay liberation to the AIDS pandemic. A

P: Ruth Charny, Yoram Mandel; W: Richard Glatzer; poignant, poetically crafted piece of cinema.

C: David Dechant; E: Robin Katz, Bill Williams;

Prod Comp: A Vicious Circle

M: Tom Judson

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Millivres

Cast: Alexis Arquette, Craig Chester, Jackie Beat, Illeana Douglas, Carlton Wilborn

A clever behind-the-scenes look at the lives of the

scriptwriting department of a Z-grade television soap

opera. This bittersweet comedy follows an eventful

week in the life of the writer, Mark, a gay man who

contemplates suicide on the anniversary of his lover’s

death from AIDS. When the executive producer

decides to leave, the situation is set for some serious

competition. Who will be Jo’s successor?

Prod Comp: Grief Productions

Dist/Sales: Potential, Salzgeber, Strand, NFVLS, ACMI

Groove on a Stanley Knife

Grief

Krishnan, Tinge / Kotler, Beth

Green Pubes

1997; UK; 42 min; Drama

P: Gary Holding; W: Tinge Krishnan

Arena, Tony (Anonymous Boy)

A frantic plunge into the dark history of two women

1995; USA; 25 min; Animation

fleeing violent crack dealers in the north of England.

A sexy, funny, queer punk love story, Green Pubes

Holed up in a disused public toilet, the stress and

displays the punk movement’s DIY ethics at its no-

claustrophobia of the long night forces the pair to

frills best. The simplistic animation makes up in

confront the realities of their friendship.

sheer exuberance what it lacks in technique. You’ll

Prod Comp: Disruptive Element Films

laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll mosh in your seats.

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

Greetings from Out Here

Group

Spiro, Ellen

de Marcken, Anne / Freeman, Marilyn

1993; USA; 60 min; Documentary

2001; USA; 106 min; Experimental

Ellen Spiro’s video pilgrimage to Dixieland. Stopping

P: Anne de Marcken, Marilyn Freeman; W: Anne de

to talk with some of the good old (queer) boys and

Marcken; C: Anne de Marcken; M: Sleater-Kinney

girls along the way, this film captures the politics and

Cast: Carrie Brownstein, Nomy Lamm, Kari Filipi,

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Tracy Kirkpatrick, Tony Wilkerson

young women, they are being watched by a self-

Marilyn Freeman has created a truly original film in

appointed border guard, a conservative local

Group, a startling experimental narrative following

politician bent on defending traditional values by

nine women for 21 weeks of ‘queer friendly, sliding

eliminating anything transgressing his moral codes.

scale, downtown’ group therapy. Utilising multiple

When it becomes clear that Alja and Zana are more

frames to present the story from six simultaneous

than just friends, they tempt the wrath of the

shifting angles, Freeman gets under the skin of the

Guardian of the Frontier. The first Slovenian feature

wildly different women—sex rocker, born-again

directed by a woman, Guardian of the Frontier

Christian, bisexual punk amputee, hypochondriac,

combines lush visuals and a powerful political

goody-two-shoes, tramp, bigot, binger, and lone

message to create a feast for the eyes and the mind.

therapist. The women challenge each other while

(2002 New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

they expose their own personal issues in an attempt

Slovenian with English subtitles .

to find a little happiness. Largely improvisational,

Dist/Sales: SlovenianFF

the actors’ performances are stunning, skirting the

boundary of reality and drama. (2002 New York

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

Kwietniowski, Richard

g Prod Comp: Wovie

1991; UK; 25 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: ArtisticLicense

P: Susan Ardill

Group, The

Various hospitality workers (waiters, chefs, etc.),

swap stories as they dine on a four course meal at a

Lumet, Sidney

queer dinner party.

1966; USA; 150 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: MayaVision

P: Sidney Buchman; W: Sidney Buchman; C: Boris Kaufman; E: Ralph Rosenblum; M: Charles Gross

Gypsy 83

Cast: Candice Bergen, Joanna Pettet, Joan Hackett,

Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight

Stephens, Todd

2001; USA; 95 min; Comedy

Based on the best-seller by Mary McCarthy, this film

P: Todd Stephens, Karen Jaroneski; W: Todd Stephens; follows the interwoven stories of a group of women

C: Gina DeGirolamo; E: Annette Davey; M: Marty who graduated from school together in 1933. They

Beller

meet again after a number of years, sharing and

Cast: Sara Rue, Kett Turton, Karen Black, John Doe,

talking about their loves and the changes in their

lives. Candice Bergen plays a lesbian who returns

Paulo Costanzo

from Europe with the Baroness, a rather butch-

Gypsy is a young woman in Stephens’ hometown of

looking woman who can certainly wear a suit. A

Sandusky, Ohio, who is obsessed with Stevie Nicks.

frank look at lesbianism and considered quite

An aspiring musician herself, Gypsy heads for New

shocking at the time of the film’s release.

York City with her best friend, Clive, an adorable

misunderstood gay goth-boy, to compete in the

Prod Comp: United Artists, Famartists Productions

legendary ‘Night of a 1000 Stevies’. At the same

Dist/Sales: TLA

time, Gypsy is searching for her mother, Velvet, who

Guardian of the Frontier

left her years ago. During the road trip, they run into

a host of characters, including Bambi, a washed-up

(aka: Varuh Meje)

singer reduced to performing at a hick karaoke club;

Weiss, Maja

a hunky Amish boy looking for an escape from

2001; Slovenia; 100 min; Drama

traditions; and a closeted college fraternity

P: Ida Weiss; W: Brock Norman Brock, Maja Weiss,

pledgemaster. (2002 New York Lesbian & Gay Film

Festival)

Zoran Hocevar; C: Bojan Kastelic; E: Peter Braatz; M: Sewart Dunlop

Prod Comp: Velvet Productions

Cast: Jonas Znidarsic, Iva Krajnc, Tanja Potocnik,

Dist/Sales: Gypsy83

Pia Zemljic

Gypsy Boys

During their summer break, three girlfriends, Alja,

Zana, and Simona, take a canoe trip down the

Shepp, Brian

Kolpa, the river separating Slovenia from Croatia.

1999; USA; 103 min; Comedy

But what begins as a pleasure trip swiftly becomes a

P: Brian Shepp; W: Brian Shepp; C: Gay Rohan; nightmarish voyage on the border between the

E: Rick Lobo; M: Rich McCracken

permissible and the forbidden. Unknown to the

Cast: Adam Gavzer, Robert Hampton, Tom McCann,

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Jud Parker, Alberto Rosas

E: Janice Hampton; M: Kenny Vance

A wittily observed insider’s journey through the swirl

Cast: Ricki Lake, Divine, Deborah Harry, Sonny Bono,

of alcohol, sex, heartbreak and hope that is the San

Ruth Brown

Francisco gay nightlife. Featuring a number of

Tubby teenager Tracy Turnblad’s dreams come true

hilarious fantasy scenes—from pornographic firemen

when she gets to appear on Baltimore’s coolest pop

to horny and accessible go-go boys— Gypsy Boys

show, ‘The Corny Collins Show’. However, Tracy

keenly captures the mix of heartbreak and hope that

finds herself in bitter competition with the show’s

defines any community of singles wishing to become

reigning teen queen, bitchy Amber Von Tussle. They

couples. (Wolfe)

battle not only for the crown but also for the true

Prod Comp: Another BS Production

love of teen hunk, Link.

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, 10%

Prod Comp: New Line Cinema

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, ACMI, NewLine, BFI

Half Mongrel

Chomicz, Alex

1999; Australia; 13 min; Drama

h

Fearful of impending fatherhood, a man is plagued

by guilt-inspired dreams that send him into a

tailspin of booze and sexual frustration.

Dist/Sales: Queerscreen

Hallelujah!

Gund Saalfield, Catherine

1997; USA; 90 min; Documentary

P: Catherine Gund Saalfield; W: Catherine Gund

Saalfield

Raised by his grandmother to be a Pentecostal

minister, Athey was speaking in tongues by the age

of ten, a heroine addict by seventeen, and a perform-

ance artist by twenty-three. Hallelujah! is a compel-

ling look into the life and work of a gay, HIV-

positive performance artist, who practices sadomaso-

chistic ritual as a personal religion. Through

interviews with him and his troupe and featuring

scenes from his touring show in Zagreb, Croatia and

Mexico City, we are witness to a man who uses

excessive means to test physical endurance. Pain and

taboos are strikingly confronted in this meditative

and autobiographical look at damnation, sacrifice

Gypsy Boys

and redemption. (Artistic License)

Habit

Dist/Sales: ArtisticLicense

Bordowitz, Gregg

Hamam: The Turkish Bath

2001; USA; 52 min; Documentary

(aka: Steam)

An autobiographical documentary that follows the

Ozpetek, Ferzan

current history of the AIDS epidemic along several

1997; Italy, Turkey; 96 min; Drama

personal and public trajectories. (VDB)

P: Marco Risi, Maurizio Tedesco, Cengiz Ergun, Aldo

Dist/Sales: VDB

Sambrell; W: Ferzan Ozpetek, Stefano Tummolini;

C: Pasquale Mari; E: Mauro Bonanni;

Hairspray

M: Pivio, Aldo de Scalzi

Waters, John

Cast: Alessandro Gassman, Francesca d’Aloja, Halil

1988; USA; 88 min; Comedy

Ergün, Serif Sezer

P: Rachel Talalay; W: John Waters; C: David Insley; Francesco, a successful designer from Rome, arrives

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in Turkey to oversee the disposition of an estate left

disrupt the status quo. Whether the story is fact or

to him by an estranged, recently deceased aunt.

fable, Livnev and cinematographer Sergei Matchilsky

Once there, he discovers that the property is actually

have created a sublime and tragic picture of the

a hamam, a traditional Turkish steam bath, which

nightmare of Russia in the 1930s. (MQFF)

had been run by his aunt until her death. From

Dist/Sales: Intercinema

letters and friends’ accounts, he discovers that his

aunt was a remarkable and passionate woman, whose

Hand on the Pulse

insights and meditations uncannily reflect his

current experience. Enter Mehmet, the beautiful son

Warshow, Joyce P.

of the hamam’s custodian, who ushers Francesco into

2002; USA; 52 min; Documentary

the sultry world of the Turkish baths, emblematic of

Using interviews, photos and archival footage, Hand

men’s erotic love and desire for one another.

on the Pulse is the poignant story of Joan Nestle,

Enlightened and unbound, Francesco decides to

political and sexual ‘bad girl’. Hand on the Pulse

remain in Istanbul and restore the hamam. (Strand)

traces Joan’s life; finding her community in Green-

Italian & Turkish with English subtitles.

wich Village in the 1950s, celebrating the body in

Prod Comp: Sorpasso Films, Promete Films, Asbrell

her writings and in her public readings in her black

h Productions

slip, having a lesbian archives in her home for 25

Dist/Sales: Strand

years, teaching students “from colonised back-

grounds”, participating in the Black civil rights

movement as a freedom rider, becoming a feminist,

and helping to forge a new lesbian and gay con-

sciousness through grass roots organising. Now in

her 60s, Joan continues to celebrate the body as an

ageing woman and as a woman with cancer.

Cofounder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives in New

York City, Joan has made a significant contribution

to our understanding of women’s sexuality, gender

issues, and the preservation of lesbian history and

culture for the last half of the 20th century.

(Frameline)

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Hamam: The Turkish Bath

Hanging Garden, The

Hammer and Sickle

Fitzgerald, Thom

(aka: Serp i molot)

1997; Canada, UK; 91 min; Drama

Livnev, Sergei

P: Thom Fitzgerald, Arnie Gelbert, Louise Garfield;

1994; Russia; 93 min; Drama

W: Thom Fitzgerald; C: Daniel Jobin; E: Susan Shanks; W: Sergei Livnev, Vladimir Valutsky; C: Sergei

M: John Roby

Machilsky; E: Alla Strelnikova; M: Leonid Desyatnikov Cast: Ian Parsons, Peter MacNeill, Troy Veinotte, Kerry

Cast: Aleksei Serebryakov, Yevdokiya Germanova,

Fox

Marina Kajdalova

Director Thom Fitzgerald’s remarkable debut follows

It is the mid 1930s. Stalin approves an experimental

the story of William and his dysfunctional family in

sex change operation. ‘If Motherland needs soldiers,

Nova Scotia. The tormented, confused, and

we’ll make soldiers, if Motherland needs mothers,

overweight teenager leaves only to return for his

we’ll make mothers’. So, in a Frankensteinian

sister’s wedding a changed man. In facing his family

hospital above a forced labour camp, Yevdokia

once again, William relives his painful life’s journey.

Kuznetsova is transformed. Yevdokim Kumetsov

(Cowboy Pictures)

emerges, the model worker, a blond and bland ‘new

Prod Comp: Alliance Communications, Channel 4,

man’. He marries and adopts a child, steeps himself

Odean Films

in Marxist philosophy and, as the pride of the Soviet

Dist/Sales: Goldwyn, Palace, Wolfe

state, becomes the real-life model for a monstrous

statue at the World Exhibition in Paris. But while

Happily Ever After

Stalin’s regime presents this facade of human

(aka: Além da Paixão)

perfection to the outside world, Kumetsov harbours

his grim secret. His ceaseless yearning for his non-

Barreto, Bruno

Marxist lover is a romance that will eventually

1986; Brazil; 106 min; Drama

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P: Lucy Barreto, Antônio Calmon; W: Antônio

Escaped convicts Harry and Wayne flee to the small

Calmon; C: Affonso Beato; E: Vera Freire

town of Happy, Texas, where they take on identities

Cast: Regina Duarte, Paul Castelli, Patricio Bisso, Flavio of gay, beauty pageant co-ordinators. From this

Galvao

masquerade blooms even stranger couplings and

crushes and the possibility of bank robbery for the

A housewife begins a passionate relationship with a

boys. (Wolfe)

bisexual transvestite. Unwittingly she is pulled into

his dangerous and criminal world.

Prod Comp: Marked Entertainment, Miramax

Dist/Sales: Facets, Wellspring

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, BuenaVista, Lauren, Miramax, Palace

Happy Birthday Gemini

Happy Together

(aka: Cheun gwong tsa sit)

Benner, Richard

1980; USA; 108 min; Comedy, Drama

Wong, Kar-wai

P: Bruce Calnan, Alan King, Richard Benner;

1997; Hong Kong; 96 min; Drama

W: Richard Benner; C: James Kelly; E: Stephen Fanfara; P: Ye-cheng Chan, Chan Yecheng; W: Kar-wai Wong;

M: Rich Look, Cathy Chamberlain

C: Christopher Doyle; E: William Chang, Ming Lam Cast: Rita Moreno, Madelaine Kahn, Alan Rosenberg,

Wong; M: Danny Chung

h

Sarah Molcomb, David Marshall Grant

Cast: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung, Chang Chen

Francis, a student at Harvard, tries to figure out his

A mesmerising story of love lost and endured. Two

sexuality amidst the strange characters and slums of

gay lovers go to Buenos Aires to start over, but find

South Philadelphia. His schoolmate, Judith, wants

themselves in a familiar vicious circle. Cantonese,

to continue their love affair but Francis finds himself

Mandarin & Spanish with English subtitles.

attracted to her blond brother, Randy.

Prod Comp: Block 2 Pictures, Jet Tone Production,

Prod Comp: King-Hitzig Productions

Seowoo Film Company

Dist/Sales: Warner, UA

Dist/Sales: Potential, Fortissimo, Siren, GoldenHarvest,

Kino, Wolfe, NFVLS, ACMI

Happy Gordons, The

Crickard, Paula

1994; Ireland; 26 min; Documentary

P: Marilyn Hyndman; C: Conor Hammond, David

Hyndman; M: Zrazy

Once upon a time in Ireland a dance called the Gay

Gordons had a name change to the Happy Gordons

lest there be any confusion. This documentary looks

at negotiating identity when being lesbian or gay and

Irish. The St Patrick’s Day Parade in New York City

is a catalyst for identity exploration where Irish gays

fight for inclusion to celebrate both their gay and

Irish identities. Interviews with individuals who left

Ireland because of their homosexuality feature, in

Happy Together

particular a man who suffered sexual abuse at the

hands of Christian Brothers and another who knew

Hard

he would never work as a youth worker in Ireland if

Huckert, John

his sexuality was known. (MQFF)

1998; USA; 102 min; Thriller

Prod Comp: Lakme Productions

P: John Huckert, John Matkowsky, Noel Palomaria;

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

W: John Huckert, John Matkowsky; E: John Huckert; Happy Texas

M: John Huckert, Phil Settle

Cast: Noel Palomaria, Malcolm Moorman, Charles

Illsley, Mark

Lanyer, Michael Waite, Steve Andrews

1999; USA; 104 min; Comedy

Raymond Vates is a closeted gay detective. Jack is a

P: Mark Illsley, Rick Montgomery, Ed Stone; W: Mark serial killer preying on young drifters and hustlers.

Illsley, Phil Reeves, Ed Stone; C: Bruce Douglas

Detective Vates has just been divorced; what the

Johnson; E: Norman Buckley; M: Peter Harris

guys on the squad don’t know is why, but that

Cast: Steve Zahn, Jeremy Northam, Ally Walker,

doesn’t stop them celebrating. One night, Raymond

William H. Macy

meets Jack in a bar... Hard is a gruesome and

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suspenseful crime thriller that has caused controversy

Harold and Hiroshi

wherever it has screened; the film is the flip side of

the campaign for ‘positive representation’, in cinema.

Askinazi, Edward

(MQFF)

1991; USA; 40 min; Drama

Prod Comp: MPH Entertainment

Harold, a New York Jew, finds himself falling in love

Dist/Sales: JourDeFete

with his Japanese college roommate, at the onset of

the Second World War. As the two men grow closer,

Hard Fat

their countries head for conflict. A male-bonding

film with sexual-political tensions and a cultural

Moffet, Frederic

twist. (MQFF)

2002; Canada; 23 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: Forefront

Rick has his own unique way of addressing that

time-honoured gay body-image worry. More is more!

Hate Crime

This fascinating and disturbing documentary takes

us into the world of ‘gainers’, men who like to gain

Hirsh, Arie

weight, and the men who like to encourage them.

1992; Australia; 36 min; Drama

h

These are guys who actively reject the buffed ideals

P: Arie Hirsh, Joady Weatherup; W: Joady Weatherup of gay male culture and find liberation in glorifying

Looking at ‘gay-bashing’, this film offers a complex

big bellies. (queerDOC 2002)

context in which religion and ignorance about

sexuality trigger an often fatal explosion of frustra-

Hard God, A

tion and fear. Ultimately, the program proposes that

unless this crime and its origins in confused sexuality

Fitzwater, William

are addressed through education and the media, it

1981; Australia; 80 min; Drama

cannot be tackled effectively.

P: Alan Burke; W: Peter Kenna

Dist/Sales: Marcom

Cast: Simon Burke, Dawn Lake, Martin Vaughan,

Graham Rouse, Philippa Baker

Haunted Summer

Made for television movie about three brothers from

Passer, Ivan

a working-class Catholic family who go to the city

home of their married brother after being driven off

1988; USA; 102 min; Drama

the family property by drought in the 1940s. In the

P: Martin Poll; W: Lewis John Carlino; C: Giuseppe middle of it all, the 16-year-old brother tries to cope

Rotunno; E: Cesare D’Amico, Richard Fields;

with falling in love with his male friend.

M: Christopher Young

Cast: Eric Stoltz, Laura Dern, Philip Anglim, Alice

Prod Comp: ABC

Krige, Alex Winter

Hard Love & How to Fuck in High Heels

A beautifully filmed story of the fabled meetings

between poets Lord Byron and Shelley in Switzer-

Rednour, Shar / Strano, Jackie

land in 1816. Among their visitors were novelist

2000; USA; 96 min; Erotica

Mary Godwin, Shelley’s lover, and her half-sister,

P: Jackie Strano, Shar Rednour

Claire Clairmont, all of whom indulged themselves

Cast: C. C. Belle, Jackie Strano

and experimented with drugs and sex.

Porn made by lesbians for lesbians. Funky femmes,

Prod Comp: Cannon Group

beautiful butches, hot tubs and high camp!

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, 16MM, FirstRelease

Prod Comp: SIRVideo Productions

Dist/Sales: SIRVideo

Haunted World of Edward D. Wood Jnr, The

Harlequin Exterminator

Thompson, Brett

1995; USA; 110 min; Documentary

Balletbò-Coll, Marta

P: Crawford John Thomas, Brett Thompson;

1991; Spain, USA; 12 min; Comedy

W: Brett Thompson; E: John Lafferty

A bittersweet comedy about obsessions, lies and

Cast: Dolores Fuller, Paul Marco, Maila Nurmi,

cockroaches. Ana is from Barcelona but currently

Reverend Lynn Lemon

lives in New York City, writing ‘roach-killer’

A feature-length documentary on the controversial

commercials for a Hispanic advertising company.

film director of the 1950s Edward D. Wood Jnr. He

Before leaving Spain she had an affair with Mart,

made only five films (some of the worst ever made),

who was, and still is, involved with Eli. Difficulties

now considered cult classics., which include Plan 9

arise when Eli comes to town.

from Outer Space, Glen or Glenda and Night of the

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Ghouls. Among his many extraordinary traits was

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often appearing on the set dressed in a frock.

from afar, romanticising Rose’s publicly perfect

Interviews with some of the people who worked

relationship with Sam, her agent. When Weng

with Wood help to build up a picture of this

dresses as a boy and wins a talent contest organised

amazing person. A rather tragic figure and an

by Sam, Weng realises her dream of meeting her

alcoholic, he died at an early age. See the feature film

idols. However to continue the deception Weng

Ed Wood.

must live her new life as a man. Reminiscent of

Prod Comp: Wood-Thomas Pictures

Yentl, a hilarious series of attractions, misunderstand-

Dist/Sales: Englewood

ings, and lessons in male deportment follow. The

story works its way to a heart-warming conclusion,

Haunting of Morella, The

ultimately overcoming boundaries of gender and

homophobia. (MQFF)

Wynorski, Jim

Prod Comp: United Filmmakers Organization

1991; USA; 82 min; Horror

P: Roger Corman; W: R. J. Robertson; C: Zoran He’s Bald and Racist, He’s Gay and

Hochstätter; E: Diane Fingado; M: Fredric Ensign Fascist

Teetsel, Chuch Cirino

Cast: Nicole Eggert, David McCallum, Lana Clarkson,

Brüning, Jürgen

h

Chris Halstead

1994; Germany; 20 min; Documentary

A witch places a curse on her daughter so that when

This German film explores the fascination that many

the young girl turns 17, her body will be possessed

gay men have for skinheads, a fascination that is

by her own mother.

both erotic and repellent. Thought-provoking, sexy

Prod Comp: New Horizon

and challenging, this video tackles contentious

material with intelligence and wit. (MQFF)

Haunting, The

Dist/Sales: Brüning

Wise, Robert

He’s Like

1963; UK, USA; 112 min; B&W; Horror

P: Robert Wise; W: Nelson Gidding; C: David Boulton; Goss, John

E: Ernest Walter; M: Humphrey Searle

1986; USA; 26 min; Experimental

Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ

An engaging look at a never-seen man who is created

Tamblyn

by the contradictory descriptions and anecdotes of

A 90-year-old New England house is the setting for a

four men. Themes of masculinity and self-image are

group of parapsychologists to study the effects of the

discussed.

supernatural phenomena that are occurring there.

Dist/Sales: VideoOut

Included in the group are an unhappy spinster, a

young girl with lesbian tendencies, an anthropologist

He’s My Girl

and the young man who owns the house.

Beaumont, Gabrielle

Prod Comp: Argyle Enterprises, MGM

1987; USA; 104 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, ReelMovies, MGM

P: Lawrence Mortorff, Angela Schapiro; W: Taylor

He Bop!

Ames, Charles F. Bohl, Myrica Taylor; C: Peter Lyons

Collister; E: Roy Watts; M: Kim Bullard, Roger Webb Dannelly, Brian

Cast: David Hallyday, T. K. Carter, Jennifer Tilly, David 1999; USA; 20 min; Comedy

Clennon, Monica Parker

Ryan is helped to find his gay boy soul by his

The amusing moments are few and far between in

eccentric (and dead!) grandmother.

this comedy about a man named Carter who dresses

Dist/Sales: Discodali

in drag so he can accompany his male friend on a

free trip to Hollywood.

He’s a Woman, She’s a Man

Prod Comp: International Video Entertainment

(aka: Gum gee yuk yip)

Dist/Sales: Roadshow

Chan, Peter / Lee, Chi

Head On

1994; Hong Kong; 106 min; Comedy

P: Eric Tsang; W: James Yuen; C: Henry Chan; (aka: Loaded)

E: Kei-hop Chan; M: Yun Hui, Tsang-hei Tsui

Kokkinos, Ana

Cast: Leslie Cheung, Carina Lau, Anita Yuen, Eric Tsang

1998; Australia; 104 min; Drama

Rose is a famous pop singer, and Weng idolises her

P: Jane Scott; W: Ana Kokkinos, Andrew Bovell,

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Mira Robertson; C: Jaems Grant; E: Jill Bilcock; Cast: Stephen Gatta, Michael Davenport, Erika Nagy,

M: Ollie Olsen

Tim Ahearn

Cast: Alex Dimitriades, Paul Capsis, William Zappa,

A model, after being physically scarred following

Julian Garner, Maria Mercedes

reconstruction surgery, floats aimlessly through her

Ari is a young Greek man who is confronting both

empty life. She meets and begins a relationship with

his traditional family and his sexuality. His journey

the gay lover of her doctor, and her life is turned

of self-discovery takes him higher and wilder to the

around. A promising film about a romantic

limits of desire and danger until he’s on a collision

relationship between a straight woman and a gay

course with reality. Based on the novel Loaded by

man, which unfortunately misses the mark due to

Christos Tsiolkas. English & Greek with English

stilted acting and slow pacing.

subtitles.

Prod Comp: Leisure Time Features

Prod Comp: Great Scott Productions

Dist/Sales: Palace, Millivres, Strand, Wolfe

Heart Exposed, The

(aka: La Coeur Découvert)

Laforce, Jean-Yves

h

1986; Canada; 100 min; Drama

A middle-aged teacher begins a relationship with an

actor who is 15 years younger. Things become

complicated when it is revealed that the young actor

has a son. French with English subtitles.

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

Film Festival, 1989: Audience Award for Best Feature

Dist/Sales: CanadianBroadcasting

Heart’s Root, The

Head On

(aka: A Raiz Do Coração)

Headhunter

Rocha, Paulo

Schaeffer, Francis

2000; Portugal; 120 min; Drama

1989; USA; 88 min; Horror

P: Paulo Rocha, Gérard Vaugeois; W: Raquel Freire, P: Jay Davidson, Barrie Saint Clair; W: Len Spinell; Paulo Rocha; C: Elso Roque; E: José Edgar Feldman; M: Julian Laxton

M: José Mario Branco

Cast: Wayne Crawford, Kay Lenz, Steve Kanaly, June

Cast: Luis Miguel Cintra, Joana Bárcia, Melvil Poupaud,

Chadwick, John Fatooh

Isabel Ruth

A Miami cop discovers that his wife has a female

Sex, secrets, and politics are centre stage in this

lover, so he begins to have an affair with his female

farcical tale of Cato, a right-wing mayoral candidate

partner. Meanwhile, a voodoo demon from Africa

for the city of Lisbon, and the love that could ruin

arrives in Miami and begins beheading and possess-

him. As the lavish preparations for the Feast of St

ing people—including the cop’s wife.

Antony are underway, the election is heating up.

Prod Comp: Gibraltar Entertainment

Cato’s reactionary supporters are out in force, with

banners, songs, and slogans, but are rivalled in their

Dist/Sales: Palace

parading and chanting by an outrageously costumed,

Health Status Survey

flamboyant group of drag queens. Into this swirl of

confusion and excitement comes word of a compro-

Randera, Safiya

mising videotape that could derail Cato’s chance of

2000; Canada; 12 min; Drama

victory. What no one knows is that the conservative,

The power dynamic shifts when one woman has an

no-nonsense Cato is desperately in love with the

lovely and proper Silvia. And that Silvia used to be

accident and her lover takes care of her.

Silvio. Just as success seems imminent, Cato’s life

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

and career are in danger of being consumed by the

Hearing Voices

chaos all around. (21st Chicago Lesbian & Gay

International Film Festival)

Greytak, Sharon

Portuguese with English subtitles.

1990; USA; 87 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Suma Films, Boomerang Productions

P: Sharon Greytak

Dist/Sales: Suma

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Heat

Heavenly Creatures

Morrissey, Paul

Jackson, Peter

1972; USA; 98 min; Comedy

1994; New Zealand; 95 min; Drama

W: Paul Morrissey, John Hollowell; C: Paul Morrissey; P: Jim Booth; W: Frances Walsh, Peter Jackson;

E: Lara Jokel, Jed Johnson; M: John Cole

C: Alun Bollinger; E: Jamie Selkirk; M: Peter Dasent Cast: Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles, Andrea Feldman

Cast: Melanie Lynsky, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana

This is the story of an unemployed actor, hustler and

Kent, Clive Merrison

former child star, played by Dallesandro, who

Christchurch, New Zealand, 1952. Juliet Hulme

returns to Hollywood to make a comeback. He

enrols in a new school and is immediately drawn to

meets Sally Todd, a faded, ageing movie star. She

Pauline Reiper, a creative genius and a bit of a social

tells him she can help his career if he will help her in

outcast. Although the girls come from different

the bedroom. But her lesbian daughter drops her

backgrounds, they both share an outrageous love of

girlfriend and goes for the hustler instead.

fantasy. Their novel writing and dream world, at

Prod Comp: Andy Warhol Enterprises

least for a while, is balanced by their mutual

Dist/Sales: Palace, ParamountHV

admiration for each other. The obsessive nature of

their relationship worries the girls’ parents who

h

Heatwave

attempt to limit their contact. Both girls react to

their forced separation with violent temper tantrums

Stephens, Kathy

and coy manipulations. Juliet’s parents decide to

1994; UK; 15 min; Comedy

divorce and her father’s return to England is seen as

P: Erol Suleyman

an ideal opportunity to split the girls up perma-

Set in the summer of 1976, 15-year-old Sally has a

nently. The girls respond by murdering Pauline’s

crush on her older and more sophisticated neighbour

mother. Based on true story.

Louise. But Sally is terrified to confide in Louise for

Prod Comp: WingNut Films, Fontana, Miramax, New

fear of rejection, so she spends her time in her tree-

Zealand Film Commission

house watching Louise sunbake.

Dist/Sales: Miramax, BuenaVista, Touchstone, Swank,

Wolfe, NFVLS, ACMI

Heaven, Earth and Hell

Harris, Thomas, Allen

1995; USA; 26 min; Experimental

Reflecting on the ‘trickster’ figure in African and

Native American culture recounting the story of his

first love, this beautiful work incorporates the critical

texts of Frantz Fanon, bell hooks and James Baldwin.

(Third World Newsreel)

Dist/Sales: TWN, EAI

Heaven-6-Box

(aka: Tengoku No Muttsu No Hako)

Oki, Hiroyuki

Heavenly Creatures

1995; Japan; 60 min; Documentary

Heavy Petting (1988)

P: Matsumoto Norihito; C: Hiroyuki Oki;

E: Hiroyuki Oki; M: Sato Atsushi, Tsunefuji Hiroki Benz, Obie

Cast: Kiyooka Tasuhisa, Takasaki Gensho

1988; USA; 77 min; Documentary

Hiroyuki Oki has become something of a star in

P: Obie Benz; W: Pierce Rafferty; C: Sandi Sissel, Japan as their most famous avant-garde filmmaker.

Dyanna Taylor; E: Judith Sobel, Joshua Waletzky

The council of his local town, Kochi, asked him to

Cast: David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, Sandra Bernhard,

make a documentary on the opening of their new

Spalding Gray, Alan Ginsberg

Museum of Art. It is structured into six 10-minute

A memorable insight into the teenage sex lives of the

portraits of the people and their town. It includes

famous and not-so-famous during an era of

images of old people, schoolgirls, fishermen, priests

unprecedented change. A good amount of queer

and lots of boys.

representation.

Prod Comp: Kochi Museum of Art

Prod Comp: Fossil Films

Dist/Sales: ImageForum

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, Skouras

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Heavy Petting (1991)

C: Edward Cronjager; E: William Hamilton

Cast: Richard Dix, Tom Brown, C. Henry Gordon,

Haber, Rosalind

Rochelle Hudson, Oscar Apfel

1991; UK; 10 min; Documentary

Frank ‘Duke’ Ellis, serving time on a chain gang, has

Everything you always wanted to know about

to change his escape plans when his brother is

lesbians and gay men and their pets. Are they the

brought in as a prisoner. It’s tough and rough and

secret ingredient of the ‘pretend family’? Child

covers everything from issues of race, to homosexual-

substitutes? Lover substitutes?

ity.

Prod Comp: Maya Vision, Channel 4

Prod Comp: RKO

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hellion Heatwave

Mitchell, John Cameron

Castro, Rick

2001; USA; 95 min; Musical

1999; USA; 86 min; Erotica

P: Christine Vachon, Katie Roumel, Pamela Koffler;

W: John Cameron Mitchell; C: Frank G. DeMarco;

Cast: Tom Turbine, B. J. Bush, Bo Killer, Eddie T., Boo

E: Andrew Marcus; M: Stephen Trask

Johnson

h Cast: John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Pitt, Andrea Filmed in Tucson, Arizona, photographer Rick

Martin, Stephen Trask

Castro gets an assortment of non-porn men

Wildly energetic Off-Broadway glam musical. An

(musclemen, hunks, ex-cons) to recount sex stories

aspiring star undergoes a botched sex-change

and then gets them to strip for his camera. (Wolfe)

operation (thus the ‘angry inch’ that’s left) and after

Prod Comp: Pyewackett Productions

one failed attempt at stardom, hits the road

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

determined to do everything in her power to get the

fame she rightly deserves. (10%)

Henry and June

Prod Comp: Killer Films, New Line Cinema

Kaufman, Philip

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, FineLine, NewLine, RoadshowEnt, 10%

1990; USA; 131 min; Drama

Hell Bento!

P: Peter Kaufman; W: Philip Kaufman, Rose Kaufman; C: Philippe Rousselot; E: Vivien Hillgrove Gilliam, Sully, Andrew / Broinowski, Anna

Dede Allen, William S. Scharf; M: Mark Adler

1997; Australia; 56 min; Documentary

Cast: Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros,

P: Anna Broinowski; W: Anna Broinowski, Adam

Richard E. Grant, Kevin Spacey

Broinowski

An intelligent and provocative drama about the

An inclusive, uncompromising journey into Japanese

passionate love triangle involving Anais Nin, writer

subcultures including the Yakuza, the nationalists,

Henry Miller and his wife, June. Set in Paris in the

the gay and lesbian community, the bikers and the

1930s, it is beautifully photographed, producing a

homeless. The film also sets out to challenge

sensuous and atmospheric film. Based on the novel

assumptions about Japan’s younger generation and

by Anais Nin.

what their rapidly westernising lifestyle might

Prod Comp: Universal, Walrus

indicate for the future.

Dist/Sales: UIP, Swank, Universal, Wolfe

Prod Comp: Tetrapod

Dist/Sales: Ronin, ACMI

Her Life as a Man

Hell For Leather

Miller, Robert Ellis

1984; USA; 96 min; Comedy

Scherrer, Dominik

W: Joanna Crawford, Diane English;

1998; UK; 28 min; Comedy

C: Kees Van Oostrum

Satan falls from heaven—but this time it’s London

Cast: Joan Collins, Robert Culp, Marc Singer, Robyn

1998.

Douglass, Laraine Newman

Dist/Sales: Ulmann

An experienced female reporter disguises herself as a

man to secure the sports-writing job she desires in

Hell’s Highway

this made for TV movie. She gets the job, and a lot

Brown, Rowland

of funny and embarrassing moments as well. Similar

1932; USA; 62 min; B&W; Drama

to the drag genre of Victor/Victoria and Tootsie.

W: Rowland Brown, Samuel Ornitz, Robert Tasker;

Prod Comp: LS Entertainment

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Her Urge

libido leads him into teenage pregnancy. His mythic

quest for two thousand boys ends with Happy, a

Gilbert, Barry

paranoid UFO-ologist to whom aliens promise to

2001; USA; 15 min; Comedy

appear (as his love child). Spanky is an evil hair-

A cute girl with high academic ideals falls for an even

dresser trying to foil Sabu’s mission at every turn. He

cuter, yet ultra-cool chick, who at first doesn’t even

is the self-proclaimed ‘biggest bitch in the world’.

know she’s alive.

The action unfolds at a series of raves on old

Dist/Sales: Seduced

Garbage Hill in a strange place we call Winnipeg.

Hey, Happy! depicts an optimistic vision of the

apocalypse. Director Noam Gonick says that tens of

millions of religious fundamentalists can’t be wrong,

‘There must be a connection between biblical ‘end-

times’ and fags’. (Mongrel)

Prod Comp: Big Daddy Beer Guts, Mongrel Media

Dist/Sales: Mongrel

h

Her Urge

Heterosexual Agenda, The

Woods, Mark Kenneth

2001; Canada; 12 min; Comedy

A subversive take on anti-gay propaganda issues by

religious types which looks at turning the tables on

the consequences of choosing a heterosexual lifestyle.

Presented with thought-provoking humour.

(MQFF)

Hey, Happy!

Dist/Sales: VTape

Hey Sailor, Hey Sister

Heterosexuality

Spyke

Beadle-Blair, Rikki

1998; USA; 23 min; Erotica

1998; UK; 25 min; Comedy

Hey Sailor, Hey Sister is the story of a naval officer

Kwame is a typical London teenager who lives for

who, coming to port with just her duffel bag and

football and rap music, but his family life is different

leather chaps, goes looking for adventure—and finds

from other guys his age. His father is an outrageous,

it. Has the sailor resumed home for good or is she on

gay man who is devastated to find out that his son

weekend leave? Is the woman she meets on the docks

plans to lose his virginity—to a girl! An utterly queer

a working girl or a kindred soul looking for fun? Do

twist on teen rebellion and generational conflict.

they fall in love, or do they just...? (Wolfe)

How will Kwame’ s father cope with his budding

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

heterosexuality? Made in short form as a precursor to

famed Channel 4 series Metrosexuality.

Hidden Assassin

Prod Comp: Channel 4

(aka: The Shooter)

Dist/Sales: Vicarious

Kotcheff, Ted

Hey, Happy!

1995; USA; 100 min; Action

P: Silvio Muraglia, Paul Pompian; W: Billy Ray, Meg Gonick, Noam

Thyer, Yves André Martin; C: Fernando Argüelles;

2000; Canada; 75 min; Experimental

E: Ralph Brunjes; M: Stefano Mainetti

P: Laura Michalchyshyn; W: Noam Gonick, David

Cast: Dolph Lundgren, Maruschka Detmers, Asumpta

McIntosh; C: Paul Suderman; E: Bruce Little;

Serna, John Ashton

M: Chris Robinson

After the assassination of the Cuban Ambassador in

Cast: Jeremie Yuen, Craig Aftanas, Clayton Godson,

New York, Michael Dane, a CIA agent is sent to

Johnny Simone, Dita Vendetta

Prague to prevent any further terrorist attacks.

DJ Sabu spins Armageddon when his overactive

Nikita, a lesbian nightclub owner, is one of the

199

suspected killers. Things become more complicated

High Art

and Dane finds he will have to fight to survive.

Cholodenko, Lisa

Prod Comp: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Le Studio

1998; Canada, USA; 101 min; Drama

Canal+, Arco Films SL

P: Dolly Hart, Jeff Levy-Hinte, Susan A. Stover; W: Lisa Dist/Sales: PolyGram, BuenaVista

Cholodenko; C: Tami Reiker; E: Amy E. Duddleston; Hidden Child

M: Tracy McKnight

Cast: Ally Sheedy, Radha Micthell, Patricia Clarkson,

Whitley, Brian

Gabriel Mann

1998; USA; 22 min; Drama

Syd is a young women with a perfectly nice boyfriend

A young boy is haunted by memories of his late

and a perfectly good job working for an upmarket

sister, and with family secrets that slowly present in a

photography magazine in New York City. But she is

terrifying fashion. A queer perspective on love and

bored and keen for adventure, hoping to achieve more

loss.

status and celebrity through work. A chance encounter

with a legendary underground photographer, Lucy

Hidden Injuries

Berliner, enables Syd to move into the exotic fringes of

the art world, as well as allowing her to explore her

h Finlayson, Kaya

own sexuality and her own desires. But High Art is not

Australia; 15 min; B&W; Drama

a New Age film: we watch Syd’s pursuit of Lucy and

P: Kaya Finlayson, John Horniblow; W: Kaya Finlayson of fame, and we are asked to confront deeply

A teenage boy is pushed by peer-group pressure to

disturbing questions about the amorality of contem-

partake in a brutal gay bashing. A conflict between

porary relationships and culture. Art may be what all

the leader of the gang and the boy leaves him behind

the characters in this film claim to care about, but

after the bashing. The teenager then returns to the

their real pursuits are status and fame. Only Lucy

scene of the murder to appease his guilty conscience.

Berliner, passionate about her photography, seems

capable of committing herself to a notion of art that is

Hide and Seek

not simply reducible to commerce. But Lucy’s passion

comes at a cost: life on the fringe, the dangers of

Friedrich, Su

drugs, and the continual question of where the rent

1996; USA; 65 min; B&W; Documentary

money is going to come from. The final moments of

P: Katie Roumel, Eve Kolodner; W: Su Friedrich, Cathy this film, in which Syd faces what is really of value in

Nan Quinlan; C: Jim Denault; E: Su Friedrich

the world of ‘high art’, are shattering. (ACMI)

Cast: Chels Holland, Ariel Mara, Alicia Manta

Prod Comp: 391 Productions, October Films

Hide and Seek, mixes documentary and fiction to

Dist/Sales: October, Wolfe, ACMI

create a fascinating portrait of lesbian childhood.

Revealing the imaginary universe of young lesbians,

High Heels

it’s about being at an age when sexual feelings are

(aka: Tacones lejanos)

still vague. The fictional narrative tells the story of

Lou: a 12-year-old girl living in Brooklyn in the mid

Almodóvar, Pedro

1960s, coming to terms with her burgeoning

1991; Spain; 115 min; Comedy

sexuality. Her story is skilfully woven between

W: Pedro Almodóvar; C: Alfredo F. Mayo;

interviews with 20 adult women who recount salient

E: José Salcedo; M: Ryuichi Sakamoto

moments from their childhoods, including their first

Cast: Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bosé

attractions, how they felt when they first heard the

Becky has had almost as many husbands as gold

word lesbian and thoughts about the possible cause

records. She abandoned her daughter from her first

for their homosexuality. Mixing several genres, the

marriage to focus on her career as a pop singer.

film also includes more than 100 photographs of

Rebecca has been raised by her father since the age of

lesbians when they were young girls, and archival

13, but remains obsessed by her absent mother to

footage from educational films and home movies.

the point where she marries one of her mother’s

(WMM)

former lovers. A chance reunion between Becky and

Awards: LA Outfest, 1996: Best Documentary

Rebecca’s husband unleashes a chain of bizarre

Prod Comp: Downstream Productions, Independent

events. Spanish with English subtitles.

Television Service

Prod Comp: Le Studio Canal+

Dist/Sales: WMM

Dist/Sales: Miramax, Warner

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High Tech Rice

the controlling characterisations proliferated by

medical, scientific and legal worlds.

Cabatu, Joanne L. / Mirkin, Ekaterine

1996; Russia, USA; 25 min; Comedy

Prod Comp: Barbara Hammer Productions

Dist/Sales: Hammer, Wolfe, FirstRunFeatures, FirstRun/

An exploration of how a Filipino–American lesbian

Icarus, VideoAmericain

must come to terms with living in two cultures at

the same time, and her love-hate relationship with

History of the World According to a

her answering machine.

Lesbian, The

Higher Learning

Hammer, Barbara

1988; USA; 22 min; Experimental

Singleton, John

1995; USA; 128 min; Drama

Traces the invisible and visible reference to women

P: John Singleton, Paul Hall; W: John Singleton;

who love women from prehistory to contemporary

C: Peter Lyons Collister; E: Bruce Cannon; M: Stanley times with the sarcastic sounds of the 1950s lesbian

Clarke

quartet, The Sluts from Hell. (Frameline)

Cast: Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson, Michael Rapaport,

Dist/Sales: Frameline

h

Ice Cube, Jennifer Connelly

Hit and Runway

Higher Learning is the story of three new college

students—track star Malik, who finds he must run

Livingston, Christopher

faster and study harder than ever; innocent Kristen,

1999; USA; 109 min; Comedy

who gets an abrupt initiation into this tough new

P: Christopher Livingston, Andrew Charas, Chris

world and has a lesbian affair with the head of the

D’Annibale; W: Christopher Livingston, Jaffe Cohen;

feminist group; and lonely Remy, an outsider who

C: David Timblety; E: Christopher Livingston, Rhonda sparks a tragic chain of events that changes all of

l. Mitrani; M: Frank Piazza

their lives.

Cast: Peter Jacobson, Michael Parducci, Kerr Smith,

Prod Comp: New Deal, Columbia

Judy Prescott

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, 16MM, FirstRelease, Columbia

When Alex, a good Catholic heterosexual boy, teams

up with Elliot a New York City Jewish gay boy to

Hired to Kill

write a screen play it’s hard enough to overcome

Mastorakis, Nico / Rader, Peter

their differences let alone finish the play. When

Elliot scores a date with a gay waiter, Alex and

1991; USA; 93 min; Action

Elliot’s relationship and script takes a dramatic turn.

P: Peter Rader; W: Nico Mastorakis, Kirk Ellis, Fred C.

Perry; C: Andreas Bellis, Michael Stringer

Prod Comp: Mirador Films

Cast: Brian Thompson, Oliver Reed, George Kennedy,

Dist/Sales: Lot47, Wolfe

Jose Ferrer, Michelle Moffett

A mercenary poses as a gay photographer on a

fashion shoot with six sexy models in order to break

a rebel leader out of an impenetrable Latin American

prison.

Dist/Sales: ParamountHV

History Lessons

Hammer, Barbara

2000; USA; 66 min; Documentary

P: Barbara Hammer, Anna Viola Hallberg; C: Barbara Hammer, Carolyn McCartney, Ann T. Rossetti

Cast: Carmolita Tropicana, Coco Fusco, Dred, Elvis

hITCH

Herselvis, Mo. B. Dick

hITCH

History Lessons is an exploration of lesbian images

shown in a compelling, humorous and empowering

Gray, Bradley Rust

way. Focusing on pervading images prior to

1999; USA; 18 min; Drama

Stonewall the film exposes not only popular lesbian

A journey of sexual self discovery for two sexy

representations in culture and entertainment but also

cowboys, in this brooding road movie.

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HIV Rollercoaster

Holding

Lang, Paul

Beeson, Constance

2001; USA; 27 min; Documentary

1971; USA; 13 min; Drama

From cocktail therapy and community policing to

P: Constance Beeson

gay male porn identity, life in prison, barebacking,

Romantic and impressionistic interpretation of a

and condom politics, this experimental documentary

lesbian relationship exploring the fantasies of two

takes you on a rollercoaster ride through the ever-

women falling in love with each other.

changing world of HIV. (2002 Mardi Gras Film

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, Canyon

Festival)

Dist/Sales: VTape

Hole

Cornell, Clare / Buxton, Rodney

2001; USA; 18 min; Experimental

A sultry, sweaty rumination on a man’s trip to the

local sauna.

h

Dist/Sales: DMC

Holi: Festival of Fire

Mehta, Ketan

1984; India; 114 min; Drama

P: Ketan Mehta, Pradeep Uppoor; W: Ketan Mehta,

Mahesh Elkunchwar; C: Jehangir Choudhari;

E: Subhash Sehgal; M: Rajat Dholakia

Cast: Rahul Ranade, Sanjeer Gandhi

When a holiday during the Holi spring festival is

HIV Rollercoaster

cancelled by the authorities of a hostel, the students

Hold you Tight

riot in protest. A homosexual student is blackmailed

into informing on the culprits and they retaliate.

(aka: Yue Kuai Le)

Hindi with English subtitles.

Kwan, Stanley

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

1998; Hong Kong; 95 min; Drama

P: Raymond Chow; W: Jimmy Ngai; C: Pung-leung Hollow Reed

Kwan; E: Maurice Li; M: Keith Leung, Yat-yiu Yu

Pope, Angela

Cast: Sunny Chan, Yue-lin Ko, Wing-kiu Lau, Eric

1995; UK; 100 min; Drama

Tsang

P: Elizabeth Karlsen; W: Paula Milne;

Four characters in search of an author (and love). Ah

C: Remi Adefarasin; E: Sue Wyatt; M: Anne Dudley Moon is unhappily married; her husband, Fung Wai,

Cast: Martin Donovan, Joely Richardson, Ian Hart,

only cares about his work; Tong is a deluded

Jason Flemying, Sam Bould

homosexual who divides his time between the bar

and the bathhouse; and Jie is a young boy who is still

Following the break-up of his marriage after

sexually undecided. But above all, these are four

revealing his homosexuality, GP Martin Wyatt loses

portraits of the bitterness that comes from solitude

custody of his son Oliver to his now ex-wife Hannah

and the incomprehension that derives from repressed

and her new partner Frank. Soon Oliver turns up at

emotions. This is the first film that Kwan directed

his father’s house claiming to have been beaten up by

after revealing he was gay and, as a result, it is the

thugs. After another incident, Martin puts two and

first time he no longer needs to use female alter egos

two together and comes to the conclusion that Frank

in order to express his thoughts and experiences.

has been beating Oliver without Hannah’s knowl-

(42nd Thessaloniki Film Festival)

edge. Martin then begins a long courtroom custody

Cantonese with English subtitles.

battle to win back his son.

Prod Comp: Golden Harvest, Kwan’s Creation Work-

Prod Comp: Scala Productions, Senator Film, Channel 4

shop

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Col-Tri, LionsGate, FilmFour,

Dist/Sales: PonyCanyon

Sogepaq

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Home for the Holidays

home-movie footage of herself as a child and

cheerleader, Oxenberg talks about growing up as a

Foster, Jodie

lesbian and the experience of coming out.

1995; USA; 99 min; Comedy

P: Jodie Foster, Peggy Rajski; W: W. D. Richter;

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, NFVLS

C: Lajos Koltai; E: Lynzee Klingman; M: Mark Isham Home Sweet Home

Cast: Holly Hunter, Robert Downey Jnr, Anne

Bancroft, Dylan McDermott, Steve Guttenburg

Haber, Rosalind

Often billed as Jodie Foster’s first gay film, it stars

1991; UK; 17 min; Documentary

Holly Hunter as a woman at the end of her rope

P: Rebecca Dobbs

who is forced to endure one of the greatest horrors

Lesbians and gays in various housing set-ups discuss

known... a family Christmas. Featuring an all-star

the different strategies that have been adopted by

cast including Robert Downey Jnr as her gay sibling,

them in order to integrate their housing needs with

Anne Bancroft, Dylan McDermott and Steve

their lifestyles.

Guttenburg, this romantic comedy about one wildly

Prod Comp: Maya Vision, Channel 4

eccentric family will leave you not only smiling, but

Dist/Sales: MayaVision

also firm in the belief that the best family is your

h

queer family. (MQFF)

Home You Go

Prod Comp: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Para-

Cullen, Colette

mount Pictures

1993; UK; 11 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: 16MM, FilmsInc, Paramount, Sogepaq, Swank

A tale of ordinary obsession about a dishevelled dyke

who discovers the keys to an older woman’s art deco

flat. In an almost bewitched mood, she settles in to

raid the woman’s life. (Cinenova)

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

Home-Made Melodrama

Duckworth, Jacqui

1982; UK; 51 min; Experimental

Cast: Lyndley Stanley, Cass Bream, Joy Chamberlain,

Madelaine McNamara

An autobiographical view, set in a domestic

landscape, of a lesbian-feminist ménage à trois

involving three women. The love triangle is seen as

difficult, even painful at times, while positive aspects

of the relationships, including sexual exploration, are

shown.

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

Homecoming Queen

Bracewell, Charles

1999; Australia; 45 min; Documentary

Documentary which chronicles the return of Miz

Ima Starr’s/Charles Bracewell’s return to his home

town to face an unhappy childhood, and to celebrate

Hollow Reed

his successful drag present.

Home Movie

Homicidal

Oxenberg, Jan

Castle, William

1973; USA; 12 min; Experimental

1961; USA; 87 min; B&W; Horror

A warm and humorous semi-autobiographical look

P: William Castle; W: Robb White; C: Burnett Guffey; at stereotypes and expectations of lesbianism. Using

E: Edwin H. Bryant; M: Hugo W. Friedhofer

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Cast: Glenn Corbett, Jean Arliss, Eugenie Leontovich,

Homo Heights

Patricia Breslin

(aka: Happy Heights)

The film opens with a young couple deciding to

Moore, Sara

marry on impulse, and going to the registry office.

1998; USA; 92 min; Comedy

After they have taken their vows the young bride

stabs and murders the groom. She goes into hiding

P: Kate Lehmann; W: Sara Moore; C: David Doyle; as the nurse of an elderly mute woman, but the old

E: Vaughn Garland Smith; M: Evan Lurie

woman becomes suspicious and ends up dead too.

Cast: Quentin Crisp, Lea DeLaria, Stephen Sorrentino,

The old woman’s niece discovers that a male friend is

David Fenley

actually the nurse in male drag. It turns out that the

Malcom, an ageing gay icon, is being held prisoner

nurse has had a sex-change operation in order to

by Maria Callous, the all-powerful leader of the gay

cover up his/her crimes.

Mafia in Homo Heights. Planning his escape,

Prod Comp: William Castle Productions, Columbia

Malcom seeks the help of Clementine, a tough-

Dist/Sales: Columbia

talking, soft-hearted driver for the Lavender Cab

Company, who concocts an escape that is literally

Homme Blessé, L’

out of this world! (Wolfe)

h (aka: The Wounded Man)

Prod Comp: Lehmann-Moore Productions

Dist/Sales: Lehmann-Moore, Wolfe, 10%

Chéreau, Patrice

1984; France; 90 min; Drama

P: Ariel Zeitoun, Marie-Laure Reyre, Claude Berri;

W: Patrice Chéreau, Hervé Guibert; C: Renato Berta; E: Denise de Casabianca; M: Albert Ayler, Fiorenzo Carpi Cast: Jean-Hughes Anglade, Vittorio Mezzogiorno,

Claude Berri, Roland Bertin

Henri is a shy, quiet man who comes right out of his

shell and into obsession when he meets a street

hustler. His lust for him finally explodes with

horrible results.

Prod Comp: France 3 Cinéma, Gaumont

Homme Que J’aime, L’

(aka: The Man I Love)

Homo Promo

Giusti, Stéphane

Homo Promo

1997; France; 87 min; Drama

P: Alain Tortevoix, Michel Rivelin; W: Stéphane Giusti; Olson, Jenni

C: Jacques Bouquin; E: Catherine Schwartz;

1991; USA; 75 min; Comedy

M: Lazare Boghossian

P: Jenni Olson

Cast: Jean-Michel Portal, Marcial Di Fonzo Bo,

This fast-paced overview offers a crash course in gay

Mathilde Seigner, Jacques Hansen

and lesbian movie history from 1956–1976, and a

Gay pool boy Martin has made no secret of his crush

colourful look at the best (and worst) Hollywood

on attractive, but straight lifeguard Lucas. Martin’s

hard-sells of gay and lesbian subject matter.

attraction is so compelling that it’s not long before

(Frameline)

Lucas is responding. However, when he learns that

Dist/Sales: Frameline, ArtisticLicense

Martin has full-blown AIDS, he becomes confused

by his feelings of fear and caring. Despite his

Homophobia in Hollywood

feelings, he commits himself to Martin and takes on

the role as Martin’s main caregiver. French with

Beavan, Clare

English subtitles.

1991; UK; 24 min; Documentary

P: Shauna Brown

Prod Comp: Onya Production, La Sept-Arte, Ellipse

Programme

In 1992 the release of Basic Instinct and The Silence

Dist/Sales: ArteFrance

of the Lambs resulted in gay and lesbian activists

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organising nation-wide protests against Hollywood’s

worth seeing as they juxtapose cultural, racial and

portrayal of gay characters in films. Homophobia in

religious understandings of queerness. (MQFF)

Hollywood features interviews with director Paul

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

Verhoeven ( Basic Instinct), screenwriter Ted Tally

Film Festival, 1993: Audience Award for Best Video

( Silence of the Lambs) and producer Howard

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Rosenman ( Father of the Bride) who discuss their

reaction to gay and lesbian critics of their work. Gay

Hooking Up

director Tom Kalin ( Swoon) discusses some of the

difficulties he has with notions of ‘positive’ and

Tec, Roland

‘negative’ representation.

1995; USA; 13 min; Comedy

Prod Comp: Channel 4

Anyone who’s ever done the casual-sex thing will

Dist/Sales: ACMI

smile/cringe with recognition as we follow the urban

mating rituals of five pairs of gay men.

Homophobia: That Painful Problem

Dist/Sales: Pinkplot

Bernard, Lionel

Hope Along the Wind: The Life of Harry

2000; France; 52 min; Documentary

Hay

h

Documentary which explores the realities of

homophobia worldwide. Countries such as the US,

Slade, Eric

China, Cuba, the UK, France and India report

2001; USA; 57 min; Documentary

regular gay hate crimes that are endorsed by

This much-anticipated documentary takes us

politicians, religious leaders, and the general public.

through the fascinating and extraordinary life of

Dist/Sales: Dominant7

Harry Hay; labour organiser, Marxist teacher, and

founding member of the Mattachine Society, one of

Homosexuality: A Film for Discussion

the first gay rights organisations in the US. Harry

has been at centre stage of gay pride in the US for

Creed, Barbara

more than half a century. His story provides a

1974; Australia; 43 min; B&W; Documentary

chronicle of the gay rights movement, as well as a

A group of lesbians and gay men discuss their lives,

history of California in the 20th century. Harry Hay

childhood, school years, growing up, prejudice,

joined the Communist Party in the early 1930s and

family and relationships. All describe the crucial

participated in the San Francisco General Strike of

importance of gay liberation and how it changed

1934. In the mid 1950s he was called before the

their lives. Also included are discussions with parents

House un-American Activities Committee, and

of the group and hilarious street interviews with an

around this time Harry started the Mattachine

often hostile public.

Society. This momentous film features poignant

Dist/Sales: ACMI

interviews with Harry and many of the surviving

original members of this historic and brave group of

Homosexuality and Lesbianism

gay men. In the last 40 years, Harry has immersed

himself in the counterculture youth movement, the

1976; USA; 26 min; Documentary

Radical Fairies, and Native American culture.

Psychologists, psychiatrists and queer people speak

(Frameline)

directly to high-school-age youngsters and respond

Dist/Sales: Frameline

to their questions, concerns and fears about

homosexuality.

Hope is a Thing With Feathers

Prod Comp: Document Associates

Abrahams Wilson, Andy

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild

1999; USA; 28 min; Experimental

Homoteens

A lush and lyrical film built around a poem which

San Francisco poet and artist Beau Riley wrote as his

Jubela, Joan

lover of twelve years lay dying, the film shows one

1993; USA; 60 min; Documentary

man plumbing the depths of his sorrow to find

Five young gays and lesbians from New York talk

meaning through the strength of his mind, imagina-

about their very different lives and sexual identities.

tion, and devotion to his partner. (Open Eye Films)

Vivid and candid autobiographical portraits that are

Dist/Sales: OpenEye, NewDay

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Horror Vacui: The Fear of Emptiness

C: Christopher Munch; E: Christopher Munch

(aka: Horror Vacui: Die Angst vor der Leere)

Cast: Ian Hart, David Angus

Munch ruminates on the possibilities that a

von Praunheim, Rosa

relationship occurred between John Lennon and gay

1984; Germany; 85 min; Drama

Beatles manager Brian Epstein during a trip to

W: Cecil Brown, Marianne Enzensberger, Rosa von

Barcelona in 1963.

Praunheim; C: Elfi Mikesch; E: Mike Shephard, Rosa von Praunheim; M: Maran Gosov

Awards: Sundance Film Festival, 1992: Special Jury

Cast: Lotti Huber, Folkert Milster, Friedrich Steinhauer

Recognition

Prod Comp: Antarctic Pictures

Two young gay men, Hannes and Frankie, find their

Dist/Sales: TLA, Strand, GoodMachine, NFVLS, ACMI

relationship crumbling as one of the men becomes

obsessed with a religious cult called ‘Optimal

Optimism’, run by Madame C, an old Nazi. When

the members find out that Frankie is gay he is

continually raped by both men and women of the

cult. It is left up to Hannes to rescue him.

h Prod Comp: Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion

Horse Dreams in BBQ Country

Baer, Daniel

1996; USA; 20 min; Documentary

This film charms gay and straight audiences alike

with its funny, bittersweet portrayal of the long-time

love between two gay ranchers in the patriotic,

lottery-crazy land of South Texas. Though they

struggle to make ends meet, Mario Borjas—Tejano

to the core—and David Ewell, a Texas transplant,

have somehow managed to fashion a rural life that

has revolved around horses and each other for 14

years. (Frameline)

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Hotel New Hampshire, The

The Hours and Times

Richardson, Tony

House of Pain

1984; USA; 110 min; Comedy, Drama

P: Neil Hartley, Pieter Kroonenburg, David Patterson;

Hoolboom, Mike

W: Tony Richardson; C: David Watkin; E: Robert K.

1995; Canada; 80 min; B&W; Experimental

Lambert; M: Jacques Offenbach

P: Mike Hoolboom; W: Mike Hoolboom; C: Mike Cast: Jodie Foster, Nastassia Kinski, Beau Bridges, Rob

Hoolboom; E: Mike Hoolboom; M: Earle Peach

Lowe, Paul McCrane

Cast: Charles Costello, Paul Couillard, Janieta Eyre

In an attempt to unite his rather peculiar family, a

Portrays different sexual acts in four chapters

man decides to buy an old girls’ school and turn it

( Precious, Scum, Kisses and Shiteater) with industrial into a family-run hotel. The result is a series of wild

rock and soundscapes replacing dialogue.

misadventures and sexual shenanigans, with a

number a gay characters—Foster examines her

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

sexuality with Kinski, dressed in a bear suit. Based

How I Love You

on the novel by John Irving.

Prod Comp: Woodfall, Filmline Productions, Producers

(aka: Shou Bhebbak)

Circle, Yellowbill Productions

Zaatari, Akram

Dist/Sales: Palace, Orion

2001; Lebanon; 29 min; Documentary

Hours and Times, The

Young, Lebanese gay men talk about identity, their

sex lives, their relationships to their bodies and love.

Munch, Christopher

There identities remain secret due to the criminality

1991; USA; 58 min; B&W; Drama

of homosexuality in their home country.

P: Christopher Munch; W: Christopher Munch;

Dist/Sales: Majnounak

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How Old is the River?

and spontaneous lesbian sexual pleasure. The film

(aka: Fuyu no Kappa)

begins with single and coupled women at a poetry

reading. After a poem, the action begins.

Shiori, Kazama

1994; Japan; 115 min; Drama

How to Kill Her

P: Nishida Nobuyoshi, Nishimura Takashi;

W: Kazama Shiori, Ogawa Tomoko; C: Suzuki Akihiko; Simo, Ana Maria

E: Kazama Shiori

1990; USA; 15 min; B&W; Drama

Cast: Ito Akiko, Cho Bang-Ho, Tanabe Seiichi, Wakuta

P: Ela Troyano

Rijin

A moody tale of romance and revenge by New York

Three half-brothers share a house in the country

playwright Ana Maria Simo in a film noir style

near Tokyo. Ichitaro, the eldest, is a failed artist,

incorporating a jazz soundtrack. (WMM)

turned piano teacher. Takeshi, the second, is a

Dist/Sales: WMM

college dropout. The third, Tsuguo, who is not

related by blood, is an art student and has a crush on

Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf

Ichitaro. Their father decides to sell the farm and the

Mora, Philippe

film shows the last few weeks of their lives there.

h

Problems begin when their female cousin Sakeko

1985; USA; 91 min; Horror

arrives and receives attention from Ichitaro.

P: Steven Lane; W: Robert Sarno, Gary Brandner; C: Geoffrey Stephenson; E: Charles Bernstein;

Prod Comp: Fuyu no Kappa Unit Production, First

M: Steve Parsons

Wood Entertainment

Cast: Christopher Lee, Annie McEnroe, Sybil Danning,

Dist/Sales: Uplink

Reb Brown, Marsha A. Hunt

How to Female Ejaculate

Widely lambasted sequel to The Howling sends up of

the horror genre, with Christopher Lee as a werewolf

Kinney, Nan

and Sybil Danning playing Stirba, a bisexual queen

1992; USA; 47 min; Documentary

witch from Transylvania. An investigator discovers a

Female ejaculation: what it is, what it is not, and

worldwide conspiracy of werewolves and with the

how to achieve it. Beginning with a lecture that

help of a turncoat brother, Lee, puts an end to the

focuses on medical particulars and physical descrip-

coven.

tions using charts and diagrams, Fanny Fatale uses

Prod Comp: Granite, Hemdale, Cinema 86, Thorn EMI

her own vagina for a close-up look at feminine

Dist/Sales: Warner, Hemdale, HBO, Republic

ejaculation. She explains that it is more than a

simple orgasm, that particular vaginal exercises help

Hu-Du-Men

bring it about and that there are two kinds of female

(aka: Stage Door)

ejaculation: clitoral and uterine (G-spot). The

second half of the film finds Fatale joined by three

Shu, Kei

women in discussion that concludes with group

1996; Hong Kong; 100 min; Drama

masturbation exercise that brings about several

P: Clifton Ko; W: Raymond To; C: Bill Wong; sexually graphic female eruptions.

E: Chi-leung Kwong, Kei Shu; M: Yoshihide Otomo

Cast: Josephine Siao, Anita Yuen, Daniel Chan, Waise

How to Find your Goddess Spot

Lee

1993; USA; 36 min; Documentary

More gender-bending confusion from Hong Kong

in this powerful melodrama. Hu-Du-Men is the

An exploration of women’s G-spots (or better yet,

term for the imaginary line actors cross when taking

Goddess spots) through the use of the Wondrous

to the stage and surrendering themselves to their

Vulva Puppet, drawings, a road map and, finally a

roles, and no one crosses that line better than Lang

personal, up-close demonstration. After just one

Kim-sum, who is brilliant and believable playing the

viewing, no woman should ever get lost finding her

male roles in a successful Cantonese Opera troupe.

own (and another’s) pleasure zones.

But the gender confusion doesn’t stop when she

Prod Comp: House O’Chicks

leaves the stage. People tend to see her only as her

characters—one devoted female fan desperately

How to Have a Sex Party

wants to marry her—and when her teenage daughter

Mimi falls in love with a girl, Lang begins to

Lane, Dorrie

question her own femininity. Eventually Lang goes

1991; USA; 30 min; Erotica

to the lesbian bar where Mimi’s girlfriend Jojo works

How to Have a Sex Party is 30 minutes of provocative

intending to straighten things out. Instead, Lang

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becomes convinced of Jojo’s genuine feelings for

Hunting Season, The

Mimi and ends up supporting their relationship.

Through it all, Lang must rely on the strengths and

Moreira, Rita

experiences of her on-stage characters to guide her

1989; Brazil; 22 min; Documentary

through her often confusing real life in this award-

In Sao Paulo hunting is not tied to a season—not

winning film from director Kei Shu. Cantonese with

when it comes to the hunting down of homosexuals

English subtitles. (21st San Francisco International

and transvestites. This disturbing documentary

Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

portrays the intolerant climate of the Brazilian

Prod Comp: Ko Chi-sum Productions

metropolis where the police policy amounts to death

Dist/Sales: RimFilm

to homos. Portuguese with English subtitles.

Hubo un Tiempo en que Los Suenos

Dieron Paso a Largas Noches de

Insomnio

Hernandez, Julian

h 1998; Mexico; 50 min; Drama

Bruno, a young man, works at putting up flyers

around town. When he spies handsome Umberto

working at a fairground, the two begin an on-again,

off-again relationship—while Bruno himself is

cruised by an elderly stranger, Paolo. The film’s

psychologically dense characterisations are capped by

Hush!

breathtaking black and white cinematography and

austere direction that recalls Mexico’s legendary

Hush!

Cinema D’Oro. (1998 LA Outfest)

Hashiguchi, Ryosuke

Spanish with no subtitles.

2001; Japan; 135 min; Drama

Hunger, The

P: Hiroo Tsukada, Tomiyasu Ishikawa; W: Ryosuke

Hashiguchi; C: Shogo Ueno; E: Ryosuke Hashiguchi; Scott, Tony

M: Bobby McFerrin

1983; UK; 94 min; Horror

Cast: Seiichi Tanabe, Kazuya Takahashi, Reiko Kataoka

P: Richard A. Shepherd; W: Ivan Davis, Thomas Davis Naoya is living a self-centred life as a gay man, but

Jnr, James Costigan; C: Stephen Galdblatt, Tom

he has the sense that there is something missing in

Mangravite; E: Pamela Power; M: Michael Rubin,

his life. By chance, he meets and falls in love with

Denny Jaeger

Katsuhiro, and they begin to see each other. Then a

Cast: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan

woman named Asako appears on the scene and

Sarandon, Cliff De Young

proposes that they conceive a child together. Naoya

A classic vampire story with Deneuve and Bowie as

opposes the idea, and he is irritated with Katsuhiro,

lovers. But as the fountain-of-youth wears out for

who has hidden his homosexuality and is generally

Bowie, Deneuve is looking for a new mate, who

indecisive. While caught in these tangled emotions,

turns up in the form of Sarandon, a doctor who is

the three are visited by Katsuhiro’s brother and

researching ageing. A very slick film, with Deneuve

sister-in-law. The sister-in-law, obsessed with the

and Sarandon looking sumptuous, and making

division of the family’s property, has learned about

convincing lovers.

Asako and wants to end her relationship with

Katsuhiro. As Naoya, Katsuhiro, and Asako struggle

Prod Comp: MGM, United Artists, Peerford Ltd

along, they reach a point where they must decide

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, MGM

what family means and how they will choose to live

Hungry Hearts

their lives. (www.cine.co.jp)

Japanese with English subtitles.

Kinney, Nan / Sundahl, Debi

Dist/Sales: Strand

1989; USA; 30 min; Drama

Set at an ocean resort where two real-life strippers,

Hustler White

Pepper and Reva, engage in sensual and passionate

Castro, Rick / La Bruce, Bruce

lovemaking.

1995; Canada; 80 min; Erotica

Prod Comp: Fatale Media

P: Jürgen Brüning, Bruce La Bruce;

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W: Rick Castro, Bruce La Bruce; C: Rick Castro, James I am a Camera

Carman; E: Rider Siphron

Cornelius, Henry

Cast: Tony Ward, Bruce La Bruce, Alex Austin, Kevin

1955; UK; 98 min; B&W; Drama

Kramer

P: Jack Clayton; W: John Collier; C: Guy Green; A wild tale about the street hustlers on the Santa

E: Clive Donner; M: Malcolm Arnold

Monica Boulevard in California, USA. It centres on

Cast: Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters,

Monti, a rather clumsy street stud, reminiscent of a

Ron Randell, Lea Seidl

Joe Dallesandro of the 1990s. We follow Monti on

his daily routine of bizarre encounters, other hustlers

In a story based on the same tale as Cabaret, Julie

and clients along the sleazy underground of Los

Harris portrays the half-courtesan Sally Bowles

Angeles.

opposite Harvey’s Isherwood with wit and intelli-

gence, a role she had also played on the New York

Prod Comp: Dangerous to Know Swell Co., Hustler

stage. By general consensus, I am a Camera is less

White Productions

successful in portraying the amoral, twilight world of

Dist/Sales: Potential, Strand, Wolfe, Millivres, NFVLS,

Berlin during the last days of The Weimar Republic

ACMI

and the unconventional relationship between Bowles

and Isherwood, repressing the latter’s homosexuality.

i

As it was, the film ran into censorship problems in

the United States, and Isherwood harshly dismissed

it as ‘disgusting ... near pornographic trash’.

Prod Comp: Remus Films, Romulus

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, Carlton

I am a Man

Devakul, M. L. Bhandevanop

1988; Thailand; 115 min; Drama

A Thai film adaptation of Boys in the Band, a Matt

Crowley play. A group of drag queens and a macho

dancer celebrate the birthday of one of the ‘girls’.

Just as they are all dancing around, a straight friend

unexpectedly walks in.

Dist/Sales: TMPPA

I am my Own Woman

(aka: Ich Bin Meine Eigene Frau)

von Praunheim, Rosa

1992; Germany; 90 min; Drama

W: Valentin Passoni; C: Lorenz Haarmann; E: Mike Shephard; M: Joachim Litty

Cast: Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Jens Taschner, Ichgola

Androgyn

True-life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, the best-

known transvestite in East Germany. Miss Charlotte

survived the Nazi reign and the repression of the

Communists as a transvestite and helped start the

German gay liberation movement.

Hustler White

Dist/Sales: Cinevista

I Almost Feel Like a Tourist

I am not What you Want

McKay, Barry

1999; Australia; 10 min; Experimental

Hung, Kit

2001; Hong Kong; 49 min; Drama

A commentary on community and stereotypes from

both sides of the Atlantic. Not all gays and lesbians

W: Kit Hung

feel like they belong.

Having recently come out to his conservative family,

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Ricky is now sleeping temporarily on the apartment

drug overdose or, when the options run out, suicide.

floor of Mark, his best, straight friend. This

Tragically, few transsexual prostitutes make it to their

meditative film explores the relationships which exist

twenty-fourth birthday or to their dream of being a

between lover, between friends, and the blurred

fully-fledged woman. Estranged from their families

boundaries between them. Cantonese with English

and from a society that refuses to accept that gender

subtitles.

exists in the heart and the head as opposed to below

Dist/Sales: Hung

the waist, they live day-by-day trading their bodies

in one of the most dangerous markets around.

I am the Camera Dying

(MQFF)

Dist/Sales: Wildshot

Gilbert, Sky

1998; Canada; 30 min; Experimental

I, Eugenia

Cast: Tracy Wright

A gender-warped tale of Marvette, a recently

Finnane, Gabrielle

deceased heroin addict, who returns to this world as

1998; Australia; 30 min; Drama

a gorgeous gay sailor who just wants to cruise the

W: Gabrielle Finnane

boys. A who’s who of local luminaries lend a hand in

The strange life of Eugenia Falleni, also known as

i

this funky, funny, experimental ode to mixing it up

Harry Crawford and Jean Ford: sailor, husband,

and making it work, no matter what the circum-

convicted murderer, boarding house madam. Born

stances. (CFMDC)

in Italy, Eugenia came to Australia at the turn of the

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

century.

Prod Comp: Curious Media

I Became a Lesbian and so Can you

I Exist: Voices from the Lesbian and Gay

Donahue, Lizzie

1994; USA; 11 min; Comedy

Middle Eastern Community

Outlines a path to true happiness, an improved

Barbosa, Peter / Lenoir, Garrett

social life and magical powers in the form of an

2002; USA; 56 min; Documentary

infomercial.

P: Peter Barbosa

An intimate look at how queers of Middle Eastern

I Don’t Just Want you to Love Me

origin share a common experience despite the

(aka: Ich will nicht nur, daß ihr mich liebt)

differences in their religious and cultural realities.

Pflaum, Hans Gunther

Prod Comp: EyeBite Productions

1992; Germany; 96 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: Eyebite

P: Theo Hinz; W: Hans Günther Pflaum;

I Hate Faggy Fag Fag

C: Manfred Burkle, Werner Kurz; E: Ingrid Wolff

Made to commemorate the tenth anniversary of

MacCubbin, Jeffrey

Fassbinder’s death, Pflaum negotiates the relation-

2000; USA; 10 min; Drama

ship between Fassbinder’s life and his films by

Three young gay men prepare for an evening of

intercutting interviews with family and friends, such

bitching, back stabbing and the destruction of other

as Hanna Schygulla and Volker Schlondorff, with

men’s self esteem.

interviews of Fassbinder himself and excerpts from

Dist/Sales: LittleBelly

his 40-odd films.

I.K.U

I Don’t Wanna be a Boy

Cheang, Shu Lea

Behrens, Alec / Muijser, Marijn

2000; Japan; 74 min; Sci-Fi

1994; The Netherlands; 30 min; Documentary

P: Takashi Asai; W: Shu Lea Cheang;

I Don’t Wanna be a Boy goes right to the heart of the

C: Tetsusya Yamoto; E: Kazuhiro Shirao

dangers of transsexual prostitution in the meat

Cast: Miho Ariga, Yumeko Sasaki, Ayumilas Tokito,

market district of New York City. Centring on six

Maria Yumeno

young black and Hispanic transsexuals from New

Early in the 21st century, the Genom Corporation

York’s poorest neighbourhoods, the ghettos in

advanced the sexual revolution to the GEN-XXX

Brooklyn and the Bronx, this documentary follows

phase—creating a being virtually identical to a

them through the harsh reality of their daily lives.

human—known as the GEN-XXX IKU Coder,

These ‘girls’ regularly face death by violence, AIDS,

superior in their hard-drive bodies, and at least equal

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in insatiability, to the programming engineers who

W: Alfonso Albacete, David Menkes, Lucia Etxebarria;

created them. This is their story. Both live-action

C: Gonzalo F. Berridi; E: Miguel Santamaria;

bisexual manga, and an erotic homage to Blade

M: Paco Ortga, M. A. Collado

Runner, this sumptuously produced, visually

Cast: Jorge Sanz, Santiago Magill, Boy George

startling film features breathtaking animation,

An oddball exploration of the sacrifices we make to

gender fluidity, and lashings of hetero and homo

regain lost love, I Love you Baby, stars Belle Epoque’s action. Japanese with English subtitles. (MQFF)

Jorge Sanz as Marcos, a country boy who comes to

Prod Comp: Uplink Co

Madrid to find his fortune. Instead he finds Daniel,

Dist/Sales: Uplink

a struggling actor with a penchant for Boy George

and an idealistic approach to relationships. A sweet-

I Know a Place

natured romance blossoms between the two men,

Farrow, Jane / Mitchell, Roy

but fate intervenes when Marcos gets a blow to the

1999; Canada; 30 min; Documentary

head (mirroring Boy George’s own real life stage

accident some years back). In the resulting confu-

W: Roy Mitchell

sion, Marisol, a vivacious Dominican immigrant

An intimate, funny and completely engaging family

who has had an unrequited crush on Marcos, gets a

photo album of a thriving little queer community

chance to make her move (with the help of her

i

buried in the heart of a rugged and isolated Ontario

gossipy circle of Latina girlfriends). How far is

steel town of Sault Ste. Marie. Bob Goddere is at the

Daniel willing to go to get back the love of his life?

centre of this historic demimonde. Director/writer

Let’s just say that, above the objections of his best

Roy Mitchell accesses this intriguing story through

gal-pal, he gets to put his acting skills to the ultimate

his personal relationship with Bob and the commu-

test. Combining Hollywood-style high-concept

nity as someone who grew up in the Sault, and like

comedy, a Caribbean bachata and merengue-flavored

so many young queers, came out at Bob’s parties in

soundtrack featuring stars such as Chi Chi Peralta,

the 1970s and 80s. Mother Goddere, as he’s known

and a post-modern sensibility, this film will entice

to most, hosted over two decades worth of queer

even those it ultimately infuriates. (2002 Miami Gay

dance parties in the basement of his small town

& Lesbian Film Festival)

house with his lover Jean-Guy. He was the central

Spanish with English subtitles.

figure of Sault Ste Marie’s gay underground, its

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox

organiser, therapist and archivist. I Know a Place is

an important and refreshing contribution to queer

Dist/Sales: Alquimia, 20thCenturyFox

history and geography. (CFMDC)

I Love you, I’ll Kill you

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

(aka: Ich Liebe Dich, Ich Töte Dich)

I Like You, I Like You Very Much

Brandner, Uwe

(aka: Anata-Ga Suki Desu, Dai Suki Desu)

1971; Germany; 90 min; Drama

P: Uwe Brandner, Karin Thome; W: Uwe Brandner;

Oki, Hiroyuki

C: André Dubreuil; E: Heidi Genée; M: Uwe Brandner, 1994; Japan; 60 min; Drama

Heinz Hetter, Kid Olanf

P: Suzuki Akihiro; W: Hiroyuki Oki; C: Hiroyuki Oki; Cast: Rolf Becker, Hannes Fuchs, Helmut Brasch

E: Hiroyuki Oki

Cast: Shibuya Kazunori, Kitakaze Hisanori

A young schoolteacher moves to an apparently

idyllic remote village. He meets a hunter and they

Shin lives happily with his boyfriend Yu until one

begin a secret love affair. The teacher, for some

day he approaches a stranger with the proposition ‘I

reason, begins to lose his mind and starts poaching

like you...’ Thus begins the ultimate voyeuristic trip,

the village game. The hunter must now track down

extremely candid in its sex scenes, as both boys

his escaped lover.

embark on a series of sexual encounters. Japanese

with English subtitles.

I Shall not be Removed: The Life of

Prod Comp: Stance Company

Marlon Riggs

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer, ACMI

Everett, Karen

I Love you Baby

1996; USA; 58 min; Documentary

Albacete, Alfonso / Menkes, David

Marlon Riggs was an African–American gay

2001; Spain; 110 min; Drama

filmmaker, scholar, cultural commentator and

P: Alfonso Albacete, David Menkes, Francisco Ramos;

activist. This documentary looks at his life, his

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special relationships with his family, his politics, his

vicereine. At one point, she becomes involved in a

white lover and the frenetic pace of his work once he

plot to undermine the authority of the archbishop

was diagnosed with AIDS.

who has conspired to stop her work. A powerful and

Dist/Sales: CaliforniaNewsreel, Everett

intense film with a superb performance by Assumpta

Serna in the lead role. Spanish with English subtitles.

I Shot Andy Warhol

Prod Comp: Gea Cinematografica

Harron, Mary

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures, TLA

1995; USA; 100 min; Drama

P: Tom Kalin, Christine Vachon; W: Mary Harron,

Daniel Minahan; C: Ellen Kuras; E: Keith Reamer; M: John Cale

Cast: Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Martha Plimpton,

Stephen Dorff

Valerie Solanas is a self-described lesbian feminist

who makes her living with a street hustle here and

i

some prostitution there, but whose real drive in life

is radical feminist writing. Through her friend

Candy Darling she connects with Andy Warhol and

his Factory gang, and comes to believe that he is

going to produce one of her plays. He keeps

stringing her along, and she keeps getting more

I Think I Do

desperate, and finally, in 1968, she goes over the

edge.

I Think I Do

Prod Comp: Valerie Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn Com-

Sloan, Brian

pany

1997; USA; 90 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: SamuelGoldwyn, Wolfe, Orion, Swank

P: Marcus Hu, Lane Janger; W: Brian Sloan; C: Milton Kam; E: François Keraudren; M: Brahm Wenger

Cast: Alexis Arquette, Christian Maelen, Lauren Vélez,

Jamie Harrold

Bob has a mad crush on college frat boy roommate

Brendan. Brendan finds out, freaks out and sleeps

with Sarah. Five years later they and college chums

all reunite for a wedding. As everyone parties and

consumes just enough booze, libidos are inflamed

and inhibitions lowered. Is the bedroom-eyed

Brendan really longing for Bob? Will Sarah bed

Brendan, if only for old times’ sake? Will Sterling

marry Bob and get his hoped-for wedding?

(Millivres)

I Shot Andy Warho

Prod Comp: Danger Filmworks, Sauce Productions,

I, the Worst of All

House of Pain Productions

(aka: Yo, la Peor de Todas)

Dist/Sales: Millivres, Strand, Wolfe, 10%

Bemberg, María Luisa

I Vitelloni

1990; Argentina, France; 105 min; Drama

(aka: The Young and the Passionate)

P: Lita Stantic; W: María Luisa Bemberg, Antonio

Larreta; C: Félix Monti; E: Juan Carlos Macías;

Fellini, Federico

M: Luis María Serra

1953; France, Italy; 104 min; B&W; Drama

Cast: Dominique Sanda, Assumpta Serna, Hector

P: Mario De Vecchi, Lorenzo Pegoraro; W: Federico Alterio, Alberto Segado

Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli; C: Carlo Carlini, With the use of flashback the film reveals the story

Otello Martelli, Luciano Trasatti; E: Rolando Benedetti;

of 17th century Mexican poet and nun Sister Juana

M: Nino Rota

Inés de la Cruz, from her impoverished childhood to

Cast: Alberto Sordi, Franco Interlenghi, Franco Fabrizi,

her exiled life in a convent. It shows her develop as a

Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini

writer and her intimate relationship with a beautiful

A study of five young men trapped in a small town

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in the Adriatic who are restless middle-class

I’ll Love you Forever - Tonight

layabouts unable to rise above the provincial

wasteland they inhabit as they cope with their

Bravo, Michael Edgar

emerging adulthood. Italian with English subtitles.

1992; USA; 80 min; B&W; Drama

E: Edgar Michael Bravo

Prod Comp: Peg Film, Cite Film, API Productions, Cité

Cast: Paul Marius, Jason Adams, Roger Shank, David

Films, Peg-Film

Poynter

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ACMI

Billed as the first gay feature from a Latino, Bravo’s

I Want What I Want

debut film is shot in crisp black and white and

boasts some fine performances from a cast of young

Dexter, John

unknowns. A sullen young photographer is coaxed

1972; UK; 90 min; Drama

by his sometime lover into spending the weekend

P: Raymond Stross; W: Gillian Freeman;

with some friends at a Palm Springs hideaway. What

C: Gerry Turpin; E: Peter Thornton; M: Johnny Harris is supposed to be a restful little vacation turns into a

Cast: Anne Heywood, Michael Coles, Paul Rogers,

fairly joyless round of hard drinking and cold-

Sheila Reid

blooded sexual games played by five gorgeous men

A young man, played by Heywood, leaves his family

who seem totally at a loose end with their lives in the

i

in order to live his life fully as a woman called

urban fast lane. (MQFF)

Wendy. Wendy is propositioned by a lesbian but

Prod Comp: Cinema Bravo

turns her down and finally falls for a man. When he

Dist/Sales: TLA

kisses and fondles Wendy he realises he’s just kissed a

man and beats her. In the end Wendy finally gets the

I’m Starving

sex-change operation she has always wanted.

Yau, Ching

Prod Comp: Marayan

1998; USA; 12 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: OrionClassics, BFI

An erotic love tale between a ghost and a woman

I Will not Think about Death Anymore

who co-habit in a small apartment in New York’s

Chinatown. The ghost that eats Chinese takeout

Buncel, Irene

menus and paper money contrasts starkly with the

1993; Canada; 19 min; Drama

human, a working class African–American woman,

A Jewish woman cannot sleep following the death of

who eats only ramen. (Frameline)

a friend from AIDS. She meets a handsome leather

Dist/Sales: Frameline

dyke called Death who takes her on a trip during

which her fears of death are eloquently examined.

I’m the One that I Want

(MQFF)

Coleman, Lionel

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

2000; USA; 96 min; Documentary

I’ll Be your Mirror

Famed bisexual US stand up comic Margaret Cho

live in concert.

Coulthard, Edmund / Goldin, Nan

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

1995; USA; 49 min; Documentary

P: Adam Barker; W: Edmund Coulthard, Nan Goldin;

I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing

C: Patrick Duval; E: Paul Binns;

Rozema, Patricia

M: Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, Eartha Kitt

1987; Canada; 83 min; Drama

An autobiographical account by Nan Goldin who

P: Patricia Rozema, Alexandra Raffe; W: Patricia

photographed the drag scene of Boston in the 1970s

Rozema; C: Douglas Koch; E: Patricia Rozema;

and New York’s gay heaven. She photographed it all,

M: Mark Korven

from the inside. AIDS changed her world as her

Cast: Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, Ann-Marie

friends both male and female died. A rare autobiog-

MacDonald, John Evans

raphy that manages to avoid being too egotistical or

too coy.

This is the delightful story of Polly, an awkward

secretary for the curator of an art gallery. Polly is also

Awards: Berlin International Film Festival, 1996: Teddy

an avid photographer and tries anonymously to get

Award for Best Feature

the curator to buy her photographs. She becomes

Prod Comp: Blast Films

infatuated with her lesbian boss, who is in a

Dist/Sales: BBC-Enterprises

relationship with a beautiful young artist named

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Mary. The film moves in and out of reality and

If all Goes Well I’ll Meet you on the Next Train

fantasy with an interesting use of video and film

technology which never becomes overpowering. A

Rebehy, Mario Alves

very warm and uplifting film that everyone can

1995; Brazil, Italy; 20 min; Drama

enjoy. It is the first feature film from Rozema who is

A thief manages to entangle an Italian officer in a

also credited with When Night is Falling.

scheme that will change the officer’s life forever.

Awards: Cannes Film Festival, 1987: Young Cinema

Award (Patricia Rozema)

If She Grows Up Gay

Prod Comp: Vos, National Film Board of Canada,

Goodman, Karen Sloe

Téléfilm Canada

1983; USA; 23 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: Palace, Miramax, BFI

A blue collar African–American mother, talks about

Icarus

her pregnancy and raising her daughter with her

lesbian lover. (Frameline)

Balfour, Patricia

Dist/Sales: Frameline

1998; Australia; 13 min; Drama

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Icarus, a young Greek man, falls to his death on the

If She only Knew

shore of a rocky island. Was it just like the myth—

Wynne, Stephanie

‘Icarus getting too close to the sun’—or was

something more sinister at hand? A tragic tale of a

1999; USA; 30 min; Drama

love triangle fuelled by jealousy and deception, set in

Zaire develops a crush on Frankie, one of the

the searing sun of the Greek islands.

delivery ‘men’ that come to her office. But it turns

Dist/Sales: BigFilm

out Frankie isn’t all that he seems.

Dist/Sales: GBF

Ice Palace, The

If the Family Fits

Blom, Per

1987; Norway; 80 min; Drama

Kearns, Patricia

W: Per Blom; C: Halvor Næss; M: Geir Bøhren, Bent Åserud 1994; Canada; 51 min; Drama

Cast: Hilde Martinsen, Line Storesund, Merete Moen,

The Delaneys are engaged in the process of

Sigrid Huun, Vidar Sandem

reconfiguring their family—Mom leaves her role as

Two 11-year-old girls from a remote Norwegian

happy housewife behind, Dad announces he is gay

town, Unn and Siss, form a deep friendship. One

and the youngest daughter becomes a single mother.

day while playing they remove each other’s clothes,

Dist/Sales: CinemaLibre

an act that awakens their sexual consciousness. They

both become very disturbed by the feelings they

If These Walls Could Talk 2

discover. Unn, unable to face her friend the next day,

Anderson, Jane / Coolidge, Martha / Heche, Anne

runs away and finds herself lost in a frozen waterfall.

2000; USA; 94 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Norsk Film

P: Mary Kane; W: Jane Anderson, Anne Heche, Alex

If

Sichel, Sylvia Sichel; C: Paul Elliott, Peter Deming,

Robbie Greenberg; E: Margaret Goodspeed;

Anderson, Lindsay

M: Basil Poledouris

1968; UK; 112 min; Drama

Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Chloe Sevigny, Michelle

P: Michael Medwin, Lindsay Anderson; W: David

Williams, Ellen DeGeneres, Sharon Stone

Sherwin; C: Miroslav Ondricek; E: David Glodwell; One house—three generations of lesbians. This star-M: Marc Wilkinson

studded lesbian trilogy looks at three sets of lesbians

Cast: Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard

from the 1960s to the present, creating an entertain-

Warwick, Robert Swann, Christine Noonan

ing history of the modern lesbian experience. Edith

Constructed in eight chapters If is an indictment on

mourns the loss of her long-term partner in the first

the British boy’s school system. Through each chapter

segment, set in 1961, while her former partner’s ‘real

we follow Mick and his mostly younger friends

family’ take possession of the home she has lived in

through a series of indignities and abuse that makes

throughout their relationship. More than 10 years

any fond feelings toward these schools difficult. Mick

later, another lesbian moves into the house which is

and his friends eventually violently rebel.

now the site of a politically correct obsessed feminist

Prod Comp: Memorial Enterprises, Paramount

collective. Things get interesting when butch young

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, Paramount, VSM

Amy falls for femme Linda. The final third, written

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and directed by Anne Heche, sees a yuppy couple

Immacolata e Concetta - l’altra gelosia

(played by Ellen Degeneres and Sharon Stone)

happily ensconced in the home, but facing the

Piscicelli, Salvatore

pressures (and comedies) of searching for the perfect

1979; Italy; 110 min; Drama

sperm donor. (MQFF)

W: Carla Apuzzo, Salvatore Piscicelli; C: Emilio Bestetti; M: Rudy Beytelman

Prod Comp: HBO, Team Todd

Cast: Ida Benedetto, Tommaso Bianco, Marcella

Dist/Sales: HBO, Wolfe, ACMI, Swank

Michelangeli

Ifti

Immacolata and Concetta meet and fall in love while

both serving sentences in prison. When they are

Majid, Hajira

released, the two women move in together creating a

1998; USA; 20 min; Documentary

scandal and pushing away their family, friends and

A gay Pakistani poet makes waves in his adopted

Concetta’s embittered husband. Probably the first

home of Chicago.

Italian lesbian film too explicit at the time to find a

Dist/Sales: QueenFAD

distributor. Italian with English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Antea Films

Illegal Tender

Dist/Sales: AchabFilm

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Bettell, Paul

Immigration

1988; UK; 14 min; Experimental

Shot in London’s East End, Illegal Tender follows

1991; UK; 11 min; Documentary

one punkish lad’s pursuit of another—through a

A short documentary on the discrimination of

contemporary wasteland dripping with symbols.

immigration laws against lesbian and gay couples,

(Frameline)

showing different case histories.

Dist/Sales: Salzgeber

Prod Comp: Channel 4

Image in the Snow

Impossible on Saturday

Maas, Willard

Joffé, Alex

1945; USA; 30 min; B&W; Experimental

1966; France, Israel, Italy; 115 min; Comedy

P: Willard Maas

P: Jacques Steiner, Yitzhak Agadati, Joseph Carl;

A ‘film poem’ by a member of the early American

W: Joseph Carl, Alex Joffé, John Perry, Jacques Steiner,

film avant-grade, Willard Maas. This is a

Shabtai Tevet; C: Jean Bougoin; E: Eric Pluet; M: Sasha psychodrama expressing a young homosexual’s

Argov

isolation and alienation, accompanied by a lyrical

Cast: Robert Hirsch, Geula Noni

abstract verse commentary.

A conductor wills his vast holdings to the state of

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, Canyon

Jerusalem, but when his father’s ghost tells him he

must atone for his sins by getting his sons to marry

Images

before the Sabbath, his plan is in danger. One of his

sons, a transvestite, refuses to marry.

Liss, Janet

1986; USA; 54 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Athos Films, Meroz Films, Steno Film

A lesbian couple, in a happy relationship, is tested by

Impromptu

the arrival of another woman. A tender and erotic

love story with good portrayals of the women.

Lapine, James

1991; France, UK; 106 min; Comedy

Imagining October

P: Stuart Oken, Daniel A. Sherkow; W: Sarah

Kernochan; C: Bruno de Keyzer; E: Michael Ellis; Jarman, Derek

M: John Strauss

1984; UK; 27 min; Experimental

Cast: Julian Sands, Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy

Influenced by the miners strikes of Thatcher’s

Patinkin, Bernadette Peters

Britain, raids on gay culture and his questioning of

A comic look at the love affair between the strong-

the British film industry, Imagining Octobe r is a

willed novelist, George Sand, a cross-dressing, cigar-

meditation on art and politics, the individual and

smoking woman and composer Frederic Chopin. It

the state.

is set in an English mansion where Chopin, Liszt

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and artist Delacroix are on summer vacation. Sand,

backstage visit from her old flame Sandra Bernhard,

who has a crush on Chopin, arrives unexpectedly.

and some rather bitchy repartee as the only straight

Prod Comp: Sovereign, CLG Films, Governor Produc-

dancing boy gets a very hard time from the rest of

tions, Les Films Ariane

the troupe.

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, ACMI, Col-Tri, Hemdale

Prod Comp: Propaganda, Boy Toy Productions,

Miramax

Improper Conduct

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, 16MM, Miramax

(aka: Mauvaise Conduite)

In My Father’s House

Almendros, Néstor / Jiménez Leal, Orlando

1984; France; 115 min; Documentary

Simmons, Aishah Shahidah

Cast: Susan Sontag, Lorenzo Monreal, Jorge Lago, Julio

1996; USA; 15 min; Experimental

Medina

Award winning African–American director Simmons

A powerful documentary revealing the persecution

explores the coming out process, through introspec-

of intellectuals and homosexuals in Castro’s Cuba.

tion and interviews with her family and friends.

During that period thousands of homosexuals were

Explores the issues of race, gender, homophobia, race

i

rounded up, sent to labour camps and tortured—

and misogyny.

often having been betrayed by their families and

friends, a situation reminiscent of Nazi Germany.

In on Earth as it is in Heaven

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

Crookshank, Ross

Film Festival, 1984: Best Documentary

1996; UK; 36 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Antenne-2, Les Films du Losange

Gabriel is a man obsessed with sex, yet unable to

In a Year of Thirteen Moons

find the love he subconsciously craves. This gritty

and often confronting tale explores one view of the

(aka: In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden)

adult life of gay men.

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner

1978; Germany; 123 min; Drama

In & Out

W: Rainer Werner Fassbinder; C: Rainer Werner

Oz, Frank

Fassbinder; E: Rainer Werner Fassbinder;

1997; USA; 90 min; Comedy

M: Peer Raben

P: Scott Rudin; W: Paul Rudnick; C: Rob Hahn; Cast: Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John,

E: Daniel P. Hanley, John Jympson; M: Marc Shaiman Elisabeth Trissenaar, Eve Mattes

Cast: Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Matt Dillon, Debbie

Tells the story of the doomed life of a transsexual

Reynolds, Tom Selleck

who underwent a sex change operation to please

Howard Brackett is a popular high school teacher

another man. Now she must deal with rejection by

friends and family alike. German with English

whose life is thrown into chaos when, on the eve of

subtitles.

his wedding, an ex-student (now a successful actor)

mentions him in his Academy Award acceptance

Prod Comp: Filmverlag der Autoren, Pro-ject

speech, and then inadvertently outs him as gay. The

Filmproduktion, Tango Film

small town where he lives goes into turmoil with a

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ACMI

media invasion desperate to cover the outing, and

In Bed with Madonna

meet the ‘gay’ teacher. One of the reporters, (a gay

man played by Tom Selleck), decides to do a large

(aka: Madonna: Truth or Dare)

feature on the teacher for his TV show. Howard and

Keshishian, Alek

the reporter notice a spark between them, and after a

1991; USA; 119 min; Documentary

rather long kiss Howard must now face the truth.

P: Jay Roewe, Tim Clawson, Lisa Hollingshead;

Prod Comp: Paramount, Spelling Films

C: Robert Leacock, Doug Nichol, Marc Reshovsky,

Dist/Sales: UIP, Wolfe, NFVLS, ParamountHV, Swank

Daniel Pearl, Christophe Lanzenberg, Toby Phillips;

E: Barry Alexander Brown, John Murray

In Pursuit of Prince/ess Charming

Cast: Madonna, Sandra Bernhard, Pedro Almodóvar,

Antonio Banderas, Warren Beatty

1991; UK; 20 min; Documentary

A frank look at the superstar during her 1990 world

Magazine style documentary piece which looks at

tour. For those with a queer interest, the most

lesbian and gay relationships.

interesting parts of the documentary include a

Prod Comp: Channel 4

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In the Best Interests of the Children

E: David Ray; M: Dave Grusin

Cast: Glen Close, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg,

Reid, Frances / Stevens, Elizabeth / Zheutlin, Cathy

Robert Sean Leonard, David Strathairn

1977; USA; 53 min; Documentary

Cast: Betty Knickerbocker, Lorraine Norman, Pat

Danny is dying of AIDS, and so decides to return

Norman

home to his family for his last few months. He

shares an incredible closeness with his mother, which

This groundbreaking documentary on lesbian

causes problems with his father and sister.

mothering portrays the diversity of experience, race

and class among eight lesbian mothers and their

Prod Comp: Frederick Zollo Productions

children. They describe the difficulties and preju-

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, HBO, Swank

dices they must overcome in order to live together,

and their feelings about their family lives.

In the Shadow of the Sun

Prod Comp: Iris Films

Jarman, Derek

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, WMM

1980; UK; 50 min; Experimental

P: James MacKay

In the Flesh (1997)

Described as ‘very personal’ with a dreamlike

i

Taylor, Ben

repetitive quality, Jarman’s film uses home movie

1997; USA; 105 min; Drama

footage to express a mythology and dabbles with

P: Julie R. Lee; W: Ben Taylor; C: Brian Gurley; ideas relating to magic alchemy and ritual, allowing

M: Eddie Horst

dream-images to drift and collide at random.

Cast: Dane Ritter, Ed Corbin, Roxzane T. Mims, Adrian

Prod Comp: Dark Pictures

Roberts

Dist/Sales: ACMI, BFI

Oliver Beck is 21, good looking, clean-cut and a

In this House of Brede

product of an upper class family. He’s also leading a

double life—student by day and street hustler by

Schaefer, George

night. When he meets Philip Kirsch, undercover cop

1975; USA; 100 min; Drama

working Atlanta’s drug enforcement branch, secrets

P: George Schaefer; W: James Costigan;

collide. All too soon, their fragile trust is shaken

C: Chris Challis; E: Ronald J. Fagan; M: Peter Matz when Oliver becomes the prime suspect in a murder

Cast: Diana Rigg, Gwen Watford, Dennis Quilley,

case, and detective Kirsch reluctantly becomes his

Pamela Brown

only alibi. (Wolfe)

A sophisticated London businesswoman throws it all

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, 10%

away to become a Benedictine nun. At the convent a

In the Flesh (2000)

young nun develops a crush on an older nun, but

she finds it difficult to come to terms with her

McLennan, Gordon

feelings and can’t reciprocate. Based on the novel by

2000; USA; 45 min; Documentary

Rumer Godden.

Introducing us to four very different people who

Prod Comp: Tomorrow Entertainment

identify themselves as transsexuals, In the Flesh

Dist/Sales: CBS

explores traditional assumptions about gender and

what happens when a person’s inner sense of identity

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome

conflicts with society’s expectations. Rose, Mirha,

Anger, Kenneth

Peter and Chris speak frankly about sexuality,

1954; USA; 38 min; Experimental

relationships, family and self. They also discuss the

need for social support for transsexuals and for

Avant-garde film derived from an Aleister Crowley

tolerance and equality. Most importantly, they talk

ritual where cult members take on the identity of

about healing. This film is an inspiring look at how

gods or goddesses.

these individuals are trying to gain control of their

Dist/Sales: BFI

lives in all aspects—in the mind, in the heart, and in

the flesh. (Cinema Guild)

Incidental Journey

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild, Heathcliff

(aka: Haijiao Tianya)

In the Gloaming

Chen, Jofei

2001; Taiwan; 60 min; Drama

Reeve, Christopher

W: Jofei Chen; C: Liou Berg, Zh-van Zhang; M: Du-che Tu 1997; USA; 62 min; Drama

Cast: Wan-jung Wang, Su-li Wu, Vicky Chiang

P: Nellie Nugiel; W: Will Scheffer; C: Frederick Elmes; Incidental Journey is a road movie in which Ching is

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forced to take another look at herself when she meets

Independently Blue

the mysteriously attractive Hsiang on her travels.

(2002 Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film

Neal, Sarah

Festival) Mandarin with English subtitles.

1997; Australia; 11 min; Experimental

P: Sarah Neal, Julianne Lawson, Jo Erskine;

Dist/Sales: ChenJ

W: Sarah Neal

Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls

In a lesbian cabaret an older woman reminisces

in Love, The

about a sultry jazz club, feather boas and exquisite

looking women.

Maggenti, Maria

Dist/Sales: BigFilm

1995; USA; 93 min; Comedy

P: Dolly Hall; W: Maria Maggenti; C: Tami Reiker; E: Susan Graff; M: Terry Dame, Tom Judson

Cast: Nicole Parker, Laurel Holloman, Maggie Moore,

Kate Stanfford, Sabrina Artel

This film is a teen romance with a twist. Evie,

i

sheltered, rich and black, meets diesel dyke Randy.

Their mixed marriage is spawned in the passing of

locker-room love notes, and a shared appreciation of

poetry. Their lifestyles are directly opposed. Evie

lives a privileged uptown existence, and Randy lives

in a happy home of wayward dykes with her lesbian

aunt, her aunt’s lover and a changing assortment of

visitors. Together these dyklings struggle against

school and home towards sharing the first kiss, the

first touch and the first official display of affection in

a public place. The film evokes memories of all those

firsts, in what is a rich and tender portrayal of first-

time love. Has become a lesbian classic. (MQFF)

Prod Comp: Fine Line Features, Smash Pictures

Dist/Sales: NewVision, 21stCentury, Wolfe, FilmsInc,

FineLine, ACMI, Haut-et-Court

Indecent Acts

Parry, William

1994; UK; 54 min; Documentary

Just over one hundred years ago Oscar Wilde found

himself at the Old Bailey charged with having

The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love

committed an indecent act. The term ‘gross

indecency’ was used to describe anything short of

Infidel

sodomy. Indecent Acts explores the circumstances of

Gund Saalfield, Catherine

Wilde’s trial and conviction and makes a contempo-

1989; USA; 45 min; Drama

rary link between the charge Wilde faced and the

An experimental film about a black lesbian designer,

law as it stands today. A soldier shares his experience

Arroe, dealing with such issues as racism in the

of being gay in the military while a clergyman reveals

fashion industry and the formulation of a positive

how he passed a note to a man in an adjoining toilet

self-image.

cubicle, only to find himself face to face with a

detective and subsequently charged with ‘soliciting’.

Inn Trouble

This documentary also explores the ‘transgressions’

in Wilde’s work that evidenced his homosexuality,

Rey, Cristina

his subsequent demise after his trial, and the political

1996; USA; 92 min; Comedy

stakes involved in his conviction. (MQFF)

P: Cristina Rey, Stephani Shope; W: Cristina Rey, Prod Comp: Channel 4

Stephani Shope; C: Mark Petersen; E: Cristina Rey; Dist/Sales: Gimlet

M: Celeste Carballo

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Cast: Cristina Rey, Stephani Shope, Melissa Aronson,

Inspecteur Lavardin

Alehandro Wooten

Chabrol, Claude

Sofi attempts to pursue her dream of becoming a

1986; France; 100 min; Comedy

filmmaker in the face of society’s efforts to crush her

P: Marin Karmitz; W: Claude Chabrol, Dominique

vision. But her plans get postponed for little bit

Roulet; C: Jean Rabier; E: Monique Fardoulis, Angela when she kidnaps her best friend Chris, who is

Braga-Mermet; M: Mathieu Chabrol

recovering from a broken heart, and takes her to the

Cast: Jean Poiret, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Claude Brialy, funeral of Maggie, the former proprietor of a lesbian

Jean-Luc Bideau

inn. Sofi and Chris both worked at the inn and

decide to take it over. With an assortment of

Inspector Lavardin, a most unorthodox police

colourful but difficult staff and a landlord who is

detective, interrogates a family about the murder of a

trying to take the inn away from them and a wide

pious writer. The family members include, Helene

assortment of lesbians looking for a room, will Sofi

an old flame of the detective, her teenage daughter

ever get her film made? A hilarious portrayal of

and her gay brother, Claude, who paints glass eyes

growing up and falling in love—lesbian style.

for a hobby.

Prod Comp: Fearless Productions

Prod Comp: Films A2, MK2 Productions

i

Dist/Sales: FearlessProd

Dist/Sales: MK2Diffusion

Inside Monkey Zetterland

Internal Affairs

Levy, Jefery

Figgis, Mike

1992; USA; 93 min; Comedy

1990; USA; 114 min; Thriller

P: Chuck Grieve, Tani Cohen, Jefery Levy; W: Steven P: Frank Mancuso Jnr; W: Henry Bean; C: John A.

Antin, John Boskovich; C: Christopher Taylor;

Alonzo; E: Robert Estrin; M: Mike Figgis, Anthony E: Lauren Zuckerman; M: Jeff Elmassian, Rick Cox Marinelli, Brian Banks

Cast: Patricia Arquette,Sofia Coppola, Sandra Bernhard,

Cast: Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, Laurie Metcalf,

Steven Antin, Tate Donovan

Nancy Travis, William Baldwin

A wacky family comedy mostly set during Thanks-

Raymond Avila is a detective who has been pro-

giving. The characters include Monkey, a former

moted to the Internal Affairs Division of the Los

teen star and screenwriter, his lesbian sister whose

Angeles County Police. While researching a

girlfriend is pregnant, and their soap-opera diva

misconduct case, Avila becomes convinced that a

Jewish mother. Most of the cast is queer or queer

respected street cop named Dennis Peck is involved

friendly, helping to make it a charming and funny

in a complicated web of criminal activities. When

film.

Avila and his partner who is a lesbian, played by

Laurie Metcalf of Roseanne fame, begin to investi-

Prod Comp: Coast Entertainment

gate him, Peck retaliates by drawing Avila’s wife,

Kathleen, into what becomes an intense sexual and

psychological struggle.

Prod Comp: Paramount, Out of the Town Films

Dist/Sales: UIP, ReelMovies, Paramount

Interview with the Vampire

Jordan, Neil

1994; USA; 122 min; Horror

P: Stephen Woolley, David Geffen; W: Anne Rice;

C: Philippe Rousselot; E: Mick Audsley, Joke Van Wijk; M: Elliot Goldenthal

Cast: Brad Pitt, Christian Slater, Tom Cruise, Antonio

Inside Out

Banderas, Stephen Rea, Kirsten Dunst

Inside Out

Lestat is a vampire who when he so desires, awards

his victims with immortality—whether they want it

Gould, Jason

or not. Into Lestat’s world, comes Louis de Pointe du

1997; USA; 26 min; Comedy

Lac who is devastated by the loss of his beloved wife

Jason Gould (real life son of Elliot Gould and Barbra

and infant daughter. Two hundred years later, in late

Streisand) discusses the woes of being a celebrity kid,

20th century San Francisco, Louis decides to tell his

out gay man and actor, in this fictionalised satire.

story to a young reporter—a vampire’s story of

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desire, love, yearning, grief, terror and ecstasy. A

problematising the politics of hip hop in various

highly atmospheric, homoerotic story with a strong

‘cultures of resistance’, including the queer commu-

gay subtext, done in a very camp manner.

nity.

Prod Comp: Geffen, Warner

Dist/Sales: DevilBunny

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Warner, Swank

Investigator, The

Interviews with my Next Girlfriend

Oxley, Chris

Nicolaou, Cassandra

1996; UK; 78 min; Drama

2001; Canada; 13 min; Comedy

P: Sheryl Crown; W: Barbara Machin;

A lesbian conducts interviews to source her next

C: Neve Cunningham

girlfriend.

Cast: Helen Blexendale, Ian Burfield, Anna Bolt, Laura

Fraser

Dist/Sales: CFMDC, BuzzTaxi

Recounts the true story of the persecution and

Intimate Friendship, An

expulsion of lesbians from the British army. In a

witch hunt to rival The Crucible the confronting

Hughey, Angela Evers

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drama tells of Caroline Meagher, a staff sergeant who

2000; USA; 82 min; Drama

worked within the royal military police partaking in

P: Angela Evers Hughey, Sheri Owens;

the investigations intent on exposing those with

C: Jessica Gallant; E: Shari Weinberg

lesbian tendencies. Unable to cope with the brutality

Cast: Lsel M. Gorell, Stacy Marr, Rini Starkey, Tim

of the investigations she returns to a uniform post

McMillan

where she must come to terms with her own identity

Kelly, Faygan and Danielle are close friends until

and realise love is worth taking risks for.

Danielle muddies the water by coming out. Kelly

Prod Comp: September Films, Laurel Productions

goes through stages of disgust and anger before

Dist/Sales: Channel4

jumping on the support group bandwagon. Faygan,

on the other hand, is supportive and understand-

Invocation of my Demon Brother

ing—a little too understanding perhaps? ‘Coming to

terms with how you feel is one thing. Telling your

Anger, Kenneth

best friend you’re in love with her is another...’ For

1969; USA; 11 min; Experimental

everyone who enjoys a little romantic illusion in

A conjuration of pagan forces comes off the screen in

their day. (MQFF)

a surge of spiritual and mystical power. (ACMI)

Prod Comp: Filling The Gap Productions

Prod Comp: Puck Film Productions

Dist/Sales: FillingTheGap, Spectrum

Dist/Sales: ACMI, BFI

Intimates, The

Iris

(aka: Ji Sor)

Eyre, Richard

Cheung, Jacob

2001; UK, USA; 90 min; Drama

1997; Hong Kong; 117 min; Drama

P: Robert Fox, Scott Rudin; W: Richard Eyre, Charles P: Eric Tsang, Jacob Cheung; W: Man-ming Tong

Wood; C: Roger Pratt; E: Martin Walsh;

Cast: Winston Chao, Kar Lok Chin, Teresa Lee, Charlie

M: James Horner

Yeung

Cast: Judi Dench, Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent, Hugh

The Intimates intercuts between past and present to

Bonneville

tell the subtle and slow story of a lesbian relationship

True story based on the life of bisexual novelist Iris

between a factory working girl and the factory

Murdoch. Details the adventures of her student

owner. Cantonese & Mandarin with English

days, through her lifelong relationship with husband

subtitles.

John Bayley through to her final struggle with

Prod Comp: UFO

Alzheimer’s disease.

Dist/Sales: GoldenHarvest

Prod Comp: BBC, Internedia Films, Mirage Enterprises

Inverted Minstrel

Dist/Sales: Miramax, Paramount, Swank

Irma Vep

Otalvaro-Hormillosa, Gigi

2000; USA; 25 min; Experimental

Assayas, Olivier

Experimental work which challenges racial binary

1996; France; 98 min; Comedy

systems of thought by questioning and

P: Georges Benayoun; W: Olivier Assayas;

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C: Eric Gautier; E: Luc Barnier

ships in 1996 with a team consisting mostly of gay

Cast: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie

men, drag queens, transsexuals and one straight guy.

Richard, Bulle Ogier, Lou Castel

The film was a surprising success in Thailand, where

Action diva Maggie Cheung arrives in Paris to play

it became the second-highest grossing film of all

the latex-clad cat-burglar Irma Vep in a latter day

time. (Strand)

remake of Louis Feuillard’s 1915 silent film Les

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

Vampires to be directed by Rene Vidal. Rene is an

Film Festival, 2000: Audience Award for Best Feature

ageing filmmaker who no longer connects with the

Prod Comp: Tai Entertainment

audience and is on the verge of a nervous break-

Dist/Sales: Fortissimo, Strand

down. Shooting begins and Maggie attracts the

attention of the lesbian costume designer and some

Is Mary Wings Coming?

malicious gossip ensues. One night before shooting

Charman, Karen

is abandoned, Maggie merges with her role and

burglarises rooms in the hotel she is staying in. Rene

1993; Australia; 15 min; Comedy

is taken off the picture and replaced. The new

Wry, restrained but sharp, Is Mary Wings Coming?

director doesn’t want Maggie either and views a

has its finger on the pulse of Melbourne’s cafe

startling assemblage of scenes that Rene has edited

society. Weaving among the tables, this humorous

i

himself. English & French with English subtitles.

short picks up the conversations and thoughts of the

Prod Comp: Dacia Films

student dyke community that congregates around

Dist/Sales: Potential, Siren, Zeitgeist, NFVLS, Haut-et-

inner suburban Melbourne, Australia. (MQFF)

Court

Isle of Lesbos

Iro Kaze

Harmon, Jeff B.

(aka: Colour Wind)

1996; USA; 98 min; Musical

Oki, Hiroyuki

P: Jeff B. Harmon; W: Jeff B. Harmon; C: Clark 1991; Japan; 10 min; Experimental

Mathis; E: Duncan Burns; M: Jeff B. Harmon

Cast: Kirsten Holly Smith, Danica Sheridan, Sonya

An experimental film that uses a panorama of gay

feelings and sentiments to make this a wonderful

Hensley, Michael Dotson

visual experience.

The Rocky Horror Show meets Oklahoma in this

Dist/Sales: ImageForum

outrageous musical comedy. Set in two towns, the

god-fearing, one-horse small town and the Isle of

Lesbos. It is in fact lesbian heaven, where all good

dykes go when they die.

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!

It Dwells in Mirrors

Sbrizzi, Paul

1998; USA; 13 min; Experimental

A stylised look at a lonely man’s journey through

corridors of fetishised encounters and hungry looks.

He feels like the eternal spectator, but then he hooks

up with a guy he desires and things take a turn for

the fantastical.

The Iron Ladies

It is not the Homosexual who is the

Iron Ladies, The

Pervert but the Society in which He Lives

(aka: Sa tree lex)

(aka: Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die

Thongkonthun, Youngyooth

Situation, in der er lebt)

2000; Thailand; 100 min; Comedy

von Praunheim, Rosa

Cast: Jesdaporn Pholdee, Sahaphap Tor, Ekachai

1971; Germany; 65 min; Drama

Buranapanit

W: Rosa von Praunheim; C: Robert van Ackeren;

The Iron Ladies tells the true story of a Thai male

E: Jean-Claude Piroué

volleyball team which won the national champion-

Cast: Berryt Bohlen, Bernd Feuerhelm

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A young homosexual man examines all the political,

C: Michael Off; E: Rusty Martin

dogmatic, and anti-bourgeois aspects of his life in

Cast: Keri Jo Chapman, Teresa Garrett, Derrick

the process of coming out. This film assails media-

Sanders, Timothy Vahle

created romantic illusions, capitalist principles, and

The charitably-minded society dames of Azalea

sexist role playing.

Springs arm themselves with rubber gloves and

It wasn’t Love

buckets of prejudice when an AIDS hospice opens in

their area. But their panic metres really go off the

Benning, Sadie

dial when a drunken gay resident announces that

1992; USA; 20 min; B&W; Comedy

homosexuality can be caught from the town’s water

supply. Amidst the ensuing mayhem, Alex shocks

A sexy gender-fuck tale of lesbian love on the road.

her golfing hubby (and the rest of the town) by

Dist/Sales: VDB, NFVLS

being caught in a passionate embrace with her old

high school buddy, Grace; while Mark, the son of

It’s a Boy! Journeys from Female to Male

the local slander-mongering newspaper chief, deals

with his own latent homosexuality when he meets

Leech, Marla

the gorgeous Tomas.

2001; USA; 30 min; Documentary

i P: Marla Leech

Prod Comp: Kelli Herd Film Company

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Millivres

The stories of three people who have undergone the

transition from female to male. Includes interviews

It’s my Life

with partners and friends.

Tilley, Brian

It’s a Queer World

2001; South Africa; 74 min; Documentary

P: Phillip Brooks, Steven Markovitz; C: Giulio Biccari; Farthing, Cheryl

E: Ronelle Loots; M: Philip Miller

1993; UK; 40 min; Comedy

At the beginning of It’s my Life we learn that there

Using their pink satellite dish, Lily Savage and her

are 4.7 million South Africans currently infected

lovely assistant Damian present an extremely

with the HIV virus and, despite the fact that anti-

entertaining visual sampling of gay television from

retroviral medicines allow people with HIV to lead

around the world.

almost normal lives, the South African government

It’s Elementary: Talking about Gay Issues

has failed to provide them in public hospitals and

clinics. More damning, the President of the country,

in School

Thabo Mbeki, has consistently questioned the link

between HIV and AIDS. It is in this context that

Chasnoff, Debra

Zackie Achmat, the HIV-positive acting chairperson

1996; USA; 80 min; Documentary

of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), has

P: Helen S. Cohen

decided not to take anti-retroviral medicines until

Using interviews with teachers and children from

they are made available by the government in public

kindergarten to high school this Academy Award-

hospitals and clinics. Filmed over five months, It’s my

winning filmmaker presents a powerful case against

Life follows Zackie as he leads a court battle against

the conservatives who attack the so-called gay agenda

the multinational drug companies to allow the

in schools. These brave teachers have put everything

introduction of cheaper, generic drugs, and takes on

on the line to stop the hatred and prejudice that

the South African government for it’s confusing

children learn from a very young age by addressing

policies around HIV/AIDS. As a leader in the

anti-gay issues in the classroom.

campaign for affordable treatment, Zackie’s

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

provocative position is not one all his friends and

Film Festival, 1996: Audience Award for Best Docu-

colleagues support. When Zackie gets ill, everyone

mentary

wants to know why he refuses to take the medicines

Prod Comp: Women’s Educational Media

that would let him lead a healthier life. It’s my Life

Dist/Sales: WoMedia, NewDay, Heathcliff

interweaves personal and public images to provide

an intimate look at an internationally profiled

It’s in the Water

defiance campaign and the complexities of its

Herd, Kelli

leading figure. (First Run/Icarus)

1996; USA; 100 min; Comedy

Prod Comp: Dominant 7, Big World Cinema

P: Dee Evans, Jonathan Ladd; W: Kelli Herd;

Dist/Sales: Dominant7, FirstRun/Icarus

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It’s my Party

It’s that Age

Kleiser, Randal

Kot, Hagar

1996; USA; 100 min; Drama

1990; Israel; 40 min; Drama

P: Joel Thurm, Randal Kleiser; W: Randal Kleiser; A rare lesbian love story set in Tel Aviv.

C: Bernd Heinl; E: Ela Von Hasperg; M: Basil Poledouris Cast: Eric Roberts, Gregory Harrison, Margaret Cho,

J’embrasse pas

Bruce Davison, Lee Grant

(aka: I Don’t Kiss)

A year after Nick and Brandon break up, Nick

learns he has just a few days to live due to a rare and

Téchiné, André

terminal AIDS-related condition. Rather than

1991; France; 115 min; Drama

succumb to the disease’s debilitating effects, he

P: Maurice Bernart, Jacques-Eric Strauss, Jean Labadie;

decides to end his life as he has lived it—with joy

W: Michel Grisolia, Jacques Nolot, André Téchiné;

and gusto. As a prelude to his death, Nick throws a

C: Thierry Arbogast; E: Claudine Merlin, Edith Vassart; two-day farewell party to which dozens of friends

M: Philippe Sarde

and family are invited. Uninvited, Brandon shows

Cast: Philippe Noiret, Emmanuelle Béart, Manuel

j

up to a chorus of dissent from Nick’s friends who

Blanc, Hélène Vincent

believe Brandon failed Nick when he most needed

Pierre decides to break away from the restrictive life

him. What follows is a raft of camp one-liners and a

of his childhood in rural south-west France and

Hollywood roll-call of cameos: Marlee Matlin plays

moves to Paris. He contacts the only person he

Nick’s sensitive sister Daphne, George Segal plays

knows in the city, Evelyn, a middle-aged woman he

the estranged father, and Olivia Newton-John (who

met at Lourdes. She manages to get Pierre a job as a

also sings on the soundtrack) plays a high-school

hospital orderly, but his childhood dream is to

sweetheart. (MQFF)

become an actor. After losing his way, Pierre falls

into prostitution and finds it difficult to retain his

Prod Comp: United Artists, MGM

innocence. Based on an original story by Jacques

Dist/Sales: UIP, TLA, Warner, Wolfe, Swank

Nolot. French with English subtitles.

It’s not Unusual: A Lesbian and Gay History

Prod Comp: Bac Films, Ciné Cinq, Gruppo Bema,

Président Films, Salomé

Farthing, Cheryl / MacMillan, Ian

Dist/Sales: NewVision, 21stCentury, ACMI

1996; UK; 3 x 50 min; Documentary

This three part documentary series, made for BBC

Jackson: My Life your Fault

2, tells the hidden history of gay and lesbian lives in

Roy, Duncan

the 20th century. Rare archival footage is intercut

1995; UK; 41 min; Drama

with personal accounts from a wide ranging and

fascinating group of gay men and lesbians. Inter-

Trapped beneath the burdens of memories of a dead

viewees range from Evelyn Irons, 96-years old and

father and a monstrously possessive mother, Jackson

an ex-lover of Vita Sackville West to Welsh 16-year-

seeks escape in the arms of policeman Hardy.

old Grace Hughes, who has been out to her family

Believing his love can save Jackson from his tortured

and school since age 13.

existence, Hardy sets in action events that nearly

destroy all their lives in the process.

Prod Comp: BBC 2, Piranha Productions

Dist/Sales: BFI, ThirdRock

It’s Personal

Jake ‘Today I Became a Man’

2000; 30 min; Documentary

Foiles, Stacey

It’s Personal examines the development of sexual

2000; USA; 14 min; Documentary

behaviour in today’s society, and how our ideals and

identities have changed. Follows two couples: a

Jake is 12 years old and already firm about his

lesbian couple who have been living together for

chosen career—professional drag queen!

twenty years, and a heterosexual couple in the first

Dist/Sales: ACMI

stages of their relationship. Evaluates the connection

between healthy sexuality and a person’s self-worth,

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

as well as emotions, personality, and general health.

Thorsen, Karen

(EMA)

1990; USA; 83 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: EMA

P: Karen Thorsen, Douglas K. Dempsey, William Miles

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Cast: Amiri Baraka, Dr Maya Angelou, David Baldwin,

a society of eunuchs that has thrived in India for

David Leeming, Lucien Happersberger

centuries. The film provides an assertion of the

Profiles the life, works and beliefs of the late black

dignity of human individuality, a portrayal of the

American writer, civil-rights activist and homosexual,

multiplicity of human dimensions and a story of a

James Baldwin. Born in Harlem in 1924, to a

personal odyssey. (MQFF)

religious family, he looked for equality and justice in

his own country until he left what he saw as the

Jaundiced Eye, The

suffocating society of the US in 1948 and moved to

de la Pena, Nonny

Paris. This engaging documentary uses a combination

1999; USA; 89 min; Documentary

of interviews and actual footage of Baldwin to create a

P: Dan Gifford; W: Nonny de la Pena; C: Bestor Cram; portrait of a passionate, angry and idealistic fighter.

E: Greg Byers; M: Michael Brook

Prod Comp: Maysles Films

This harrowing documentary chronicles the decade

Dist/Sales: Ronin, CaliforniaNewsreel, ACMI, BFI

long trials and emotional traumas incurred by a gay

Michigan man, Stephen Matthews, and his straight

father, Melvin Matthews, who were wrongfully

j

accused by Stephen’s ex-girlfriend and her husband

of molesting Stephen’s son. Despite the fact that

there was no physical evidence (although accusations

included the torturous use of a machete), both

Stephen and Melvin Matthews were sentenced to 35

years in jail. A chlamydia test which swayed the jury,

was later revealed to give false positive results. Both

the manufacturer, Abbott Laboratories, and The

Centre for Disease Control say that it lacks forensic

value for use in sexual abuse cases. Eventually

released from incarceration on this fact, both men

went into the world to find that the prosecution

wanted to put them on trial again, despite a total

lack of evidence. Stephen Matthew’s story is a

horrifying example of justice miscarried in a society

of legal labyrinths where science is easily confused

about fact, and sexual orientation can provoke

prosecutorial vendettas based upon long-held biases.

(www.thejaundicedeye.com)

Prod Comp: Fifth Estate Productions, Pyedog Produc-

tions

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

Dist/Sales: FifthEstate, Scrine

Janine

Je, tu, il, elle

Dunye, Cheryl

Akerman, Chantal

1990; USA; 10 min; Experimental

1974; Belgium, France; 81 min; B&W; Drama

Janine is a video about one black woman’s resolution

P: Chantal Akerman; W: Chantal Akerman;

of a past relationship. The filmmaker candidly tells

C: Bénédicte Delesalle, Renelde Dupont, Charlotte

the story of her friendship with Janine, a white

Szlovak; E: Luc Fréché

upper-middle-class girl whom she met in high

Cast: Chantal Akerman, Niels Arestrup, Claire

school. The film documents Dunye’s struggle for

Wauthion

acceptance in Janine’s world, despite their racial and

A film in three parts. In the first part a young

cultural differences. (MQFF)

woman living alone in a room writes a long letter

Dist/Sales: TWN

over a period of several weeks. Becoming increas-

ingly frustrated she suddenly leaves and is picked up

Jareena: Portrait of a Hijda

by a truck driver who turns out to be rather self-

absorbed. The third part involves the young woman’s

Kalliat, Prem

lesbian relationship with a taciturn lover (Elle),

1990; USA; 24 min; Documentary

which seems to act out the sexual politics alluded to

A bold and sensitive look at the lives of the Hijdas—

in the second part: the lover adopts the role of

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dutiful wife. Tu could also refer to the audience as

Jenny

Akerman is clearly concerned with achieving an

awareness of the way the narrative is constructed,

Sharp, Jan

bringing together formalist and feminist concerns.

1977; Australia; 30 min; Documentary

French with English subtitles.

P: Tom Manefield

Prod Comp: Paradise Films

A film focusing on a teenage girl in a lesbian

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

relationship. Jenny discusses her perception of the

‘gay’ scene, her relationship and how she feels other

Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an

people perceive her lifestyle. (ACMI)

Unknown

Prod Comp: Film Australia

Dist/Sales: ACMI

Cozarinsky, Edgardo

1985; France; 58 min; Documentary

Jerker

A biography of Jean Cocteau, the poet, painter and

Harrison, Hugh

filmmaker. It looks at his life from his childhood to

1992; USA; 90 min; Drama

his death in 1963. It touches on areas like his

P: Hugh Harrison, Smitty, Lou Toth;

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cocaine addition, which he battled for many years,

W: Hugh Harrison; C: Ron Hamill; M: Michael Angelo and his films such as Orpheus, Blood of a Poet and Cast: Joseph Stachura, Tom Wagner

Beauty and the Beast. It also mentions his love for his

friend Raymond Radiguey, who died quite young

Set in the early 1980s, Jerker is the story of two gay

leaving Cocteau devastated. There are many

men who choose to have the safest sex possible, that

interviews with people such as Jean Renoir, Pablo

is, over the phone. As the phone calls continue, the

Picasso, Sergei Diaghilev, Henri Matisse and Charles

sexual content of their conversations begins to wane

Chaplin.

and it becomes more personal, and eventually the

two men become friends. From the play by Robert

Jeffery’s Hollywood Screen Trick

Chesley.

Dist/Sales: TLA

Downing, Todd

2001; USA; 11 min; Animation

Jewel’s Darl

An hilariously tongue-in-cheek spoof of feelgood gay

Wells, Peter

flicks that is not for the faint of heart or weak of

1985; New Zealand; 57 min; Drama

stomach.

P: John Maynard, Bridget Ikin; W: Anne Kennedy, Peter Dist/Sales: BrokenHip

Wells; C: Stuart Dryburgh

Jeffrey

Cast: Richard Hanna, Georgina Beyer

From the seven-part television series About Face. In

Ashley, Christopher

Jewel’s Darl, Jewel, a transsexual, and Mandy, a

1995; USA; 92 min; Comedy

transvestite, are in love and trapped on the fringes of

P: Mark Balsam, Mitchell Maxwell, Victoria Maxwell;

a hostile, mocking society. Stars Georgina Beyer—

W: Paul Rudnick; C: Jeffery J. Tufano;

the subject of the documentary Georgie Girl.

E: Cara Silverman; M: Stephen Endelman

Prod Comp: Hibiscus Films, New Zealand Film

Cast: Steven Weber, Patrick Stewart, Sigourney Weaver,

Commission

Michael T. Weiss, Bryan Batt

Jeffrey takes a look at one man’s comic search for

Jim Loves Jack: The James Egan Story

love and commitment in 1990s New York. Jeffrey

Adkin, David

decides to become celibate when the risk of AIDS

1995; Canada; 53 min; Documentary

takes some of the joy out of sex, but immediately

C: Ali Kazimi; E: Ricardo Acosta

after, finally meets Mr Right. Jeffrey has an all-star

Cast: Jim Egan, Jack Nesbit

cast headed by Patrick Stewart as an over-the-top

interior designer who is the only truly sane character

A powerful documentary about the lives and

in the film. Sigourney Weaver plays a silver-clad tele-

activism of James Egan and his lover Jack Nesbit.

Egan was one of the first activists, operating before

evangelist, and a Mother Theresa look-alike who

the term ‘gay rights’ was ever used. He wrote letters

plays a mean piano solo. (MQFF)

to the Canadian government and newspapers

Prod Comp: The Booking Office, Workin’ Man Films

demanding changes to the political and social

Dist/Sales: TLA, Col-Tri, Orion, Wolfe, ACMI, Swank

representation of gays and lesbians. In 1995 he

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fought a Supreme Court battle for constitutional

C: Joe DeSalvo; E: Michael Schweitzer

changes involving same-sex spousal benefits. The

Cast: Richard Edson, Fred Fondren, Cedella Marley,

film is structured around interviews with the two

Erik King, Gina Gershon

men at their home in Vancouver.

A romantic tale about a New York talent agent, Joey,

Dist/Sales: VTape, CinemaGuild

who lives a rather sheltered life in Manhattan. A co-

worker asks him along to visit and deliver food to

Jodie: An Icon

Alfred, a gay man who is dying of AIDS. Terrified

Parmar, Pratibha

and confronted, Joey leaves as quickly as possible,

1996; UK; 24 min; Documentary

but eventually returns to Alfred’s flat and they begin

to form a friendship. He also meets a Jamaican nurse

Jodie is a fast paced, breezy look at the transatlantic

with whom he falls in love and a black gay come-

phenomenon that has made Hollywood actress Jodie

dian. His sheltered life will never be the same again.

Foster an icon for lesbians who identify with, adore

and celebrate the screen personas of her remarkable

Prod Comp: Poe Productions, Breakdown Productions

career. Fans and queer cultural critics share their

Dist/Sales: Skouras

favourite ‘iconic’ moments giving illuminating

Joey goes to Wigstock

lesbian readings of Foster’s key films which trace the

j

charismatic actor’s progression from early tomboy

Freed, Leonard

parts as a child star to mature performances

1992; USA; 10 min; Documentary

depicting active, strong willed women with attitude.

Joey Arias has entertained audiences around the

(WMM)

world for 18 years. What makes Joey’s performance a

Dist/Sales: WMM, Cinenova

little off beat is that he is a drag queen. Freed follows

Jodie Promo, The

Joey, publicly a very social butterfly, all over town—a

wig contest at a New York restaurant, the infamous

Olson, Jenni

Pyramid Club, and the rather more upscale Tavern

1995; USA; 30 min; Comedy

on the Green—with a cult of fans and fellow cross

Cast: Jodie Foster

dressers. The piece culminates at the ‘Wigstock’

festival, an annual outdoor event attended by

From Freaky Friday to Nell, Jodie Foster has been

thousand of cross dressers. But Joey’s private side is

one of the most versatile actresses of her generation.

also revealed, as he reflects on homosexuality, AIDS,

As a tomboy role model, as a budding adolescent,

drugs, and what it means to live in the fast lane—

and as one of the strongest women in Hollywood,

and not fall off the edge. (First Run/Icarus)

she is also one of our hottest heartthrobs. This

compilation of trailers features some of the brightest

Dist/Sales: FirstRun/Icarus

highlights of Foster’s distinguished career from

Joggernaught

1969–1995.

Dist/Sales: PlanetOut

Mobley, Doug

1994; USA; 50 min; Comedy

Joe-Joe

Joggernaught is a queer video-diary with a rousing

Dougherty, Cecilia / Singer, Leslie

soundtrack, following the ruminations of a confused

1993; USA; 52 min; B&W; Comedy

twenty-nothing as he retreats from his urban woes to

the pastoral jogging trails of his bucolic motherland.

Transposing swinging London into sunny San

While pounding his body over 16 miles of dirt and

Francisco, Dougherty and Singer relive the legend of

pavement, the jogger ponders the shards of his

gay playwright Joe Orton in the privacy of their own

troubled relationship, pathetic career and absurd

apartment—with both of them playing Joe. Spaced

erotic desires.

out in Warhol-land, they argue over which one

should answer when a call comes in for Joe, deal

Johanna, D’Arc of Mongolia

with their famous agent Peggy Ramsay and take time

out for sex. There are cameos from queer hero(ine)s

(aka: Joan of Arc of Mongolia)

such as Sadie Benning and Angela Hans Schierl.

Ottinger, Ulrike

Dist/Sales: VDB

1989; Germany; 165 min; Action

W: Ulrike Ottinger; C: Ulrike Ottinger;

Joey Breaker

M: Wilhelm Dieter Siebert

Hall, Dolly / Starr, Steven

Cast: Delphine Seyrig, Irm Hermann, Gillian Scalici,

1993; USA; 92 min; Comedy

Xu Re Huor

P: Steven Starr, Amos Poe; W: Steven Starr;

Seven Western women travellers meet aboard the

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Trans-Siberian Express, a rolling museum of

Johnny Guitar

European culture. Lady Windemere, an elegant

ethnographer, regales a young companion with

Ray, Nicholas

Mongol myths and folklore while other passengers

1954; USA; 110 min; Western

revel in the dining-car cabernet. Suddenly ambushed

P: Herbert J. Yates; W: Philip Yordan; C: Harry by a band of Mongol horsemen, the company is

Stradling; E: Richard Van Enger; M: Victor Young abducted to the plains of Inner Mongolia and

Cast: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes

embark on a fantastic camel ride across the magnifi-

McCambridge, Ernest Borgnine, Ward Bond

cent countryside. Has been described as a lesbian

A reformed gunfighter returns to a woman he had

Lawrence of Arabia. (WMM)

abandoned years earlier. She is now the proprietor of

German with English subtitles.

a gambling saloon opened in anticipation of the

Prod Comp: La Sept Cinéma, ZDF

arrival of the railroad and in the face of hostile

Dist/Sales: WMM

opposition from the local townspeople. The film’s

bizarre, even baroque intensity derives in part from

Johnny Eager

the central antagonism between two women

(virtually unique in the western) and in Yordan and

Le Roy, Mervyn

Ray’s expressed intention of seeking an anti-

j

1941; USA; 107 min; B&W; Drama

McCarthy parable. A great confrontation between

P: John W. Considine Jnr; W: John Lee Mahin, James Crawford and McCambridge with rampant

Edward Grant; C: Harold Rosson; E: Albert Akst;

symbolism throughout. Crawford indulges in a bit

M: Bronislau Kaper

of cross-dressing in her western outfit.

Cast: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Robert

Sterling, Patricia Dane

Prod Comp: Republic Pictures Corporation

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, 20thCenturyFox, ACMI,

A gangster melodrama about a good-looking

egotistical hood, played by Taylor, his homosexual

Republic, NFVLS

whipping-boy, Heflin, and a young society woman.

Johns

The hood seduces the young woman and convinces

her she has killed a man. After some prodding by

Silver, Scott

Heflin, the hood does the right thing.

1996; USA; 97 min; Drama

Prod Comp: MGM

P: Beau Flynn, Stefan Simchowitz; W: Scott Silver; Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, ReelMovies, MGM

C: Tom Richmond; E: Dorian Harris; M: Danny Caron, Charles Brown

Johnny Greyeyes

Cast: David Arquette, Lukas Haas, Tony Epper, John C.

Manzano, Jorge

McGinley

2000; Canada; 75 min; Drama

Scott Silver’s first feature Johns is a dark comic

P: Jorge Manzano, Timothy L. Hill; W: Jorge Manzano; tragedy starring Lucas Haas and David Arquette as

C: Marcos Arriaga; E: Jacqueline Carmody;

two young street hustlers working the hot grim

M: Reynaldo Valverde

landscape of Hollywood’s Santa Monica Boulevard,

Cast: Gail Maurice, Columpa C. Bobb, Jonathan Fisher,

the day before Christmas. It’s a story about friend-

Georgina Lightning

ship and sacrifice—what we give of ourselves to help

Johnny Greyeyes is the powerful story of a Native

another human being. (Wolfe)

American woman struggling to maintain strength,

Prod Comp: bandeira Entertainment

love and spirit within the walls of a women’s prison.

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, FirstLook

Since the shooting death of her father, Johnny has

spent most of her life in prison. There, she forms a

Jollies

new family and falls in love with her cellmate Lana.

But her responsibilities to the outside world weigh

Benning, Sadie

heavily as she attempts to pull together her fractured

1990; USA; 11 min; B&W; Experimental

natural family. With her release date near, Johnny

A pixel-porn parallel between two enamoured Barbie

valiantly strives to keep her two worlds together. (Wolfe)

dolls and Benning’s own desire frame this frank

Prod Comp: Nepantla Films

dialogue on teenage sexual curiosity.

Dist/Sales: Nepantla, Vagrant, Wolfe, VideoAmericain

Dist/Sales: VDB, NFVLS

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Journey Among Women

Robert. Before long Jared finds work as the live-in

help for the elderly Mrs Haines, whose own son

Cowan, Tom

Matthew is too busy to look after her. Jared falls for

1977; Australia; 89 min; Drama

Matthew, learning too late that the older man

P: John Weiley; W: Tom Cowan, John Weiley, Dorothy already has a boyfriend. The natural pacing and

Hewett; C: Tom Cowan; E: John Scott; M: Roy Ritchie undeniable charm of the story will endear the film to

Cast: Jeune Pritchard, Nell Campbell, Diana Fuller, Lisa

viewers, as well as the eroticism of its sex scenes.

Peers, Jude Kuring

(MQFF)

During Australia’s early colonial period a band of

Prod Comp: 10% Productions, Sock Puppet Productions

escaped female convicts, freed by an upper-class

Dist/Sales: 10%, Wolfe, SockPuppet

woman, learn to live off the land as they set up a

commune in the bush. They find ways of surviving

in a community of women free from sexual oppres-

sion. An adventure narrative competes with a more

poetic approach; the latter introducing a mythic

dimension which does not escape showing women as

mysterious and close to nature, more intuitive than

j

logical.

Prod Comp: Ko-An Film Productions

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

The Journey to Kafiristan

Journey to Kafiristan, The

(aka: Die Reise nach Kafiristan)

Dubini, Donatello / Dubini, Fosco

2001; Germany; 100 min; Documentary

P: Donatello Dubini, Fosco Dubini;

W: Donatello Dubini, Fosco Dubini, Barbara Marx; C:

Matthias Kaelin; E: Christel Maye; M: Jan Garbarek, Wolfgang Hamm, Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, Madredeus

Cast: Jeanette Hain, Nina Petri

In 1939, the author Annemarie Schwarzenbach and the

ethnologist Ella Maillart travel together by car to

Kabul, but each is in pursuit of her own project.

Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who was among Erika and

Klaus Mann’s circle of friends in the 1930s, is searching

for a place of refuge in the Near East to discover her

own self. Ella Maillart justifies her restlessness, her need

for movement and travel, with a scientific pretext: she

Journey Among Women

would like to explore the mysterious Kafiristan Valley

and make a name for herself with publications on the

Journey of Jared Price, The

archaic life of the nomads living there. Both women are

on the run, but political developments and their own

Black, Dustin Lance

biographies catch up with them again and again. Their

2000; USA; 97 min; Drama

mutual journey through the outside world, which runs

P: Bob Edgar, Robert Edgar, Greg Nimer;

from Geneva via the Balkans and Turkey to Persia, is

W: Dustin Lance Black; C: Tony Croll; E: Tom Vater; compounded by the inner world of emotions with a

M: Damon Intrabartolo

tender love story. As both women arrive in Kabul,

Cast: Corey Spears, Josh Jacobson, Steve Tyler, Rocki

World War II breaks out and puts an end to their plans.

Craigg, Gillian Harris

(www.german-cinema.de)

Having moved to Los Angeles from the South, Jared

German with English Subtitles.

Price takes up temporary accommodation at a youth

Prod Comp: Dubini Filmprodktion

hostel, where he meets the friendly and optimistic

Dist/Sales: MediaLuna

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Joys of Smoking, The

undertones to their friendship but ‘it’ is never really

mentioned. At the time Hellman was writing The

Katsapetses, Nicholas

Children’s Hour which has a strong lesbian theme.

1999; USA; 86 min; Drama

P: Nick Katsapetses, Paul Miller, Eduardo Morell;

Awards: Academy Awards, 1977: Best Adapted Screen-

W: Nick Katsapetses; C: Nick Katsapetses, Eduardo play, Actress (Vanessa Redgrave)

Morell; E: Nick Katsapetses; M: Andrea Terry, Errol Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox

Stewart

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, ReelMovies, 20thCenturyFox,

Cast: Matthew Rozen, Steven Sorensen, Deborah

ACMI

Cordell, Carrie Mogan

Julian Clary - The Mincing Machine Tour

At the heart of the film are Gray and his lover

Daniel, just a week away from their commitment

1993; UK; 86 min; Comedy

ceremony. Daniel’s ready to tie the knot, if only he

Cast: Julian Clary

can give up his clandestine trysts at the local beat.

Filmed live in concert, Julian says ‘climb aboard the

Also in focus is a lesbian couple going through a

hem of my chiffon cape and fly to a land of eternal

horrendous, but blackly humorous break-up, with

double entendres and withering glances, a land

one stalking the other. Dotted throughout this

where sophisticated social comment gives way

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emotionally charged frame lies the one thing all the

graciously to sheer smut’.

characters draw on for comfort: cigarettes.

Prod Comp: Verging Productions

Dist/Sales: Verging

Juggling Gender

Gold, Tami

1992; USA; 27 min; Documentary

P: Tami Gold; C: Tami Gold

Cast: Jennifer Miller, Circus Amok

A loving portrait of Jennifer Miller, a lesbian

performer who lives her life with a full beard. Miller

works as a performance artist, circus director, clown

and as the ‘bearded lady’ in one of the only remain-

Julie Johnson

ing side-shows in America. In public she is often

Julie Johnson

mistaken for a man, an experience she handles with

the wit and intelligence that characterise her stage

Gosse, Bob

performances. Her lifestyle suggests the impossibility

2000; USA; 94 min; Drama

of defining anyone as truly feminine or masculine.

P: Ray Angelic; W: Gosse, Wendy Hammond; C: David Juggling Gender explores the fluidity of gender and

M. Dunlap; E: David Leonard; M: Angelo Badalamenti, raises important questions about the construction of

Andrew Barrett

sexual and gender identity. (WMM)

Cast: Lili Taylor, Courtney Love, Spaulding Gray, Bill

Prod Comp: Tamerik Productions

Golodner

Dist/Sales: Ronin, WMM, NFVLS

Julie Johnson is a dutiful wife and caring mother in

Julia

working class Hoboken, New Jersey where everyone

knows everyone else’s business. Her best friend

Zinnemann, Fred

Claire has been her loyal companion since high

1977; USA; 115 min; Drama

school. Away from their tight-knit circle of friends

P: Richard Roth; W: Alvin Sargent; C: Douglas Julie harbours a secret passion for theoretical physics,

Slocombe; E: Walter Murch, Marcel Durham;

and is terrified that if her friends found out they

would ridicule her. Although she never finished high

M: Georges Delerue

school, Julie convinces Claire to accompany her to

Cast: Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards,

adult education computer classes behind her

Meryl Streep, Maximilian Schell

disapproving husband’s back. While there she meets

Based on her own novel, Lillian Hellman describes

an inspirational professor, who immediately spots

her close relationship with her childhood friend,

her potential, and helps to nurture her talent.

Julia, and how she was drawn into the European

Eventually Julie’s husband discovers the subterfuge,

resistance movement in the 1930s by smuggling

and the marriage falls apart. Julie and Claire move in

money to Berlin. There are some strong lesbian

together, and Julie admits to her long-standing

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feelings for Claire. A romance develops between the

issues of violence against lesbians. A neglected topic,

women—but will it survive the bigotry of their small

the film uses interviews with a range of women to

community, and the changes in Julie’s life? (MQFF)

reveal stories of unprovoked violence, physical and

Prod Comp: Shooting Gallery

psychological harassment and attempts at ‘cures’.

Dist/Sales: Gosse

Prod Comp: Heramedia Collective

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, WMM

Jumping the Gun

Just call me Kade

Schneider, Jane

1993; Australia; 10 min; Drama

Zolten, Sam

A woman takes a one night stand much further in

2001; USA; 26 min; Documentary

her mind.

Kade Farlow Collins is a 16-year-old female to male

transgendered teen residing in Tucson Arizona.

Jungle Boy, The

Kade’s parents maintain a supportive and nurturing

relationship to Kade regarding the many challenges

Greyson, John

facing their teenage child. However, it hasn’t always

1985; Canada; 15 min; Experimental

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been easy. (MQFF)

Greyson explores the aftermath of a raid on a men’s

Dist/Sales: Frameline, ACMI

bathroom in Canada.

Dist/Sales: VDB

Just Desserts

Jupon Rouge, Le

Pellizzari, Monica

1993; Australia; 13 min; Comedy

(aka: Manuela’s Loves)

W: Monica Pellizzari

Lefèbvre, Geneviève

This delicious comedy about an Italian–Australian

1987; France; 90 min; Drama

girl’s sexual awakening and her love for her mama’s

W: Nicole Berckmans, Geneviève Lefèbvre; M: Joanna cooking. Through the use of a split screen which

Bruzdowicz

separates the food from the experience, issues such as

Cast: Marie-Christine Barrault, Guillemette Grobon,

menstruation, masturbation, lesbianism and

Alida Valli

virginity are explored, against a backdrop of broth,

venetian fritters, polenta, dumplings and pizza.

Three women of greatly differing ages and back-

(ACMI)

grounds engage in a complicated, and at times

contradictory, ménage à trois. Bacha, the older, is a

Prod Comp: NRG Films Australia

human rights activist and, Manuela, a fashion

Dist/Sales: ACMI

designer. When Manuela meets and starts an affair

with the young and beautiful Claude, Bacha

Just for Fun

becomes intensely jealous. Manuela must now make

Olye, David

a decision between the two women. French with

1994; USA; 30 min; Drama

English subtitles.

P: Gordon Seaman

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

Olye confronts the sensitive issue of gay bashing and

Just a Woman

presents a dramatisation of a young man who, under

the influence of his peers, sets out at night with his

Farahani, Mitra / B. Y.

friends to deliberately assault a homosexual male

2001; France, Iran; 29 min; Documentary

‘just for fun’. The video raises issues of personal

Moravid experiences life as a male-to-female

identity, peer pressure and prejudice.

transsexual in her homeland. How does she cope

Prod Comp: Whistle Productions

when that homeland is Tehran? This fascinating

Dist/Sales: DirectCinema

documentary challenges many of the Western clichés

about Iranian society, and reveals a woman and a

Just like a Woman

nation filled with surprising contradictions.

Monger, Christopher

(queerDOC 2002)

1992; UK; 105 min; Comedy

Just Because of who we Are

P: Nick Evans; W: Nick Evans; C: Alan Hume; E: Nicolas Gaster; M: Michael Storey

Norman, Abigail

Cast: Julie Walters, Adrian Pasdar, Paul Freeman, Susan

1986; USA; 28 min; Documentary

Wooldridge

A groundbreaking documentary that explores the

She stole his heart. He stole her clothes. A love

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triangle with a real twist. When the wife of a

that he and Amy indulge in a threesome with

financial adviser finds some ladies knickers in his

another woman. Amy eventually agrees on one

drawer, she kicks her husband out. But the knickers

condition: that Anthony return the favour with

weren’t there for the usual reason. A funny and well-

another man—and she has just the man in mind—

handled film about transvestism.

their cute, gay, Latino neighbour Victor who

Prod Comp: Rank, LWT, Zenith, British Screen

harbours a man-sized crush on Anthony. Anthony

Dist/Sales: REP, Col-Tri, SamuelGoldwyn

enlists the help of his work mates from the New

York City Fire Department to help see the plan

Just One of the Girls

through—with hilarious results—while Amy

becomes enamoured with their sexy lesbian neigh-

(aka: Anything for Love)

bour Michelle. Will the marriage eventuate, what

Keusch, Michael

will become of Victor, and what will those hunky

1993; USA; 100 min; Comedy

firemen make of New York’s gay clubs?

P: Robert Vince, Cal Shumiatcher; W: Raúl Fernández; Prod Comp: Danger Filmworks

C: Tobias A. Schliessler; E: Allan Lee; M: Amin Bhatia, Dist/Sales: Cowboy, Wolfe, Atom

Vincent Mai

Just One Time

Cast: Corey Haim, Cameron Bancroft, Nicole Eggert

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Chris is a young high-school student who, in order

to stop being harassed by the school bully, dresses up

in drag. With the help of his sister, everything goes

well until he falls in love with Marie. Marie

convinces Chris to try for the cheer leaders’ squad

and he gets the job. Meanwhile the school bully has

fallen in love with him. The gym teacher thinks

Chris is a lesbian and his father thinks he’s gay.

Prod Comp: Vidmark E, Jailhouse Productions

Just One of the Guys

Gottlieb, Lisa

1985; USA; 97 min; Comedy

P: Andrew Fogelson; W: Dennis Feldman, Jeff Franklin; Just the Two of Us

C: John McPherson; E: Tony Lombardo; M: Tom Scott Beerson, Jaque / Peeters, Barbara

Cast: Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner, Billy Jacoby, Toni

1973; USA; 82 min; Drama

Hudson, Sherilyn Fenn

P: David Novik; W: David Novik, Barbara Peeters;

Terry is convinced her high school teachers don’t

C: Jaque Beerson; E: Richard Weber

take her seriously just because she’s a pretty girl.

Cast: Alicia Courtney, Elizabeth Plumb, John Aprea,

When she doesn’t win a journalism contest, she

Jamie Cooper, Elizabeth Knowles

decides to switch schools—and gender. She manages

Two lonely housewives living in suburban LA

to fool everyone and is accepted as one of the guys

become close friends. While lunching at a restaurant

until she meets and falls for Rick.

one day, they spot two women at another table

Prod Comp: Summa, Triton, Columbia

holding hands and later kissing. Both are trans-

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, 16MM, Col-Tri

fixed—one excited and envious, the other perplexed

but intrigued. An idyllic romance soon ensues

Just One Time

between the two, but troubles brew when the

bisexual woman thinks of their relationship more as

Janger, Lane

a fling, soon becoming bored and eager to meet

1999; USA; 93 min; Comedy

men, much to the other’s frustration and jealousy.

P: Jasmine Kosovic, Lane Janger, Exile Ramirez, Jeff

Dist/Sales: SomethingWeird

Roth; W: Lane Janger, Jennifer Vandever; C: Michael St Hilaire; E: Mitch Stanley; M: Edward Bilous

Justine’s Film

Cast: Loelle Carter, Guillermo Diaz, Lane Janger

(aka: Le Film de Justine)

Lane Janger’s first feature film follows the story of

New York City couple Anthony and Amy as they

Crépeau, Jeanne

prepare for their approaching wedding. Plans are

1989; Canada; 45 min; Comedy

thrown into chaos when just prior to the wedding,

Cast: Marie-Hélène Montpetit, Denis Ménard,

Anthony makes known his long-standing fantasy:

Stéphanie Morgenstern, Danielle Trépanier

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Left by the woman she still loves, Justine swears she

entertain. The director extracts superb performances

will never love again and again and again. A tender

from relatively inexperienced actors, and delivers a

and sympathetic film with moments of humour and,

forceful story employing a unique visual style.

above all, intelligence. French with English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: IN*SITE

Dist/Sales: CinemaLibre

Kamikaze Hearts

Kali’s Vibe

Bashore, Juliet

Carpenter, Shari

1986; USA; 80 min; Drama

2001; USA; 92 min; Drama

P: Heinz Legler; W: Juliet Bashore, John Knoop, Tina P: Gingi Rochelle; W: Shari Carpenter; E: Brunilda

‘Tigr’ Mennett; C: David Golia; E: John Knoop;

Torres

M: Walt Fowler, Paul M. Young

Cast: Lizzy Davis, Phalana Tiller, Charles Malik

Cast: Sharon Mitchell, Tina ‘Tigr’ Mennett, Jon Martin,

Whitfield, Akanke McLean-Nur, Yvette Brooks

Sparky Vasque, Robert McKenna

In her feature-film debut, Spike Lee protégé Shari

A gritty film that examines the lives of two women

Carpenter has created a slick and lively trip through

working in the porn industry. Sharon Mitchell is the

k

bisexual confusion, with a young African American

porn star and Tigr Mennett plays her devoted lover

lesbian named Kali as our guide. Kali soon discovers

and director. Problems begin to surface in the

her performance artist and completely self-absorbed

relationship as Tigr becomes increasingly jealous of

girlfriend, Crystal, has been cheating on her. Kali

the lesbian love scenes that Mitchell plays out in

kicks the girl out, but finds the singles game isn’t any

front of the camera.

better. She gets a hickey from a sex-machine butch

Prod Comp: Legler/Bashore

and smoke in her face from a pork chop-eating

Dist/Sales: Salzgeber

homegirl (Kali is a vegetarian). To Kali’s surprise, she

starts to develop feelings for her lady-killer co-

Kamikaze Summer

worker Reese, Just as Kali starts to feel a hetero vibe

Collins, Chris

herself, now ex-girlfriend Crystal shows up again,

1996; USA; 60 min; Documentary

declaring her love. Confused and conflicted, Kali

turns to her Tarot-priestess lesbian godmothers and

A lesbian and a gay man from San Francisco, in an

receives some remarkably enlightened advice about

effort to discover why the Religious Right perceives

the fluidity of desire. Watching the truly radiant

homosexuality as a threat to civilisation, embark on a

Lizzy Davis as Kali rove from Crystal to Reese and

road trip into the heartland of religious bigotry in

America. Travelling through Oregon, Idaho and

back again, it’s almost easy to accept director

Colorado—three states which have sponsored

Carpenter’s message of love being bigger than the

antigay legislation—the filmmakers interview

narrow identities we inhabit. (2002 Vancouver

movement leaders, show clips from homophobic

Queer Film & Video Festival)

cable television programs, witness queer-hating

Dist/Sales: KalisVibe

demonstrations, and offer their own comments on

these encounters. (Cinema Guild)

Kalihgat Fetish

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild

(aka: Kalighat Athikatha)

Kanada

Avikunthak, Ashish

2000; India; 22 min; Documentary

Hoolboom, Mike

A portrayal of ceremonial cross-dressing in Indian

1993; Canada; 65 min; Sci-Fi

culture.

P: Mike Hoolboom; W: Mike Hoolboom; C: Steve Sanguedolce; E: Mike Hoolboom; M: Earle Peach

Kalin’s Prayer

Cast: Babs Chula, Sky Gilbert, Mike Hoolboom,

Andrew Scorer

DeSales

Set in the future, during the Canadian-French civil

1998; USA; 30 min; Documentary

war of separatism, a megalomaniac plans to end the

P: DeSales, Melissa Hammel; W: DeSales

world just after he kisses his boyfriend. A political

Part documentary, part re-enactment of the director’s

prostitute and her lover take control in this futuristic

life, this stylishly shot, brutally honest portrayal of a

patriarchal nightmare.

woman dealing with the demons of her past is sure to

Dist/Sales: CinemaEsperanca

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Kansas Anymore

banned in Senegal. Lusty and exuberant, Karmen

Geï is an imaginative reworking of a familiar tale.

Wilson, David

(Rafael Film Centre)

1996; USA; 30 min; Drama

French & Wolof with English subtitles.

P: David Wilson; W: David Wilson

Dist/Sales: CaliforniaNewsreel

A young band’s bittersweet journey across the

American heartland is complicated by encounters

Kate’s Addiction

with rednecks, old friends and by the lead singer’s

growing attraction to the bass player.

DelaBarre, Eric

1999; USA; 97 min; Thriller

Dist/Sales: Kinofist

P: Robyn Norris, Laura Caulfield; W: Eric DelaBarre; Karen Black Like Me

C: Jeffrey Wilkins; E: Wendy Smith; M: Bill Conn Cast: Kari Wurher, Farrah Forke, Matt Borlenghi, Joel

Briggs, David

Gretch, Matt Porretta, Natalie Radford

1997; USA; 15 min; Comedy

Kate arrives in Los Angeles to meet up with her old

Hysterical campy homage to the 1970s cult classic

friend Sara, but when Sara gets a boyfriend, Kate’s

Trilogy of Terror.

sociopathic tendencies come violently to the fore.

k

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures

Her obsession with Sara leads her to murder.

Karmarama

Prod Comp: Avalanche

Dist/Sales: Avalanche

Galea, Lee

2001; Australia; 10 min; Drama

When the local homophobic thug finally sees the

light and wants to ‘experiment’, he gets a rather rude

awakening.

Dist/Sales: Queerscreen

Karmen Geï

Ramaka, Joseph Gaï

2001; Canada, France, Senegal; 82 min; Musical

P: Richard Sadler; W: Joseph Gaï Ramaka; C: Bertrand Chatry; E: Hélène Girard; M: Julien Jouga, David Murray, Doudou N’Diaye Rose

Cast: Djeïnaba Diop Gaï, Stéphanie Biddle, Magaye

Niang, Thierno Ndiaye

This sensual, exciting version of the Carmen legend

transports the action of Prosper Merimée’s original

story and Georges Bizet’s celebrated opera to

contemporary Dakar on the coast of West Africa.

Djeïnaba Diop Gaï is Karmen, a statuesque goddess

who is involved with smugglers while desired by

both policeman Lamine Diop and female prison

warden Angelique. Senegalese filmmaker Joseph Gaï

Ke Kulana He Mahu: Remembering a Sense of Place

Ramaka has created not only the first African

Carmen, but arguably, in his words, the first African

Ke Kulana He Mahu: Remembering a

film ‘musical.’ However, instead of calling on Bizet’s

Sense of Place

music, he has assembled some of Senegal’s finest

Anbe, Brent / Xian, Kathryn

musicians and choreographers. Gaï Ramaka’s

characters and their destinies seem propelled by the

2001; USA; 67 min; Documentary

frenetic rhythms of the music and dance, comple-

P: Kathryn Xian, Brent Anbe, Jaymee Carvajal, Connie

mented by his striking imagery with its bursts of

M. Florez; W: Kathryn Xian; E: Kathryn Xian, Jaymee colour. His openly-bisexual Karmen proved a little

Carvajal

too passionate for the censors, since the film was

Ke Kulana He Mahu: Remembering a Sense of Place is

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the story of a group of people, young and old,

demonstration in New York in 1989. The gloved

surviving stereotypes, indignation, homophobia, and

and helmeted police break into the bedroom of two

marginalisation in a land where the ancient culture

women. (Cinenova)

once accepted them as a part of society. Through the

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, WMM

richness of their personal stories and the humour of

their frequent jokes we witness the solidarity and

Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon

soul of a ‘minority’ who uses humour and together-

ness to redefine family in order to overcome the hate

(aka: Kenneth Anger)

they encounter everyday. Ke Kulana He Mahu covers

Finch, Nigel

several aspects of the Honolulu gay scene; among

1991; UK; 60 min; Documentary

them are Hawaiian culture and history, the drag

C: Tony Bragg

scene, HIV, and religion. (Zang Pictures)

Part portrait of an artist as a young man, part death-

Prod Comp: Zang Pictures

styles of the rich and famous. The film is supposedly

Dist/Sales: Zang

even more irreverent than the best-selling books. See

Lupe Velez’s violent suicide, Fatty Arbuckle’s

Keep it Up, Jack!

disgrace, human-ashtray James Dean, Marianne

k (aka: Auntie)

Faithfull in person, and the man who embalmed

Marilyn! Made by the director of The Lost Language

Ford, Derek

of Cranes. (MQFF)

1973; UK; 90 min; Comedy

W: Derek Ford, Alan Selwyn; C: Geoff Glover;

Prod Comp: BBC

E: Pat Foster; M: Terry Warr

Dist/Sales: Roadshow

Cast: Mark Jones, Sue Longhurst, Maggi Burton, Steve

Kesher Ir

Viedor, Linda Regan

(aka: Urban Feel)

When down-on-his-luck, Jack inherits his aunt’s

mansion and discovers she was actually a madam

Sagall, Jonathan

and ran a brothel from the house, Jack sees an

1998; Israel; 103 min; Drama

opportunity to make money so he impersonates his

P: Jonathan Sagall, Eyal Shiray, David Mandil, Michael

aunt to continue running the business. All the girls

Tapuach; W: Jonathan Sagall; C: Dror Moreh;

turn out to be lesbians and the only way Jack can

E: Dalia Kastel; M: Joseph Bardanashvili

sleep with them is by staying in drag. The film sadly

Cast: Dafna Rechter, Jonathan Sagall, Scharonn

misses out on what could be a rather interesting and

Alexander, Asi Levy

humorous exploration of gender.

Eva and Robby are partners in a downward spiralling

Dist/Sales: Roadshow

marriage. Robby has taken to answering ‘lonely

Keep the River on your Right

hearts’ ads, while Eva, ripe with desire for a more

passionate existence, waits for something to

Shapiro, David / Shapiro, Laurie Gwen

happen... until an unexpected visitor drops by to

2000; USA; 94 min; Documentary

interrupt their empty domestic routine. He is

P: David Shapiro, Laurie Gwen Shapiro; W: David

Emanuel, Robbie’s former best friend and Eva’s

charming and somewhat alcoholic ex-lover. Having

Shapiro, Laurie Gwen Shapiro; C: Jonathan Kovel;

cruelly abandoned Eva eight years ago, the couple is

E: Tula Goenka; M: Steve Bernstein

wary of his presence. But when the sex-charged

Documentary about the amazing life of Tobias

Emanuel cons his way back into their lives, sparks fly

Schneebaum, a gay ex-artist, who travelled to Peru in

and old passions long thought dead surface,

the 1950s. Deep into the Amazon River he encoun-

providing the catalyst for Robbie and Eva’s burning

tered a native tribe that became his second family.

desire for change. (Mongrel Media)

Whilst there he witnessed cannibalism, and enjoyed

Hebrew with English subtitles.

a relationship with one of the tribesman.

Dist/Sales: Mongrel

Dist/Sales: FilmsTransit

Kevin’s Room

Keep your Laws off my Body

Zurek, Sharon

Gund Saalfield, Catherine / Leonard, Zoe

2001; USA; 60 min; Drama

1990; USA; 13 min; B&W; Documentary

P: Sharon Zurek; W: Sharon Zurek, Christina Timmins, A juxtaposition of intimate lesbian images with the

Lora E. Branch, Martha Shaifer, Andrew Spieldenner;

monstrous footage of police who descended on an

C: Ines Sommer; E: Anna Nakajima

ACT UP (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power)

Cast: Keith Butler, Malik Middleton, Parry Cavitt,

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Byron Stewart

Kika has been hired to paint, responds to her

Kevin’s Room is the story of five African–American

effervescent chatter. It turns out that Ramon has

gay men, each of whom struggles with common

only been in a cataleptic trance. Still Kika’s friendli-

issues related to our community, family and each

ness is enough to wake the dead. Spanish with

other. Through participation in a support group,

English subtitles.

each of the men learn valuable lessons and change in

Prod Comp: CiBy 2000, El Deseo SA

ways that will forever impact their lives. Kevin, a

Dist/Sales: NewVision, 21stCentury, October

young African–American social worker, receives a

small grant to start a gay men’s support group.

Killer Condom

Recruiting men to participate however has been

(aka: Kondom des Grauens)

difficult and his job is in jeopardy. One evening he is

Walz, Martin

pleasantly surprised by the arrival of three group

1996; Germany, Switzerland; 107 min; Comedy

participants. Charles and Pharaoh, motivated by a

P: Ralph S. Dietrich, Harald Reichebner;

recent hate crime, and Teddy, a Christian student

W: Ralf König, Martin Walz; C: Alexander Honisch; whose impending wedding to his childhood

E: Simone Klier; M: Emil Viklicky

sweetheart is causing him apprehension and

Cast: Udo Samel, Peter Lohmeyer, Marc Richter,

k

indecisiveness. (Black Cat Productions)

Leonard Lansink

Prod Comp: Black Cat Productions

A living, squirming, and worst of all, biting condom,

Dist/Sales: BlackCat

grips the city of New York in prophylactic panic.

Khush

Especially hard hit is gay detective Luigi Mackeroni.

As chomped corpses pile up, no one believes his

Parmar, Pratibha

carnivorous contraception theory. Then, when

1991; India, UK; 26 min; Drama

Mackeroni loses a testicle to the latex menace, his

pursuit becomes personal. He blows the lid off a cult

Khush is a sensual, visual discovery of the lives of

of supervillains bent on eliminating New York’s

South Asian lesbians and gays in Britain, North

sexual deviants. Their weapon: the Killer Condom.

America and India. Real-life experiences are

German with English subtitles. (Troma)

interspersed with dreamlike fantasies, Indian film

clips and dance performances that evoke the

Prod Comp: ECCO Film, Ascot Film

sensibility of lesbian and gay desire.

Dist/Sales: Lauren, Troma

Prod Comp: Hauer Rawlence Productions, Channel 4

Killer in the Village

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, WMM, VTape

Nisbett, Alec

Kicking On

1983; UK; 55 min; Documentary

Browne, Jaime

An update of the 1983 Horizon report on the spread

2000; Australia; 13 min; B&W; Comedy

of AIDS in the United States of America and those

groups most affected by the disease. Documents

Is the local thug at the Sunshine Footy Club a big

medical research in relation to AIDS and follows

poof? And did you hear he stuck it to some guy in

AIDS patients through various treatments. High-

Reserves who can’t even drop-punt? A gay footy flick

lights the lifestyle changes initiated in the homo-

that scores. (MQFF)

sexual community. Some of the ideas expressed in

Dist/Sales: Queerscreen

this video have changed in light of recent research

into AIDS. (ACMI)

Kika

Prod Comp: BBC

Almodóvar, Pedro

Dist/Sales: ACMI

1993; Spain; 114 min; Comedy

P: Esther García; W: Pedro Almodóvar; C: Alfredo F.

Killer Nun

Mayo; E: José Salcedo; M: Enrique Granados, Enrique (aka: Suor Omicidi)

Granados

Berruti, Giulio

Cast: Veronica Forqué, Peter Coyote, Victoria Abril,

1978; Italy; 90 min; Horror

Alex Casanovas

P: Enzo Gallo; W: Giulio Berruti, Alberto Tarallo; At this film’s centre is the title character, Kika, a

C: Antonio Maccoppi; E: Mario Giacco;

dizzy, good-hearted bombshell who works as a make-

M: Alessandro Alessandroni

up artist and whose ingenuous sexiness affects

Cast: Anita Ekberg, Joe Dallesandro, Lou Castel, Alida

everyone she meets. Even Ramon, a corpse whom

Valli, Massimo Serato

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A cult horror film about a morphine addicted,

Kim is a young Puerto Rican lesbian who describes

crazed nun who is the head of a hospital where she

her journey of coming out in New York City.

rules over a regime of lesbianism and violence. She

Dist/Sales: Frameline

endangers the life of the staff and patients as she

becomes more and more unhinged. Italian with

Kind of Family, A

English subtitles.

Koster, Andrew

Prod Comp: Cinesud, Il Gruppo Di Lavoro Calliope

1992; Canada; 54 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: VSM

An inspiring docudrama about Glen, a gay city

Killer, The

councillor, and his turbulent relationship with his

(aka: Die Xue Shuang Xiong)

adopted son, Michael. We follow Michael’s perilous

teenage years as he drifts towards drugs, alcohol and

Woo, John

male prostitution. By the age of 18 he is HIV-

1989; Hong Kong; 107 min; Action

positive. Although the street remains Michael’s life,

P: Hark Tsui; W: John Woo; C: Wing-hang Wong, Peter Glen remains constant in his unconditional love and

Pao; E: Kung-ming Fan; M: Lowell Lo

commitment.

k Cast: Yun-fat Chow , Danny Lee, Sally Yeh, Kong Chu, Dist/Sales: NFBC

Kenneth Tsang, Fui-on Shing

This is a highly kinetic male-bonding movie which is

Kindling Point, The

also something of a commentary on classic American

Rice, Teri

and French gangster movies and even Sergio Leone’s

1993; USA; 45 min; Erotica

westerns. A maverick cop falls in love with the killer

he has to apprehend. The killer in turn is fixated on

‘Perhaps the most beautiful lesbian S/M film ever

a woman he has inadvertently blinded while carrying

made ... intimately acted out rituals of domination

out a hit. The Killer is an outrageously high-camp

and pleasure, by way of a crop, candles, and an

mix of choreographed aggression fantasy combined

exquisitely expressive camera’—Village Voice. Enter

with romantic fatalism and glossy melodrama.

a vortex of voyeurism as this highly acclaimed

Dubbed into English.

experimental documentary unfolds. Warning: every

scene may offend...or fixate.

Prod Comp: Golden Princess, Magnum, Film Workshop

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

Dist/Sales: Egocentric

Killing of Sister George, The

King and Country

Aldrich, Robert

Losey, Joseph

1968; UK; 138 min; Drama

1964; UK; 82 min; B&W; Drama

P: Robert Aldrich; W: Lukas Heller; C: Joseph Biroc; P: Norman Priggen, Joseph Losey; W: James Lansdale E: Michael Luciano; M: Gerald Fried

Hodson, Evan Jones, John Wilson; C: Denys Coop;

Cast: Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Browne, Ronald

E: Reginald Mills; M: Larry Adler

Fraser

Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern,

Barry Foster

Sometimes touching, but blackly comic story of an

ageing lesbian actress, Beryl Reid, who is in the process

Set during World War I, an officer is assigned to

of losing both her live-in lover, Susannah York, and her

defend a young soldier who was the sole survivor of

job on a popular television soap—her character (Sister

a battle and walked away. He now faces execution

George) is being killed off. Reid is superb as the

for desertion. The two men begin to develop a very

embittered lesbian, as she goes from the dominant, in-

close relationship with a subtle homosexual subtext.

control actor to the pathetic, lost woman. A break-

Prod Comp: BHE, Landau/Unger

through film in the sixties and possibly the first openly

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, NFVLS, ACMI, AlliedArtists

lesbian film for mainstream cinema, although it does

have unfortunate lesbian stereotypes depicting the

King Girl

lesbian lifestyle as a sad and mostly traumatic existence.

Miller, Sam

Prod Comp: Palomar, American Broadcasting Company

1996; UK; 75 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, BFI, ACMI

P: Hilary Salmon; W: Philomena McDonagh;

Kim

C: Janet Tovey; E: Elen Pierce Lewis

Cast: Cathy Purcell, Louise Atkins, Maxine Campling,

Gajilan, Arlyn

Angela Saville

1988; USA; 27 min; Documentary

The pain, fear and loneliness of a teenage girl’s life

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without love explode into anger and violence in the

Marquard Boehm, Rudolf Schündler

powerful film King Girl. Two Yorkshire teenagers

Bruno is a travelling cinema mechanic who picks up

give remarkable performances in the roles of a tough

a hitchhiker, Robert, a psychologist who has

gang leader and her vulnerable victim. Sixteen-year-

problems with women. The road journey begins and

old Barnsley schoolgirl Louise Atkins—in her first-

signals the start of intimacy as the two share stories

ever acting role—stars as Glenn, the fourteen-year

of their lives, dreams and hopes. Their intimacy gives

old leader of an all-girl gang. Hard as nails on the

rise to an underlying sexual tension between them.

outside Glenn strides, swears and bullies her way

German with English subtitles.

through life. On the inside she struggles with her

Prod Comp: Filmverlag der Autoren, Argos,

adolescent fears, her sexual fantasies and her dreams

Westdeutscher Rundfunk

while coping with an absent father and a mother

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ACMI

who is virtually on the game. Glenn finds an outlet

for her anger and frustration by victimising Gail, her

Kinsey 3, The

timid classmate who is herself bewildered and

vulnerable after the death of her beloved father. Out

Robinson, Angela

of all the fear and hatred that defines their relation-

1998; USA; 13 min; Comedy

ship, a tense and highly ambivalent fascination arises

k

A crack team of sexual provocateurs attempts an

between the two girls. (1998 Verzaubert Interna-

unprecedented art heist.

tional Queer Film Festival)

Prod Comp: BBC

Kipling Trilogy, The

King of the City

Greyson, John

1986; Canada; 42 min; Documentary

(aka: Club Life)

This loosely related trilogy explores how the cultural

Vane, Norman Thaddeus

legacy of British imperialism impacts on the taboos

1985; USA; 90 min; Drama

of homosexual desire. Using film versions of

P: Norman Thaddeus Vane; W: Norman Thaddeus

Kipling’s oeuvre as a departure point, the films

Vane; C: Joe King; E: David Kern

examine the veritable tug of war between the gay

Cast: Tom Parsekian, Michael Parks, Jamie Barrett, Tony

subculture and mainstream social values. The three

Curtis, Pat Ast, Dee Wallace

films are The Perils of Pedagogy, The Jungle Boy and A young man leaves Texas to find fame and fortune

Kipling Meets the Cowboys.

in Hollywood, but he soon discovers the seedier side

Dist/Sales: VideoOut

of Tinsel Town when he becomes caught up in the

world of drugs and crime. The film has a great rock

soundtrack and Pat Ast appears as a lesbian bar

owner named Butch.

Prod Comp: MPR, VTC

Dist/Sales: Troma

Kings

Ayoup, Colleen

2001; Canada; 25 min; Documentary

Short documentary about Montreal’s Mambo Drag

Kings—a group of sexy, suave and outrageous

women who have taken the city’s queer community

Kings

by storm. (MQFF)

Dist/Sales: GroupeIntervention

Kiss in the Snow, A

Kings of the Road

Mosvold, Frank

1997; Norway; 22 min; Drama

(aka: Im Lauf der Zeit)

A boy learns that his life needs some readjusting to

Wenders, Wim

accommodate his first love. A heart-warming short

1976; Germany; 168 min; B&W; Drama

story about two boys with deep feelings for each

P: Wim Wenders; W: Wim Wenders; C: Robby Müller, other who can never find the right moment to

Martin Schäfer; E: Peter Przygodda; M: Axel Linstädt express their love. Norwegian with English subtitles.

Cast: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer,

Dist/Sales: NorwegianFilm, Frameline

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Kiss Me Guido

his favourite 1940s movies. Based on the novel by

Manuel Puig.

Vitale, Tony

1996; USA; 86 min; Comedy

Awards: Academy Awards, 1985: Best Actor (William

P: Ira Deutchman, Christine Vachon; W: Tony Vitale; Hurt)

C: Claudia Raschke; E: Alexander Hall; M: Randall Prod Comp: FilmDallas Pictures, HB Filmes, Sugarloaf

Poster

Films

Cast: Nick Scotti, Anthony Barrile, Anthony DeSando,

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, Ascanbee, BFI, Fox, ACMI

Craig Chester, Dominick Lombardozzi

Frankie Zito, an Italian–American working in a

Bronx pizza parlour, yearns to be an actor. Catching

his girlfriend and his brother inflagrante delicto on

the kitchen table is the last straw for Frankie, and he

moves out. Assuming that the abbreviation GWM in

a classified ad means ‘Guy With Money,’ the naive

but hunky Frankie soon finds himself sharing a

k

Manhattan apartment with Warren, a gay actor and

choreographer. (MQFF)

Prod Comp: Capitol Films, Redeemable Features

Dist/Sales: ParamountHV, Wolfe, Swank

Kiss me Monster

(aka: Bésame Monstruo)

Franco, Jesus

The Kiss of the Spider Woman

1969; Germany; 75 min; Horror

Kiss the Boys and Make Them Die

P: Pier A. Caminnecci, Adrian Hoven, José López

Moreno; W: Jesus Franco, Luis Revenga; C: Jorge

Stratton, Margaret

Herrero, Franz Hofer; E: Francisco García Velázquez,

1994; USA; 30 min; Drama

Maruja Soriano

This is an autobiographical film that explores how

Cast: Janine Reynaud, Rosanna Yanni, Adrian Hoven,

memory, sexuality and the self are created and

Michel Lemoine

enforced through the family story. It is a story of

A badly shot and routine horror film that is set in a

childhood trauma and the adult need to exorcise the

gothic castle. Gory experiments are carried out on

past and create an independent self.

women who are mostly naked. Diana and Regina

Dist/Sales: VDB

suffer harassment from mutant body builders and

suspect lesbians. Sequel to Sadisterotica (1967).

Kissing Jessica Stein

Dubbed into English.

Herman-Wurmfeld, Charles

Prod Comp: Aquila Film Enterprises, Films Montana

2001; USA; 94 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Siren

P: Brad Zions, Eden H. Wurmfeld; W: Heather

Kiss of the Spider Woman, The

Juergensen, Jennifer Westfeldt; C: Lawrence Sher;

E: Kristy Jacobs Maslin, Gregory Tillman;

Babenco, Hector

M: Marcelo Zarvos

1985; Brazil, USA; 114 min; Drama

Cast: Heather Juergensen, Jennifer Westfeldt, Tovah

P: David Weisman; W: Leonard Schrader; C: Rodolfo Feldshuh, Esther Wurmfeld

Sánchez; E: Mauro Alice, Lee Percy; M: John Neschling, Jessica is a sensitive but neurotic New York journalist

Michael Jary

who’s fed up with the dating life. One day, she

Cast: William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Jose

happens to read an intriguing personal ad, but it’s in

Lewgoy

the ‘women seeking women’ section. On a daring

Set in a Latin American prison during a military

whim, she answers the ad, and meets funky down-

dictatorship, this film explores the relationship that

town hipster Helen for drinks. To Jessica’s shock,

develops between two cellmates: a left wing

they click instantly, and a first kiss leads to an

journalist and a homosexual window dresser. To

earnest, hilarious, muddling courtship. (Wolfe)

entertain his cellmate during the monotony and

Prod Comp: Cineric

horror of prison life, the latter recreates stories from

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, FoxSearchlight, Wolfe

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Kizuna Volume 1 & 2

Kore Cara Mia

Kodaka, Kazuma

Pendra

1994; Japan; 60 min; Animation

1999; Canada; 18 min; Erotica

W: Kazuma Kodaka; M: Fujio Takano

Lesbian erotica at its most versatile in the age of

Sam’s legendary champion fencing career is halted by

AIDS.

a botched murder attempt. While his close friend,

Enjoji, helps him recover, they recognise their

Krámpack

intense love for one another. Enter Sagano, Enjoji’s

(aka: Nico & Dani)

half brother who also has a crush on Sam. (Wolfe)

Japanese with English subtitles.

Gay, Cesc

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

2000; Spain; 90 min; Drama

P: Jordi Berenguer, Gerardo Herrero; W: Jordi Sànchez, Cesc Gay, Tomás Aragay; C: Andreu Rebés; E: Frank Gutierrez; M: Joan Diaz, Jordi Prats, Riqui Sabates

Cast: Fernando Ramolla, Jordi Vilches, Chisco Amado,

Marieta Orozco

l

While his parents are away for the summer, 16-year-

old Dani invites his best friend, the irrepressible

Nico, to stay for the holidays. Jealously rears its head

when Nico appears more interested in the local girls

than in Dani. Hot summer nights and too many

joints lead to experimentation which neither boy can

talk about, a situation complicated by the appear-

ance of the older and openly gay Julian, a published

Km. 0

writer and old friend of Dani’s father. A deftly

handled film about adolescent discovery and

Km. 0

exploration. Spanish with English subtitles. (MQFF)

(aka: Kilometro cero)

Prod Comp: Messidor Films

Dist/Sales: Sogepaq, Mongrel, NewYorker, Wolfe, 10%

Iborra, Juan Luis / Serrano, Yolanda Garcia

2000; Spain; 102 min; Comedy

Krays, The

P: Gianni Ricci; W: Yolanda Garcia Serrano, Juan Luis Iborra; C: Angel Luis Fernandez; E: José Salcedo; M: Medak, Peter

Joan Bibiloni

1990; UK; 114 min; Drama

Cast: Concha Velasco, Silke Hornillos Klein, Georges

P: Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis; W: Philip Ridley; Corraface, Carlos Fuentes

C: Alex Thomson; E: Martin Walsh; M: Michael Kamen, Chris Rea

It’s the hottest day of the year in Spain and nobody

Cast: Billie Whitelaw, Tom Bell, Gary Kemp, Martin

at Madrid’s Plaza del Sol wants to keep their clothes

Kemp, Susan Fleetwood

on! Kilometre Zero is the centre point from which

distances are measured outward from the capital. But

This fact based drama tells the story of evil twin

in this fast-paced and witty ensemble comedy, it

brothers who grew up in London’s tough East End

becomes the meeting point for a host of colourful

during the years of the Second World War, their lives

characters of various sexual orientations. Four sets of

moulded and influenced by their mother. By the

strangers independently arrange to meet at Km. 0 at

1960s Reg and Ron Kray controlled London’s

the same time, which leads to most of them

gangster underworld through a reign of terror. Ron, a

accidentally pairing off with the wrong person. This

homosexual, began to show signs of mental instabil-

simple premise leads to a variety of entertaining

ity and his savagery eventually brought them down.

situations, including the proverbial internet-inspired

Prod Comp: Parkfield, Fugitive

hook up between two horny guys and the male

Dist/Sales: Palace, TLA, Miramax

virgin who wants to connect with a hooker before

his wedding but takes off with a man instead.

L. I. E.

(Mongrel)

Cuesta, Michael

Prod Comp: Media Park, Cuarteto Producciones

2001; USA; 97 min; Drama

Cinematografica

P: René Bastian, Linda Moran, Michael Cuesta;

Dist/Sales: Sogepaq, Mongrel, UIP, TLA

W: Stephen M. Ryder, Michael Cuesta; C: Romeo

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Tirone; E: Eric Carlson, Kane Platt; M: Pierre Foldes Marianne MacQueen is a lesbian mother who

Cast: Brian Cox, Paul Franklin Dano, Billy Kay, Bruce

struggles against a homophobic judicial system to

Altman

regain custody of her son. Her refusal to back down

Set in a world of contemporary suburban adoles-

and abandon her fight led to a landmark court trial

cence, L.I.E. (Long Island Expressway) begins as we

in 1981.

join a group of boys who rob houses in the middle-

class comfort of Long Island. While it seems that

Labyrinth of Passion

they break and enter strictly for kicks, they are good

(aka: Laberinto de pasiones)

at it. Two of these boys, Howie and Gary, are the

very best of friends. It is Gary’s idea to rob the house

Almodóvar, Pedro

belonging to an old guy named Big John, and when

1982; Spain; 100 min; Comedy

Big John quickly figures out exactly who to go to

P: Pedro Almodóvar; W: Pedro Almodóvar, Terry

after the crime, Howie learns that his pal Gary has

Lennox; C: Ángel Luis Fernández; E: Jose Salcedo; been leading a secret life. Gary and Big John have

M: Pedro Almodóvar, Bernardo Bonezzi, Fany McNamara

been engaged in a sex-for-pay relationship, and this

Cast: Cecilia Roth, Imanol Arias, Antonio Banderas

secret life fascinates Howie. Perhaps for the first time

A film about several love stories. The main couple,

he realises that he can truly live, like Gary, outside

l

around whom the film develops, are Sexilia, a young

the bounds of school, of home, and that it may be

sex fiend who is in love with the heir to a fallen Arab

OK that his feelings for Gary may run deeper than

empire, and Riza, who is more preoccupied with

those for his other friends. Gary, in the meantime,

cosmetics and men than with internal politics.

has figured out how to run away from Long Island,

Spanish with English subtitles.

and when he leaves it is Howie who suffers the

greatest loss. (Lot 47)

Prod Comp: Alphaville

Dist/Sales: Lot47, NewYorker, Wolfe

Dist/Sales: Potential, Cinevista, NFVLS, ACMI

L Is for the Way you Look

Ladies Please!

Carlomusto, Jean

Saw, Andrew

1991; USA; 23 min; Documentary

1995; Australia; 55 min; Documentary

P: Phaedon Vass, Rebel Penfold-Russell; W: Andrew A fun-filled exploration of lesbian history, incorpo-Saw; C: Brian J. Breheny

rating discussion of events, images, gossip and role

Cast: Adam Cahill, Ritchie Finger, Stuart Garskie

models.

A rare and stimulating insight into the professional

Dist/Sales: WMM

and personal lives of three of Australia’s most

L-Shaped Room, The

innovative drag performers who inspired the hit film

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Forbes, Bryan

Dist/Sales: Minotaur

1962; UK; 125 min; B&W; Drama

P: Richard Attenborough, James Woolf; W: Brian

Lady

Forbes, Lynne Reid Banks; C: Douglas Slocombe; E:

Anthony Harvey; M: John Barry

Sachs, Ira

Cast: Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Brock Peters, Cicely

1993; USA; 28 min; Comedy

Courtneidge

Cast: Dominique Dibbell

Leslie Caron in one of her best roles as a pregnant

Dominique Dibbell of New York’s ‘Five Lesbian

girl left to face life in the gloomy surroundings of a

Brothers’ stars as a glamorous redhead in this

London rooming house. Brock Peters plays a West

understated but hilarious pastiche. Is she a femme

Indian jazz musician in love with Tom Bell, who is

playing a male-to-female trannie, or a butch playing

also the object of Caron’s desire. Cicely Courtneidge

a femme?

plays a lesbian tenant who also meets Caron’s

Prod Comp: Charlie Guidance Productions

character.

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Prod Comp: Romulus, British Lion

Lady in Cement

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, FilmsInc, Columbia

Labor More than Once

Douglas, Gordon

1968; USA; 93 min; Drama

Mersky, Liz

P: Aaron Rosenberg; W: Marvin H. Albert, Jack Guss; 1983; USA; 52 min; Documentary

C: Joseph Biroc; E: Robert Simpson; M: Hugo P: Liz Mersky

Montenegro

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Cast: Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Richard Conte,

Ladybugs

Martin Gabel, Lainie Kazan

Furie, Sidney J.

In this sequel to Tony Rome, Sinatra is back as a

1992; USA; 89 min; Comedy

Miami private eye. He is hired by a small-time hood

P: Albert S. Ruddy, Andre E. Morgan; W: Curtis Burch; to locate his missing girlfriend. His investigations

C: Dan Burstall; E: John W. Wheeler, Timothy N.

lead him across the paths of many shady characters.

Board; M: Richard Gibbs, D.A. Young

A sharp twist in the plot sees Sinatra being accused

Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Jackee Harry, Jonathan

of murder. Paul Henry appears as a vice-squad

Brandis, Ilene Graff

officer whose job involves working the street in drag.

Chester is an under-appreciated corporate employee

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox, Arcola Pictures,

who, hoping for a promotion, volunteers to coach

Millfield

the ‘Ladybugs’, a girls’ soccer team sponsored by his

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, 20thCenturyFox

boss. Previously a championship team, this year they

are 13-year-old novices who know nothing about

soccer. Out of desperation, Chester convinces his

fiancée’s jock son to join the team... as a girl.

Prod Comp: Paramount, Ruddy & Morgan, Ladybugs

l

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, Paramount

Lakme Takes Flight

James, Sheila / Young, Melina

2000; Canada; 10 min; Comedy

A parody of Bollywood musicals and a humorous

love story between two women.

Dist/Sales: GroupeIntervention

Lakme Takes Flight

Lady in Waiting, The

Taylor, Christian

1992; USA; 30 min; Comedy

Cast: Virginia McKenna, Rodney Hudson

Nominated for an Academy Award, this short film

spins a tale of what happens when a prim and proper

Englishwoman is sent to New York to deliver a letter

to her employer’s mistress. However, a blackout sees

her stuck in a highrise with only a black drag queen

for company. (MQFF)

Lan Yu

Ladyboys

Lan Yu

Marre, Jeremy

Kwan, Stanley

1992; Thailand, UK; 53 min; Documentary

2001; Hong Kong; 86 min; Drama

This film offers an intimate portrait of teenage boys

P: Yongning Zhang; W: Jimmy Ngai; C: Tao Yang; who leave their impoverished homes in the north

E: William Chang; M: Yadong Zhang

Thailand countryside to find fame and fortune as

Cast: Jun Hu, Ye Liu, Jin Su, Huatong Li, Fang Lu,

transvestite performers in the glamorous cabarets of

Yongning Zhang

the south. The film follows two boys, out of the

Beijing 1988. Middle-aged Chen Handong is the

thousands, who each year enter transvestite beauty

eldest son of a senior government bureaucrat, heads

contests and display themselves in extravagant

a fast-growing trading company and plays as hard as

costumes. We see the pain, prejudice, and humour

he works. Few know that Handong’s tastes run to

that accompanies their transformation into women.

boys more than girls. Lan Yu is a country boy, newly

(Water Bearer Films)

arrived in Beijing to study architecture, who is short

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer

of money and willing to try anything to earn some.

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He meets Handong in a pool hall and encounters a

unholy alliance leads to bed and the formation of

life changing sexual initiation. Handong and Lan Yu

The Dead Patriots. (Beyond International)

meet often, and the boy becomes very secure in his

Prod Comp: Bandit Films

love for the man. But Handong insists that he

merely wants a playmate, not a lifelong companion,

Last Call at Maud’s

and warns Lan Yu that he will eventually break up

with him. They eventually move in together but,

Poirier, Paris

Handong continues to shy away from his feelings for

1993; USA; 77 min; Documentary

the boy. But fate can play cruel tricks... Mandarin

P: Paris Poirier; E: Paris Poirier

with English subtitles.

A documentary which looks at the longest running

Dist/Sales: Celluloid-Dreams, Strand, Mongrel

lesbian bar in the United States—Maud’s. It opened

its doors in 1966 in San Francisco and continued

Laramie Project, The

doing business through the seventies and eighties. It

finally closed in 1989. Included in the film are some

Kaufman, Moisés

wonderfully revealing personal accounts of lesbian

2001; USA; 97 min; Drama

life and culture from an earlier time.

P: Declan Baldwin; W: Moisés Kaufman;

l C: Terry Stacey; E: Brian A. Kates; M: Peter Golub Dist/Sales: Frameline, WaterBearer, ACMI

Cast: Steve Buscemi, Christina Ricci, Laura Linney,

Last Coming Out, The

Camryn Manheim, Jeremy Davies, Janeane Garofalo

What happens to an American town when some-

Anemogiannis, Con

thing unexpected, unconscionable and unforgivable

1993; Australia; 90 min; Documentary

rips it apart and thrusts it into the national media

P: Con Anemogiannis; W: Con Anemogiannis

spotlight? That is the question that led a New York

This film is Australia’s first feature-length look at

City theatre troupe to the town of Laramie,

AIDS/HIV. It looks at the multicultural communi-

Wyoming, to seek out residents whose lives were

ties, both straight and gay, of Australia, showing how

changed after a gay college student named Matthew

they’ve been affected by the disease. The film looks

Shepard was brutally beaten, tied to a fence and left

at how in Australia, more than any other country in

for dead off a rural road. This groundbreaking HBO

the world, AIDS is a gay disease with 93% of all

Films drama recreates the efforts of the troupe who

cases being homosexual men. It examines issues such

interviewed the residents of Laramie in an effort to

as homosexuality, homophobia and racism, suggest-

uncover what such a heinous crime meant to the

ing that AIDS and these issues have been inextrica-

people, their town and their country. (Wolfe)

bly linked.

Prod Comp: Good Machine

Dist/Sales: HBO, Wolfe, Swank

Last Emperor, The

Larry’s Visit

Bertolucci, Bernardo

1987; China, Italy, UK, USA; 162 min; Drama

Nero, Carlo Gabriel

P: Jeremy Thomas; W: Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark

1995; USA; 23 min; Drama

Peploe, Enzo Ungar; C: Vittorio Storaro; E: Gabriella High-powered and over-stressed ad executive Frank

Cristiani; M: Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne, Cong Su

Valentine gets a visit from an old private school

Cast: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O’Toole, Ying

friend. Over the course of his short visit, the truth

Ruocheng, Victor Wong

about their boyhood relationship surfaces, much to

An amazing and remarkable film inspired by the true

the chagrin of Frank’s wife. (Atom Films)

story of Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, who, in

Dist/Sales: Atom

1908, was crowned at the age of three and lived a

cloistered life in the Forbidden City until he was

Last Bus Home, The

deposed. He was made puppet emperor of Manchu-

ria by the Japanese but after the Second World War

Gogan, Johnny

was arrested by the communists and imprisoned.

1997; Ireland; 93 min; Drama

Later he was released to live as an ordinary citizen.

P: Paul Donovan; W: Johnny Gogan; C: James Mather; Based on a book written by Pu Yi’s English tutor,

E: Catherine Creed; M: Cathal Coughlan

which chronicles his life from the absolute extrava-

Cast: Annie Ryan, Anthony Brophy, Brian F. O’Byrne,

gance and excesses as emperor to his existence of

John Cronin

poverty in modern day China.

Two young punks, Reena and Jessop, meet on the

Awards: Academy Awards, 1987: Best Film, Director,

day the Pope comes to Dublin in 1979. Their

Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography

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Prod Comp: Thomas, Columbia, AAA, Hemdale,

fade as the survivors come to realise that the world

Recorded Pictures

may have suffered a major disaster. They have to rely

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, Ascanbee, 16MM,

on their own resources and at first manage to live

ReelMovies, Col-Tri

harmoniously. But gradually tensions rise after a

failed attempt to escape. Intolerance threatens their

Last Empress, The

very existence as one of the men begins to put

(aka: Wei dai huang hou)

himself forward as the leader of the group. (MQFF)

Prod Comp: First Floor Features

Chen, Jialin / Sun, Qingguo

Dist/Sales: FirstFloor

1985; China; 105 min; Drama

Cast: Hong Pan

Last Married Couple in America, The

The story of the fate of three women, including the

Cates, Gilbert

wife and cousin of who have a lesbian relationship.

The deposed Chinese Emperor Pu Yi’s life is shown

1980; USA; 103 min; Comedy

in detail in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor.

P: Ed Feldman, John Herman Shaner; W: John Herman Chinese with English subtitles.

Shaner; C: Ralph A. Woolsey; E: Peter E. Berger; M: Charles Fox

l

Prod Comp: Changchun Film Studio

Cast: George Segal, Natalie Wood, Dom DeLuise,

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Valerie Harper, Richard Benjamin

A happily married couple are so upset at the break-

Edel, Ulrich

up of all their friends’ marriages that they begin to

1989; Germany, USA; 102 min; Drama

question their own relationship. The only happy

P: Bernd Eichinger, Herman Weigel; W: Desmond

couple in neighbourhood just happens to be gay.

Nakano; C: Stefan Czapsky; E: Peter Przygodda;

Prod Comp: Universal

M: Mark Knofler

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Universal

Cast: Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alexis

Arquette, Burt Young, Steve Baldwin

Last Metro, The

A down-to-earth and bleak look at life on the mean

(aka: Le Dernier métro)

streets of Brooklyn, USA, 1952. It centres around a

strike against a local factory. Lang plays a married

Truffaut, François

shop steward from the union who is caught stealing

1980; France; 133 min; Drama

from the till to pay for his homosexual affair. Leigh

P: Jean-José Richer, François Truffaut; W: François is a prostitute who, when she has had a few too

Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman, Jean-Claude Grumberg;

many drinks, gets gang raped in the local bar. Based

C: Néstor Almendros; E: Marie-Aimee Debril, Martine on the controversial novel by Hubert Selby Jnr.

Barraqué-Curie; M: Georges Delerue

Prod Comp: Allied, Neue Constantin, Bavaria

Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Jean

Dist/Sales: 16MM, Col-Tri, Cinecom, ACMI

Poiret, Heinz Bennent

Set during the German occupation of France in

Last Island, The

World War II, a theatre company owner is forced to

Gorris, Marleen

hide out in his cellar, while his actress wife struggles

1990; The Netherlands; 101 min; Drama

to keep his business running. She is supported in her

efforts by the rest of the company which includes a

P: Laurens Geels, Dick Maas; W: Marleen Gorris;

gay director and a lesbian actress. French with

C: Marc Felperlaan; E: Hans van Dongen;

English subtitles.

M: Boudewijn Tarenskeen

Cast: Kenneth Colley, Paul Freeman, Patricia Hayes,

Prod Comp: Films du Carrosse, Société Française de

Shelagh McLeod

Production, TF1 Films

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, Palace, MK2Diffusion,

In a brilliant, modern version of the classic ship-

UAClassics, Wellspring

wreck tale, director Marleen Gorris manages to

capture both a gay male’s and feminist perspective.

Last of England, The

After a large airliner crashes on a deserted island

killing most of the passengers, two women, five men

Jarman, Derek

and a dog survive: an Eastern European, a Canadian

1987; UK; 87 min; Drama

lawyer, a French biologist, a prosperous Scottish

P: James MacKay, Don Boyd; W: Derek Jarman; C: financier, a young American, an extrovert Australian

Derek Jarman, Christopher Hughes, Cerith Wyn Evans,

and a major in the British army. Hopes of rescue

Richard Heslop; E: Peter Cartwright, Angus Cook, John

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Maybury, Sally Yeadon; M: Simon Fisher Turner

Boontherm (whose name means ‘long stem’) is a

Cast: Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, Gay Gaynor,

young boy from the Thai countryside. He moves to

Matthew Hawkins, Gerard McArthur

the city to make a life for himself, where he meets a

This is both a lament for what Jarman sees as the

drag queen who falls in love with him and begins to

terminal state of the nation and what has been

support him. Boon, however, leaves the drag queen,

described as ‘a defiant fist waved in the face of

and meets and falls in love with Orn, but Orn turns

Thatcher’s Britain’. Jarman calls it ‘a dream allegory

out to be a lesbian.

[in which] the present dreams the past future’.

Dist/Sales: TMPPA

Several strands of video and super-8 imagery—urban

decay, home movies from the twenties to the fifties,

Late Bloomers

angry stylised homoerotic images, reflexive scenes of

Dyer, Julia

Jarman at work—are complemented by music and

1996; USA; 107 min; Comedy

voice-over.

P: Gretchen Dyer, Julia Dyer, Stephen Dyer;

Prod Comp: Anglo International, British Screen,

W: Gretchen Dyer; C: Bill Schwarz; E: Gretchen Dyer, Channel 4, Tartan Productions

Julia Dyer; M: Ted Pine, Suzanne Ciani

Dist/Sales: Cowboy

Cast: Connie Nelson, Dee Hennigan, Gary Carter,

l

Jonah Marsh

A high school secretary wrongly suspects a geometry

teacher of having an affair with her husband, then

ends up having a passionate romance with her. Once

the affair becomes public, their lives are turned

upside down by a suburban community not willing

to accept them. (Cowboy Pictures)

Dist/Sales: Strand, Wolfe, Cowboy, Millivres

Latin Boys go to Hell

Troyano, Ela

1997; USA; 70 min; Comedy, Drama

P: Jürgen Brüning; W: Ander Salas, Ela Troyano;

The Last of England

C: James Carman; E: Brian A. Kates; M: John Zorn Last of Sheila, The

Cast: Irwin Ossa, John Bryant Davila, Jenifer Lee

Simard, Alexis Artiles

Ross, Herbert

A comedy drama set in New York’s Latino commu-

1973; USA; 119 min; Thriller

nity. The lives of a group of young gay and straight

P: Herbert Ross; W: Anthony Perkins, Stephen

friends gets complicated by desire and jealousy and

Sondheim; C: Gerry Turpin; E: Edward Warschilka; starts to resemble the Spanish soap opera they are all

M: Billy Goldenberg

dedicated to.

Cast: James Coburn, Dyan Cannon, James Mason,

Dist/Sales: Potential, Strand, Siren, Mongrel, Wolfe,

Raquel Welch, Joan Hackett

Millivres

A murder-mystery thriller set on a yacht in the south

of France. A film producer invites a group of friends

Latin Queens: Unfinished Stories of our Lives

to stay for a week on the yacht; the purpose, it

Wagner, Anton

seems, is to discover his wife’s murderer. As it

1999; 55 min; Documentary

happens he gets an ice pick in the neck—while he’s

in drag. With lots of twists and turns towards the

Latino drag queens fleeing persecution in South

end, we find out it is the homosexual who did it.

America struggle for survival in the gay community

in Toronto. There is little legal protection for

Prod Comp: Warner

homosexuals in many Latin American countries.

Dist/Sales: Warner

Several gays, transgendered persons and drag queens

Last Song, The

featured in this documentary were subject to police

brutality in their countries and have been granted

Akarasainee, Pisan

refugee status in Canada on the basis of their sexual

1986; Thailand; 90 min; Drama

orientation. (CFMDC)

Cast: Somying Daorai

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

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Laughing Policeman, The

Lavender Limelight: Lesbians in Films

Rosenberg, Stuart

Mauceri, Marc

1973; USA; 112 min; Drama

1997; USA; 45 min; Documentary

P: Stuart Rosenberg; W: Thomas Rickman; C: David From Go Fish to Paris is Burning to The Watermelon M. Walsh; E: Robert Wyman; M: Charles Fox

Woman, Lavender Limelight: Lesbians in Films goes

Cast: Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jnr,

behind the scenes to reveal America’s most successful

Anthony Zerbe, Albert Paulsen

lesbian directors. These talented moviemakers

Two San Francisco policemen hunt down a deranged

enlighten and entertain as they explore their sexual

killer who has randomly murdered a number of

identity, growing up gay, inspirations and tech-

innocent people on a city bus. Once again the mad

niques, Hollywood vs. Indie, and of course, love and

mass-murderer turns out to be homosexual. Based

sex, onscreen and off. (First Run Features)

on a novel by Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall.

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures, Wolfe

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox

Lavender Tortoise

Woodward, Ken

l

1991; USA; 14 min; Comedy

Cast: Greg Taylor

Join Greg Taylor and his merry band of fags and

dykes as they make their way to America’s ultimate

fantasy world—Disneyland.

Law of Desire

(aka: La Ley del Deseo)

Almodóvar, Pedro

1986; Spain; 102 min; Drama, Comedy

P: Esther García; W: Pedro Almodóvar; C: Angel Luis Fernandez; E: José Salcedo

Cast: Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio

Banderas, Miguel Molina

The plot centres on Pablo’s love for Juan, frustrated

and unrequited as it is at times. Adding to the brew

is Pablo’s sister, Tina, a transsexual who is in love

with a model. The antics of these four, plus several

Late Bloomers

others, reach a fevered crescendo where they must all

challenge the very real laws of desire. (MQFF)

Laura

Spanish with English subtitles.

Luketic, Robert

Prod Comp: El Deseo SA, Lauren Film

1996; Australia; 14 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: NewVision, Cinevista, Lauren, ACMI

W: Robert Luketic

Lawless Heart, The

Laura is a Twin Peaks meets Natural Born Killers

meets Priscilla kind of girl. A glamorous transsexual

Hunsinger, Tom / Hunter, Neil

with a bizarre and deadly secret. Starring Pax (first

2001; UK; 100 min; Drama

name Sarah) in the title role, this psycho-sexual

P: Martin Pope; W: Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter;

thriller follows Detective Steve Ransard, the man

C: Sean Bobbitt; E: Scott Thomas; M: Adrian Johnston assigned to catch a serial killer with a disturbing

Cast: Tom Hollander, Ellie Haddington, Douglas

modus operandi—a penchant for men with blue

Henshall, Sukie Smith

eyes. His boyfriend, Mark, gets more than he

The Lawless Heart is a sharp, modern love story

bargained for during the couple’s holiday at a coastal

where lust, love and loyalty are stretched to their

caravan park. (MQFF)

limits. Shocked by the death of a friend, Dan, Nick

Dist/Sales: VCA

and Tim, decide to take their lives in hand but

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reckon without the three beguiling women they’re

and befriends a cast of locals who, in varying

about to meet. Dan is a faithful if frustrated husband

degrees, become agents in his sentimental education:

and father—until he meets the gorgeous and

a trinity of transvestites, a senior bard with muse in

glamorous Corinne who awakens a sense of belated

tow and hunky bikie, Mikey. Counterpoised to his

adventure in him. Nick is struggling to come to

adventure is the experience of his best friend, who

terms with the loss of his boyfriend Stuart, but the

leads the predictable ‘lifestyle’ of the ‘professionally’

effervescent Charlie is determined to bring him out

gay man, specialising in serial partnering and

of his shell. Tim has spent eight years searching the

physique fetishism and cultivating that requisite, oh-

globe for something meaningful, little realising that

so-cool, morning-after, ennui. But our intrepid

the girl of his dreams lives in his own home town—

protagonist wants to love... monogamously, thereby

surely nothing could be easier than winning her

prompting Mike to reconsider the priorities in his

heart? Told from three different perspectives, The

own life.

Lawless Heart reveals the comic and subtle realities of

Prod Comp: Leather Jacket Productions

modern relationships. (www.lawlessheart.co.uk)

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

Dist/Sales: FirstLook

Leave It!

l Leather

Cronin, Laura Jean

Haberman, Hardy

2002; USA; 27 min

1995; USA; 10 min; B&W; Documentary

A cute girl changes everything at dog obedience

A subjective documentary about the world of

school.

leathermen in the form of a film poem. Interviews

and sound bites combine with a lyric narrative and

crisp graphic images of sadomasochistic activity.

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Leather Boys, The

Furie, Sidney J.

1963; UK; 108 min; B&W; Drama

P: Raymond Stross; W: Gillian Freeman; C: Gerald Gibbs; E: Reginald Beck; M: Bill McGuffie

Cast: Colin Campbell, Rita Tushingham, Dudley

Sutton, Gladys Henson, Avice Landon

The disillusion of a disappointing marriage leads a

young mechanic into a relationship with a fellow

motorcyclist in this often perceptive study of

masculinity, shot on a small budget in a London

working-class environment. The homosexuality at

Leave It!

the heart of the relationship is sympathetically (for

Legacies

the time) brought into the open, negating the myth

of the buddy relationship as a neutral escape route

Wekland, Sean

from the role-playing in male-female relationships.

1995; USA; 30 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: British Lion, Garrick, Raymond Stross

In depth documentary about how the Mormon

Productions

Church has dealt with homosexuality. Features the

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, AlliedArtists, VSM, NFVLS, ACMI

traumatic experiences of four gay ex-Mormons who

were subject to all manner of psychological ill-

Leather Jacket Love Story

treatment.

DeCoteau, David

Legal Memory

1997; USA; 85 min; B&W; Drama

P: Jerry Goldberg; W: Rondo Mieczkowski; C: Howard Steele, Lisa / Tomczak, Kim

Wexler; E: Jeffrey Schwarz; M: Jeremy Jordan

1992; Canada; 80 min; Drama

Cast: Christopher Bradley, Sean Tataryn, Geoffrey

P: Lisa Steele, Kim Tomczak; W: Lisa Steele, Kim

Moody, Hector Mercado, Mink Stole

Tomczak; C: Julie Warren; E: Dennis Day

In this sexually explicit film, Kyle, a serious film poet

Cast: Lisa Steele, Kim Tomczak

takes post in nonconformist Silverlake, California

A docudrama about Leo Mantha, the last man

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hanged in British Columbia who, in 1958 murdered

afflicted group are a hoot. The Camille Paglia stand-

his male lover on a Victoria naval base. The film

in is flawless, and the lines are hilarious. (Cinenova)

explores the crime within the context of mainstream

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

society and the gay subculture in 1950s Canada.

Prod Comp: Legal Memory Inc

Lesbian Health Matters

Dist/Sales: VTape

1995; UK; 46 min; Documentary

Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk, The

Devised by London Lesbians in Health Care, a

diverse multidisciplinary group of healthcare

Yuen, Corey

workers, this film is intended to raise the awareness

1993; Hong Kong; 105 min; Action

of lesbians as service users. It seeks to alert healthcare

P: Jet Li; W: Kung-yung Chai, Kin Chung Chan, Jay workers to the needs of lesbians and to demonstrate

On; C: Jingle Ma; E: Peter Cheung; M: Romeo Díaz, how assumptions of heterosexuality may inadvert-Mark Lui, James Wong

ently lead to a damaging consultation. (Cinenova)

Cast: Jet Li, Josephine Siao, Sung Young Chen

Prod Comp: Ukulele Productions; Dist/Sales: Cinenova The mother of a young man dresses up as a man to

defend the family’s honour in this drag meets Kung

Lesbian Physicians on Practice, Patients

l

Fu action adventure comedy flick. She goes into

& Power

battle with the mother of another family but, as it

turns out, the two women fall in love. Cantonese

Mosbacher, Dee

with English subtitles.

1991; USA; 30 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: Eastern Production

Lesbian Physicians on Practice, Patients & Power

Dist/Sales: RimFilm, BuenaVista

introduces you to a fascinating group of lesbians,

from surgeons to psychiatrists. It provides a rare

Legend of Lylah Clare, The

opportunity to hear them candidly assess the impact

of being out on their professional and personal lives.

Aldrich, Robert

The video uses the unique vantage point of these

1968; USA; 130 min; Drama

physicians to consider specific concerns of lesbians

P: Robert Aldrich; W: Hugo Butler, Edward DeBlasio, and gay men as patients within the medical system.

Jean Rouverol, Robert Thom; C: Joseph Biroc;

(Woman Vision)

E: Michael Luciano; M: Frank de Vol

Dist/Sales: WomanVision

Cast: Peter Finch, Kim Novak, Milton Selzer, Rossella

Falk, Ernest Borgnine

Lesbian Teenagers in High School

A film director’s wife dies only a few hours after they

Salmon, Norah

are married. He attempts to recreate his wife’s image

as the great star, Lylah Clare, by using other young

1998; USA; 23 min; Documentary

women for a screen biography. A rather heavy-

Discusses the experiences of young lesbians in high

handed approach to the subject. Rossella Falk plays a

school.

rather predatory lesbian.

Prod Comp: MGM

Lesbian Tongues

Dist/Sales: MGM

1989; USA; 90 min; Documentary

Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire Too

Cast: Peggy Shaw, Lois Weaver, Donna J. McBride,

Barbara Greir

Baus, Janet / Friedrich, Su

Using interviews with a number of lesbians, this

1993; USA; 55 min; Documentary

educational documentary details how they live and

Looks at the accomplishments of a group of lesbian

work openly, their relationships and lovers. Among

activists in their first year together.

the eclectic group of interviewees are comedians,

performance artists, dairy owners and publishers.

Lesbian Bed Death: Myth or Epidemic

Lesbians Behaving Badly

Foiles, Stacey

1995; USA; 15 min; Comedy

McKibben, Kerry

2001; UK; 46 min; Documentary

This wild spoof of TV magazine journalism takes a

mock-serious look at a phenomenon which is

Find out what London’s lesbians get up to in their

reportedly sweeping through the lesbian community.

natural habitat.

The satirical interviews with members of the

Dist/Sales: WorldOfWonder

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Lesbians Go Mad in Lesbos

Cast: Nicholas Hope, Paul Capsis, Jenny Vuletic

Kent, Gabi

A musical melodrama about the queerness of opera,

2000; UK; 50 min; Documentary

and the operatic in everyday life. It’s opera night at

an Australian corner pub, and a series of impossible

A group of debauched dykes from London’s candy

love scenarios are being played out by couples caught

Bar plan their first ever package holiday to Lesbos.

in the ordinary tragedy of human relationships.

And they’ve got the lot laid on for them: wet T-shirt

competitions, prizes for the hussy of the week and to

Awards: Turin International Gay & Lesbian Film

cap it all off, the ‘wet pussy pool party’. However, it’s

Festival, 1996: Best Short Film

the flyers for the last event that particularly rile the

Prod Comp: Suitcase Films

local Mayor, who comes down hard and fast on the

proposed water sports. Will he have his wicked way,

or will the fun-hungry females get to make a splash?

(MQFF)

Dist/Sales: WorldOfWonder

Lesbians in the Pulpit

l

1991; USA; 28 min; Documentary

Sally Boyle, an ordained minister has been living

openly with her lesbian lover for four years. Her

courageous stand has provoked controversy.

(Filmakers Library)

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary

Let Me Die, Again

Lesbians Olé

Let’s Love Hong Kong

Gorham, Caz

(aka: Ho Yuk)

2002; UK; 50 min; Documentary

Yau, Ching

Fifty lesbians arrive in Sitges in Spain, Europe’s most

2002; Hong Kong; 87 min; Drama

popular gay destination for a week of hard partying.

P: Ching Yau; W: Ching Yau; C: Kam Cam, Hung-yut It’s a holiday the organisers won’t forget easily, and

one the locals probably want to forget as soon as

Chen; E: Po-wen Chen; M: Chi Shing Kung

possible. Pool parties, strip shows and an invasion of

Cast: Wong Chung-ching, Erica Lam, Colette Koo,

the local theme park aside, this World of Wonder

Maria Cordero

Production is a fast-paced and funny fly-on-the-wall

Zero, who, like many Hong Kong youngsters, has a

documentary. (2002 London Lesbian & Gay Film

handful of unsteady jobs. She takes a fancy to Chan

Festival)

Kwok Chan, whom she begins stalking. Chan in

Dist/Sales: WorldOfWonder

turn, has a job donning exotic costumes as a cyber

papel doll for a porn website, and a sex-worker lover

Lesson 9

who has a son and a separate husband on the

mainland. Then there’s Nicole, who gets her

Taylor, Mark

orgasmic intimacy watching Chan every night. All

1999; USA; 16 min; Experimental

these games of chasing, rejecting and seducing are

A shifting montage of abstract imagery, animation,

played out in an economically and spiritually

and archival footage is combined with a haunting

depressed Hong kong. (2002 Hong Kong Interna-

soundtrack and original footage to illustrate the

tional Film Festival)

brooding poetic journal entries of a lover gone mad.

Cantonese with English subtitles.

Taylor uses text scrawled on the screen, to draw us

into the writer’s troubled mind. (Frameline)

Let’s Play Prisoners

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Zando, Julie

Let Me Die, Again

1988; USA; 22 min; B&W; Drama

A haunting look at the hidden issues of erotic power

Knight, Leone

relationships between women told through the

1994; Australia; 15 min; Comedy

reconstructed story of two girlhood friends. The

P: Megan McMurchy; W: Viki Dun

origins of desire and domination are traced to the

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childhood relationship between mother and

Cast: Linda Griffiths, Jane Hallaren, Jon de Vries, Jo

daughter as revealed in the often fearful and cruel

Henderson

framework of childhood play.

Lianna drops out of university to become a wife and

Dist/Sales: VDB

mother. She decides to go back to night class where

she meets and falls in love with Ruth, her psychology

Letters from Home

teacher. They begin an affair, but when Lianna tells

her husband, he kicks her out of their house and

Hoolboom, Mike

separates her from her children. Even her close

1996; Canada; 15 min; Experimental

friend Sandy suddenly avoids her. Now Lianna must

A filmic reflection on AIDS, life, love and death.

make her own way in life, find a job, somewhere to

live and new friends. She tries to win back her

Lez B Friends: A Biker Bitch Hate Story

children and friends while dealing with her relation-

ship with Ruth. The film is not just another coming-

House, Uncle Steak / Lovanne, Auntie Lou

out story, it looks at the consequences of Lianna’s

1998; USA; 20 min; Comedy

actions in the real world. An interesting and complex

P: Uncle Steak House, Auntie Lou Lovanne

film for the era in which it was made.

In a spoof of John Waters films, a girl biker gang

Prod Comp: Winwood

l

cruises the city looking for recruits.

Dist/Sales: Swank, BFI, UAClassics

Prod Comp: Uncle Steak Auntie Lou Productions

Dist/Sales: Steakhaus

Liberace

Lez Be Friends

Hale, William

1988; USA; 100 min; Drama

Hayes, Lisa

P: Jeanne Van Cott; W: Anthony Lawrence, Nancy

2000; Canada; 13 min; Comedy

Lawrence; M: Gary William Friedman

After making a short film about her best friend

Cast: Andrew Robinson, John Rubinstein, Maris

Abbey’s struggle to accept her sexual orientation, Lily

Valainis, Louis Giambalvo

is assumed to be the true subject of the film. While

The life of the extremely flamboyant pianist,

Abbey, the film’s star, becomes a legend in the

Liberace, who must be the most famous closet

lesbian community, Lily is trapped in a netherworld

homosexual in entertainment history. Even up to his

between heterosexuality and homosexuality,

death of AIDS in 1987, he refused to acknowledge

continually trying to set the record straight.

his homosexuality. In this very sanitised made for

(CFMDC)

television version of his life, homosexuality and

AIDS are never mentioned.

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

Dist/Sales: Roadshow

Liberace: Behind the Music

Greene, David

1988; USA; 100 min; Drama

W: Gavin Lambert

Cast: Victor Garber, Saul Rubinek, Maureen Stapleton,

Michael Dolan

Another man-behind-the-music film of Liberace,

this time from the view of his long-time personal

manager Seymour Heller. A more honest account of

his life, Liberace’s life story is approached more

directly than in the other version released in 1988,

particularly with respect to his death from AIDS.

Lianna

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, TLA

Lianna

Licensed to Kill

Sayles, John

Dong, Arthur

1983; USA; 110 min; Drama

1997; USA; 80 min; Documentary

P: Jeffrey Nelson, Maggie Renzi; W: John Sayles;

P: Arthur Dong; W: Arthur Dong; C: Robert Shepard; C: Austin De Besche; E: John Sayles; M: Mason Daring E: Arthur Dong

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Cast: Donald Aldrich, Corey Burley, Raymond Childs,

P: Elisa Argenzio; W: John Brumpton, Lawrence

William Cross

Johnston; C: Mandy Walker; E: Bill Murphy;

Licensed to Kill goes behind the media headlines of

M: John Clifford White

high-profile anti-gay murders to investigate their

Cast: John Brumpton, David Tredinnick, Robert

causes. Attacked by gay bashers in 1977, filmmaker

Morgan, Ian Scott, Noel Jordan

Arthur Dong probes the hearts and minds of murder-

A film adaptation of John Brumpton’s play Contain-

ers convicted of killing gay men—he faces them in

ment, this powerfully acted drama is set in a prison

one-on-one cell block interviews and asks them

where Des, a tough criminal, is placed in T2 division

directly: “Why did you do it?” (Deep Focus Films)

after he tests positive to HIV. His cellmate is the

Prod Comp: DeepFocus Productions

sensitive Ralph. The characters share their stories

Dist/Sales: DeepFocus

and both carry a lot of emotional baggage. Flash-

backs are used to develop the interactions between

Lickerish Quartet, The

the two men, the other inmates and wardens.

(aka: The Erotic Quartet)

Prod Comp: Rough Trade Pictures

Metzger, Radley

Dist/Sales: Dendy, Intra, Col-Tri

l 1970; USA; 88 min; Erotica

P: Radley Metzger; W: Michael DeForrest, Radley

Metzger; C: Hans Jura; M: Stelvio Cipriani

Cast: Frank Wolff, Silvana Venturelli, Erika Remberg,

Paolo Turco

Set in an opulent Italian castle, a family invites a

young female performer from a touring circus to stay

with them. She seduces the whole family, including

the mother, father and teenage boy, who in turn act

out their sexual fantasies, which include watching

pornographic films. This is a badly made film with

poor acting, cinematography and editing. The so-

called erotic fantasies are not so erotic and the

lesbianism will seem fairly tame for today’s audi-

ences.

Life

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, FirstRunFeatures

Life and Death

Lie Down with Dogs

Wam, Svend / Vennerod, Peter

1980; Norway; 90 min; Drama

White, Wally

P: Mephisto Films

1995; USA; 85 min; Comedy

P: Wally White, Anthony Bennett; W: Wally White;

Jacob is married, but falls in love with John. Whilst

C: George Mitas; E: Hart F. Faber; M: Douglas J. Cuomo initially shocked, Jacob’s wife Jennifer slowly warms

Cast: Bash Halow, Darren Dryden, James Sexton, Wally

to the idea, and finds herself drawn into a romantic

White

triangle.

A coming-of-age sexual odyssey which takes place

Life and Death on the A-List

one summer in Provincetown—dubbed the

‘Ultimate gay resort’. Tommie leaves Manhattan

Corcoran, Jay

with his friend Eddie with the promise of lots of

1996; USA; 45 min; Documentary

available men at the resort—and he’s not disap-

pointed.

Many Americans will remember Tom McBride as

the devilishly handsome actor from the well known

Prod Comp: Miramax

laundry detergent ads with Dana Delany and as the

Dist/Sales: Dendy, Swank, Miramax

dancing Dr Pepper man. As the subject of Jay

Life

Corcoran’s gripping documentary, Tom grapples

with the very real-life complications of living with

(aka: Containment; Out of the Blue)

AIDS while coming to terms with his inevitable fall

Johnston, Lawrence

from (gay) grace. (Water Bearer Films)

1995; Australia; 85 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer

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Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, The

Second World War and then went to Israel. She later

became a television personality and an outspoken

Aronson, Jerry

supporter of the gay community.

1990; USA; 82 min; Documentary

A candid and intimate look at the life of the

Life that we Dreamt, The

visionary poet Allen Ginsberg. Aronson spent ten

years compiling the footage for this documentary. In

(aka: Het Leven dat we Droomden)

the process he developed a warm friendship with

De Hert, Robbe

Ginsberg. Through black and white stills, home

1981; Belgium; Drama

movies, television news footage, various interviews

W: Fernand Auwera, Robbe De Hert

and poetry readings; we watch Ginsberg grow from a

Cast: Arlette Weygers, Karen van Parijs, Herman Gilis

pained boy into an unpretentious literary giant.

Included are interviews with Timothy Leary, Ken

Two women fall in love with the same man, but

Kesey, Herbert Hunke, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)

soon discover that they are actually in love with each

and Abbie Hoffman; as well as two partial reading of

other.

Howl and a full reading of Kaddish.

Prod Comp: Belgische Radio en Televisie

(www.kerouac.com)

Life’s a Butch!

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Life History of a Star

Rosser Goodman, A.

Gentile, Jennifer M.

2000; USA; 14 min; Comedy

1999; 13 min; Drama

A true femme realises she must pose as a butch to

Angie takes us on a magical journey as she recounts

win the femme of her dreams.

the events leading up to the destruction of her

Dist/Sales: KGB

relationship with Dave and into her strange

encounter with Claire. (Big Film Shorts)

Dist/Sales: Infected, BigFilm

Life is a Woman

(aka: Zhizn-Zhenshchina)

Serikbayeva, Zhanna

1991; Kazakhstan; 80 min; Drama

Women in prison saga with a 1970s flavour. Madina

is imprisoned for murdering her boyfriend’s enemy.

When she learns that he has married another

woman, it sparks a series of betrayals and depression.

As with any film of this genre there are the lesbian

love affairs, the jealous, vicious fights, steamy shower

scenes and sadistic, cruel guards. Russian with

English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: FeminaleEV

Life is Like a Cucumber

(aka: Affengeil)

von Praunheim, Rosa

1990; Germany; 87 min; Documentary

Life’s Evening Hour

W: Rosa von Praunheim; C: Klaus Janschewsky, Mike Kuchar; E: Mike Shephard; M: Maran Gosov, Thomas Life's Evening Hour

Marquard

Cast: Lotti Huber, Rosa von Praunheim, Helga Stoop

Murray, Karen

A documentary that examines the filmmaker’s

2000; Canada; 48 min; Documentary

friendship with German actress Lotti Huber, who

When fine arts photographer John Dugdale lost

survived a Nazi concentration camp during the

most of his sight to an AIDS-related stroke, it not

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only made him re-evaluate his life, but also made his

both painful homophobia and also inspiring

career become both therapy and salvation. This

acceptance. Lifetime Guarantee is a very funny film

inspirational and moving documentary portrays the

as well as a powerfully emotional examination of an

courage and personal faith of a talented man, who

outsider struggling for recognition. (2002 Mardi

not only overcame his obstacles but used them to

Gras Film Festival)

challenge standard methodologies of photography.

Dist/Sales: Roadside

Using a video diary format, the film chronicles the

accolades for and celebrity interest in Dugdale's

Lightship, The

work (Sir Elton John being just one collector) as well

as the passion that fuels it. A beautiful depiction of

Skolimowski, Jerzy

the human spirit and its power to overcome. (2002

1985; USA; 88 min; Thriller

Mardi Gras Film Festival)

P: Bill Benenson, Moritz Borman; W: William Mai,

David Taylor, Siegfried Lenz; C: Charly Steinberger;

Lifetime Commitment: A Portrait of Karen

E: Barrie Vince, Scott Hancock; M: Stanley Myers Thomson

Cast: Robert Duvall, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Tom

Bower, Robert Costanzo, Badja Djola

Zeldes, Kiki

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A psycho-suspense thriller set on a lightship

1987; USA; 30 min; Documentary

anchored off the coast of Norfolk. which picks up a

Tells story of Karen Thomson who struggled

drifting boat with three psychopathic crooks on

through the courts for legal access to her hospitalised

board who are on the run. They take over the

lover, Sharon, who was severely injured in a car

lightship and the suspense builds as the crew of the

accident 1980s. Sharon’s family denied she was a

lightship becomes hostile and begins to fall apart

lesbian, although the two women had exchanged

under the pressure of the increasingly bizarre acts of

rings and made a lifetime commitment to each

the leader, played by Duvall. Duvall is almost

other, and had blocked Karen from rights usually

unrecognisable as a slimy homosexual thug.

given to family members. This version was updated

Prod Comp: CBS Television

in 1993 when Karen won the right to care for her

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, 20thCenturyFox, CastleHill

lover.

Dist/Sales: WMM

Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc’s Adventures

in Plastic

Udelson, Lisa

2001; USA; 58 min; Documentary

Phranc has gone through some Madonna-sized

transformations in her life. She began her singing

career as a member of the Los Angeles punk scene in

the 1970s. In the 1980s she came out as a lesbian

folk singer who looked and dressed like a man, and

Like Grains of Sand

sang cheery acoustic ditties about surfing and her

Like Grains of Sand

love for Martina Navratilova. And now she’s

embraced the most American of middle-American

(aka: Nagisa no Shindobaddo)

products: Phranc’s selling Tupperware. This funny

Hashiguchi, Ryosuke

and suprisingly moving documentary follows Phranc

1995; Japan; 130 min; Drama

as she arranges Tupperware parties, sings her original

P: Kiyomi Kanazawa, Yuuka Nakazawa; W: Ryosuke

Tupperware song, fills Tupperware orders, and finally

attends a national convention for crackerjack

Hashiguchi; C: Shogo Ueno; M: Kaziya Takahashi

Tupperware salesladies. But the film’s not a satire or

Cast: Yoshinori Okada, Kota Kusano, Ayumi Hamazaki,

a critique. Sporting a flattop haircut, her retro jeans,

Koji Yamaguchi

and her polka-dot tie, Phranc is definitely the

When Kasane moves to a new school she soon

freakiest Tupperware lady ever. And yet, she

realises that Shuji, the most interesting boy in the

genuinely believes in what she sells and approaches

class, is hopelessly in love with a fellow male student,

her encounters with middle-American housewives

Hiroyuki. But Hiroyuki isn’t interested in Shuji.

without a trace of irony or condescension. The

Shuji and Kasane become close friends and are

resulting clash of cultures and backgrounds reveals

mistaken for a couple. When Hiroyuki begins to

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show interest in Kasane, Shuji’s reaction is rather

This story of the shifting involvement of a trainee

immature. A moving film about passionate yet

therapist, Vincent, with a schizophrenic young

thwarted first love. Japanese with English subtitles.

woman is a reworking of the legend of Lilith, a

Prod Comp: Toho Co, PIA Corporation

female devil who, according to ancient Jewish

mythology, is simultaneously the embodiment of

Like it is

madness and beauty. In the film Lilith fascinates and

humiliates Vincent and uses him as an accomplice in

Oremland, Paul

a lesbian affair. Lilith has moments of lucidity which

1997; UK; 90 min; Drama

place her between two worlds. Vincent becomes

P: Tracey Gardiner; W: Robert Gray;

obsessed with the fear of losing her when she finally

C: Alistair Cameron; M: Don McGlashan

crosses over.

Cast: Steve Bell, Ian Rose, Dani Behr, Roger Daltrey

Prod Comp: Columbia, Centaur

An unlikely romance between a working class youth

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, NFVLS

and a up-and-coming record producer forms the

basis of this candid and endearing British feature.

Limites

Craig is a bare-knuckles boxer from working-class

Torrealba, José M.

Blackpool. Matt is a record producer who has the

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golden touch—at least as far as boy bands are

1997; Canada; 50 min; Documentary

concerned. This cross-class love story—arousing,

In Limites Peruvian photographer Carlos Quiroz

endearing, and romantic—features a superbly bitchy

unveils the artistic process behind capturing the male

cameo by The Who’s Roger Daltrey as Matt’s cynical

nude. This documentary visits Quiroz’ private photo

and sleazy boss. Daltrey threatens to steal the

sessions, permitting us to witness the intimate

film...and Craig.

relationship between camera and subject. (CFMDC)

Prod Comp: Channel 4

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

Dist/Sales: Potential, FirstRunFeatures, Salzgeber, Wolfe, Mongrel, ACMI

Lip Gloss

Lilies

Siegel, Lois

1995; Canada; 68 min; Comedy

(aka: Lilies - les Feluettes)

P: Lois Siegel; W: Lois Siegel

Greyson, John

Cast: Armand Monroe

1996; Canada; 96 min; Drama

Armand Monroe guides the audience through a

P: Anna Stratton, Arnie Gelbart, Ronib Cass; W: Michel who’s who of Montreal’s drag queens. Meet Gilda,

Marc Bouchard; C: Daniel Jobin; E: André Corriveau, Black Emmanuelle, Stella Spotlight and

Jane Tattersall; M: Mychael Danna

more...shopping for lingerie and high heels, on stage

Cast: Brent Carver, Marcel Sabourne, Aubert Pallascio,

and backstage, and engaging in extracurricular

Jason Cadieux

activities.

Death, sexuality and religion are intertwined in this

Dist/Sales: TLA, WaterBearer

moving adaptation of Michel Marc Bouchard’s hit

play. An ageing bishop is held hostage in a Quebec

Liquid Sky

prison by inmates who perform a play recounting his

Tsukerman, Slava

role in a teenage boy’s murder. (Cowboy)

1982; USA; 107 min; Sci-Fi

Awards: Genie Awards, 1996: Best Film; Montreal

P: Slava Tsukerman; W: Slava Tsukerman, Anne

World Film Festival, 1996: Best Film

Carlisle, Nina V. Kerova; C: Yuri Neyman; E: Sharyn L.

Prod Comp: Triptych Media, Gaga Film

Ross; M: Brenda I. Hutchinson, Slava Tsukerman

Dist/Sales: TurbulentArts, Wolfe, Alliance, Cowboy,

Cast: Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Bob Brady,

Millivres, VideoAmericain

Susan Doukas, Otto Von Wernherr

Lilith

This darkly comic fairytale is populated by mythical

characters in a New York underworld: a lesbian

Rossen, Robert

performance artist, a German astrophysicist, drug

1964; USA; 114 min; B&W; Drama

addicts and ‘posturing artists’. Aliens from a

P: Robert Rossen; W: Robert Rossen; C: Eugen miniature flying saucer find a chemical compound

Schüfftan; E: Aram Avakian; M: Kenyon Hopkins

produced in the brain at the moment of orgasm

Cast: Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim

which is a suitable substitute for heroin (liquid sky).

Hunter

Russian émigré Tsukerman keeps this afloat with a

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satirical wit, a psychedelic eye belying the low

Marian decides to re-ignite the spark in their

budget and intriguingly interwoven thematic

marriage, she finds Rick has found solace in her

threads.

make-up collection. Beyond all the laughs, A Little

Prod Comp: Z Films; Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ACMI

Bit of Lippy attempts to dispel some of the myths

that still surround transgenderism by drawing

Listen

attention to the finer distinctions between homo-

sexuality and transvestism, and transvestism and

Wilding, Gavin

female illusionism. (MQFF)

1996; USA; 101 min; Thriller

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, BBCTV

P: Diane Patrick-O’Connor; W: Jonas Quastel, Michael Bafaro; C: Brian Pearson; E: Melinda Seabrook;

Liu Awaiting Spring

M: David Davidson

Cast: Brooke Langton, Gordon Currie, Sarah Buxton,

Soo, Andrew

Joel Wyner, Andy Romano

1998; Australia; 11 min; Drama

When Sarah discovers her phone line can tap into

An award-winning visual poem about a young

other people’s conversation, particularly when they’re

Chinese boy’s remembrances of his gay uncle’s death,

having phone sex, her life is under threat as she

and his developing awareness of his own sexuality.

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begins to uncover the identity of a serial killer. Her

Beautifully shot and constructed, the absence of

life is already complicated, as she is torn between her

dialogue just heightens this evocative and moving

new relationship with a man and her obsessive ex-

tale.

lover Krista. A stylish film about manipulation and

Prod Comp: Over Exposed Productions

seduction with a reasonable amount of suspense, and

Dist/Sales: Frameline, ACMI

despite some homophobic aspects, the girls do end

up happily together.

Live Flesh

Prod Comp: Devin Entertainment, Rampage Entertain-

(aka: Carne Trémula)

ment

Almodóvar, Pedro

Dist/Sales: 16MM

1997; France, Spain; 103 min; Comedy

Listening for Something

P: Austin Almodovar; W: Pedro Almodovar, Jorge

Guerricaechevarria, Ray Loriga; C: Affonso Beato;

Brand, Dionne

E: José Salcedo; M: Alberto Iglesias

1996; Canada; 56 min; Documentary

Cast: Liberto Rabal, Francesca Neri, Javier Bardem,

This intriguing exchange between eminent American

Angela Molina

poet Adrienne Rich and Trinidadian-Canadian poet/

Victor is caught up in a violent encounter that sees

filmmaker Dionne Brand, who share strong feminist

him entangled in the lives of two cops, a philander-

and lesbian identities but are different in generation,

ing wife and a diplomat’s daughter in this tale of life,

race and class, invites viewers into the conversation

love and lust. Spanish with English subtitles.

and art of two remarkable women. Their open-

Prod Comp: CiBy 2000, France 3 Cinema, El Deseo SA

ended dialogue, intercut with their interpretive

Dist/Sales: Siren, 20thCenturyFox, Goldwyn

readings of their poems, embrace subjects as diverse

as citizenship, racism, political activism, ethnicity,

Live Nude Girls

sexuality, love, and the poetic process. (WMM)

Dist/Sales: WMM, Heathcliff

Lavin, Julianna

1995; USA; 89 min; Comedy

Little Bit of Lippy, A

P: Cara Tapper, Steve White, Barry Bernardi;

W: Julianna Lavin; C: Christopher Taylor;

Bernard, Chris

E: Adam Bernardi, Kathryn Himoff; M: Anton Sanko 1992; UK; 75 min; Comedy

Cast: Dana Delany, Kim Cattrall, Laila Robins, Cynthia

P: George Faber; W: Martyn Hesford; C: Rex Stevenson

Maidment; E: Sue Wyatt; M: Richard Blackford

Jamie, a woman in her thirties, is about to get

Cast: Alison Swann, Danny Cunningham, Rachel

married for the third time. Her childhood friends

Davies, Kenneth Cranham

throw her a slumber party. It’s been years since they

Legendary English soap opera Coronation Street

have all been together for the whole night. As the

meets Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by way of

night moves on, they reveal more and more about

Danny La Rue in this cross-dressing comedy set in

themselves. One of the women admits to being

the north of England. Marian and Rick are caught in

bisexual. The drama reaches a crisis about 3.30 in

the tedium of working-class heterosexuality. When

the morning due to fatigue...and that’s when the

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trashy fun really begins.

ised for the founding of AIDS-Help Switzerland, it

Prod Comp: Republic Pictures Corporation, Spelling

prompted a tremendous reaction. Living and Dying

Entertainment

provocatively examines the life of a complex and

Dist/Sales: Republic, ACMI

salty character—a man who refused to make things

easy for the people around him by bowing to their

Live Nude Girls UNITE!

perceptions of illness and sexuality. (Frameline)

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Query, Julia / Funari, Vicky

2000; USA; 70 min; Documentary

P: John Montoya, Julia Query; W: Vicky Funari, Julia Query; C: Vicky Funari, Julia Query, John Montoya,

Sarah Kennedy; E: Vicky Funari, Heidi Rahlmann

Plumb; M: Allison Hennessy

Cast: Stephanie Batey, Julia Query, Dr Joyce Wallace

Live Nude Girls UNITE! is a record of the time stand

up comedian Julia Query and her erotic-dancing

colleagues at the Lusty Ladies strip joint in San

l

Francisco started a campaign to unionise and provide

better working conditions for strippers. And the

dramatic tension isn’t confined to the stand-off

between the working girls and their money-grubbing

bosses. Query’s mother is Dr Joyce Wallace, a woman

famous in her field for her pioneering activist work

with prostitutes in the US. But, as the film makes

abundantly clear, there is always a big difference

between having liberal beliefs and how you feel when

your own flesh and blood is involved. (MQFF)

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures

Live to Tell: The First Gay and Lesbian

Prom in America

Lang, Charley

1995; USA; 27 min; Documentary

This award-winning film documents the first gay

The Living End

and lesbian prom in America, organised by the

students of the EAGLES centre, a gay and lesbian

Living End, The

high school in Los Angeles. The film celebrates these

students and their reclaiming of a teenage rite of

Araki, Gregg

passage previously denied them. Live to Tell also

1992; USA; 92 min; Drama, Comedy

provides an insight into the lives of gay teens, as they

P: Marcus Hu, Jon Gerrans; W: Gregg Araki;

deal with relationships, social prejudice and what to

C: Gregg Araki; E: Gregg Araki; M: Cole Coonce wear on prom night! (MQFF)

Cast: Craig Gilmore, Mike Dytri, Mark Finch, Mary

Woronov

Awards: LA Outfest, 1995: Best Documentary Short

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild

A post-modern love story and black comedy inspired

by the AIDS crisis and propelled by a hard core-

Living and Dying

industrial soundtrack. Also a road movie that focuses

on the relationship between two HIV-positive

(aka: Ich Lebe Gern, Ich Sterbe Gern)

outcasts, Jon and Luke, who ditch their life in Los

Acklin, Claudia

Angeles filled with lesbian serial killers, dangerous

1990; Switzerland; 72 min; Documentary

homophobes, murderers and lunatics, and hit the

‘My name is Andre Ratti, I am 50 years old, I am a

road for San Francisco.

homosexual and I’ve got AIDS.’ When Andre Ratti,

Prod Comp: Desperate Pictures

a Swiss television interviewer, dropped this bomb

Dist/Sales: NewVision, 21stCentury, October, Wolfe,

shell on 2 July 1984 at the press conference organ-

Strand, Swank, ACMI

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Living Out Loud

Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100

LaGravenese, Richard

Welborn, Yvonne

1997; USA; 102 min; Drama

1999; USA; 60 min; Documentary

P: Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher;

P: Yvonne Welborn; C: Catherine Crouch, Ines

W: Richard LaGravenese; C: John Bailey; E: Jon Sommer; E: Amanda Ault

Gregory, Lynzeee Klingman; M: George Fenton

Cast: Ruth C. Ellis

Cast: Holly Hunter, Danny DeVito, Queen Latifah,

A must-see inspirational biopic about America’s

Martin Donovan

oldest lesbian icon Ruth Ellis. Ruth’s recollections of

Newly divorced Judith Nelson is consumed by

dancing, a musical family, aeroplanes, two world

vindictive fantasies of her ex-husband and his young

wars, Illinois riots, racial lynchings, Martin Luther

bride. Her life is empty until she finds unexpected

King, The Black Panther Party and the Stonewall

companionship in a bold and sassy jazz singer at a

riots are compelling touchstones from an extraordi-

local club and the down-on-his-luck elevator

nary life devoted to social justice, human rights and

operator in her fashionable Fifth Avenue building.

bowling championships. (MQFF)

Although no longer alone, her life still seems

Prod Comp: Our Film Works

unfulfilled until a passionate kiss from a stranger

l

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!, Wolfe

opens her eyes to all that she’s been missing. (Wolfe)

Prod Comp: New Line Cinema, Jersey Films

Loads

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, NewLine

McDowell, Curt

Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit of

1980; USA; 22 min; Experimental

Happiness

Explicit meditations on male masturbation.

Dist/Sales: Canyon

Cole, Kermit

1993; USA; 73 min; Documentary

Lola and Billy the Kid

P: Kermit Cole

(aka: Lola and Bilidikid)

A group of people are brought together by a

photographer documenting the lives of people living

Ataman, E. Kutlug

with AIDS. They are a diverse group, ranging from a

1998; Germany; 93 min; Drama

swimmer and policeman to a 19-year-old scout

P: Martin Hagemann, Martin Wiebel, Zeynep Özbatur;

leader. Many of those interviewed have had the HIV

W: E. Kutlug Ataman; C: Chris Squires; E: Ewa J. Lind; virus for several years, all are, however, active in

M: Arpad Bondy

either athletic or artistic pursuits. The photographs

Cast: Inge Keller, Murat Yilmaz, Michael Gerber, Erdel

that emerge at the end of the shoot vividly capture

Yildiz, Gandi Mukli

each subject’s life, energy and individualism.

Murat, a gay Turkish teenager is trying to come out

(MQFF)

in a traditional immigrant neighbourhood in Berlin.

Prod Comp: Jane Balfour Films

Murat’s life becomes even more complicated when

Dist/Sales: Ronin, FirstRunFeatures

he must choose whether or not to avenge the murder

of his newly-found brother Lola, the reigning queen

Living with AIDS

of the gay Turkish community. (Cowboy)

German & Turkish with English subtitles.

Mooney, Shayne

1989; Australia; 57 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: Zero Films, Boje Buck Produktion,

P: Shayne Mooney

Westdeutscher Rundfunk

Dist/Sales: Cowboy, PictureThis!, Millivres,

Interviews with four men with who have two things

GoodMachine, Wolfe

in common—they are all gay and HIV positive. Two

of the men, Colin, a photographer, and Ian, were

Lone Star Hate

filmed in the final stages of their lives. Peter

Charlton and Chris Carter were HIV-positive but

Yule, Paul

had not then developed AIDS. The four men discuss

1997; UK; 76 min; Documentary

how the illness has affected their lives, the discrimi-

P: Jonathan Stack

nation they have experienced and how they have

The banality of evil is one of the subjects in this

come to terms with the prospect of death with the

Channel 4 documentary on the gruesome 1993 gay-

help of AIDS support workers.

bashing murder of Nicholas West in conservative

Prod Comp: SBS

Tyler, Texas. The story unfolds in graphic detail,

Dist/Sales: Marcom, ACMI

through forensic photographs, visits to the crime

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scene, courtroom and police interrogation tran-

Long Day Closes, The

scripts, death row interviews with the killers, and

conversations with West’s friends in the gay

Davies, Terence

community. (Frameline)

1992; UK; 85 min; Drama

P: Olivia Stewart, Angela Topping; W: Terence Davies; Prod Comp: Gabriel Films

C: Michael Coulter; E: William Diver; M: Bob Last, Dist/Sales: Frameline

Robert Lockhart

Lonely Lady, The

Cast: Marjorie Yates, Leigh McCormack, Patricia

Morrison, Nicholas Lamont, Anthony Watson

Sasdy, Peter

In the style of Distant Voices, Still Lives, Terence

1983; USA; 92 min; Drama

Davies continues his portrayal of childhood

P: Robert R. Weston; W: John Kershaw, Shawn Randall; memories and recollections from Liverpool in the

C: Brian West; E: Keith Palmer; M: Charlie Calello 1950s. A series of lyrical vignettes takes us into the

Cast: Pia Zadora, Lloyd Bochner, Bibi Besch, Joseph

childhood world of home, school, cinema and

Cali, Anthony Holland

church, and reveals an altogether warmer and more

After being raped, a young writer decides to sleep

sympathetic view of the struggle of growing up and

her way to the top. This includes sleeping with

coming to terms with his sexuality.

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anyone and everyone, men and women. But she

Prod Comp: BFI, Film Four International

finds when she gets there, that it’s a lonely place to

Dist/Sales: Dendy, Col-Tri, TLA, SonyClassics

be. Described as tasteless and tacky, based on the

original story by Harold Robbins.

Long Time Comin’

Prod Comp: Harold Robbins International Company,

Brand, Dionne

KGA, Universal Pictures

1993; Canada; 52 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: Roadshow

Cast: Grace Channer, Faith Nolen

Lonely without You

Long Time Comin’ profiles two African-Canadian

lesbian artists who bring political commitment and

De Bisschop, Sarah

passion to their work and to their communities.

1999; Belgium; 16 min; Comedy

Grace Channer’s large evocative canvases relay her

Lena Stromans is 27, handsome, intelligent, and

world views, her sexuality and the recovery of her

single, but not for long. Lena has a plan that is so

African heritage. Singer, songwriter and community

secret that it will not be made public before the year

activist, Faith Nolan, speaks in her music of black

2031. Thanks to the website of love, he will be able

people’s daily struggles and of a lesbian feminist

to realise her near perfect utopia. A film about new

vision. Long Time Comin’ connects the creative

families, new love and old fashioned passion.

process to political and sexual being. (WMM)

Dist/Sales: Incident

Dist/Sales: WMM, NFBC

Lonesome Cowboys

Long Voyage Home, The

Warhol, Andy

Ford, John

1968; USA; 110 min; Comedy

1940; USA; 109 min; B&W; Drama

P: Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey; C: Paul Morrissey; P: Walter Wanger; W: Dudley Nichols; C: Gregg E: Paul Morrissey

Toland; E: Sherman Todd; M: Richard Hageman

Cast: Joe Dallesandro, Viva, Louis Waldon, Taylor Mead

Cast: John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry

A band of gay cowboys arrive in a small and lonely

Fitzgerald

desert town where they are greeted by two frustrated

Set on a freighter loaded with ammunition making a

women, a transvestite sheriff and a seductive young

dangerous journey to England during the early days

man. All manner of sexual mayhem ensues.

of World War II, this is a mood piece with an

Prod Comp: The Factory, Andy Warhol Films

episodic narrative based on Eugene O’Neill’s work,

who apparently approved of the film adaptation of

Long Awaited Pleasure

three of his one-act plays. The sensuality of the dark,

moody images is linked with death. There are

Manana, Giovanna

frequent references to ‘going home’. The men are

1989; USA; 90 min; Comedy

propelled by fate causing them to constantly ship

Cast: Peggy Shaw, Lois Weaver

out. Ole is the innocent who must be saved by

A New York dentist moves to a small town where she

making ‘the long journey home’. There is an

meets Sue, an undertaker and, after a very tentative

undercurrent of homosexuality, and, with one

beginning, they start a relationship.

exception, the emotional ties between the men are

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stronger than with any of the women.

that, from the beginning, it persecuted many of its

Prod Comp: Argosy Films, Walter Wanger Productions

loyal supporters because of their sexual orientation.

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, UA

Looking for a Space examines the cultural, political

and historical reasons behind the persecution of

Long Weekend, The

lesbians and gay men during the early years of the

Revolution, and takes a fresh look at this issue from

(aka: The Long Weekend (O’Despair))

the perspectives of Cubans who are living on the

Araki, Gregg

island today. We meet a diverse group of people,

1989; USA; 93 min; Drama

from a wide range of age groups and occupations,

Cast: Bretton Vail, Maureen Dondanville, Andrea Beane

who express differences of opinion. Older people

Three college friends get together for a long

recall the repression of the late sixties when gay

weekend. They share their angst about living in the

people were sent to ‘UMAP’ camps for ‘re-educa-

late eighties and the politics of sexuality. An

tion’. During the Mariel boat lift of 1980, many gay

exploration of gay, lesbian and straight relationships.

people were seen as ‘counterrevolutionary’ for fleeing

the country. Many younger Cubans feel there is

more tolerance today, as an emerging gay subculture

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demonstrates. Given the uncertain political and

economic climate of today’s Cuba, the future

remains unclear. The documentary raises critical

questions about political ideology and sexual

identity. (Filmakers Library)

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary

Looking for Angel

(aka: Tenshi No Rakuen)

Suzuki, Akihiro

1999; Japan; 61 min; Drama

Longtime Companion

P: Akihiro Suzuki, Toshiko Takashi; W: Akihiro Suzuki, Longtime Companion

Akihiro Suzuki, Jun Kurasawa; C: Jun Kurosawa,

Akihiro Suzuki; E: Akihiro Suzuki; M: Hiroyuki Oki René, Norman

Cast: Koich Imaizumi, Hataru Hazuki, Akira Kuroiwa,

1990; USA; 96 min; Drama

Akira Suehiro

P: Stan Wlodkowski; W: Craig Lucas; C: Tony Jannelli; Shinpei, a country boy alone in Tokyo with

E: Katherine Wenning; M: Greg De Belles

ambiguous sexual preference, is invited to a party by

Cast: Campbell Scott, Stephen Caffrey, Patrick Cassidy,

a girl he hasn’t seen in a while. It turns out to be a

John Dossett, Mary-Louise Parker

wake for Takachi, a gay guy who appeared in straight

A powerful and wonderful fictional film dealing with

porn, and who was apparently murdered in a casual

the AIDS crisis in the USA. The story revolves

pickup. During the night Shinpei pieces together

around a group of mainly gay friends and depicts

fragments of Takachi’s story: his friendship with a

how the disease affects them all. It starts with the

beautiful rent boy, his move to Kochi where ‘the

sexually liberated early 1980s and progresses to the

boys are like angels’, his return to Tokyo... and his

fear of the late 1980s as death and disease take their

heart breaking plea for gentleness in the last night of

toll. Director Norman Rene describes the film as ‘a

his life. Japanese with English subtitles. (2001 Hong

human drama above all, one that focuses not just on

Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

the heroics of a single character but rather on the

interrelated struggles of an entire community’.

Looking for Common Ground

Prod Comp: American Playhouse Theatre, Samuel

Akeret, Julie

Goldwyn Company

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, BFI, TLA, SamuelGoldwyn, Swank,

1999; USA; 30 min; Documentary

ACMI

When Massachusetts enacted an anti-discrimination

law establishing the rights of gay and lesbian high

Looking for a Space

school students, the citizens of Westhampton were

embroiled in controversy. Parents, students, school

1994; USA; 38 min; Documentary

committee members and local citizens were

P: Kelly Anderson

polarised. Those opposed to the new law questioned

One of the ironies of the Cuban Revolution was

the morality of the issue and feared the consequences

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of introducing a ‘gay curriculum’ in school. Support-

Loose Connections

ers of this law worried about escalating dropout and

suicide rates if gay and lesbian students were not

Eyre, Richard

more fully accepted. The film gives voice to the gay

1983; UK; 80 min; Comedy

and lesbian students who talk about their struggle

P: Simon Perry; W: Maggie Brooks; C: Clive Tickner; for acceptance. It also allows us to hear articulate and

E: David Martin; M: Dominic Muldowney, Andy Roberts passionate testimony from all sides of the contro-Cast: Lindsay Duncan, Stephen Rea, Robbie Coltraine,

versy, both in interviews and community meetings.

Gary Olsen, Ken Jones

Surprisingly, in this small town environment, the

A humorous battle-of-the-sexes and road movie

diversity of opinion rivals that of any metropolis.

combined. When Sally is left to drive on her own

Among the issues raised are parents versus govern-

from London to Munich to attend a feminist

ments in determining the education of minors;

convention, she places an ad in a newspaper for a

community values versus the rights of the individual;

companion. The only person to answer it is Harry

nature versus nurture in determining sexual

who, although not a woman, is gay, or so he says.

orientation. (Filmakers Library)

The trip begins and they stumble from one disaster

Prod Comp: Akeret Films

to another.

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary

Prod Comp: Umbrella, Greenpoint Films, NFFC, Virgin

l

Looking for Langston

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, OrionClassics

Julien, Isaac

Loose Ends

1988; UK; 40 min; B&W; Experimental

Cast: Ben Ellison, Matthew Baidoo, John Wilson, Akim

Nettlebeck, Sandra

Magaji

1996; Germany; 90 min; Drama

A ‘poetic meditation’ on the black poet Langston

Cast: Jasmin Tabatabai, Regula Grauwiller, Natascha

Hughes. This haunting, lyrical film examines the

Bub

relationship of gay sexuality to the 1920s American

The story of three women and their search for

artistic movement known as the Harlem Renais-

happiness. Sarah begins a passionate affair while

sance. Beautifully filmed and edited, it could have

making arrangements for her wedding day;

become too arty but remains fresh, strong and

Katherine, re-establishes her relationship with her

interesting.

ex-boyfriend; and Nina meets her match, waking up

Prod Comp: Channel 4

with the same girl more than once.

Dist/Sales: Facets, ACMI, WaterBearer, NFVLS, BFI

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Looking for Mr Goodbar

Loot

Brooks, Richard

Narizzano, Silvio

1977; USA; 136 min; Drama

1970; UK; 96 min; Comedy

P: Freddie Fields; W: Richard Brooks; C: William P: Arthur Lewis; W: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson;

Fraker; E: George Grenville; M: Artie Kane

C: Austin Dempster; E: Martin Charles;

Cast: Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, Richard Gere, Tom

M: Keith Mansfield, Richard Willing-Denton

Berenger, William Atherton, Richard Kiley

Cast: Richard Attenborough, Lee Remick, Hywel

A film about a woman’s self-destructive lifestyle

Bennett, Milo O’Shea, Dick Emery

based on the novel by Judith Rossner. By day the

A gruesome, fast-paced comedy with Richard

female protagonist is a model citizen, a teacher, but

Attenborough as a caricature of the law and Lee

by night she cruises the singles bars in search of men.

Remick as a nymphomaniac Jean Harlow look-alike.

The men she finds, either emotionally or physically,

It’s basically the story of two mates who decide to get

abuse her then dump her. Tom Berenger plays a

rich quick by robbing a bank. They hide the money

repressed homosexual who goes to a bar and is

in a coffin that is supposed to house one of the

picked up by Keaton. When he can’t perform

crook’s mothers, but there isn’t enough room for

sexually and she asks him to leave, he flies into a

both, so mum gets put in the lavatory. All hell breaks

rage. Another homophobic portrait from Holly-

loose when they try to retrieve the loot before

wood, where sexual difference is met with violence

anyone one else gets to it. See Entertaining Mr

and death.

Sloane, another film of a Joe Orton play, and Prick

Prod Comp: Paramount

Up your Ears, which tells part of his life story.

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Paramount

Prod Comp: British Lion, Performing Arts

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Lorenza

Lost and Delirious

Stahlberg, Michael

Pool, Léa

1992; Chile, Germany; 20 min; B&W; Documentary

2000; Canada; 100 min; Drama

This brutally honest portrait of a Chilean-German

P: Lorraine Richard, Louis-Philippe Rochon, Greg

gay artist with no arms could all too easily have

Dummett; W: Judith Thompson; C: Pierre Gill;

descended into freak-show sensationalism. However,

E: Gaetan Huot; M: Yves Chamberland

Lorenza forestalls the intrusions of voyeurism by

Cast: Piper Perabo, Jessica Pare, Mischa Barton, Jackie

declaring himself an exhibitionist and deliberately

Burroughs

engaging public interest by performing and painting

Mouse Bradford has just arrived at boarding school.

with his feet.

Her two senior roommates, the striking, sharp-

Dist/Sales: Hocschule

witted Paula and the charming and beautiful Tori,

quickly adopt the homesick girl. When Paula and

Losing Lois

Tori are found to be lovers, Mouse, caught in the

role of accomplice and confessor, is left torn between

Hill, Julie / Richter, Kathy / Rosenthal, Barbara

her two friends. (10%)

2001; USA; 18 min; Documentary

l

Prod Comp: Cité-Amérique, Dummett Films

Relates the events of the death of Tampa Police-

Dist/Sales: LionsGate, Wolfe, Swank, 10%

woman Lois Marrero, and her lesbian partner’s fight

for her pension rights.

Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel

Loss of Heat

Pierrepont III, Julie Jay

2000; USA; 106 min; Comedy

Deville, Noski

P: Julie Jay Pierrepont III, Erin Chandler;

1994; UK; 20 min; Drama

W: Leslie Jordan; C: Sacha Sarchielli; E: Ila von W: Noski Deville; M: Derek Richards, Tanya Syed

Hasperg; M: Dan Gilboy

Cast: Anjum Mouj, Susan Paul, Valantina Gomez-

Cast: John Ritter, Marilu Henner, Michelle Phillips,

Martinez, Carol Coombes

Sheryl Lee Ralph

Loss of Heat weaves the stories of two lesbians—one

A gay, Southern writer, in search of spiritual

in London, the other in Spain. They don’t know

meaning, is entertainingly lead astray by a beautiful,

each other but are connected by their experiences of

runaway debutante (who is an expert in ‘self

epilepsy. The film examines the nature of lesbian

medication’) and tempted by a seductive, heroin-

relationships when dealing with the illness of one

addicted street hustler. Together, this trio of misfits

partner.

embark on a wild, dark journey of self-discovery

Prod Comp: Heartbreak Productions

through the underground drug scene of the mid

Dist/Sales: WMM, Cinenova

1970s. (www.perishingpointhotel.com)

Loss of Innocence

Lost Language of Cranes, The

(aka: The Greengage Summer)

Finch, Nigel

Gilbert, Lewis

1991; UK; 88 min; Drama

1961; UK; 100 min; Drama

P: Ruth Caleb; W: Sean Mathias; C: Remi Adefarasin; P: Edward Small, Victor Saville; W: Howard Koch;

E: Sue Wyatt; M: Julian Wastall

C: Freddie Young; E: Peter Hunt; M: Richard Addinsell Cast: Corey Parker, Angus MacFadyen, John

Cast: Susannah York, Kenneth Moore, Danielle

Schlesinger, Brian Cox, Eileen Atkins

Darrieux, Claude Nollier

Based on the best-selling novel by David Leavitt, The

A young, innocent English girl, along with her

Lost Language of Cranes is a faithful made-for-

mother and three younger children, go on summer

television translation of the book’s themes and

holidays to a pension in France. Her mother

meanings, despite its relocation to England. Rose

unexpectedly becomes ill and is hospitalised leaving

and Owen are a married couple, content in their

the girl to her own devices. She soon grows to be a

routine. They live in a rented apartment in a

woman after a relationship with one of the other

fashionable suburb. Their son, Philip, now in his

boarders. The film takes for granted the lesbian

twenties, is fairly close to the family but keeps his

relationship between the mistress of the house and

distance because he is gay. When Philip finally

another French woman. Based on the novel The

comes out to his family he stirs up a hornet’s nest of

Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden.

secrets and hidden feelings within his parents

Prod Comp: Columbia

marriage, culminating in his father coming to terms

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with his own homosexuality.

to the movies see him fall in love with screen idol

Prod Comp: BBC TV

Ronnie Bostock. He becomes obsessed with Ronnie

Dist/Sales: BBCTV, Wolfe

and his movie and eventually travels to Long Island

to meet him, dramatically confronting the young

Lot in Sodom

actor’s reality.

Prod Comp: BBC, Arts Council of England, British

Watson Jnr, James Sibley / Webber, Melville

Screen

1933; USA; 28 min; B&W; Drama

Dist/Sales: Siren, Alliance, Cinepix, LionsGate,

Cast: Friedrich Haak, Hildegarde Watson, Dorthea

Universal, Wolfe

House, Lewis Whitbeck

Said to be one of the first American sound experi-

Love and Human Remains

mental films, Lot in Sodom represents the Biblical

story in a blend of semi-erotic imagery and the

Arcand, Denys

manipulation of light and shadow, featuring semi-

1993; Canada; 100 min; Drama, Comedy

maked men amidst filmed body fragments and faces.

P: Roger Frappier; W: Denys Arcand, Brad Fraser;

C: Paul Sarossy; E: Alain Baril; M: John McCarthy Cast: Thomas Gibson, Ruth Marshall, Mia Kirshner,

l

Cameron Bancroft

The story focuses on the lifestyles of two friends—

David, a gay, sardonic, witty actor turned waiter, and

his flatmate, Candy, an optimistic book reviewer—

and their search for meaningful relationships. This

leads them both into a number of hilarious and

sometimes heartbreaking encounters, which take on

a dangerous twist when someone they know reveals a

darker side. An astute look at what it means to fall in

love in the era of AIDS.

Prod Comp: Max Films, Atlantis Films, First Choice,

Super Ecran, Téléfilm Canada

Dist/Sales: NewVision, 21stCentury, Wolfe,

SonyClassics, ACMI

Love and Marriage

Ardill, Susan

1991; UK; 40 min; Documentary

P: Rebecca Dobbs

Produced for Britain’s OUT series, Love and

Marriage is a discussion of the issues raised by the

push for domestic partnership laws in Britain, the

US and Denmark.

Dist/Sales: MayaVision

Love and Human Remains

Love and Other Catastrophes

Love and Death on Long Island

Croghan, Emma-Kate

1996; Australia; 76 min; Comedy

(aka: Amour et mort à Long Island)

P: Stavros Andonis Efthymiou; W: Yael Bergman,

Kwietniowski, Richard

Emma-Kate Croghan, Helen Bandis; C: Justin Brickle;

1997; Canada, UK; 93 min; Drama

E: Ken Sallows; M: Oleh Witer

P: Steve Clark-Hall, Christopher Zimmer; W: Gilbert Cast: Frances O’Connor, Alice Garner, Radha Mitchell,

Adair, Richard Kwietniowski; C: Oliver Curtis; E: Susan Matthew Dyktynski

Shipton; M: Richard Grassby-Lewis

An original comedy-romance very much set in the

Cast: John Hurt, Jason Priestley, Fiona Loewi, Sheila

1990s. It’s essentially a day-in-the-life story of five

Hancock, Harvey Atkin

university students as they move across town and

Giles D’Ath is an old fashioned widower whose trips

across campus, in and out of relationships. With the

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use of diverse characters, including two lesbians, all

focuses on its subject—revelling in distortion and

in their twenties, the film captures the youth

pain. The film follows the turbulent, sadomasochis-

experience with spirit and energy.

tic relationship Bacon had with George Dwyer, who

Prod Comp: Screwball Five, Newvision Films, Beyond

he meets when he accidentally stumbles upon Dwyer

Films

attempting to burgle Bacon’s meagre apartment.

Dist/Sales: NewVision, Beyond, 21stCentury,

Francis simply says to George: ‘Take off your clothes.

Come to bed and you can have whatever you want’.

ReelMovies, ACMI, FoxSearchlight

The relationship has a destructive effect on the

Love in a Women’s Prison

passive George who feels uncomfortable with

Bacon’s eccentric friends, and who is continually

(aka: Diario Segreto da un Carcere Femminile)

tortured by Bacon’s sadistic enjoyment of pain and

di Silvestro, Rino

suffering. (ACMI)

1972; Italy; 100 min; Action

Prod Comp: BBC

P: Giuliano Anellucci; W: Rino di Silvestro;

Dist/Sales: BFI, Strand, Wolfe, ACMI, Sharmill, Haut-

C: Fausto Rossi; E: Angelo Curi; M: Franco Bixio et-Court, Salzgeber

Cast: Anita Strindberg, Eva Czemerys, Jenny Tamburi,

l Olga Bisera

Exploitation film about women behind bars.

Includes lesbianism, women fighting, bondage and

spanking. The loose plot involves the mafia, drug

smuggling and gangs. Dubbed into English.

Prod Comp: Aquarius Film, Overseas Film Company

Love in Progress

(aka: Amori in corso)

Bertolucci, Giuseppe

1989; Italy; 82 min; Comedy

P: Ferninando O, Flavia Villevielle; W: Giuseppe

Love is the Devil

Bertolucci, Mimmo Rafele, Lidia Ravera;

C: Fabio Cianchetti; E: Fiorella Giovanelli

Love Letter, The

Cast: Francesca Prandi, Amanda Sandrelli, Stella

Chan, Peter

Vordemann

1999; USA; 88 min; Comedy

A young woman plans a weekend rendezvous with a

P: Kate Capshaw, Sarah Pillsbury, Midge Sanford;

man at a beautiful villa in the Italian countryside. To

W: Maria Maggenti; C: Tami Reiker; E: Jacqueline legitimise the weekend to her parents, she invites

Cambas; M: Luis Bacalov

along a female friend she doesn’t know well, as the

Cast: Kate Capshaw, Ellen DeGeneres, Gloria Stuart,

excuse for the getaway. Through a variety of

Tom Selleck, Blythe Danner

circumstances, the man arrives late, giving the two

A charming, low-keyed romantic comedy with

young women time to get to know each other, which

Capshaw as a bookstore owner who finds an

leads to the beginnings of an attraction.

unsigned love letter and thinks it’s meant for her.

Prod Comp: Rai Due, Mito Film

But who sent it? Complications arise when the letter

Dist/Sales: Academy

finds its way into the hands of others in her small

New England coastal town, each thinking it’s meant

Love is the Devil

for them as well. DeGeneres is a natural sidekick as

the store’s manager, and Selleck is quite appealing as

Maybury, John

the local fire chief in love with Capshaw. (Wolfe)

1998; France, Japan, UK; 102 min; Drama

P: Chiara Menage; W: John Maybury; C: John Prod Comp: DreamWorks

Mathieson; E: Daniel Goddard; M: Ryuichi Sakamoto Dist/Sales: Wolfe, UIP

Cast: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Anne

Love Like Any Other, A

Lambton

A filmic portrait in the style of controversial British

(aka: Eine Liebe wie andere auch)

painter Francis Bacon. Like Bacon’s confronting yet

Stempel, Hans / Ripkens, Martin

compelling portraits, John Maybury’s film intensely

1983; Germany; 102 min; Drama

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W: Martin Ripkens, Hans Stempel

Love of a Man, The

Weiland and Wolf are a young gay couple living in

(aka: Amor de Hombre)

Berlin. Their relationship is threatened by differing

Iborra, Juan Luis / Serrano, Yolanda Garcia

political and personal needs.

1997; Spain; 96 min; Drama

Love Ltd.

W: Yolanda Garcia Serrano, Juan Luis Iborra;

C: Paco Femenia

Phang, Jennifer

Cast: Loles Léon, Andrea Occhipinti, Pedro Mari

1999; USA; 24 min; Comedy

Sanchez, Armando del Rio

Quirky and very funny take on a young woman’s

It’s Esperanza’s 40th birthday party and she can’t

attempt to come out to her dysfunctional Asian–

help noticing the irony of her life. Here she is

American family over a tension filled dinner party.

without a boyfriend, yet all the guests at her party

Can she spill the beans before the rest of the family?

are intelligent, witty and handsome men. Of course,

Dist/Sales: Frameline

these guys are gay, and Esperanza loves them all. Her

favourite of the bunch is Ramon, a sexy lawyer who

Love Machine, The

is also searching in vain for Mr Right. Together they

commiserate and laugh at the foibles of their love

l

Snee, Patrick

lives and try (unsuccessfully) to fix each other up.

1994; USA; 20 min; Comedy

When Ramon is temporarily confined to bed after

It’s 1968 in Greenwich Village and a psychiatrist is

an accident, Esperanza makes the mistake of

becoming aware of a host of young homosexual men

introducing him to Robert, an attractive masseur

falling victim to the dangerous charm of ‘The Love

who she hopes can help Ramon’s rehabilitation.

Machine’. This hilarious send-up of conventional

Ramon quickly becomes obsessed and will do

Hollywood treatment of queers is a well-aimed kick

anything to satisfy the very sexy Robert, including

in the face to all straight movies and romance novels

sacrificing his close friendship with Esperanza.

that have sensationalised homosexuality in the guise

(Mongrel Media) Spanish with English subtitles.

of tolerance.

Dist/Sales: Mongrel

Love Makes a Family: Gay Parents in the ’90s

Love Story: Berlin 1942, A

Kobufs, Remco / Leech, Marla / Veltri, Danl

Clay, Catrine

1991; USA; 16 min; Documentary

1997; UK; 60 min; Documentary

This touching documentary interviews queer people

P: Catrine Clay; C: John Goodyer; E: Edward Roberts who are raising children of their own. We meet a

In 1942 Berlin, LiIly Wurst was a model Aryan

lesbian single mother, a lesbian couple raising a son,

hausfrau with a picture of the Führer on the wall, a

and two gay men who have two adopted children.

husband in the army, and a German motherhood

Non-sensational and thoughtful, this video makes

medal for bearing four sons. With this distinction

clear the important role queer parents have in

came mother’s helper Ulla Schaaf, who unbeknownst

broadening our understanding of love and families.

to Lilly was deeply involved with the Jewish

(MQFF)

underground. When Lilly boasted that she could

Dist/Sales: Fanlight

‘smell a Jew’, Ulla tested her by introducing her to

Felice Schraderheim, aka Felice Schrader, a 20-year-

Love=ME3

old Jewish woman living in hiding. The result of that

meeting is an unusual love story whose arc is

Fernandez, Agustin

followed through recollections, documents, and

2000; USA; 92 min; Comedy

archival footage in this beautifully made documen-

P: Agustin Fernandez, Greg Huge; W: Agustin

tary. (WMM)

Fernandez; C: M. A. Morels; E: Sandro Philips

Prod Comp: BBC, Timewatch

Cast: Angelica Ordoñes, Evly Pacheco, Agustin

Dist/Sales: WMM

Fernandez

Love=ME3 is a romantic comedy, based on a true

Love! Valour! Compassion!

story, about one man and two women who fall

Mantello, Joe

deeply in love with each other and try to lead a

1997; USA; 115 min; Comedy

normal life, despite the doubts and judgements of

P: Doug Chapin, Barry Krost; W: Terence McNally;

those around them.

C: Alik Sakharov; E: Colleen Sharp; M: Harold Wheeler Dist/Sales: Babylegs

Cast: Jason Alexander, John Glover, Stephen Spinella,

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Stephen Bogardus

it up as a casket salesman. Based on Evelyn Waugh’s

Eight friends leave the city behind for three simple

classic novella.

weekends of rest and relaxation in the country. What

Prod Comp: MGM, Filmways Pictures

they find is an outrageous mix of The Big Chill meets

Dist/Sales: Chapel, Ascanbee

The Birdcage in this film version of Terrance

McNally’s Tony Award-winning play. (Wolfe)

Loverfilm

Prod Comp: Krost/Chapin

Brynntrup, Michael

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, FineLine

1996; Germany; 21 min; Experimental

Love/Juice

W: Michael Brynntrup

A video-diary and collage of the director’s many

Kaze, Shindo

lovers over the past twenty years. This film passes

2001; Japan; 78 min; Drama

through self-indulgence into the realms of the starkly

P: Chikako Nakabayashi, Tsuyoshi Sugino, Kazutoshi

personal, and involves the viewer to an intimate

Wadakura; W: Shindo Kaze; C: Koji Kanaya;

degree. German with English subtitles.

E: Ikio Watanabe; M: Kenichiro Isoda

Prod Comp: MBC- Filmproduktion

l Cast: Chika Fujimura, Mika Okuno, Toshiya Nagasawa Dist/Sales: MBC, CFMDC

Love/Juice explores a familiar but oh so painful

situation: what can happen when a young girl falls

Loverville 2: The Honeymoon

for her straight best friend. Chinatsu and Kyoko live

Zachary, Bohdan

together, but when Kyoko’s curiosity and provocative

1993; USA; 10 min; Comedy

behaviour lead Chinatsu to reveal how she really

feels, their cosy world is changed forever. (MQFF)

The sequel to the popular hit Loverville. An

Japanese with English subtitles.

annoying waiter comes between 2 male protagonists

on a long awaited trip to gay Paris. (MQFF)

Prod Comp: Cine Baxar

Dist/Sales: Zachary

Low-Fat Elephants

Marzella, Phillip

2000; Australia; 90 min; Comedy

P: Phillip Marzella; W: Phillip Marzella; C: Peter Falk Cast: Christopher Gabardi, Tessa Wells, Karen Pang,

Phillip Marzella

Low-Fat Elephants is a comedy that revolves around

Greta—a neurotic-poetry-loving-chef—and Yuri—a

bad actor, as they fight for the love of the same

woman. The film draws together romance, wedding

cakes, poetry and African music.

Love/Juice

Prod Comp: Acrobat Films

Dist/Sales: Acrobat

Loved One, The

Richardson, Tony

1965; USA; 116 min; B&W; Comedy

P: John Calley, Haskell Wexler; W: Terry Southern, Christopher Isherwood; C: Haskell Wexler; E: Antony Gibbs, Hal Ashby, Brian Smedley-Aston;

M: John Addison

Cast: Robert Morse, Rod Steiger, John Gielgud, Dana

Andrews, Liberace, Jonathan Winters, Milton Berle

Morse plays a British poet who must help organise

his uncle’s burial in California. As he encounters

some bizarre and humorous aspects of the funeral

business, he falls in love with the funeral parlour’s

cosmetician. Along with a great cast, Liberace camps

Low-Fat Elephants

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Lucifer Rising

M: Carl de Groof

Cast: Nadja Tiller, Mario Adorf, O. E. Hasse,

Anger, Kenneth

Hildegarde Neff

1969; USA; 28 min; Experimental

A remake of Pabst’s 1929 film Pandora’s Box, which

A film about the love generation—the birthday party

was based on the play by Franz Wedekind. Tells the

of the Aquarian age showing actual ceremonies to

story of a young woman who is taken off the streets

make Lucifer rise. Lucifer is the light god, not the

by a doctor and turned into a sophisticated woman.

devil—the rebel angel behind what’s happening in

She marries the doctor but he dies, she then goes

the world today. His message is that the key of joy is

through a succession of relationships and ends up in

disobedience. Isis wakes. Osiris answers. Lilith climbs

prison. She is released by one of her ex-husband’s

to the place of Sacrifice. The Magus activates the

sons and his lesbian friend. She later becomes a

circle and Lucifer, bringer of light, breaks through.

victim of Jack the Ripper.

Prod Comp: Puck Film Productions

Prod Comp: Gloria-Film GmbH, Vienna Film

Dist/Sales: BFI

Ludwig

Luminous Procuress

Arnol, Steven

l

Visconti, Luchino

1971; USA; 81 min; Experimental

1972; France, Germany, Italy; 245 min; Drama

P: Ugo Santalucia, Dieter Geissler; W: Luchino

Avant-garde film from the early 1970s featuring the

Visconti, Enrico Medioli, Suso Cecchi D’Amico;

legendary drag group The Cockettes. (See also The

C: Armando Nannuzzi; E: Ruggero Mastroianni;

Cockettes)

M: Robert Schumann, Franco Mannino

Cast: Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano,

Lunch with Eddie

Helmut Griem, Gert Frobe

Preece, David John

A lavish film about the attractive but obsessive

2001; USA; 13 min; Drama

homosexual Mad King of Bavaria—from his

Lunch with Eddie is about friends you thought you

patronage of Richard Wagner to his extravagant and

knew and the lover you never forget.

extensive castle building. The main character is so

Dist/Sales: MollyBeGood

cold that it is hard to identify with him or feel any

sympathy for him. Italian with English subtitles.

Lune

Prod Comp: Divina, Cinete, Mega, Dieter Geissler

Eltringham, Billie

Filmproduktion

1992; UK; 28 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: BFI, Ascanbee, Salzgeber, MGM

A gentle story from the United Kingdom about the

Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King

sexual awakening of a fisherman’s daughter in a

remote coastal village. When a storm-damaged

(aka: Ludwig: Requiem für einen Jungfräulichen König)

sailing boat brings an older woman to the harbour,

Syberberg, Hans Jürgen

the daughter becomes fascinated with her and invites

1972; Germany; 140 min; Drama

her into their home. (MQFF)

W: Hans Jürgen Syberberg; C: Dietrich Lohmann;

M: Richard Wagner, Franz Lehar, Kurt Weill

Lust and Liberation

Cast: Harry Baer, Balthasar Thomas, Oskar von Schab,

1991; UK; Documentary

Ingrid Caven

Two generations talk about sex and politics.

The film relates the story of Ludwig II, the mad,

virgin homosexual king, a visionary and builder of

Prod Comp: Channel 4

impossible castles. It is part of a trilogy of films that

examines the chaos of German history from the rise

Lust for a Vampire

of Bismarck to the rise of Hitler in the 1930s.

(aka: To Love a Vampire)

Prod Comp: TMS Films

Sangster, Jimmy

Dist/Sales: BFI

1971; UK; 95 min; Horror

Lulu

P: Harry Fine, Michael Style; W: Tudor Gates;

C: David Muir; E: Spencer Reeve; M: Harry Robertson Thiele, Rolf

Cast: Yutte Stensgaard, Suzanna Leigh, Ralph Bates,

1962; Austria; 100 min; Drama

Barbara Jefford, Michael Johnson

P: Otto Dürer; W: Rolf Thiele; C: Michel Kelber; Set in 1870, this is the story of Mircalla, who ravages

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the girls of a finishing school close to her castle.

he’s in love with Sonny, a musician into SM. And

Included in her victims are two male teachers.

although Billy doesn’t want Jackson, two other guys

Finally the outraged villagers burn down the school

do: Derek, a clean-cut record store customer, and

and Mircalla is accidentally staked and killed by a

Sam, the straight record store owner. Into this mix is

falling beam. Unfortunately this film does not quite

thrown Jed, Jackson’s hunky cousin, which leads

meet the standard set by Jean Rollin’s sensuous and

Jackson to seriously contemplate the technicalities of

erotic lesbian vampire films.

incest. Before he can do anything about it, though,

Prod Comp: Hammer

Jed is seduced by Jackson’s lesbian artist friend.

Dist/Sales: Warner

What’s a boy to do? (2002 New York Lesbian & Gay

Film Festival)

Dist/Sales: Luster

Luv Tale, A

Smith, Sidra

1999; USA; 45 min; Drama

Candice is the editor of Meridian Magazine where

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she’s being overworked and overlooked by her boss/

boyfriend. Then she meets Taylor, a photojournalist

who’s tiring of the industry. Their two worlds come

together in a seductive and memorable tale. (Wolfe)

Dist/Sales: Bizarre, Wolfe

Lycanthrophobia

Victor, Harry

1998; USA; 15 min; Comedy

A full moon. A smoky bar. All Ted wanted was a

drink. What he gets instead might change his life

forever. This tight, well made film is a frightening

Lust for a Vampire

drama of werewolves and mistaken identity. (Big

Lust in the Dust

Film Shorts)

Dist/Sales: Rednavel, BigFilm

Bartel, Paul

1985; USA; 85 min; Comedy

P: Tab Hunter, Alan Glaser; W: Philip John Taylor; C: Paul Lohman; E: Alan Toomayan; M: Peter Matz Cast: Tab Hunter, Divine

Trashy camp western spoof starring drag legend

Divine.

Luster

Lewis, Everett

2001; USA; 90 min; Drama

P: Robert Shulevitz; W: Everett Lewis;

C: Humberto De Luna; M: Michael Leon

Cast: Justin Herwick, Pamela Gidley, Shane Powers,

Jonah Blechman

Luster

Luster is a refreshingly funny and sexy look at

Lysis

unrequited love. Jackson, a cute, lanky, blue-haired

poet who works in a record store, is at the center of

Markopoulos, Gregory

Everett Lewis’ twisted black LA comedy. He’s got a

1948; USA; 24 min; Experimental

crush on the sexy young blonde, Billy, who he met at

A study in stream-of-consciousness poetry of a lost,

an orgy the other night. But Billy’s not into him—

wandering, homosexual soul.

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M Butterfly

Ma Vie

Cronenberg, David

(aka: My Life)

1993; USA; 97 min; Drama

Langlois, Denis

P: Gabriella Martinelli; W: David Henry Hwang;

1992; Canada; 21 min; Comedy

C: Peter Suschitzky; E: Ronald Sanders; M: Howard Shore Cast: Denis Langlois, Claudine Paquette, Mario Thibeault

Cast: Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian

Seeking a way out of his writer’s block, Jeannot turns

Richardson

to his past for inspiration and produces a fictional

A French diplomat serving in Beijing in 1964

biography in several parts. The resulting film is split

develops an obsession with a beautiful Chinese opera

into chapters, including chapter five, ‘The appeal of

singer. But this fevered fantasy cannot last when he

stripped pine and casual sex’. An amusing romp

discovers that he has been the object of a deadly

through time and space, made poignant as characters

game of international political manipulation and the

disappear from chapter to chapter due to the toll of

woman he desires turns out to be a man.

AIDS. French with English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Warner, Geffen, Miranda Productions

Dist/Sales: CinemaLibre

Dist/Sales: Warner, Swank

Ma Vie en Rose

m

M! Mom, Madonna and Me

(aka: My Life in Pink)

Siddiqi, Atif

Berliner, Alain

2001; Canada; 54 min; Experimental

1997; Belgium, France, UK; 89 min; Drama

In this very personal exploration of identity, the

P: Carole Scotta; W: Chris Vander Stappen, Alain

narrator-filmmaker looks for reflections of himself

Berliner; C: Yves Cape; E: Sandrine Deegen;

and finds them in the images of his mother, a

M: Dominique Dalcan

Pakistani homemaker and Madonna, the interna-

Cast: Michéle Laroque, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Hélène

tional pop icon. On his journey toward self-love and

Vincent, Georges Du Fresne

maturity, he sees how his gender identity and

Ludovic is a seven-year-old boy who lives with his

professional life have been framed by his admiration

family in an affluent French neighbourhood. He also

of these two women. Dramatisations of intense

likes dressing up in girls clothing and chooses to

personal events from the past 15 years demonstrate

make his grand entrance as a girl at his parents’

how the dreams and ambitions of Mom became the

housewarming party. His obsession with femininity

filmmaker’s own. From a schoolboy in Pakistan, to a

increases with time and the family are coldly rejected

fashion designer in Los Angeles, to a performance

by their local community. The family, in turn, reject

artist and filmmaker in Montreal, M! traces the

their own son. French with English subtitles.

filmmaker’s personal journey as he lets go of

judgement, both about himself and others and grows

Dist/Sales: SonyClassics, Haut-et-Court, Wolfe, ACMI

to self-acceptance and self-love. With this new sense

of acceptance he develops the ability to love others as

he never has before. (V Tape)

Dist/Sales: VTape

M.U.F.F. Match

Jenkins, Julie

1995; UK; 50 min; Comedy

This is a wacky British muffdiving sex romp in the

Benny Hill tradition. Chaos erupts when the Comps

hockey team takes on the M.U.F.F.s for a bit of rough

and tumble. These girls just can’t seem to keep

themselves out of trouble, both on the field and in

Macho Dancer

the locker room. Harriet gets caught in the toilet

with her hands full, while the school nurse treats one

Macho Dancer

of the injured players with the unusual set of

Brocka, Lino

implements from the first aid cabinet. (20th San

1988; Philippines; 125 min; Drama

Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

W: Ricardo Lee, Amado Lacuesta; C: Joe Tutanes;

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer, VideoAmericain

E: Ruben Natividad

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Cast: Allan Paole, Jacklyn Jose, Daniel Fernando,

Madam Wang’s

Charlie Catalla, William Lorenzo

Morrissey, Paul

Paolo, a young country boy, moves to Manila and, to

1981; USA; 95 min; Comedy

earn money, is quickly drawn into the gay bars and

Cast: Virginia Bruce, Patrick Schoene, Paul Ambrose

nightclubs, and a world of prostitution and sexually

explicit dancing. A realistic low-budget, independent

A Communist agent infiltrates America only to be

film that became one of the favourites of the queer

influenced by its popular culture. He finds himself

film festival circuit. Tagalog with English subtitles.

in a world of transvestites, lesbians, prostitutes and

more, at Madam Wang’s Chinese Restaurant.

Dist/Sales: Strand, Wolfe

Macumba

Madame Sousatzka

Mikesch, Elfi

Schlesinger, John

1982; Germany; 88 min; Experimental

1988; UK, USA; 122 min; Drama

P: Robin Dalton; W: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, John

Isabel has given herself over to her musings in her

Schlesinger; C: Nat Crosby; E: Peter Honess;

lounge chair on the roof, and to her mysterious

M: Gerald Gouriet

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yearning, which she has named Macumba, the

Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Peggy Ashcroft, Twiggy, Leigh

embodiment of what is lacking in her life. One day a

Lawson, Shabana Azmi

stranger stumbles into her half-demolished apart-

ment building. She refuses to let him intrude so she

Madame Sousatzka is set in a very particular kind of

decides to co-opt him into a fictional character.

London household. The shabby rooming house is on

What follows is a detective story and the impetus for

a once-distinguished street that has now been

Isabel, her girlfriend and Max to break out into the

targeted by realtors for gentrification. The house is

unknown world outside. (Frameline)

owned by Lady Emily, a sweet-tempered old lady

who lives in the basement and peacefully coexists

Dist/Sales: Frameline

with her tenants, who include Madame, the model,

Mad, Bad and Barking

and Cordle, a decayed civil-servant type who has

occasional, furtive homosexual adventures. Based on

Chambers, Sara / Zalcock, Bev

the novel by Bernice Rubens.

1996; UK; 30 min; Comedy

Prod Comp: Cineplex Odeon

A film that uses the female buddy movie to explore

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Roadshow, Universal

the relationship between a woman and her dog. In

the face of constant harassment, they undergo a

Madame X: An Absolute Ruler

crucial transformation and this gentle comedy turns

(aka: Madame X: Eine Absolute Herrscherin)

into a female revenge movie. (Cinenova)

Ottinger, Ulrike

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

1977; Germany; 140 min; Experimental

Madagascar Skin

C: Ulrike Ottinger

Cast: Tabea Blumenschein, Irena von Lichtenstein,

Newby, Christopher

Yvonne Rainer, Ulrike Ottinger

1995; UK; 95 min; Comedy

A rarely screened film that has become something of

P: Julie Baines; W: Christopher Newby;

a lesbian cult classic. Women cannot resist the pirate

C: Oliver Curtis; E: Christopher Newby, Annabel Ware Madame X, and board her ship in the quest for gold,

Cast: Bernard Hill, John Hannah

love and adventure. A light-hearted lesbian portrayal.

Harry is a lonely man, who loses himself in a

Prod Comp: Autoren Film

London disco with a threesome in the back room.

Dist/Sales: Exportfilm

But when the lights come on he’s rejected. You see,

he has a birth mark on his cheek that is the same

Mädchen in Uniform (1931)

shape as Madagascar. In his depression he goes to the

seaside. There he comes across a burly tattooed man,

(aka: Girls in Uniform)

Flint, who has been beaten up on the beach.

Sagan, Leontine

Although they have nothing in common they slowly

1931; Germany; 84 min; B&W; Drama

begin to fall in love and live a rather domestic life in

P: Carl Froelich; W: F. D. Andam, Christa Winsloe; a cottage by the seaside.

C: Reimar Kuntze, Franz Weihmayr; E: Oswald

Prod Comp: BFI, Channel 4

Hafenrichter; M: Hansen Milde-Meissner

Dist/Sales: BFI, Wellspring

Cast: Dorothea Wieck, Ellen Schwannecke, Hertha

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Thiele, Emilia Unda, Hedwig Schlichter

Madras Eyes

Central to the film, set in a boarding school for the

Freccia, Ilaria

daughters of German officers prior to World War I,

1998; Italy; 80 min; Drama

is the relationship between a young student and her

P: Eve Silvester; W: Ilaria Freccia; C: Gianenrico teacher. Interwoven emotional and institutional

Bianchi; E: Giula Ciniselli; M: Sergio Gribanovski pressures result in near tragedy. The atmosphere of

Prussian authoritarianism in the school is expertly

An intoxicating blend of fiction and documentary

evoked and the film has long been seen as an attack

fleshes out the story of a young Eunuch living in

on German militarism. More recently, however,

India. Tamil with English subtitles.

attention has been given to its delicate yet forceful

Dist/Sales: RaiTrade

treatment of lesbianism. Remade in 1957 under the

same title. Dubbed into English.

Mafu Cage, The

Prod Comp: Deutsche Film-Gemeinschaft

(aka: My Sister, My Love)

Dist/Sales: BFI, NFVLS, ACMI

Arthur, Karen

Mädchen in Uniform (1957)

1978; USA; 100 min; Thriller

P: Diana Young; W: Don Chastain; C: John Bailey; m

(aka: Girls in Uniform)

E: Carol Littleton; M: Roger Kellaway

von Radványi, Géza

Cast: Lee Grant, Carol Kane, Natalie Delon, Will Geer,

1957; Germany; 91 min; Drama

James Olsen

P: Artur Brauner, Joseph Spigler; W: Franz Hollering, F.

An exploration of incest and madness. Cissy, the

D. Andam; C: Werner Krien; E: Ira Oberberg

younger and creative sister, is in love with her dead

Cast: Romy Schneider, Lilli Palmer, Therese Giehse,

father and her older sister, Ellen. They were bought

Christine Kaufmann

up in Africa and have turned their living room into a

This classic story of the infatuation of a schoolgirl

replica of the jungle which includes an orang-utan.

for her tender teacher was first filmed in 1931. The

When Ellen begins a relationship with a male co-

1957 version is much more lavish and was influ-

worker, their special world is threatened. Visually

enced as much by Hollywood as by pre-war

beautiful, the film is saved from falling into an

Germany. The setting is still a turn-of-the-century

exploitative piece by the tender and loving relation-

girls’ boarding school in Germany and the theme is

ship between the two sisters.

outlawed love in an authoritarian system. (MQFF)

Prod Comp: CCC Filmkunst GmbH, Les Films Modernes

Magic Christian, The

Dist/Sales: Altermedia, SevenArts

McGrath, Joseph

Made in Heaven

1969; UK; 92 min; Comedy

P: Denis O’Dell; W: Peter Sellers, John Cleese, Graham Rudolph, Alan

Chapman, Joseph McGrath, Terry Southern;

1987; USA; 103 min; Comedy

C: Geoffrey Unsworth; E: Kevin Connor; M: Ken Thorne P: Raynold Gideon, Bruce A. Evans, David Blocker;

Cast: Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Isabel Jeans, Caroline

W: Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon; C: Jan Kiesser; Blakiston, Leonard Frey

E: Tom Walls; M: Mark Isham, Neil Young

The Magic Christian tells the unlikely story of an

Cast: Kelly McGillis, Timothy Hutton, Maureen

eccentric multimillionaire who spends his days

Stapleton, Ann Wedgeworth, James Gammon

working out ways to demonstrate that people will do

Romantic fantasy in the style of Heaven Can Wait

anything for money. There are some comic moments

and Here Comes Mr Jordan. A young man dies and

throughout the film, most notably Yul Brynner

goes to heaven where he meets and falls in love with a

dressed in drag, singing ‘Mad About the Boy’, while

yet-to-be-born woman. The big question is how long

picking up Roman Polanski in a bar; and a boxing

will it take them to meet in their new identities on

match that turns to romance when the two fighters

earth. Debra Winger is almost unrecognisable when

fall in love. The film is loaded with double entendres

she cross-dresses to play Hutton’s guardian angel.

and gay sight gags, and some great cameos.

Prod Comp: Lorimar

Prod Comp: Grand Commonwealth

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, Warner

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, Republic

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Magnolia

less and far more than she bargained for. From

cosmopolitan Hanoi to the heart of the Deep South,

Anderson, Paul Thomas

Mai’s unforgettable journey offers an outsider’s

1999; USA; 190 min; Drama

glimpse inside America. (WMM)

P: Joanne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson;

Prod Comp: Independent Television Service

W: Paul Thomas Anderson; C: Robert Elswit;

Dist/Sales: WMM

E: Dylan Tichenor; M: Jon Brion

Cast: Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore, William H. Macy,

Maid of Honor

Jason Robards

A magnificent ensemble cast fleshes out the stories of

Arnold, Jennifer

nine people over one day in California. Each of the

1999; USA; 25 min; Drama

protagonists is connected in some way, and their

P: Steven Friedland, Jennifer Arnold; W: Jennifer lives span tragic and triumphant in the most

Arnold

unexpected ways. William H. Macy plays Donnie

Two young lesbians are forced to re-examine their

Smith, child quiz show has-been who has moved

level of commitment when they attend a close

from childhood success to abject failure in his adult

‘straight’ friend’s wedding.

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years, and has a hopeless obsession with a totally out

Prod Comp: Bean Productions

of reach hunky barman at his local gay hang out.

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!

Prod Comp: Ghoulardi Film Company, New Line

Cinema

Maiden Work

Dist/Sales: NewLine, Alliance

Wang, Guangli

Mahogany

1998; China; 67 min; Drama

P: Rong Ye, Da-yu Li; W: Guangli Wang, Lui Man;

Gordy, Berry

C: Xiaoming Ma; M: Guang-tian Zhang

1975; USA; 110 min; Drama

The romance of Xue and her lover Yu shatters over a

P: Rob Cohen, Jack Ballard; W: John Byrum, Bob

portrait of Yu painted by the artist, Jinian. When

Merrill; C: David Watkins; E: Peter Zinner;

Jinian injures his eye in a bar fight, his mind (and

M: Michael Masser

the film) becomes a swirl of fragments—the women’s

Cast: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Perkins,

relationship, old Chinese war movies, Maoist

Jean-Pierre Aumont

discos—as a haunting past clash and meld. Jinian

A photographer discovers a young Chicago model

feels compelled to make a movie about the women

who dreams of becoming a fashion designer. When

and himself, and we take part in his attempt to get

the photographer takes her to France to become

the film made, despite plenty of obstacles, real and

famous, she must leave her roots and her boyfriend

imagined. Maiden Work is an independent under-

behind. When her dreams are finally realised she

ground film shot outside the official Chinese film

finds life in the fashion world empty and loveless

system, and yet to be screened in China. (23rd San

and decides to go back to the arms of the man who

Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film festival)

loves her. Perkins plays the photographer who is gay

but tries in vain to bed the beautiful Mahogany to

Maids, The

prove his manhood.

Prod Comp: Paramount, Motown

Kinney, Donald / Kinney, Robert

Dist/Sales: Paramount

1990; USA; 53 min; Drama

Jean Genet’s The Maids provides the text for this

Mai’s America

film by the Kinney brothers that explores their

relationship as twins and their gay sexuality. Robert

Poras, Marlo

and Donald play the title roles of sisters, Claire and

2002; USA; 72 min; Documentary

Solange, domestic servants in service to a wealthy

P: Marlo Poras; W: Marlo Poras; C: Marlo Poras; mistress. While the mistress is away the sisters play

E: Michelle Gisser

out the fantasy and horror of their own lives.

A spunky Vietnamese teenager named Mai gets the

chance of a lifetime—to study in the United States.

Making Love

Expecting Hollywood, she instead lands in rural

Mississippi, a crazy quilt of self-proclaimed rednecks,

Hiller, Arthur

cliquish teenagers, South Vietnamese exiles and

1982; USA; 111 min; Drama

transvestite soul mates. As she tries to fit in and to

P: Allen Adler, Danny Melnick; W: Barry Sandler;

make ends meet, Mai discovers that ‘America’ is both

C: David M. Walsh; E: William Reynolds;

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M: Leonard Rosenman

intimate dialogue she discusses her preconceptions,

Cast: Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin,

fears and love, and he reveals childhood memories,

Wendy Hiller

adolescent thoughts and fears, and affirms his

A successful doctor married to a television executive,

present loving relationship. Supplementing this story

leaves his wife after he meets a gay writer and they

are interviews with other Latino lesbian and gay

begin a relationship. One of the first mainstream

friends who offer further insights into family

films made in Hollywood to deal openly with

responsibilities, death and continuity, and the

homosexuality and show two men kissing.

importance of honesty. (Cinema Guild)

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox, IndieProd

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, 20thCenturyFox

Man in Her Life, The

Making of Monsters

(aka: Ang lalaki sa buhay ni Selya)

Greyson, John

Siguion-Reyna, Carlos

1990; Canada; 35 min; Comedy, Musical

1997; Philippines; 96 min; Drama

P: Laurie Lynd; W: John Greyson; E: Miume Jan; P: Malou N. Santos, Charo Santos-Concio;

m

M: Glenn Schellenberg

W: Bibeth Orteza; C: Daniel Delinna, Yam Laranas; Cast: Christopher Anderson

E: Manet A. Dayrit; M: Ryan Cayabyab

Cast: Ricky Davao, Gardo Versoza, Rosanna Roces,

Drawing from Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, Queer

Alan Paule

Nation and a gay-bashing incident in Toronto in

1985, this wild and crazy all-singing, all-dancing

A steamy melodrama from the Philippines which

musical satire is one of the most compelling and

explores the sexual and emotional experiences of the

entertaining films to hit the lesbian and gay film

film’s four main characters—Seyla, Bobby, Ramon

festival circuit.

and Carding—and how their lives become inter-

twined. A passionate film that challenges conven-

Awards: Berlin International Film Festival, 1991: Teddy

tional family values. (Millivres)

Award for Best Short Film

Prod Comp: Star Cinema

Mala Noche

Dist/Sales: Millivres

(aka: Bad Night)

Man in the Irony Mask, The

Van Sant, Gus

1985; USA; 78 min; B&W; Drama

Andrew, Paul

P: Gus Van Sant; W: Gus Van Sant; C: John Campbell; 1998; Australia; 28 min; Documentary

E: Gus Van Sant; M: Peter Daamaan, Karen Kitchen, P: Kath Shelper; W: Paul Andrew

Creighton Lindsay

A visually beautiful film that captures a sense of the

Cast: Tim Streeter, Doug Cooeyate, Ray Monge, Sam

life and personality of the late Sydney artist and

Downey

AIDS activist Brenton Heath-Kerr, as well as the

essence of his work.

Walt, a cynical young man who spends most of his

time selling liquor to vagrants, becomes infatuated

Prod Comp: Scarlett Pictures

with 16-year-old Johnny, an illegal Mexican

Dist/Sales: ACMI

immigrant. He pursues him but ends up with his

gun-toting friend Pepper. Van Sant’s first feature film

Man is a Woman

is a refreshing, if somewhat off-the-wall, low budget

(aka: L’Homme est une Femme Comme les Autres)

film.

Zilbermann, Jean-Jacques

Dist/Sales: Salzgeber

1998; France; 96 min; Drama

Mama, I Have Something to Tell You

P: Régine Konckier, Jean-Luc Ormières; W: Jean-

Jacques Zilbermann, Gilles Taurand; C: Pierre Aïm;

Salvo, Calogero

E: Monica Coleman

1996; USA; 41 min; Documentary

Cast: Antoine de Caunes, Elsa Zylberstein, Gad

This autobiographical video, in which the filmmaker

Elmaleh, Michael Aumont

reveals his homosexuality to his mother, explores the

Simon is a talented clarinettist who has turned his

awkward situation of being ‘out’ to friends but

back on family, duty and his Jewish tradition to

closeted to family. Prompted by the deaths of his

pursue his main interest: men. Rosalie comes from a

father and best friend, Salvo returns to his native

New York Hasidic Jewish family and secretly keeps

Venezuela to ‘come out’ to his mother. In this

herself pure while she waits for the man of her

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dreams. Together, they make an unlikely match.

Man of no Importance, A

Rosalie, a singer of secular Yiddish songs falls in love

with Simon when she sees him playing Klezmer

Krishnamma, Suri

clarinet at a wedding reception. When Simon’s

1994; UK; 99 min; Drama

family blackmails him into marriage (in order to

P: Jonathan Cavendish; W: Barry Devlin;

preserve the family name), Rosalie seems the most

C: Ashley Rowe; E: David Freeman; M: Julian Nott obvious choice for a wife. The marriage ought to be

Cast: Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker, Michael Gambon,

a disaster. After all, Simon lives for guys, Rosalie lives

Tara Fitzgerland

for God. And yet, together they provide each other

The story of a Dublin bus conductor and loveable

with an opportunity to explore life in a new way.

old gay man, Alfie Byrne, who amuses his passengers

French with English subtitles. (Mongrel)

with monologues and poetry by Oscar Wilde,

Prod Comp: Les Films Balenciaga, M^ Films

particularly Salome, which has been branded immoral

Dist/Sales: UGC, Millivres, Mongrel, PolyGram

by the local church. Alfie decides to stage the play,

casting a young unmarried mother in the lead role.

Man like Eva, A

Prod Comp: Majestic, BBC, Little Bird, Newcomm

(aka: Ein, Mann wie Eva)

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, TLA, NewYorker

m Gabrea, Radu

Man of the Year

1983; Germany; 90 min; Drama

P: Horst Schier, Laurens Straub; W: Radu Gabrea,

Shafer, Dirk

Laurens Straub; C: Horst Schier; M: Verdi

1994; USA; 85 min; Comedy

Cast: Eva Mattes, Lisa Kreuzer, Charles Regnier, Werner

P: Matt Keener; W: Dirk Shafer; C: Stephen Stocker

Timberlake; E: Barry Silver, Ken Solomon; M: Peitor During the shooting of a version of The Lady of the

Angell

Camellias, there is more drama off the screen than

Cast: Dirk Shafer, Vivian Paton, Claudette Sutherland

on. The transsexual star Eva leaves her lover, marries

In 1992 Dirk Shafer was Playgirl’s ‘Man of the Year’.

the leading lady, and seduces the leading man. A

Man of the Year is Shafer’s mockumentary about his

rather bleak film ending in tragedy. Although Rainer

experiences. Will the Playgirl editors take his title

Werner Fassbinder is not mentioned directly, the

away if they find out he’s gay.

film can be read as an apocryphal portrait of the

Prod Comp: Artisan Productions, Foundation Films,

famous filmmaker.

Seven Arts Productions

Prod Comp: Blue Dolphin, Cinevista

Dist/Sales: UIP, Wolfe, 7thArt

Dist/Sales: BFI

Man who Drove with Mandela, The

Man Man Woman Woman

Schiller, Greta

(aka: Nannan Nünü; Men and Women; Men Men Women

1998; The Netherlands, South Africa, UK; 82 min;

Women)

Documentary

Liu, Bingjian

P: Greta Schiller, Mark Gevisser; W: Mark Gevisser; 1999; China; 90 min; Drama

C: Michelle Crenshaw, Tania Hoser

P: Jinliang Li; W: Zi’en Cui, Bingjian Liu; C: Jiang Liu, Cast: Corin Redgrave

Jun Xu; E: Ah Yi

A creative mix of documentary and fiction, this

Cast: Yang Qing, Yu Bao, Kang Zhang

remarkable film examines the life of little know gay

Independent filmmaking is alive and well in China if

activist Cecil Williams, a white South African who

Liu Bingjian’s offering is anything to go by. Clothes

fought against both Apartheid and homophobia in

shop owner Qing and her husband take in country

his native country. Williams is a successful and open

boy Xiao Bo when he arrives in Beijing to find

Johannesburg theatre producer/director whose home

himself. Slowly Qing begins to suspect that Xiao Bo

became a centre of gay and politically leftist life in

is gay, and shares her concerns with her husband.

the 1940s through the 1960s. This was at a time

Xiao Bo runs away when Qing’s husband makes a

when homosexuality was both criminal and hidden

clumsy attempt to rape him. Liu frames his story

and the separation of blacks and whites the law of

with fantasy scenes which imagine what Beijing

the land. Schiller adds interviews with his gay and

might be like in a more enlightened world and give

communist friends, gays and lesbians today and

the film an entertaining blend of realism and

amazing home movie footage in her effort to learn

idealistic daydream. (MQFF)

about William’s tumultuous life. (Wolfe)

Mandarin with English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Jezebel Productions, Channel 4, BFI

Dist/Sales: Asparas

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild, Wolfe

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Mandragora

He wanders the dirty streets, shanty towns, street

markets and brothels of the city in his search for her.

Grodecki, Wiktor

When his money runs out, he reluctantly turns to

1997; Czech Republic; 130 min; Documentary

male prostitution to survive.

C: Vladimir Holomek; E: Wiktor Grodecki;

M: Wolfgang Hammerschmid

Manji

Cast: Mirek Caslavka, David Svec, Miroslav Breu, Pavel

Skripal

(aka: All Mixed Up)

16-year-old Marek leaves his dreary small-town life

Yasuzo, Masumura

for the beautiful but treacherous streets of Prague, a

1964; Japan; 91 min; Drama

city where everything can be had for a price. He is

P: Yonejiro Saito; W: Kaneto Shindo; C: Setsuo quickly lured by a greasy pimp into selling his body

Kobayashi; E: Tatsuji Nakashizu; M: Tadashi Yamauchi to the many tourists who flock to the city for its

Cast: Ayako Wakao, Kyoko Kishida, Yusuke Kawazu,

cathedrals, castles and tender male flesh. Emboldened

Eiji Funakoshi

by his clear marketability (he’s gorgeous), Marek and

Married housewife Sonoko falls madly in love with

his handsome streetwise buddy David decide to enter

fellow art student Mitsuko who is the daughter of a

the teen flesh trade on their own. But kinky johns,

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wealthy industrialist. A relationship between them

all-too-available drugs and their own self-destructive

begins. Sonoko’s policeman husband soon becomes

natures propel them instead into a hellish world in

suspicious. In the meantime, it is revealed that

which the instinct to survive is their only hope.

Mitsuko also has a male lover Eijiro. What follows is

Czech with English subtitles. (Water Bearer Films)

a mess of infidelity, blackmailing and seduction.

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer, Millivres, ACMI, Salzgeber

Japanese with English subtitles.

Manhattan

Dist/Sales: Daiei

Allen, Woody

Mannequin

1979; USA; 96 min; B&W; Comedy

Gottlieb, Michael

P: Charles H. Joffe; W: Woody Allen, Marshall

1987; USA; 90 min; Comedy

Brickman; C: Gordon Willis; E: Susan E. Morse; M: P: Art Levinson; W: Michael Gottlieb, Edward N.

Tom Pierson, George Gershwin

Rugoff; C: Tim Suhrstedt; E: Richard Halsey;

Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy,

M: Albert Hammond, Sylvester Levay, Diane Warren

Meryl Streep, Mariel Hemingway

Cast: Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Meshach Taylor,

Bittersweet slice-of-life about a New York comedy

Estelle Getty, James Spader

writer, Isaac Davis, who has an obsession with

A romantic comedy about a stockroom clerk,

Manhattan. After his wife leaves him for another

Jonathan, who falls in love with his work and a

woman, he tries to find fulfilment in a relationship

department store mannequin. She comes to life,

with a 17-year-old girl, but the age difference is too

when only he is around, and anything can happen!

much. Throughout the film this pathetic character

Taylor plays the flamboyant window dresser,

attempts to rebuild his waning manhood, even

Hollywood Montrose, a true gay stereotype, but he

resorting to trying to kill his ex-wife by driving his

manages to steal the show anyway.

car through her front window.

Prod Comp: Gladden Entertainment

Prod Comp: United Artists, Jack Rollins & Charles H.

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, Warner, 20thCenturyFox

Joffe Productions

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, ReelMovies, Warner, UA

Manodestra

Manila: In the Claws of Darkness

Ubelemann, Cleo

(aka: Maynila: Sa mga kuko ng liwanag)

1986; Switzerland; 53 min; Experimental

Considered highly controversial wherever it is

Brocka, Lino

screened, this film explores our fascination with

1975; Philippines; 125 min; Drama

sexual cruelty in the dungeon of the dominatrix.

W: Clodualdo del Mundo Jnr; C: Miguel De Leon

Manodestra is an art film extravaganza of flesh and

Cast: Rafael Roco Jnr, Hilda Koronel, Lou Salvador Jnr,

fetish, which takes an experimental approach to

Juling Bagaboldo

sadomasochistic lesbianism. S/M culture is presented

A young fisherman, Julio, leaves his small village to

as subtle and complex and much more than the mere

find his girlfriend who has disappeared in Manila.

enjoyment of pain.

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Map of Sex and Love, The

March on Washington, The

(aka: Qingse ditu)

Scagliotti, John

Chan, Evans

1993; USA; 30 min; Documentary

2001; Hong Kong; 131 min; Drama

P: John Scagliotti

P: Willy Tsao; W: Evans Chan; C: O. Sing-pui This film chronicles the April 1993 March on

Cast: Bernardo Chow, Victor Ma, Cheri Ho

Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Equal

Through three interrelated stories— Rubber Band,

Rights and Liberation, one of the largest civil rights

Belgrade, and Nazi Gold—Evans Chan explores

rallies in American history, with an estimated one

history past and present, and love gay and straight in

million people marching on the nation’s capital. The

The Map of Sex and Love. In Rubber Band, a gay

film features highlights from speeches and comedy

dancer recalls how in high school, a counsellor

and musical performances, as well as interviews with

advised him to wear a rubber band in order to heal

politicians and celebrities in attendance, and a brief

his perversity; in Belgrade, a girl tries to hide from

history of gay rights activism in the USA.

herself and the world, a traumatic revelation that

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild

occurred during her Eastern European travels; and in

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Nazi Gold, a filmmaker encounters a lingering

Marching into Darkness

mystery from the Third Reich in the unlikely setting

of his childhood home. (www.amamedia.org/movies)

Spano, Massimo

Mandarin with English subtitles.

1995; Italy; 110 min; Drama

20-year-old Saro Franzese is assigned to an elite

Marble Ass

helicopter unit for his national service. He takes to it

like a fish to water. But everything disintegrates

(aka: Dupe od Mramora)

when his sergeant, Gianni Tricario, reveals to Saro

Zilnik, Zelimir

that he is gay. Saro runs away, but is found and

1995; Serbia; 80 min; Drama

viscously raped by Captain Roatta, a brilliant soldier

W: Zelimir Zilnik; C: Miodrag Milosevic;

who is the leader of a secret military faction. Now

E: Vladimir Milenkovic; M: Dejan Kijevcanin

Saro begins a difficult fight for justice. He must face

Cast: Aleksandar Brujic, Luna Lu, Vjeran Miladinovic,

the military and civil institutions, some of which are

Nenad Milenkovic

willing to help him, while others are prepared to

Set in Belgrade, the story centres around Merlyn, a

support Roatta. Italian with English subtitles.

transvestite prostitute, and her roommate, Sanela.

Dist/Sales: Intra

Their life and routine is thrown into turmoil when

Johnny, an ex-lover, is thrown out of the army and

Mare, Il

arrives on their doorstep. He is quite crazed and filled

(aka: The Sea)

with suppressed rage, putting their lives at greater

risk than they already are in the dangerous world of

Griffi, Guiseppe Patroni

gay prostitution. Serbian with English subtitles.

1962; Italy; 110 min; B&W; Drama

P: Gianni Buffardi; W: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Alfio Awards: Berlin International Film Festival, 1995: Teddy

Valdarini; C: Ennio Guarnieri; E: Ruggero Mastroianni; Award for Best Feature Film

M: Giovanni Fusco

Prod Comp: Radio B92 Beograd

Cast: Umberto Orsini, Francoise Prévost, Dino Mele

March in April

While on holiday in Capri, an actor meets a moody

young man in the midst of a self-destructive

Kinsella, Stephen

drinking binge. The young man is obviously

1993; USA; 60 min; Drama

interested in the older actor but before anything can

Cast: Keith Meinhold, Barney Frank, Pat Schroeder

happen they befriend a woman who has come to sell

Family, friends and lovers gather for an historic

her house and her presence begins to cause compli-

March on Washington as Mark, the main character,

cations. Beautifully shot with great performances, Il

confronts having never come out to his ailing

Mare creates a feeling of sexual tension laced with

mother. (First Run Features)

violence and unrequited love.

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, FirstRunFeatures

Prod Comp: Buffardi SpA

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Mark of Lilith, The

Martin Four

Fionda, Bruna / Gladwin, Polly / Mack-Nataf, Isiling

Hackworth, Ben

1986; UK; 32 min; Horror

2000; Australia; 21 min; Drama

Zena is a black filmmaker and her latest project is on

Caught up in the claustrophobic world of his

the goddesses of the past who slowly declined and

mother, who lives in a drunken haze of romantic

became demons. Her research leads her to watch

memories of exotic places, an aimless young gay man

horror films. Lillia is one of the characters in the

tries to make a connection with love and life in the

films, a white vampire. Zena and Lillia meet and

present. (ACMI)

begin an affair. As Zena makes the analogy between

Prod Comp: Victorian College of the Arts

the creation of female monsters and the way society

Dist/Sales: ACMI

views blacks and lesbians, this helps Lillia overcome

her role as a male fantasy.

Martirio

Prod Comp: Revamp Productions

(aka: Sufferance)

Dist/Sales: BFI, Cinenova

Escanilla, Claudia Morgado

Markova: Comfort Gay

2000; Canada; 19 min; Drama

m

Portes, Gil M.

Elissa, a famous trapeze artist, is being forced by her

father to marry an up and coming trapeze impresario

2000; Philippines; 97 min; Documentary

that she doesn’t love. Her disabled identical twin

W: Clodualdo del Mindo Jnr; C: Johnny Araojo;

sister witnesses her pain and makes an incredible

E: George Jarlego; M: Joy Marfil

sacrifice for love.

Cast: Eric Quizon, Loren Legarda, Jeffrey Quizon

Dist/Sales: BuzzTaxi

Markova: Comfort Gay tells the unconventional true

story of Walter Dempster Jnr, otherwise known as

Mary’s Place

Markova. After watching a documentary about the

suffering of women forced into prostitution during

Lee, Melissa

the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, Markova

1998; Australia; 50 min; Documentary

decides to tell his own painful story to reporter

This powerful documentary combines vox pop

Loren Legarda. Escaping the torment of growing up

commentary with the story of a lesbian assault

with an abusive older brother, he and his friends find

survivor to explore issues surrounding homophobic

further suffering at the hands of Japanese soldiers,

violence and the community’s response to this

forced into sex work to survive. But even after the

problem. Walking home from a club one night,

war, Markova’s struggle continued. Starring beloved

Mary is assaulted in Floods Lane, Sydney, Australia.

Filipino comic actor Dolphy in the lead, and two of

The film charts her brave journey from victim to

his sons, Eric and Jeffrey Quizon, as younger

outspoken survivor, and demonstrates the activism

versions Markova at different points in his story,

and support she found in the community through

Markova: Comfort Gay is a moving, intense, and,

the act of renaming the lane where she was attacked

ultimately, life-affirming story. (2002 New York

as Mary’s Place.

Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

Tagalog with English subtitles.

Mascara

Prod Comp: RVQ Productions

Conrad, Patrick

Dist/Sales: RVQ

1987; Belgium, France, USA; 100 min; Thriller

Marlene

P: Pierre Drouot, Henry Lange, René Solleveld

W: Hugo Claus, Patrick Conrad, Pierre Drouot, Susana

Vilsmaier, Joseph

Rossberg; C: Gilbert Azavedo; E: Susanna Rossberg; M: 2000; Germany; 125 min; Drama

Egisto Macchi

P: Jutta Lieck-Klenke, Katharina M. Trebitsch, Joseph

Cast: Michael Sarrazin, Charlotte Rampling, Derek de

Vilsmaier; W: Christian Pfannenschmidt; C: Joseph Lint, Jappe Claes

Vilsmaier; E: Barbara Hennings; M: Harald Kloser A sexually repressed police inspector is brought to

Cast: Monica Bleibtreu, Heino Ferch, Katja Flint,

the brink of murderous insanity, triggered by a dress

Cosma Shiva Hagen, Herbert Knaup

he fancies. He and his sister, the object of his

Detailed biopic on German film star Marlene

incestuous desires, meet a fashion designer and the

Dietrich.

sister falls for the designer.

Prod Comp: Perathon Film

Prod Comp: Dédalus, Iblis Films, Praxino Pictures

Dist/Sales: Senator

Dist/Sales: Warner

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Mask of Desire

sexuality through candid stories of sexual discoveries,

(aka: Shades of Black)

fantasies and pleasures; a montage of found and

original footage, the phone rings, girl-talk starts and

Haverstick, Mary

secrets emerge.

1993; USA; 115 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, WMM

P: Mary Haverstick

Cast: Jennifer MacDonald, Trisha McCormick

Matt

Described as Personal Best meets Psycho, the story Kennerley, Annette

centres around Kate, a 23-year-old photographer

and athlete, who is hired to photograph a contempo-

1998; UK; 20 min; Documentary

rary dance piece and is instantly attracted to Lilly,

Video conversation with well-known San Francisco

one of the dancers. Lilly, an older woman, sweeps

transgender identity Matt, where he recounts the

Kate off her feet and makes her the focus of a series

changes in his life over the last few years as he has

of masks she is designing for an exhibition. Kate

progressed from female to male.

begins to feel that she is losing power in the

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

relationship. She suspects Lilly is having an affair as

m

Lilly’s manipulative powers become evident.

Matter of Taste, A

Prod Comp: Haverstick Films

(aka: A Question of Taste; Une Affaire de Goût)

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!, WaterBearer

Rapp, Bernard

Mass Appeal

1999; France; 90 min; Thriller

Jordan, Glenn

P: Chantal Perrin, Catherine Dussart; W: Bernard Rapp, 1984; USA; 96 min; Drama

Gilles Taurand; C: Gérard de Battista; E: Juliette P: David Foster, Lawrence Turman; W: Bill C. Davis; Welfling; M: Jean-Philippe Goude

C: Donald Peterman; E: John Wright; M: Bill Conti Cast: Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Florence

Cast: Jack Lemmon, Zelijko Ivanek, Charles Durning,

Thomassin, Charles Berling

Louise Latham, Talia Balsam

Nicholas, a handsome young waiter, is befriended by

A newly appointed deacon takes up the challenge to

Frederic Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged business-

defend two suspected gay seminarians and in their

man. Delamont, a man of power, influence, and

defence he admits to his own homosexual affairs. The

strictly refined tastes, is immediately smitten by

homophobic Monsignor is determined to expel him

Nicholas’ charms. Lonely and phobic, Frederic offers

from the church and when the young deacon asks for

Nicholas a lucrative job as his personal food taster.

help from one of his colleagues, he refuses as he

In spite of their differences, a close friendship begins

doesn’t want to be presumed gay if he sides with him.

to emerge between the two men. However, their

Prod Comp: Jalem Productions, Operation Cork,

bond of trust and admirations soon spirals down-

Turman-Foster Company

ward into a dangerous game of deceit and obsession

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Universal

for which neither is prepared. (Attitude Films)

French with English subtitles.

Massillon

Prod Comp: Le Studio Canal+, France 3 Cinéma

Jones, William E.

Dist/Sales: TLA, Attitude

1991; USA; 70 min; Experimental

Maurice

William E. Jones returns to his hometown to

construct an unconventional and moving autobiog-

Ivory, James

raphy. Challenging some of the most firmly

1987; UK; 138 min; Drama

entrenched notions of filmmaking, Massillon tells its

P: Ismail Merchant; W: Kit Hesketh-Harvey, James

story without a single human actor, by combining

Ivory; C: Pierre Lhomme; E: Katherine Wenning;

beautiful images with a seductive voice-over

M: Richard Robbins

narration. (Canyon Cinema)

Cast: James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves,

Dist/Sales: Canyon

Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow

Match that Started My Fire, The

Based on the novel by E. M. Foster, Maurice is set in

pre-World War I England and examines the social

Cook, Cathy

repression of a college student dealing with his

1991; USA; 19 min; Comedy

homosexuality. Maurice studied at Cambridge where

This unconventional comedy explores women’s

he meets and falls in love with Clive Durham. Under

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pressure from his family Durham marries, but

Me and the Girls

Maurice finally consummates his inclinations with

Durham’s gamekeeper. A gay love story that

Shallcross, Alan

transcends wealth and class.

1985; UK; 54 min; Drama

P: Alan Shallcross

Prod Comp: Merchant-Ivory, Channel 4

Cast: Tom Courtenay

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, October, BFI, Cinecom, ACMI

George Banks is dying, and from his hospital bed he

Maybe I can Give you Sex?

reflects on his colourful, unconventional and at times

poignant years as the leader of a travelling troupe of

Brüning, Jürgen / Layumas, Rune

dancing girls. He remembers the good and bad times,

1992; Germany; 75 min; Drama

his friends and loved ones, especially his one great

Rune Layumas in Manila and Jürgen Brüning in

love, Harry. Set in Switzerland in 1938, this drama is

Berlin collaborated to make this two part docudrama

based on the play by Noel Coward. (ACMI)

film that confronts Western audiences with issues of

Dist/Sales: ACMI

racism, sexism and neo-colonialism as it compares

and contrasts the construction of male gender roles

Meeting Magdalene

between East and West. Macho dancers of the

m

Philippines, bar boys and their customers are

Freeman, Marilyn

portrayed to highlight the import of Western sexual

1995; USA; 34 min; B&W; Drama

structures. (MQFF)

This moody black-and-white film brings together

Dist/Sales: Brüning

the unlikely coupling of the ‘all work and no play’

city-chick Sarah, with Magdalene, part manipulator,

Maybe we’re Talking about a Different God

part earth mother. It is Magdalene’s psychic powers

that give her seduction of Sarah an alarming level of

Ankele, John / Macksoud, Anne

assurance. Through the rituals of New Age healing,

1995; USA; 28 min; Documentary

herbal tea drinking, and a series of farcical visits

In Rochester, New York, a woman with 90%

from friends, their high-energy flirting leaves them

support from her congregation is barred from

both breathless. (MQFF)

serving as a pastor of her Presbyterian church

because she is a lesbian. Her protesters argue that

Meeting of Two Queens

lesbianism is contrary to God’s order. This film

presents interviews and footage of the Rochester

Barriga, Cecilia

religious court hearings. One parishioner who once

1991; Spain; 14 min; Comedy

described himself as homophobic asks, ‘If this

This charming and witty film reconstructs the films

woman is thoroughly decent, how is that inconsist-

of Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich to create an

ent with basic Christianity?’ (First Run Features)

entirely new movie where a hot romance between

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures

the two can’t help but erupt. Dyke dreams do come

true. (MQFF)

Mayhem

Dist/Sales: WMM

Child, Abigail

Melody for Buddy Matsumae

1987; USA; 20 min; Documentary

Cast: Diane Torr, Ela Troyano

(aka: Matsumae-Kun No Senritsu)

Through a catalogue of looks, movements, and

Oki, Hiroyuki

gestures, Mayhem presents a social order run amok

1989; Japan; 50 min; Experimental

in a libidinous retracing of film noir conventions.

The last in Oki’s Matsumae trilogy, this film focuses

Sexuality flows in an atmosphere of sexual tension,

on 10 days that Oki spent at a seaside town, the first

danger, violence, and glamour; antagonism between

half is spent with his lover, the next five days depict

the sexes is symbolised in the costuming of women

the time after his lover has left.

in polka dots and men in stripes. Censored in Tokyo

Dist/Sales: ImageForum

for its use of Japanese lesbian erotica, Mayhem

creates an image bank of what signifies the sexual

Memento Mori

and the seductive in the history of image-making,

pointing to the way we learn about our bodies, and

(aka: Yeogo Guidam II)

how to use them from images. (VDB)

Kim, Tae-yong / Min, Kyu-dong

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, VDB

2000; South Korea; 97 min; Drama

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P: Chun-yeon Lee; W: Tae-yong Kim, Kyo-dong Min;

C: Fawn Yacker, Marsha Kahm; E: Frank Christopher; C: Yoon-soo Kim; E: Sung-woo Cho; M: Sung-woo Cho M: Donald James Regal

Cast: Min-hee Kim, Yeh-jin Park, Young-jin Lee, Min-

Cast: Emerald Starr, James A. Taylor, Joe Tolbe, Doug Self sun Kim

A young gay man takes the cremated remains of his

Min-ah finds a strange diary, capable of arousing

lover, who has died of AIDS, to Hawaii. Along the

hallucinations, kept by two of her senior fellow-

way a lot of soul searching is done, and with the

students, Hyo-shin and Shi-eun, who seem to have

support of his friends he manages to put his life back

an unusually close bond. But Hyo-shin suddenly

together again.

kills herself for no obvious reason and the entire

Prod Comp: Crystal Clear Comms, Tantric Films

school is shocked and depressed. Min-ah, however,

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer, Salzgeber

starts to feel different. It’s almost as if she’s somehow

possessed by the dead girl.... ‘Memento Mori’ is the

Men Like Me

incantation left in a dead student’s diary. The death

of the girl who was neither child nor adult is recalled

Long, Susan

through this spiritual dialogue that sadly ordains the

1994; Australia; 25 min; Documentary

diary. (2001 Slamdance Film Festival)

P: Sylvie Shaw; W: Susan Long

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Korean with English subtitles.

Explores the physical and social transformation of

Dist/Sales: Mirovision

Dale Michaels, a female-to-male transsexual. This

film broke new ground in video computer technol-

ogy at the time. If this is Dale’s story, it is also an

account of the filmmaker’s journey.

Dist/Sales: VTape

Momento Mori

Memory Pictures

Parmar, Pratibha

1989; UK; 24 min; Documentary

Men Like Me

A beautifully composed profile of gay Indian

Men Men Men

photographer, Sunil Gupta, and the way his work

portrays issues of sexual and racial identity in

(aka: Uomini Uomini Uomini)

relation to personal and familial history. (WMM)

de Sica, Christian

Dist/Sales: WMM, GroupeIntervention

1996; Italy; 90 min; Comedy

P: Aurelio De Laurentiis; W: Christian de Sica, Enrico Memsahib Rita

Vanzina, Giovanni Veronesi; C: Gianlorenzo Battaglia;

E: Raimondo Crociani; M: Manuel de Sica

Parmar, Pratibha

Cast: Christian de Sica, Massimo Ghini, Leo Gullotta

1994; UK; 20 min; Experimental

A comedy about four best friends: Vittorio, an

Using magic realism, Memsahib Rita looks at the

architect who is obsessed with his ex-lover; Dado, a

physical and emotional violence of racism. Shanti is

doctor who seduces straight football players;

haunted by both the racist taunts of nationalist white

Vittorio, a fashion designer who finds sex by picking

youths and the memory of her white mother. (WMM)

up hustlers; and Sando, an independent filmmaker

Dist/Sales: WMM

who has just come out and is having problems with

Men in Love

his son. They play sexual games, exploiting everyone

including straights, gays, men and women. But their

Huestis, Marc

sex games turn sour when they betray Simonetta, a

1990; USA; 93 min; Drama

wardrobe mistress. Italian with English subtitles.

P: Scott Catamas; W: Emerald Starr, Scott Catamas; Dist/Sales: SACIS, Lauren

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Menmaniacs: The Legacy of Leather

Cast: David Bowie, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tom Conti, Jack

Thompson, Takeshi

Hick, Jochen

1995; Germany; 86 min; Documentary

A battle of wills begins during the Second World

P: Jochen Hick; W: Jochen Hick; C: Jochen Hick; War in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp between the

E: Micheline Maske; M: Charly Schoppner

camp commander, and a British major. There seems

to be a homosexual attraction between the two men

This fascinating documentary takes a look at the

that is finally played out at the end by a rather

S/M leather scene one summer in Chicago, New

awkward kiss, just before the major is executed. A

York and San Francisco, particularly the Mr Leather

visually beautiful film, it was Oshima’s first English-

competition in Chicago, which attracts over 2000

speaking venture and a triumphant psychological

men and women who identify with leather. The film

drama about survival. English & Japanese with

focuses on the erotic and sexual side of the leather

English subtitles.

lifestyle as well as the community’s commitment to

raising funds for HIV. This is an intimate look at a

Prod Comp: Asahi National Broadcasting Company,

movement in which membership is not just a hobby,

Cineventure Productions, Oshima Productions

but more a way of life. Features footage from the

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Universal, BFI

New York Gay Games and the International Mr

m

Drummer competition, wherein participants enact

Metalguru

their sexual fantasies. A must see even for non-

Colker, Flavio

leather lovers, this documentary sheds light on a

1999; Brazil; 30 min; Drama

scene that has long mystified many. (MQFF)

A precocious preteen girl befriends two travelling

Prod Comp: Galeria Alaska Productions

motorcycle babes and gets a taste for adventure.

Dist/Sales: TurbulentArts

Mercy (1989)

Metamorphosis: Man into Woman

Child, Abigail

Leeman, Lisa

1989; USA; 10 min; B&W; Experimental

1990; USA; 58 min; Documentary

P: Claudia Hoover

Child masterfully composes a rhythmic collage of

symmetries and asymmetries in a fluid essay that

Gary, a 39-year-old transsexual, has been convinced

forefronts the treatment of the body as a mechanised

since childhood that he is a woman trapped in a

instrument—placing the body in relation to the

male body. At age 36, Gary decided to begin the

man-made landscape of factories, amusement parks

extraordinary process of changing his gender. Shot

and urban office complexes. (VDB)

over three years, this compassionate yet unsentimen-

tal film follows Gary’s transformation into Gabi.

Dist/Sales: VDB

Before he can be accepted for sex-reassignment

Mercy (1999)

surgery, Gary must prove that he can successfully live

and work as a woman, 24 hours a day, for at least

Harris, Damian

one year. We see Gary sorting out his masculine and

1999; USA; 94 min; Thriller

feminine traits, undergoing facial plastic surgery,

P: Andrew Stevens, Amedeo Ursini, Elie Samaha;

electrolysis, hormone therapy, and psychological

W: Damian Harris; C: Manuel Terán; M: B. C. Smith counselling. A lively discussion among Gabi’s co-Cast: Ellen Barkin, Julian Sands, Wendy Crewson, Peta

workers raises questions about the very nature of

Wilson

masculinity and femininity. Gabi attends a trans-

A gritty female detective enters a sordid world of

sexual support group, and wrestles throughout the

sexual deviance to catch a serial killer. (Wolfe)

film with religious conflicts. By the end of the film

she reconciles with her mother, and attends her high

Prod Comp: Jazz Pictures, Franchise Pictures,

school reunion. (Filmakers Library)

Phoenician Entertainment

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Col-Tri, HBO

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary, NFVLS

Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence

Metamorphosis: The Remarkable Jour-

ney of Granny Lee

Oshima, Nagisa

1983; Japan, New Zealand, UK; 122 min; Drama

Debarros, Luiz

P: Jeremy Thomas; W: Nagisa Oshima, Paul

2001; South Africa; 52 min; Documentary

Mayersberg; C: Toichiro Narushima; E: Tomoyo

When Leonard Christian Du Plooy was born on the

Oshima; M: Ryuichi Sakamoto

18 March 1919 to a mixed race, working class

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family, he embodied all the contradictions of a

Mi Novia El

country ruled by racism and hypocrisy. The first part

of his life was spent in his hometown of Kimberley

Salaberry, Enrique Cahen

and then Durban as a teacher. Then he changed his

1975; Spain; 90 min; Comedy

mind (and his skin colour). In his fifties, he moved

W: Oscar Viale

to Johannesburg and proceeded to become the city’s

Cast: Alberto Olmedo, Susana Giménez

most famous club-goer and drag queen. Due to a

Laucha accepts a dare to pick up a famous transves-

skin condition he was now able to pass himself off as

tite called Moninique. But later, on closer inspection

white, which held many advantages in Apartheid

he is not sure whether Moninique is a man dressed

South Africa. By outfitting himself with outrageous

as a woman or a woman dressed as a man dressed as

costumes, feather boas, heavy makeup and a retinue

a woman.

of young admirers, the pensioner transformed

himself and became Granny Lee, Queen of the

Prod Comp: Aries Cinematográfica Argentina

Discos. In death Lee continued to flaunt the rules,

Michael, a Gay Son

mistakenly being the first non-white buried in a

whites only Johannesburg cemetery.

Glawson, Bruce

(www.grannylee.co.za)

1980; Canada; 27 min; Documentary

m

Meteor and Shadow

This sympathetic portrayal will help professional and

general audiences gain insight into the dilemmas

(aka: Meteoro kai Skia)

facing the homosexual. It reveals the feelings and

Spetsiotis, Takis

needs of Michael, his parents, and his brother and

sister on learning that he is gay. Michael’s decision to

1985; Greece; 101 min; Drama

‘come out’ was difficult, but he was supported by a

P: Takis Spetsiotis; W: Takis Spetsiotis; C: Philipos peer group of homosexuals. Unprepared for his

Koutsaftis; E: Despina Danae Maroulakou

parents’ total inability to discuss the matter with

Cast: Michael Marmarinos, G. Palamiotis, E. Franco,

him, he suggests a group session with a social

Takis Moschos

worker.

A poignant and harrowing account of the rise and

Prod Comp: Bruce Glawson Productions

fall of Napoleon Lapathiotis (1888–1944), Greece’s

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, FilmakersLibrary

most esteemed poet. Acclaimed director Takis

Spetsiotis conveys, with sensitive daring and finesse,

the poet’s life as a romantic charmer, literary genius,

communist sympathiser, depraved drug addict and,

most importantly, as a national icon whose openly

gay lifestyle created a scandal in conservative

Athenian society. (Water Bearer Films)

Prod Comp: Greek Film Centre

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer

Metrosexuality

Beadle-Blair, Rikki

2001; UK; 6 x 24 min; Drama

P: Carol Harding; W: Rikki Beadle Blair

Cast: Rikki Beadle Blair, Noel Clarke, Rebecca Varney,

Paul Keating

Metrosexuality

The story of two gay dads, their straight teenage son

Midnight Cowboy

and his two gay best mates, Metrosexuality is a fresh

new take on contemporary queer life in London. 17-

Schlesinger, John

year-old Kwame is terminally straight, but his best

1969; USA; 113 min; Drama

friend is in love with Kwame’s dad Max, who has just

P: Jerome Hellman; W: Waldo Salt; C: Adam Holender; dumped his husband and jumped back into single

E: Hugh A. Robertson; M: John Barry

life. Meanwhile, Kwame’s lesbian aunt has discovered

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro,

that her ex-boyfriend from high school is in love

Sylvia Miles, John McGiver

with Max too! Sound complicated? It is—as well as

A slightly dim-witted Texan hustler goes to New

fast, funny and fever-pitched. (MQFF)

York to offer his services as a stud for rich ladies, but

Prod Comp: Channel 4

finds the real market is homosexual men. He spends

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, TLA

a hard winter trying to help a tubercular con man

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played by Dustin Hoffman. Desperate for money

C: Michael Seresin; E: Gerry Hambling; M: Giorgio they travel to the warmer climate of Florida. The

Moroder

two men form a tender, caring, homo-emotional

Cast: Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt, Irene

friendship. Based on James Leo Herlihy’s novel.

Miracle, Bo Hopkins

Awards: Academy Awards, 1969: Best Film, Director

Based on the autobiography of Billy Hayes,

Prod Comp: United Artists, Florin Productions

Midnight Express is about the traumatic years Hayes

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, ACMI, Warner, UA, Swank

spent in a Turkish prison for drug running. The

relationship Hayes had with another prisoner during

his time in detention is only hinted at. Alan Parker is

quoted as saying, ‘it is acceptable for drug runners to

be heroes but you can’t remain one if you love

another man’.

Prod Comp: Casablanca Filmworks

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, Col-Tri, TLA, ACMI

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

m

Eastwood, Clint

1998; USA; 155 min; Drama

P: Clint Eastwood, Arnold Stiefel; W: John Lee

Midnight Dancers

Hancock; C: Jack N. Green; E: Joel Cox; M: Johnny Midnight Dancers

Mercer, lennie Niehaus

Cast: Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, Jack Thompson, Jude

(aka: Sibak)

Law

Chionglo, Mel

Focuses on the life and crime of Jim Williams, art

1994; Philippines; 128 min; Drama

collector, antiques dealer, man about town and

P: Richard Tang; W: Ricardo Lee; C: George Tutanes; homosexual. Reporter John Kelso finds himself in

E: Jess Navarro; M: Nonong Buencamino, Ramon

Savannah to write a story about Williams’ notorious

Reyes

Christmas parties, and ends up completely fascinated

Cast: Alex del Rosario, Lawrence David, Gandong

by him when he meets his young lover Billy. When

Cervantes, Luis Cortez

Billy turns up dead, Kelso naturally stays around to

The director of this gut-wrenching film has drawn on

report on the murder trial, along the way meeting a

his own experiences to create a powerful document

wide variety of eccentric characters that manage to

about the lives of young prostitutes in Manila’s sex

make his Savannah visit even more intriguing.

industry. Combining documentary-like realism with

Prod Comp: Silver Pictures, Malpaso Productions,

melodramatic flourishes, Midnight Dancers follows

Warner

three brothers who are all macho dancers in one of

Dist/Sales: Warner, Wolfe

the city’s gay bars. At 23, Joel, the eldest brother, is

considered a has-been and is torn between the

Midwife’s Tale, The

demands of his wife and his gay lover. The second

Siler, Megan

brother, Dennis, prefers to descend fully into the

1995; USA; 75 min; Drama

nightmare world of drugs, sex and gang warfare that

P: Michael Lowe; C: Adam Teichman

dominate the street life of the prostitutes. It is only

Sonny, the youngest brother, who is able to experi-

Cast: Gayle Cohen, Stacey Havener

ence joy in his sexuality, and it is through Sonny’s

Told as a fantasy fairy tale bedtime story, the film is

eyes we witness the drama between the brothers

set in medieval times and is the story of Lady

unfold. (MQFF)

Eleanor, a noblewoman who marries against her will

Filipino with English subtitles.

and is expected to bear children. She seeks the help

of the town’s midwife, in the hope that she will have

Prod Comp: Tangent Films International

a potion to stop Eleanor conceiving. But the

Dist/Sales: TLA, Salzgeber, FirstRunFeatures, Wolfe,

midwife is gaoled and charged with being a witch.

Fortissimo, Cowboy, ACMI

The midwife’s apprentice, Gwenyth, steps in to help

Midnight Express

Eleanor, but only if she promises to help Gwenyth

release the midwife. Through the course of their

Parker, Alan

adventure, the two become attracted to each other

1978; UK, USA; 120 min; Drama

and end up in Eleanor’s bed chamber.

P: Alan Marshall, David Puttnam; W: Oliver Stone; Dist/Sales: NorthernArts

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Miguel/Michelle

Milou in May

Portes, Gil M.

(aka: Milou en Mai; May Fools)

1998; Philippines; 110 min; Drama

Malle, Louis

W: Ricardo Lee, Gil M. Portes

1989; France; 108 min; Drama

Cast: Ronnick Sarmienta, Gloria Diaz, Future Ray, Cris

P: Louis Malle; W: Louis Malle, Jean-Claude Carriere; Villanueva

C: Renato Berta; E: Emmanuelle Castro; M: Stéphane Miguel’s Filipino family eagerly awaits his return

Grappelli

from a 5 year stay in the US, where they hope he has

Cast: Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou, Michel Duchassoy,

made lots of money and married an American. They

Harriet Walter, Bruno Carette, François Berleand

are in for a shock when they find that Miguel has

Set in a large villa in the Southwest of France, Milou, a

had major surgery whilst in the US, and has

60-year-old man, invites the members of his family to

returned as Michelle. Tagalog with English subtitles.

the funeral of his mother. He has been living with her

Mikaël

and taking care of the property. It is 1968 and student

demonstrations have just started in Paris. The family

(aka: Chained)

spend their time either dividing up and fighting over

m

the matriarch’s belongings or playing sexual games.

Dreyer, Carl

Included in the guest list is her granddaughter who is a

1924; Germany; 75 min; B&W; Drama

lesbian. French with English subtitles.

P: Erich Pommer; W: Carl Dreyer, Thea von Harbou; C: Karl Freund, Rudolph Maté; M: Hans Joseph Vieth Prod Comp: TF1 Films, Ellepi Films, Nouvelles Éditions

Cast: Walter Slezak, Benjamin Christensen, Nora

de Films

Gregor

Dist/Sales: NewVision, ACMI, OrionClassics

Zoret, an ageing artist is driven to despair and

Minor Disturbances

grieves over the loss of his young male model and

student to Princess Zamikoff. Sigmund Freud makes

Ashley, Carol

a brief appearance. Based on the book by Hermann

1992; USA; 17 min; Drama

Bang, which was reportedly based on the life of

A disenchanted housewife, her lesbian lover and her

Auguste Rodin, the famous French artist.

jealous husband form a triangle in this almost

Prod Comp: Universum Film AG

wordless household melodrama played out against a

background collage of 1950s educational films.

Mike’s Murder

(Frameline)

Bridges, James

Dist/Sales: Frameline

1984; USA; 110 min; Drama

P: Jack Larson; W: James Bridges; C: Reynaldo Minoru and Me

Villalobos; E: Dede Allen, Jeff Gourson;

Nakata, Toichi

M: Joe Jackson, John Barry

1992; UK; 45 min; Documentary

Cast: Debra Winger, Mark Keyloun, Paul Winfield,

A brutally honest drama of a man with cerebral palsy

William Ostrander, Darrell Larson

trying to come out to the filmmaker, his friend. As

A young woman investigates the murder of a man

the filmmaker becomes increasing obsessed with

she has been seeing. Mike, a tennis pro, is killed

portraying the physically challenged man as disabled

when he and his friend get involved in cocaine

and dependent, the man with cerebral palsy becomes

dealing. During the course of her investigation

increasingly disgusted and unable to state what he’s

Winger soon discovers an underworld of sex and

travelled all the way from Japan to say. English &

drugs, and a male record executive who was in love

Japanese with English subtitles.

with Mike.

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Prod Comp: Skyewiay

Dist/Sales: Warner

Miracle Alley

Militia Battlefield

(aka: El Callejon de los Milagros)

Fons, Jorge

Bokova, Jana

1994; Mexico; 144 min; Drama

1975; UK; 61 min; Documentary

P: Alfredo Ripstein Jnr, Gerardo Barrera; W: Vicente An unusual documentary that looks at the gay clubs

Leñero; C: Carlos Marcovich; E: Carlos Savage;

and expatriate entertainers in London.

M: Lucía Álvarez

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Cast: Ernesto Gómez Cruz, María Rojo, Salma Hayek

Modesty Blaise

This film deals with the conflict between the desires

Losey, Joseph

and the expectations of people in a small Mexican

1966; UK; 119 min; Comedy

community. Rutilio, a gruff macho tavern owner,

P: Joseph Janni; W: Evan Jones; C: Jack Hildyard; develops a taste for handsome young men; Chava,

E: Reginald Beck; M: Johnny Dankworth

his son, longs for a better life in America; Alma, a

Cast: Monica Vitti, Dirk Bogarde, Terence Stamp,

strong-willed beauty, is tempted to marry a wealthy,

Harry Andrews, Michael Craig

elderly shop owner; Abel is an earnest but penniless

young barber who loves Alma; and Susanita is a

Monica Vitti is the comic-strip character of the title

spinsterish apartment-house owner who looks for

in this spoof of spy thrillers, with stylish pop art set

love in all the wrong places. Does anyone get what

design and a great mix of gay and lesbian charac-

he or she wants? Based on the Nobel prize winning

ters—it’s great camp fun.

novel by Naguib Mahfouz.

Prod Comp: Janni, 20th Century-Fox

Prod Comp: Alameda Films, MCINE

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, ReelMovies, 20thCenturyFox,

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, UIP

VSM

Mirror Images II

Moffie Called Simon, A

m

Hippolyte, Gregory

Greyson, John

1993; USA; 90 min; Erotica

1986; Canada; 14 min; B&W; Documentary

M: Ashley Irwin

A collage of photographs, letters, TV footage and

Cast: Shannon Whirry, Luca Bercovici, Tom Reilly, Eva

dramatic sequences present the case of Simon

Larue

Nkodi, a black gay activist and student leader in

One identical bisexual twin, thought to be dead,

South Africa, who has been in jail for nearly two

enjoys pretending to be her sister and sleeps with her

years. The film also explores connections between

sister’s husband, work mates and friends. Meanwhile,

antiapartheid struggles and gay liberation.

the sister starts an affair with her therapist.

(CFMDC)

Prod Comp: Axis Films International

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox

Moments: The Making of Claire of the Moon

Mirror, Mirror

Conn, Nicole

(aka: Lille Spejl)

1992; USA; 70 min; Documentary

Fleming, Edward

Behind-the-scenes look at the making of the 1992

1978; Denmark; 107 min; Comedy

lesbian classic Claire of the Moon. Includes funny

P: Nina Crone; W: Edward Fleming; C: Claus Loof; moments like Karen and Trisha’s first kiss, rehearsals,

E: Edward Fleming, Gert Fredholm, Grete Møldrup;

bloopers and out-takes never seen, and stars the cast

M: Ole Høyer

and crew of the film.

Cast: Frits Helmuth, Bodil Kjer, Preben Kaas

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Millivres

A rather bitchy comedy that centres around a group

Mona Lisa

of middle-class drag queens. At the centre of the

group is Bent, an out-of-work shoplifter. The film

Jordan, Neil

focuses on his relationship with his mother, who

1986; UK; 105 min; Thriller

lives in an imaginary past. Danish with English

P: Stephen Woolley, Patrick Cassavetti; W: Neil Jordan, subtitles.

David Leland; C: Roger Pratt; E: Lesley Walker;

Prod Comp: Crone Film, Edward Fleming Produktion

M: Michael Kamen

Dist/Sales: DanishFilm

Cast: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine,

Robbie Coltrane, Sammi Davis

Mob Queen

George, short in stature as well as intellect, is just

Carnoy, Jon

out of prison and trying to pick up the pieces of his

1999; USA; 87 min; Drama

life. Simone is a tall, slender black whore who plies

the poshest London hotels for her upmarket trade.

Brooklyn, 1957. In the world of dockworkers,

George gets a job driving Simone to her various

mobsters and streetwalkers, two small time hoods set

appointments and, though he’s not very good at it,

up their boss with the new prostitute on the docks,

and feels awkward and ill at ease, he finds himself

only to discover that she has an unbelievable secret.

falling in love with her. But Simone’s desires lie

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures

elsewhere. The object of her desire, Cathy, has

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disappeared—Simone and George find themselves in

Montgomery Clift: The Prince

the dangerous and nightmare world of the sordid

underworld of London—in search of her.

Masenza, Claudio

1988; Italy; 59 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: Handmade Films

P: Donatella Baglivo; C: Giancarlo Formichi;

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, BFI, ACMI, TLA

E: Maurizio Baglivo

A documentary incorporating footage of

Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films;

interviews with family and friends, and rare archival

material stretching back to his childhood. What

develops is the story of an intense young boy who

yearned for stardom, achieved notable success in

such classic films as From Here to Eternity and I

Confess, only to be ruined by alcohol addiction and

his inability to face his own fears and homosexual

desires. Montgomery Clift, as this video portrays

him, may not have been a happy man but he never

m

compromised his acting talents for Hollywood.

The Monkey’s Mask

Prod Comp: Ciak Studio

Monkey’s Mask, The

Montreal Main

Lang, Samantha

Vitale, Frank

2000; Australia; 93 min; Thriller

1974; Canada; 90 min; B&W; Drama

P: Robert Connolly, John Maynard; W: Anne Kennedy; P: Frank Vitale, Allan Moyle; W: Stephen Lack, Allan C: Garry Phillips; E: Dany Cooper

Moyle, Frank Vitale; C: Eric Bloch; E: Frank Vitale; Cast: Kelly McGillis, Susie Porter, Marton Csokas,

M: Beverly Glenn-Copelann

Abbie Cornish

Cast: Frank Vitale, Stephen Lack, Allan Moyle

Dorothy Porter’s prose novel, The Monkey’s Mask was

An open and honest autobiographical account of

a tantalising blend of the noir aesthetic, nocturnal

male sexuality centred on Frank, an unemployed

sexual desire and the back stabbing Sydney literary

photographer, and his circle of mainly gay friends.

scene. Given that, director Samantha Lang’s task to

He and his best friend, Bozo, attempt to have sex,

translate it into a coherent cinematic whole proves a

although they consider themselves straight. But

challenging task. Lesbian private detective Jill

things begin to fall apart when Frank meets and falls

Fitzpatrick is called in to investigate the mysterious

in love with Johnny, a 13-year-old boy.

disappearance of literature student and grunge poet,

Prod Comp: Canadian Film Development Corporation,

Mickey Norris. Jill’s investigation leads her to

Videograph of Montreal

Mickey’s lecturer, the sensuous Diana, who although

married and a potential suspect, is soon embarking

More Love

on a passionate affair with Mickey. (ACMI)

Shimada, Koshi

Prod Comp: Arenafilm, New South Wales Film & TV

1984; Japan; 60 min; Drama

Office, TVA, Le Studio Canal+

P: Ken Togoh

Dist/Sales: Canal+, Strand, Wolfe, ACMI

A coming-out story about a Japanese man in a

Monsieur Hawarden

culture that is built on male bonding but is ex-

tremely threatened by homosexuality. A beautifully

Kümel, Harry

filmed melodrama that is perhaps the first gay-

1968; Belgium; 106 min; B&W; Thriller

focused film to come out of Japan.

W: Jan Blokker, Harry Kümel; C: Eduard van der

Enden; M: Pierre Bartholomée

More than Friends: The Coming Out of

Cast: Ellen Vogel, Hilde Uitterlinden, Dora Van Der

Heidi Leiter

AGroen, Johan Remmelts

A lesbian cross-dressing murder-mystery about a

1994; USA; 29 min; Drama

young maid who is found dead, and whose employer

W: Bruce Harmon

becomes the suspect. Set at the turn of the century

Two teenage girls fall in love after a friendly game of

and based on a true story, the film is at times slow

basketball, and decide to come out by going to their

moving but this adds to the unfolding mystery.

class prom together. With Claire Danes

Prod Comp: Sofidoc, Parkfilm

Prod Comp: Itel, HBO; Dist/Sales: Marcom, Swank

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Morocco

Moscow Does not Believe in Queers

von Sternberg, Josef

Greyson, John

1930; USA; 92 min; B&W; Drama

1986; Canada; 27 min; Documentary

P: Hector Turnbull; W: Jules Furthman; C: Lee Garmes, Based on John Greyson’s experience of attending the

Lucien Ballard; E: S. K. Winston; M: Karl Hajos

1985 Moscow youth festival as an out gay delegate,

Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou,

this film is an eccentric, ten day diary of that trip.

Francis McDonald

Dist/Sales: VideoOut

In her first film in the USA, and one that consoli-

dated her legend, Dietrich’s sexually suggestive

Moscow Fags

cabaret act still raises eyebrows today. Cooper plays

the legionnaire lover she follows across the desert.

Poselski, Iakov

Described as the ‘mannish lesbian’ of the 1920s and

1995; Russia; 25 min; Documentary

30s, her androgynous qualities and cross-dressing

Young gay men living their lives openly in Russia are

make her a true lesbian icon.

working to change the country’s legal stance on

Prod Comp: Paramount

homosexuality. The film not only looks at the

m

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

workers involved in change but at prisoners and the

prison system.

Most Unknowable Thing, The

Patierno, Mary

1999; USA; 57 min; Documentary

P: Mary Patierno

Mary Patiernio set out to make a documentary

about what she thought might be the last few years

of her brother’s life when she found out about his

HIV-positive status. However, as the title suggests,

things didn’t quite pan out as she expected. Begin-

ning with the video footage from her brother’s

surprise marriage to his female chiropractor,

following his break up with boyfriend Carlo, the

documentary (which was five years in the making),

cleverly unwinds to tell one of those stories you

simply wouldn’t believe in a fictional film. You know

those people to whom extraordinary things just seem

to happen? David was one of those. And then some.

Awards: LA Outfest, 1999: Grand Jury Award for Most

Outstanding Documentary

Mountain King, The

Tucker, Duncan

2000; USA; 20 min; Drama

A persuasive young street hustler disrupts a young

Morocco

man’s quiet day at the beach, and teaches him to

appreciate life’s element of surprise.

Morris Loves Jack

Dist/Sales: JourDeFete

Hofmann, Sonia

1978; Australia; 27 min; Comedy

Mountains of the Moon

W: David Marsh, Sonia Hofmann

Rafelson, Bob

Cast: Kris McQuade, John Hargreaves, Bill Hunter,

1990; USA; 135 min; Drama

David Boyd

P: Daniel Melnick; W: Bob Rafelson, William Harrison; The sweet story of Morris, an out-of-work, would-be

C: Roger Deakins; E: Thom Noble; M: Michael Small actor with homosexual tendencies, and his girlfriend.

Cast: Iain Glen, Patrick Bergin, Fiona Shaw, Richard E.

Prod Comp: Australian Film TV & Radio School

Grant, Peter Vaughan

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ACMI

A compelling drama based on William Harrison’s

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biographical novel, Burton and Speke, about

to women and lesbians—as well as providing an

Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke, two

understanding of the history and identity of Third

adventurers who attempted to find the source of the

World women.

Nile. In 1854 they set out on two expeditions

Dist/Sales: WMM

through the African jungle finally culminating in the

discovery of Lake Victoria. Speke was homosexual

Mulholland Drive

and quite taken with Burton. Their male bonding is

handled well by Rafelson.

Lynch, David

2001; France, USA; 146 min; Thriller

Prod Comp: Carolco, Indieprod

P: Neal Edelstein, Mary Sweeney, Alain Sarde, Tony

Dist/Sales: 16MM, ACMI, Col-Tri

Krantz, Michael Polaire; W: David Lynch; C: Peter Mr Christie

Deming; E: Mary Sweeney; M: Angelo Badalamenti

Cast: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux,

Peehl, Scott

Ann Miller

2000; USA; 24 min; Comedy

The king of surreal, David Lynch is back with a tale

A young man find Jesus watching televison soap

beginning with a car crash on Mulholland Drive.

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operas on his couch.

When Rita is dragged from her car at gunpoint by

Dist/Sales: FilmIngk

two men, they are almost immediately struck and

killed by an oncoming car. Rita has amnesia and

Mrs Doubtfire

staggers her way back to an apartment building

where she runs into an aspiring actress who helps her

Columbus, Chris

attempt to put the pieces of her life back together,

1993; USA; 122 min; Comedy

and with whom she forms a relationships of sorts.

P: Marsha Garces Williams, Robin Williams, Mark

Lynch uses this as his spring board to take us into

Radcliffe; W: Leslie Dixon, Randi Mayem Singer;

the interlocking lives of several interesting characters

C: Donald McAlpine; E: Raja Gosnell; M: Howard Shore including a man who’s dreams keep coming true, a

Cast: Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan,

difficult film director, two gangsters and a pair of

Harvey Fierstein

deadpan LAPD detectives. A sense of evil binds this

Mrs Doubtfire is a comedy about Daniel and

ever-tightening group of strangers in this gripping

Miranda Hillard, a couple with three children, who

thriller. (Swank)

go through a divorce—at her instigation. Because

Prod Comp: Asymmetrical Productions, Le Studio

Daniel is an out-of-work voice-over artist, Miranda

Canal+, Touchstone Television

gets temporary custody of the kids, leaving Daniel

Dist/Sales: Canal+, Universal, Wolfe, RoadshowEnt,

distraught over the minuscule amount of time he

Swank

gets to spend with his family. Needing the child care,

Miranda advertises for a housekeeper, which

Mull

prompts the clever but desperate Daniel to disguise

himself as an elderly British woman—and he gets

(aka: Mullaway)

the job. Daniel enlists the help his brother (Harvey

McLennan, Don

Fierstein), a gay make-up artist, and his lover, who

1988; Australia; 90 min; Drama

offer advice, make-up and frocks.

P: Howard D. Grigsby; W: Jon Stephens; C: Zbigniew Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox, Blue Wolf

Friedrich; E: Zbigniew Friedrich; M: Michael Atkinson Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, 20thCenturyFox

Cast: Nadine Garner, Sue Jones, Bill Hunter, Craig

Morrison, Brad Kilpatrick

Mujeria

This is a witty and compassionate story of a teenage

girl coming to terms with her family and herself

Hidalgo de la Riva, Teresa

when her mother falls critically ill. She decides to

1992; USA; 20 min; Animation

leave school to look after her family, which turns out

Mujeria combines two animations that focus on the

to be an enormous challenge, as she has to deal with

influence of the Olmeca culture on the filmmaker,

her father’s fanatical religion, her brother’s experi-

who has attempted to go beyond the stereotypical

mentation with drugs and homosexuality, her desire

use of Aztec iconography to represent Chicano and

for the wrong boy, and her younger brother and

Mexican cultural identity by choosing a lesser-

sister’s inability to cope with the family’s instability.

known but equally important culture in Mexico. In

This is a well-handled rites-of-passage film in a

doing so her animations both celebrate the beauty

modern setting. Based on the original story,

and strength of this culture—particularly as it relates

Mullaway by Bron Nicholls.

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Prod Comp: International Film Management, Ukiyo

asymmetries of her mastectomised chest. MURDER

Films

and murder deals with ‘deviant’ sexuality, female

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, ACMI

ageing and breast cancer, reflecting upon cultural

and scientifically determined perceptions of disease.

Multiple Maniacs

(CFMDC)

Waters, John

Prod Comp: MURDER and murder Productions

1971; USA; 94 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Zeitgeist, CFMDC

W: John Waters

Muriel’s Parents have had it up to Here

Cast: Divine, Mink Stole

The film director Waters claimed ‘flushed religion

(aka: Muriel fait le désespoir de ses Parents)

out of my system’ is about a travelling carnival called

Faucon, Philippe

‘Lady Divine’s Cavalcade of Perversions,’ which

1995; France; 74 min; Drama

lands in Baltimore and disrupts the lives of the

P: Ognon

creeps living there. We’re treated to a junkie shooting

Muriel tells her mother that she ‘prefers girls to

up on a church altar, bearded transvestites, the sight

boys’. Mother is aghast and father remains aloof.

of Divine being raped by a 15-foot lobster, Mink

m

Thankfully, there’s much more to this story than the

Stole’s rosary beads, cannibalism, Kate Smith’s

despair, or lack thereof, of Muriel’s parents. In fact,

rendition of ‘God Bless America’ and, perhaps most

this is a story about a shy young woman coming to

disturbing of all, shots of downtown Baltimore.

terms with her identity. Muriel has left the nest to

(www.queertheory.com)

study in Paris where she falls under the spell of

Mum’s the Word

Nora—a sexy and saucy young girl who revels in her

seductive powers. Sensing Muriel’s burgeoning

Carriere, Paul

crush, Nora flirts shamelessly, all the while remind-

1996; France; 53 min; Documentary

ing shy and cautious Muriel that her romantic

gestures are ‘just for fun’. Nora’s idea of fun takes an

Offers a candid portrait of four French Canadian

interesting twist during a vacation to the seaside

women who adopt surprising new roles as they

where she engages in heavy petting and skinny

approach their 50s. Leaving behind, husbands and

dipping with mutual friend Fred as Muriel stands by,

children these women discuss the courage it took to

but Muriel doesn’t give up. (24th San Francisco

embark on their quests for lesbian lifestyles.

International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

Dist/Sales: Mediatique

Dist/Sales: Ognon

MURDER and murder

Murmur of Youth

Rainer, Yvonne

(aka: Mei li zai chang ge)

1996; USA; 113 min; Documentary

W: Yvonne Rainer; C: Stephen Kazmierski; E: Yvonne Lin, Cheng-sheng

Rainer

1997; Taiwan; 106 min; Drama

P: Shun-ching Chiu, Li-kong Hsu; W: Su-ching Ko,

Mildred is a professor who has lived as a lesbian for

Cheng-sheng Lin; C: Cheng-hui Tsai

as long as she can remember. Doris, a mother of

Cast: Rene Liu, Jing Tseng, Chin-hsin Tsai

grown children, is taking classes and is falling in love

with a woman for the first time. From different

Both Lin’s protagonists are called Mei-li and both are

backgrounds and circumstances, Mildred and Doris

young, but come from two different worlds. One

try to carve out a life together. Mainly from Doris’

comes from a middle-class family living in a Taipei

perspective, the film investigates the pleasures,

tower block. She silently watches her siblings pursue

uncertainties and ambiguities of late-life emotional

a materialistic lifestyle as their parents endure their

attachment and lesbian identity within the confines

long, hard marriage. The other Mei-li lives in a

of a culture that glorifies youth and heterosexual

rickety old house at the edge of the city. Her parents

romance. That is the narrative backbone of MUR-

are construction workers—people who have had to

DER and murder, but Yvonne Rainer is one of the

endure hardship and are trying desperately to steer

mothers of feminist, experimental narrative and this

their children onto an easier path. Fate brings the

film is much more than that. The story is haunted

two girls together when they find themselves trapped

by the ghosts of Doris’ mother Jenny and an 18-

inside the boxoffice of a cinema, and a bond

year-old Mildred. Running parallel is a commentary

develops as they share their fantasies and frustra-

by Rainer, disturbing the narrative with the

tions. Spending so much time together in very close

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proximity brings them to a level of intimacy that

E: Sky Gilbert; M: Dennis Mohr

allows the exploration of many taboo subjects, such

Cast: Caroline Gillis, Ellen-Ray Hennessey, Tracy

as boys, sex and menstruation, and eventually leads

Wright

to an explosion of young passion. Mandarin with

Matt, although married, is completely in love with a

English subtitles.

hustler called Dick. One night Matt leaves his wife

Prod Comp: Central Motion Pictures

and goes to Dick’s apartment where he waits for his

Dist/Sales: CentralMotion

loved one. But Dick’s roommate tells Matt that if

Dick catches him there he will kill him.

Muscle

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

Sato, Hisayasu

1993; Japan; 60 min; Drama

My Babushka

P: Syuji Kataoka; W: Shirô Yumemoto; C: Kouichi Hammer, Barbara

Saitô; E: Seiji Sakai; M: So Hayakawa

2001; USA; 53 min; Documentary

Cast: Takeshi Ito, Simonn Kumai, Koyoma Hageki

Hammer brings her vital search for her own ethnic

Set in Tokyo, a journalist working for a bodybuilding

roots and identity to the screen. My Babushka not

m

magazine falls into a sadomasochistic and obsessive

only explores personal history but is a journey to a

relationship with a dangerously charismatic

nation just beginning to open to the West. Ques-

bodybuilder. Their affair becomes dominated by S/M

tions of human rights, anti-Semitism, homophobia,

games. Japanese with English subtitles.

feminism, and cultural difference are encountered as

Prod Comp: ENK Promotion

the artist meets diverse Ukrainians including a long-

Dist/Sales: TLA, Strand

lost relative, a controversial feminist sex-researcher, a

lesbian activist, and a fellow artist who travels with

Music Lovers, The

her to the killing fields of Babi Yar. (25th San

Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film

Russell, Ken

Festival)

1971; UK; 119 min; Drama

P: Roy Baird, Ken Russell; W: Melvyn Bragg, Catherine Dist/Sales: Hammer

Drinker Bowen; C: Douglas Slocombe; E: Michael

My Beautiful Laundrette

Bradsell; M: André Previn

Cast: Glenda Jackson, Richard Chamberlain,

Frears, Stephen

Christopher Gable, Max Adrian, Isabelle Telezynska

1985; UK; 91 min; Drama

Russell’s controversial biography of Tchaikovsky is a

P: Sarah Radclyffe, Tim Bevan; W: Hanif Kureishi; flamboyant and visually kinetic attempt to match

C: Oliver Stapleton; E: Mick Audsley; M: Stanley the romanticism of the composer’s music. Though

Myers, Ludus Tonalis

talented, charismatic and handsome, Tchaikovsky’s

Cast: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis,

life was compromised by confusion over his

Gordon Warnecke

homosexuality. The film traces his disastrous

A young south London Indian and his white,

marriage to Nina and the platonic love he shared

working-class, racist boyfriend take over his uncle’s

with his wealthy patron, Countess von Meck, a

laundrette. They turn it from a dump into a

woman whom he never met.

salubrious palace. A thoughtful and intelligent

Prod Comp: United Artists, Russfilms

examination of race relations and the economic state

Dist/Sales: Warner, TLA, Swank

of Britain.

Must be the Music

Prod Comp: Channel 4, SAF, Working Title Films

Dist/Sales: Dendy, ACMI, OrionClassics, BFI

Perry, Nickolas

1996; USA; 20 min; Drama

My Best Friend’s Wedding

Four gay boys do the rounds of the gay nightclub

Hogan, P. J.

scene in Los Angeles.

1997; USA; 105 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Strand

P: Jerry Zucker, Ronald Bass; W: Ronald Bass;

C: László Kovács; E: Garth Craven, Lisa Fruchtman; My Addiction

M: James Newton Howard

Gilbert, Sky

Cast: Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz,

1993; Canada; 60 min; Comedy

Rupert Everett, Philip Bosco

P: Dennis Mohr; W: Sky Gilbert; C: Gregg Bennett A blood-oath that Julianne Porter has with ex-college

288

beau Michael, promising to marry if both are still

Vicky, an out-of-work actress, struggling waitress

single at age 28, is just about due. When Julianne

and lesbian has her whole life thrown into turmoil

receives an invitation to Michael’s forthcoming

when her father comes from Germany to visit. The

wedding to a billionaire heiress, the occasion could

main problem is that Vicky has told him she is a

only call for deceit, sabotage and, perhaps forgive-

successful actress and happily married. She enlists

ness with the aid of her closest confidante, a stylish

the help of a gay friend to play her husband. Using a

gay man named George.

large range of characters—gay, lesbian, straight,

transsexuals—the film creates a funny and touching

Prod Comp: TriStar Pictures, Predawn Productions,

view of family dynamics and sexuality.

Zucker Brothers

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, FirstRelease, 16MM, Wolfe

Prod Comp: Hyane

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures, Millivres, Wolfe

My Body

My Feminism

Moffett, Joel

1997; USA; 30 min; Comedy

Cardona, Dominique / Colbert, Laurie

1997; Canada; 55 min; Documentary

A laugh-out-loud tale about a neurotic but cute

m

young man in denial about his sexual orientation.

In an era of antifeminist backlash, this articulate

(First Run Features)

documentary by the makers of Thank God I’m a

Lesbian forcefully reminds us that the revolution

Dist/Sales: AmericanFilm, FirstRunFeatures

continues. Powerful interviews with feminist leaders

My Brother’s Keeper

including bell hooks, Gloria Steinem, and Urvsahi

Vaid are intercut with documentary sequences to

Jordan, Glenn

engagingly explore the past and present status of the

1995; USA; 120 min; Drama

women’s movement. Discussing the unique contri-

butions of second wave feminism, they explore their

P: Gregory Goodell; W: Gregory Goodell; C: Tom Del racial, economic and ideological differences and

Ruth; E: David Simmons; M: David Shire

shared vision of achieving equality for women. An

Cast: John Lithgow, Annette O’Toole, Veronica

essential component of women’s studies curricula,

Cartwright, Ellen Burstyn

My Feminism introduces feminism’s key themes

A moving made-for-television drama, based on a

while exposing the cultural fears underlying lesbian

true story, about twin brothers Bob and Tom, who

baiting, backlash, and political extremism. (WMM)

are well-loved schoolteachers from Long Island.

Dist/Sales: WMM

Tom, who is HIV-positive, has the unique opportu-

nity to receive a bone-marrow transplant from his

My Femme Divine

brother to slow the progression of the disease. Just

Everett, Karen

before they are about to go ahead with the proce-

1999; USA; 52 min; Documentary

dure, Tom’s insurance company refuses to cover it

and a court battle begins. John Lithgow puts in a

P: Karen Everett

great performance as both twins.

Skilfully combining personal memoir with perform-

ances and lively group discussion, Everett reveals the

Prod Comp: RHI Entertainment

complex dynamics at play in contemporary relation-

Dist/Sales: 21stCentury

ships between butch and femme lesbians. Drawing

My Cousin Mike

on her encounters with religion and psychology she

poignantly recounts the spiritual reawakening she

Hannon, Gerald

experienced while weathering the storms of an

1999; Canada; 10 min; Comedy

explosive love affair with a beautiful femme—an

affair which precariously straddles the boundaries

An older man, a younger man, a masturbation

between obsession and passion, and yet is told with a

fantasy and an intrusive cat.

disarming humour. Woven into this narrative are the

Dist/Sales: VTape

insights of lesbian women talking butch-to-butch

and femme-to-femme about yin/yang chemistry and

My Father is Coming

a love that borders on worship.

Treut, Monika

Dist/Sales: Everett, Wolfe

1991; Germany, USA; 80 min; Comedy

My First Suit

P: Monika Treut; W: Monika Treut, Bruce Benderson; C: Elfi Mikesch; E: Stev Brown; M: David Van Tieghen Main, Stewart

Cast: Annie Sprinkle, Shelley Kastner, Michael Massee,

1985; New Zealand; 57 min; Comedy

Alfred Edel

P: John Maynard, Bridget Ikin; W: Peter Wells;

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C: Alan Locke; E: Peter Evans; M: Keith Ballantyne emergence of spectacle and performance towards the

Cast: Conrad Crawte, Martyn Sanderson

coherent and planned narratives of Paul Morrissey.

From the seven-part television series About Face. My

Wein came up with the original idea about an ageing

First Suit is a comedy about a gay adolescent’s

homosexual who rents a boy from Dial-a-Hustler,

struggle to find his place in the world. He is

who then feels he has to protect his ‘property’. The

confronted by the conflict between how he is

negotiated gestures of grooming and seduction

required to dress and how he wants to dress to

between men in a bathroom become a voyeuristic

express his identity.

documentation of the intimacies of private ritual.

Prod Comp: Hibiscus Films, New Zealand Film

Prod Comp: Factory Films

Commission

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, MOMA

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, VideoAmericain

My Left Breast

My Friend Su

Rogers, Gerry

Bhasin, Neeraj

2000; Canada; 57 min; Documentary

2001; India; 55 min; Documentary

Incorporating a unique blend of wit, wisdom and

m

My Friend Su is an insightful examination of one

resilience, filmmaker Gerry Rogers bravely recounts

man’s feelings and struggles with being a ‘man’ on

her story of breast cancer survival to share with the

the outside but feeling distinctly feminine otherwise.

world that life, indeed, can continue with full force

His acceptance of what he is from within, a real

and vigour. Shortly after being diagnosed at age 42,

‘woman’, and his dreams to be with a man who can

Rogers and her female partner began to document

love him as a woman become the core issues that

their ordeal on camera in an attempt to confront

unravel in the film. (15th Singapore International

Rogers’ questions and fears about breast cancer.

Film Festival)

Rather than present a sombre and morose medita-

tion on this difficult experience, she decides to

Dist/Sales: Ihsan

invoke humour to frankly reflect on the meaning of

My Girlfriend did It

this disease on her life, as well as on the lives of her

friends and family. The result is a one-of-kind

West, Dawn

approach to positively coping with a potentially fatal

1995; USA; 40 min; Documentary

disease. (WMM)

Domestic violence in lesbian relationships is

Dist/Sales: WMM, FilmsTransit

something most people don’t want to talk about, and

we have managed to keep it safely in the closet for

My Mother is an Alien

too long. Dawn West tackles this important issue

Evans, Bronwen

head-on in her powerful documentary My Girlfriend

1995; UK; 34 min; Documentary

Did It. The stories of a wide range of women who

have been in abusive relationships and have managed

The British documentary My Mother is an Alien gives

to survive are juxtaposed with the examination of

voice to the adult children of ‘out’ lesbians. What

one relationship that ended in tragedy. Through

did they think of their childhood? Their mothers’

interviews with survivors, therapists, attorneys,

politics? Their mothers being out? The value system

advocates and researchers, this film provides

they grew up in? These questions and more are

firsthand accounts, defines the cycle of violence in

addressed in funny and moving interviews with the

relationships and presents issues of ‘coming out’ as a

lesbian moms and their grown-up kids. (20th San

battered lesbian. (20th San Francisco International

Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film

Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

Festival)

My Hustler

My Own Private Idaho

Warhol, Andy / Wein, Chuck

Van Sant, Gus

1965; USA; 67 min; B&W; Comedy

1991; USA; 102 min; Drama

P: Andy Warhol; W: Chuck Wein, Andy Warhol;

P: Laurie Parker, Allan Mindel; W: Gus Van Sant;

C: Andy Warhol

C: John Campbell, Eric Alan Edwards;

Cast: Paul America, Ed Hood, Genevieve Charbon,

E: Curtiss Clayton; M: Bill Stafford

Joseph Campbell

Cast: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, William Richert,

My Hustler marks a further stage in the development

James Russo, Rodney Harvey

of the Factory’s films from their beginnings focusing

A poetic journey that focuses on the life of Mike, a

on the process of filming per se through the tentative

young burnt-out male prostitute, and the object of

290

his love, Scott, as they travel the back roads of the

of survival are experienced in the city of Sydney

US and Europe searching for Scott’s mother. A

between 1979 and 1980 from the point of view of a

dreamlike quality pervades this tender and insightful

broke and homeless gay male cartoonist and the

film which explores the place where the need to

many fellow travellers he meets on the streets.

survive and the need to be loved and belong meet

Dist/Sales: ACMI

personal choices in the transition to adulthood.

Prod Comp: New Line Cinema

My Two Loves

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, ACMI, FilmsInc, BFI, FineLine

Black, Noel

1986; USA; 100 min; Drama

W: Reginald Rose, Rita Mae Brown; M: Gary William Friedman

Cast: Mariette Hartley, Lynn Redgrave, Barry Newman,

Sada Thompson

The story of a recently widowed woman and mother,

Gail, who is torn between her new boyfriend and

m

another woman, Marjorie, a co-worker at her new

job. When the two women become lovers, Gail must

deal with her teenage daughter’s reaction to the

relationship. Made for television.

Prod Comp: ABC-TV

My Own Private Idaho

Dist/Sales: ABC-US

My Pal Rachid

Myra Breckinridge

Barassat, Philippe

Sarne, Michael

1999; France; 19 min; Comedy

1970; USA; 93 min; Comedy

W: Philippe Barassat

P: Robert Fryer; W: Michael Sarne, David Giler;

Short comedy about a boy who has an obsession

C: Richard Moore; E: Danford B. Greene; M: John Philips with his friend’s penis and continually asks to see it.

Cast: Mae West, John Huston, Raquel Welch, Rex

The friend will only oblige if he receives money and

Reed, John Carradine, Farrah Fawcett

sweets in return. French with English subtitles.

A film that created quite a stir in the 1970s, it tells

Dist/Sales: LaVieEstBelle, UniFrance

the story of a film critic who has a sex-change

operation and then sets out to destroy the male

My Summer Vacation

movie-star stereotype. Features early screen appear-

Gilbert, Sky

ances by Farrah Fawcett and Tom Selleck and a large

1995; Canada; 90 min; Comedy

number of archival cameos, among them Carmen

W: Sky Gilbert; E: Karen Saunders

Miranda and Marlene Dietrich. Full of in-jokes

Cast: Sky Gilbert, Caroline Gillis, Ellen-Ray Hennessy,

about the movie industry, and based on the novel by

Daniel MacIvor

Gore Vidal.

Joe is determined to find his perfect man and fill his

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox

soul with love and romance. Along the way he plans

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, CBS

to document his adventures with his new video

Mystère Alexina, Le

camera. In Joe’s hands, the camera becomes a tool of

seduction. My Summer Vacation takes a wry look at

(aka: The Mystery of Alexina)

Generation-X gay life. Featuring scenes of city life,

Féret, René

wacky lesbians on dope and ad-libbed dialogue, this

1985; France; 90 min; Drama

is nineties cinéma-vérité with a wickedly comic edge!

P: René Féret; W: René Féret, Jean Gruault; C: Bernard (MQFF)

Zitzermann; E: Ariane Boeglin; M: Anne-Marie

Dist/Sales: CFMDC, WaterBearer

Deschamps

My Survival as a Deviant

Cast: Valérie Stroh, Phillippe Vuillemin, Véronique

Silver, Bernard Freyd, Pierre Vial

Zoates, Toby

Dramatisation of a true 19th century case history,

1980; Australia; 60 min; Documentary

based on the diaries of the hermaphrodite ‘Alexina’,

The myths of deviancy are explored and the realities

who was raised as a girl from birth. It is not until she

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falls in love with another girl, Sara, that she finds out

exhibitionist whose conversation is as glittering as

she is actually a boy. Sara is uncomfortable about the

the lipstick and mascara he used to effect. The film,

idea of a lesbian relationship, and when the two

drawn from his own book, tells the story of his life:

become sexually intimate she is delighted to find that

his youth in the 1930s, his volatile relationship with

Alexina is a man. But Alexina suffers a severe identity

his father, his ill-fated friendships, his encounters

crisis. When Alexina reveals to the bigoted French

with authority in an extremely homophobic and

provincial society that she is actually a man, she/he is

intolerant society, and his rare moments of true

persecuted and finally suicides at the age of 22.

happiness. Above all, it tells the story of a good and

honest man, determined to confront the world with

Prod Comp: Cinéaste Animaliers Associés, Les Cinéastes

the truth about himself, in order that they can learn

Associés, TF1 Films

that he, too, is a human being with dreams and

Myth of Father

feelings just like everybody else.

Prod Comp: Thames Television

Hill, Paul

Dist/Sales: TLA

2001; USA; 60 min; Documentary

P: Laura Dahlinger, Paul Hill; C: Steve Carter; E: Paul Naked Highway

Hill, Steve Carter; M: Marc Purslow

n

West, Wash

An intimate documentary about Paul and his

1997; USA; 75 min; Erotica

family’s journey towards understanding his trans-

W: Wash West

sexual father, Jodie.

Cast: Jim Buck, Joey Violence

Dist/Sales: AstroBaby

Sultry Southern sexuality sets the pace for Wash

Nadja

West’s award winning gay erotic tale of the search for

love on the American road. Seeking renewal of a

Almereyda, Michael

tortured love affair, Colorado abandons his southern

1994; USA; 90 min; B&W; Horror

roots in search of his former lover, Billy Jo. While

P: Mary Sweeney, Amy Hobby; W: Michael Almereyda; Colorado has been pining away, Billy Jo is doing for

C: Jim Denault; E: David Leonard;

money what he wouldn’t do for love. On the way to

M: Simon Fisher Turner

tinseltown’s gay sex industry, Colorado crosses paths

Cast: Elina Löwensohn, Nic Ratner, Karl Geary, Peter

with Dude, a street hustler with a problem—he

Fonda

looks for lust in all the wrong places. Before

travelling the naked highway, Dude engages a trick

Nadja, born by the Black Sea, has moved to present-

in one of the most erotically mesmerising underwa-

day Manhattan. With her short, dark hair and pale

ter sexual ‘dances’ ever filmed. Colorado and Dude’s

skin, Nadja fits right into downtown New York life.

journey runs from suspenseful to sexual with plenty

When Van Helsing drives a stake through the heart

of action on all fronts. (Wolfe)

of her father, he entangles his own nephew, Jim, in

his efforts to kill Nadja and her accursed twin

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

brother. But Jim’s wife has already fallen under

Naked in New York

Nadja’ spell, as the story shuttles to the darker

regions of Brooklyn, then to Transylvania for the

Algrant, Dan

final confrontation.

1994; USA; 93 min; Comedy

Prod Comp: Globe Film Co, Kino Link Company

P: Frederick Zollo; W: Dan Algrant, John Warren;

Dist/Sales: UIP, 21stCentury, October

C: Joey Forsyte; E: Bill Pankow;

M: Angelo Badalamenti

Naked Civil Servant, The

Cast: Eric Stoltz, Ralph Macchio, Tony Curtis, Mary-

Louise Parker, Jill Clayburgh

Gold, Jack

1975; UK; 78 min; Drama

Joanne and Jake’s romance begins to unravel as Jake

P: Barry Hanson, Verity Lambert; W: Quentin Crisp, moves to New York to produce his first off-Broad-Philip Mackie; C: Mike Fash; E: Mike Taylor;

way play, and Joanne encounters the guiding hand of

a dashing gallery entrepreneur. Jake is exposed to a

M: Carl Davis

series of life’s little surprises never encountered by

Cast: John Hurt, Patricia Hodge, Liz Gebhardt, Stanley

him before. He finds out his best friend is gay, he is

Lebor

seduced by the leading lady who’s not right for the

This biographical film, based on the life of Quentin

part, and he believes his girlfriend is cheating on

Crisp, is briefly introduced by Crisp himself. Crisp is

him. When his play is a failure, he discovers the

an effeminate homosexual, a flamboyant and witty

down side of success, which he believes reflects on

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his own life. Through this comical haze of love and

funny, intimate, sometimes shocking and always

life, Jake comes to find his own destiny and self

heart-warming look at two Iraqi Jewish lives—one a

understanding.

traditionally raised woman and the other a com-

Prod Comp: Some Film

pletely unconventional gay man. (Cinema Libre)

Dist/Sales: Ronin, 16MM, FineLine

Prod Comp: Compass Productions

Dist/Sales: CinemaLibre

Naked Killer

(aka: Chiklo gouyeung)

Naomi’s Legacy

Yiu-leung, Clarence Fok

Levy, Wendy

1992; Hong Kong; 110 min; Action

1994; USA; 26 min; Drama

P: Jing Wong; W: Jing Wong; C: Peter Pau, William Naomi’s Legacy records three generations of women

Yim; M: Lowell Lo

in a Jewish family. The story is told by the daughter,

Cast: Chingmy Yau, Simon Yam, Carrie Ng, Madoka

Naomi, as she reinterprets home movies and audio

Sugawara

cassettes. Coming to terms with her past, she

The sparks fly as the genres collide: lesbian crime

develops a new understanding about her mother, her

n

fiction meets Hong Kong martial-arts action movie.

grandmother and her own identity as a Jewish

Watch out for cops, private detectives, lurid

lesbian. (WMM)

costumes, outrageous sets, poisonous lipstick, wild

Dist/Sales: WMM

martial arts scenes, Sister Cindy, dykes who jump

out of first-floor windows onto motorbikes and loads

Naughty Little Peeptoe

of lesbian lust. (MQFF)

Maxwell, Garth / Wells, Peter

Prod Comp: Golden Harvest, Wong Jing’s Workshop

2000; New Zealand; 28 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: RimFilm, ACMI

Charismatic Doug George talks about his lifelong

Naked Lunch

obsession with women’s shoes.

Dist/Sales: MF-Films

Cronenberg, David

1991; Canada, UK; 115 min; Sci-Fi, Experimental

Naya Zamana

P: Jeremy Thomas; W: David Cronenberg; C: Peter Rupa, Mandrika

Suschitzky; E: Ronald Sanders; M: Howard Shore,

1996; New Zealand; 11 min; Comedy

Ornette Coleman

Cast: Peter Weller, Roy Scheider, Judy Davis, Ian Holm,

The traditional expectations of an Indian family in

Julian Sands

modern day New Zealand are confronted in this

short drama with a twist. A young Indian woman

Loosely based on the classic book by famous gay

living in a West Auckland housing estate seems

author, William S. Burroughs, the main character,

caught between two irreconcilable sets of expecta-

William Lee, (also an author), faces his demons

tions. While Shobhanam’s aunt discusses a suitable

when roach powder (read drugs) takes over his life.

match for her niece, Shobhanam has other ideas but

He enters the nightmarish Interzone: a fictitious

her intended is not what her aunt might expect.

place populated by spies, junkies, witches and shape-

(Cinenova)

changing monsters. Davis has a very interesting

scene with another woman in uniform. A bizarre

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

film that gives you the feeling of being in a drug

haze, with an emphasis on surrealism as typewriters

Nea: The Young Emmanuelle

turn into mechanical insects.

(aka: Nea)

Prod Comp: Thomas

Kaplan, Nelly

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, ACMI, 20thCenturyFox

1976; France; 140 min; Drama

Nana, George and Me

P: Yvon Guézel, André Génovès; W: Jean Chapot, Nelly Kaplan; C: Andréas Winding; E: Hélène Plemiannikov; Balass, Joe

M: Michel Magne

1998; Canada; 48 min; Documentary

Cast: Ann Zacharias, Sami Frey, Francoise Brion, Heinz

What do you get when you ask your 92-year-old

Bennent, Micheline Presle

Nana and a 72-year-old man you’ve just met

A spoilt, rich, 16-year-old girl (Nea) is an accom-

questions you’ve only dared to dream of about

plished writer of erotic literature. She writes a novel

identity and sexuality? Nana, George and Me is a

and publishes it secretly under an assumed name.

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She then encourages her lesbian mother to leave her

to the fullest, indulging in music, art and shopping.

marriage to be with her lover. Nea also takes a lover

He decides to return to Scotland to see his family

to experience eroticism for herself. An ingenious film

and friends in the hope of finding love and accept-

that is a deft examination of sexual politics.

ance. It all goes well in the beginning, but when

Prod Comp: Les Films la Boétie

Tom’s health deteriorates and dementia sets in, Ira

arrives to take Tom back to London for treatment.

Need and Want

When Tom finally returns he finds that his true

family is not his relations in Scotland but his

Poklar, Micki / Crocetti, Daniela

adopted family of friends in London.

2000; USA; 35 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: BBC

A group of lusty lesbians talk frankly about sex—

Dist/Sales: BBC-Scotland

what they like to do, and how they like to do it; in

raunchiest reality and in their wildest, wettest

Neurosia: 50 Years of Perversity

dreams. (queerDOC 2001)

von Praunheim, Rosa

Neptune’s Rocking Horse

1995; Germany; 90 min; Comedy

Cast: Rosa von Praunheim, Desiree Nick, Lotti Huber,

n Roznowski, Robert / Tate, Robert

Evelyn Kunneke

1996; USA; 104 min; Drama

A very camp and satirical autobiographical comedy

P: Robert Roznowski, Robert Tate; W: Robert

from one of the most prolific guerrilla filmmakers

Roznowski, Robert Tate; C: Renato Falcao;

and gay activists, Rosa von Praunheim. A filmmaker

E: Robert Tate

is murdered while hosting a tribute to himself. A

Cast: David Beach, Joe Capozzi, Tony Fair, Helen

tabloid journalist decides to investigate the murder

Gallagher, Laura Kenyon

and learn more about the German underground

A poignant and thought provoking film about how

filmmaker. She turns up a whole array of interesting

‘the fucking system screws the little guy, the little guy

and colourful characters including ex-lovers, actors,

in the dress’. Set in the Upper West side of New York

porn stars and his loving mother, all of whom admit

City, the film explores the reaction of five witnesses

to wanting to kill him. German with English

to the violent arrest of a black transvestite. An

subtitles.

impassioned civil libertarian, a gay handyman, a

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures, Wolfe

frustrated office worker, a black doorman and a

invalid care giver weave in and out of a story

Never Look Back

exploring prejudices, conscious or otherwise.

Prod Comp: Rob Squared Films

Kinsella, Stephen

1996; USA; 85 min; Drama

Nervos de Aco

W: Stephen Kinsella; M: Jaime Mendoza-Nava

(aka: Nerves Made of Steel)

Cast: Girlina, Candis Cayne, Nicole Freeman, Chris Sery

Jill is a bright beautiful young woman whose life in a

Andrade, Ed

small Florida town is made unbearable by her

2001; Brazil; 20 min; Drama

unhappy parents and her mood swinging, steroid

Peixoto, a private eye, is hired by the beautiful and

using, physically abusive fiancé. She ditches them all

mysterious Ana Claudia. He has been assigned to

and moves to South Beach where she meets and is

find her ex-boyfriend Sebastian. In the middle of the

immediately embraced by gender illusionists Mona

investigation, the detective’s sexuality becomes

and her lover Billee, who operate a cabaret. They

suspicious.

teach her about self confidence, the world of

Dist/Sales: MixBrasil

modelling and how to survive on her own. She falls

in love with the glamour, stardom, money and all

Nervous Energy

that goes with it. Trouble starts to brew when Jill’s

former fiancé shows up determined to ‘take her back

Stewart, Jean

where she belongs’. (Wolfe)

1995; UK; 110 min; Drama

P: Ann Scott; W: Howard Schuman; C: Nicholas D.

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

Knowland; E: Ardan Fisher; M: Stephen Warbeck

Never Met Picasso

Cast: Alfred Molina, Cal Macaninch, John McGlynn,

Siobhan Redmond

Kijak, Stephen

Tom and Ira are two gay men living in London.

1995; USA; 100 min; Comedy

Tom, from Scotland, has AIDS and is living his life

P: Patrick Cunningham, Stephen Kijak;

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W: Stephen Kijak; C: David Tames; E: Angelica Brisk; Set in 1953 in Greenwich Village, Next Stop depicts

M: Kristin Hersh, Bill Lee

an aspiring young actor and his life and relationships

Cast: Alexis Arquette, Margot Kidder, Georgia Ragsdale,

with a group of people he befriends. Shelley Winters

Don McKellar

puts in a warm performance as a Jewish momma and

Antonio Fargus plays a misunderstood black gay

A humorous film depicting the day-to-day concerns

man with pathos.

of queers and their drive for creativity. While a

young gay artist is struggling to find new direction

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox

with his work, he is also having problems with his

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies

rather unstable new boyfriend. Meanwhile his

mother is writing a performance for an experimental

Nice Girls Don’t

theatre and she, in turn, is being pursued by a

Kerridge, Nicola

lesbian artist who channels famous dead female

1994; UK; 10 min; Comedy

artists through her soul and into her work.

A cautionary tale for young dykes planning on

Prod Comp: Mighty Reel Productions

taking their girlfriend home to meet the folks.

Dist/Sales: TurbulentArts, WaterBearer

Things go from bad to worse when Anna brings her

n

New Women, The

freshly-shorn scalp and her lover Lisa home for Dad’s

birthday dinner at the middle-class family abode.

Hughes, Todd

(MQFF)

2001; USA; 89 min; Sci-Fi, Comedy

Dist/Sales: RoyalCollege

P: Edward Nachtrieb, John Schliesser; W: Tood Hughes, P. David Ebersole; C: Larra Anderson; E: Daniel Gabbe; Nice Girls Don’t Do It

M: Cary Berger

Daymond, Kathy

Cast: Mary Woronov, Jamie Tolbert, Sandra Kinder,

1990; USA; 13 min; B&W; Documentary

Jane Ray

A daring, graphic exposé on the pleasures of female

The New Women is a post-apocalyptic, wacky,

ejaculation. Dismissed by the medical profession as

science-fiction farce about a mysterious rainstorm

urinary incontinence, this film, with the use of

that puts all males into a coma, where their only

several genres, deconstructs the conventional

function is to get erections every 45 minutes. The

meanings attached to male and female sexuality and

women must band together to rebuild their world

destabilises notions around specific visual representa-

and save the human race.

tions of the female body.

Prod Comp: Interzone

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, CFMDC

Dist/Sales: KillerPix

Next Best Thing, The

Nietta’s Diary

Romano, Gabriella

Schlesinger, John

1996; Italy, UK; 30 min; Drama

1999; USA; 108 min; Comedy

P: Linne Radmin, Tom Rosenberg, Leslie Dixon;

Nietta’s Diary is a film about the lesbian relationship

of Nietta Apra and Linda (Flafi) Mazzuccato in pre

W: Thomas Ropelewski; C: Elliot Davis; E: Peter Honess and post war Italy. The film centres upon the

Cast: Madonna, Rupert Evertt, Benjamin Bratt, Illeana

passionate love story as recounted through Nietta’s

Douglas, Lynn Redgrave

unpublished diary. (Cinenova)

An unexpected night of passion between two best

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

friends—a straight woman and a gay man—leads to

an unconventional family situation.

Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, The

Prod Comp: Lakeshore Entertainment, Paramount

Kirkman, Tim

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Paramount, ACMI

2000; USA; 85 min; Comedy

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

C: James Carman; E: Caitlin Dixon; M: Steve Sandberg Cast: David Drake

Mazursky, Paul

Originally a monster hit off-Broadway, The Night

1976; USA; 111 min; Comedy

Larry Kramer Kissed Me brings to film David Drake’s

P: Paul Mazursky, Tony Ray; W: Paul Mazursky;

one-man show exploring the highs and lows of

C: Arthur Ornitz; E: Richard Halsey; M: Bill Conti urban gay male life. Based loosely on his own life,

Cast: Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Lois Smith,

Drake gives a powerful performance that sparks

Christopher Walken, Ellen Greene

uproarious laughter and heartfelt tears. The stories

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he tells include the indelible impression Larry

within the narrative it becomes a divisive incident in

Kramer’s play The Normal Heart made on him, the

the lovers’ relationship as they begin to question each

emotion of his first kiss, his take on the gay club and

other’s commitment. The second half of the film is a

gym scenes and more. (Wolfe)

quiet and often poignant contrast to the first, which

Prod Comp: Montrose Pictures

covers not only the bashing but also a gay party.

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, TLA

Thus it becomes not only a film about homosexual

assaults and homophobia but also promiscuity and

Night of Varennes, The

relationships in the era of AIDS.

(aka: La Nuit de Varennes)

Prod Comp: Swinburne Film & TV School

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ACMI

Scola, Ettore

1982; France; 133 min; Drama

Night Porter, The

P: Renzo Rossellini; W: Sergio Amedei, Ettore Scola; (aka: Il Portiere di notte)

C: Armando Nannuzzi; E: Raimondo Crociani;

M: Armando Trovajoli

Cavani, Liliana

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Harvey

1974; Italy; 115 min; Drama

n Keitel, Jean-Claude Brialy

P: Robert Gordon Edwards, Esa De Simone; W: Barbara Alberti, Liliana Cavani, Italo Moscati; C: Alfio Contini; In 1791 Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette (the King

and Queen of France) tried to escape from Revolu-

E: Franco Arcalli; M: Danièle Paris

tionary Paris to join monarchist allies outside France,

Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe

only to be arrested in Varennes. The incident

Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti

engendered distrust and suspicion of the monarchy.

It is a dozen years after World War II and a group of

Using this historical event as a reference point, the

ex-Nazis and Gestapo meet regularly in an exclusive

film imagines a group of travellers on the same road,

hotel in Vienna. The porter at the hotel is an ex-SS

including the American patriot Thomas Paine, the

concentration camp officer who one day recognises

noted seducer Casanova, the French novelist Restif

one of the hotel’s guests as a former prisoner whom

de La Bretonne, and one of the queen’s ladies-in-

he raped when she was fourteen and then proceeded

waiting. The group illustrate various attitudes toward

to use as his sex-slave till the end of the war. In

the changes taking place in their troubled society.

meeting again they continue their sadomasochistic

French with English subtitles.

relationship which inevitably, and horrifically, leads

Prod Comp: Gaumont, Opera Film, France 3

to tragedy. This controversial film has been praised

Dist/Sales: NewVision

as profound, denounced as morally corrupt and

ridiculed as high camp. Italian with English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Ital Noleggio Cinematografico, Lotar Films

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Ascanbee, Col-Tri

Night Rhythms

Hippolyte, Gregory

1992; USA; 99 min; Thriller

P: Andrew W. Garroni; W: Alan Grifs, Robyn Sullivent; C: Wally Pfister; E: Kent Smith; M: Ashley Irwin Cast: Delia Sheppard, Martin Hewitt, Tracy Tweed,

David Carradine

Burt hosts a late-night talk show on radio where he

Night Out

gives advice on love, sex and relationships. One

Night Out

night he gets a call from Honey, a lesbian, who has

decided to end her relationship with her lover. She

Johnston, Lawrence

goes to Burt’s studio and, as it turns out, he is

1989; Australia; 48 min; B&W; Drama

accused of her murder, but all is not what it appears.

P: Lisa Doherty, Lawrence Johnston; W: Lawrence

Johnston

Dist/Sales: Palace

Cast: Colin Batrouney, John Brumpton, Luke Elliott,

Night Trade

Andrew Larkins

A homosexual is bashed in a toilet block and taken

Karpinski, Barbara

for a nightmare car ride while his lover is interstate.

2001; Australia; 10 min; Drama

While this serves as a harsh introduction to the film,

Reality bites hard in this beautiful, dark, and moody

296

piece about love, war, and the resilience of the

upstanding citizen, but by night cruises discos and

human spirit. Using authentic voice-over and filmed

nightclubs looking for male partners. In the end he

re-enactments, Night Trade travels from the war

is finally outed by his own students.

zones and strip clubs of post-Communist Eastern

Dist/Sales: BFI, WaterBearer, ACMI

Europe to the gritty streets of Kings Cross.

(queerDOC 2001)

Nightwork

Night Visions

Schneider, Jane

1994; Australia; 12 min; Comedy

Bociurkiw, Marusia

P: Nicki Roller; W: Marele Day

1989; Canada; 60 min; Drama

Cast: Gosia Dobrowolska, Shayne Foote, Deborah

Racism and homophobia are explored in two

Kennedy, Tatea Riley, Raj Sidhu

overlapping stories, one about a Native–American

Rachel believes her girlfriend is doing more than just

single mother fighting social welfare authorities and

playing her saxophone at the nightclub where she

her white ex-husband for custody of her daughter,

works. When she hires a detective to investigate her

the other about a lesbian photographer whose erotic

lover’s ‘affairs’ the results are not what she expected.

photographs have been seized by the police.

Great comedy about the dangers of jealousy and a

n

Dist/Sales: CFMDC, Salzgeber

vivid imagination. (MQFF)

Night Warning

Prod Comp: Australian Film TV & Radio School

Dist/Sales: ACMI, AFTRS

Asher, William

Nijinsky

1982; USA; 96 min; Thriller

P: Stephen Breimer, Eugene Mazzola; W: Stephen

Ross, Herbert

Breimer, Boon Collins, Alan Jay Glueckman; C: Robbie

1980; UK; 125 min; Drama

Greenberg; E: Ted Nicolaou; M: Bruce Langhorne

P: Nora Kaye, Stanley O’Toole; W: Hugh Wheeler,

Cast: Jimmy McNichol, Bo Svenson, Susan Tyrrell

Romola Nijinsky; C: Douglas Slocombe; E: William A good psychological thriller about a young college

Reynolds; M: John Lanchberry

basketball player, Billy, and his overprotective aunt,

Cast: Alan Bates, George De La Pena, Leslie Browne,

Cheryl. When Cheryl kills a television repairman

Alan Badel

who refuses her advances, a cop with a closed mind

A beautiful looking film that chronicles the early

investigating the case links it to a homosexual

career of the legendary Russian ballet dancer Vaslav

basketball coach, leaving Billy as the prime suspect.

Nijinsky and his passionate love affair with the

Prod Comp: Royal American, S2D Associates

impresario Sergei Diaghilev. His other relationships

included the Hungarian aristocrat Romola de Pulsky

Night with Derek, A

(while on the rebound from Diaghilev) and a

Kwietniowski, Richard

wealthy homosexual patron.

1995; UK; 23 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: Hera

An engaging biopic about the late avant-garde

Dist/Sales: TLA, Paramount

filmmaker Derek Jarman, subverting traditional

Nijinsky

documentary style. This evocative, dreamlike film

features interviews with Jarman’s friends and lovers,

(aka: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky)

and excerpts from several of his films.

Cox, Paul

Nighthawks

2002; Australia; 95 min; Documentary

P: Paul Cox, Aanya Whitehead; W: Paul Cox; C: Paul Peck, Ron

Cox, Hans Sonneveld; E: Paul Cox; M: Paul Grabowsky 1978; UK; 110 min; Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi, Delia Silvan, Chris Haywood, Hans

P: Paul Hallam, Ron Peck; W: Paul Hallam, Ron Peck; Sonneveld

C: Joanna Davis; E: Mary Pat Leece; M: David Graham A dramatised documentary about Vaslav Nijinsky,

Ellis

which details his struggle with mental illness as well

Cast: Ken Robertson, Tony Westrope, Rachel Nicholas

as his relationship with ballet impresario Sergei

James, Maureen Dolan

Diaghilev, and marriage to his Italian wife.

A gritty, realistic story about the dual life of a

Prod Comp: Illumination Films, SBS Independent

homosexual schoolteacher who by day is a model

Dist/Sales: Sharmill, Wellspring

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Nine Days

three strangers who find they are to spend eternity

locked in a seedy hotel room. One is a widely

Magrina, Gala

acclaimed journalist, one a social-climbing housewife

2001; USA; 13 min; Drama

and the third is a lesbian. Through their isolation

An overprotective mother tries to find the right

they begin to relate stories about themselves and the

husband for her lesbian daughter. Her daughter has

truth becomes apparent.

other plans.

Dist/Sales: MCrown

No Exit

Nitrate Kisses

(aka: Huis Clos)

Audry, Jacqueline

Hammer, Barbara

1955; France; 100 min; B&W; Drama

1992; USA; 62 min; Documentary

W: Pierre Laroche; C: Robert Juillard; M: Joseph Kosma P: Barbara Hammer; W: Barbara Hammer; C: Barbara Cast: Arletty, Frank Villard, Gaby Sylvia, Yves Deniaud

Hammer; E: Barbara Hammer

A weak man, a sexy woman and an embittered

A collage of different elements—found footage,

lesbian share the confines of a hotel room for

n

interviews, optical reprinting and filmed footage of

eternity, where they act out their dislikes and rivalry.

lesbian and gay lovemaking—is used to relate a

The film is based on the famous play by Jean-Paul

lesbian and gay history that has been repressed or

Sartre, where hell is not a place, but other people.

distorted. The film’s main strategy is densely

Prod Comp: Les Films Marceau

associative, operating on different levels: allegorical,

historical and erotic. The found footage includes one

No One Sleeps

of the earliest gay films, Watson and Weber’s Lot in

Sodom (1933), and German narrative feature films of

Hick, Jochen

the 1930s.

2000; Germany; 108 min; Drama

Prod Comp: B. Grummels

P: Jochen Hick; W: Jochen Hick; C: Michael Maley, Dist/Sales: Frameline, NFVLS, ACMI

Tom Harting; E: Helga Scharf; M: James Hardway

Cast: Tom Wlaschiha, Irit Levi, Jim Thalman, Richard

No Backup

Conti

Tal, Efrat

Stephan arrives in San Francisco to prove that the

2000; USA; 13 min; Documentary

AIDS Virus was deliberately introduced into the

general population. Before his death, Stephan’s

A gay Los Angeles Police Department officer

father, a medical researcher, identified some of the

discusses the hypocrisies and difficulties of serving as

experimenters and survivors involved. Armed with

part of one of America’s most infamous police force.

this evidence, Stephan attempts to track them

(2001 Imageout Film Festival)

down—only to discover that they are being

systematically murdered. (Wolfe)

No Dumb Questions

Prod Comp: Galeria Alaska Productions

Regan, Melissa

Dist/Sales: MediaLuna, Wolfe, 10%

2001; USA; 25 min; Documentary

These three sisters absolutely adore their Uncle Bill. But

No Ordinary Love

will they feel the same way when he becomes their Aunt

Witkins, Doug

Barbara? This funny and touching doco follows the 6,

1994; USA; 104 min; Drama

9, and 11-year-old sisters as they struggle with, and

P: Eli Kabillio; W: Doug Witkins; C: Armando Basulto; ultimately accept, this new concept in their lives.

E: John Orland; M: Bob Christianson

(queerDOC 2001)

Cast: Tymme Reitz, Koing Kuoch

No Exit

Kevin struggles with his grandchild-obsessed mother.

Wendy is a rock singer looking for love in all the

Danielewski, Tad

wrong places. Andy is a butch bisexual. Vince is a

1962; Argentina, USA; 85 min; Drama

gorgeous young Asian drag-queen. Ben is the new

P: Hector Olivera, Fernando Ayala; W: George Tabori; housemate from Hell. No desire is forbidden in this

C: Ricardo Younis; E: Jacques Bart, Carl Lerner, Atilio twisted suspense-comedy about a group of 20-Rinaldi; M: Vladimir Ussachevsky

something, sexually ambivalent, promiscuous

Cast: Carlos Brown, Rita Gamm, Elsa Dorian, Mario

housemates living in the Hollywood Hills.

Horna

Prod Comp: No Ordinary Limited Partnership

Another version of Sartre’s famous drama about

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!, Wolfe

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No Rewind

deadpan style, shot in gritty black and white, belies a

keen artistic awareness as he walks a fine line

Mozen, Paula

between a home-movie aesthetic and mainstream

1992; USA; 23 min; Documentary

narrative technique. (MQFF)

Fast-paced documentary that educates teenagers

Dist/Sales: TLA, Strand, Millivres, ACMI

about HIV/AIDS awareness in the 1990s. Teens

speak for themselves through interviews and peer-

No Way Out

group discussions that promote abstinence and safe-

sex education.

Donaldson, Roger

1987; USA; 120 min; Thriller

No Sad Songs

P: Laura Ziskin, Robert Garland, Mace Neufeld;

W: Robert Garland; C: John Alcott; E: Neil Travis, Sheehan, Nick

William Hoy; M: Maurice Jarre

1985; Canada; 60 min; Documentary

Cast: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young,

P: Nick Sheehan; C: Paul Mitchnick; M: Allen Booth, Howard Duff, Will Patton

David Woodhead

This political sex thriller reworks the plot of the

Cast: Kate Reid

n

1947 thriller, The Big Clock. Costner plays a

Jim Black and Catherine Hunt talk about their

Lieutenant-Commander who has an affair with the

experiences of living with AIDS. Jim talks about his

lover of his boss. The beautiful woman ends up dead

life, his affection for his best friend, his family’s

and it looks like Costner’s the villain. Great suspense

rejection of him and the death he is facing.

drama with a particularly good twist at the end. Will

Catherine talks about her brother who is dying of

Patton plays Hackman’s gay assistant who would do

AIDS.

anything for his boss.

Prod Comp: AIDS Committee of Toronto, Cell

Prod Comp: Orion Pictures

Productions

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, ReelMovies, MGM, Orion

Dist/Sales: Salzgeber, CFMDC

Noche de Walpurgis, La

Klimovsky, León

1970; Germany, Spain; 85 min; Horror

P: Salvadore Romero; W: James Molin, Hank Munkel; C: Leopoldo Villasenor; E: Tony Grimm; M: Antón García Abril

Cast: Paul Naschy, Paty Shepard, Gaby Fuchs, Barbara

Capell

This rather incoherent narrative follows the life of

the Count Waldemar, a werewolf who is resurrected

after doctors remove a silver bullet from his chest.

He goes in search of the Countess Waldessa, a

vampire who was staked and killed by a cross. With

the help of two young female students he revives her.

No Skin Off My Ass

There is a particularly erotic scene when one of the

women cuts herself and drips blood into the mouth

No Skin Off My Ass

of the Countess. When she awakens she bites one of

the women and abducts the other.

La Bruce, Bruce

1990; Canada, Germany; 75 min; B&W; Erotica

Prod Comp: Plata Films

W: Bruce La Bruce; E: Bruce La Bruce

Dist/Sales: SomethingWeird, Universal

Cast: Klaus von Brucker, G. B. Jones, Caroline Azar,

Nocturne (1989)

Bruce La Bruce

Bruce La Bruce, Toronto’s underground gay

Harris, Mark T.

filmmaker extraordinaire, plays a punk hairdresser

1989; USA; 100 min; Drama

who picks up a young, baby-faced skinhead in the

P: Mark T. Harris; W: Mark T. Harris; C: Ed Talavera park and locks him up in his apartment. In this raw

Cast: Gabriel Amor, T. Ryder Smith

and dirty, sweet and charming, and unabashedly

A contemplative coming-of-age story about Martin,

erotic movie, Klaus von Brucker suggests a skinhead

a shy pianist newly arrived in New York, who meets

Joe Dallesandro for the 1990s. Bruce La Bruce’s

the handsome Gino. Martin thinks he’s found his

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match, but Gino only wants a casual sexual liaison.

Is this a hard-nosed investigation of the world of

As Martin slides into obsession he is forced to deal

bondage and discipline? A light-hearted musical

with a terrible secret from his past.

tribute to dominance and submission? A dark

journey through the steamy underbelly of adult

Nocturne (1990)

perversion? Or is it none of the above?

Chamberlain, Joy

Prod Comp: Australian Film TV & Radio School

1990; UK; 60 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: AFTRS

P: Rebecca Dobbs; W: Tash Fairbanks

Cast: Lisa Eichhorn, Maureen O’Brian, Caroline

Paterson

This is the story of Marguerite, a 45-year-old woman

who returns to her childhood home after an absence

of many years to attend her mother’s funeral.

Discovering that the house itself has the power to

repress her in the same way that her mother did, she

n

is determined to find the key to that power and rid

herself of its control. The chance intervention of two

lesbian runaways with a penchant for role-playing

serves as catalyst to release the passions and possibili-

ties that have lain dormant within our heroine.

Prod Comp: Maya Vision, Channel 4

Dist/Sales: MayaVision

Nocturne (1990)

None of the Above

Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien

Norang Mori 2

(aka: No Regret)

(aka: Running Blue; Yellow Hair 2)

Riggs, Marlon

Kim, Yoo-min

1992; USA; 42 min; Documentary

2001; Korea; 102 min; Drama

P: Jonathan Lee

W: Yoo-min Kim; C: Kang-min Lee, Dong-eun Kim

Through music, poetry and quiet—at times

Cast: Ri-soo Ha,Yi Shin, Hong-jin Mo, Chan Yoon

chilling—self-disclosure, five sero-positive black gay

men speak of their individual confrontations with

Three lonely outcasts unexpectedly meet at a

AIDS, illuminating the difficult journey African–

convenient store and find themselves caught in a

American men make in coping with the personal

murder. One is an aspiring actress, named Y, who is

and social devastation of the epidemic. This is the

used by a deceitful agent that promises to make her

third film in the series Fear of Disclosure. (Frameline)

into a star. Another is an aspiring student filmmaker,

named R, who searches for the truth with his camera

Dist/Sales: VDB, Frameline

and videotapes anything he finds interesting. Finally,

None of the Above

there’s a motorcycle delivery girl, named J, who

dreams to fall in love again, but must cope with her

Fowler-Smith, Penny

transsexual identity in a society that finds it hard to

1993; Australia; 13 min; Drama

tolerate. These three hide the body in storage and

P: Sally Regan; W: Penny Fowler-Smith, Linda Murdoch bolt out of the store. Three strangers, having to hide

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in the dark corners of the streets, experience a fast-

comedic portrait of one man’s failed attempts to

paced journey they’ll never forget. (Cinema Service)

avoid a relationship before it even develops.

Korean with English subtitles.

(CFMDC)

Prod Comp: Fiction Bank

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

Dist/Sales: CinemaService

Not Angels, But Angels

Norman, is that You?

Grodecki, Wiktor

Schlatter, George

1994; Czechoslovakia; 80 min; Documentary

1976; USA; 90 min; Comedy

P: Frank Beauvais, Peter Lencses, Miro Vostiar;

P: George Schlatter; W: George Schlatter; C: Gayne W: Wiktor Grodecki; C: Vladimír Holomek;

Rescher; E: George Folsey Jnr; M: William Goldstein E: Wiktor Grodecki; M: Jan Cenek

Cast: Dennis Dugan, Michael Warren, Tamara Dobson,

Set in Prague, this moving documentary about

Redd Foxx, Pearl Bailey

teenage boy prostitutes, whose best customers are

Norman, a 23-year-old black man, and his lover,

tourists, is astonishingly frank and unsentimental.

Garson, who is white, find themselves in some tricky

The story is told through a series of interviews with

n

and humorous situations when Norman’s parents,

19 young men.

who don’t know he’s gay, come to visit.

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer, Salzgeber

Prod Comp: MGM

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, NFVLS, Swank

Not Just Passing Through

North of Vortex

Carlomusto, Jean / Gund Saalfield, Catherine / Perez,

Dolores / Thistlethwaite, Polly

Giannaris, Constantine

1994; USA; 54 min; Documentary

1991; UK; 60 min; B&W; Drama

This film is a celebration of the richness of lesbian

P: Rebecca Dobbs; W: Paul Hallam; C: James Welland; life. Photographs and oral history pay tribute to

E: Deborah Field; M: John Eacott

African–American Mabel Hampton (1902–89), who

Cast: Stavros Zalmas, Howard Napper, Valda Drabla

helped inspire the founding of the Lesbian Herstory

This rapturously beautiful black-and-white road

Archives. The rescue of Marge McDonald’s collection

movie follows a trio of characters—a poet, a sailor

of diaries, books and artefacts documenting her life

and a girl named Jackie—through a sensual, but

in the Midwest in the 1950s is recorded in two parts.

ultimately tragic love triangle.

Part Three focuses on Asian Lesbians of the East

Coast, an organisation that is a source of support and

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer, Salzgeber, MayaVision, ACMI

pride for its members. Part Four takes us backstage to

Not all Parents are Straight

the New York’s WOW Cafe where theatre and

comedy explode oppressive images. (WMM)

1986; USA; 60 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: WMM

P: Kevin White, Annamarie Faro

This film examines the dynamic of the parent-child

Not Love, Just Frenzy

relationship within several different households

(aka: Mas Que Amor, Frenesi)

where children are being raised by gay and lesbian

parents. Through open and honest interviews with

Albacete, Alfonso / Bardem, Miquel / Menkes, David

the children and their parents, the film explores

1996; Spain; 104 min; Drama

emotional conflicts within the family, legal custody

P: Fernando Colomo, Beatriz de la Gándara; W: Alfonso problems and the social discrimination that these

Albacete, Miquel Bardem, David Menkes; C: Néstor

families face.

Calvo; E: Miguel Angel Santamaria; M: Juan Bardem Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild

Cast: Nancho Novo, Cayetana Guillen Cuervo, Ingrid

Rubio, Beatriz Santiago

Not Alone: A Hallowe’en Romance

The story of a sexual crime, of young people who

play with fire, who disguise the truth and try to

Hasick, Paul

make it what they would like it to be. It is a film of

1995; Canada; 26 min; Comedy

emotions in which love is confused with desire and

Mushroom soup, an anti-gay bashing march, and a

the fear of being alone. Secrets, confession, crazy

surprise dinner guest are the background for this

happenings, dreams, outbursts, disappointments and

story about one young gay man, his semi-dream

escape. Characters who look for friendship, love

lover, and his mischievous dyke roommate. A

their own identity or just money... in sex. They all

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have three things in common: their youth, music

vengeance. An overtly sexual and achingly real look

and the furious delirium that is ‘Not Love, Just

at an 18-year-old searching for love. (Wolfe)

Frenzy.’ (Jour de Fete)

Prod Comp: Why Not Productions

Spanish with English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: FineLine, Wolfe, Haut-et-Court

Prod Comp: Canal+ España, Television Española

Dist/Sales: TLA, Wolfe

Nuestra Salud: Violencia Domestica

Notorious C.H.O.

Cuadra, Teresa / Newman, Suzanne

1999; USA; 17 min; Documentary

Machado, Lorene

Is there domestic violence between women? What

2002; USA; 95 min; Comedy

are the signs of an abusive relationship? Lesbian

P: Lorene Machado; W: Margaret Cho; C: Kirk Miller; Latinas in the US share their stories and insight to

E: Lorene Machado

create a moving portrait of a hidden problem.

Filmed live in Seattle, bisexual comedienne Margaret

Dist/Sales: Salud, Fanlight

Cho’s hilarious follow-up to her hit comedy I’m the

One That I Want captures Cho’s boisterously

n

entertaining one-woman show, which successfully

toured thirty-seven cities throughout North America

in 2001–2. (Wolfe)

Prod Comp: Cho Taussig Productions

Dist/Sales: Vagrant, Wellspring, Wolfe

November Moon

(aka: Novembermond)

von Grote, Alexandra

1985; Germany; 107 min; Drama

W: Alexandra von Grote; C: Bernard Zitzermann; E: Susanne Lahaye; M: Egisto Macchi

Cast: Gabriela Osburg, Christine Millet, Daniele

Number 96

Delorme, Bruno Pradal

Number 96

Set in 1939, a Jewish girl called November flees

Germany for Paris, where she meets and falls in love

Bernardos, Peter

with another woman Ferial. The film charts the

1974; Australia; 113 min; Drama

development of their relationship and parallels the

P: Bill Harmon; W: David Sale, Johnny Whyte;

emergent events of the Second World War. When

C: John McLean; E: Alan Lake, Ron Williams;

the Nazis occupy France their relationship is

M: Tommy Tycho

jeopardised, they have to separate, and with the help

Cast: Johnny Lockwood, Philippa Baker, Gordon

of the French underground, November is hidden.

McDougall, Sheila Kennedy, Pat McDonald

Ferial works for the Nazi information department in

the hope of shielding her lover from detection.

A movie length spin-off of the Australian television

When the Allies liberate France, the women should

series, this high camp, high drama theatrical release

be safe from persecution. The violence of the Nazis

was filmed with the same cast and the same episodic

is, however, replaced by that of the Resistance who

formula, with pack-rape, attempted murders,

take unrestrained vengeance on those they perceive

suicide, homosexuality, alcoholism and marriage.

as collaborators—such as Ferial.

Prod Comp: Cash-Harmon

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, Wolfe, BFI

Nun, The

Nowhere

(aka: La Religieuse)

Araki, Gregg

Rivette, Jacques

1997; USA; 82 min; Drama

1966; France; 130 min; Drama

P: Gregg Araki, Andrea Sperling; W: Gregg Araki;

P: Georges de Beauregard; W: Jacques Rivette, Jean C: Arturo Smith; E: Gregg Araki

Gruault; C: Alain Levent; E: Denise de Casabianca; Cast: James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton, Debi

M: Jean-Claude Eloy

Mazar

Cast: Anna Karina, Liselotte Pulver, Micheline Presle,

A darkly funny film which tackles teen angst with a

Christine Lenier

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Based on Diderot’s novel of 18th century convent

things get even more disturbing for Vince when

life, this film is one of the towering achievements of

Nina announces she is pregnant and wants to bring

French cinema in the 1960s. A young woman is

the child up with George instead.

forced to join a convent where, half-starved and

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox

beaten, she fails to take her annual vows. She is sent

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, Wolfe

to another convent where the Mother Superior

makes lesbian advances towards her. She escapes

Odd Girl Out

with the help of a priest but is almost raped by him.

Banned in France because of its anticlericalism.

Carland, Tammy Rae

French with English subtitles.

1994; USA; 17 min; Experimental

Prod Comp: Films Rome-Paris, SDC

Video diary relating the filmmaker’s crush on a

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee

school friend.

Nunzio’s Second Cousin

Ode

DeCerchio, Tom

Reichardt, Kelly

1994; USA; 18 min; Drama

1999; USA; 50 min; Drama

o

A gay detective gets revenge on a young gay basher.

Scorning the demands of her overbearing family,

An early role for Hollywood actor Vincent

Bobbie Lee Hartley and Billy Joe McAllister meet at

D’Onofrio.

their usual Choctaw Ridge trysting place and

Dist/Sales: Strand

attempt to consummate their forbidden love. Using

the storied love of Bobbie Lee and Billy Joe as its

O Boys: Parties, Porn & Politics, The

crucial metaphor, Ode attempts to reconcile modern

moralities with a tradition-bound faith, and asks

Gassman, Allan

whether it’s possible to commit a sin against a

1999; USA; 66 min; Documentary

religion that won’t even have you as a member.

M: Michael Callen

The O Boys is Allan Gassman’s award winning and

Ode to Billy Joe

provocative behind-the-scenes look at LA’s notorious

O Boy private orgies. The O Boys organisation

Baer, Max

began in the early 1990s with LA’s hottest hunks

1976; USA; 100 min; Drama

combining safe sex education with group sex theme

P: Max Baer, Roger Camras; W: Herman Raucher;

parties. Their strategy was to reclaim sex and desire

C: Michel Hugo; E: Frank E. Morris; M: Michel Legrand from an era of dread and self-hatred by establishing

Cast: Robby Benson, Glynnis O’Connor, Joan

an unadulterated group sex practice. Underlying the

Hotchkis, Sandy McPeak

numerous hard-core sequences featured in the film is

Bobbie Gentry’s song gets turned into a movie and

the emphasis on safe sex in all its multifunctional

you get to find out what Billy Joe was doing up there

possibilities, with strict rules and procedures

on Tallahatchee Bridge. Billie’s desperate to lose his

applying to all participants. This sexually charged

virginity but his girlfriend won’t come forth. He

documentary is efficiently paced for maximum

winds up in bed with another boy. The next day,

pleasure, as all decorum and modesty is left on the

feeling ashamed and disgraced and unable to prove

cutting room floor. (MQFF)

his manhood to his girl, he plunges to his death.

Dist/Sales: Gassman

Prod Comp: Warner

Object of My Affection, The

Dist/Sales: Warner

Off the Straight and Narrow: Lesbians,

Hytner, Nicholas

1998; USA; 112 min; Drama

Gays, Bisexuals and Television

P: Laurence Mark; W: Wendy Wasserstein;

Sender, Katherine

C: Oliver Stapleton; E: Tariq Anwar; M: George Fenton 1998; USA; 63 min; Documentary

Cast: Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Alan Alda, Allison

P: Katherine Sender; W: Katherine Sender; E: Katherine Janney, John Pankow

Sender

When George Hanson is dumped by his boyfriend,

Off the Straight and Narrow has been acclaimed as

Nina Borowski is sympathetic and offers him a spare

the first in-depth documentary to cast a critical eye

room in her Brooklyn apartment. In a few months

over the growth of gay, lesbian and queer images on

Nina and George become the best of friends, which

TV. It does for television what The Silver Screen:

is fairly unsettling to Nina’s boyfriend Vince. But

Color Me Lavender did for the big screen. Media

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scholars from diverse perspectives deconstruct three

Oi Queer

decades of news coverage, sitcoms, TV dramas, talk

shows, sports and commercials. A fine scalpel is used

Reding, Benjamin / Reding, Dominik

to make incisions into the coverage of Rock

1996; UK; 13 min; Drama

Hudson’s death in 1985, Andrew Cunanan’s murder

P: Dominik Reding, Benjamin Reding

of Gianni Versace, and Ellen’s coming out. Through

A skinhead must decide between his gang and his

a panoramic lens, Off the Straight and Narrow

boyfriend.

navigates the TV landscape from virtual invisibility

before 1970 to ‘gay chic’ of the 1990s.

Oi! Warning

Prod Comp: Media Education Foundation

Reding, Benjamin / Reding, Dominik

Dist/Sales: MediaEdFound

1999; Germany; 90 min; B&W; Drama

Offering, The

W: Benjamin Reding, Dominik Reding;

C: Axel Henschel; E: Margot Neubert-Maric;

Lee, Paul

M: Tom Ammermann

1999; Canada; 10 min; Drama

Cast: Sascha Backhaus, Simon Goerts, Sandra

W: Paul Lee

Borgmann, Jens Veith

o

A meditation on the passing of life, through the

A disconcerting and intense first film by the twins

story of love and friendship between a Japanese

Dominik and Benjamin Reding, following the

monk and his novice. In rejecting his own faith and

trajectory of a boy in a crisis of identity. He is in

drowning in self-doubts, the novice leaves his life of

search of his masculinity in a world where all of the

unfulfilled potentials. (CFMDC)

male standards have been lost. Janosch is tired of his

Prod Comp: Ganymedia Inc

life with the family, impatient to prove that he is

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

now a man, and he seeks out his former school

friend Koma. He must base himself on a model, and

Oh Baby, a Baby!

Koma—now a skinhead, although with no clear

(aka: Zwei Frauen, ein Mann und ein Baby)

vision of what this might, in fact, represent—is

happy to have an admirer, someone who will follow

Murnberger, Wolfgang

him. Koma transforms Janosch into a replica of

1999; Austria; 91 min; Comedy

himself. When Janosch, however, meets Zottel, a

P: Danny Krausz, Kurt Stocker; W: Sabine Reichel; stranger, proud of being leftist, he romantically

C: Helmut Wimmer; E: Uschi Efber;

changes position and arouses Koma’s wrath. The

M: Stefan Bernheimer

consequences are tragic. Lyrical, but frightening, the

Cast: Nicloe Ansari, Eva Herzig, Ralf Bauer, Peter

film provides evidence of homophobic violence. It is

Matic, Viktoria Schubert

also a technical tour-de-force with a fine sound track

Sandra and Iris’ eight year relationship has stalled.

and black and white photography that evokes the

Sandra is a very sexy and successful architect, and

beauty and balance that Janosch seeks, and the

Iris is a florist who’s addicted to romance and yearns

cruelty he will encounter. (www.mostra.org)

for a baby—only trouble is, Sandra is not too keen.

German with English subtitles.

While Sandra ruminates, Iris begins her search for

Prod Comp: Schlammtaucher Filmproduktion

the perfect donor, quickly seizing upon good-

Dist/Sales: Schlammtaucher

looking Antonio when he finds himself in her florist

shop. After a drunken night at a bar with Iris,

Okoge

Antonio agrees to be the couple’s donor. Meanwhile

Sandra has begun lusting after the gorgeous new

Nakajima, Takehiro

architect at work, and soon begins an affair with

1992; Japan; 120 min; Comedy

him. Convinced that Sandra would make the perfect

P: Yoshinori Takazawa, Masashi Moromizato;

mother, Iris surprises Sandra with the sperm and she

W: Takehiro Nakajima; C: Yoshimasa Hakata; E: Kenji is inseminated. Soon after Sandra finds she’s

Goto; M: Hiroshi Ariyoshi

pregnant, and in true screwball tradition, things

Cast: Misa Shimizu, Takehiro Murata, Takeo Nakahara

begins to get really complicated. What ensues is a

A clever satire of Japanese morés focusing on a

riotous comedy of misunderstandings, raunchy sex

young woman, Sayoko, who becomes friends with

scenes and surprises—and a wedding that could have

Goh, a leather craftsman, and his lover, Tochi. The

any number of brides turning up! German dubbed

only problem is that Tochi is married and his wife

into English.

threatens to reveal his homosexuality if he does not

Prod Comp: ORF, RLT

break up with Goh. So Sayoko offers them her

Dist/Sales: ORF

apartment for their secret rendezvous. But Goh’s

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happiness disintegrates when Tochi finally returns to

autobiographical novella of the same name. Olivia

his wife. Japanese with English subtitles.

has often been described as the French version of the

Prod Comp: Nakajima Productions, Into Group

German classic Mädchen in Uniform. But where

Mädchen inhabits a harshly disciplined and militaris-

Olga’s Girls

tic world, the school in Olivia provides a luxurious

and sensuously Gallic backdrop for the action. Here

Mawra, Joseph P.

the schoolgirls have single rooms with lacy bed-

1964; USA; 72 min; Erotica, Comedy

spreads. The school is run by two headmistresses and

P: George Weiss; C: Warner Rose; M: Clyde Otis any newcomers are swiftly divided into one of the

Cast: Gil Adams, Rita Barrie, Rickey Bell, Audrey

two camps/fan clubs. New girl Olivia is immediately

Campbell, Ava Denning

attracted to Mademoiselle Julie. It seems the passion

Headquartered in New York’s Chinatown, where

is mutual as the simpering Mademoiselle Cara is

Communists provide a steady stream of dangerous

soon fiercely jealous. One of the film’s highlights is

drugs from the Orient, sadist Olga Saglo deals in

Feuillère’s inspiring performance as Mademoiselle

narcotics and white slavery. Her drug-addicted

Julie. Her late night offer of a sweet to the adoring

slaves, brutally tortured for the slightest offense,

Olivia is one that none could refuse. (MQFF)

some of them locked into chastity belts, have only

Prod Comp: Memnon Films; Dist/Sales: Cinenova

o

one another for comfort. When Olga suspects there

is an informant among them, she stops at nothing in

Olivier, Olivier

trying to ferret out the snitch. But some of her girls

Holland, Agnieszka

have another plan in mind, a plan of revenge... A

1992; France; 110 min; Drama

classic of early sexploitation films, Olga’s Girls

deserves its place in the pantheon of classic cult

P: Marie-Laure Reyre; W: Agnieszka Holland;

films. (First Run Features)

C: Bernard Zitzermann; E: Isabelle Lorente;

M: Zbigniew Preisner

Dist/Sales: SomethingWeird, FirstRunFeatures

Cast: Grégoire Colin, Marina Golovine, Frédéric

Olive Tree, The

Quiring, François Cluzet, Faye Gatteau

A family’s life is destroyed when their youngest child,

Camarda, George

Olivier, goes missing. Six years later he returns and

1999; USA; 26 min; Drama

re-establishes his relationship with his sister and

Eddie is devastated when he finds his best friend has

parents after years on the streets as a homosexual

decided to get someone else to father her child.

prostitute. But the question soon arises, is he really

Olivier? Some very fine performances make this true

Oliver

story a powerful and absorbing film. French with

English subtitles.

Deocampo, Nick

Prod Comp: Oliane Productions, Canal, Sofica

1983; Philippines; Documentary

Investimage 3, CNC

W: Nick Deocampo

Dist/Sales: NewVision, 21stCentury, SonyClassics

Oliver, although married with a child, refers to

himself as gay. He supports his family by working in

On Becoming

a Manila bar with his drag act. A graphic look at

poverty and prostitution in the Philippines. Tagalog

Rizzo, Teresa

with English subtitles.

1993; Australia; 26 min; Documentary

Documentary which looks at the concept of gender

Olivia

and gender fluidity. A visual affirmation and explora-

tion of the concept that gender is a performance that

(aka: The Pit of Loneliness)

needs to be thought outside dualisms and binaries.

Audry, Jacqueline

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

1950; France; 88 min; B&W; Drama

W: Colette Audry, Pierre Laroche; C: Christian Matras; On Being Gay: A Conversation with Brian

M: Pierre Sancan

McNaughton

Cast: Edwige Feuillère, Simone Simon, Claire Olivia,

Suzanne Dehelly

1986; Ireland; 80 min; Documentary

A lesbian cult classic, rarely screened. This film comes

An entertaining documentary by the lecturer,

with great credentials—a screenplay by Colette,

counsellor, activist and Irish Catholic, Brian

based on Dorothy Busey Strachey’s superbly written

McNaughton, about being gay in the straight world.

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W: Andrew Osborne, Jed Weintroub; C: Toshiaki

Ozawa; E: Stephanie Sterner; M: Roger Neill

Cast: Josh Hamilton, Harold Perrineau, Isabel Gillies,

John Fleck

Set deep in the world of cyberspace, this favourite

from the Sundance and Berlin film festivals, is a

humorous and engaging inquiry into the quest for

sexual fulfilment, human contact and love. John and

Moe are old college buddies who start a cyberporn

site called Intercon-X that links visitors to live erotic

chat sessions. John spends most of his time manag-

ing the site (i.e., watching the sessions), while Moe

indulges in real-life sexual fantasies with his new

girlfriend Moira, another web junky. Among

Intercon’s most popular hosts is gay ‘daddy’ Al, who’s

in a cyber-relationship with Ed, a hungry gay college

o

student from Ohio. Director Jed Weintrob employs

groundbreaking new digital technology, including

expert use of split-screen images, to create a very

believable online world where six characters learn

about what it is they really want. (2002 LA Outfest)

Prod Comp: Internet Stories Productions

Dist/Sales: Indican

On the Bus

Black, Dustin Lance

2001; USA; 100 min; Documentary

On Guard

Cast: Dustin Lance Black, Billy Kaufman, Charles

Kinsley, Jason Webb

On Guard

On the Bus is a self-aware documentary covering the

Lambert, Susan

stories of five young men (including the producer

1984; Australia; 52 min; Drama

and director) who have all just become a part of a

P: Digby Duncan; W: Sarah Gibson, Susan Lambert; C:

‘Real World-esque’ television show. Together, they

Laurie McInnes; E: Catherine Murphy

are travelling to the wild Burning Man pagan

Cast: Liddy Clark, Jan Cornall, Kerry Dwyer, Mystery

festival. Included in this trip is Damon, a bitingly

Carnage

witty music composer; JMY, a Swedish Olympic

diver; Billy, the intellectual; Jason, a young porn star;

Four women plan to sabotage a firm involved in

Charles, the beautiful guy everyone lusts after; and

reproductive engineering. Within the form of an

Lance, the narrator. As they get to love—and hate—

adventure film, the women’s sexuality and emotional

each other, the erotic tension builds, spilling over

lives are explored together with the complexity of

when they reach the festival with its ‘anything goes’

their domestic responsibilities. Tensions increase

party atmosphere. (Wolfe)

between the women as the day of the heist draws

near. One of the characters is a lesbian and in a

Dist/Sales: SockPuppet, Wolfe, 10%

relationship with another woman who has children.

Conflicts arise as her care for her children interrupts

Once is not Enough

their affair.

(aka: Jacqueline Susann’s Once is not Enough)

Prod Comp: Women’s Film Fund, Australian Film

Green, Guy

Commission, Red Heart Pictures

1975; USA; 121 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ACMI

P: Howard W. Koch Jnr; W: Julius J. Epstein;

ON_LINE

C: John A. Alonzo; E: Rita Roland; M: Henry Mancini Cast: Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen,

Weintroub, Jed

George Hamilton, Brenda Vaccaro

2001; USA; 86 min; Drama

A film based on Jacqueline Susann’s trashy novel of

P: Tanya Selvar, Adam Brightman, Tavin Marin Titus;

the scandalous goings-on among celebrities and a

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young woman, who is fixated on her father.

work of Exodus International (the male founders of

Prod Comp: Paramount, Aries Productions, Sujac

which left and fell in love with each other) and its

Productions

efforts to assist recovery from ‘sexual brokenness’.

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Paramount

Through interviews with psychologists, activists,

conservatives and case studies of former ‘ex-gays’,

Once upon a Time in the East

One Nation Under God presents a powerful picture

of the historical, political, social and religious fight

(aka: Il était une fois dans l’est)

for and against gay rights. (MQFF)

Brassard, André

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

1974; Canada; 100 min; Drama

Film Festival, 1993: Audience Award for Best Docu-

P: Pierre Lamy; W: Michel Tremblay, André Brassard; C: mentary

Paul van der Linden; E: André Corriveau; M: Jacques Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures, FilmsTransit, Wolfe

Perron

Cast: Denise Filiatrault, Michelle Rossignol, Frédérique

One of Them

Collin

Main, Stewart

The first feature film by stage director André

1997; New Zealand; 46 min; Drama

o

Brassard centres on the lives of a number of people

P: Michele Fantl; W: Peter Wells

who frequent a transvestite nightclub. They range

from a young man preparing to do the drag

Two teenage boys come to grips with their homo-

performance of his life as Cleopatra, to a young girl

sexuality in the bleak and punitive environment of

thinking about having an abortion, and an old

post-war 1960s New Zealand. Lemmy and Jamie are

woman who wins one million trading stamps. The

in denial about their attraction for men, and one

lives of people who are living on the edges of

another. A film that deals with growing up gay and

conventional society are dealt with empathy and

youth suicide.

humour. French with English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Zee Films

Prod Comp: Les Productions Carle-Lamy

Dist/Sales: NZFC, FirstRunFeatures, Wolfe, ACMI,

NFBC

One + One

Chiang, S. Leo

2001; USA; 27 min; Documentary

John and Noel are in a panic. The condom broke

during sex, and John happens to have AIDS. Joanne

breaks down when the counsellor asks about her

HIV-positive husband Robert. In their six-year

marriage, Joanne has been tested twice a year, each

time more stressful than the last. One + One takes an

unflinching look at the lives of two couples—one

straight, one gay—as they navigate the sexual and

emotional minefield inherent in every sero-discord-

ant (mixed HIV status) relationship. This poignant

film gives insights to how sero-discordant couples

On the Bus

cope with the difficult task of negotiating death and

One Nation Under God

love on a daily basis, and the deep bond they share

because of it. (New Day Films)

Maniaci, Teodoro / Rzeznick, Francine

Dist/Sales: WalkingIris, NewDay

1993; USA; 83 min; Documentary

One Nation Under God is a comprehensive historical

One Shadowless Hour

document of homosexuality in America over the past

Sasagawa, Narusa

30 years. It focuses on the discursive construction of

homosexuality as an undesirable and reversible

1995; Japan; 30 min; Documentary

condition, an ‘illness’ that both religion and science

A documentary on the second Tokyo Lesbian and

have tried to eradicate through a variety of tech-

Gay Parade with interviews with some of the women

niques, including aversion therapy, exorcisms and

involved, depicting the diverse lifestyles and

‘orgasmic reorientation’. The film documents the

backgrounds of lesbians living in Japan.

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One Small Step

C: David M. Walsh; E: John Wright; M: David Shire Cast: Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol, James Coco,

Crouch, Catherine

Joan Hackett

1999; USA; 30 min; Comedy, Drama

A 17-year-old girl moves back in with her mother,

Set in South Carolina on the event of the 1969

who gave up custody of her six years previously. As

Apollo 11 moon walk, this film is a dramatic

they get to know one another again, their relation-

comedy about a rambunctious 8-year-old tomboy

ship evolves from that of strangers to mother and

whose parents teach her that she can do anything she

daughter. James Coco plays the mother’s best friend,

wants. She learns there is one exception when she

a struggling gay actor.

announces that she wants to marry the girl next

door.

Prod Comp: Columbia, Rastar

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, 16MM, Columbia

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

Opening Closet X: A Voice for Queer Youth

Kelly, Max / Polish, Diana

1998; USA; 17 min; Documentary

o

A diverse, short documentary, that deals with gay,

lesbian and transgender youth. Raw and thought

provoking.

Opposite of Sex, The

Roos, Don

1998; USA; 105 min; Drama

P: Michael Besman, David Kirkpatrick; W: Don Roos; Only the Brave

C: Hubert Taczanowski; E: David Codron;

M: Mason Daring

Only the Brave

Cast: Christina Ricci, Lisa Kudrow, Martin Donovan,

Ivan Sergei, Lyle Lovett

Kokkinos, Ana

1994; Australia; 61 min; Drama

Dedee Truitt is 16 and runs away to live with her

P: Fiona Eagger; W: Ana Kokkinos, Mira Robertson; half brother Bill, managing to turn his life upside

C: Jaems Grant; E: Mark Atkin; M: Philip Brophy down in the process. Bill is a dedicated and caring

Cast: Elena Mandalis, Dora Kaskanis, Maude Davey,

teacher who happens to be gay. After his long-time

Helen Athanasiadis, Bob Bright

partner has died, he tries to resurrect his life with his

new boyfriend Matt. Lucia, a friend of Bill’s distrusts

Alex and Vicki are wild girls living life on the edge.

the newcomer and tries to protect Bill. Her suspi-

They share a dream: to leave school and go north.

cions are confirmed when Dedee seduces Matt and

But the tension between them grows when Alex

gets him to steal $10,000.

begins to acknowledge her attraction to Vicki. Their

lives move out of control toward a harrowing climax.

Prod Comp: Rysher Entertainment

A powerful and touching film about two Australian-

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, 16MM, SonyClassics, Wolfe, ACMI

Greek girls growing up on Melbourne’s outer

western edge, marked by great performances and

Oranges are not the Only Fruit

brilliant direction from Kokkinos.

Kidron, Beeban

Awards: Australian Film Institute Awards, 1994: Best

1989; UK; 205 min; Drama

Short Film, Screenplay; San Francisco International

P: Phillippa Giles; W: Jeanette Winterson;

Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 1994 Audience Award for

C: Ian Punter; E: John Strickland; M: Rachel Portman Best Feature

Cast: Geraldine McEwan, Charlotte Coleman, Margery

Prod Comp: Pickpocket Films

Withers, Cathryn Bradshaw

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, NewVision, 21stCentury,

A humorous and sometimes sad and touching look

FirstRunFeatures, ACMI

at the coming-of-age of a young lesbian, Jess. Jess’

Only When I Laugh

mother is a fiercely Charismatic Evangelist who

fights to dominate and suppress Jess who was

Jordan, Glenn

adopted from birth. She wants her to become a

1981; USA; 120 min; Comedy, Drama

missionary but Jess has other ideas and interests,

P: Roger M. Rothstein, Neil Simon; W: Neil Simon; particularly the bewitching Melanie, an older

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woman. Based on the novel by Jeanette Winterson

violence against gays. Shot on location in the

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit was a landmark

beautiful Vermont countryside, this coming of age

lesbian made-for-television movie.

drama delivers a moral tale that rocks the lives of its

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

complex characters. (2002 Stonybrook Film Festival)

Film Festival, 1990: Audience Award for Best Feature

Prod Comp: Magic Lantern, Shorelands Productions

Prod Comp: BBC

Dist/Sales: Shorelands

Dist/Sales: BBC-Enterprises, NFVLS

Orientations

Order to Kill

Fung, Richard

(aka: El Clan de los Immorales)

1984; Canada; 56 min; Documentary

Gutiérrez Maesso, José

Men and women of different Asian backgrounds

1973; Italy; 90 min; Thriller

speak frankly, humorously and often poignantly

W: Massimo De Rita, José Gutiérrez Maesso, Eugenio

about their lives as members of a minority within a

Martín, Santiago Moncada; C: Aiace Parolin;

minority. They speak about coming out, homopho-

E: Ángel Serrano; M: Adolfo Waitzman

bia, racism, cultural identity, sex, and the ways that

o

Cast: Helmut Berger, Sydne Rome, José Ferrer, Kevin

being gay and Asian have shaped who they are.

McCarthy, Elena Berrido

Dist/Sales: TWN

An action drama about an assassin who is ordered to

kill an old friend, and the repercussions when he

Original Schtick

refuses. At the same time, although it has nothing to

Wszelaki, Maciej

do with the plot, there seems to be a relentless

1999; Australia; 55 min; Documentary

undercurrent of sadism and masochism with a

P: Bronwyne Smith, Peter George; C: Maciej Wszelaki; homosexual aura.

E: Jane Usher; M: Stephen Joyce

Prod Comp: BRC Produzione Film, Excisa SA, FRAL,

In 1997, a flamboyant American artist, Bob Fischer,

Televisión y Cine SA

came to Melbourne from California to work with

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, VSM

local artists and stage exhibitions of his work. He

wanted stellar fame and recognition, and was willing

to do anything for his 15 minutes in the limelight.

By ruthlessly manipulating the media and Mel-

bourne’s art world, Bob created a chain reaction of

ill-fated events that veer wildly from the hilarious

and peculiar to the disastrous. (www.sbs.com)

Prod Comp: Windy City Warhol Productions

Ordinary Sinner

Ordinary Sinner

Davis, John Henry

2001; USA; 93 min; Drama

P: J. B. White, John Henry Davis, Chris Bongirne;

W: William Mahone; C: Mathieu Roberts;

E: Paul Zehrer; M: Brian Adler

Orlando

Cast: Brendan P. Hines, Kris Park, Elizabeth Banks,

Joshua Harto

Orlando

A compelling tale of three college students on the

Potter, Sally

brink of adulthood, struggling to find their place in

1992; UK; 92 min; Drama

a violent and profane world. It is a story of friend-

P: Christopher Sheppard; W: Sally Potter;

ship, love and betrayal, as well as a look at the way

C: Alexei Rodionov; E: Hervé Schneid; M: David religion in America both supports and condemns

Bedford, Fred Frith, David Motion, Sally Potter

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Cast: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Charlotte Valandrey,

C: Juan Carlos Martin Torres

Quentin Crisp, Dudley Sutton

Cast: Eduardo Lopez Rojas, Patricia Reyes Spindola,

An exciting and witty adaptation of Virginia Woolf ’s

Maria Ybarra, Gustavo Cravioto

1928 novel structured around the intriguing notion

The Other Side is a tale about love, trust, AIDS and

of a character who lived for 400 years, changing sex

Immigration as well as an intimate portrait of a gay

during time. Some fantastic casting with Quentin

couple living in Mexico. Alejandro and Beto live an

Crisp as the ageing Queen Elizabeth I; and delightful

almost idyllic life except that Alejandro must live

scenes of Swinton, playing a man, seducing beautiful

with the challenge of having AIDS. Lifesaving

women. Directing her first feature Sally Potter has

medication is unavailable in Mexico and he must

made a ravishing film translation of one of the 20th

travel to the US for treatment but unfortunately his

century’s most controversial novels.

visa is rejected. He must decide whether to wait for

Prod Comp: Adventure Pictures, Lenfilm, Mikado Film,

treatment in Mexico, or cross the border illegally.

Rio Sigma Film

Spanish with English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: Ronin, ACMI, NewYorker, Wolfe, Cowboy

Prod Comp: Dos Espiritus

Dist/Sales: DosEspiritus

Osaka Story

o

Other Voices, Other Rooms

Nakata, Toichi

1994; UK; 75 min; Documentary

Rocksavage, David

P: Ichiro Matsumoto, Toichi Nakata; W: Toichi Nakata; 1997; UK, USA; 95 min; Drama

C: Simon Atkins; E: Toichi Nakata

P: Peter Wentworth; W: David Rocksavage, Sara

The Nakatas are a family of conflicting Korean and

Flanigan; C: Paul Ryan; E: Cynthia Scheider;

Japanese cultures. Toichi’s father, a Korean immi-

M: Chris Hajian

grant, cannot reconcile his Korean and his wife’s

Cast: Lothaire Bluteau, Anna Thomson, David Speck,

Japanese families. Toichi’s mother is preoccupied

April Turner, Frank Taylor

with her present and future position, his brother is

Based on Truman Capote’s highly acclaimed first

torn between the family business empire and a cult

novel, the film follows a young boy’s odyssey of self-

religious sect, and his sister has opted out of the

discovery as he seeks to solve the puzzle surrounding

scenario altogether to go her own way. Tolstoy may

his father’s infirmity. Joel Sansom, a young by of 13,

have been correct in his assessment that every family

is summoned to a sprawling decaying plantation

is unhappy in its own way, but the problems of the

house in the deep South to meet the father he has

Nakata family seem universal. The filmmaker

not seen for nine years. On his arrival, he meets Amy

himself is not exempt. Should he return to Japan and

Skully, the mistress of the house, and Randolph, her

fulfil the traditional role of an eldest son? Or should

debauched and eccentric cousin. His father is

he come out to his family with his homosexuality

nowhere in sight. Joel later discovers the man lying

and choose his own way forward? (First Run/Icarus)

paralysed in the attic of the crumbling mansion,

Japanese & Korean with English subtitles.

whereupon he begins to unravel the mysterious

Dist/Sales: FirstRun/Icarus, Uplink

secrets that lie within the house. (Artistic License

Films)

Other Mothers

Prod Comp: Golden Eye Films

Dist/Sales: ArtisticLicense

Shallat, Lee

1993; USA; 54 min; Drama

Otra Historia de Amour

Cast: Meredeth Baxter Birney, Joanna Cassidy, Justin

Whalin

(aka: Another Love Story)

Made for television drama about a teenage boy who

de Zárate, Américo Ortiz

is shunned by his homophobic school friends

1986; Argentina; 80 min; Drama

because his mother is in a relationship with another

W: Américo Ortiz de Zárate; C: Hector Morini

woman. They think that he might be gay and feel

Cast: Arturo Bonín, Mario Passik, Carlos Muñoz, María

they’ll be guilty by association.

José Demare

Set in contemporary Argentina, the film centres on

Other Side, The

Jorge, a brash and attractive clerk who knows what

(aka: Del Otro Lado)

he wants from life and is determined to get it. These

desires include Raul, his extremely straight and

Griffith, C. A.

conservative boss. Before long, it’s Raul who learns

1999; Mexico, USA; 79 min; Drama

that there is more to life than the virtues of a

P: Mario Callitzin, Gustavo Cravioto, C. A. Griffith;

middle-class family and climbing the corporate

310

ladder. A refreshing tale of man meets man, and man

acclaimed story about the search for love and

and man fall in love. But not, of course, without

redemption in a society gone mad. World-weary

Raul and Jorge bearing the brunt of a social milieu

author Fernando has returned to his native Colum-

which would prefer its leading men to be straight.

bia to live out his days in peace. But Fernando’s

(MQFF)

once-quiet hometown has become a hotbed of

violence, drugs and corruption. On the brink of

Our Brothers, Our Sons

despair, Fernando meets Alexis, a beautiful but

hardened street kid who lives by the rule of the gun.

Arnold, Jim

Together, they forge an unlikely relationship.(Wolfe)

2001; USA; 25 min; Documentary

Spanish with English subtitles.

In the early 1980s, a new disease called AIDS began

Prod Comp: Le Studio Canal+

to ravage a generation of gay men in the US. The

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, ParamountClassics

gay community watched in horror as tens of

thousands of its contemporaries suffered and died

Our Mom’s a Dyke

with few or no treatment options. At the same time,

a new generation was being born into a world

1995; USA; 23 min; Documentary

forever changed. While young gay boys of this new

P: Juliette Olavarria

o

generation were learning on the playgrounds of

This is a charming documentary about adolescent

America that they were different from other boys,

girls who have to deal with an unexpected complica-

their older brothers were in the trenches, laying the

tion in their suburban life. Their mother suddenly

groundwork to save a community from extinction.

dissolves her marriage and then tells the girls in

Due in large part to unrelenting pressure from gay

strictest confidence that she is a lesbian. This secret

activists of the Baby Boomer generation, attitudes

makes them feel isolated from their friends and

were changed, safer-sex guidelines were adopted and

especially from their father who was not privy to this

potent new drugs were developed for the treatment

information. The oldest sister, Juliette, made this

of this devastating disease. A diminished community

funny and poignant video which reveals their

thrived. Our Brothers, Our Sons explores a surprising

coming to terms with their mother’s new sexual

generation gap around AIDS in the gay community

identity. It captures their initial shock, embarrass-

by examining personal stories of representatives of

ment and anger. They try to make sense out of their

both Generation X and the Baby Boomer genera-

parents’ former life together. ‘Did you ever love

tion. The gay men interviewed include HIV-positive

daddy?’, they want to know. But as time goes on, the

and negative activists, writers, sex workers and others

sisters relaxed about their mother’s new lifestyle.

who tell of their experiences with this issue. (Eureka)

They understand that now she is being true to

Dist/Sales: Eureka

herself and is happier. When the secrecy was lifted

their friends were accepting, and even thought their

Our House: A Very Real Documentary

mom was ‘cool.’ They came to realise that their own

heterosexuality was not threatened. These days they

Spadola, Meema

are activists for gay rights and march proudly with

1999; USA; 57 min; Documentary

their mother. (Filmakers Library)

This US documentary profiles children in five diverse

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary

families as they face the challenges and joys of

growing up in gay and lesbian households. (ACMI)

Our Private Idaho

Prod Comp: Sugar Pictures

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild, ACMI

Gallagher, Daniel / Muller, Clare

1998; UK; 32 min; Documentary

Our Lady of the Assassins

Documentary about the battle over an Idaho gay

(aka: La Virgen de los sicarios)

rights amendment.

Schroeder, Barbet

Dist/Sales: DevilsAdvocate

2000; Colombia, France, Spain; 100 min; Drama

Our Sons

P: Barbet Schroeder, Margaret Menegoz, Jaime Osorio

Gomez; W: Fernando Vallejo; C: Rodrigo Lalinde;

(aka: Too Little, Too Late)

E: Elsa Vasquez; M: Jorge Arriagada

Erman, John

Cast: German Jaramillo, Anderson Ballesteros, Juan

1991; USA; 100 min; Drama

David Restrepo, Manuel Busquets

P: Philip Kleinbart; W: William Hanley; C: Tony Imi; From Barbet Schroeder—the director of Barfly and

E: Robert Florio; M: John Morris

Reversal of Fortune—comes this powerful, critically

Cast: Julie Andrews, Ann-Margret, Hugh Grant, Zelijko

311

Ivanek, Tony Roberts

Out in Africa

Made for television story of two mothers, one who

Symons, Johnny

accepts her son’s relationship with another man, and

1994; USA; 17 min; Documentary

the other who can’t. But things change when one of

the men is diagnosed with AIDS. Compassionate

In a collection of interviews, five gay black African

and compelling viewing.

men speak of their personal and political struggles,

their work as activists, hairdressers and prostitutes,

Prod Comp: Greenwald Films

their future within the global gay community, and

Dist/Sales: Roadshow

their struggle to remain true to both their cultures

Out At Work: America Undercover

and their sexuality. (MQFF)

Anderson, Kelly / Gold, Tami

Out in Nature: Homosexual Behaviour in

1996; USA; 58 min; Documentary

the Animal Kingdom

This disturbing documentary addresses the startling

Alexandresco, Stéphane / Loyer, Bertrand / Menéndez,

reality that in forty American states, at the time of

filming, it is legal to fire an employee for being

Jessica

o

homosexual. It reveals the ongoing perils that gays

2001; UK; 52 min; Documentary

and lesbians face in companies in many states across

P: Bertrand Loyer; W: Jessica Menéndez, Jo Stewart the US, through moving case studies of two gay men

Smith, Jacqueline Farmer

and one lesbian worker, who are exposed to job

The wild kingdom takes on a whole new meaning in

discrimination and finally take action to fight for

this truly groundbreaking documentary about

their rights. Cheryl Summerville, a cook at a Cracker

homosexuality in the animal kingdom. With never-

Barrel restaurant in Bremen, Georgia, for more than

before-seen footage of dyke monkeys hunting for

three years, was fired when a corporate policy was

some butch/femme bumping, and sissy elephants

instituted announcing that the ‘family’ restaurant

sizing up local studs, this meticulously researched film

could no longer employ individuals ‘whose sexual

is slicker than any BBC documentary. Scientific in its

preference failed to demonstrate normal heterosexual

approach, yet completely hilarious, this worldwide hit

values.’ Mark Anderson, a trainee at the Los Angeles

is a belated Pride March for queer animals. (MQFF)

branch of Cantor Fitzgerald, a prestigious securities

trading firm, was also fired when rumours started

Prod Comp: Le Studio Canal+, Saint Thomas Productions

spreading through the office that he was gay. He

Dist/Sales: Explore

became the target of degrading slurs and vandalism

initiated by both co-workers and, surprisingly, the

Out in South Africa

branch’s top partners. Ron Woods, a third generation

Hammer, Barbara

auto worker in Detroit, was physically attacked by

1994; USA; 51 min; Documentary

co-workers and management after they learned he

P: Barbara Hammer

was gay. He initiated a lawsuit alleging that Chrysler

had failed to provide a safe work environment.

Out in South Africa documents Barbara Hammer’s

(Filmakers Library)

experiences as an official guest of the first gay and

lesbian film festival on the African continent in June

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary, Frameline

1994, shortly after the introduction of South Africa’s

Out for a Change: Homophobia in

new interim constitution, one of the few constitu-

tions in the world which explicitly proscribes

Women’s Sports

discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.

Mosbacher, Dee

Much of the film’s material is taken from video

1995; 27 min; Documentary

workshops Hammer held in the townships. At a

time of monumental change in South African

A documentary which addresses the issues of

society, a diverse group of Black, Afrikaner and

homophobia in women’s sports. In particular,

English-speaking gays and lesbians speak frankly

homophobia is seen as a political tool which is used

about their personal histories, their desires, and their

to control the lucrative sports industry. Interviews

hopes for the future. (MQFF)

with aspiring young women athletes, coaches,

administrators and professional athletes such as Zina

Dist/Sales: Hammer, VTape, WMM

Garrison-Jackson and Martina Navratilova offer a

rare insight into the insidious nature of homophobia

Out in Suburbia

and how athletes can confront and deal with the

Walton, Pam

problem. (ACMI)

1988; USA; 29 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: WomanVision, ACMI

P: Pam Walton; W: Pam Walton

312

Eleven lesbians who represent a variety of ages,

Out of Season

occupations and ethnic backgrounds share their

experiences of their chosen lifestyle. Filmed in homes

Buck, Jeanette L.

and in work settings, they discuss family relation-

1998; USA; 98 min; Drama

ships, religion, motherhood, marriage and dealing

P: Kim McNabb, Jeanette L. Buck; W: Kim McNabb;

with discrimination.

C: Ed Talavera; E: Sharon Teo; M: Miki Navazio Cast: Carol Monda, Joy Kelly, Dennis Fecteau, Nancy

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

Daly, Rusty Clauss

Film Festival, 1989: Audience Award for Best Docu-

mentary

Micki is a leather-clad, love ‘em and leave ‘em

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary, Wolfe, NFVLS,

lesbian who finds herself in a small seaside resort

GroupeIntervention

long after the last tourist has gone, caring for her

dying Uncle Charlie. Touchy, hip, and alone, Micki

has spent her whole life fleeing from commitment,

until she meets Roberta, a friend of her uncle’s, a

small town lesbian, and an older woman. Seemingly

comfortable with her simple life, Roberta is uneasy

with Micki’s brazen advances. But a shared concern

o

and love for Charlie—and a growing attraction

neither woman can deny—begin to create a complex

and enduring bond.

Prod Comp: imj Productions

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!, JourDeFete, Wolfe

Out in Suburbia

Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The

Out in the Open

Life & Times of William Haines

Bailey, Fenton / Barbato, Randy

Barbosa, Peter

2001; USA; 45 min; Documentary

2001; USA; 54 min; Documentary

In 1930, Joan Crawford and William Haines were

Out in the Open takes us on an intimate excursion

the top box office stars in Hollywood. Although Ms

through gay sex in public places.

Crawford is remembered around the world, many

Dist/Sales: Eyebite

readers might ask, ‘William WHO?’ Alas, Haines

Out Loud

sacrificed his celluloid career for the love of not the

woman, but the MAN in his life. 70 years later, Billy

Gaulke, Cheri

Haines remains Hollywood’s only ‘out’ gay male

1995; USA; 19 min; Documentary

screen idol. Haines, a gay teen runaway, was

discovered by a talent agent and shipped to

A by-the-people, for-the-people approach to queer

Tinseltown, where he appeared in a long list of films.

youth video, Out Loud provides a forum for an age

In the Roaring Twenties, Hollywood was a haven for

group which often receives short shrift. What is it

free lovers, and since the studios controlled the press,

like to be gay bashed? Can a gay boy grow up to be

Billy and other actors lived openly gay lives without

president? Does being gay really matter? In nine

repercussion. That is until the depression changed

installments, gay and lesbian teens discuss their

American morality and in 1933, Louis B. Mayer

hopes, fears, challenges, and achievements in their

ordered Billy to leave his long-time lover, Jimmie

words, and with their own vision. (Frameline)

Shields, and publicly marry a woman. When Billy

Dist/Sales: Frameline

refused, his shining career ended for good. Shortly

after, friends Joan Crawford and Carole Lombard

Out of Our Time

helped Billy kick off a new, lucrative career decorat-

Pacilio, Casi

ing mansions for the stars, and he lived to share a

50-year love with Jimmie. 25 years after his death,

1989; USA; 70 min; Drama

Billy Haines’ furniture pieces are prized at auction,

Valeri and Marilyn are a lesbian couple living in

and though his films may not be familiar to modern

contemporary times. The film contrasts their lives

moviegoers, his most important legacy is his story of

and choices with the life lead by Valeri’s grand-

authenticity and it’s place in the early history of

mother in the 1930s.

Hollywood. (World of Wonder)

Prod Comp: Back Porch Productions

Dist/Sales: WorldOfWonder

313

Out of the Past

Cast: Ming-ming Su, Hsin Shao, Sun Yuek Tai Ling

Dupre, Jeff

A groundbreaking film from Taiwan, which centres

1997; USA; 67 min; Documentary

on a photographer who decides to help gay teenage

P: Jeff Dupre; W: Michelle Ferrari; C: Buddy Squires; E: boys who have been abandoned by their families

Toby Shimin, George O’Donnell; M: Matthias Gohl

because of their sexuality, and are struggling to

survive on the streets. He takes them in and with the

Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Stephen Spinella

help of his landlady, the boys open Taipei’s first gay

The incredible stories of gay civil rights activists are

nightclub, the Blue Angel. Chinese with English

profiled in this powerful film. Told through the eyes of

subtitles.

a high school student in Salt Lake City, Out of the Past

Dist/Sales: Facets

explores her history-making experience of forming a

Gay Straight Alliance in her public school. (Wolfe)

Outlaw

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, PBS

Lebow, Alisa

Out: Stories of Lesbian and Gay Youth

1994; USA; 26 min; Documentary

Adkin, David

Leslie Feinberg, a self-identified ‘gender outlaw’ who

o

has spent much of her life passing as a man, speaks

1993; Canada; 78 min; Documentary

with passion and intelligence about her experiences

P: Silva Basmajian; C: Joan Hutton, John Walker; E: in this video manifesto. Raw and confrontational,

Steve Weslak; M: Aaron Davis, John Lang

this videotape asks its audience to examine their

According to Scott Thompson, ‘You’re going into a

assumptions about the ‘nature’ of gender and calls

world that is changing—drastically. And in ten years,

for more sensitivity and awareness of the human

it’s going to be as uncool to hate homosexuals as it is

rights and the dignity of transgendered people.

to be a racist. So you better get ready for that world’.

(WMM)

Out offers positive images of gay youth from a

Dist/Sales: WMM

variety of racial and cultural heritages while

examining the emotional, societal and familial

Outrageous!

conflicts they face in their everyday lives. (MQFF)

Prod Comp: National Film Board of Canada

Benner, Richard

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary, Salzgeber, NFVLS, ACMI,

1977; Canada; 100 min; Comedy

Heathcliff, NFBC

P: William Marshall, Henk van der Kolk; W: Richard Benner; C: James B. Kelly; E: George Appleby;

Out: The Making of a Revolutionary

M: Paul Hoffert

Cast: Craig Russell, Hollis McLaren, Richert Easley,

Collins, Rhonda / de Vries, Sonja

Allan Moyle, Helen Shaver

2000; USA; 60 min; Documentary

A gay female impersonator and hairdresser start an

Convicted of the 1983 US Capitol building

unlikely but touching friendship with an escaped

bombing and ‘conspiring to influence, change and

schizophrenic woman who is pregnant.

protest policies and practices of the US government

through violent and illegal means’, Laura

Prod Comp: Film Consortium of Canada

Whitehorn, an out lesbian and one of six defendants

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee

in the Resistance Conspiracy Case, spent 14 years in

Outtakes

prison. Out is the story of her life and our times: five

tumultuous decades of struggle for freedom and

Brooks, Katherine / Klopfenstein, Karen

justice. Whether you agree or disagree with radical

1998; USA; 72 min; Drama

left politics, this is a documentary that will challenge

P: Katherine Brooks, Karen Klopfenstein; W: Katherine you to think about what you might be willing to risk

Brooks, Karen Klopfenstein; C: Jennifer Lane

for your own beliefs.

Cast: Katherine Brooks, Samantha, Flate, Sean Carlos

Prod Comp: Film Arts Foundation

Larkin, Karen Klopfenstein

Dist/Sales: CollinsR

The sexual tension is high when Cassy, (an

Outcasts, The

upcoming indie film director with ego and libido to

match) hires Lauren as her assistant director. Their

(aka: Niezi; The Outsiders)

filmmaking skills match perfectly, and soon the

Yu, Kan-ping

romantic side of things follows suit.

1986; Taiwan; 102 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Fearless Pictures

W: Yeong Shiang

Dist/Sales: FearlessPictures

314

Over Our Dead Bodies

M: Gionn Branoa

Marshall, Stuart

Documentary based on the experiences of Rudi, a

1991; UK; 75 min; Documentary

female-to-male transsexual. This compelling and

P: Rebecca Dobbs

cathartic piece from the director of Daddy and the

Muscle Academy, has played at film festivals around

This film powerfully documents the origins of the

the world.

AIDS activist movement in the United States. It also

chronicles the genesis of Queer Nation, springing

Awards: Berlin International Film Festival, 1993: Teddy

from a newly politicised sense of pride and commu-

Award for Best Short Film

nity fuelled by AIDS activism. Over Our Dead Bodies

Prod Comp: Crystal Eye Ltd

celebrates the real success of these movements, which

Dist/Sales: Zeitgeist

were born from the gay community’s anger and

frustration with the inadequate response of the US

P. S. Your Cat is Dead

political and medical establishments. It also sheds

Guttenberg, Steve

light on the debates surrounding the relationship

2001; USA; 90 min; Comedy

between homophobia, racism and sexism and the

P: Kule A. Clark, Christopher Vogler; W: Jeff Korn; need for the community to integrate its grief with its

p

C: David Armstrong; E: Derek Vaughn

political activism.

Cast: Steve Guttenberg, Lomardo Boyar, Cynthia

Awards: LA Outfest, 1991: Best Documentary

Watros, Shirley Knight

Dist/Sales: MayaVision

Two desperate men, thrown together one New Year’s

Over the Rainbow: Parts 1–4

Eve when their lives have crumbled, are willing to

kill each other, until they discover that each is the

USA; 2 x 60 min; Documentary

other’s only salvation. Actor-cum-fledgling writer

Combining rare archival footage with revealing

Jimmy Zoole has lost it all this New Year’s Eve. His

firsthand accounts, Over the Rainbow traces the

girlfriend is seeing someone else. His

struggles and gains of the gay rights movement in

groundbreaking yet ill-conceived one-man show has

the United States by going behind the headlines to

closed after one day. His best friend died a few short

the experiences of the people who were there. From

months ago. His soon-to-be-demolished apartment

the Stonewall riot in Greenwich Village in 1969 to

has been robbed twice. And now his beloved cat is

the discussions of the possible future of the gay and

dead. But Jimmy’s downward spiral is just begin-

lesbian rights movement.

ning. The aforementioned burglar has returned, and

Jimmy’s caught him. This New Year’s will be like no

Override

other, as Jimmy holds Eddie the burglar hostage for

an emotionally charged, soul-searching, and often

Ginsburg, Lisa

hilarious night.

2000; USA; 10 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: TLA

A femme office meets a butch bike courier in this

rock narrative.

Pandora’s Box

Dist/Sales: Riveter

(aka: Die Büchse der Pandora)

Oy Gay

Pabst, G. W.

1928; Germany; 110 min; B&W; Drama

Haber, Rosalind

P: George C. Horsetzky, Seymour Nebenzal;

1992; UK; 31 min; Documentary

W: G. W. Pabst, Laszlo Wajda, Joseph Fleisler;

C: Günther Krampf; M: Timothy Brock

Lesbian and gay Jews straddle two communities that

Cast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Franz Lederer, Alice

have much in common in terms of history and

experience but who rarely recognise the similarities

Roberts, Carl Gotz

of their situations and often view each other with a

Brooks and Pabst’s collaboration did not win favour

great deal of suspicion. An affectionate examination

in Hollywood or Germany and this film was not

and celebration of being lesbian or gay and Jewish.

only censored, it received limited release in Europe

and the USA, as well as a cool reception from critics.

Dist/Sales: MayaVision

It took decades before Pandora’s Box was recognised

P(l)ain Truth

as the classic it is seen as today. Brooks plays Lulu,

an insatiable woman who uses men for erotic

Pohjola, Ilppo

pleasure and then seduces or kills them. She finally

1993; Finland; 15 min; Documentary

reaps what she sows at the hand of Jack the Ripper.

W: Ilppo Pohjola; C: Arto Kaivanto; E: Heikki Salo; An important film for lesbians as it has a well-315

developed lesbian character, the Countess, who falls

as entertainers in nightclubs. We meet Cindy, a

in love with Lulu.

popular dancer, who has fallen in love with a

Prod Comp: Nero Films

representative of the Australian High Commission.

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ACMI, BFI

They live together in the Australian compound,

which lands him in trouble. He is transferred to

Panic Bodies

Australia, but gives up his job and returns to be with

Cindy. Several anthropologists, including Derek

Hoolboom, Mike

Freeman and Tom Pollard comment on the phenom-

1998; Canada; 70 min; Experimental

enon. Paradise Bent brings up issues of culture and

W: Mike Hoolboom

gender and the complexities of sexual identity.

Cast: Tom Chomont, Ed Johnson

(Filmakers Library)

Filmed in the shadow of AIDS, Panic Bodies is a

Prod Comp: Re Angle Productions

testament to the permanent impermanence of the

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary

flesh. The film’s six parts show the range of

Hoolboom’s engagement with mortality, from rage

Paragraph 175

to reverie.

Epstein, Robert / Friedman, Jeffrey

p Dist/Sales: CFMDC

1999; Germany, UK, USA; 81 min; Documentary

Pansexual Public Porn

P: Janet Cole, Michael Ehrenzweig, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey

Friedman; C: Bernd Meiners; E: Dawn Logsdon;

(aka: The Adventures of Hans and Del)

M: Tibor Szemzö

Volcano, Del LaGrace

An estimated 10,000–15,000 men were imprisoned

1998; UK; 11 min; Documentary

in Nazi concentration camps in the 1930s and 40s

Female to male transsexuals Del and Hans, armed

for the crime of having same-sex relationships. Only

with camcorders, cruise public parks to get it on

10 of those men survive today, and until now, they

with other boys on film.

have not spoken openly about their histories. In this

riveting documentary firsthand accounts of queer life

Dist/Sales: Volcano

in Nazi Germany are delicately and compassionately

Paper Cranes

drawn out of gay and lesbian Holocaust survivors

and interwoven with astonishing archival footage.

Reed, Peter

Made by the team responsible for The Celluloid

1991; USA; 18 min; Drama

Closet and narrated by Rupert Everett. (MQFF)

Set during three different periods (1950, 1970 and

Prod Comp: Channel 4, Cinemax, HBO, Telling

1990), Paper Cranes investigates aspects of male

Pictures, Zero Film GmbH

bonding while simultaneously examining the

Dist/Sales: Cowboy, NewYorker, Wolfe, NFVLS, ACMI,

cultural notions of an honourable death.

VideoAmericain

Paradise Bent

Parallel Sons

(aka: Fa’afafines in Paradise)

Young, John G.

1995; USA; 93 min; Drama

Croall, Heather / Wunderman, Eva

P: Nancy Larsen, James Spione; W: John G. Young;

1999; Australia; 51 min; Documentary

C: Matthew M. Howe; E: James Spione, John G.

P: Heather Croall, Alison Elder

Young; M: Ed Menasche

This is one of the first explorations of the Samoan

Cast: Gabriel Mick, Lawrence Mason

fa’afafines, boys who are raised as girls, fulfilling a

traditional role in Samoan culture. The film shows

Seth is an aspiring artist who lives a boring life in a

how in the large Samoan family there may be one or

quiet upstate New York town. But all that changes

two fa’afafines who are not only accepted but

when he meets Knowledge, a black escapee from a

appreciated. They cheerfully share the women’s

detention centre. A deep connection forms between

traditional work of cooking, cleaning and caring for

the two men as they embark on a journey of freedom

children and the elderly. Today’s fa’afafines are

and escape.

becoming more westernised and look more like drag

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

queens. Dance has always been an important part of

Film Festival, 1995: Audience Award for Best Feature

Samoan culture. From an early age, the fa’afafines

Prod Comp: Black Brook Films, Eureka Productions

dance the female role, and many continue to dance

Dist/Sales: Forefront, Greycat, Strand

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Parents of Gays

Parting Glances

Lacey, Margaret

Sherwood, Bill

1983; Australia; 20 min; Documentary

1986; USA; 90 min; Drama

Six parents talk about their experiences of coming to

P: Yoram Mandel, Arthur Silverman; W: Bill Sherwood; terms with the homosexuality of their children. The

C: Jacek Laskus; E: Bill Sherwood

video stresses the value of sharing difficult experi-

Cast: John Bolger, Richard Ganoung, Steve Buscemi,

ences with others.

Patrick Tull, Adam Nathan

Dist/Sales: ACMI

Two men, Robert and Michael, attempt to keep

their relationship strong and meaningful when

Paris is Burning

Robert is transferred overseas to a job in Kenya.

Other pressures come into play, including the fact

Livingston, Jennie

that Michael’s ex-lover is dying of AIDS. The

1990; USA; 102 min; Documentary

transfer could mean the end of Robert and Michael’s

P: Nigel Finch, Davis Lacy, Jennie Livingston;

six-year relationship.

C: Paul Gibson; E: Jonathan Oppenheim

Prod Comp: Rondo Productions

Cast: Anji Xtravaganza, André Christian, Dorian Corey

p

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, TLA, October, BFI, FirstRunFeatures,

Paris is Burning is the result of the five years that

Palace, ACMI

filmmaker Jennie Livingston spent amongst New

York City’s black and Hispanic transvestite commu-

Partners

nity. Often poor and homeless the young gay men

and drag queens form ‘houses’ which conduct dances

Burrows, James

and balls dedicated to vogueing: the celebration of

1982; USA; 98 min; Drama

fashion, style and beauty. This is a fascinating

P: Aaron Russo; W: Francis Veber; C: Victor J. Kemper; documentary which confronts the viewer with a

E: Danford B. Greene, Stephen Lovejoy;

blurring of traditional notions of gender and

M: Georges Delerue

sexuality, it also celebrates sexual, ethnic and racial

Cast: Ryan O’Neal, John Hurt, Kenneth McMillan,

diversity and difference. Features a great soundtrack

Robyn Douglas, Darrell Larson

of house and funk music.

Two Los Angeles cops, one straight, the other gay,

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film investigate the murder of a homosexual. In order to

Festival, 1990: Audience Award for Best Documentary;

lure the murderer out they take an apartment

Sundance Film Festival, 1991: Best Documentary

together and pose as a gay couple. All the homo-

Prod Comp: Off-White Productions

sexual characters that appear are absolute clichés,

Dist/Sales: 21stCentury, ACMI, Swank, NFVLS

limp-wristed and lisping. It is supposed to be a

parody of Cruising but turns out to be even more

Paris was a Woman

offensive.

Schiller, Greta

Prod Comp: Paramount, Titan Productions

1996; USA; 75 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, Paramount

P: Frances Berrigan, Greta Schiller, Andrea Weiss;

Party Favor, The

W: Andrea Weiss; C: Nurith Aviv, Greta Schiller, Renato Tonelli, Fawn Yacker; E: Greta Schiller

Udelson, Lisa

Cast: Gisele Freund, Berthe Cheyrergue, Catherine R.

1994; USA; 21 min; Comedy

Stimpson

What happens when lesbian couple, Debbie and

A fascinating film portrait of the women writers,

Susie attend Debbie’s future sister-in-law’s bridal

artists and photographers who flocked to the left

shower? It’s not what you might expect in Lisa

bank in the early decades of this century, Paris was a

Udelson’s very funny, bright comedy about

Woman, recreates the mood and flavour of this

untraditional people caught up in the preparations

female artistic community in Paris during its most

for the age-old tradition of marriage. Also starring

magical era. Among the community of women on

David Schwimmer ( Friends), The Party Favor, whose

the Left Bank, many were lesbian or bisexual, and all

title has more than one meaning, is a sharply etched,

felt a primary emotional if not sexual attachment to

cleverly written and good natured film. Wedding

other women. (Wolfe)

showers were never so entertaining! (1997 Toronto

Dist/Sales: Zeitgeist, Wolfe, ACMI

Jewish Film Festival)

317

Party Monster

nature, who ran away to marry a dancer not

knowing he iwas gay. We also meet a mysterious

Bailey, Fenton / Barbato, Randy

young woman who steals Hoskins’ heart but turns

1997; UK, USA; 60 min; Documentary

out to his father’s mistress.

P: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato; E: Scott Gamzon, Prod Comp: Hollywood Pictures, Touchwood Pacific

Tim Atzinger

Partners

The astonishing, true story of what really happened

Dist/Sales: BuenaVista

behind the scenes at the Limelight nightclub in New

York City. From Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato,

Passengers

comes the shockumentary that reveals the NYC

Club-Kid turned cold-blooded murderer. (Picture

Fleck, Paula / Zuckerman, Francine

This!)

2000; Canada; 15 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Cinemax, Channel 4, World of Wonder

Evocative, passionate and poetic, this film is a

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!, Wolfe

compelling and moving exploration of the relation-

ship between a daughter and her father as she

Party Safe with DiAna and Bambi

matures from childhood to adulthood. On the day

p

of his funeral, she draws on the legacy of his love,

Spiro, Ellen

understanding and compassion and comes to term

1992; USA; 25 min; Documentary

with her sexual identity.

Sequel to DiAna’s Hair Ego. Party Safe takes viewers Dist/Sales: CFMDC

on a relentlessly sexy journey to safer sex game show-

style parties across America. Explores a method of

promoting safe sex in a very explicit fashion.

Pasajes

(aka: Passages)

Calparsoro, Daniel

1996; Spain; 86 min; Drama

P: Agustin Almodovar; W: Daniel Calparsoro;

C: Kiko de la Rica; E: José Torrecilla; M: Alberto Iglesias Cast: Najwa Nimri, Alfredo Villa, Charo Lopez, Ion

Gabella

Gabi is a young petty thief with little direction in life

who is part of a gang who are constantly being

hounded by the police. She manages to convince her

friends that they can help her escape her bleak life.

Passengers

Carmina, an alcoholic cleaning woman becomes

Gabi’s key to escape, and they begin a relationship

Passing Resemblance

along the way. Spanish with English subtitles.

Wascou, Daniel

Prod Comp: El Deseo SA

2000; USA; 16 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: Goldwyn

This beautiful film adds a twist to the coming out

Passed Away

story, as well as lashings of sexual tension and

realistically inarticulate teenage dialogue.

Peters, Charlie

1992; USA; 96 min; Comedy

Passion of Remembrance, The

P: Larry Brezner, Timothy Marx; W: Charlie Peters; C: Arthur Albert; E: Harry Keramidas, Garth Craven; Blackwood, Maureen / Julien, Isaac

M: Richard Gibbs

1986; UK; 82 min; Drama

Cast: Bob Hoskins, Jack Warden, William L. Petersen,

Cast: Anni Domingo, Joseph Charles, Antonia Thomas,

Diana Bellamy

Jim Findley

When his father suddenly drops dead, a man is

Produced by Sankofa, a collective of gay filmmakers

forced to organise the funeral. In the meantime we

and black feminists, The Passion of Remembrance is

are introduced to his colourful and quirky family

structured around the confrontation between a black

which includes his mother and his very pregnant, yet

radical woman and a young gay black man. Using

unmarried, sister. He has another sister, rebellious in

montages of documentary and dramatised footage,

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they act as devices to examine the complexities and

Lucy Lawless ( Xena) appears in this seductive and

disputes of the black experience in Britain from the

sexy tale about a young Maori woman who meets

1950s to the present day.

another woman with an even more impressive tow

Prod Comp: Sankofa Film

truck than her boyfriend. It’s a hot and oppressive

Dist/Sales: TWN, WMM

afternoon when Sal discovers unexpected desire and

crosses the invisible line between merely seeing

Past Caring

beauty and experiencing it.

Eyre, Richard

Prod Comp: Oceanic Parker Films

1985; UK; 80 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: NZFC, FirstRunFeatures, BFI

P: Kenith Trodd; W: Tom Clarke;

Peccatum Mutum

C: Kenneth MacMillan; M: Stanley Myers

Cast: Denholm Elliott, Emlyn Williams, Coonie Booth,

(aka: The Silent Sin)

Joan Greenwood

Silver, Suzie / Steger, Lawrence

A rather roguish man approaching old age finds

1988; USA; 35 min; Comedy

himself incarcerated in a home for senile senior

This film explores relationships among cloistered

p

citizens. Williams plays an elderly homosexual who

nuns. Using gothic expressionistic sets, humour,

is determined to relive his youth.

serious kissing and melodrama, this work expresses

the contradictions and ironic similarities between

Paul Cadmus: Enfant Terrible at 80

physical desire and spiritual fervour. A rare glimpse

at the other side of catholic guilt.

Sutherland, David

1987; USA; 57 min; Documentary

Pedagogue

P: David Sutherland; C: Joe Seamans;

E: Michael Colonna

Marshall, Stuart

Cast: Jon Andersson, Paul Cadmus

1988; UK; 10 min; Comedy

A documentary on the life and work of the artist

Cast: Neil Bartlett

Paul Cadmus, who stylised the homoerotic painting.

Performing artist Neil Bartlett plays a gay lecturer

His first painting, called The Fleet’s In, was consid-

whose attempt to go back into the closet is betrayed

ered outrageous and scandalous by the Navy. He

by the contents of his briefcase.

claims that he was never trying to be controversial,

but that the Navy did great things for his career by

Peixe-Lua

causing such a furore.

(aka: Moon-Fish)

Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer’s End

Morais, Jose Alvaro

1999; France, Portugal, Spain; 124 min; Drama

Bramer, Monte

P: Paulo Branco; W: Jose Alvaro Morais, Jeanne Waltz; 1997; USA; 90 min; Documentary

C: Edgar Moura; E: Jackie Bastide; M: Riccardo Del Fra P: Lesli Klainberg; W: Monte Bramer; E: Joshua Butler, Cast: Beatriz Batarda, Marcello Urgeghe, Ricardo Aibeo,

Chris Reiss; M: Jon Ehrlich

Afonso Melo

A provocative and deeply personal film biography of

the late gay writer and activist Paul Monette. Shot

A young Portuguese woman (Maria) who is about to

over the course of three and a half years, Monette’s

be married decides it’s not what she wants to do after

life and work is explored from his seemingly idyllic

all. In a rather confusing narrative, it turns out that

New England boyhood and his closeted adolescence,

Maria’s father’s bisexual Godson Gabriel has had sex

to his development into a successful writer, commit-

with both Maria, and her two siblings—Ze Maria,

ted lover and activist, until his death from AIDS in

and married bisexual Alfonso. Portuguese with

February 1995. (First Run/Icarus)

English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures, Cinemax, FirstRun/Icarus

Prod Comp: Madragoa Films, Gemini Films

Dist/Sales: Gemini

Peach

Pencas de Bicuda

Parker, Christine

1993; New Zealand; 16 min; Drama

Pinheiro, Dacio

P: Caterina de Nave; W: Christine Parker;

2001; Brazil; 10 min; Documentary

C: Stuart Dryburgh; M: David Bridgman

Bianca’s exotic video diary, complete with interviews

Cast: Tania Simon, Joel Tobeck, Lucy Lawless

and performances.

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Penitentiary

committed to one another, and the most extravagant

‘women in love’ story ever made in China. (2002

Fanaka, Jamaa

London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

1979; USA; 99 min; Drama

Mandarin with English subtitles.

P: Jamaa Fanaka; W: Jamaa Fanaka; C: Marty Ollstein; E: Betsy Blankett; M: Frankie Gaye

Cast: Leon Isaac Kennedy, Hazel Spear, Thommy

Pollard, Badja Djola

This Blaxploitation flick finds Too Sweet Gordon

behind bars, after spending one hot night with Linda

and ending up being unfairly convicted of a murder

that Linda actually committed. To survive in prison

he begins training for the fight of his life, the

welterweight crown and his manhood. A hard-

hitting look at violence, corruption and homosexual-

ity in prison life.

p Prod Comp: Jerry Gross Productions

Peony Pavilion

Pensao Globo

Peony Pavilion, The

Mueller, Matthais

Chen, Kuo-fu

1997; Germany, Portugal; 15 min; Experimental

1995; Taiwan; 95 min; Drama

W: Kuo-fu Chen, Shih-chieh Chen;

A man facing his approaching death takes what is

C: Christopher Doyle; M: Wei-ji Lin

perhaps his last journey and ends up in ‘Pensao

Cast: Rene Liu, Ben-yu Chang, Shin Tien

Globo’ in Lisbon, where he sets out on aimless

excursions throughout the city. With over-saturated

Adapted from the traditional Chinese Opera and

colours, both sanguine and succulent, vision swims

updated to contemporary Taipei, The Peony Pavilion

and slips away in echoing super-impositions. These

mixes sexual ambiguities with supernatural melo-

overlapping exposures convey a sense of the

drama in a campy yet sensitive style. Lily is troubled

by a recurring dream in which she falls in love with a

permeable boundaries between life and death.

handsome young scholar from ancient times. One

(CFMDC)

day upon seeing the face of the man from her

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

dreams on a commercial billboard, she accidentally

Peony Pavilion

falls from a flat and dies. The person who is featured

in the billboard is in fact an up and coming female

(aka: Youyuan jingmeng)

singer Yuk-mei. Some years later, Yuk-mei moves

into the flat where Lily once lived. She starts to have

Yonfan

the same dream as Lily. (2001 Hong Kong Lesbian

2001; Hong Kong; 122 min; Drama

& Gay Film Festival)

P: Kunhou Chen, Ann Hui; W: Yonfan; C: Henry Chung; E: Chileung Kong; M: Antony Lun, Yun-ging Ye Peoria Babylon

Cast: Joey Wong, Daniel Wu, Rie Miyazawa

Set in Suzhou amongst the decaying nobility of

Diller, Steven

1930s China, Peony Pavilion is the final instalment

1994; USA; 90 min; Comedy

in director Yonfan’s trilogy about ‘alternative’ love.

W: Steven Diller

The story centres on Jade, a beautiful courtesan, and

Cast: David Drake, Ann Cusack, Matthew Pestorius

her decidedly modern, cross-dressing cousin Lan.

Worlds collide in this screwball comedy when Candy

Lan is smitten, yet the women initially only express

Dineen and gay fashion victim Jon Ashe, owners of a

their longing for each other through the songs of

flat broke Peoria II art gallery, team up with a con

traditional Chinese Opera, as several men come and

artist to come up with a harebrained publicity

go from the courtesan’s life. Only the surprise of

scheme that happens to trigger a screwball series of

seeing Lan with a male lover jolts Jade into realising

events that lead to the destruction of the museum

the adoration she’s been taking for granted. While

after an explosive shoot-out. At the end, nothing is

Yonfan may be a little coy for some in depicting the

left standing except Candy and Jon’s friendship and

women in love, this is a sumptuous and bold

unfortunately the rest of Peoria. (Wolfe)

melodrama about two women who are passionately

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

320

Pepi, Luci and Bom

likes the other. Reunited at their father’s funeral,

Ryan surprises Theo by revealing that he is gay. As

Almodóvar, Pedro

Theo is drawn into Ryan’s private world, the two

1980; Spain; 80 min; Comedy

brothers develop a complex, loving bond neither

P: Pepon Corominas, Pastora Delgado, Ester Rambal;

ever thought possible. (Wolfe)

W: Pedro Almodóvar; C: Paco Femenia; E: Pepe Salcedo Prod Comp: New Real Films, Téléfilm Canada

Cast: Carmen Maura, Felix Rotaeta, Olvido ‘Alaska’

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

Gara, Eva Siva

After she is raped by a policeman, Pepi seeks revenge

Performance

and enlists the help of her friend, Bom, her lesbian

lover and members of Bom’s band. When she

Cammell, Donald / Roeg, Nicolas

discovers her friends have mistakenly beaten up the

1970; UK; 105 min; Drama

rapist’s twin brother, Pepi embarks on another

P: Sandford Lieberson; W: Donald Cammell;

revenge plot by taking knitting lessons from the

C: Nicolas Roeg; E: Antony Gibbs, Brian Smedley-

policeman’s drab wife, Luci. After Luci is introduced

Aston; M: Randy Newman, Jack Nitzsche

to the world of Pepi and Bom she leaves her

Cast: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michele

husband. Spanish with English subtitles.

Breton, John Burdon

p

Prod Comp: Figaro Films

James Fox is Chas, a working-class London hit man,

Dist/Sales: Cinevista, ACMI

who is violent, cunning and ruthless. His growing

arrogance results in a murder which sets his gangster

Peppermills

boss against him. On the run, and fearing for his

life, Chas holes up in the basement apartment of an

Hegner, Isabel

ex-rock star who lives with his two bisexual girl-

1998; Switzerland, USA; 14 min; Comedy

friends. The two men experience an initial repulsion

An obsessive thief wines and dines her dates in order

then increasing fascination with each other, and

to get to her booty—peppermills.

under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs, they

begin slowly to merge personas. This startling,

original film uses the techniques and experiments of

underground cinema to investigate the dislocation

suffered by both bourgeois and working-class

sexualities when confronted by the permissiveness of

the hippie subculture. Fox, hard and masculine, and

Jagger, soft and androgynous, both give two superb

homoerotic performances.

Prod Comp: Goodtimes Enterprises

Dist/Sales: Roadshow ReelMovies, Warner

Persona

Bergman, Ingmar

The Prefect Son

1966; Sweden; 81 min; B&W; Drama

Perfect Son, The

P: Lars-Owe Carlberg; W: Ingmar Bergman;

C: Sven Nykvist; E: Ulla Ryghe; M: Lars Johan Werle Farlinger, Leonard

Cast: Liv Ullman, Bibi Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand,

2000; Canada; 93 min; Drama

Margaretha Krook

P: Jennifer Jonas; W: Leonard Farlinger; C: Barry Stone; A nurse begins to identify with her mentally ill

E: Glenn Berman; M: Ron Sures

patient, and then has a mental breakdown. The

Cast: Colm Feore, David Cubitt, Chandra West, John

patient, an actress, decides not to speak again and is

Boylan

placed in the care of the nurse. A struggle for

Secrets exert powerful forces in every family. When

identity begins as the intimacy between the women

two brothers finally come clean, which one is the

increases. An absorbing and compelling drama,

perfect son? Both brothers’ lives seem headed in

possibly Bergman’s best film. Swedish with English

different directions. Theo has spent his life in and

subtitles.

out of drug rehab centres, while Ryan has enjoyed

Prod Comp: Svensk Filmindustri

success as a conservative lawyer. Neither particularly

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, MGM, UA

321

Personal Best (1982)

for short documentary on the experience that is

women’s personals’. Three women talk about their

Towne, Robert

various expectations and experiences with lesbian

1982; USA; 124 min; Drama

personal columns.

P: Robert Towne; W: Robert Towne;

Prod Comp: Australian Film TV & Radio School

C: Michael Chapman; E: Bud Smith, Jere Huggins, Ned Dist/Sales: AFTRS

Humphreys, Jacqueline Cambas, Walt Mulconery;

M: Jack Nitzsche, Jill Fraser

Perverted Justice

Cast: Mariel Hemingway, Patrice Donnelly, Scott

Glenn, Kenny Moore

Clark, Donna

Two elite woman athletes have a close relationship

1996; UK; 51 min; Documentary

that eventually turns to love. Their relationship

P: Valentine Schmidt

collapses as one of them accuses the other of

Producer Valentine Schmidt asks, ‘Do lesbians kill

deliberately setting her up to be injured, and the

more than other women or are they being targeted

younger one eventually finds ‘true love’ with a man.

for capital punishment?’ Of 20,000 convicted

Could be considered a lesbian exploitation film as

murderers in the US, 1% receive the death penalty;

p

there are a lot of scenes in the sauna and shots of the

and of all the women on death row, 40% are lesbian.

women’s athletic bodies, but has long been a lesbian

They are also predominantly poor and/or women of

favourite.

colour. Hot on the heels of Butterfly Kiss and Basic

Prod Comp: Warner, Geffen

Instinct, Perverted Justice fiercely examines how pre-Dist/Sales: Warner, Swank, Wolfe, ACMI

existing prejudice influences prosecution. Through

news footage, commentary from lawyers, scholars,

and activists, and an interview with Andrea Jackson

(sentenced to death for killing a police officer),

Perverted Justice uses the power of media to give faces

to those dehumanised by the American trial process.

(21st San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

Film Festival)

Dist/Sales: Channel4

Petals

Natarajan, Suresh

2001; India; 16 min; Drama

Two years ago the newspapers in Kerala South India

broke a shocking tale of two young lesbian girls who

Personal Best (1982)

ended their lives beneath a train. A note they carried

Personal Best (1991)

stated that they were ending their lives as they had

failed in their long struggle to live together in the

Kwietniowski, Richard

harsh and hypocritical society of Kerala. This film

1991; UK; 20 min; Documentary

picks up on the agony of those innocent girls and

A celebration of lesbian and gay involvement in

many others who still struggle for their emotional

sport and fitness training that asks: What are the

rights.

appeals of sport and exercise for participants and

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

spectators? How do sport and sexuality interact? Are

we the only ones honest enough to acknowledge it?

Peter Allen: The Boy from Oz

Gay London swimmers break a major taboo by

MacLean, Stephen

swimming naked, and lesbian footballers fondle on

1995; Australia; 55 min; Documentary

and off the field. (MQFF)

P: Ben Gannon, Fran Moore

Prod Comp: Alfalfa, Channel 4

Cast: Peter Allen, Jack Thompson

Personals

The story of Peter Allen, Australia’s beloved variety

entertainer and songwriter. As one of the first openly

Shadbolt, Jane / Vivienne, Sonja

gay entertainers, Allen won a unique stardom with a

1996; Australia; 10 min; Documentary

mainstream public who loved him for his honesty.

W: Jane Shadbolt, Sonja Vivienne

Prod Comp: ABC

‘Seeking stories. Sleazy, sexy or sordid tales sought

Dist/Sales: Minotaur, ACMI

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Peter’s Friends

garbage; and makes fetishes of the man’s cast off

motorcycle gloves and speedos. When he is rejected,

Branagh, Kenneth

Sergio realises that he is totally alone. The intensity

1992; UK; 101 min; Comedy, Drama

of its sex scenes and the charisma of its sultry star are

P: Kenneth Branagh, Martin Bergman; W: Rita Rudner, sure to grab you right from the opening scene.(MQFF)

Martin Bergman; C: Roger Lanser; E: Andrew Marcus; Portuguese with English subtitles .

M: Gavin Greenaway

Prod Comp: ICAM, RTP, Rosa Filmes

Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Stephen

Dist/Sales: Fortissimo, PictureThis!

Fry, Rita Rudner, Emma Thompson

Ten years after a close-knit group of six university

Phantom Pain

friends celebrated New Year’s Eve with the farewell

performance of their musical-comedy revue, they

Matsumoto, Neil

meet again on New Year’s Eve. Amid the seasonal

1996; USA; 83 min; B&W; Drama

trappings and stirring music from their youth, the

P: Tina Alexis; W: Neil Matsumoto; C: Jeff Wilkins; friends slip easily back into their relationships. It’s a

E: Jeffrey Schwarts

weekend of high comedy and drama, quarrels and

Cast: Tina Alexis, Holly Woodlawn, Scott Ramirez,

p

reconciliations, as old friendships are tested and

Sean Cory

renewed while the dawn of a new year approaches.

A mesmerising slice-of-life study of a transsexual

The host, Peter, reveals his homosexuality and HIV-

looking for love in all the wrong places. The film’s

positive status.

central character Christy Nichols meets with her

Prod Comp: Channel 4, Goldwyn, Renaissance, BBC

share of hard to watch tragic events (her confused

Dist/Sales: BuenaVista, ReelMovies, TLA,

Johns inevitably turn on her whether she begs them

SamuelGoldwyn, Swank

to love her or leave her alone), but it is the searing

and gentle emotion engendered through the startling

superstar-like debut of lead actor Tina Alexis that

shines through the loudest. (2000 Silverlake Film

Festival)

Prod Comp: White Streak Productions

Philadelphia

Demme, Jonathan

1993; USA; 115 min; Drama

P: Edward Saxon, Jonathan Demme; W: Ron Nyswaner; C: Tak Fujimoto; E: Craig McKay; M: Howard Shore, Phantom

Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young

Phantom

Cast: Tom Hanks, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen,

Antonio Banderas, Denzel Washington

(aka: O Fantasma)

Up-and-coming young lawyer Andrew Becket has

Rodrigues, Joao Pedro

been fired from his prestigious law firm. His former

2000; Portugal; 90 min; Drama

colleagues claim he’s just not good enough; Andrew

P: Amandio Coroado; W: Paulo Rebelo, Joao Pedro

says he’s been fired because he’s got AIDS. Andrew

Rodrigues, Jose Neves, Alexandre Melo; C: Rui Poças

then defends his reputation with a brilliant attorney

Cast: Ricardo Meneses, Bertriz Torcato, Eurico Vieira,

and battles against prejudice and fear of homosexu-

Andre Barbosa

als. Critically acclaimed, well-acted tear-jerker.

Handsome young garbage collector Sergio spends his

Awards: Academy Awards, 1993: Best Actor (Tom

nights working on the streets of Lisbon, and his

Hanks)

spare time engaged in the pursuit of passionate but

Prod Comp: TriStar Pictures, Clinica Estetico

anonymous sex with strangers under unusual

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Col-Tri, FilmsInc, ACMI, Swank

circumstances, such as a cop he finds handcuffed in

the back of his own car. Although his co-worker

Pianese Nunzio

Fatima offers him romance, he can only respond to

(aka: Fourteen in May; Sacred Silence)

her with violence. When Sergio meets the man of his

dreams, his interest quickly takes a dark turn towards

Capuano, Antonio

obsession. He breaks into the young man’s house to

1996; Italy; 115 min; Drama

mark his territory like a dog; sorts through his

P: Gianni Minervini; W: Antonio Capuano; C: Antonio 323

Baldoni; E: Gregiò Franchini; M: Umberto Guarino affection of their close circle of friends, which includes

Cast: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Emanuele Gargiulo,

Catherine Deneuve, Rupert Everett, Jean-Paul

Manuela Martinelli, Tonini Taiuti, Rosario de Cicco

Gaultier, Nina Hagen and Marc Almond, who all share

The sounds, smells, sights of Naples flesh out the

their love and admiration for these grand doyens of

sensuality, carnality, and humanity of a story wherein

Parisian gay life in this illuminating documentary.

the pressures of love, crime and survival are pitted

(1998 New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

one against the other with inexorable force. Within

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer

this tableau vivant, Nunzio, a choir boy from a

broken family, has, for the first time in his thirteen

Pillow Book, The

and a half years, found the affection and guidance he

Greenaway, Peter

has always craved in his teacher, mentor and lover,

1996; France, UK; 126 min; Drama

the local priest, Lorenzo. The priest, locked into a

P: Kees Kasander; W: Peter Greenaway;

personal and social struggle against the cammorristi

C: Sacha Vierny; E: Peter Greenaway, Chris Wyatt who control the city’s dilapidated neighbourhoods,

inspires his flock to resist the lure of organised

Cast: Ewan McGregor, Vivian Wu, Yoshi Oida, Ken

crime’s easy money. Eventually, Nunzio and

Ogata

p

Lorenzo’s liaison becomes the target of both

Jerome is a bisexual Englishman who is involved

criminals and the police who aim to destroy the one

with Nagiko, an obsessed young woman, and an

rare thing that is life affirming in this harsh social

older man who is one of the object’s of Nagiko’s

order. Italian with English subtitles. (MQFF)

obsession.

Prod Comp: AMA Films, Instituto Luce, GMF,

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Cinepix

Mediaset

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!, Wolfe

Pillow Talk

Piccadilly Pickups

Gordon, Michael

1959; USA; 102 min; Comedy

Peart, Amory

P: Ross Hunter, Martin Melcher; W: Maurice Richlin, 1999; UK; 88 min; Drama

Clarence Greene; C: Arthur E. Arling;

Cast: Alexis Arquette, B. J. Wallace, Chris Green, Spike

E: Milton Carruth; M: Frank De Vol

St John

Cast: Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Thelma

A quirky, satirical seduction into the glorious world

Ritter, Nick Adams

of prostitution and pornography from Piccadilly,

Jan Morrow, a single interior designer has to share a

Manchester to Piccadilly, London. Teenager Jake sets

telephone party-line with Brad Allen, a playboy

off for London with the promise of making easy

musician. His best-friend, a millionaire, is in love

money as a rent boy. But difficulties arise as he

with Jan. Brad thinks it would be fun to pretend to

breaches another boy’s patch, is pimped by a pro and

be someone else and see if he can woo Jan away from

is tempted into the sleazy world of gender-bending

his friend. Things turn a little crazy, however, when

pornography by the worldly Henri De La Plus Oooh

he finds himself falling in love for the first time. The

Arrgh. (Millivres)

problem: Jan hates Brad. This crazy, funny love story

Dist/Sales: Millivres

is one of Hollywood’s camp classics, a delicious

comedy about sex, virginity, and the games girls and

Pierre et Gilles, Love Stories

boys play with each other. Though initially criticised

as ‘superficial’ by contemporary critics, in hindsight,

Aho, Michael

the Hudson/Day romantic comedies still seem fresh

1997; France; 57 min; Documentary

in comparison to the ‘serious’ Hollywood fare of its

With over 20 years of collaboration behind them,

day. In part this comes from the playfulness with

Pierre and Gilles, a photographer and a painter, have

which Hudson and Day approach their roles,

become perhaps the most important pop artists of

immersing themselves in their characters (she’s pure

their generation. They are truly promiscuous cultural

and virginal, he’s manly and a womaniser) at the

borrowers, blending religious imagery from East and

same time investing enough subversive ‘queerness’ in

West, glamour photography, kitsch art, and erotica, to

their roles to amuse those amongst us who may or

create images of paradoxical naiveté and sophistication.

may not be heterosexual. (ACMI)

Pierre et Gilles, Love Stories follows a year in the life of Awards: Academy Awards, 1959: Best Screenplay

this glam couple, revealing not only the precision of

Prod Comp: Universal, Arwin Production

their working methods, but also the intimacy and

Dist/Sales: ACMI

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Pink Angels, The

male hustler escapes the reality of his street life

through a series of highly exotic costumed and

Brown, Larry G.

sadomasochistic fantasies. Still astonishingly explicit

1971; USA; 90 min; Comedy

after all those years.

P: Patrick J. Murphy, Gary Radzat; W: Larry G. Brown, Dist/Sales: Potential, Strand, NFVLS, ACMI

Margaret McPherson; E: Grant Hoag; M: Mike Settles Cast: Tom Basham, Don Haggerty, John Alderman

Pink Pimpernel, The

A gang of transvestite bikers heads out for Los

Angeles. A queer cult film classic, a camp version of

Greyson, John

those bikie genre films like Easy Rider.

1989; Canada; 32 min; Experimental

Prod Comp: Plateau Productions

Deals with an underground AIDS treatment drug-

smuggling network, highlighted by classics of gay

Pink Flamingos

cinema reworked as public service announcements.

Waters, John

Pink Triangle: A Study of Prejudice

1973; USA; 95 min; Comedy

Against Gays & Lesbians

P: John Waters; W: John Waters; C: John Waters; p

E: John Waters

1982; USA; 35 min; Documentary

Cast: Divine, Edith Massey, David Lochary, Cookie

Documentary which takes a look at the nature of

Mueller, Mink Stoll

discrimination against lesbians and gay men and

Sleaze queen Divine lives in a caravan with her loony

challenges some of society’s attitudes towards

hippie son Crackers and her 250-pound mother

homosexuality. It also examines historical and

Mama Edie, living up to the tag of ‘the filthiest

contemporary patterns of racial, religious, political

people alive’. But nearby competition is looming in

and sexual persecution.

the form of Connie and Raymond Marble, who sell

Prod Comp: Cambridge Documentary Films

heroin to schoolchildren and kidnap and impregnate

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, Cambridge, ACMI

female hitchhikers, selling the babies to lesbian

couples. Finally, they challenge Divine directly, and

Pink Ulysses

battle begins. Madcap John Waters at his politically

incorrect best.

de Kuyper, Eric

Prod Comp: Dreamland

1989; The Netherlands; 100 min; Experimental

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, FineLine, NewLine

P: Suzanne van Voorst; W: Eric de Kuyper;

C: Stef Tijdink; E: Ton De Graaf

Cast: Eric De Bruyn, Jos Ijland, Jose Teunissen

A sex-drenched oddity from the director of Naughty

Boys, this is a nostalgic tribute to those thinly

disguised homoerotic bodybuilding magazines of the

1950s. The story is loosely based on Ulysses’ return

from Troy after 20 years in exile, which is a great

excuse to show lots of muscular boys in loin clothes.

Dist/Sales: TLA, Strand

Pink Narcissus

Pink Narcissus

Bidgood, Jim

1971; USA; 70 min; Erotica

E: Martin Jay Sadoff; M: Gary Goch, Martin Jay Sadoff Cast: Bobby Kendall

The legendary gay underground classic. A young

Pink Ulysses

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Pink Video: Out-Rageously Pink, The

hunger. And that is what begins to turn the film

around, so that its most beautiful moments become

1995; UK; 70 min; Comedy

its most painful. Wallin’s indescribable expression

Cast: Scott Capurro, Steve Best, Ian Keable

during orgasm, and the enveloping tenderness with

Welcome to the outrageous world of gay and gay-

which he (unsafely) fucks his boyfriend, left me

friendly entertainment. Viewers will be treated to a

chilled with sadness barely discernible beneath the

sensational menu of music, comedy and speciality

usual tough-skinned attempt—on my part, on

acts, including the BBC’s Bret Tyler Moore’s

everyone’s—to endure. (Todd Haynes, Afterimage,

hilarious true tales of coming out!

1988 - Canyon Cinema)

Dist/Sales: Warner

Dist/Sales: Canyon

Pixel Pose

Place Called Lovely, A

Graves, Lisa

Benning, Sadie

1996; Canada; 11 min; Experimental

1992; USA; 20 min; B&W; Experimental

A lesbian’s life is depicted in three stages: the single

Benning’s film forcefully questions the motives of a

p

lesbian, the lesbian couple and lesbian family. This

violent world through some difficult childhood

movement based video uses queer text and carnal

memories.

poses to explore issues of lesbian intimacy and

Dist/Sales: VDB, NFVLS

representation. (Video Pool)

Dist/Sales: VideoPool

Place in the Sun, A

Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco

Giannaris, Constantine

1994; UK; 44 min; Drama

Babenco, Hector

P: Christopher Collins; W: Constantine Giannaris

1981; Brazil; 127 min; Drama

Cast: Stavros Zalmas, Panagiotis Tsetsos

P: Sylvia B. Naves, Paulo Francini, Jose Pinto;

18-year-old Panagiotis, an Albanian economic

W: Hector Babenco, Jorge Duran; C: Rodolfo Sánchez; refugee, arrives in Athens and meets Ilias, a 35-year-E: Luiz Elias; M: John Neschling

old man looking for someone to distract him from

Cast: Fernando Ramos de Silva, Marilia Pera, Jorge

his empty life. A lyrical exploration of homosexual

Juliao, Gilberto Moura, Edilson Lino

desire and cultural difference with cinematic

A chilling drama about a 10-year-old street criminal

references to Genet and Godard. Greek with English

named Pixote and two other youths who escape a

subtitles.

detention centre and get involved with a homosexual

Dist/Sales: MayaVision

drug dealer. The film tries to deal with the shocking

results of street life for young boys in Brazil. The

Place of Rage, A

actors are actual street kids and the child in the lead

role returned to the streets only to be shot and killed

Parmar, Pratibha

by police in 1987. Portuguese with English subtitles.

1991; UK; 52 min; Documentary

Cast: Angela Davis, June Jordan, Alice Walker, Trinh T.

Prod Comp: Embrafilme, HB Filmes

Minh-ha

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, Palace, Facets

This compelling documentary examines the

Place Between our Bodies, The

achievements of African–American women in the

civil rights, black power, feminist, and lesbian and

Wallin, Michael

gay movements. Interviews with Angela Davis, June

1975; USA; 33 min; Experimental

Jordan, Alice Walker and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-

The Place Between Our Bodies seems to come from

ha, and archival footage, are interwoven with

another planet, another epoch, in its frank and

contemporary images to form a polemic that links

tender extrapolation of gay sexual hunger and the

homophobia, racism, US imperialism and liberation

kindling of a first relationship. The film is stridently

struggles. Period protest anthems and contemporary

pre-AIDS—much more so than any mid 1970s

music by Prince and Janet Jackson provide a fitting

porno. This is partly because it is a personal film that

soundtrack to complement this reclamation of black

discusses sexual hunger and love in a context that

women’s fundamental contributions to black

endows them with transcendent powers .... Sexual

feminism. (WMM)

love overcomes the light of gay alienation and sexual

Dist/Sales: VTape, WMM

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Play Dead

Playing the Part

Jenkins, Jeff

McCabe, Mitch

2001; USA; 80 min; Comedy

1994; USA; 40 min; Comedy

P: Jeff Jenkins, Tino Sage, Gary Kohn; W: Jeff Jenkins; A very humorous short film made in a

C: Mark Putnam; E: Curtiss Clayton, David R.

mockumentary style about a lesbian coming out to

Finkelstein; M: Peter Golub

her mother. Mitch (or Michelle as her family know

Cast: Diva Zappa, Nathan Bexton, Jessica Stone, Sherrie

her) is studying at Harvard and has a girlfriend

Rose, Jason Hall

called Katya. When she returns to the family home

Just when you thought black comedy couldn’t get

in Michigan for the holidays she tries to decide

any darker, how about a wacky romance between a

whether to tell her unknowing parents of her

young man and... a corpse? While baby-sitting after

lesbianism.

school for white trash sex pot Darlene Murphy,

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures

bumbling high school drama geek Dale Splitler

dreams of romancing the hunky yet unreachable

Please Don’t Stop: Lesbian Tips for Givin’

Raymond Haver, captain of the wrestling team. But

and Gettin’ it

p

when Dale’s best friend Violet Wertzema causes a

hit-and-run accident resulting in the freak explosion

Bolden, Oriana

of a pickup truck, Dale discovers that his unrequited

2001; USA; 74 min; Documentary

fantasy is about to come true in a most unexpected

P: Sarah Kennedy; W: Oriana Bolden

way. Dale, Violet, and Darlene’s morbid, wisecrack-

Cast: Simone de la Getto, Hella Getto, Moyocoyotzin,

ing, seven-year-old daughter Dustine return to the

Toni Sparrow, Trick Ready

scene of the crime to discover that the driver of the

An instructional video by and for lesbians of colour.

truck is none other than Raymond, lying gorgeous

It features information on sexual activities and toys

but very dead on the road. Stuffing the body in the

illustrated with erotic scenes.

trunk of Violet’s beat up old car, the culprits embark

on a wild journey which pushes our imagination to

Prod Comp: Sexpositive Productions

the limit. In a delightfully bizarre way, this marvel-

Dist/Sales: Goodvibes

lous cast of kooky characters show us just how far

the human species will go for love. (12th Reel

Pleasure Beach

Affirmations Film Festival)

Bressan Jnr, Arthur J.

Prod Comp: Headstrong Entertainment, Managing

1982; USA; 78 min; Erotica

Artists Concepts

The sexual escapades of two lifesavers in California.

Play it as it Lays

Pleasure Principle, The

Perry, Frank

Cohen, David

1972; USA; 94 min; Drama

1991; UK; 100 min; Drama

P: Frank Perry, Dominick Dunne; W: Joan Didion,

P: David Cohen, Stephen Woolley; W: David Cohen;

John Gregory Dunne; C: Jordan Cronenweth;

C: Andrew Spellar; E: Joe McAllister; M: Sonny Southon E: Sidney Katz; M: Spring McKendree

Cast: Peter Firth, Lynsey Baxter, Lysette Anthony,

Cast: Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins, Tammy Grimes,

Haydn Gwynne, Sara Mair-Thomas

Adam Roarke

A journalist can’t resist women, who in turn, seem

An intense drama about a young actress’s attempts to

unable to resist him. He has entanglements with a

deal with a nervous breakdown. She is supported

young divorcee, who is waiting for him to sexually

and helped by a close friend, a gay film producer

liberate her; his ex-wife who has become a radical

played by Perkins, who also has his problems.

lesbian; a female brain surgeon; and a lawyer.

Prod Comp: Universal

Dist/Sales: Universal

Plushies & Furries

Playing Gay

Castro, Rick

2001; USA; 19 min; Documentary

1991; UK; 21 min; Documentary

Famed underground filmmaker Rick Castro brings

Hollywood actors discuss their lesbian and gay

to the surface a sexual subculture of people suiting

performances.

up in animal costumes to express the beast within.

Prod Comp: Channel 4

Dist/Sales: WorldOfWonder

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Poetry for an Englishman

E: Jeffrey Schwarz

Cast: Katy Selverstone, Tim Young, Brynn Horrocks

Daley, Martin

1987; Australia; 25 min; Drama

Una, a health-obsessed music producer with a baby

P: AFTRS

tiger for a pet and a full-time personal assistant falls

for a punk rock dyke named Bea. Soon Bea, the

Janie reminisces about the summer her brother had a

antithesis of the healthy living movement, moves in

secret that she was desperate to uncover.

and what ensues is a relationship made in hell.

Dist/Sales: AFTRS

(www.dykediva.com)

Point of Departure, A

Awards: Outfest, 2002: Best Narrative Feature

Dist/Sales: Automat

McLennan, Don

1974; Australia; 31 min; B&W; Drama

Polskiseks

P: Don McLennan, Hilton Bonner

Kwietniowski, Richard

Cast: Hilton Bonner, Karen Corbett, Neil Henson,

1991; UK; 20 min; Documentary

Marcia Scales, Sharon Jackson

P: Ardill Susan, Clare Beavan

p

A young man’s seeming incapability to form a

In the UK, the combination of Solidarity govern-

relationship with a girl appears to be caused by past

ment and traditional Polish Catholicism has brought

homosexual encounters.

into question the future of homosexuality in a

Prod Comp: Experimental Film & Television Fund

country that has had, until the 1990s, very liberal

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

legislation.

Poison

Prod Comp: Channel 4

Dist/Sales: Channel4

Haynes, Todd

1991; USA; 85 min; Drama

Polyester

P: Christine Vachon; W: Todd Haynes; C: Maryse Waters, John

Alberti, Barry Ellsworth; E: Todd Haynes, James Lyons;

1981; USA; 89 min; Comedy

M: James Bennett

P: John Waters; W: John Waters; C: David Insley; Cast: Edith Meeks, Millie White, Buck Smith, Larry

E: Charles Roggero; M: Debbie Harry, Michael Kamen, Maxwell, Susan Norman

Chris Stein

An ambitious and daring first feature film, Poison

Cast: Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, David Samson,

features three separate but interwoven stories inspired

Stiv Baton, Mary Garlington

by the work of Jean Genet. Hero is a mother’s

Exploitation flick about the tragic life of Francine

account of her son’s disappearance; in Horror a

scientist’s experiments lead to contagion and decay;

Fishpaw, an obese housewife whose mere existence

and in Homo a prisoner falls in love with a beautiful

burdens her so-called loved ones. Unjustly mis-

but cruel fellow inmate and becomes drowned in

treated by her chauvinistic husband Elmer who runs

obsession, a fantasy and, ultimately, violence.

the local porn theatre and money hungry mother, La

Rue, she turns to the bottle for love and support.

Awards: Sundance Film Festival, 1991: Grand Jury Prize

Life is on the downslide for the Fishpaw household

Prod Comp: Bronze Eye, Poison L.P.

with son Dexter, the reputed neighbourhood

Dist/Sales: 21stCentury, NFVLS, ACMI, Zeitgeist

phantom foot stomper, daughter Lulu, a crazed

Poisoned Blood

pregnant disco groupie and the family dog resorting

to suicide. Then, in a Cinderella fantasy, Francine

Fleras, Jomar

meets her Polyester Prince, Todd Tomorrow and

1991; Philippines; 32 min; Documentary

blissfully, they fall in love. Originally released in

Video documentary which discusses various issues

‘Odorama’.

related to life in the Philippines, including homo-

Prod Comp: New Line Cinema

sexuality, prostitution and AIDS-prevention efforts.

Dist/Sales: ACMI, NewLine

Dist/Sales: Brüning

Pony Glass

Politics of Fur, The

Klahr, Lewis

Nix, Laura

1997; USA; 15 min; Animation

2002; USA; 70 min; Comedy

The story of comic book character Jimmy Olsen’s

P: Laura Nix; W: Laura Nix; C: Winnie Heun; secret life. Superman’s pal embarks on his most adult

328

adventure ever as he navigates the treacherous shoals

most important gangs in the city. After a particularly

of early 1960s romance trying to resolve a sexual

vicious war, two battling gangs enter into a brief

identity crisis of epic proportions. (Canyon Cinema)

cease-fire. During negotiations between the gangs,

Dist/Sales: Canyon

Thirteen is caught in an intense battery of betrayals,

battles and unlucky twists of fate, resulting in the

Pool Days

death of her father as he tries to defend her life. His

violent end triggers a flashback to her formative

Sloan, Brian

teenage years, and memories of others she has loved

1993; USA; 45 min; Drama

and lost—most notably her girlfriend Yun and the

P: Brian Sloan; W: Brian Sloan; C: Jonathan Schell; E: ways in which they shared their love of a local boxer,

Brian Sloan, Andy Hafitz; M: Hundred pound Head

and their love for each other. But when Thirteen

Cast: Josh Weistein, Nick Poleti, Kimberly Flynn

returns to the present, the people from her memories

Handsome 17-year-old Justin gets a summer job as a

start to come back into her life in a flurry of

lifeguard/attendant in a gym. Still confused about

unexpected and shocking situations. Finally, events

his sexuality, the gay world comes to him as steam

climax in a gang showdown which is both breathtak-

room sex, naked male bodies and in the form of one

ingly brutal and heart-rending. (23rd San Francisco

p

particularly enticing swimmer.

International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

Cantonese & Mandarin with English subtitles.

Prod Comp: House of Pain Productions

Dist/Sales: Strand

Dist/Sales: Splendid

Portrait of a Marriage

Whittaker, Stephen

1990; UK; 220 min; Drama

P: Colin Tucker; W: Penelope Mortimer; C: David Feig; E: Dick Allen; M: Barrington Pheloung

Cast: Janet McTeer, David Haig, Cathryn Harrison,

Peter Birch

Portrait of a Marriage is the story of the tempestuous

relationship between Vita Sackville West and Violet

Trefusis-Keppel. After five years of marriage Vita’s

husband, Harold Nicholson, confesses his homo-

sexuality. Ironically, at the same time, Vita’s child-

hood friend, Violet, tells her that she has always

Pool Days

loved her. This is the beginning of the women’s

Portion of a Lady

passionate and moody relationship.

Prod Comp: BBC

Chiandetti, Marco

Dist/Sales: BBC-Enterprises

2000; UK; 75 min; Documentary

Cast: Juana La Cubana

Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the

Fly-on-the-wall documentary about three London

’60s in Brussels

drag performers.

(aka: Portrait d’une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à

Dist/Sales: Skarda

Bruxelles)

Portland Street Blues

Akerman, Chantal

1993; France; 60 min; Drama

Yip, Raymond

P: Georges Benayoun, Marilyn Watelet, Yannick

1998; Hong Kong; 114 min; Action

Casanova, Elisabeth Devoisse, Francoise Guglielmi, Paul

P: Raymond Chow, Jing Wong; W: Manfred Wong;

Rozenberg; W: Chantal Akerman; C: Raymond

C: Yiu-fai Lai; M: Ji-chi To

Fromont; E: Martine Lebon; M: Yarol Poupaud

Cast: Sandra Ng, Kristy Yeung, Alex Fong, Vincent

Cast: Circé, Julien Rassam, Joelle Marlier, Cynthia

Wang

Rodberg

Set in the ultra-violent world of Hong Kong triads,

Fifteen year-old Michelle, having decided to quit

Portland Street Blues takes you on an exhilarating

school, sits at a train station idly forging absentee

journey into the life and memories of Sister

notes, with excuses ranging from an illness in the

Thirteen, a powerful female member of one of the

family to her own death. She goes to the movies and

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succumbs with no qualms, but with no particular

Possible Loves

enthusiasm, to the amorous advances of a Parisian

(aka: Amores Possiveis)

army deserter, Paul. They wander the streets while

the camera ambles along with them, mimicking their

Werneck, Sandra

pleasurably unhurried gait. Then follows a scene in

2000; Brazil; 93 min; Drama

an empty apartment where they dance and then slip

P: Sandra Werneck; W: Paulo Halm; C: Walter between the sheets. But the film’s real emotional

Carvalho; E: Isabelle Rathery; M: João Nabuco

thrust comes when Michelle keeps a prearranged

Cast: Murilo Benício, Carolina Ferraz, Emílio de Mello,

appointment with Danielle: clearly the true object of

Beth Goulart, Irene Ravache

her affections and maybe her secret lover. French

Love-struck student, Carlos, arranges to meet the

with English subtitles.

object of his passions at a cinema. The girl doesn’t

Prod Comp: IMA Productions, La Sept-Arte

show up and Carlos is left cooling his heels in the

Dist/Sales: IMA

foyer. But as he waits, something happens that will

change his life forever. Fifteen years later, we see three

Portrait of Jason

possible versions of his life. In the first, he finds

himself torn between the consolations of a secure if,

Clarke, Shirley

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dull, married life, and the desire to have a passionate

1967; USA; 100 min; B&W; Documentary

affair; in the second, he is a gay man whose life

P: Shirley Clarke; C: Jeri Sapanen; E: Shirley Clarke revolves around sex; and in the third, he has never

Cast: Jason Holliday

known true love and stumbles from relationship to

A documentary in which Jason, a black homosexual

relationship, in search of the ideal woman. One of

hustler and entertainer, talks directly to the camera

these versions is his real life; one a possible alterna-

about his life.

tive; and one, the life he would really like to live. The

Dist/Sales: MOMA

question is: which is which? Portuguese with English

subtitles. (www.braziliancinema.com)

Positiv

Prod Comp: Petrobrás Distribuidora, Cineluz

von Praunheim, Rosa

Dist/Sales: GNCTV

1990; Germany; 80 min; Documentary

Praunheim investigates the realities and impacts of

AIDS in New York City. Features AIDS activist Phil

Zwickler.

Positive Story

(aka: Sipur Hiyuvi)

Kotzer, Ran

1996; Israel; 42 min; Documentary

Avinof was born in Giva’ataim with the given name

Avi. His childhood resembled that of many gay men

like him: loneliness, social isolation, secrecy, fear and

Postcards from America

mockery. As a child Avi used to sit for hours on one

of the hills overlooking Tel-Aviv, dreaming of the day

Postcards from America

he would be free to live his life openly in the big

metropolitan city. At the age of 17, Avi added the

McLean, Steve

word ‘nof ’ (Hebrew for view) to his first name and

1994; UK, USA; 93 min; Drama

began discovering the gay world of Tel-Aviv: secret

P: Craig Paull, Christine Vachon; W: Steve McLean; gardens, night clubs, cafes. At the age of 19, in a

C: Ellen Kuras; E: Elizabeth Gazzara; M: Stephen routine examination for HIV, Avinof tested positive.

Endelman

Positive Story is a first-time glance into the world of

Cast: James Lyons, Michael Tighe, Olmo Tighe,

people living with HIV/AIDS in Israel. It is a rare

Michael Imperioli

instance in which an Israeli person carrying the HIV

Postcards from America is a visual feast as it moves

virus is willing to tell his story honestly and openly.

back and forth through three stages in the life of its

(Frameline)

central character. Based on the autobiographical

Dist/Sales: Frameline

writings of the late David Wojnorowicz (one of the

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most influential queer writers/artists of our time), it

Cast: Johnny Hallyday, Marie-France Pisier, Amira

traces the transition of America from the 1960s to

Casar, Julie Gayet, Bruno Putzulu

the 1990s. We are treated to snippets of the experi-

Camille is the only one in her close-knit group of

ences of the preadolescent boy, the sexy teenage

friends who is out to her family. Out? Her mother is

hustler and the hunky adult, as he journeys through

flying a rainbow flag in the garden! Agreeing that

his dysfunctional and violent family relationships, his

there is strength in numbers Eva, Ariane and Nico

sexual and emotional encounters, and the wild and

agree to bring their parents to a coming out dinner,

breathtaking American landscape. This confronting

hosted by Camille’s perpetually optimistic parent.

movie looks behind the façade of traditional family

Hysteria ensues as family secrets spill out, and

and values systems, exploding their myths through its

partnerships are redefined and formed. French with

stylised cinematography, often harrowing narrative,

and sizzling sexual imagery. (MQFF)

English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Channel Four Films, Islet, Normal

Prod Comp: Elzevir Films

Dist/Sales: Potential, Strand, Cowboy, Wolfe

Dist/Sales: UGC, Millivres, Mongrel

Postman

Pouvoir Intime

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(aka: Youchai)

Simoneau, Yves

1986; Canada; 87 min; Thriller

He, Jianjun

P: Claude Bonin; W: Pierre Curzi, Yves Simoneau;

1994; China; 101 min; Drama

C: Guy Dufaux; E: André Corriveau; M: Richard Grégoire P: Kei Shu; W: Jianjun He, Ni You; C: Di Wu; Cast: Jacques Lussier, Robert Gravel

E: Xiaojing Liu; M: Yoshihide Otomo

Cast: Yuanzheng Feng, Danni Liang, Quanxin Pu, Xin

Martial, a security guard, is in a relationship with

Huang

Janvier, a waiter. Through an unexpected twist of

fate, Martial ends up in the back of a truck that is

Adultery, prostitution and drugs are just the

used for a robbery and, unbeknownst to the thieves,

appetisers in a banquet of temptations laid out

is taken back to their warehouse. When they

before Xiao Dou. A slow-witted young man

discover Martial they try in vain to persuade him to

overprotected by his older sister, he is unprepared for

leave, but Martial is convinced that his only hope of

Beijing’s shadow world, and titillation rapidly turns

survival is to stay. French with English subtitles.

to moral confusion and tragedy. Chinese with

English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Téléfilm Canada, National Film Board of

Canada

Prod Comp: United Frontline

Dist/Sales: Fortissimo

Prefaces

Potluck and the Passion, The

Child, Abigail

1981; USA; 10 min; Experimental

Dunye, Cheryl

1993; USA; 30 min; Drama

Prefaces is composed of wild sounds constructed

along entropic lines, placed tensely beside bebop

A film exploring racial, sexual and social politics at a

rhythms, and a resurfacing narrative cut from a

lesbian potluck. The Potluck and the Passion chal-

dialogue with poet Hannah Weiner. (VDB)

lenges tradition narrative presentation through the

use of direct address talking heads, pseudo-docu-

Dist/Sales: VDB, Canyon

mentary, and humour. Dunye’s video is a commen-

tary on interracial lesbian relationships and the

Presque Rien

historical relationship of African–American women

(aka: Come Undone; Almost Nothing)

to issues of race, sexuality and gender.

Lifshitz, Sébastien

Dist/Sales: Frameline, TWN, EAI

2000; Belgium, France; 98 min; Drama

Pourquoi Pas Moi?

P: Jean-Christophe Colson, Cécile Amillat, Christian

Tison; W: Sébastien Lifshitz, Stéphane Bouquet;

(aka: Why Not Me?)

C: Pascal Poucet; E: Yann Dedet; M: Peery Blake Giusti, Stéphane

Cast: Jérémie Elkaim, Stéphane Rideau, Dominique

1999; France, Spain, Switzerland; 94 min; Comedy

Reymond, Marie Matheron

P: Marie Masmonteil, Caroline Adrian; W: Stéphane Mathieu is a quiet 18-year-old boy spending the

Giusti; C: Antoine Roch; E: Catherine Schwartz

holidays with his depressed mother. His life changes

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when he gets involved with the more experienced

Prick up Your Ears

Cédric. Their relationship sets off an emotional

firestorm in Mathieu as he moves towards adulthood

Frears, Stephen

and independence. (Wolfe) French with English

1987; UK; 99 min; Drama

subtitles.

P: Andrew Brown; W: Alan Bennett;

C: Oliver Stapleton; E: Mick Audsley; M: Stanley Myers Prod Comp: Lancelot Films, RTBF, arte France Cinema

Cast: Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave,

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!, Wolfe, VideoAmericain, 10%,

Julie Walters

Salzgeber

The biographical account of the cult British figure

Pretty Baby

Joe Orton, a playwright and homosexual, and his

lover, Kenneth Halliwell. Their turbulent and

(aka: Maybe...Maybe Not; Der Bewegte Mann; The Most

Desired Man)

complex relationship culminated in Orton’s violent

murder by Halliwell, who then killed himself.

Wortmann, Sönke

Halliwell killed Orton because of his fear that Joe

1994; Germany; 95 min; Comedy

would leave the relationship. Oldman puts in a

P: Bernd Eichinger; W: Sönke Wortmann, Ralf König; powerful and insightful performance as Orton and

p C: Gernot Roll; E: Ueli Christen; M: Torsten Breuer Stephen Frears again shows his great talent for

Cast: Til Schweiger, Katja Riemann, Joachim Krol,

directing queer-friendly films.

Rufus Beck

Prod Comp: Zenith, Civilhand-Zenith Productions

Axel has been kicked out of his apartment by his

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, SamuelGoldwyn, BFI, NFVLS,

girlfriend Doro after she discovers he has been

ACMI, Carlton

cheating. He finds himself sharing an apartment

with Norbert, a homosexual, and Axel is introduced

to the gay scene of contemporary Germany. When

Norbert’s queenie friend Waltraud attends a ‘Straight

Men’s Support Group’ as the gay man who can teach

them about gayness, hilarious dialogue highlights a

film rich with insightful sexual characterisations. As

the narrative unfolds, Axel finds spending time with

Norbert and his drag-queen friends both fun and

liberating, so liberating that Doro suspects that Axel

is actually gay. German with English subtitles.

Awards: German Film Awards, 1995: Most Outstanding

Feature Film

Prod Comp: Neue Constantin Film GmbH, Olga Film

Dist/Sales: Globe, OrionClassics, Lauren

Pretty Boy

(aka: Smukke Dreng)

Prick up Your Ears

Sønder, Carsten

Pride Divide

1993; Denmark; 82 min; Drama

Poirier, Paris

P: Peter Aalbæk Jensen, Ib Tardini; W: Carsten Sønder; 1997; USA; 56 min; Documentary

C: Jacob Banke Olesen; E: Henrik Fleischer;

P: Karen Kiss

M: Joachim Holbek

Cast: Christian Tafdrup, Benedicte W. Madsen, Rami

A ground breaking exploration of the gender gap

Nathan Sverdlin, Sune Otterstrøm

between gays and lesbians. Politically united against

global homophobia, they are poles apart on many

Pretty Boy is a seedy tale of lost innocence and

life issues. Oddly enough, their struggle of male

betrayal. Nick is a 13-year-old runaway who,

versus female mirrors many traditional conflicts

through a series of misadventures, is caught up in a

inherent to straight relationships. The gay and

gang of rent boys living a life of sordid sex and

lesbian community is not immune to gender

violence. This is a realistic street drama which moves

conditioning. Here is the classic battle of the sexes

rapidly towards a shocking conclusion. (MQFF)

from a totally new perspective, leavened with

Prod Comp: Zentropa Entertainments

humour. Pride Divide looks at the issues around

Dist/Sales: Nordisk

male domination versus female submission;

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promiscuousness versus commitment; exaltation of

abused by her father. Resolution is found, but while

the body versus the spirit; AIDS versus breast cancer

uplifting, it does not gloss over the central conflict

support. We hear about the subtle chauvinism by

between what the priest as a man can do, and what

gay activists who excluded lesbians from their

those in Rome demand of him.

political and social life, especially in the conformist

Awards: Berlin Film Festival, 1995: Best Film, Interna-

1950s. Now, however, both sides seem willing to

tional Critic’s Jury

discuss these differences openly. Individuals involved

Prod Comp: BBC, Electric Pictures, Miramax,

in this dialogue include Martin Duberman, Barney

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

Frank, Barbara Gittings, Simon LeVay, Camille

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Miramax, ACMI, Swank

Paglia and others. (Filmakers Library)

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary

Pride in Puerto Rico

Oliver, Jorge

1999; Puerto Rico, USA; 17 min; Documentary

In 1991 Puerto Ricans held the first-ever Gay,

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Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Transexual Pride

March. Eight years later, director Jorge Oliver

documented the 1999 Pride March, now an annual

event on the island. Together with footage from the

festivities are interviews with prominent Puerto

Rican activists—including the first openly gay

Puerto Rican candidate for the House of Representa-

tives—working for social change. As much a

document of the struggle against discrimination and

ignorance, Pride in Puerto Rico is a story of commu-

nity and dignity. (Frameline)

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Pride, Politics and Pissheads

Belliveau, Lulu

1998; UK; 16 min; Documentary

P: Linda Riley

We follow a gang of loose and lascivious lesbians as

they embark on their last throes of political activism

to the Anti-Poll Tax march and riots of 1990, and on

Priest

a trip to Manchester with a busload of dykes for the

Anti-Clause 28 demonstration.

Prince in Hell

(aka: Prinz in Holleland)

Priest

Stock, Michael

Bird, Antonia

1993; Germany; 94 min; Drama

1994; UK; 103 min; Drama

C: Lorenz Haarmann

P: George Faber, Josephine Ward; W: Jimmy

Cast: Harry Baer, Stefan Laarmann, Michael Stock

McGovern; C: Fred Tammes; E: Susan Spivey;

A street performer’s tale about the Prince in Hell

M: Andy Roberts

parallels the street lives of Stefan and Jockel, one a

Cast: Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Cathy Tyson,

heroin addict and the other hopelessly politically

Robert Carlyle

correct. Graphic and sexually explicit, ex-Rosa von

Father Greg Pilkington is a Times-reading Catholic

Praunheim assistant Michael Stock’s debut feature

priest, who comes to his new Liverpool parish

drops any romantic delusions about the freedom of

preaching a doctrine of self-reliance and self-help to

street life for a more aggressive depiction of both its

his congregation. Eventually his homosexuality

ecstasies (in all senses) and its agonies. A powerful

comes to the fore through an unexpected relation-

film about the price paid for nonconformity in the

ship, and he struggles to deal with a young girl’s

nineties. (MQFF)

disclosure in the confessional that she is being

Dist/Sales: Stock

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Prince of Tides, The

non-professional actors in lead roles, Princesa is a

powerhouse of cinematic realism and a rare gem that

Streisand, Barbra

quickly transcends its core story line of the trans-

1991; USA; 132 min; Drama

sexual experience. (MQFF) Italian with English

P: Barbra Streisand, Cis Corman, Andrew S. Karsch,

subtitles.

James T. Roe; W: Pat Conroy, Becky Johnston, Jay

Presson Allen; C: Stephen Goldblatt;

Dist/Sales: Strand

E: Don Zimmerman; M: James Newton Howard

Prisonnières

Cast: Barbra Streisand, Nick Nolte, Melinda Dillon,

Blythe Danner, Brad Sullivan

Silvera, Charlotte

After years of torment, and with the help of a

1988; France; 100 min; Drama

psychiatrist, a man and his sister unravel their past

P: Roger Andrieux; W: Charlotte Silvera;

and the brutal rape that he endured as a 13-year-old.

C: Bernard Lutic; E: Danielle Fillios; M: Michel Portal Though painful, he rebuilds his life and supports his

Cast: Marie-Christine Barrault, Agnès Soral, Annie

sister in her own endeavours. A neighbour to

Girardot, Bernadette Lafont

Streisand is gay and is portrayed as a sympathetic

Set in a women’s prison, Prisonnières is the story of

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and warm character, still unusual for Hollywood.

cruelty, violence and rebellion of life behind bars.

Prod Comp: Barwood Films, Columbia, Longfellow

This film attempts not to sensationalise the subject

Pictures

matter and avoids many of the clichés, unlike other

Dist/Sales: 16MM, Col-Tri

films of the genre. Tensions arise when Sabine falls in

love with Lucie who has given up on life and never

wants to be released.

Prod Comp: Capital Cinéma

Private Benjamin

Zieff, Howard

1980; USA; 110 min; Comedy

P: Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, Harvey Miller;

W: Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, Harvey Miller;

C: David M. Walsh; E: Sheldon Kahn; M: Bill Conti Cast: Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assente,

Sam Wanamaker, Robert Webber

After the death of her husband, a rich young Jewish

Princesa

woman decides to join the army. Immediately she

goes into battle with the hard-nosed lesbian sergeant

Princesa

of her platoon. A slightly humorous film but the

Goldman, Henrique

characterisation of the lesbian is very clichéd.

2000; Brazil, Germany, Italy; 96 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Warner

P: Rebecca O’Brien; W: Henrique Goldman, Ellis

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Warner

Freeman; C: Guillermo Escalon; E: Kerry Kohler;

M: Giovanni Venosta

Private Wars

Cast: Ingrid de Souza, Cesare Bocci, Lulu Pecorari,

Deocampo, Nick

Johnny Guimares, Sonia Morgan

1996; Philippines; 60 min; Documentary

This bittersweet drama tells of Fernanda, a stunning

Deocampo takes us on a deeply personal journey on a

nineteen-year-old Brazilian transvestite who arrives

search for his father. Along the way he must confront

in Italy with two dreams: become a woman and find

his sexuality, and his relationship with his family.

a respectable husband. With her above-the-rails

looks, prostituting herself to raise money for the

Privates on Parade

operation at first comes easy. As streetwalking

‘Princesa’, Fernanda meets Gianni, a client who takes

Blakemore, Michael

to her and promises to leave his wife and pay for her

1982; UK; 107 min; Comedy

operation. But more urgently than whether Gianni

P: George Harrison, Denis O’Brien, Simon Relph;

can accept Fernanda as she is, Fernanda must decide

W: Peter Nichols; C: Ian Wilson; E: Jim Clark; if she’s ready to change for herself. Starring mostly

M: Denis King

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Cast: John Cleese, Nicola Pagett, Patrick Pearson,

Busch screenwrites and ‘acts’ in this hammed-up

Michael Elphick, Joe Melia

tribute to 1950s B-movie scream queens, 1960s surf

A wacky comedy about a British Army unit, whose

movies and 1970s slasher flicks. Perky Florence

members dress in drag, and are assigned the

‘Chicklet’ Forest cruises Malibu beach, curiously

thankless task of entertaining the troops stationed in

monitoring the gaggle of beefy-tight-togs-beach-

the Malayan Jungle during the Second World War.

boys, including the Great Kanaka. Just one problem:

There are some humorous moments as the boys

Chicklet is constantly at the scene when bloodied

impersonate great stars of the 1940s such as the

bodies wash ashore. Quick to the scene is Sheriff ’s

Andrews Sisters and Carmen Miranda.

Captain Monika Stark, who tags Chicklet as her

number 1 suspect. Soon the suspects and bodies pile

Prod Comp: Handmade Films

up, amidst a cast of hilarious film stereotypes from

Dist/Sales: OrionClassics, BFI

surf bums to beach bunnies. A bucket of film

Privilege

references, top-notch performances and a shovel in

the side of Hollywood’s whitewashed beach daze all

Rainer, Yvonne

make for one riotous whodunit. (MQFF)

1990; USA; 103 min; Comedy, Drama

Prod Comp: New Oz Productions, Red Horse Films,

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P: Yvonne Rainer; W: Yvonne Rainer; C: Mark Daniels; Strand Releasing

E: Yvonne Rainer

Dist/Sales: Sagittaire, Strand, Wolfe

Cast: Alice Spivak, Novella Nelson, Yvonne Rainer,

Blaire Baron

This pseudo-documentary style films sees a film-

maker interviewing a group of middle-aged women

about menopause. The footage is paralleled with

hilarious educational archival film from the fifties

with ridiculous male doctors. The film focuses on

one woman, Jenny, as she reveals a lesbian encounter

and recalls a rape she experienced and has kept

hidden for 25 years.

Dist/Sales: Zeitgeist

Protagonist, The

(aka: Shujinko)

Psycho Beach Party

Oki, Hiroyuki

Public Opinion

1991; Japan; 26 min; Experimental

Dvoracek, Ted

W: Hiroyuki Oki; C: Hiroyuki Oki

1993; USA; 24 min; Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Oki

Stylised short involving an actor, a priest and a

Video diary format, which chronicles 13 days in the

sauna.

life of a young man in his rented room. It asks the

question ‘Who is the actual protagonist?’ It ends

Pump

quite literally with an orgasmic climax with Oki

himself in front of the camera.

Severance, Abigail

Dist/Sales: ImageForum

1999; USA; 17 min; Comedy

Psycho Beach Party

Sleek production values underpin this award

winning short of a young woman’s unremitting

King, Robert Lee

determination to be rid of her broken heart.

2000; Canada; 94 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: bellecote

P: Virginia Biddle, Jon Gerrans, Marcus Hu, Victor

Syrmis; W: Charles Busch; C: Arturo Smith;

Punks

E: Suzanne Hines; M: David Tobocman, Ben Vaughn

Polk, Patrik-Ian

Cast: Charles Busch, Lauren Ambrose, Thomas Gibson,

2000; USA; 104 min; Comedy

Nicholas Brendon, Kimberley Davies

P: Patrik-Ian Polk, Tracey E. Edmonds, Michael

Wax the washboard and slip into bikini mode! It’s

McQuarn; W: Patrik-Ian Polk; C: Rory King;

beach party time—with a capital M for Murder.

E: Anne Misawa; M: Mervyn Warren

New York playwright-cum-drag performer Charles

Cast: Seth Gilliam, Dwight Ewell, Jazzmun, Renoly

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Santiago, Rockmond Dunbar

disintegrates when she falls in love with a Spanish

Hopelessly romantic Marcus, a successful photogra-

envoy and must decide where to leave the throne. At

pher, struggles with his inability to acclimate to the

one point she is attracted to the Countess Ebba,

mores of contemporary urban gay life. His neigh-

whom she kisses on the lips and promises to go with

bour and love interest, Darby, tries to balance his

on a trip to the country. But the Countess betrays

own happiness with that of his girlfriend. HIV-

Christina by falling in love with a man.

positive Hill, copes with his romantic travails after

Prod Comp: MGM, United Artists

catching his European boyfriend Gilbert locking lips

Dist/Sales: Chapel, NFVLS, Swank

with someone else. Dante, a Latino boy-toy from

Beverly Hills, revels in youth while trying to deny

Queen: Marianne Hoppe, The

his privileged upbringing. And Cris, an imperious

(aka: Die Königin: Marianne Hoppe)

transgender diva, is blithely ignorant of how her lead

singer affectations are disrupting the harmony of her

Schroeter, Werner

singing ensemble. Throw in a trio of veritable hunks

2000; France, Germany; 101 min; Documentary

put to good use as eye-candy and supporting roles

P: Elke Peters; W: Werner Schroeter, Monica Keppler; and cameos by Loretta Devine, Thea Vidale, and

C: Alexandra Kordes, Thomas Plenert; E: Flo Köhler; q

Devon O’Dessa, and you’ve got a very entertaining

M: Peer Raben

stew of black gay experience. (24th San Francisco

An intimate documentary portrait of Marianne

International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

Hoppe, one of the most fascinating German

Prod Comp: A Tall Skinny Black Boy, e2 Filmworks

actresses of her time. Includes in-depth interviews

Dist/Sales: e2Filmworks

with Hoppe herself, who discusses her sometimes

heartbreaking personal life, and amazing career in

Quai des Orfèvres

German cinema. German with English subtitles.

(aka: Jenny Lamour)

Prod Comp: Mira Filmproduktion, Sender Freies Berlin

Dist/Sales: Transit

Clouzot, Henri-Georges

1947; France; 105 min; B&W; Drama

Queen of the Night

P: Roger De Venloo; W: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean Ferry; C: Armand Thirard; E: Charles Bretoneiche; (aka: La Reina de la Noche)

M: Francis Lopez

Ripstein, Arturo

Cast: Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair, Simone

1994; Mexico; 177 min; Drama

Renant

P: Jean-Michel Lacor; W: Paz Alicia Garciadiego;

An entertaining detective thriller using sleazy music

C: Bruno de Keyzer; E: Rafael Castanedo; M: Lucía halls as the backdrop. Jouvet gives a human face to

Álvarez

the role of the police inspector. Delair plays a

Cast: Patricia Rayes Spindola, Blanca Guerra, Alberto

voluptuous singer and her husband becomes the

Estrella, Ana Ofelia Murguia

prime suspects in a murder case. Simone Renant,

The fictionalised account of the famed torch singer

who plays a lesbian photographer, was said, at the

of the 1930s and 40s, Lucha Reyes, and her troubled

time, to be the most beautiful actress in Paris. Based

lesbianism. She began as a child performer and, on a

on the novel by S. A. Steeman.

tour of the US, married at 15. Lucha had an

Awards: Venice Film Festival, 1947: Best Director

abortion a year later that left her sterile. She settled

Prod Comp: Majestic Films

down and adopted a daughter but her inner torment

continued to surface. Amidst alcohol, drugs and

Queen Christina

sexual excess she slid into despair.

Mamoulian, Rouben

Prod Comp: Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía

1933; USA; 101 min; B&W; Drama

Queen of the Whole Wide World

P: Walter Wanger; W: H. M. Harwood, Salka Viertel, S.

N. Behrman; C: William H. Daniels; E: Blanche Sewell; Hyde, Roger

M: Herbert Stothart

2001; USA; 82 min; Documentary

Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Elizabeth

P: Roger Hyde; E: Roger Hyde

Young, Ian Keith

The Miss USA beauty pageant never looked like this!

The androgynous 17th century Swedish queen who

This pageant of drag queens started in 1989 in LA

gives up the throne for her lover, is arguably Garbo’s

to raise money for sufferers of HIV/AIDS; 11 years

finest role. Garbo’s character was brought up as a boy

later, this pageant has grown into a gala event

to succeed the throne form her father. But her career

attracting crowds of over 2000 and raising more

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then $225,000. This film tells an outrageous story of

Queens Logic begins with a group of people gathering

the 2000 pageant complete with swimsuit, evening

in the New York borough of Queens for a bachelor

gown and talent competitions. You will meet seven

party and a wedding. Over the next few days these

contestants: Misses Mexico, France, Ireland,

events will be the occasion for various moments of

Antarctica, Norway, Russia, and Saudi Arabia as they

truth and self-revelation, discovery and disappoint-

work to get their hairstyles, glitzy sets, and insane

ment. Like reunion films such as Return of the

costume designs ready in time for pageant night.

Secaucus 7 and The Big Chill, the plot gives the

While we become familiar with these very different

characters, who are now mostly in their thirties, an

men, we learn of their personal triumphs and failures

opportunity for a mid-life evaluation. Malkovich

in love and life. Of course, as the big day ap-

plays a homosexual who acts on his sexuality but

proaches, behind-the-scenes footage shows all the

prefers a life of celibacy.

competitiveness and egos that emerge as each vie for

Prod Comp: New Visions Pictures

the coveted title of Queen of the Whole Wide

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, SevenArts

World. (12th Reel Affirmations Film Festival)

Queer as Folk (1998)

Queen, The

Harding, Sarah / McDougall, Charles

q

Simon, Frank

1998; UK; 280 min; Drama

1968; USA; 68 min; Documentary

P: Nicola Shindler; W: Russell T. Davies;

P: Lewis M. Allen

C: Nigel Walters; E: Tony Cranstoun; M: Murray Gold Cast: Andy Warhol, Jack Doroshow, Terry Southern

Cast: Aidan Gillen, Craig Kelly, Charlie Hunnam,

An hour-long documentary about a Miss All-

Denise Black

America Beauty contest held in New York in 1967.

Queer as Folk is an important story based around the

It’s not your usual beauty contest however, as all the

lives of three young gay men that explores the

entrants are male transsexuals. Considered at the

intoxicating extremes of modern-day life and love.

time to be cutting edge.

It’s refreshingly non-judgmental and atypical in its

Prod Comp: MDH, Vineyard

avoidance of stereotype. With a delightful comic

Dist/Sales: TLA, FirstRunFeatures, BFI

script drawing fine performances from the young

cast, Queer as Folk is a vibrant, vital and honest

Queen’s Cantonese Conversational

reflection of how gay life can be. There’s never a dull

Course, The

moment in this lively drama following the lives of

three men living large in Manchester’s gay village.

Yung, Wayne

Stuart Jones has got it all. He’s rich, drop-dead

1998; Canada; 33 min; Comedy

gorgeous and always the centre of attention. He can

In three easy lessons, you’ll pick up many phrases

be forgiven the arrogance because he’s pretty close to

that are useful in a gay bar, a cruising park, and a

perfection. His best mate Vince Tyler is funny,

bathhouse.

adorable and definitely a babe but, unlike his friend,

has zero confidence in himself. Since time began,

Queens Don’t Lie

Vince has carried a torch for Stuart but his love

remains firmly unrequited. They’re both 29, hitting

(aka: Tunten Lügen Nicht)

Canal Street every night, stalwarts of the scene but

von Praunheim, Rosa

just starting to wonder where else their lives may be

2001; Germany; 90 min; Documentary

going. Then along comes Nathan Maloney. Young,

C: Lorenz Haarmann; E: Mike Shephard

wild and coming out with a vengeance, he crowbars

his way into their world and once he arrives, nothing

Documentary about four famed Berlin drag queens.

is ever the same again. (Wolfe)

German with English subtitles .

Prod Comp: Red Production Company

Prod Comp: Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, RedProd, ACMI

Dist/Sales: Praunheim

Queens Logic

Queer as Folk 2

Huda, Menhaj

Rash, Steve

1991; USA; 112 min; Comedy

2000; UK; 111 min; Drama

P: Russell Smith, Stuart Oken; W: Tony Spiridakis; P: Nicola Shindler; W: Russell T. Davies; M: Murray Gold C: Amir Mokri; E: Patrick Kennedy; M: Joe Jackson Cast: Aidan Gillen, Craig Kelly, Charlie Hunnam,

Cast: Kevin Bacon, John Malkovich, Linda Fiorentino,

Denise Black

Joe Mantegna, Jamie Lee Curtis

Follow up to the controversial first series which

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follows the trials and sexual exploits of a group of

Queer Story, A

gay men in London. This second series was created

(aka: Jilao Sishi)

as a one off finale and re-teams the three main

protagonists from the first season. The hedonistic

Shu, Kei

Stuart, his long suffering best friend Vince, and the

1997; Hong Kong; 100 min; Drama

recently ‘out’ teenager Nathan. Queer as Folk 2 still

Cast: Jordan Chan, George Lam, Fredric Mao

focuses on the same milieu of Canal street, the gay

Director Shu Kei’s latest film, A Queer Story, is a

district of the first series, but this time around

slick, highly entertaining melodrama that deals head-

centres on the relationship between Vince and

on with themes of gay sexuality and homophobia in

Stuart. Will the two best friends finally consummate

Hong Kong—and is refreshingly optimistic in its

their relationship? Will Stuart come out to his

belief that prejudice can be overcome. Law Kar-sing

parents? Will the impressionistic Nathan finally get

is a gay 46-year-old marriage counsellor whose

over Stuart or follow in his footsteps? (ACMI)

trepidation is mounting about his own wedding to

Prod Comp: Red Production Company

his childhood sweetheart Chuen. While puzzling

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, RedProd, ACMI

over what to do, Law discovers that his cocky young

hairdresser boyfriend has been having an affair.

q Queer as Folk (2000)

Subplots proliferate as Law recovers from the ordeal

by running straight into the arms of a hustler. Watch

Various

what happens when Chuen makes a surprise visit

2000; USA; 60 min; Drama

and finds Law and his boyfriend caked in green

P: Sheila Hockin; W: Various; C: Thom Best; mud-masks! Shu Kei’s deft handling of confronta-E: Bill Goddard, Lisa Grootenboer, Wendy Hallam

tional scenes provides many enjoyable and often

Martin; M: Mitch Magonet, Tom Third

extremely funny moments in what is definitely one

Cast: Michelle Clunie, Robert Gant, Thea Gill, Gale

of the gayest films ever to come out of Hong Kong.

Harold, Randy Harrison

(21st International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

Queer as Folk is the outrageous story of a group of

Cantonese & Mandarin with English subtitles.

gay men and lesbians living in Pittsburgh. Focusing

on their relationships, careers, loves and ambitions,

Queercore: A Punk-u-mentary

this made for television series (based on the British

version) is a brave, realistic, funny and sometimes

Treleaven, Scott

graphic portrayal of modern gay life. (Wolfe)

1996; Canada; 20 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: Cowlip Productions, Temple Street

This dynamic documentary explores the queer punk

underground from its beginnings in the mid 1980s.

Productions

Features interviews with Bruce La Bruce, G. B. Jones,

Dist/Sales: Showcase, Showtime, Wolfe

band members of Pansy Division, and others, plus

Queer Geography: Mapping our Identities

music by dyke legends Team Dresch and Tribe 8.

Dist/Sales: VTape

Bolden-Kramer, Rachel / Hernandez, Theresa

2001; USA; 12 min; Documentary

Querelle

Queer Geography is a short documentary which

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner

explores the lives of four queer youth, ages 16-20. It

1982; Germany; 120 min; Drama

examines sexual orientation, coming out, family life

and dealing with being ‘out’ in school. (Frameline)

P: Dieter Schidor; W: Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Burkhard Driest; C: Xaver Schwarzenberger, Josef

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Vavra; E: Jiliane Lorenz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Queer Son

Cast: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent

Malet

Seitchik, Vickie

Based on the novel by Jean Genet, Querelle, a drug

1993; USA; 49 min; Documentary

smuggling sailor, murders a fellow sailor and takes

Queer Son is a compelling portrait of parents coping

refuge in a brothel, where he discovers his homo-

with their children’s lesbian or gay sexual orientation.

sexuality. The film, whose themes echo of sexual

The parents and children Seitchik interviews each

submission, violence and passion, was Fassbinder’s

come from different social and ethnic backgrounds.

last. Brad Davis, who plays Querelle, died of AIDS

Some accepted their children’s orientation easily;

in 1992.

others had grief to compound their ordeal from the

Prod Comp: Gaumont, Planet, Albatros Filmproduktion

start. (Frameline)

Dist/Sales: ACMI, 21stCentury, TLA, FilmsInc, BFI,

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Wolfe, ACMI

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Quest for Love

Based on the true story of a nurse and her two sons,

who moves in with her lesbian lover. When the

Noguerira, Helena

oldest boy decides to go back to his father, a hard-

1988; South Africa; 95 min; Drama

fought court battle begins. Well scripted and

P: Shan Moodley; W: Helena Nogueira;

sensitively handled with a great cast, originally made

C: Roy MacGregor; M: Tony Rudner

for television.

Cast: Jana Cilliers, Sandra Prinsloo, Joanna Weinberg,

Prod Comp: Blinn/Thorpe Productions, Viacom

Wayne Bowman

Productions

Alexandra is a bisexual writer and activist who goes

Dist/Sales: NBC

on a cruise with Dorothy, the woman she deeply

loves, and Mabel, who in turn loves Dorothy. More

Questioning Faith

complications arise when Alexandra’s boyfriend joins

the cruise. Set against the political turmoil of South

Alston, Macky

Africa, it is a powerful and un-stereotypical view of

2002; USA; 85 min; Documentary

lesbian love. This was the first commercial feature

P: Macky Alston; C: Tom Hurwitz; E: Chris White; film to be produced by a South African woman.

M: Camara Kambon

r

Macky Alston wants to be a minister. But in this age

Question of Attribution, A

of AIDS and terrorism how does one preach about

God’s mercy when everyone around you is suffering

Schlesinger, John

from some kind of intimate tragedy. In this personal

1992; UK; 70 min; Drama

essay documentary, Alston spends his two years in

P: Innes Lloyd; W: Alan Bennett; C: John Hooper; seminary interviewing friends and learning how their

E: Mark Day; M: Gerald Gouriet

different faiths reconcile them with a theology that

Cast: James Fox, David Calder, Geoffrey Palmer

stands up to even the most cruel loss. A thoughtful

An intense drama that focuses on the ‘Fourth Man’

and inspiring film that handles tough questions

of the Cambridge spy ring. Thirty years after the

without losing trust in an ultimate goodness. (2002

discovery of the ring the fourth man, Anthony

Double Take Documentary Festival)

Blunt, a well-known homosexual and art dealer to

Prod Comp: Cinemax Reel Life

the Queen, was exposed after his identity was

Dist/Sales: Riverfilms

covered up by the British government.

Prod Comp: BBC

Rachel, Rachel

Newman, Paul

1968; UK; 100 min; Drama

P: Paul Newman; W: Stewart Stern; C: Gayne Rescher; E: Dede Allen; M: Jerome Moross

Cast: Joanne Woodward, Estelle Parsons, James Olson,

Kate Harrington

Charts the events in the life of a middle-aged

schoolteacher in a small New England town. Her

close friend is a lonely and repressed lesbian

schoolteacher, who in one passionate moment kisses

Woodward. Vito Russo describes it as a touching

and pathetic moment as Parson’s character has been

in the closet for years.

Prod Comp: Warner, Kayos

Querelle

Dist/Sales: Warner

Question of Love, A

Rachel Williams Documentary

Thorpe, Jerry

1978; USA; 100 min; Drama

Cunliffe, Mike

P: William Blinn, Jerry Thorpe; W: William Blinn; 1996; UK; 20 min; Documentary

C: Charles G. Arnold; E: Byron Chudnow;

Supermodel Rachel Williams talks straight about her

M: Billy Goldenberg

uncompromising view of her sexuality. She talks

Cast: Gena Rowlands, Jane Alexander, Ned Beatty,

openly about her relationship with rock singer Alice

Bonnie Bedelia

Temple, what it is like to come out when you’re

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famous, the media’s reaction and the not-so-

Christopher Gable, David Hemmings

glamorous world of the supermodel.

A striking drama about sensuality, sexuality and

Prod Comp: Channel 4

independence. Amanda Donohue plays a lesbian

Dist/Sales: Channel4

gym instructor who seduces the young main

character, Ursula, a wilful, intelligent and independ-

Radical Harmonies

ent woman. Their relationship is uninhibited and

exploratory, until Ursula falls for a man. Based on

Mosbacher, Dee

the novel by D. H. Lawrence.

2002; USA; 90 min; Documentary

P: Dee Mosbacher

Prod Comp: Vestron

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, Roadshow

Radical Harmonies chronicles the Women’s Music

Cultural Movement and its evolution from a ‘girl

Rainmakers - Zimbabwe

with guitar’ to a revolution in the roles of women in

music and culture. The movement gave birth to an

Hart, Robbie

alternative industry that changed women and music

1999; Canada; 26 min; Documentary

forever. Through festival and performance footage,

The spectre of President Mugabe’s oppressive and

r

interviews, and archival material, the film delves into

homophobic regime is the backdrop for this

the rich and beautiful history of women creating a

gripping account of the fight for human rights and

cultural life based in a commitment to diversity,

native justice in Zimbabwe.

personal integrity, feminism and women loving

women. In its heyday, during the 1970s and 80s,

Dist/Sales: Adobe

women’s music offered a different message than

Raising Heroes

mainstream musical culture. It opened doors for

women musicians, producers, sound and light

Langway, Douglas

technicians and for new women-owned recording

1995; USA; 90 min; Action

companies and women-oriented shows. Pioneers like

P: Douglas Langway, Rose M. Langway, Henry White;

Cris Williamson, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Margie

W: Douglas Langway, Edmond Sorel, Henry White;

Adam and Linda Tillery recall the frustrations and

C: Stephen Schlueter; E: Douglas Langway;

the triumphs of finding women sound engineers and

M: Fractured Cylinder

other professionals in a completely male-dominated

Cast: Troy Sostillio, Henry White, Edmond Sorel

industry. (Woman Vision)

A low budget action/adventure gay film. Paul and

Dist/Sales: WomanVision

Josh are a happy couple and about to embark on the

Rainbow Serpent, The

most important event in their lives—adopting a

child. But just as they are about to attend the final

(aka: Haltéroflic)

court hearing for the adoption approval, Josh

Vallois, Philippe

witnesses a mob killing and becomes the next target.

1983; France; 90 min; Thriller

As they are stalked by professional killers they turn

P: Daniel Vassaire; W: Philippe Vallois;

to guns, killing and violence to protect their dream

C: François About

of having an alternative family.

Cast: Serge Avedikian, Ged Marlon

Prod Comp: Doppelganger Films

A suspense thriller about a rookie cop who is

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer, Millivres

investigating a murder and the prime suspect who is

Rape of Ganymede, The

a body builder. The cop soon becomes enraptured by

the erotic world of gyms and male bodies, and the

Whitman, Tom / Woehmann, Dustin

two men begin to develop an S/M, homoerotic

2000; USA; 10 min; Comedy

relationship even though they are both straight.

French with English subtitles.

The Greek mythological story surrounding

Ganymede is retold from Ganymede’s point of view.

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Through his eyes, we tour an Olympus populated by

Rainbow, The

leather daddies (Zeus), circuit queens (Apollo), bull

dykes (Athene) and lipstick lesbians (Aphrodite).

Russell, Ken

Skewering both the euphemising of the myth as well

1989; UK; 107 min; Drama

as current gay stereotypes and icons, The Rape of

P: Ken Russell; W: Ken Russell, Vivian Russell;

Ganymede is a sarcastic romp through ancient and

C: Billy Williams; E: Peter Davies; M: Carl Davis contemporary gay culture. (Prometheus)

Cast: Sammi Davis, Glenda Jackson, Amanda Donohue,

Dist/Sales: Prometheus

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Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall

commentary is supplemented by interviews with

doctors and psychologists who underline the need

Gordon, Bryan

for sensitivity training of teachers and other adults

1988; USA; 23 min; Comedy

who work with gay and lesbian youth. (Cinema

Sam Logan is looking for a job—and not just any

Guild)

job. And it may all depend on who he chooses as his

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild

next dance partner at Ray’s Male Heterosexual

Dance Hall!

Real Ellen Story, The

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

Bailey, Fenton / Barbato, Randy

Film Festival, 1989: Audience Award Best Short Film;

1998; USA; 42 min; Documentary

Academy Awards, 1988: Best Short Film Live Action

This documentary traces the ‘coming out’ episode of

Razor Blade Smile

The Ellen Show from its earliest beginnings, when a

TV executive first suggested to Ellen that she needed

West, Jake

a love interest, and would she consider a puppy, as a

1998; UK; 101 min; Horror

lesbian was deemed too threatening? An important

P: Robert Mercer, Jake West; W: Jake West;

and entertaining look at a pivotal moment in

r

C: James Slolan; M: Richard Wells

mainstream US television history. (MQFF)

Cast: Eileen Daly, Grahame Wood, Christopher

Dist/Sales: WorldOfWonder, PictureThis!, Wolfe

Adamson, Isabel Brook

Razor Blade Smile is an over-the-top camp vampire

Rebel Rebel

flick that manages to send up the whole Lilith myth

Burke, Betsy

in very stylish and fun manner.

2001; USA; 21 min; Drama

Reaching for the Moon

Dolores’ life has become depressing and aimless,

until she takes temporary custody of her wayward

Goulding, Edmund

teenage second cousin. Both of their lives are

1930; USA; 91 min; B&W; Comedy

transformed by the surprise relationship that

W: Edmund Goulding; C: Ray June, Robert Planck;

develops between them.

E: Hal C. Kern, Lloyd Nosler; M: Irving Berlin

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Bebe Daniels, Edward

Red Dirt

Everett Horton, Claud Allister, Jack Muhall

Purvis, Tag

A girl-shy Wall Street millionaire, played by

1999; USA; 110 min; Drama

Fairbanks, takes lessons in love from his valet (in a

P: Cyril Bijaoui, Sean Gibbons; W: Tag Purvis;

hilarious scene of homosexual innuendo). He plucks

C: Theodore Cohen; E: Nikko Tsiotsias; M: Nathan Barr up his courage and follows an aviatrix to Europe on

Cast: Karen Black, Dan Montgomery Jnr, Aleksa

a luxury liner. In mid-voyage he hears that he has

Palladino, Walton Goggins

lost all his money in the 1929 stock market crash.

Set in a small town in rural Mississippi, Red Dirt is

Prod Comp: United Artists, Feature Productions

an intimate, character-driven drama focusing on the

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, UA

dreams and desires of small-town boy Griffith Burns,

Reaching Out to Lesbian, Gay and

as he struggles to escape the stifling confines of his

home. Encouraging him to stay are his sensual

Bisexual Youth

cousin Emily and his agoraphobic Aunt Summer.

Rokab, Sylvie

Snared by the women he loves, Griffith threatens to

1996; USA; 21 min; Documentary

tear free when an attractive stranger, Lee Todd drifts

into town. Red Dirt is lushly shot, and is sure to

This film, sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and

appeal to fans of Tennessee Williams. (MQFF)

Straight Teachers Network, features interviews with

Prod Comp: Sweet Tea Productions

young gay men and lesbians who discuss how

homophobic attitudes of not only fellow students

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, VideoAmericain, 10%

but also their adult teachers negatively affects their

Red Heat

school work. These articulate young people also

comment on their own feelings about their sexual

Collector, Robert

orientation, their ‘coming out’ experiences, the

1985; Germany, USA; 104 min; Thriller

importance of being ‘out’ to friends and family, and

P: Mario Kassar, Andrew G. Vajna, Ernst R. von

the need for a gay and lesbian community. Their

Theumer; W: Robert Collector, Gary Drucker;

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C: Wolfgang Dickman; E: Anthony Redman;

Troy is 29-years-old and is HIV-positive. He has

M: Tangerine Dream

been to 23 funerals for friends who have died of

Cast: Sylvia Kristel, Linda Blair, Sue Kiel, William

AIDS. His one hope is a miracle AIDS drug called

Ostrander

D-64 but it is far too expensive to buy and the

chance of getting on the drug trial is very low. Darcy

A women-behind-bars film set behind the iron

and Duke are from Troy’s HIV support group and

curtain. An innocent American woman is captured

decide that if they can’t buy the drug why not steal

and must endure all sorts of traumas. Kristel plays a

it. Troy reluctantly goes along with their plan. They

lesbian warden who terrorises the woman. A

rob a number of drug stores and steal more than

particularly anti-gay film, all the lesbians are

they need and decide to distribute it to the rest of

torturing, murderous heathens, but good for a laugh

the community. Now they have a great mission in

if you are interested in hair-pulling, underwear-clad

life and finds their biggest target—the drug

lesbians.

company’s warehouse.

Dist/Sales: Palace

Prod Comp: Red Ribbon Productions

Red Label

Dist/Sales: Kushner-Locke, Col-Tri

r Dun, Viki

Red River

1987; Australia; Comedy

Hawks, Howard / Rosson, Arthur

A send up of the gangster genre with our detective,

1948; USA; 133 min; B&W; Western

Laura Hunt, a Red Label whiskey swilling, lesbian.

P: Howard Hawks; W: Charles Schnee, Borden Chase; She is hired by a woman to find a stolen leather

C: Russell Harlan; E: Christian Nyby; M: Dimitri jacket and finds herself in the world of lesbian

Tiomkin

leather bars.

Cast: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru,

Red Rain

Walter Brennan, Colleen Gray

This classic western stars the legendary John Wayne

Plotkin, Laura

at the peak of his career and Montgomery Clift in

1998; USA; 60 min; Documentary

his screen debut. The film is an account of the first

P: Laura Plotkin; C: Catlin Manning;

cattle drive over the Chisolm Trail, from deep Texas

E: Gabriel Rhodes; M: E. J. Sharpe, Jon Birdsong to Abilene, Kansas. Authentic detail and stunning

Cast: Gina ‘Boom Boom’ Guidi

cinematography bring to life the trials and tribula-

‘I was a lesbian way before I was a fighter’ says Gina

tions of this extraordinary challenge for the men

‘Boom Boom’ Guidi in this outstanding behind-the-

who battled the dust, rain, heat and frustration of

scenes account of the life of a professional female

the long, hard drive. The demands of this rigorous

boxer. The film follows the charismatic Guidi’s

journey further strain the edgy relationship between

compelling story from working-class roots to

the film’s key characters. An epic western in every

struggles with addiction and domestic violence,

sense and loaded with repressed sexuality.

through a gruelling daily training regime to the

Prod Comp: Monterey Productions, Charles K. Feldman

biggest fight of her career the women’s IBFA junior

Group

middleweight world title. Tenderly cradling a rabbit

Dist/Sales: ACMI, Warner, NFVLS, UA

in her massive arms, pounding an opponent and then

suggesting they keep in touch, weeping in frustration

Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman’s

and rage after a cruel homophobic act, Guidi

Lipstick, The

emerges as an outrageous, compelling, and humane

representative of a sometimes inhuman sport.

Eisenman, Rafael / King, Zalman / Kotcheff, Ted

1993; USA; 90 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Lolafilms

P: Rafael Eisenman, Avram ‘Butch’ Kaplan, Zalman

Dist/Sales: Lola, Wolfe

King, David Saunders, Jeff Alan Young; W: Chloe King,

Red Ribbon Blues

Zalman King, Ed Silverstein; C: Larry Fong, Daniel

Mindel, Ronn Schmidt; E: James Gavin Bedford, Curtis

Winkler, Charles

Edge, Marc Grossman; M: George S. Clinton

1995; USA; 100 min; Comedy

Cast: David Duchovny, Nina Siemaszko, Lydie Denier,

P: Brad Wyman, Dale Rosenbloom; W: Charles

Christina Fulton

Winkler; C: Larry Blanford; E: Clayton Halsey;

A classy soft porn erotic film series for the straight

M: John Frizzell

man, it tells the story of a woman who discovers

Cast: Paul Mercurio, Ru Paul, John Epperson, Debi

lipstick on her husband’s collar and decides to follow

Mazar

him. He goes to a restaurant to meet his lover, the

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wife sees the beautiful woman and becomes obsessed

Reform School Girls

with her. Finally she dresses as a man and picks up

the other woman in a nightclub and they begin a

De Simone, Tom

sexual relationship.

1986; USA; 90 min; Drama

P: Jack Cummins; W: Tom De Simone;

Prod Comp: Red Shoes Inc., The Zalman King Com-

C: Howard Wexler; E: Michael Spence

pany

Cast: Sybil Danning, Wendy O. Williams, Pat Ast,

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri

Linda Carol, Charlotte McGinnis

Reflecting Skin, The

A young first-time offender learns hard and fast that

the rules of the outside world do not apply in reform

Ridley, Philip

school. She is determined to stop corruption at the

1990; UK; 93 min; Horror

school but runs headlong into the iron-fisted,

P: Roy Burdis, Dominic Anciano; W: Philip Ridley; leather-clad lesbian played by Williams.

C: Dick Pope; E: Scott Thomas; M: Nick Bicât Prod Comp: New World, Balcor Film Investors,

Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy

International Cinevision Productions

Cooper, Duncan Fraser, Sheila Moore

Dist/Sales: Roadshow

r

An almost non-narrative, poetic horror film set in

the Midwest in the 1950s. Seth is an eight-year-old

Reframing AIDS

boy who is virtually ignored by his neurotic mother

and father. He creates an imaginary world of his own

Parmar, Pratibha

and when he finds a dead foetus in the barn he

1987; UK; 35 min; Documentary

believes it to be a dead friend who has been turned

The film investigates how AIDS has been used to

into an angel. But his world begins to collapse and

increase state harassment of gay men, lesbians, black

reality takes hold when his father is accused of

people and women in Britain. Framing the problem

killing and sexually abusing young boys in the local

in terms of a left politic, it reveals how homophobia

area. Seth’s brother returns in a rather disturbed state

and puritanism have caused the slow government

from the Pacific during World War II to his lover, a

response to AIDS.

widow with a necrophilic fetish. No one and

Dist/Sales: GroupeIntervention

nothing is conventional in this macabre film.

Prod Comp: Fugitive, BBC, British Screen, Zenith

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, BBC, Miramax, Cowboy

Reflections

Ellsworth, Robert

1993; USA; 18 min; Drama

A disturbing short concerning a woman’s descent

into madness. A couple move into a flat unaware

that the previous tenant, a gay man, was murdered

there. (MQFF)

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Huston, John

Reframing AIDS

1967; USA; 110 min; Drama

Relationships

P: Raymond Stark, John Huston; W: Gladys Hill,

Chapman Mortimer; C: Aldo Tonti; E: Russell Lloyd; 1997; 50 min; Documentary

M: Toshiro Mayuzumi

This film focuses on married, cohabiting, gay and

Cast: Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Julie Harris,

lesbian couples and establishes the similarities and

Brian Keith

differences between these couples in how they

A US Army soldier’s repressed homosexuality is

handle conflict, their views on work and the role

about to threaten his life and career. A landmark

played by their support network of family and

exploration of a taboo theme, it is also rich with

friends. The program also considers the role play by

humour. Based on the novel by Carson McCullers.

gender and society in influencing personal relation-

Prod Comp: Warner, Seven Arts

ships. (EMA)

Dist/Sales: Warner, SevenArts, Swank

Dist/Sales: EMA

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Relax

E: Francine Sandberg

Cast: Aurore Clement, Helmut Griem, Lea Massari,

Newby, Christopher

Jean-Pierre Cassel

1990; UK; 30 min; B&W; Drama

P: Mehdi Norowzian

Anna, a film director, goes on a train journey across

Cast: Philip Rosch

Europe in order to publicise her latest film. Along

the way she meets an assortment of characters.

London, 1990. Steve scrubs himself neurotically

During the course of the journey, she describes to

prior to going to the doctor for an HIV test. Once

her mother a sexual experience with another woman.

there the doctor tells him, ‘Relax’. The examination

An austere, affecting portrait of a woman lost.

is intercut with scenes of Steve and his pal Ned

French with English subtitles.

watching porn films and sunbathing on the roof.

Later, Steve picks up Keith, a cyclist, but the

Prod Comp: Paradise Films, Hélène Films, Unité Trois,

encounter is tense because Steve is too frightened of

ZDF

the disease. Keith urges him on, ‘Relax’. A well-shot

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

film, in beautiful black and white, which encapsu-

lates the fears and hopes of living in the time of

Reno Finds Her Mom

AIDS. (Frameline)

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Dean-Pilcher, Lydia

Awards: Melbourne International Film Festival, 1991:

1997; USA; 90 min; Documentary

Best Experimental Film; Berlin Film Festival, 1991: Best

P: Lydia Dean-Pilcher, Reno, Tina Di Feliciantonia;

Gay Film

W: Reno; C: Trish Govoni; E: Jane Wagner Prod Comp: BFI

Cast: Reno, Mary Tyler Moore, Lily Tomlin

Dist/Sales: Frameline, Ronin, BFI

In this made-for-HBO docudramedy, lesbian stand-

Relax... It’s Just Sex

up comic Karen Reno, adopted at birth by lily-white

suburbanites, goes in search of her biological mother

Castellaneta, P. J.

and her ethnic roots. Hilarious at times, poignant at

1998; USA; 108 min; Comedy

others, Reno’s film gives Madonna’s Truth or Dare a

P: Steven J. Wolfe, Megan O’Neill, Harold Warren;

run for the money in the Media Personality Allows

W: P. J. Castellaneta; C: Lon Magdich; E: Tom Seid; Camera To Capture Unflattering Moments Of Real

M: Lori Eschler Frystak

Emotion department. Reno jokes, screams, rants,

Cast: Jennifer Tilly, Lori Petty, Mitchell Anderson,

rails, mugs, curses, cries and connives her way

Cynda Williams, Timothy Paul Perez

through a Kafkaesque adoption bureaucracy,

exhibiting all the bravado and vulnerability that so

Relax...It’s Just Sex revolves around a close-knit group

endears Reno to her fans. When a clandestine source

of thirty-something friends—heterosexual, homo-

in the adopted underground scores the vital

sexual and bisexual. Lovelorn gay playwright Vincy

information as to Reno’s mother’s name and present

desperately wants a lover. Vincy’s friend Tara

whereabouts, Reno must face a moment she has

desperately wants to get pregnant with her boyfriend

dreaded and longed for her whole life. Brief fantasy-

Gus, who desperately wants to find himself. Gus’

scene cameos by Lily Tomlin and Mary Tyler Moore

brother Javi announces he’s HIV-positive and falls in

add deft, comic touches to lighten the tone when-

love with loudmouth artist Buzz. Long time lesbian

ever the material threatens to get too heavy. The film

couple Sarina and Megan fall out of love, and in love

is ultimately uplifting because, corny as it sounds,

with Robin and Jered respectively, while their clean-

not only does Reno find her Mom—she finds herself

cut Christian friends, the sickeningly perfect couple

Dwight and Diego, pray for them all. Confused?

in the process of searching. (1998 Austin Gay and

Sprinkled with plenty of smart banter and eye-

Lesbian International Film Festival)

popping sex, Relax...It’s Just Sex portrays the trials

Prod Comp: HBO

and tribulations of sex and love in the 1990s in a

Dist/Sales: Reno

playful, humorous and poignant way. (MQFF)

Replay

Prod Comp: Forefront Films, Sneak Preview Entertain-

ment

(aka: La Répétition)

Dist/Sales: Millivres, JourDeFete, Haut-et-Court, Wolfe,

Corsini, Catherine

Mongrel, ACMI

2000; France; 96 min; Drama

Rendez-vous d’Anna, Les

P: Philippe Martin; W: Catherine Corsini, Pascale Breton, Pierre Erwan Guillaume, Marc Syrigas;

Akerman, Chantal

C: Agnés Godard; E: Sabine Mamou; M: Pierre Bondu, 1978; Belgium; 121 min; Drama

Fabrice Dumont

P: Alain Dahan; W: Chantal Akerman; C: Jean Penzer; Cast: Emmanuelle Béart, Pascale Bussières, Dani Levy,

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Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Rescuing Desire

Imagine Mina Tannenbaum morphing into Single

Rogers, Adam

White Female! or Beaches becoming All About Eve 1995; USA; 115 min; Comedy

and you’ll get some idea of what to expect in

P: Patrick Sisam; M: Wendy Blackstone

Catherine Corsini’s engrossing drama about two best

Cast: Melinda Mullins, Caitlin Dulanyt, Tamara Tunie,

friends who fall out and then meet up again several

Ellen Cleghorne, Lea Delaria

years later to resume their push-me-pull-you

Toni Wilson is a respected nurse who works in a

relationship. What makes the film so interesting,

small private hospital. At 46 years old she is engaged

however, is Corsini’s refusal to fall back on stere-

to Ralph, a doctor, but instead of experiencing the

otypes. Just when you’ve pegged one character as a

joy and expectation usually associated with this

prime example of that old and not-so-lamented

event, she is becoming more and more anxious.

Hollywood favourite—the psycho dyke—you realise

Suddenly she has become attracted to women. Ralph

neither woman is the villain here. Unlike Diane

thinks it’s all hormonal but Toni knows better. She

Kurys’ similarly themed Six Days and Six Nights,

begins expeditions to gay bookstores and lesbian bars

they are both flawed women for whom love burns so

where she meets a co-worker, Van, and her friend

furiously it can’t help but be destructive as well as

Evonne. Toni is instantly attracted to the beautiful

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positive. These are in-depth brilliantly drawn

and mysterious Evonne and the two begin an affair.

characters, played with tremendous skill and

A humorous look at coming out for older women.

intelligence by Emmanuelle Béart and Pascale

Dist/Sales: Pilgrims4

Bussiéres. French with English subtitles. (MQFF)

Prod Comp: Le Studio Canal+

Residencia, La

Dist/Sales: FPI

(aka: The House that Screamed)

Ibáñez-Serrador, Narcisco

1969; Spain; 94 min; Thriller

P: Arturo Gonzalez; W: Luis Verner Penafiel, Narcisco Ibáñez-Serrador; C: Manuel Berenguer;

E: Reginald Mills; M: Waldo de los Rios

Cast: Lilli Palmer, Cristina Galbó, John Moulder-

Brown, Mary Maude

La Residencia is set in a school for runaway girls run

by a ruthless teacher who believes in absolute

discipline. Of course the girls get up to all sorts of

mischief, including rampant sex, lesbian affairs and

torture. Meanwhile girls are being murdered, one by

Replay

one. Spanish with English subtitles.

Requiem pour un Vampire

Prod Comp: Anabel Films

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee

(aka: Vierges et Vampires)

Resident Alien

Rollin, Jean

1971; France; 95 min; Horror

Nossiter, Jonathan

P: Jean Rollin, Sam Selsky; W: Jean Rollin;

1992; USA; 85 min; Documentary

C: Renan Polles; M: Pierre Raph

P: Chantal Bernheim, Jonathan Nossiter; W: Jonathan Cast: Marie-Pierre Castel, Mireille D’Argent, Philippe

Nossiter; C: John Foster; E: Jonathan Nossiter

Gasté, Dominique

Cast: Quentin Crisp, John Hurt, Holly Woodlawn, Paul

Morrissey

A classic of the sexual supernatural, when shown in

its original version. It’s the story of two young

Documentary on the life of famous queer Quentin

women on the run who shelter in an old castle

Crisp, (author of The Naked Civil Servant). Includes

inhabited by a vampire and his cohorts. They

his views of homosexual pop culture.

become captive and must lose their virginity to be

Dist/Sales: Greycat

initiated into the group. What follows is a sado-

erotic blend of vampirism and sex. Rollin’s fourth

Resonance

film in his examination of vampire sex.

Cummins, Stephen / Hunt, Simon

French with English subtitles.

1991; Australia; 12 min; B&W; Drama

Prod Comp: Les Films, ABC

P: Paul Fogo; W: Stephen Cummins, Simon Hunt;

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C: Brendan Young; E: Annette Davey; M: Simon Hunt Return to Go!

Cast: Mathew Bergan, Chad Courtney, Annette Evans

(aka: Züruck Auf Los!)

Beginning with a gay-bashing in the back streets of

Sanoussi-Bliss, Pierre

Sydney, the film uses gesture and dance as an interior

1999; Germany; 92 min; Drama

monologue to explore acts of violence.

P: Frank Löprich, Katrin Schlösser; W: Pierre Sanoussi-Prod Comp: Resonance Productions

Bliss; C: Thomas Plenert; E: Christian Cloos

Dist/Sales: Ronin, Frameline, NFVLS

Cast: Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Bart Klein, Doris Dörrie,

Dieter Bach

Best friends Sam and Sebastian are searching for Mr

Right and the meaning of life. When Sam’s relation-

ship with Manne begins to sour, he seeks comfort

with Sebastian, a Barbra Streisand impersonator and

TV commercial dancing tomato. When Manne is

admitted to hospital, Sam goes to his side, and

Sebastian moves in to care for Sam. Along the way,

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each takes a lover (a male nurse/model and a British

painter) and the four end up sharing the two

bedroom flat where they survive casual flings,

cigarettes and booze, lack of money, and the odd

tragedy. An inspiring film about alternative family,

the value of home, and the importance of learning to

love ourselves. (MQFF)

German with English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: O-Filmproduktion

Revoir Julie

(aka: Julie and Me)

Crépeau, Jeanne

1998; Canada; 92 min; Drama

P: Jeanne Crépeau; W: Jeanne Crépeau;

C: Michel Lamothe, Stephan Ivanov; E: Myriam Poirier; M: Karen Young

Cast: Dominique Leduc, Stephanie Morgenstern,

Marcel Sabourin, Muriel Dutil

Resonance

Sweet, sunny and fresh, Revoir Julie tells the story of

two friends who reconcile after having lost touch for

Return of Sarah’s Daughters, The

15 years. Juliet is recovering from another traumatic

break up when she begins to think about her school

Jarmel, Marcia

friend Juliet. The women meet up and over the

1997; USA; 56 min; Documentary

course of a couple of days are confronted with

The Return of Sarah’s Daughters is a compelling

unresolved feelings that having been lying dormant

personal documentary about secular women drawn

since their school days. French with English

to Jewish Orthodoxy. Rus, a no-nonsense social

subtitles.

worker, discovers fulfilment in the Hasidic commu-

Prod Comp: Box Films

nity. Myriam, a spiritually-oriented lesbian, struggles

Dist/Sales: Crepeau

to fit in, but ultimately leaves to become a rabbi.

Their stories challenge the filmmaker to give more

Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie

than a feminist tour of this closed world. She must

confront her own lack of ethnic identity. What does

(aka: Shôjo kakumei Utena: Adolescence mokushiroku)

tradition have to offer? At what price? Ultimately,

Ikuhara, Kunihiko

her journey illuminates the modern conflict between

1999; Japan; 87 min; Animation

assimilation and tradition, community and individu-

P: Toshimichi Otsuki; W: Yoji Enokido;

alism. (WMM)

C: Toyomitsu Nanajo; E: Shigeru Nishiyama

Dist/Sales: WMM

A new student comes to a strange school and is

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caught up in a battle for the affection of a beautiful

diasporic communities as well. (V Tape)

and mysterious girl. Sounds like a familiar plot,

Prod Comp: Friday Night Productions

doesn’t it. But Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie is

Dist/Sales: VTape

not your typical high school drama. For one thing,

the new student isn’t all he seems to be—and neither

Rhythm & Blues

is the school. Duels, mystery, conspiracy, hate, love

and millions of roses fill this award-winning

Lennhoff, Stephen

animated movie. In 1997, director Kunihiko Ikuhara

2000; UK; 90 min; Comedy

and popular female comic artist Chiho Saito created

P: Hugh Bygott-Webb, Dominic Denny;

the TV series Revolutionary Girl Utena, which broke

W: Michael Jones; C: Fiona Cunningham-Reid;

new ground in portraying an intense emotional

E: Patrick McDonnell; M: Michael Conn

relationship between two girls, gender-bending

Cast: Angus MacInnes, Paul Blackthorne, Ian

Utena and femme Anthy. In the TV series, Ikuhara

Henderson, Phillipe Sartori, Richard Ritchie

and Saito created a world in which the beautiful and

powerful students of exclusive Oohtori Academy

Rhythm & Blues follows the adventures of a Scottish

each suffer for their secrets, even as they try to win

skinhead Byron and his enigmatic Adonis protégé

the mysterious ‘power to revolutionise the world.’

John. A gay comedy about rent boys and sugar

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With the movie, Ikuhara takes the relationship

daddies set in fantasy Great Britain circa 1980.

between Utena and Anthy to the next level. (26th

Prod Comp: Life on Mars

San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film

Dist/Sales: Equator

Festival) Japanese with English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Shojo Kakumei Utena Production

Rice and Potatoes

Dist/Sales: ProductionIG

Biasatti, John / Wilson, Todd

Revolutions Happen like Refrains in a

1998; USA; 58 min; Documentary

Song

Rice: Slang for gay Asians. Potatoes: Slang for gay

Caucasians. Filmed in San Francisco, Rice and

Deocampo, Nick

Potatoes presents a candid look at the issues and

1987; Philippines; 85 min; Documentary

stereotypes surrounding interracial gay relationships.

Cast: Reynaldo Villarma

Often funny, always thought provoking commentary

by a diverse cast of 17 gay men, both Asian and

The third film in a trilogy that focuses on the links

Caucasian.

between poverty and prostitution in the Philippines.

It follows the lives of the people in the first two

Dist/Sales: TLA

films, Oliver (1983) and Children of the Regime

(1985). It is an uncompromising look at street life

Richard’s Things

and we find Oliver is still supporting his family by

Harvey, Anthony

working in a gay bar in Manila and children are still

1980; UK; 104 min; Drama

selling their bodies in order to survive.

P: Mark Shivers; W: Frederic Raphael;

Rewriting the Script: Love Letter to Our

C: Freddie Young; E: Lesley Walker; M: Georges Delerue Cast: Liv Ullmann, Mark Eden, Gwen Taylor, Amanda

Families

Redman, Amanda Walker

2001; Canada; 46 min; Documentary

Slow-moving drama of marital infidelity. A woman

P: Leela Acharya, Amina Ally, Farzana Doctor, Anjula

and her late husband’s girlfriend come together for

Gogia, Zeenat Janmohamed, Nasreen Khan, Deena

companionship and to mourn their loss. But they

Ladd, Anuja Mendiratta, Arif Noorani

soon become attracted to one another and fall in

love.

Rewriting the Script features frank discussions with

parents, siblings and extended family members of

Prod Comp: Southern Pictures

South Asian gays, lesbians, bisexuals and

transgendered people. Poignant testimonies are

Right to be Different, The

shared not only about the coming out experience but

Cipelletti, Claudio

how these families transformed themselves to

1998; Italy; 61 min; Documentary

include their queer children, changing the larger

W: Claudio Cipelletti

South Asian community in the process. The

documentary speaks not only to experiences of

Gay and straight students from three Italian high

South Asians (which includes people originating

schools discuss the difficulties encountered when

from the Indian subcontinent), but to other

growing up in a homophobic society.

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Right Wing, Right Off, Right Hons, Right?

Victor Salva. Old wounds and resentments between

father and son arise as Dell realises that his homo-

Kwietniowski, Richard

phobia may be pushing his youngest boy, Jason Behr,

1991; UK; 100 min; Documentary

into the arms of a much darker and deadlier father.

P: Susan Ardill, Clare Beavan

(Wolfe)

From devout conservatives to the merely politically

Dist/Sales: Daly/Harris, Wolfe

incorrect, homosexuals on the Right have tended to

escape the limelight. This film redresses the balance,

Ritual

probing those who join the Tories, become yuppies,

go to the opera and feature in upmarket glossies.

Bennett Clay, Stanley

1998; USA; 78 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Channel 4

P: Beth Hubbard, Michael Hubbard;

Dist/Sales: Channel4

W: Stanley Bennett Clay; C: David Mullen;

Righteous Babes, The

E: Nicholas Eliopoulos, Eric Kahn, Michael Schulz;

M: Lumelle Humes

Parmar, Pratibha

Cast: Clarence Williams III, Denise Nicholas, Shawn

1998; UK; 50 min; Documentary

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Michael Howard, Angelle Brooks

Inspired by the likes of Chrissie Hynde, only to be

Through the shimmering glass of their beautiful

dumbed-down again by The Spice Girls, women are

Malibu home, the Beckers appear to be the ideal

stripping both the pop and the cock from rock. To

family. Their father is a successful attorney; their

steal a phrase from Skunk Anansie’s Skin, it’s all

mother, a former Broadway actress. Their two

about ‘Clit Rock’. British lesbian filmmaker Pratibha

children, Mason and Teresa, are everything parents

Parmar delivers an urgent dose of male ego deflation

could hope for. But beneath their supposedly perfect

in this uncompromising rockumentary that re-

home and perfect lives, lie secrets that threaten to

evaluates feminism in an era when even some of its

destroy them. When handsome gay Mason drops

most vocal vocalists are hesitant to wave the flag.

out of college, and suddenly returns home, the

Splashes of funky vid clips are tucked between head

precarious balance of power within the family shifts,

grabs from Sinead O’Connor, Tori Amos, Chrissie

threatening to destroy their carefully constructed

Hynde, Skin and Ani DiFranco, as well as academics

façade. (2000 Tampa International Gay & Lesbian

Gloria Steinem and Camille Paglia.

Film Festival)

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

Prod Comp: Gotham Entertainment Group

Rights and Reactions

Ritual Nation

Lippman, Jane / Zwickler, Phil

Kaminsky, Sean

1987; USA; 56 min; Documentary

2000; USA; 29 min; Documentary

P: Paul Zwickler

Over the course of two years, New York filmmaker

Documentary about the struggle for civil rights for

Sean Kaminsky travelled alone for two years with a

gay and lesbian people, centred on the 1986 public

digital video camera filming his visits to three unique

hearings in New York City Council Chambers on a

alternative communities: the Rainbow Family in

proposed local bill to outlaw discrimination on the

Oregon, the Radical Faeries in Tennessee and the

basis of sexual preference; a Bill which was finally

Burning Man Festival in Nevada.

passed.

Dist/Sales: Spectrum, CFMDC

Dist/Sales: ACMI, Salzgeber

Ritz, The

Rites of Passage

Lester, Richard

Salva, Victor

1976; UK; 88 min; Comedy

1999; USA; 95 min; Thriller

P: Denis O’Dell; W: Terence McNally; C: Paul Wilson; P: J. Todd Harris; W: Victor Salva;

E: John Bloom; M: Ken Thorne

C: Don E. Fauntleyroy; E: Ed Marx; M: Bennett Salvay Cast: Jack Weston, Jerry Stiller, Rita Moreno, Treat

Cast: Dean Stockwell, Jason Behr, James Remar, Robert

Williams, Kaye Ballard, F. Murray Abraham

Keith

In an attempt to get away from his hit-man brother-

The Farraday men are men with secrets. And when

in-law, a Cleveland sanitation worker hides out in a

all of them end up at the family’s mountain get-a-

gay bathhouse where he is certain that he won’t be

way unexpectedly—one secret turns deadly in this

found but his brother-in-law’s business dealings are

unique and chilling thriller from writer/director

spread far and wide. A riotous farce (some may call it

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tasteless and tacky) with some fabulous musical

Rocky Horror Picture Show, The

numbers to boot.

Sharman, Jim

Prod Comp: Warner, Courtyard Films

1975; UK, USA; 95 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Warner

P: Michael White, John Goldstone; W: Richard

Rock Hudson

O’Brien, Jim Sharman; C: Peter Suschitzky; E: Graeme Clifford; M: Richard Hartley, Richard O’Brien

Nicolella, John

Cast: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick,

1990; USA; 89 min; Drama

Richard O’Brien, Little Nell, Patricia Quinn

P: Diana Kerew, Renee Palyo; W: Dennis Turner;

When Brad and Janet, the clean-cut all-American

C: Newton Thomas Sigel; E: Peter Parasheles;

couple, can’t get their car to start, they end up at the

M: Paul Chihara

castle of Dr Frank N. Furter, a transvestite, bisexual

Cast: Thomas Ian Griffith, Daphne Ashbrook, William

alien scientist. A very enjoyable sci-fi hi-camp spoof

R. Moses, Andrew Robinson

with memorable songs which has become a cult

Made for TV biopic about the life and career of

favourite.

Rock Hudson. It begins with his truck-driving days,

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox

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his acting career and rise to fame, and finally his

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, 20thCenturyFox

death from AIDS. Based on the book by his ex-wife,

Phyllis Gates, and on the court records from the civil

Roi Danse, Le

suit brought by his former lover, Marc Christian.

(aka: The King is Dancing)

Prod Comp: Konigsberg International, The Sanitsky

Corbiau, Gérard

Company

2000; France; 114 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: Warner

P: Dominique Janne; C: Gérard Simon; E: Philippe Rock Hudson’s Home Movies

Ravoet, Ludo Troch; M: Jean-Bastiste Lully

Cast: Benoit Magimel, Tchéky Karyo, Boris Terral,

Rappaport, Mark

Colette Emmanuelle

1992; USA; 63 min; Documentary

Historians didn’t call Louis XVI of France ‘the Sun

W: Mark Rappaport

King’ for nothing. The first modern monarch to

Cast: Eric Farr

declare himself the centre of his country’s govern-

Documentary about the career and eventual death

mental universe, he was also the prototypical media

from AIDS of movie star Rock Hudson. Film clips

darling. After seizing power from his mother and her

from over 30 of his films illustrate ways in which his

advisors, he gained public fame—and popularised

sexuality was played out on the screen.

the relatively new art of ballet—by becoming a

Prod Comp: Couch Potato Productions

dancer himself. He simultaneously used music and

Dist/Sales: ArtisticLicense, WaterBearer, NFVLS, ACMI

theatre to help glorify and streamline his own image.

Le Roi Danse revolves around Louis’ partnership with

Rock the Boat

his choreographer and court musician, Jean-Baptiste

Lully. Corbiau liberally blends historical fact with

Houston, Robert

juicy, soap-opera fiction, creating a vibrant portrait

1998; USA; 88 min; Documentary

of an unstable, passionate world where music can

Filmmaker Robert Houston joins the crew of the

heal and harm with equal facility. (Gemma Files,

sloop ‘Survivor’ to capture the experiences of 11

Toronto Eye Weekly) French with English subtitles.

HIV-positive men during competition in the 2000

Prod Comp: Le Studio Canal+

mile Trans-Pacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles to

Hawaii in 1997.

Room of Words, The

Rockwell

(aka: La Stanza della parole)

Molé, Franco

Less, Vadan

1990; Italy, USA; 115 min; Drama

1999; USA; 22 min; Drama

W: Francesco Molè; E: Kathleen Stratton; M: Gianni Silano In the small town of Rockwell, football is the only

Cast: Martine Brochard, David Brandon, Linda Carol

thing that matters, but with the arrival of city boy

Another version of the steamy relationship between

Cody, star player Jake soon has other things on his

artist and writer Anais Nin, writer Henry Miller, and

mind. (MQFF)

his wife, June, the woman they both loved.

Dist/Sales: FloridaUni

Prod Comp: Wind Film

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Roommates

is strong and believable, and she was nominated for

an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Metzger, Alan

1994; USA; 100 min; Drama

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox

W: Robert W. Lenski; C: Geoffrey Erb;

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, 20thCenturyFox

M: Lee Holdridge

Rosebud

Cast: Eric Stolz, Randy Quaid, Elizabeth Peña, Charles

Durning

Farthing, Cheryl

Two men, one gay and the other straight, both have

1992; UK; 14 min; Drama

an AIDS-related illness. They become unwilling

P: Leontine Ruette; W: Cheryl Farthing;

roommates in an apartment building run for AIDS

C: Cinders Forshaw; E: Peter Webber

patients. Quaid’s character is a homophobic ex-con

Cast: Doreene Blackstock, Julie Graham

who contracted the virus through a blood transfu-

When Kay moves into a new flat, she finds herself

sion, Stolz is an educated and wealthy man. The two

unexpectedly intrigued by the open sexuality of the

clash aggressively at the beginning but start to soften

lesbian couple who live next door. Surprised by the

as their disease progresses.

intensity of her feelings, Kay embraces her own

r Prod Comp: Hollywood Pictures, PolyGram Filmed

repressed desires and sets out to turn fantasy into

Entertainment

reality. (Cinenova)

Prod Comp: BFI, Channel 4

Rope

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, WMM, BFI

Hitchcock, Alfred

Rough Sketch of a Spiral

1948; USA; 81 min; Thriller

P: Sidney Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock; W: Arthur

(aka: Rasen No Sobyo)

Laurents; C: Joseph Valentine, William V. Skall;

Yasufumi, Kojima

E: William Ziegler; M: David Buttolph

1990; Japan; 103 min; Documentary

Cast: James Stewart, Farley Granger, John Dall, Joan

P: Takeshige Kunio; C: Dobashi Hedeyuki; E: Kojima Chandler, Cedric Hardwicke

Toshihiko, Nakaba Yumiko, Okayasu Hajime

A great psychological thriller about power, ego and

A very personal documentary that looks at the lives

murder. Two young gay students murder a friend in

of gay men living in Osaka. One of the men,

their luxury apartment and throw a cocktail party

Yoshhiichi, is a playwright who hopes his play will

serving drinks to the victim’s father and girlfriend

change the status of gays in contemporary Japan,

from the trunk in which the corpse is concealed.

where deep-rooted homophobia and prejudice is still

There is no apparent reason for the murder except

rife. With humour, the film examines the day-to-day

that they believe they are too intelligent to be

life of the play’s production, the actors and friends

caught. Loosely based on the real-life Loeb and

that make it possible. It also deals with Yoshhiichi’s

Leopold case. (See also: Swoon)

relationship with his lover Takashi. Japanese with

Prod Comp: Transatlantic Pictures, Warner

English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: UIP, Ascanbee, Universal, Warner, NFVLS,

Dist/Sales: HeraldAce

ACMI

Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

Rose, The

Godmilow, Jill

Rydell, Mark

1993; USA; 90 min; Comedy

1979; USA; 134 min; Drama

P: Ted Hope, James Schamus, Marianne Weems;

P: Marvin Worth, Aaron Russo; W: Michael Cimino,

W: Gary Indiana, Jack Smith; C: Ellen Kuras;

Bo Goldman, Bill Kerby; C: Vilmos Zsigmond;

E: Merrill Stern; M: Michael Sahl

E: Robert Wolfe, Carroll Timothy O’Meara;

Cast: Ron Vawter, Coco McPherson

M: Paul A. Rothchild

These two legendary and equally infamous contem-

Cast: Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry

poraries could not have been more different, except

Dean Stanton, Barry Primus

for the fact that they were gay white men living

Very loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin, The

through oppressive times. Both political in their

Rose tells of a bisexual rock singer as she struggles

respective ways, closeted Cohn used his back room

with booze, drug addition, success and her inability

conservative politics as ‘drag’ (a guise to conceal his

to find a fulfilling relationship, straight or lesbian.

sexuality), while out and outrageous Smith went

This was Bette Midler’s debut film; her performance

from back room to centre stage turning drag into

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sexual politics through his Arabian Nights/B-movie

Friedrich seeks to subvert male car culture by

kitsch-inspired performances.

questioning the culture’s social space defined by

Prod Comp: Good Machine, Pomodori Foundation

dominant heterosexual values.

Dist/Sales: GoodMachine

Dist/Sales: WMM, NFVLS, Cinenova, CFMDC

Running Gay: Lesbian and Gay Participa-

tion in Sport

Chowdhry, Maya

1991; UK; 20 min; Documentary

Examines the participation of lesbians and gay men

in sports, focusing on the homophobia they confront

in mainstream sporting events and their efforts to

organise gay teams, organisations and events.

(Cinema Guild)

Prod Comp: Sheffield Film Co-op, Channel 4

s

Roy Cohn/Jack Smith

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild

RSVP

Ruthie & Connie: Every Room in the

House

Lynd, Laurie

1991; Canada; 23 min; Experimental

Dickson, Deborah

M: John McCarthy

2002; USA; 55 min; Documentary

Cast: Daniel MacIvor, Ross Manson

P: Sandra Butler, Deborah Dickson, Donald

A lyrical piece that explores the emotions felt by a

Goldmaker

group of people when Andrew dies. There is almost

Ruthie and Connie are Jewish grandmothers who are

no dialogue, but rather a central piece of music— La

lesbians and national heroines. They spend much of

Spectre de la Rose by Berlioz, which forms a link

their lives ‘doing the right thing’—until they discover

between various family members and friends

it isn’t right for them. By taking risks and challenging

listening to it; through their images, reactions and

values they add a powerful chapter to the dialogue on

memories we learn about Andrew’s life and his death

the meaning of family in America today. Set against

from AIDS.

the backdrop of working-class Jewish Brooklyn and

Dist/Sales: Frameline, CFMDC, BFI

framed by the emergence of feminism and gay

liberation, this powerful film reveals that revolutions

Rules of the Game

are often made up of small, daily decisions. In

committing to each other, Ruthie and Connie

Fockele, Jorge

jettison their previous heterosexual marriages, wound

1998; Germany, USA; 50 min; Documentary

their children, and establish a whole new social life.

In Rules of the Game, members of New York’s

As activists, they embrace the struggle for dignity and

Hetrick-Martin Institute for queer youth have an

respect, and as lovers they change the course of their

opportunity to stage a fantasy scene complete with

lives, paving the way for a significant domestic-

professional make-up and costume design, in which

partners battle that they eventually win! (2002 San

they reveal usually unseen parts of themselves.

Francisco Jewish Film Festival)

Results? A suave drag-king crooner, a sexy femme

Dist/Sales: Berkeley

drag dance number, an encounter with a vampire,

and a death metal music video. (22nd San Francisco

S.

International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

Henderickx, Guido

Rules of the Road

1998; Belgium; 94 min; Drama

P: Luc Reynaerts; W: Guido Henderickx;

Friedrich, Su

C: Jan Vancaillie; M: Patrick Riguelle

1993; USA; 31 min; Drama

Cast: Natalie Broods, Katelijne Damen, Josse De Pauw,

P: Su Friedrich; W: Su Friedrich; C: Su Friedrich; Jan Decleir

E: Su Friedrich

A woman kills her boyfriend and his mistress after

Footage of a 1983 Oldsmobile Cutlass Cruiser

she’s recorded them having sex. Dutch & French

shared by a lesbian couple is combined with a voice-

with English subtitles.

over account of the history of their relationship.

Dist/Sales: Leonor, Strand

351

Sabor a Mi

whether to have safe sex or not. So Dianne takes

(aka: Savour Me)

Allie to a safe-sex club where they both discover the

pleasures of latex and other assorted rubber goods. A

Escanilla, Claudia Morgado

very hot and sexy look at the safe-sex proposition for

1997; Canada; 22 min; Experimental

lesbians that is humorous and informative.

P: Seanna McPherson, Claudia Morgado Escanilla;

Prod Comp: Blush Entertainment

W: Claudia Morgado Escanilla, Seanna McPherson,

Lori Hagan

Safe Journey

An erotic short film about sensual yearnings, the

Chiang, S. Leo

guilty pleasures of watching, and the secret complic-

2001; USA; 15 min; Drama

ity of desire. Two women secretly watch the most

intimate moments of each other’s lives. Chance

Two strangers meet by chance on a windy autumn

meetings between the two soon become deliberate

night. The boy is homeless; the man has just lost the

encounters and the women discover their mutual

one he loves. Will their differences unite them, or

longing for each other. (WMM) Spanish with

drive them apart?

English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: WalkingIris

s Dist/Sales: WMM, CFMDC

Safe Place, A

Sacred Lies, Civil Truths

Guttman, Amos

Gund Saalfield, Catherine / Phipps, Cyrille / Williams,

1977; Israel; 29 min; Drama

Rachael / Wright, Suzanne

Guttman’s first short film explores a high school boy’s

1993; USA; 58 min; Documentary

struggle with his emerging gay identity. Danny fakes

Documents the dangerous, hateful lies of the US Far

a stomach ache so that he can avoid playing football,

Right whose anti-lesbian and gay campaigns have led

and go to the cinema instead. His perspective is that

to homophobic violence. The film reveals the real

of a young man on the verge of discovering his

agenda of the Christian Right to gain power and

sexuality; the world is filled with straight couples and

impose a ‘Biblical rule’. (Cinenova)

the longing stares of gay men. In a dream sequence

reminiscent of Sleeping Beauty, his tentative touch

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

wakes a naked man and signifies his own awakening.

Sad Disco Fantasia

After avoiding a gay sexual encounter in the cinema,

he returns there to find whatever the promise of the

Reinke, Steve

dark theatre holds. This short is a wonderful story of

2001; USA; 24 min; Experimental

sexuality, individuality and adulthood. (Frameline)

Hebrew with English subtitles.

An episodic tour through the void of Los Angeles,

slips of pop culture and Reinke’s own astringent self-

Dist/Sales: Frameline

regard. Despite the blasts of dry wit and the hopeful

embrace of gay porn, this is a lament. (VDB)

Sagitario

Dist/Sales: VDB

Foix, Vincent Molina

2001; Spain; 105 min; Drama

Sadness

Cast: Eusebio Poncela , Angela Molina, Enrique Alcides

Ayres, Tony

A compelling character study of two middle-age

1993; Australia; 52 min; Documentary

friends (who both happen to be Saggitarians) trying

to come to terms with their relationships involving

Based on photographer William Yang’s acclaimed

younger men. Spanish with English subtitles.

stage performance of the same name, Sadness is a

mesmerising and poetic montage of storytelling,

Dist/Sales: Lauren

photography and stylised re-enactment, Yang explore

s his Chinese–Australian identity and family history

Sailor

and his experience of losing friends to AIDS. (Film

(aka: Matroos)

Australia)

Defurne, Bavo

Dist/Sales: FilmAust

1998; Belgium; 16 min; Experimental

Safe is Desire

Dreaming about exotic countries, marvellous starry

skies and the inevitable homesickness that would

Sundahl, Debi

bring his sailor friend back, a teenager faces the

1993; USA; 60 min; Comedy

fragility of his colorful illusions.

Allie and Dianne, a lesbian couple, can’t agree on

Dist/Sales: ACMI, Laika

352

Saint

Salo in 1944, a group of four Fascist rulers kidnap

six teenage boys and girls and systematically force

Defurne, Bavo

them into sexually degrading and repugnant acts and

1996; Belgium; 11 min; Drama

eventually, murder. Pasolini’s last film before he was

An indirect tribute to Genet’s homoerotic classic, Un

murdered, it is a descent into the evil of the human

Chant d’Amore, and a meditation on the violent

spirit. A revamp of the Marquis de Sade’s novel The

death of Saint Sebastian.

120 Days of Sodom, it is bound to shock, and has

Dist/Sales: BFI, ACMI, Laika

been banned in several countries.

Prod Comp: Les Productions Artistes Associés,

Salivation Army

Produzioni Europee Associati

Treleaven, Scott

Dist/Sales: 21stCentur, BFI

2001; Canada; 22 min; Experimental

Salome’s Last Dance

A tale of blood, sex, spit, spunk & cult recruitment:

for three years the Salivation Army operated a

Russell, Ken

counterculture ‘zine aimed at restless queer punk

1988; UK; 90 min; Comedy

youth. But during their brief existence what began as

P: Penny Corke; W: Ken Russell; C: Harvey Harrison; s

a small, local gang transformed into an increasingly

E: Timothy Gee

dangerous cult network. Part confessional, part

Cast: Stratford Johns, Glenda Jackson, Nickolas Grace,

recruitment drive. A vicious, erotic and instructional

Douglas Hodge

cut’n paste portrait of the underground.

In a brothel in Victorian London, Oscar Wilde,

(www.salivationarmy.org)

luxuriating on cushions with his lover, watches a

private production of his banned play, Salome, acted

Salmonberries

by friends, clients and prostitutes. A very stylised

Adlon, Percy

film, it treads tenuously between fantasy and reality

with much overacting.

1991; Germany; 94 min; Drama

P: Eleonore Adlon; W: Percy Adlon, Felix O. Adlon; Prod Comp: Jolly Russell Productions

C: Newton Thomas Sigel; E: Conrad M. Gonzalez;

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, Roadshow

M: Bob Telson

Salon Kitty

Cast: k. d. lang, Rosel Zech, Jane Lind, Eugene Omiak,

Oscar Kawagley

(aka: Madam Kitty)

Set in an isolated village in Alaska, an orphaned

Brass, Tinto

female Eskimo becomes infatuated with the town

1976; France, Germany, Italy; 120 min; Drama

librarian, an exiled German woman. They are both

P: Ermanno Donati, Giulio Sbarigia; W: Tinto Brass, from very different backgrounds but manage to

Ennio De Concini, Maria Pia Fusco;

develop a deep emotional bond. On a trip to Berlin

C: Silvano Ippoliti; E: Tinto Brass; M: Fiorenzo Carpi their relationship is nearly consummated but Zech’s

Cast: Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin, Bekim Fehmiu,

insecurity gets in the way. k. d. lang looks perfect as

the androgynous Eskimo but her acting leaves

Teresa Ann Savoy, John Steiner

something to be desired. She sings the title song

An SS officer will do anything to get gossip on his

Barefoot, and her music brings a haunting quality to

fellow officers and their wives. An erotic and

the film.

disturbing look at a man’s slide into madness.

Prod Comp: Pelemele Film

Similar in theme to films such as Salo and The Night

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, Wolfe

Porter, which deal with Nazi sexual degeneracy.

Prod Comp: Cinema Seven Film, Coralto

Salo

Cinematografica, Les Productions Fox Europa

(aka: The 120 Days of Sodom)

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, VSM

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

Salt Mines, The

1975; Italy; 117 min; Erotica

P: Alberto De Stefanis, Antonio Girasante, Alberto

Aikin, Susan / Aparicio, Carlos

Grimaldi; W: Sergio Citti, Pier Paolo Pasolini;

1990; USA; 47 min; Documentary

C: Tonino Delli Colli; E: Nino Baragli, Tatiana Casini The Salt Mines observes the lives of young Latino

Morigi; M: Ennio Morricone

transvestites who, finding themselves homeless in

Cast: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo

New York City, make a shelter in a row of aban-

Quintavalle, Caterina Boratto

doned garbage trucks.

Set in the Nazi-controlled, northern Italian state of

Dist/Sales: Frameline

353

Salut Victor!

some of the characters that preside in this harsh and

brutal environment.

Poirier, Anne Claire

1989; Canada; 80 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Working Title, Channel 4

P: Anne Claire Poirier; W: Anne Claire Poirier;

Dist/Sales: ACMI, Cinecom

C: Michel Brault; M: Joël Bienvenue

Sand and Blood

Cast: Jean-Louis Roux, Jacques Godin, Julie Vincent

(aka: De Sable et de Sang)

Two elderly gay men meet in a home for the aged.

Philippe is a quiet and distinguished gentleman,

Labrune, Jeanne

while Victor has a strong spirit even though his flesh

1987; France; 100 min; Drama

is weak. They are complete opposites, but through

P: Jean Nainchrik; W: Jeanne Labrune;

loneliness they slowly become friends. A touching

C: Dominique Delguste, André Neau;

story about ageing and relationships. French with

E: Nadine Fischer; M: Nina Corti, Anne-Marie Fijal English subtitles.

Cast: André Dussollier, Clémentine Célarié, Sami Frey

Dist/Sales: Frameline, FilmsTransit, Strand

A romantic triangle underlies this erotically charged

s Sambal Belacan in San Francisco

thriller. The trio consist of a young matador, a

wealthy doctor who is opposed to bullfighting, and a

Lim, Madeleine

beautiful young woman.

1997; USA; 25 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: Centre National de la Cinématographie,

Fragrant chilli and shrimp paste, ‘sambal belacan’, is

Septembre Productions

a staple of Singaporean cooking. Representing the

cultural mingling of many ethnic groups, it serves as

Sando to Samantha: The Art of Dikvel

a central metaphor for the experiences of expatriate

Lewis, Jack / Phungula, Thulanie

Singaporean lesbians in this creative examination of

1998; South Africa; 52 min; Documentary

identity and belonging. In intimate interviews, three

women who emigrated to live openly as lesbians

The true story of Sando Willemse, aka Samantha

share their feelings of exclusion both from their

Fox, a drag queen from Bonteheuwel in Cape Town,

families and culture of origin and the United States.

who became a soldier for the South African Defence

(WMM)

Forces in 1991. Sando perfected the art of dikvel—a

real thick-skinned queen who never let life’s

Dist/Sales: WMM

challenges get the better of him. Having survived,

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

thrived and found a place in the army, Sando was

tested for HIV without his permission. His HIV-

Frears, Stephen

positive status was disclosed to his entire squad by

1987; UK; 104 min; Drama

the army command and he was summarily dis-

P: Sarah Radclyffe, Tim Bevan; W: Hanif Kureishi; charged. He turned to the road to survive, finding a

C: Oliver Stapleton; E: Mick Audsley; M: Stanley Myers new home and support from other drag queens

Cast: Shashi Kapoor, Frances Barber, Claire Bloom,

working Cape Town’s streets. He died of HIV related

causes in 1996 aged 22. This docudrama is narrated

Roland Gift, Ayub Khan Din

by Sando and blends interview material (shot three

Tells the story of Sammy, the hedonistic, thoroughly

weeks before his death) and drama to provide

English son of a prominent Pakistani politician

testimony to his courage and daring. (Idol Pictures)

(Rafi), who abandoned Sammy and his mother in

London years before to seek wealth and power in his

Dist/Sales: Idol

homeland. Sammy, who scrapes out a living as an

Sari Red

accountant, lives in a dangerous and decaying black

neighbourhood with his wife Rosie, a sexually

Parmar, Pratibha

adventurous ‘modern woman’ supportive of

1988; UK; 12 min; Documentary

fashionable radical issues. Rafi re-enters Sammy’s life

when he is forced to flee his political enemies in

Eloquently examines the effect of the ever-present

Pakistan. Struggling to maintain his self-dignity and

threat of violence on the lives of Asian women in

his sanity in the terrifying environment of the city he

both private and public spheres. In this moving visual

no longer knows, Rafi rapidly becomes disenchanted

poem, the title refers to red, the colour of blood spilt

by Sammy and Rosie’s unanchored world and

and the red of the sari, symbolising sensuality and

tolerance of sexual liberty, drugs and revolutionary

intimacy between Asian women. (WMM)

violence. An affectionate lesbian couple are among

Dist/Sales: WMM

354

Satan’s Princess

Satyricon

(aka: Malediction)

Fellini, Federico

Gordon, Bert I.

1969; Italy; 129 min; Drama

1989; USA; 90 min; Horror

P: Alberto Grimaldi; W: Federico Fellini, Bernardino P: Bert I. Gordon; W: Stephen Katz; C: Thomas F.

Zapponi, Brunello Rondi; C: Giuseppe Rotunno;

Denove; E: Barbara Boguski; M: Norman Mamey

E: Ruggero Mastroianni; M: Tod Dockstader, Ilhan Cast: Lydie Denier, Robert Forster, Caren Kaye, Phillip

Mimaroglu, Nino Rota, Andrew Rudin

Glasser

Cast: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Salvo Randone, Max

A crippled ex-cop is hired to investigate a missing

Born

daughter but winds up in the occult world of a

Based on Petronius’ classic about the moral decay of

wealthy woman who claims to have lived for 500

ancient Rome, it is the adventure of two young

years and killed 1000 men. An offbeat film with a

students, who become obsessed and infatuated with

confused plot and some interesting characterisations.

the same young man. A dreamlike and visually

Fairly tame lesbian vampire flick.

stunning film, Satyricon is filled with

homoeroticism.

Prod Comp: Sun Heat Pictures

Italian with English subtitles.

s

Dist/Sales: ParamountHV

Prod Comp: Artistes Associes, Produzioni Europee

Satdee Nite

Associati

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, 21stCentury, NFVLS, Warner,

Armstrong, Gillian

ACMI

1973; Australia; 15 min; Drama

C: Fred Richardson, Bill Constable, David Gribble;

E: Kit Gyatt

A downbeat slice of gay life in the early 1970s in

which a young man’s expectations of a Saturday

night give way to loneliness and disappear in an

alcoholic haze.

Prod Comp: Australian Film TV & Radio School

Dist/Sales: AFTRS, NFVLS

Saturday Night at the Baths

Buckley, David

1974; USA; 90 min; Drama

P: David Buckley, Steve Ostrow; W: David Buckley, Franklin Khedouri; C: Ralf D. Bode; E: Suzanne Fenn, Jackie Raynal

Cast: Robert Aberdeen, Ellen Sheppard, Don Scotti,

Janie Olivor, Steve Ostrow

Approached in an almost semi-documentary style,

the film follows the story of a musician as he goes

from a heterosexual relationship to a homosexual

one. Set against the Continental Baths of New York.

Saturn’s Return

Prod Comp: Mammoth Films

Sauve Qui Peut

Saturn’s Return

(aka: Slow Motion)

Byrne, Wenona

Godard, Jean-Luc

2000; Australia; 26 min; Drama

1979; France; 84 min; Drama

Written by Christos Tsiolkas ( Loaded), this road

P: Alain Sarde, Jean-Luc Godard; W: Jean-Claude

movies charts a journey of reconciliation and grief

Carriere, Anne-Marie Mieville, Jean-Luc Godard;

navigated by a young gay couple. An intimate and

C: William Lubtchansky, Renato Berta; E: Anne-Marie sexually candid drama.

Miéville, Jean-Luc Godard; M: Gabriel Yared

Dist/Sales: Flickerfest, Frameline, ACMI

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye

355

Godard’s film marked his return to cinema after a

video footage it shows the shocking human rights

decade of video experimentation. The themes are not

abuses against gays, lesbians and transvestites.

new—prostitution as a metaphor for alienation, the

Presented by Julie Dorf, the Executive Director of

impossibility of durable relationships—although the

the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights

connection between misogyny and repressed

Commission.

homosexuality is given a new emphasis. While basic

Prod Comp: International Gay & Lesbian Human

oppositions—country v. city, commerce v. independ-

Rights Commission

ence, sex v. work—are set out very simply, the

narrative is developed with ambiguities and

Scenes from the Class Struggle in

unexplained events contained in a dense stylistic

Beverly Hills

weave. French with English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Sara Films

Bartel, Paul

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

1989; USA; 102 min; Comedy

P: Jim C. Katz; W: Bruce Wagner, Paul Bartel;

Savage Nights

C: Steven Fierberg; E: Alan Toomayan; M: Stanley Myers (aka: Les Nuits Fauves)

Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Ed Begley Jnr, Ray Sharkey,

s

Mary Woronow, Robert Beltran

Collard, Cyril

Two comically complicated Beverly Hills families are

1992; France; 126 min; Drama

forced to share one measly mansion for an entire

P: Nella Banfi; W: Cyril Collard; C: Manuel Terán; weekend. A sitcom queen and a socialis t undergo

E: Lisa Beaulieu; M: René-Marc Bini, Cyril Collard temptations as a result of a bet between their house

Cast: Cyril Collard, Romane Bohringer, Carlos Lopez,

boys. A sex romp ensues.

Corine Blue

Prod Comp: North Street Films

This film is a defiant shout in the face of AIDS, the

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, ACMI

disease that killed this gifted 35-year-old filmmaker

shortly before his film swept France’s national

Scent Uva Butch

awards. A bisexual, Jean who is HIV-positive, is

involved with Samy, an angry young immigrant

Rosenfeld, Shoshana

from Spain, and with Laura, an aspiring actress

1998; USA; 35 min; Documentary

whom Jean meets at an audition. Confronting and

A sexy, personal, gender-bending documentary that

compelling. French with English subtitles.

bends stereotypical notions of butchness beyond

Prod Comp: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Procirep,

recognition. Butch women offer an entertaining

SNC, Sofinergie 2

insight into their identification, their friendships,

their sexual attractions and, most importantly, how

Dist/Sales: NewVision, 21stCentury, Swank

to ‘pack’ successfully.

Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers

Dist/Sales: BlowUp

Kaplan, Robert J.

School Fag

1972; USA; 82 min; Comedy

P: Robert J. Kaplan, Henry J. Alpert; W: Sandra

Fung, Richard / McCaskell, Tim

Scoppettone; C: Paul Glickman; E: Dick Cohen;

1998; Canada; 17 min; Documentary

M: Jerry Blatt

Documentary about 19-year-old Shawn who

Cast: Holly Woodlawn, Tally Brown, Suzanne Skillen

recounts his life as a young queer growing up in a

A very funny spoof of the star-is-born genre. It stars

conservative small town Canadian suburb. Shawn is

Holly Woodlawn, of Warhol fame, as Eve

a natural stand up comic and his stories are alterna-

Harrington, who goes to New York in order to find

tively hilarious, biting and poignant.

fame and fortune. Along the way she must deal with

Dist/Sales: VTape, VDB

creeps and slimeballs and men who will break her

heart, as well as the music of Bette Midler.

School’s Out: Lesbian and Gay Youth

Prod Comp: Sliding Pond Productions

Spalding, Ron

1993; USA; 30 min; Documentary

Scenes from a Queer Planet

Examines the difficulties facing gay and lesbian

1992; Argentina, India, Peru, Russia; 90 min; Documentary

teenagers and the emergence of new special educa-

This documentary focuses on four countries: Peru,

tional programs designed for them.

India, Argentina and Russia; and through the use of

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild

356

Score

Scrubbers

Metzger, Radley

Zetterling, Mai

1972; USA, Yugoslavia; 90 min; Drama

1982; UK; 93 min; Drama

W: Jerry Douglas; C: Frano Vodopivec;

P: Don Boyd; W: Susannah Buxton, Roy Minton,

E: Doris Toumarkine

Jeremy Watt, Mai Zetterling

Cast: Casey Donovan, Claire Wilbur, Gerald Grant,

C: Ernest Vincze; E: Rodney Holland;

Calvin Culver

M: Michael Hurd

Radley Metzger’s erotic masterpiece, starring gay-

Cast: Amanda York, Chrissie Cotterill, Kate Ingram,

porn icon Casey Donovan, is about two swinging

Elizabeth Edmonds

couples who mix it up one weekend. (First Run

An intense drama about women in prison without

Features)

any of the sensation, exploitation or clichés that

Prod Comp: Jadran Film

usually accompany this genre. Among the characters

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures

is a young lesbian who breaks the law so she can go

back inside to prison to rejoin her lover. A large

Scorpio Rising

cross-section of inmates, from black lesbians to

young white innocents is portrayed. A violent and

s

Anger, Kenneth

disturbing study.

1963; USA; 37 min; Experimental

Prod Comp: Handmade Films

Anger Magick Lantern Cycle Series featuring several

Dist/Sales: ACMI, OrionClassics

short films, including: Kustom Kar Kommandos: A

young man strokes his customised car with a powder

puff. Scorpio Rising: A death mirror held up to

American culture—Brando, bikes and black leather;

Christ, chains and cocaine. A high view of the myth

of the American motor cyclist. The machine as

totem from toy to terror. (ACMI)

Prod Comp: Puck Film Productions

Dist/Sales: ACMI, BFI

Scout’s Honor

Shepard, Tom

2001; USA; 57 min; Documentary

P: Tom Shepard; W: Meg Moritz

Scout’s Honor traces the conflict between the anti-gay

policies of the Boy Scouts of America and the broad-

based movement by many of its members to

overturn them. The story is told predominantly

through the experiences of a 13-year-old boy and a

70-year-old man – both heterosexual, both dedicated

to the Scouts, and both determined to change the

course of Scouting history. Their challenge is being

waged in their hometown of Petaluma, California –

a place more familiar with agriculture than activism.

Yet it is here where they began an international

petition drive and media campaign to overturn the

BSA’s anti-gay policy. (New Day Films)

Scream, Teen, Scream

Dist/Sales: ScoutsHonor, NewDay

Sea in the Blood

Scream, Teen, Scream

Fung, Richard

Rosenzweig, Joshua

2000; USA; 26 min; Experimental

1996; USA; 38 min; Comedy

A personal documentary about living with illness,

A wacky piss-take on teen horror films that’s full of

tracing the relationship of the artist to thalassemia in

campy pop culture references and even features a

his sister Nan, and AIDS in his partner Tim.

visit by the ghost of Karen Carpenter.

Dist/Sales: VDB

357

Seamen

Sebastiane

Boreham, Craig

Humfress, Paul / Jarman, Derek

1999; Australia; 12 min; Experimental

1976; UK; 81 min; Drama

A tragicomic short from the underbelly of middle

P: James Whaley, Howard Malin; W: Derek Jarman,

Australia. Urban myths as told by a not-quite-

Paul Humfress; C: Peter Middleton; E: Paul Humfress; straight cab driver, a wannabe model and a sensitive

M: Brian Eno

goth-fag create a twisted triumvirate of tales and

Cast: Leonardo Treviglio, Barney James, Neil Kennedy,

takes on gritty city living. (MQFF)

Richard Warwick

Dist/Sales: Pineapple

This film is a profane version of the martyrdom of

Sebastian who, in AD 303, was banished by the

Search for Intimacy, The

Emperor Diocletian for his Christian sympathies.

The legend of Catholic mythology is here trans-

Kennedy, Michael

formed into a psychological exploration of male

1989; Canada; 24 min; Documentary

sexuality with Sebastian as a homosexual icon.

W: Michael Kennedy

Jarman’s film was an innovative independent

This film takes an in-depth look at relationships and

s

production for British cinema, its most unusual

sexuality in the mature years. The need for compan-

feature being the fact that its dialogue is in Latin,

ionship, stability, vitality and enrichment is exam-

thus avoiding the anachronisms and banalities of the

ined through visits with a variety of married, single,

dialogue in most historical films and the problems of

widowed, divorced and homosexual seniors who talk

deploying a multinational cast. Latin with English

frankly and openly about their experiences.

subtitles.

Prod Comp: SC Communications

Prod Comp: Cinegate Ltd

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ACMI, BFI

Seashell and the Clergyman, The

Second Awakening of Christa Klages, The

(aka: La Coquille et le Clergyman)

(aka: Das Zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages)

Dulac, Germaine

von Trotta, Margarethe

1928; France; 44 min; B&W; Drama

1977; Germany; 93 min; Drama

W: Antonin Artaud; C: Paul Guichard

W: Margarethe von Trotta, Luise Francia; C: Franz Cast: Alex Allin, Genica Athanasiou, Lucien Bataille

Rath; E: Annette Dorn; M: Klaus Doldinger

Considered to be the first surrealist film, this avant-

Cast: Tina Engel, Sylvia Reize, Katharina Thalbach,

garde classic is a story of sexual repression and crazed

Peter Schneider

fantasies. A celibate clergyman’s dreams become full

A young mother and her boyfriend rob a bank and

of lust and bizarre fantasies.

with the money hope to stop the closure of a

childcare centre. While on the run they are pursued

Sebastian

not only by the police but also by a mysterious

woman whom they kept hostage briefly during the

Wam, Svend

robbery. The first feature film by the renowned

1995; Norway; 90 min; Drama

filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta, whose films

W: Svend Wam; C: Per Källberg

examine and define the relationships between

Cast: Hampus Björch, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Ewa

women.

Fröling, Helge Jordal

Prod Comp: Westdeutscher Rundfunk

A gay teenage romance from Norway. Five young

Dist/Sales: NewLine, NFVLS

teenage friends must deal with all the angst that only

teenage years can offer: their parents, friends, trying

Second Coming, The

to fit in and, at the same time, the need to rebel

against the social structures of their society. It is a

Walsh, Jack

difficult time for all, but it is perhaps more difficult

1995; USA; 53 min; Experimental

for Sebastian, who is sexually attracted to his best

A deft combination of narrative and experimental

friend, Ulf, and suddenly must question everything

filmmaking, Jack Walsh’s The Second Coming is the

and everyone around him. Norwegian with English

coming of age story of Carlos, a bi-racial gay teen

subtitles.

who becomes a politically aware activist. Set in the

Prod Comp: Mefistofilm A/S, Nordisk Film & Television near future during a Fundamentalist group’s

Dist/Sales: NorwegianFilm

attempted coup d’état in the United States, this

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conspiracy-theory-wrought film examines overriding

Secret Ceremony

social crises such as homophobia and racism. Carlos,

alienated from most of his peers and family, finds

Losey, Joseph

love and companionship with a classmate, Ben.

1968; UK; 107 min; Drama

Together the two join forces with a group of teens

P: Norman Priggen, John Heyman; W: George Tabori; who are making and broadcasting videotapes that

C: Gerry Fisher; E: Reginald Beck; M: Richard Rodney question the crisis created by the Fundamentalist

Bennett

threat. Through a series of betrayals and a death

Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow, Robert Mitchum,

squad-like kidnapping, Carlos is murdered. How-

Peggy Ashcroft, Pamela Brown

ever, in the face of these devastating circumstances, a

An ageing prostitute, is adopted by a rather strange

new voice of resistance appears that gives hope to

and mysterious wealthy young woman. The

those whom Carlos has left behind. The Second

surrogate mother-daughter relationship works for

Coming shows how individuals swept up in a chain

both of them as the young woman’s need for a

of historical events can resist and have an impact on

mother is fulfilled and the prostitute is financially

a seemingly hopeless situation. (20th San Francisco

rewarded. When the girl’s stepfather returns, it is

International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

revealed that Farrow is a sexual psychotic and that

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer

her seduction of Mitchum helped ruin his marriage

s

to her mother. There are lesbian undertones as the

Second Serve

close and erotically charged relationship develops

between the two women.

Page, Anthony

1986; USA; 100 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Universal, WFS

W: Gavin Lambert, Stephanie Liss; C: Robbie

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, Universal

Greenberg; E: John C. Horger; M: Brad Fiedel

Secret Policeman’s Private Parts, The

Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Martin Balsam, Louise Fletcher,

Jeff Corey, William Russ

Temple, Julien / Graef, Roger

The moving story of transsexual Rene Richards, the

1981; UK; 80 min; Comedy

male surgeon turned female tennis champion. It is a

M: Alan Brewer, Pete Townshend

story of deep pain, long struggle and great bravery

Cast: John Cleese, Dame Edna Everage, Peter Cook,

leading to a real victory of the human spirit.

Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam

Redgrave’s riveting performance is unforgettable—

This sequel to The Secret Policeman’s Ball features a

ageing from 22 to 54 and changing from man to

bent cop, a transvestite lumberjack, and more, in

woman. She imbues every gesture with dignity and

this irreverent outing from the Monty Python team.

truth as a transsexual who did what she knew was

Dist/Sales: 21stCentury, Miramax

right. Based on the book of the same title by Rene

Richards with John Ames.

Secrets

Prod Comp: Lorimar

Dist/Sales: ACMI, Roadshow, CBS

Ralph, Sheryl Lee

1997; USA; 13 min; Comedy

Second Skin

A woman seeks out the advice of friends at a

(aka: Segunda Piel)

wedding when she discovers her husband is gay.

Vera, Gerardo

Dist/Sales: IslandGirl

1999; Spain; 100 min; Drama

Seducers, The

P: Andres Vicente Gomez; W: Angeles Gonzalez Sinde; C: Julio Madurga; E: Nicholas Wentworth;

(aka: Death Game)

M: Roque Banos

Traynor, Peter S.

Cast: Jordi Molla, Javier Bardem, Ariadna Gil, Cecilia

1977; USA; 90 min; Thriller

Roth

P: Larry Spiegel, Peter S. Traynor; W: Anthony Over-Alberto is a closeted aerospace engineer, whose can’t

man, Michael Ronald Ross; C: David Worth;

decide to stay with his wife and young son, or be with

M: Jimmie Haskell

his lover Diego, an orthopaedic surgeon. Eventually

Cast: Sondra Locke, Seymour Cassel, Colleen Camp

his wife finds out about his affair, his lover becomes

When a man allows two women into his house to

more demanding of his time, and his two worlds

make a phone call on a stormy evening, he ends up

begin to collide. Spanish with English subtitles.

enduring a night of physical and mental torture at

Prod Comp: Lolafilms, Via Digital

their hands.

Dist/Sales: LolaFilms

Prod Comp: First American Films; Dist/Sales: Liberty 359

Seduction of Innocence

‘dot-coms’ in their backyards. See how they Run

captures the humour and scandals from inside

Bijan, Ali

personal and political battles.

1995; USA; 101 min; Drama

(www.seehowtheyrun.org)

P: Ali Bijan; W: Ali Bijan; C: David Blood; E: Sandy Schwartz; M: Amin Emam, Dave Innis

See the Sea

Cast: Kathleen Blake, Lisa Cawthron, Fran Gonzalez,

Patrick Otero

(aka: Regarde la Mer)

When a small-town girl travels to the big city to see

Ozon, François

her sister, she faces some new challenges in her life.

1997; France; 52 min; Thriller

It turns out her is a stripper and is involved with a

W: François Ozon

drug ring and living with a lesbian. The young sister

On the beautiful holiday island of Yeu, the solitude

decides to take up stripping herself. Fairly exploita-

of Sasha, a young mother awaiting her husband’s

tive film with lots of nudity but there is a mainly

return, is broken by the appearance of Tatiana, a

positive portrayal of the lesbian character.

brooding backpacker who asks to camp outside her

Prod Comp: Artist View Entertainment, Intermedia

cottage. Sasha grows increasingly fascinated with her

s Film Corporations, New City Releasing

mysterious visitor whose demeanour gradually

Dist/Sales: ArtistView

becomes more ominous as she insinuates herself into

Sasha’s home. With its stunning cinematography, See

Seduction: The Cruel Woman

the Sea provocatively uncovers the dark and sinister

(aka: Verführung: Die Grausame Frau)

undercurrents swirling beneath curiosity and

attraction, ultimately challenging our assumptions

Mikesch, Elfi / Treut, Monika

about desire, identity and motherhood. (Zeitgeist)

1985; Germany; 85 min; Erotica

French with English subtitles.

P: Michael McHernan; W: Elfi Mikesch, Monika Treut; Dist/Sales: Zeitgeist

C: Elfi Mikesch; E: Renate Merck; M: Maran Gosov Cast: Mechthild Grossmann, Sheila McLaughlin,

Self-Destruction of Gia, The

Georgtte Dee, Carola Regnier

Martin, J. J.

This film is based on two classic sadomasochistic

2002; USA; 72 min; Documentary

novels; Venus in Furs, and The Story of O. Venus in Furs (Leopold von Sacher-Masoch) portrays the

Supermodel Gia Carangi was a leading symbol of the

insatiable desire of one man to submit to one very

extravagant 1980s, and, in a way, that decade’s

cruel woman—indeed his love-ridden slavishness is

greatest sacrificial lamb. Catapulted to fame in a

so demanding that it takes a considerable toll on her.

field she ironically viewed with contempt, her career

Wanda is the cruel woman, and through the course

and life were cut short when she died of AIDS in

of the film, all Wanda’s primary relationships change:

1986 after a long struggle with drug addiction. This

and yet the show and performance art of sadomaso-

moving and provocative documentary traces her

chism, goes on. German with English subtitles.

meteoric rise and fall. A voracious lover of women,

Prod Comp: Hyena Films

Gia today occupies a troubling place as a symbol of

Dist/Sales: Palace, FirstRunFeatures, Salzgeber, Millivres, female power whose very image masked her

ACMI

vulnerability and pain. Intimate home movies and

archival interview footage of the icon bring her eerily

See how they Run

close to the viewer. These combine with interviews

with Gia’s psychiatrist, her family members and

Morse, Emily

fashion world luminaries (including designers Vera

2001; USA; 54 min; Documentary

Wang and Diane von Furstenberg, photographer

See how they Run is a humorous portrait of American

Francesco Scavullo and Gia’s former lover, make-up

politics played out in San Francisco. With behind

artist Sandy Linter), to shed light on the enigmatic

the scenes access, this film follows Mayor Willie

life of a pivotal female persona of the late 20th

Brown in his fight for re-election. The story takes a

century. (2002 LA Outfest)

remarkable turn when an openly gay city supervisor

Dist/Sales: CineL’Mod

and stand-up comedian, Tom Ammiano, stages a

historic write-in campaign to create a David and

Separate Peace, A

Goliath showdown. This verite film chronicles an

election in which power, race and sexual orientation

Peerce, Larry

ended up on the back-burner for locals more

1972; USA; 104 min; Drama

concerned about the expansion of Starbucks and the

P: Robert Godston, Otto Plaschkes; W: Fred Segal; 360

C: Frank Stanley; E: John C. Howard; M: Charles Fox A socio-psychological drama in which a servant,

Cast: Parker Stevenson, John Heyl, William Roerick,

Barratt, is hired by an upper-class, self-centred young

Victor Bevine, Peter Brush

man. He has moved into a new house in Chelsea

Two young men, who are roommates in a 1940s

where he plans to live with his fiancee after their

prep school, become friends and develop an

marriage. Gradually the relationship between the

unspoken love, and face the transition to manhood

servant and master, with its suggestion of homosexu-

in the last years of World War II. Although not

ality, changes as the latter finds himself falling slowly

overtly homosexual, there are lusty scenes of half-

under Barratt’s control.

naked boys.

Prod Comp: Springbok Films, Elstree

Prod Comp: Paramount

Serving in Silence: The Marguerite

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee

Cammermeyer Story

Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force

Bleckner, Jeff

Leaf, Paul

1995; USA; 88 min; Drama

1978; USA; 100 min; Drama

P: Richard Heus, Cis Corman; W: Alison Cross;

P: Paul Leaf; W: John McGreevey; C: Mario Tosi; C: Glen MacPherson; E: Geoffrey Rowland;

s

E: Thomas Stanford; M: Teo Macero

M: David Shire

Cast: Brad Dourif, Marc Singer, Frank Converse,

Cast: Glenn Close, Judy Davis, Jan Rubes, Wendy

William Daniels, Stephen Elliott

Makkena

The story of Sergeant Matlovich, a Vietnam veteran

After 25 years of exemplary military service and a

who declared to his commander that he was gay,

Bronze Star in Vietnam, Colonel Cammarmeyer’s

causing him to be dishonourably discharged. He

career is in jeopardy as she finds herself entangled in

fought the case in the courts and was still dis-

a hostile human rights battle after she admits to

charged—this time honourably.

being a lesbian. At risk is not only her career, but

also the love of her sons, the respect of her friends

Prod Comp: Tomorrow Entertainment

and her own sense of integrity. Although this made

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, NBC

for TV story is generally well handled, the lesbianism

Sergeant, The

is treated in a rather coy manner. The only physical

touch is a very short and discreet kiss on the lips.

Flynn, John

Prod Comp: Barwood Films, Storyline Productions,

1968; USA; 110 min; Drama

Trillium Productions

P: Richard Goldstone; W: Dennis Murphy;

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, ACMI

C: Henri Persin; E: Françoise Diot, Charles Nelson; M: Michel Magne

Set it Off

Cast: Rod Steiger, John Phillip Law, Ludmila Mikaël,

Frank Latimore

Gray, F. Gary

1996; USA; 122 min; Action

Set in France in 1952, this is the story of a repressed

P: Oren Koules, Dale Pollock; W: Takashi Bufford, Kate homosexual army sergeant who desires one of the

Lanier; C: Marc Reshovsky; E: John Carter;

handsome privates. Finally the sergeant loses control

M: Busta Rhymes, Christopher Young

and kisses the private who pushes him away and

refuses his advances. Humiliated, the sergeant takes

Cast: Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Viveca A. Fox,

his own life.

Kimberly Elise, Blair Underwood

Prod Comp: Warner, Seven Arts

Four childhood friends have endured tough lives

growing up in the mean streets of LA. Eventually

Dist/Sales: Warner, Swank

when they’ve had enough of being ripped off, taken

Servant, The

advantage of, abused by crooked cops, the four girls,

one a lesbian, become determined to get their own

Losey, Joseph

back. A tragic chain of events brings them even

1963; UK; 115 min; B&W; Drama

closer than they could have imagined. Virtually

P: Joseph Losey, Norman Priggen; W: Harold Pinter; overnight, the women become enmeshed in a world

C: Douglas Slocombe; E: Reginald Mills;

of crime, and it looks like prison could be the only

M: John Dankworth

future for them.

Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, James

Prod Comp: New Line Cinema, Peak Films

Fox

Dist/Sales: Constantin, NewLine, RoadshowEnt, Wolfe

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Set Me Free

Sex and Balls

(aka: Emporte-moi)

Jansen, Doerthe

Pool, Léa

1994; Australia; 53 min; Documentary

1998; Canada, France, Switzerland; 95 min; Drama

Cast: Nina Hartley

W: Léa Pool, Nancy Huston, Isabelle Raynault;

Ten ordinary Australians bare their sexual souls in

C: Jeanne Lapoirie; E: Michael Arcand;

this film about sex in the 1990s: a man into

M: Robyn Schulkowsky

threesomes, an S/M lesbian couple and a male

Cast: Karine Vanasse, Nancy Huston, Pascale Bussières,

stripper who disrobes nightly for crowds of lusty

Charlotte Christeler

women. This film challenges sexual stereotypes and

13-year-old Hanna’s sexual awakening includes an

examines whether traditional concepts of family and

infatuation with her best friend and a teacher. She’s

monogamy are dominant cultural customs or a

also taken with Nana, a character in the Jean-Luc

convenient myth.

Godard New Wave film Vivre Sa Vie, which Hanna

Dist/Sales: Scrine

watches again and again. Meanwhile, Hanna’s home

life is complicated by conflicts between her frus-

Sex and the Sandinistas

s

trated father and her overworked mother. (Wolfe)

Broadbent, Lucinda

French with English subtitles.

1991; UK; 25 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: Merchant Ivory Films, Haut et Court

Nicaragua is known for the Sandinista Revolution,

Dist/Sales: TF1, ArtisticLicense, Wolfe, Haut-et-Court

an inspiring struggle for national liberation. What

Seven Women

has never been told before is the story of how

homosexuals battled for their own space within the

Ford, John

revolution. This unique story is related through the

1966; USA; 87 min; Drama

drama of personal experience. Without assuming

P: John Ford, Bernard Smith; W: Janet Green, John any prior knowledge of Nicaraguan history, the film

McCormick; C: Joseph La Shelle; E: Otho S. Lovering; brings to life the extraordinary and valuable

M: Elmer Bernstein

experience of lesbians and gays coming out in the

Cast: Anne Bancroft, Flora Robson, Sue Lyon, Margaret

whirlwind of a Latin American revolution. (WMM)

Leighton

Dist/Sales: WMM

John Ford’s last film is the story of seven women

Sex and the Single Gene?

who are isolated on a mission for women in China

in 1935. The establishment becomes overrun by a

1997; 29 min; Documentary

Mongolian barbarian and his troop of bandits, and

Focuses on the science behind a controversial piece

the women are subjected to gross indignities.

of genetic research, the so-called gay gene. The film

Bancroft memorably plays a newly arrived doctor, a

considers the findings of this research—that

cross-dressing, cigar-smoking, hard-talker, who

homosexuality may indeed be genetically deter-

comes into conflict not only with the bandits but

mined. (EMA)

also with the self-righteous leader of the mission.

Dist/Sales: EMA

Lots of latent lesbianism.

Prod Comp: MGM

Sex Becomes Her: The True Life Story of

Dist/Sales: MGM, Swank

Chi Chi LaRue

Sex 121 and the Gulag

Aho, Michael

2000; UK; 65 min; Documentary

Kwietniowski, Richard

M: Christian Henson

1991; UK; 100 min; Documentary

Cast: Chi Chi LaRue, Cole Tucker, Steve Rambo

P: Susan Ardill, Clare Beavan

This documentary traces the career of the man

Investigates sexual politics in the glasnost era, the

behind the camera and under the make-up—famed

supposedly impending decriminalisation of homo-

drag porn director Chi Chi LaRue. Always a bit

sexuality in the former USSR, the rise of erotica and

player in other porn docos, Chi Chi finally takes

Western-style pornography, and the effects of AIDS

centre stage in this titillating romp through the sex

on that society.

industry. Nothing in this film is left to the imagina-

Prod Comp: Channel 4

tion. From sleazy action on set, to the Gay Porn

Dist/Sales: Channel4

Awards, and entry into private sex parties, this

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shrewd industry player hilariously exposes it all.

This celebration of gay male sexuality was a smash

(MQFF)

hit in the US, breaking box-office records set by such

Prod Comp: Planet Rapido

films as Edward II and Without You I’m Nothing, and Dist/Sales: Rapido

winning multiple exclamation-mark headlines in

Variety. A must-see film interspersed with flashes of

Sex Bytes

hot erotic activity and laced with interesting archival

footage, it comprises interviews with men from ex-

Jammeh, Kasi

priests to drag queens, of differing races, classes and

2001; USA; 15 min; Drama

generations who tell all: from back room antics, to

Two roommates discover that surfing the net

beats, to safe-sex invention to lifetime companion-

provides the hottest action in town.

ships. (MQFF)

Dist/Sales: MyAss

Awards: Berlin Film Festival, 1993: Best Gay Film

Prod Comp: Outsider Productions

Sex Change: Shock! Horror! Probe!

Dist/Sales: Salzgeber, WaterBearer

Jackson, Jane

Sex is Sex: Conversations with Male

1989; UK; 50 min; Documentary

Prostitutes

s

Male and female transsexuals speak about their trials

and tribulations, politics, gender-identity formation,

Bergen, Brian / Milici, Jennifer

and other issues in this intriguing documentary.

1995; USA; 50 min; Documentary

A candid video documentary which looks at the lives

Sex, Drugs and Democracy

of a selection of male prostitutes in New York City.

This involving portrait of sex workers in the nineties

Blank, Jonathan

targets such topics as power, AIDS, sexual identity,

1995; USA; 87 min; Documentary

relationships and the dangers and rewards of

P: Jonathan Blank, Barclay Powers

hustling.

A documentary looking at the rather relaxed laws in

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer

Holland covering things such as abortion, euthana-

sia, use of soft drugs, gay marriages, nude beaches,

Sex Monster, The

universal health care and the banning of personal

handguns. Holland has the lowest AIDS infection

Binder, Mike

rate, one of the lowest murder rates, the lowest

1999; USA; 96 min; Comedy

imprisonment rate in Western world and one of the

P: Jack Binder, Scott Stephens; W: Mike Binder;

highest life expectancies. The filmmaker talks to

C: Keith L. Smith; E: Lee Grubin

judges, police, doctors and legislators, as well as drug

Cast: Mariel Hemmingway, Mike Binder, Renée

users and prostitutes, to record their views on the

Humphrey, Taylor Nichols

country’s legal system—if it works and how.

In an hilarious look at marriage and sexuality in the

Prod Comp: Barclay Powers

late 1990s, a happily married man persuades his

Sex Flesh in Blood

loving wife to help him live out the ultimate male

fantasy—another woman and not just for himself,

Lee, Christopher

but for his wife, too. Unfortunately, she gets more

1999; USA; 57 min; Erotica

out of it than he bargained for. (Wolfe)

Gender anarchy rules in this tribute to the punk

Prod Comp: Sun-Lite Pictures

porn scene with a transgender twist.

Dist/Sales: Trimark, Wolfe

Dist/Sales: LeeC

Sex Warriors and the Samurai

Sex Is...

Deocampo, Nick

Huestis, Marc

1995; Philippines, UK; 25 min; Drama

1993; USA; 80 min; Documentary

An unusual story of a transgender sex-worker in the

P: Marc Huestis; C: Fawn Yacker; E: Hrafnhildor Philippines who, due the closure of United States

Gunnarsdottir, Marc Huestis, Lara Mac; M: MJ Lallo

military bases in the region and the crackdown on

Cast: Larry Brinkin, Danny Castellow, Alex Chee,

prostitution by the government, must move to Japan

Wayne Corbitt

to work so he can support his large family.

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Sex Wars

P: Pierre Gendron, Jean-Roch Marcotte;

W: Monique Proulx; C: Eric Cayla; E: Hélène Girard; Farthing, Cheryl

M: Yves Laferrière

1992; UK; 39 min; Documentary

Cast: Denis Mercier, Marianne Mercier, Tobie Pelletier

A look at the conflicts between gay men and

A sensitive, detailed look at how a young girl copes

lesbians, how tension is already being felt within the

with the return of her estranged father, who is now a

queer coalition and how ‘lesbian boys’ are turning

transsexual woman. However the film side-steps the

radical drag on its head. (MQFF)

issues in the end as the father, in order to reconcile

with the daughter, begins to dress as a man again.

French with English subtitles.

Prod Comp: National Film Board of Canada, Téléfilm

Canada

Dist/Sales: Facets

Sexing the Label: Love and Gender in a

s

Queer World

Broinowski, Anna

1996; Australia; 58 min; Documentary

P: Anna Broinowski, Lisa Duff; W: Anna Broinowski Sex Warriors and the Samurai

The sexual label—gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual,

Sex/Life in LA

straight etc.—has become a political tool which can

either empower or dispossess its user. This film

Hick, Jochen

examines the complex tensions associated with these

1997; Germany, USA; 90 min; Documentary

issues. It sets out to map the valid principles of

P: Jochen Hick; W: Jochen Hick; C: Jochen Hick; empowerment underlying the use of sexual labels

E: Ingrid Molnar; M: James Hardway

both past and present and charts the shifting

Cast: Tony Ward, Kevin Kramer, Ron Athey, Matt Bradshaw

relationship between the mainstream and non-

straight communities.

Glossy magazines, porn stars, washboard stomachs,

and street hustlers: Hollywood faithfully provides the

Prod Comp: Froxoff Films

public with a seemingly inexhaustible flood of male

Dist/Sales: ACMI

erotica. Sex/Life in LA brings together nine young men

Sexual Identity

who earn their livings with their bodies. There are

porn stars: Matt Bradshaw, porn actor and hairdresser;

1982; UK; 27 min; Documentary

Kevin Kramer, who’s planning his transformation

P: Frances J. Berrigan

from porn legend to legitimate actor; and Cole Tucker,

In considering the questions of sexual identity and

porn star and successful entrepreneur. And there is

its importance in our lives today, the work of

Ron Athey, a performance artist. Finally, there are

Havelock Ellis is examined in this documentary. It

unemployed hustlers and models like Patrick and

looks at the meaning of sexual identity for individu-

David, and ex-porn stars like John Garwood. To each

als in their lives, the way this identity is related to

of the men interviewed, the body is both the object of

their sense of gender, and also shows how society sets

desire and the subject of art, and they all show their

up sexual categories within which we can form a

bodies freely. The scene of Tony Ward in the bathtub

sense of sexual identity.

is worth the price of admission. For some it’s been

their ticket to success, and for others it’s been their

Prod Comp: BBC

downfall. In the end, Sex/Life in LA entertainingly

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

depicts the survival strategies of some of the male

image industry’s major players. (22nd San Francisco

Sexual Orientation: Reading Between the

International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival)

Labels

Prod Comp: Galeria Alaska Productions

1992; USA; 28 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: Strand, Wolfe, MediaLuna, Millivres

This film focuses on issues facing gay and lesbian

Sexe des étoiles, Le

youth and is designed to help build respect between

individuals of divergent sexual orientation. Igno-

(aka: Sex of the Stars)

rance about homosexuality has contributed to a

Baillargeon, Paule

climate of fear, isolation, discrimination and violence

1993; Canada; 100 min; Drama

toward those perceived as homosexual. Rather than

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relying solely on testimony from professionals,

Shall We Dance

Sexual Orientation: Reading Between the Labels

provides a forum for gay and lesbian teens to speak

Sloan, Brian

of their concerns.

1992; USA; 15 min; B&W; Drama

Prod Comp: Newist

It’s Graduation Night at the Fort Stephens Military

Dist/Sales: EMA

College and Ed’s date has collapsed drunk at their

table. He is called over by another cadet who

Shades

discreetly seduces him. By the end of the night Ed’s

conviction about his own sexuality has been well and

Ajalon, Jamika

truly shaken.

1994; USA; 12 min; Drama

Explores the issues around dark and light skin in the

Shame No More

African–American community. Drawing on erotic

Krokidas, John

imagery and the relation between a light skinned

woman and a darker skinned lesbian, this video

1999; USA; 12 min; B&W; Comedy

questions what exactly is meant by ‘black enough’.

Inspired by the US Public Service Announcements of

(TWN)

the 1950s, Shame No More is a satire of conformist

s

mentality. Set in idyllic suburb of Cherry Creek, the

Dist/Sales: TWN

film warns of the disease infecting the town’s men

Shades of Gray

and women, the disease known as heterosexuality.

Dist/Sales: NewVague

DePaepe, Tim

1999; USA; 73 min; Documentary

Shampoo Horns

P: Edward P. Stencel, David Michael Allen;

(aka: Cuernos de Espuma)

C: Edward P. Stencel, Tim De Paepe, Bill Pryor;

E: Tim De Paepe, Bill Pryor

Toledano, Manuel

Cast: Michael Lovegrove, Bill Mullin, Ben Zimmer, Lea

1996; Spain; 89 min; Drama

Hopkins

P: Elias Querejeta; W: Manuel Toledano; C: Alfredo F.

Shades of Gray is a documentary that focuses on the

Mayo; E: Nacho Ruiz Capollas; M: Angel Illarramendi lives of five ordinary people leading normal lives in

Cast: Jason Reeves, Cheyenne Besch, Jonathan Lawrence

Lawrence, Kansas who happen to be gay and lesbian.

Set primarily in that New York institution of the

When the Lawrence City Council is approached

nightclub scene, Club 2000, in this ‘one night in the

with a proposal to add the words ‘sexual orientation’

life of ’ we get to experience close-up exactly what

to its discrimination policies, a struggle ensues

transpires behind the velvet rope that doesn’t get

between the citizens of Lawrence, outside anti-gay

lifted for everybody. This Spanish production was

influences, religious organisations and activists.

written and directed by Manuel Toledano who says

Shades of Gray illustrates how homosexual women

about his first club visit, “I became a ‘member’ of a

and men are very much a part of the moral fibre that

family determined to live life to its fullest without

comprises American society. (7th Art Releasing)

being affected by rules or conventions”. Using the

Dist/Sales: ShadesOfGray, 7thArt

club kids’ never-ending search for drugs and thrills,

Toledano has interwoven three parallel stories. Punk

Shadey

Jonathan is a hard-core club-goer who in reality is a

hopeless romantic searching for his prince. Tony is a

Saville, Philip

novice on his first visit who loses his date; and

1985; UK; 116 min; Comedy

Dennis is an ageing drag queen whose discovery of

P: Otto Plaschkes; W: Snoo Wilson; C: Roger Deakins; his HIV-positive status causes him to abandon the

E: Chris Kelly; M: Colin Towns

scene and take matters into his own hands. Some-

Cast: Anthony Sher, Patrick Macnee, Billie Whitelaw,

times funny, sometimes sad, Shampoo Horns

Leslie Ash, Bernard Hepton

ultimately documents an era and a place that may

one day be recalled with fond nostalgia. (1997 Berlin

On the face of it, there is nothing odd about Oliver

Film Festival) Spanish with English subtitles.

Shadey, who owns a car repair business in London.

You would not be wrong to consider him ordinary,

Prod Comp: Esicma Productions

unless you knew a few more facts. Shadey has the

Shanghai Panic

bizarre ability to transmit pictures from his mind

onto film, and is desperate for a sex-change.

(aka: Wo men hai pa)

Prod Comp: Larkspur Films, Channel 4

Cheng, Andrew

Dist/Sales: NewVision, Skouras

2001; Australia, China; 87 min; Drama

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W: Andrew Cheng; C: Andrew Cheng;

She Don’t Fade

E: Andrew Cheng; M: Ke Zhao

Dunye, Cheryl

Cast: Mian Mian, Zhinan Li, Yuting Yang, Zijie Zhou

1991; USA; 23 min; Comedy

Adapted from the novel We Are Panic by Mian Mian,

Cast: Cheryl Dunye

in a hilarious performance as divorced writer Kika,

Shanghai Panic is Slackers with Chinese characteris-She Don’t Fade chronicles the experiences of one

tics in glittering Shanghai. Pretty face Bei is the

woman’s search for love. Dunye plays Shae, a black

source of the panic. “I think I have AIDS”, he

lesbian who is trying out her ‘new approach’ to

mutters. It turns out to be false alarm but soon other

women. Her use of narrative and humour are

panics, older and more enduring, surface. Shot in a

effective not only in showing the intimacies of

quasi-documentary style with bold camera move-

lesbian relationships but also in portraying, a black

ments and energised editing, the video sums up the

lesbian sexuality in the context of a broader lesbian

madness of a city hell-bent on revitalising its past

community.

glories. The slow motion sequence on the Bund

Dist/Sales: TWN, EAI

delivers a mesmerising, drugged and alienating

effect, as if to remind us that ‘all that glitters is not

She Even Chewed Tobacco

s

gold’. (26th Hong Kong International Film Festival)

Freedman, Estelle / Stevens, Elizabeth

Mandarin with English subtitles .

1983; USA; 40 min; B&W; Documentary

Prod Comp: Western Dragon

Meet Babe Bean, the ‘trouser puzzle’ who escaped

Dist/Sales: WesternDragon

the hot glare of tabloid headlines by disguising

Shantay

herself as Jack Garland and serving in the Spanish

American War. Or Jeanne Bonnet who scored a

Bailey, Fenton / Barbato, Randy

record of 22 plus arrests for wearing male attire,

1995; USA; 15 min; Comedy

went to prison for her indiscretions and later

organised a group of prostitutes into a shoplifting

RuPaul plays a supermodel/secret agent who ends

ring! (WMM)

ending a hostage stand-off and clashes with fashion

villain Toyota Carter.

Dist/Sales: WMM

Dist/Sales: WorldOfWonder

She Must be Seeing Things

McLaughlin, Sheila

1987; USA; 95 min; Drama

P: Sheila McLaughlin; C: Mark Daniels; M: John Zorn Cast: Sheila Dabney, Lois Weaver, John Erdman, Kyle

De Camp

Agatha is an international lawyer, Jo a filmmaker.

The two women are lovers. While Jo is on the road

showing her film, Agatha discovers and reads her

diaries. Problems ensue as Agatha’s transgression

leads to jealousy and a spiralling cycle of sexual

obsession. Throughout the film, Jo’s and Agatha’s

professional lives pose a contrast to the intimacy of

their life together. The tensions of their sexual

Shatzi is Dying

attraction and the details of that intimacy become a

Shatzi is Dying

framework for the film’s more explicit narrative.

(MQFF)

Carlomusto, Jean

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures

2000; USA; 55 min; Documentary

Jane and Jean’s beloved 16-year-old Doberman

She Wears Cufflinks

Shatzi is dying. Carlomusto’s documentary casts an

Brodie, Diana J.

intimate, but light-hearted look at queers and their

2002; USA; 18 min; Documentary

pets, and how we deal with death in Western society.

Poet K. Anne Richardson provides a guide to proper

Dist/Sales: RockingHorse

butch attire. (queerDOC 2002)

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She’s Real Worse than Queer

E: Taiji Shimamura; M: Atorie Shira

Cast: Shiina Kippei, Taguchi Tomoro, Sabu

Thane, Lucy

1996; USA; 50 min; Documentary

Miike Takashi’s appallingly depraved debut inaugu-

rated a trilogy of features about turf wars and

A video-film-music documentary by and about

struggles for supremacy between Japanese yakuza and

dykes who are beginning to find culture they can

Chinese triads. The Dragon’s Claw gang from Taiwan

stand through Punk Rock. Featuring Tribe 8, Fifth

is muscling in on various rackets in Shinjuku,

Column, Cunts With Attitude, Riot Girl NYC,

including dope, extortion and gay prostitution. A

Team Dresch, Sister George, Phranc, Free to Fight.

lone-wolf cop tries to stem the tide, but his younger

(Cinenova)

brother becomes the gang-leader’s gay lover...

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

Gleefully violent, perversely funny and dazzlingly

stylish. (BFI)

Sherlock, Louise and Mina

Japanese with English subtitles.

Brown, Emma

Dist/Sales: Daiei

1996; UK; 13 min; Drama

Shooting Porn

Set in the 1920s, Louise and Mina are two 17-year-

s

old girls sharing a room in an English boarding

Larsen, Ronnie

school. Louise is obsessed with Sherlock Holmes and

1997; USA; 75 min; Documentary

Mina is in love with Louise and desperately tries to

P: Caryn Horwitz, Doug Lindeman; W: Ronnie Larsen; find out if her love is reciprocated.

C: Bruce McCarthy; E: James Lyons

Shifting Positions

Go backstage with Blue Blake, BJ, Hunter, Rip and

a cast of dildos in this chatty factory floor tour of

High, Kathy

everyday life in the gay porn industry in Los

1999; USA; 28 min; Drama

Angeles. Go on the set of cum shots and douche

P: Kathy High

scenes. Meet stunt cocks and gay-for-pay straight

porn stars. Includes a loving homily to the late Joey

A semi-autobiographical/fictional trilogy exploring

Stefano. Candid and explicit. (MQFF)

becoming queer later in life, High’s father’s demen-

tia, and of mid and end-of-life crises. (VDB)

Dist/Sales: Horwitz

Dist/Sales: VDB

Shinjuku Boys

Longinotto, Kim / Williams, Jano

1995; UK; 53 min; Documentary

P: Kim Longinotto; C: Kim Longinotto;

E: John Mister; M: Nigel Hawks

Cast: Gaish, Tatsu, Kazuki

Shinjuku Boys takes us into the heart of the queer

underbelly of Tokyo, to the aptly named Marilyn

Club, where roles have been completely reversed and

straight women spend their time and money with

female cross-dressers called ‘Annabe’. Giving

incredibly frank interviews and insights into their

Shinjuku Boys

lives, the film centres on three ‘Annabe’ employees of

the Marilyn Club. Although they live as men and

Shoplifting Chanel

have girlfriends they do not identify as lesbians.

Cohn, Marya

Japanese with English subtitles.

2001; USA; 61 min; Comedy

Prod Comp: 20th Century Vixen

As Oona Stone, poetry’s once-promising young

Dist/Sales: WMM, Cinenova, NFVLS

talent, crosses into her thirties without a word

Shinjuku Triad Society

printed in years, she tries to Zelda-and-Scott her

days away with gay pal Jack in vapid style—with

(aka: Shijuku Kuro Shakai)

plenty of drink, of course, and glamorous threads

Takashi, Miike

lifted from the costume museum at which she works.

1995; Japan; 102 min; Drama

But her sister Madison’s breast cancer rears its ugly

W: Ichiro Fujita; C: Naosuke Imaizumi;

head again, and Oona reluctantly agrees to take the

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reins of the tiring feminist literary magazine

Show me your Pic

Madison edits. In a bold move to breathe some life

into its pages (and sales), Oona publishes the stalwart

Baldwin, Robbie

mag’s first male-authored piece in its long history. In

2001; Australia; 26 min; Documentary

the process, she changes the course of her relation-

Traces the lives of five gay men as they search for

ships with Madison and Jack forever, while con-

love on line. An hilarious and sometimes moving

versely re-igniting a passion for words she thought

look at Sydney’s gay cyber-scene.

had gone. Not merely a sly satire on the lesbian and

Dist/Sales: Queerscreen

gay literary scene, Shoplifting Chanel also takes a

sharp stab at the medical community’s reluctance to

Siberia

attend to women’s health issues. (25th San Francisco

International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

Suenke, Orlow

1995; The Netherlands; 50 min; Drama

Frans is a music teacher who takes a new job at a

secondary school on a small island off the coast of

Holland. There he meets and begins a passionate

s

affair with Duits, the German teacher. Duits becomes

concerned that the small conservative island commu-

nity will discover their relationship so he plans to

marry, keeping his affair with Frans in the closet.

Frans is not happy with this choice and he leaves the

island and Duits. Thirty years later he returns to

celebrate Duits’s retirement as headmaster of the

school. They find their love for each other is still as

passionate as ever. But will Duits follow his heart?

Show Me Love

Siege

Show me Love

(aka: Self Defense)

(aka: Fucking Åmål)

Donovan, Paul / O’Connell, Maura

Moodysson, Lukas

1983; Canada; 81 min; Action

1998; Denmark, Sweden; 89 min; Drama

P: Michael Donovan, John Walsch, Maura O’Connell;

P: Lars Jönsson; W: Lukas Moodysson; C: Ulf Brantås; W: Paul Donovan; C: Les Krizsan; E: Ian McBride; E: Michal Leszczylowski, Bernhard Winkler

M: Drew King, Peter Jermyn

Cast: Alexandra Dahlström, Rebecka Liljeberg, Erica

Cast: Tom Nardini, Brenda Bazinet, Daryl Haney, Doug

Carlson, Mathias Rust

Lennox

This insightful and realistic film about teenage

A group of thugs, known as ‘the New Order’, bring

sexuality is set in a small Swedish town. Elin is

nothing but disorder to the town when they decide

beautiful and popular but the limitations of a small

to clean up the homosexuals who inhabit a gay

town lead her to increasing experimentation with

nightclub where the clubbing never seems to stop.

alcohol, sex and drugs. Agnes is finding that after

Based on a true story, and highly controversial at the

nearly two years in her new high school she is still

time of its release.

largely friendless and alone. Elin and Agnes inhabit

Prod Comp: Salter Productions

two very different social worlds but when they do

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, NewLine, VSM

finally meet they discover a disturbing and exciting

sexual attraction for each other. Elin deals with this

Siegfried

knowledge by throwing herself into a relationship

with a shy diffident boy, while Agnes increasingly

Domalik, Andrzej

comes to accept her lesbianism. Refusing easy

1986; Poland; 90 min; Drama

moralism or neat conclusions, Lukas Moodysson

W: Andrzej Domalik; C: Grzegorz Kedzierski;

crafts an intelligent examination of contemporary

M: Jerzy Satanowski

youth culture. This is a gritty love story tenderly and

Cast: Adam Ferency, Gustaw Holoubek, Tomasz

convincingly performed by its young cast. (ACMI)

Hudziec

Swedish with English subtitles.

Set in 1934, an art collector, who is feeling his age

Awards: Berlin International Film Festival, 1999: Teddy

and impending death, becomes invigorated when he

Award

meets a circus acrobat named Siegfried and embarks

Prod Comp: Memfis Films

on a homosexual relationship.

Dist/Sales: Strand, Wolfe, Potential, ACMI

Prod Comp: Zespol Filmowy-Tor

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Sign of the Cross, The

may have knowledge of a killer committing horrible

murders against young women. The tension and

De Mille, Cecil B.

suspense build as the psychiatrist slowly releases clues

1932; USA; 120 min; B&W; Drama

to the killer’s identity. A horribly homophobic film

P: Cecil B. De Mille; W: Sidney Buchman, Waldemar with the revelation that the killer is a homosexual-Young; C: Karl Struss; E: Anne Bauchens;

transvestite who wants to be transformed into a

M: Rudolph G. Kopp

woman. He thinks he can achieve this by killing and

Cast: Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton,

skinning young women, and making a suit of their

Claudette Colbert

flesh. Based on the best-selling book by Thomas

The decline and fall of Western civilisation accord-

Harris.

ing to De Mille. The moral tale of the Christian

Awards: Academy Awards, 1991: Best Film, Actor

victory over paganism. Perverse, enjoyable film with

(Anthony Hopkins), Actress (Jodie Foster), Direction,

fine performances, especially Laughton’s definitive

Adapted Screenplay

and queer Nero.

Prod Comp: Orion, Strong Heart

Prod Comp: Paramount

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Col-Tri, Lauren, OrionHV, ACMI

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, Paramount

Silence that Silences, The

s

Signed: Lino Brocka

Kinney, Donald / Kinney, Robert

Blackwood, Christian

1990; USA; 25 min; Experimental

1987; USA; 80 min; Documentary

A video that offers an initially hypercorrect but

P: Christian Blackwood; W: Christian Blackwood;

eventually invigorating, funny and painful critique

C: Christian Blackwood; E: Monika Abspacher

of the media’s portrayal of AIDS.

A documentary on the Philippine film director, Lino

Brocka, who talks openly about filmmaking, politics

Silence, The

and his sexuality.

(aka: Tystnaden)

Awards: Berlin International Film Festival, 1988: Peace

Bergman, Ingmar

Award Christian Blackwood

1963; Sweden; 88 min; B&W; Drama

Silence=Death

P: Allan Ekelund; W: Ingmar Bergman;

C: Sven Nykvist; E: Ulla Ryghe; M: Ivan Renliden (aka: Die AIDS-Trilogie: Schweigen=Tod)

Cast: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Hakan

von Praunheim, Rosa / Zwickler, Phil

Jahnberg, Birger Malmsten

1990; USA; 60 min; Documentary

Thought provoking narrative about two sisters who

C: Mike Kuchar; M: Diamanda Galas

stop at a hotel in a northern European city. One

Cast: Alan Ginsberg, Keith Haring, Rafeal Gambas,

sister is a frustrated lesbian, the other is a free-

David Wojnorowicz

spirited mother of a 10-year-old boy. Thulin

A documentary which looks at the way AIDS has

suppresses her sexual desire for her sister, Lindblom

devastated the gay arts community, particularly in

picks up a waiter and brings him back to the hotel.

New York. Various artists are interviewed, revealing

The film deals with the need for human tenderness

their shock, anger and frustration, not only with the

and emotional warmth. Swedish with English

disease, but with society as well.

subtitles.

Awards: Berlin International Film Festival, 1990: Teddy

Prod Comp: Svensk Filmindustri

Award for Best Feature

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, NFVLS, BFI

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures

Silences

Silence of the Lambs, The

Cullen, Colette

Demme, Jonathan

1995; Ireland; 21 min; Drama

1991; USA; 118 min; Thriller

W: Colette Cullen

P: Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman;

Cast: Adrienne Rich

W: Ted Tally; C: Tak Fujimoto; E: Craig McKay; Niamh is home in Ireland with her producer, Helen,

M: Howard Shore

looking at locations in which to film her prize-

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, Ted

winning short story. They’re staying with her

Levine

parents, which is causing underlying tensions to

A young FBI agent, Clarice Starling, is enlisted to

surface as Helen falls for Niamh’s sister. (Cinenova)

get information from a serial killer-psychiatrist who

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

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Silencis

accident.

(aka: Silent Moments)

Prod Comp: ABC, 20th Century-Fox

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, ACMI, 20thCenturyFox

Xavier, Daniel

1983; Spain; 14 min; Drama

Silver Screen: Color me Lavender, The

A Spanish army officer struggles with his attraction

to his gay son. His repressed feelings instill a

Rappaport, Mark

voyeurism in him that he can’t control.

1997; USA; 103 min; Documentary

W: Mark Rappaport; C: Mark Rappaport

Silent Pioneers

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender studies the way

Hollywood treated or ignored the issue of homo-

Winer, Lucy

sexuality during its Golden Age. Sometimes

1984; USA; 45 min; Documentary

shocking, often funny and sarcastic, this investiga-

P: Pat Snyder, Lucy Winer, Harvey Marks, Paula

tion describes the subterfuges that directors used to

DeKoenigsberg

allude to homosexuality without naming it, let alone

Silent Pioneers creates a portrait of strong and active

identifying it—that is, by avoiding the subject. At

s

women and men who face not only issues of ageing,

the same time, Rappaport offers us a fascinating

but also concerns related to sexual orientation.

essay on the genders, showing how they were

Nominated for an Emmy Award in 1986.

perceived and perpetuated by the ‘dream factory’ for

almost thirty years, from the 1930s to the 60s. (1998

Prod Comp: Silent Pioneers

Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival)

Dist/Sales: ACMI, FilmakersLibrary, Salzgeber,

WaterBearer, BFI

Prod Comp: Couch Potato Productions

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer

Silent Thrush, The

Silverlake Life: The View From Here

(aka: Shisheng Huamei)

Cheng, Sheng-fu

Joslin, Tom / Friedman, Peter

1991; Taiwan; 100 min; Drama

1993; USA; 99 min; Documentary

Cast: Yu-shan Li, Yi-ch’An Lu, Chia-p’ei Yuan, Ying-

Silverlake Life: The View From Here is a landmark

chen Chang

documentary since it was the first time a film both

documented and intimately exposed viewers to the

Amidst the shouting and turmoil of a present-day

ravages of AIDS. When filmmaker Tom Joslin and

Taiwanese opera group, a young girl, Yuh, joins the

his long time lover Mark Massi were both diagnosed

company and its star, Chia-feng, falls in love with

with AIDS, Joslin decided to shoot a video diary.

her. Unfortunately this provokes jealousy from her

This film combines the intimacy and urgency of a

long-time lover Ai-ching. A fascinating mixture of

dying man’s diary with his striking visual style. As

eroticism and exoticism among the colour and music

Joslin’s strength began to fail, filmmaker Peter

of the opera.

Friedman took over the project and finished the

Silkwood

film. Silverlake Life is a unique, gay couple’s

harrowing record of the disease told from the time

Nichols, Mike

they were diagnosed to their deaths. The unflinching

1983; USA; 130 min; Thriller

camera and the probing honesty with which the pair

P: Mike Nichols, Michael Hausman; W: Nora Ephron, talk make a unique firsthand journal and a deeply

moving experience. (Films Transit)

Alice Arlen; C: Miroslav Ondricek; E: Sam O’Steen; M: Georges Delerue

Dist/Sales: FilmsTransit, Cowboy

Cast: Meryl Streep, Cher, Kurt Russell, Diana Scarwid

Simon and I: Steps for the Future

Based on the true story of Karen Silkwood, a worker

in a nuclear plant, who, after finding problems with

Ditsie, Beverley Palesa / Newman, Nicky

safety within the plant, goes headlong into battle

2001; South Africa; 52 min; Documentary

with a lazy and uncaring management. Against this

Sultry lesbian activist and singer Ditsie recounts the

background she has to deal with a troubled love

amazing life and heritage of Simon Nkodi. Ditsie’s

affair, a custody battle for her child, and unwanted

honey voice and languid reminiscences tell the story

lesbian affection from her close friend, played by

of an extraordinary friendship with Simon and their

Cher. The plant management almost wins when they

shared struggles, joys and songs for same sex social

try to cover up Karen’s mysterious death in a car

justice in South Africa. (MQFF)

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Simone

Siren

Ehm, Christine

Swords, Sara

1984; France; 103 min; Drama

1996; USA; 45 min; Erotica

Stylised drama of a love affair between the beautiful

Ella is captivated by Jodie, a writer of erotic fiction.

and mysterious Simone and the gamine Francoise,

Sent to her majestic country estate, Ella is titillated

first seen in hospital recovering from a suicide

by what she sees there. Siren is an erotic lesbian

attempt. The two meet on the metro, when

fantasy drama made by women for women, featuring

Francoise is arguing with her well-meaning but

exquisite imagery combined with a powerful

patronising brother. Simone intercedes, the three

soundtrack. (Wolfe)

laugh it off and part as abruptly as they met. But

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

Simone reappears and she and Francoise begin to

establish a sensual relationship. French with English

SIS: The Perry Watkins Story

subtitles.

Cartagena, Chiqui

Dist/Sales: Altermedia

1994; USA; 52 min; Documentary

Sincerely Yours

P: Chiqui Cartagena, Suzanne Newman

s

This groundbreaking documentary explores the

Douglas, Gordon

explosive issue of gays in the military. It examines the

1955; USA; 115 min; Drama

case of Perry J. Watkins, the first openly gay man to

P: Henry Blanke; W: Irving Wallace; C: William H.

defeat the ban against gays in the military. The case

Clothier; E: Owen Marks; M: Liberace

established a powerful legal precedent that acted as an

Cast: Liberace, Joanne Dru, Dorothy Malone, William

inspiration to the gay and black communities. His

Demarest

story is funny and compelling and sheds light on the

Liberace’s portrayal of a concert pianist seemed too

social, political and historical context of the lesbian

close to the bone for most people. The pianist’s life

and gay movement. Drafted in 1968, Perry Watkins

changes abruptly when he loses his sight. A camp

served 15 years in the US Army as an openly gay man

classic written by Irving Wallace, it was an absolute

who even did female impersonations on base, to

bomb when it was released, but has curiosity value

entertain the troops. In 1982, he was discharged

now.

under the provisions that ban homosexuals from

serving in the Armed Forces. With the help of the

Prod Comp: International Artists, Warner

American Civil Liberties Union, Sgt. Watkins fought

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, Warner

for reinstatement for nine years. In the end, the

Sink or Swim

United States Supreme Court ruled in his favour and

refused to hear the Army’s appeal. (Filmakers Library)

Friedrich, Su

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary

1990; USA; 48 min; B&W; Drama

Cast: Jessica Meyerson

An autobiographical film about the relationship

between a father and daughter. A young girl narrates

26 short stories that recount memories of a father

she both fears and admires.

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, WMM, CFMDC, ACMI

Sir: Just a Normal Guy

La Rosa, Melanie

2001; USA; 57 min; Documentary

A candid look at the life of Jay Snider, who started

life as Jennifer. Through in-depth interviews, we

learn about the process of his transition, charting the

physical and emotional changes he went through,

and the sense of normality he felt when he finally

began to live as a man. (2002 Mardi Gras Film

Festival)

Sir: Just a Normal Guy

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Sissy

Cast: Julie Walters, Joely Richardson, Jodhi May, Sophie

Thursfield

Gittens, Debbie

2000; Australia; 27 min; Documentary

Les Mans, France, 1933. Two sisters, maids in the

bourgeois household of Madam and Isabelle

Koori queens proudly get out and about in this

Danzard, savagely murder their employers after

high-spirited and affirming documentary. Battling

leading a harrowing existence since early childhood.

homophobia within their community, and the

Left by their poverty stricken mother in an abusive

ongoing violence of racism, these queers of colour

convent as children, separated and sent into service

demand visibility, space and one hell of a fabulous

as adolescents, they spend their adult days in the

time. (MQFF)

oppressive home of Madame and Isabelle Danzard.

Dist/Sales: ArtemisInt

Only in their cold, cramped attic room, isolated

from the unfeeling world around them, can they

Sister Louise’s Discovery

create a secret world of their own and give each other

Heatherman, Margaret

the tenderness and love they so crave.

1994; USA; 10 min; B&W; Comedy

Prod Comp: NFH Productions, British Screen, Channel 4

Sister Louise is torn between her marriage to God,

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, 7thArt, ACMI

s

and her real-life sister’s lesbian lifestyle. She discovers

Sister Smile

the delights of lesbianism, and the sins of the flesh

aren’t all bad when she ends up in a dyke bar. Can

(aka: Suor Sorriso)

she be distracted from her own moral path by the

Deutsch, Roger

promise of cheap thrills in darkened wine-bar corner?

2001; Italy; 95 min; Documentary

P: Kass Thomas; W: Roger Deutsch, Francesca

Terrenato; C: Guilio Pietromarchi; E: Andrea Pica; M: Andreas Salvatori

Cast: Ginevra Colonna, Antonio Salines, Simona

Caparrini, Francesca Bianco

Jeanine Deckers (aka ‘Sister Smile’) was a young nun

in a Belgian convent in the 1960s who wrote the

song Dominique. It became an international smash

hit and sold more than 1.5 million copies, even

bumping the Beatles off the top spot. Hollywood

eventually cast Debbie Reynolds in the cheesy 1966

‘inspired by’ musical, The Singing Nun. Jeanine

leaves the convent to become a missionary and a

musician. Searching for a replacement for the lack of

love she received from her cold father, she falls in

and out of love with a woman named Clara. All the

while, even though Jeanine donated all of her

royalties from Dominique to her convent, the

government hounds her for tens of thousands of

dollars in back taxes. Over 20 years after her brush

with fame, Jeanine eventually falls in love with the

doomed Annie Pecher and descends into mental

illness and addiction. With eloquent performances

and delicate cinematography, Sister Smile travels

from innocence to tragedy without a false note.

(2002 Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film

Festival) Italian with English subtitles.

Sister My Sister

Prod Comp: Neo Film

Dist/Sales: Neofilm

Sister My Sister

Sisters Lumiere, The

Meckler, Nancy

1994; UK; 102 min; Drama

(aka: Sisters of Light)

P: Norma Heyman; W: Wendy Kesselman; C: Ashley Vanderborght, Karen

Rowe; E: David Stiven; M: Stephen Warbeck

2000; Belgium; 28 min; Experimental

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Two friends—Stella, an astronomer, and Lucia, a

Six Degrees of Separation

salesgirl in a lamp store—who know each other only

through correspondence, are separated by death.

Schepisi, Fred

Lucia, the surviving friend, drives off at night,

1993; USA; 112 min; Drama

heading for the Belgium of twinkling motorways,

P: Fred Schepisi, Arnon Milchan; W: John Guare;

searching for Stella’s angel which should have

C: Ian Baker; E: Peter Honess; M: Jerry Goldsmith become Lucia’s guardian angel. With an empty heart,

Cast: Donald Sutherland, Stockard Channing, Ian

she drives, accompanied by strange light phenomena

McKellen, Will Smith

around her (UFOs? angels?) to find enlightenment

When wealthy Manhattan art dealers Ousia and Flan

around her loss. (Frameline)

Kittredge open their door to a young man, Paul, who

Dist/Sales: Frameline

has been stabbed and mugged in Central Park, their

world is changed forever. He poses as Sidney Poitier’s

son and says he went to Harvard with their daughter.

The next morning, Ousia finds Paul in bed with

another man and her illusions of him are shattered.

Prod Comp: MGM, New Regency

s

Dist/Sales: Warner, TLA, MGM, UIP, Swank

Sixth Happiness, The

Hussein, Waris

1997; India, UK; 97 min; Drama

P: Tatiana Kennedy; W: Firdaus Kanga;

Sister Smile

C: James Welland; E: Laurence Mery-Clark

Cast: Firdaus Kanga, Souad Faress, Khodus Wadia

Sitcom

Brit is born with a disease that makes his bones brittle,

Ozon, François

and affects his growth so that he will never be more

1998; France; 85 min; Comedy

than four feet tall. Despite his physical challenges, Brit

P: Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier;

has his own spirited way of dealing with the world,

W: François Ozon; C: Yorick Le Saux;

and the cast of characters that surrounds him helps

E: Dominique Petrot; M: Éric Neveux

ensure that life is never dull: an eccentric mom, a dad

Cast: François Marthouret, Evelyne Dandry, Adrien de

with movie star looks, a doting sister, and numerous

Van, Marina de Van, Lucia Sanchez

other mentors. Although he is committed to a future

arranged marriage to a deaf girl, he falls in love, and

Director François Ozon’s own words give the best

has a relationship, with the very handsome Cyrus.

description of his first feature film. He calls it

Adapted from the autobiography of Firdaus Kanga.

‘essentially a sitcom, but loaded with other cinematic

genres—the family film, horror, gore, melodrama

Dist/Sales: BFI

and farce’. The combination creates an outrageously

Size ‘Em Up

comical, yet surprisingly poignant, black farce in the

best Buñuelian tradition, with no taboo left

unbroken. Things begin to get weird when Jean

brings home a pet rat for his family which unleashes

all manner of chaos revolving around the themes of

homosexuality, incest, bisexuality, violence, suicide

and S/M. The whole family including mother

Helene, son Nicholas and daughter Sophie start

acting strangely. Nicholas announces he is gay and

proceeds to conduct orgies in his bedroom. Sophie

turns suicidal. Maria, the maid, stops doing her

duties and starts messing with Sophie’s boyfriend

David, who shows off a fully erect penis in one

scene. And Helene takes motherly love to extremes

in an attempt to ‘cure’ her son’s homosexuality.

Size ‘Em Up

(MQFF)

French with English subtitles.

Russo, Christine

Prod Comp: Fidélité Productions

2001; USA; 15 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Celluloid-Dreams, NewYorker, ACMI

Buying a bra becomes a major trauma for sporty

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dyke Samantha—especially when she’s surrounded

Skin Flick

by lusty sales ladies, and an especially cute girl.

(aka: Skin Gang)

Dist/Sales: BustinOut

La Bruce, Bruce

Skin and Bone

1999; Canada, Germany; 70 min; Erotica

P: Jürgen Brüning; W: Bruce La Bruce; C: James Carman Lewis, Everett

Cast: Steve Masters, Eden Miller, Tom International,

1995; USA; 110 min; Comedy

Ralph Steel

P: Claudia Hoover, Gardner Monks; W: Everett Lewis; Bruce La Bruce is increasingly queer cinema’s most

C: Fernando Argüelles; E: Everett Lewis;

maverick filmmaker, not only producing films that

M: Geoff Haba, Mark Jan Wlodarkiewicz

defy the conventions of mainstream Hollywood but

Cast: B. Wyatt, Alan Boyce, Garrett Scullin

also creating queer and bisexual characters who are

The story of three hustlers who are all working the

heretical to the homosexual mainstream itself. Skin

streets for different reasons, or so they think.

Flick is a pornographic film that allows itself to

Together they must deal with the gritty realities of

experiment with both representation and the

street life and face up to their fading dreams.

techniques of film and video. Continuing La Bruce’s

s Dist/Sales: Strand, Alliance, JourDeFete, Wolfe

fetishising of skinheads, Skin Flick is about a group

of fascist youths who spend their time having sex

Skin Complex

with one another when they are not bashing

homosexuals and people of colour. The film

Lennhoff, Stephen

contrasts the aggression and violence of the

1992; UK; 20 min; Documentary

skinheads with the bourgeois emptiness of a mixed-

P: Rebecca Dobbs

race gay couple. After being raped and tortured by

For those of you who loved No Skin off My Ass, here’s

the skins, the couple turn the table and extract their

a look at the increasingly widespread adoption of

revenge. However, they find that the pleasure of

skinhead fashions by gay men. Since the 1970s gay

violence is addictive. (ACMI)

men have been drawing inspiration for their own

Prod Comp: CAZZO Film

looks from heterosexual macho images. But can this

Dist/Sales: Brüning, Millivres, ACMI

particular style of dress be separated from the fascist

homophobic politics it represents? Stephen Lennhoff

Skindeep

opens up a controversial and enlightening debate by

confronting skinheads of differing persuasions, race

Cox, Paul

and sexuality. (MQFF)

1970; Australia; 37 min; Drama

P: Paul Cox; C: Edward Keogh; M: Ian Wallace Dist/Sales: MayaVision

Cast: Jan Hurrell, Anthony Ward, Pat Allen

Skin Deep

A mood piece involving two lesbian lovers and a

disturbed young man contemplating suicide.

Onodera, Midi

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ACMI

1994; Canada; 85 min; Drama

P: Midi Onodera, Lentin Mehernaz; W: Midi Onodera; Skud

C: Robert MacDonald; E: Sarah Peddie;

M: Kathryn Moses

Swan, Donna

Cast: Melanie Nicholls-King, Natsuko Ohama, Keram

1996; Australia; 26 min; Comedy

Malicki-Sánchez

P: Donna Swan; W: Donna Swan

Alex is a filmmaker who is obsessed with tattooing.

Scud takes us to the edge of the lives of Tash and

She places an ad in a tattooing magazine and it is

Matt—two young people in search of themselves

answered by young androgynous Chris. Chris

and a release from their existence. Tash at fifteen is

describes to Alex the sexual pleasure gained from

stubbornly independent and fights against the

tattooing and, as they share their obsession, Chris

external forces that sweep her to the ‘edge’. Matt

finds that he is falling madly in love with Alex. But

recklessly lives on the borderline of life and death as

Alex’s girlfriend, Montana, is put off-side when it

he pushes the limits with train surfing. Tash in

seeking time out from a well meaning but ‘out of

becomes obvious that Alex enjoys the new attention

control’ mother meets Matt at a youth refuge. They

and infatuation. When Alex rejects Chris, he tries

connect through their individual struggles and share

desperately to gain Alex’s attention.

their outlets of trainsurfing and boxing, eventually

Prod Comp: Daruma Pictures

confronting ‘the edge’ within themselves—with

Dist/Sales: FilmsTransit, WaterBearer, Domino

devastating consequences.

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Slaves to the Underground

Hartford Athenaeum, a fabulously queer costume

party, shown here with amazing footage. Through-

Peterson, Kristine

out the next 30 years, Ford played a part in the

1996; USA; 92 min; Comedy

major art movements of the time, including

P: Kristine Peterson, Bill Cody, Raquel Caballes

Surrealism, the Beat movement, and Pop Art: as a

Maxwell; W: Bill Cody; C: Zoran Hochstätter;

member of Andy Warhol’s factory, Ford made an

E: Eric Vizents; M: Mike Martt

explicitly homoerotic underground film evocatively

Cast: Molly Gross, Marisa Ryan, Jason Bortz, Bob

titled Johnny Minotaur. Sleep in a Nest of Flames is

Neuwirth, Natacha La Ferriere

chock-full of powerful homoerotic dramatisations,

This funny and hip portrait of life on the margins of

music by Paul Bowles and Ned Rorem, and lively

the Seattle music scene is an upbeat, fresh and

interviews with William S. Burroughs, Paul

honest look at bisexual love. Girl-positive and sex-

Morrissey, Edmund White, Allen Ginsberg, and

positive, it also features a killer soundtrack. Shelley

Ford himself, who’s still alive: an impish, creative,

dumps Jimmy, joins an all-girl band and starts a

modest man with a twinkle in his octogenarian eyes.

relationship with the singer Suzy who is wild and

(2002 Mardi Gras Film Festival)

outrageous both on and off stage. Soon the pair are

Dist/Sales: Symbiosis

cruising around Seattle, making no apology for their

s

sexuality and stealing pornography from hapless

convenience store clerks. But when Shelley runs into

Jimmy again she realises that she is still attracted to

him. Jimmy also discovers something she has

managed to hide from him...

Prod Comp: NEO Motion Pictures

Dist/Sales: FirstLook, Wolfe

Sleep Come Free Me

Schmidt, Laurie

1998; USA; 19 min; Comedy

Natalie, a disenchanted office worker, lives in the

space between dreams and reality. When her dream

life overlaps with reality, her dull 9 to 5 existence is

flooded with overwhelming and unexpected desire,

and Natalie is forced to sink or swim. Sleep Come

Free Me—comedic and intelligent—brims with

discord, lust and symbolic imagery. (Frameline)

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Sleep in a Nest of Flames

Dowell, James / Kolomvakis, John

2000; USA; 117 min; Documentary

P: James Dowell, John Kolomvakis; W: James Dowell; C: Scott Barnard; E: David Lindblom

Cast: Rich Bernatovech, Eric Cole

Filmmakers James Dowell and John Kolomvakis had

never heard of Charles Henri Ford when they found

Sleep in a Nest of Flames

one of his books during a holiday in Greece. But

Sleepy Haven

they soon became fascinated by this little-known,

though influential poet, novelist, filmmaker, and

Mueller, Matthais

publisher. An outspoken gay man throughout his

1993; Germany; 15 min; Experimental

life, Ford began his arts career in the 1930s, when he

A mesmerising blend of original and found footage,

co-wrote what is believed to be the first gay novel

including floating naked sailors, and solar system

with a happy ending, The Young and the Evil. That

same decade, Ford read poetry in Gertrude Stein’s

images. A powerful meditation on desire.

salon, and he organised The Paper Ball at the

Dist/Sales: Canyon

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Slight Fever of a 20-Year-Old

Smokers Only

(aka: Hatachi No Binetsu)

(aka: Vagón Fumador)

Hashiguchi, Ryosuke

Chen, Verónica

1993; Japan; 115 min; Drama

2002; Argentina; 87 min; Drama

W: Ryosuke Hashiguchi; C: Junichi Tozawa;

P: Donald Ranvaud; W: Verónica Chen, Alejandro

E: Hiroshi Matsuo; M: Akira Isono, Ryuji Murayama, Sapogniikoff; C: Nicolás Theodossiou;

Kôhei Shinozaki

E: Verónica Chen; M: Pablo Siriani

Cast: Yoshihiko Hakamada, Reiko Kataoka, Masashi

Cast: Cecelia Bengolea, Leonardo Breznicki, Adrian

Endô, Sumiyo Yamada

Fondari, Pablo Razuk

The film centres around two young hustlers, Tatsuro

Andrés is a 20-year-old 'taxiboy' who flies through

and Shin, and their two female best friends. Tatsuro,

the Buenos Aires night on rollerblades. Under the

the better hustler, spends his days skipping school

unerring eye of a surveillance camera, Andrés turns

and entertaining clients, but when Shin declares his

tricks with men he meets in an enclosed ATM at a

love for him, Tatsuro has to enter the real world.

bank in the centre of the city. Reni is also twenty, a

Japanese with English subtitles.

singer in a struggling band, already living on the

s

edge. Spying Andrés connecting with a john, she is

Prod Comp: Akira Ishigaki, Pony Canyon

fascinated with what she sees. She enters the ATM

and Andrés' world, initiating a dangerous game, and

Sluts and Goddesses Video Workshop

is drawn into the dark side of Buenos Aires and its

Beatty, Maria / Sprinkle, Annie

rent-boy circuit. Reni believes in the redemptive

power of love, but Andrés' world threatens to

1993; USA; 52 min; Documentary

destroy her. Scanning the crowded sidewalks, Andrés

P: Annie Sprinkle, Maria Beatty; M: Pauline Oliveros is both innocent urchin and savvy hustler, scoping

Cast: Annie Sprinkle, Barbara Carrellas

out his next score. As Reni walks, and then works,

A very humorous and absurd look at sex with that

the streets with Andrés, the two become trapped in a

wonderful sexpert Annie Sprinkle. It features many

dance of mutual discovery and inevitable loss. First-

exotic ways to simulate sexual and sensual pleasures.

time feature film director Veronica Chen's Vagón

These encounters include tattooing, striptease,

fumador captures the mesmerizing erotic dreamscape

Chinese-sword dancing, piercing and shaving. You

of Buenos Aires at night with a fractured narrative

will also be witness to female ejaculation and a five

that mirrors the urban rhythms that infuse the film.

Edgy, hip and romantic all at once, it is a haunting,

minute orgasm! A controversial but thought-

sexy meditation on the thrill, but also the ephemeral

provoking examination of female sexuality.

and precarious nature, of connection in the big city.

(Cinenova)

(2002 Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival)

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

Dist/Sales: Strand

Smear

Snake Boy, The

Zalutsky, Sam

Chen, Michelle / Li, Xiao

1998; USA; 10 min; Drama

2001; China; 61 min; Documentary

It’s tough being a teenager in love—especially when

P: Michelle Chen, Ethan Hou; W: Arthur Jones,

you’re in love with your (straight) best friend.

Michelle Chen; C: Xiao Li; E: Jinglei Kong;

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!

M: Coco Zhao

Cast: Coco Zhao

Smoke

An engaging look at the life of Coco Zhan, a

D’Auria, Mark

homosexual jazz singer in Shanghai. Mandarin with

1993; USA; 90 min; Drama

English subtitles.

Michael, a loner who works as a bathroom attendant

Dist/Sales: ChenM

in a fancy Manhattan hotel, has a penchant for older

Snatch it

men. Lost in his search for a father figure he pursues

a married detective, and is, in turn, pursued by his

Stafrace, Inka

ex-boyfriend who bullies and intimidates him

2000; USA; 14 min; Comedy

throughout the film.

Light-hearted social commentary, shadowed with

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer

black humour, exposing the fickleness of friendship

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when matched with the primal power of sexual

epidemic and the struggle for gay rights, Bordowitz

desire.

successfully portrays the complexity of issues

Dist/Sales: PollyTickle

surrounding the AIDS epidemic as it emerged in the

early 1980s in the USA, forcefully arguing for the

Sodom

need to confront AIDS as an equal-opportunity

threat to all members of society.

Price, Luther

1989; UK; 25 min; Drama

Some Ground to Stand On

A reworking of gay porn that evokes Genet’s Un

Chant d’Amour and Kenneth Anger’s Fireworks,

Warshow, Joyce P.

while bouncing off texts by Sade and Bataille. Like

1998; USA; 35 min; Documentary

his precursors Genet and Anger, Luther Price

P: Janet Baus, Joyce P. Warshow

challenges traditional notions of sexual portrayal

This compelling documentary tells the life story of

and, as with their work, his film is certain to be

Blue Lunden, a working class lesbian activist whose

controversial.

odyssey of personal transformation parallels lesbians’

changing roles over the past 40 years. Starting with

Soft Hearts

Blue’s experience of being run out of the 1950s New

s

(aka: Pusong Mamon)

Orleans gay bar scene for wearing men’s clothing,

Some Ground to Stand On combines interviews, rare

Lamangan, Joel / Quizon, Enrico

photos, and archival footage to trace her experiences:

1998; Philippines; 112 min; Comedy

giving up her child for adoption and getting her

W: Ricardo Lee, Mel Mendoza-Del Rosario;

back; getting sober; and coming into her own as a

C: Romeo Vitug; E: Jess Navarro; M: Dennis Garcia lesbian rights, feminist, and antinuclear activist.

Cast: Lorna Tolentino, Albert Martinez, Eric Quizon

Now 61 and living in Sugarloaf Women’s Village,

Annie is a hopeless romantic who has her sights set

Blue reflects on ageing, activism, and a life spent

on gorgeous, but distant co-worker Ron. She aims to

‘doing what she wanted’ in this touching, inspiring

make him her husband, and successfully lures him

look at a generation’s struggle for a lesbian identity

into bed after a drunken night at the office.

and consciousness. (WMM)

According to plan she becomes pregnant and

Dist/Sales: WMM, Cinenova

demands Ron marry her. She is shocked to learn that

he’s gay and in a long term relationship with Nick.

What transpires is a comedy of errors that highlights

the possibility of constructing alternative families,

and the enduring power of love.

Dist/Sales: Viva

Soliloquy of Dale Cunningham, The

MacGeorge, Samuel

1994; Australia; 21 min; B&W; Drama

P: Samuel MacGeorge

A film about a teenage boy exploring his sexuality. It

is the story of a boy, his dog and a toilet block.

Some Like it Hot

Solos Y Soledades

Some Like it Hot

Berrios, Javier Antonio

1992; Cuba; 22 min; Drama

Wilder, Billy

Two men meet at a bus stop, but find it hard to find

1959; USA; 119 min; B&W; Comedy

a suitable place to consummate their meeting.

P: Billy Wilder; W: Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond; Spanish.

C: Charles Lang; E: Arthur Schmidt; M: Adolph Deutsch Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Joe

Some Aspect of a Shared Lifestyle

E. Brown, George Raft

A legendary comedy about two musicians who, after

Bordowitz, Gregg

witnessing the St Valentine’s Day Massacre in

1986; USA; 22 min; Documentary

Chicago, flee from gangsters by taking refuge in an

Focusing on early media reporting of the AIDS

all-girl band. Of course this leads to complications

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when the boys start to fall for the girls, and a

in a household with no father. His only support can

millionaire falls for Jack Lemmon. With lots of

be found in a half-present mother consumed in a

slapstick humour and verbal innuendo, this gender-

promiscuous search for her own self worth, and a

bender makes a great drag classic.

Winged Woman he’s caged up in the backyard of his

Prod Comp: United Artists, Ashton Productions,

dreams. (Sock Puppet)

Mirisch Company

Dist/Sales: SockPuppet

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ReelMovies, ACMI, Warner, MGM,

UA, Swank

Something for Everyone

Some of my Best Friends Are

(aka: Black Flowers for the Bride)

Prince, Harold

Nelson, Mervyn

1970; USA; 112 min; Comedy

1971; USA; 110 min; Drama

P: John Flaxman; W: Hugh Wheeler; C: Walter Lassally; P: John Lauricella, Martin Richards;

E: Ralph Rosenblum; M: John Kander

W: Mervyn Nelson; E: Richard Cadenas, Angelo Ross; Cast: Angela Lansbury, Michael York, Anthony Corlan,

M: Phil Moore, Gordon Rose

Heidellinde Weis

s Cast: Candy Darling, Rue McClanahan, Sylvia Sima, A black comedy about a bisexual young man who

Fannie Flagg

takes advantage of the staff and family of an

Set on Christmas Eve, this is one night in the life of

impoverished countess.

a pre-Stonewall bar in Greenwich Village, the centre

Prod Comp: Cinema Center 100 Productions, Media

of gay life in New York. This collection of lonely and

Productions Incorporated

unhappy people includes gays, drag queens and fag

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee

hags who seem to have nowhere else to go—the bar

is their only refuge.

Somewhere in the City

Some of These Days

Niami, Ramin

1997; USA; 93 min; Comedy

Miller-Monzon, John

P: Ramin Niami, Karen Robson; W: Ramin Niami,

1994; USA; 33 min; B&W; Drama

Patrick Dillon; C: Igir Sunara; E: Ramin Niami,

W: John Miller-Monzon

Elizabeth Gazzara; M: John Cale

The final film in New York writer/director John

Cast: Sandra Bernhard, Peter Stormare, Bai Ling,

Miller-Monzon’s trilogy. Hal is devastated by the

Robert John Burke, Ornella Muti

sudden end of a long-term relationship, but before

This hilarious underground comedy deftly threads

he has even begun his emotional recovery he takes

the overlapping stories of six eccentric but lovable

the plunge with a handsome new acquaintance.

residents of a New York City tenement apartment

Dist/Sales: Forefront

building, include a self-obsessed therapist, a Chinese

exchange student, an incompetent crook, and a

Some Prefer Cake

brilliant, gay Shakespearean actor. All have hopes

and dreams, and most are looking for love-but

Arnesen, Heidi

settling for sex. (First Run Features)

1997; USA; 96 min; Comedy

P: Matthew J. Siegel, Jeannie Kahaney; W: Jeannie Prod Comp: Sideshow Inc

Kahaney; C: Matthew J. Siegel; E: Heidi Arnesen

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures, ArtisticLicense

Cast: Kathleen Fontaine, Tara Howley, Tirza Naramore

Song of the Loon

A tale of sex, chocolate and lesbian desire, set in San

Francisco’s comedy circuit scene. With a winning

Herbert, Andrew

mix of engaging characters, including the angsty

1970; USA; 90 min; Drama

comedienne who can’t get a laugh, her oriental

W: Richard Amory

stalker and the straight best mate who prefers

Cast: John Iverson, Lancer Ward, Morgan Royce

chocolate cake to sex. (Millivres)

Campy early independent period piece about a gay

Prod Comp: Up All Nite productions

man searching for love, set on the late 1800s.

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Millivres

Dist/Sales: SomethingWeird

Something Close to Heaven

Sonny Boy

Black, Dustin Lance

Carroll, Robert Martin

2000; USA; 28 min; Drama

1987; USA; 99 min; Drama, Comedy

The story of a boy’s struggle with sexual awakening

P: Ovidio G. Assonitis; W: Graham Whiffler;

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C: Roberto D’Ettore Piazzoli; E: Claudio M. Cutry; A wild sex comedy set in Naples, about two married

M: David Carradine, Carlo Maria Cordio

women, Adele and Ester, friends who fall in love

Cast: Michael Griffin, David Carradine, Paul L. Smith,

while on holiday. They return to their husbands but

Brad Dourif

both fret for each other. Ester’s husband, thinking

she is in love with another man, goes into a jealous

Wacky black comedy drama about a baby boy who is

rage. However he becomes even more violent when

accidentally kidnapped by a transvestite and a

he discovers her love interest is another woman. A

psychopathic criminal and brought up in a steel

disappointing end from a lesbian perspective.

cage. Treated like an animal, they teach him to kill,

and then release him as a fully grown teenager.

Prod Comp: Intercapital; Dist/Sales: TLA

Prod Comp: Trans World Entertainment

Soufflé

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri

Sharp, Andrew

Sordid Lives

1986; Australia; 20 min; Documentary

Shores, Del

A film dealing with the issues of homosexuality and

2000; USA; 111 min; Comedy

AIDS.

s

W: Del Shores; C: Max Civon; E: Ed Marx; Prod Comp: Australian Film TV & Radio School

M: George S. Clinton

Dist/Sales: AFTRS

Cast: Bonnie Bedelia, Beth Grant, Ann Walker, Delta

Burke

Southern Comfort

A family in a small Texan town are preparing for the

Davis, Kate

funeral of their mother. The family includes an

2001; USA; 90 min; Documentary

eccentric cast of characters: a son who has spent the

P: Kate Davis; C: Kate Davis; E: Kate Davis; past 23 years dressed as Tammy Wynette, a gay

M: Joel Harrison

grandson trying to make his mark in West Holly-

wood, and two sisters fighting over whether their

Peter Fonda look alike Robert travels life’s highways

dead mother should be wearing a mink stole during

in America’s Deep South. This is a must-see biopic

the funeral. Despite the hilarious problems, the

from the transgender conduits of a different Middle

eccentric cast of characters band together in the end

America, that owes more to David Lynch than

to send their mother on her way.

Norman Rockwell. Robert meets serene southern

belle Lola, who looks like a woman but walks like a

Prod Comp: Haly-Harris Productions

man and whose life’s philosophy is ‘nature loves

Dist/Sales: Vagrant

diversity why can’t people’. This poignant documen-

Sospiro d’amore nell’attesa

tary portrays their profound love story from the

gender divide surrounded by friends at the annual

Governi, Valeria

Southern Comfort ‘retreat’. Life deals Robert a cruel

Italy; 13 min; Drama

hand. His odyssey into masculinity is not all he and

This film deals with the theme of desire for the

Lola hope for and he falls prey to terminal ovarian

unattainable. Blurring the boundaries between

cancer. (MQFF)

fantasy and reality, we are led into Antonio’s home

Prod Comp: HBO, Next Wave Films

and his consuming passion...for an angel! There is

Dist/Sales: Cowboy, FilmsTransit

teasing and foreplay but no union in the very real

world of Antonio’s home, so he attempts to solve this

Souvenir

problem as the film moves towards its fiery climax.

Cholodenko, Lisa

(MQFF)

1994; USA; 13 min; Drama

Sotto Sotto

Two dykes arguing within the close confines of their

car are on a road trip from hell. Escapees from a

(aka: Softly, Softly; Sotto... sotto... Strapazzato da

family visit, Thelma and Louise have nothing on

Anomala Passione)

these two. Early film from Cholodenko who has

Wertmüller, Lina

since directed High Art. (MQFF)

1984; Italy; 104 min; Comedy

P: Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori; W: Enrico Spacked Out

Oldoini, Lina Wertmüller; C: Dante Spinotti; E: Luigi Zitta; M: Paolo Conti

(aka: Mo yan ka sai)

Cast: Enrico Montesano, Veronica Lario, Luisa de

Ah Mon, Lawrence

Santis, Massimo Wertmüller

2000; Hong Kong; 91 min; Drama

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P: Johnny To; C: Yiu-fai Lai; E: Chi Wai Chan Speaking for Ourselves

Cast: Debbie Tam, Christy Cheung, Angela Au Man-si,

Coppel, Ann / Mifsud, John

Maggie Poon

1994; USA; 27 min; Documentary

Spacked Out follows four schoolgirls—Cookie,

Five diverse young people provide personal stories

Banana, Bean Curd and Sissy—through a few days

about coming-out, and the issues and emotions

in their lives as they hang out in tacky shopping

confronting gay and lesbian youth and their parents.

malls. They get high, go to parties and cut other

girls, and themselves, with box cutters all under the

Dist/Sales: Diversity

watchful eyes of the Sanrio pantheon—Hello Kitty,

Bad Batz Maru, all the lovable cartoon characters

Special Day, A

that bring joy and cuteness to every young girl’s life.

(aka: Una Giornata particolare)

But Hello Kitty’s never seen kids like this. Banana

makes phone sex calls on her cell phone during class,

Scola, Ettore

Bean Curd and Sissy are lovers engaged in a

1977; Canada, Italy; 115 min; Drama

tumultuous relationship that swings like a manic

P: Carlo Ponti; W: Maurizio Costanzo, Ruggero

depressive. Cookie’s best friend is being sent to

Maccari, Ettore Scola; C: Pasqualino de Santis;

s

reform school and, desperate for human contact, she

E: Raimondo Crociani; M: Armando Trovaioli

calls late night radio shows, drowning in the misery

Cast: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Alessandra

and boredom of her own life. This film reeks of lives

Mussolini, John Vernon

on hold, wasted hours turning into wasted lives, hit-

Set in Fascist Italy, on the same day that Hitler is due

and-run sex, and all the self-mutilation, self-

to visit, A Special Day is the story of a lonely

loathing, and self-importance of adolescence.

housewife and her friendship with a homosexual

(www.subwaycinema.com)

radio announcer. They are drawn together as it

Cantonese with English subtitles.

becomes evident that he is about to be arrested.

Prod Comp: Mei Ah Films, Milkyway Image

Prod Comp: Champion, Canafox

Dist/Sales: Seng

Special Guest Star

Sparky’s Shoes

Hitchins, Geoff

Caims, Glen

1999; Australia; 11 min; Comedy

1994; Canada; 16 min; Experimental

W: Geoff Hitchins

A beautifully shot, meditative, and deeply spiritual

One Sunday morning tensions come to a head in a

short that explores the boundaries of love, loss and

share house, when one of the housemates claims to

denied eroticism in a gay relationship overshadowed

have brought rock star Nick Cave home.

by AIDS. (MQFF)

Spartacus

Kubrick, Stanley

1960; USA; 161 min; Drama

P: Edward Lewis; W: Dalton Trumbo; C: Russell Metty, Clifford Stine; E: Robert Lawrence; M: Alex North Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons,

Peter Ustinov

One of the most intelligent historical ‘epics’ of the

period, with Kirk Douglas as the slave leading the

revolt against Republican Rome. Laurence Olivier

plays Crassus, the bisexual emperor, and Tony Curtis

is his young slave who escapes to join Douglas.

Speedway Junky

Spectacular, literate and exciting, a true masterpiece

of cinema which can be enjoyed on many levels.

Speedway Junky

Awards: Academy Awards, 1960: Best Supporting Actor

Perry, Nickolas

(Peter Ustinov), Cinematography

1998; Israel, USA; 104 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Bryna, Universal

P: Randall emmett, Rafi Stephan, Rodney Omanoff,

Dist/Sales: ACMI, Universal

George Furla, Jeff Rice; W: Nickolas Perry;

380

C: Steve Adcock; M: Stan Ridgway

Spin the Bottle

Cast: Jesse Bradford, Jordan Brower, Daryl Hannah,

Yerkes, Jamie

Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Patsy Kensit

1997; USA; 82 min; Drama

Johnny has run away from home to pursue his

P: Kevin Chinoy, Kris Homsher, Jamie Yerkes;

fantasy to race cars—but he runs into trouble and

W: Amy Sohn; C: Harlan Bosmajian; E: Jamie Yerkes, out of money in Las Vegas. Gay street hustler Eric

Josh Apter; M: Ed Tomney

befriends Johnny and introduces him to his gang,

Cast: Michelle Riggs, Kim Winter, Jessica Faller

including brash Steven and charming Wilma.

Johnny also meets Eric’s surrogate mom Veronica. As

A sweet tale of sexual revenge. Five smart, attractive

the two boys become close, they are confronted with

twenty-somethings reunite at the old lake house

a life-threatening situation involving drugs, money

where they spent their summers. As kids, they played

and betrayal, and Johnny must decide if he has what

truth or dare by spinning a bottle, but one friend

it takes to follow his dream. (Wolfe)

still nurses wounds from the old game. Late one

night, the opportunity for revenge comes when they

Prod Comp: Magic Entertainment

spin the bottle one more time. (Wolfe)

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, 10%

Prod Comp: Cineblast productions

Speedy Boys

s

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, TLA, 10%

Herbert, James

Split: Portrait of a Drag Queen

1999; USA; 80 min; Experimental

(aka: Split: William to Chrysis)

P: James Herbert; C: James Herbert; E: Mark Jordan Cast: Andy Piedilato, Carter Davis, Kari Malievich,

Fisher Turk, Ellen / Weeks, Andrew

Aline Nari

1992; USA; 58 min; Documentary

Speedy Boys continues James Herbert’s ambitious

P: Ellen Fisher Turk; W: Dan Chayefsky

motion picture study of the human body, as two

Chrysis, the victim of her own creation, lived 39 years

frequently naked Americans spend a summer in Italy

and died of cancer caused by seepage from wax and

lying about the apartment, chasing women and

silicone breast implants. A New York ‘show girl’ and

cycling through the countryside.

drag queen, one of Salvador Dali’s inner circle, a

woman from the waist up and a man from the waist

Prod Comp: Cargo Cult Productions

down, Chrysis lived in a hidden world of transsexuals

Dist/Sales: CargoCult

and drag queens, hormones, drugs and prostitution

Spent

and illuminated it with her humour, wit and glamour.

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer

Romilly, Jason

1998; Canada; 27 min; Experimental

Split World, The

Eric is a secret agent who’s double identity and

Cipelletti, Claudio

dangerous missions are completely hidden from the

1994; Italy; 12 min; Drama

people closest to him. As his lies and betrayal come

to the forefront due to reckless behaviour, his

A film about a young man’s refusal to continue to

relationships crumble and his secret life becomes all-

divide his world between his straight university

consuming. (CFMDC)

friends and family and his homosexuality.

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

Spokes

Spikes and Heels

Fockele, Jorge

Ataman, E. Kutlug

1996; Germany; 19 min; Drama

1994; USA; 53 min; Documentary

A chance meeting in a park leads Tamas and Malik

P: Phillippe Brooks

on a journey of desire and self discovery that must

A breathless highlights package of the Unity Gay

end with the arrival of the dawn.

Games of 1994, stuffed with interviews, beautiful

rippling bodies, excerpts from the opening and

Spot the Lesbian

closing ceremonies, and an engaging look at the

East, Kippy

lesbian and gay rights movement in the 1990s.

1985; Australia; 46 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary

C: Deborah Howlett, Heather Williams; E: Kippy East, 381

Gill Sellar

Staceyann Chin - A Poetry Slammer

This documentary attempts to dispel many myths

Schepelern, Mette-Ann / Wivel, Ullrik

and misconceptions about lesbianism. A number of

2001; USA; 27 min; Documentary

lesbian women speak candidly about a range of

issues including their coming out experiences with

Staceyann Chin, 29 years old, is one of the major

family, friends and in the workplace, and lesbian

American slam poets. This film is a portrait of her

motherhood.

and the world of poetry slam. Slam is like a boxing

match in which poets compete against other with

Prod Comp: Women’s Film Fund, Australian Film

each poet having a time limit of three minutes.

Commission

Judges are chosen from the audience to rate the

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

poems. Staceyann is a talented, fascinating, creative

Sprinter, The

artist. Her poems are very personal reflecting her

turbulent childhood, her mixed race background,

Böll, Christoph

and her realisation that she is a lesbian. (Filmakers

1984; Germany; 90 min; Comedy

Library)

W: Christoph Böll, Wieland Samolak, Nicole

Prod Comp: Barok Film

s Schürmann; C: Peter Gauhe

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary

Cast: Dieter Eppler, Jürgen Mikol, Renate Muri

Staircase

A young man, having problems coming to terms

with his homosexuality, decides to become a

Donen, Stanley

professional track-and-field athlete, with the idea

1969; France, UK, USA; 110 min; Comedy

that it may turn his life around.

P: Stanely Donen; W: Charles Dyer;

Dist/Sales: Verlag

C: Christopher G. Challis, Philipe Brun;

E: Richard Marden; M: Dudley Moore

Spy Who Came, The

Cast: Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Cathleen Nesbitt

Wertheim, Ron

The story of two middle-aged homosexuals who live

1970; USA; 70 min; Drama

above their barber shop in London and have been in

a relationship for over 30 years. Both men are

A detective goes into a bar in Greenwich Village and

enveloped by self-hatred and regret. They hate the

picks up a young girl. Soon he is involved in the

world and each other. Gay audiences at the time

darker side of life including white slavery. The

found it insulting and it’s easy to see why.

woman in charge of the girls is a lesbian and likes to

try her wares.

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox

Dist/Sales: FilmsInc

Dist/Sales: SomethingWeird

Squeeze

Stand on your Man

Ardill, Susan

Turner, Richard

1991; UK; 20 min; Musical

1980; New Zealand; 80 min; Drama

P: Rebecca Dobbs

P: Richard Turner; W: Richard Turner; C: Ian Paul; E: Jamie Selkirk; M: Andy Hagan, Morton Young

The world of lesbian country music is put under the

Cast: Robert Shannon, Paul Eady, Donna Akersten,

microscope in this slick and entertaining tribute to

Peter Heperi, David Herkt

its stars and fans. Footage includes k. d. lang, Patsy

Cline, The Well Oiled Sisters and the Stetson Sisters.

Made under the difficulties of a very small budget

and harassment from some quarters, this film is a

Dist/Sales: MayaVision

drama set in the gay subculture of Auckland. It

Stand Together

centres on the double life of Grant, whose career

prospects are strengthened by his adoption of a

Nicol, Nancy

heterosexual role, including his engagement to Joy,

2002; Canada; 120 min; Documentary

but endangered by his involvement in the gay scene

P: Nancy Nicol; C: Carolyn Wong, Robin Bain, Kim

and his affair with a younger man.

Derko; E: Ed Sinclair

Prod Comp: Trilogic Films

Documents the history of the lesbian and gay rights

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, NFVLS

movement in Ontario, from 1967–87.

382

Star is Porn, A

Stepping Out

Austin, Todd

Hofmeyr, Nicolaas

1997; UK; 50 min; Documentary

1994; South Africa; 26 min; Documentary

A documentary commissioned by UK Channel Four

Denzel, a teenager from the ‘coloured’ township of

about the making of the porn film Butt Buddies

Ennerdale, takes part in the Miss Gay Transvaal

which won an Erotic Oscar.

competition—a drag show. The cameras are on

Denzel, as well as his mother, and a local gay rights

Star Maps

activist in attendance. A film about a mother and

son coming to terms with each other and themselves,

Arteta, Miguel

and an incisive look at gay life in South Africa. (First

1997; USA; 86 min; Comedy

Run/Icarus)

W: Miguel Artera

Prod Comp: Mail & Guardian Television Production

Cast: Douglas Spain, Efrain Figueroa, Martha Velez,

Dist/Sales: FirstRun/Icarus

Kandeyce Jorden

Carlos has ideas about becoming an actor, but his

father has ideas about him joining the family

s

business—in male prostitution. Carlos reluctantly

agrees—hoping it might help him meet someone to

make his acting dream a reality. Eventually one of his

wealthy clients helps him begin his path to Holly-

wood stardom.

Prod Comp: 20th Century Fox

Stargaze

McBride, Jason

The Sticky Fingers of Time

1998; Canada; 12 min; Drama

Sticky Fingers of Time, The

Toronto, 1952. 18-year-old Derek undergoes painful

aversion therapy designed to ‘cure’ his homosexual-

Brougher, Hilary

ity.

1997; USA; 81 min; Sci-Fi, Thriller

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

P: Sysan A. Stover, Isen Robbins, Jean Castelli;

W: Hilary Brougher; C: Ethan Mass;

Steers and Queers

E: Sabine Hoffmann; M: Miki Navazio

Cast: Belinda Becker, Leo Marks, Terumi Matthews,

Gauthier, Paula

James Urbaniak

2000; USA; 30 min; Documentary

A sci-fi thriller extraordinary for its female predomi-

This short documentary features an engaging and

nance. A 1950s fiction writer steps out of her New

eclectic group of competitors, including a woman

York City apartment to buy coffee and finds herself

who fooled the judges to compete at one of the most

transported into the future, where she discovers a

unique and exciting events in queer culture, the gay

kindred connection to a modern woman. The pair

rodeo! (queerDOC 2001)

join together in a time-travel journey of self-

Dist/Sales: BigFilm

exploration and survival. (Cowboy Pictures)

Prod Comp: Good Machine, Crystal Pictures

Stephen

Dist/Sales: Strand, Wolfe, Cowboy

Kinney, Donald / Kinney, Robert

Stiff Sheets

1990; USA; 28 min; Drama

Stephen is the final instalment in a series of three

Goss, John

productions by Robert and Donald Kinney. The

1989; USA; 19 min; Documentary

work is broadly based on a chapter from Thorton

An anonymous collection of gay artists presents an

Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey. It focuses on the

agitprop/drag fashion show to protest the lethal lack

story of siblings (in this case twins) locked in an

of AIDS care and facilities in Los Angeles.

emotional and sexual relationship.

Dist/Sales: VideoOut

383

Still Sane

Amsterdam; the experience of women in Nazi

concentration camps; and the butch/femme scene in

Ingratta, Brenda / Patuasz, Lidia

New York in the 1950s, are just a few of the aspects

1990; Canada; 58 min; Documentary

of lesbian history and identity explored in this

A moving testament to Sheila Gilhooly’s strength of

provocative film.

character in succeeding in getting herself out of

Prod Comp: National Film Board of Canada

enforced psychiatric care. Still Sane’s overriding

Dist/Sales: NFBC, Wolfe, FirstRunFeatures, FirstRun/

theme is one of defiance and survival: we can

Icarus, ACMI, Heathcliff, NFBC

maintain our choices, even in the face of mind-

numbing oppression.

Stolen Diary, The

(aka: Le Cahier Volé)

Lipinska, Christine

1992; France, Italy; 110 min; Drama

P: Tves Gasser; W: Christine Lipinska, Paul Fournel; s C: Romain Winding; E: Marie-Claude Lacambre; M: Arié Dzierlatka

Cast: Élodie Bouchez, Edwige Navarro, Benoit

Magimel, Malcolm Conrath

Set in France at the end of World War II, this gem of

Stonewall

a film is the story of Virginie and Anne, 17-year-olds

who have just come back to their village from

Stonewall

boarding school. Their friends Jean-Claude and

Alain come back from the war injured and disillu-

Finch, Nigel

sioned. There is no longer any innocence in their

1995; UK, USA; 99 min; Drama

vision of the world. War, suffering and horror have

P: Christine Vachon, Ruth Caleb; W: Rikki Beadle

changed them all. Jean-Claude desperately wants to

Blair; C: Chris Seager; M: Michael Kamen

marry Virginie, but she is in love with Anne, and

Cast: Guillermo Diaz, Frederick Weller, Brandan

writes profusely of her love in her diary. In an effort

Corbalis, Duane Boutte, Bruce MacVittie

to repel Jean-Claude’s advances, Anne tries to

convince him that Virginie is in love with another

Grab your wig and eyeliner sweetie. It’s 1969, New

boy. She erases her own name from Virginie’s diary

York. Matty is young, gay, full of dreams and new to

entries and fills in the name Paul. But when Alain

the city where the Stonewall Inn, haunt of fabulous

gets a hold of the diary, he’s not just put off—he

diva drag queens, has just been raided. The Vietnam

threatens to read it to the whole village. (21st San

War is on, man is walking on the moon and Matty

Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film

winds up in a relationship that stretches the

Festival) French with English subtitles.

heartstrings to breaking point. Stonewall gets busted

again and the girls hit back—a riot of high-kicking,

Prod Comp: Providence Films, Scena Group SFPGSA

power-fisted drag queens, fighting for gay pride.

Dist/Sales: Cinexport

Based on the original story by Martin Duberman.

Stolen Moments

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

Film Festival, 1996: Audience Award for Best Feature

Wescott, Margaret

Prod Comp: BBC, Arena NY

1997; Canada; 91 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Col-Tri, Strand, ACMI

P: Silva Basmajian; W: Joan Nestle, Leslie Feinberg, Audrey Lorde; C: Zoe Dirse

Stonewall 25: Voices of Pride and Protest

A comprehensive and contemporary exploration of

Nasile, Vic

lesbian lives Stolen Moments offers an engaging

1994; USA; 90 min; Documentary

glimpse into a diverse community that will entertain

and educate viewers, regardless of the sexual

Documentary about the advances made in the gay

orientation. Narrated by Kate Nelligan, the film

rights movement since the Stonewall riots of 1969.

takes us on an odyssey across North America and

Includes archival material featuring Quentin Crisp,

Europe to capture the stolen moments of lesbian

Sir Ian McKellen, Joan Rivers, Stockard Channing,

history: lesbian culture in pre-war Paris, Berlin and

Petula Clark and more.

384

Storm in a Teacup

TrunkMan always appears and rescues them. With

the TrunkMan’s emergence, the relationship between

Hindley, Emma

Fu and Suzu becomes strained. This is because Suzu

1992; UK; 60 min; Documentary

has fallen in love with him. Eventually, Fu decides to

A documentary about London’s lesbian and gay

leave her. Japanese with English subtitles.

history, celebrating the scene from the 1940s to the

Dist/Sales: LittleMore

1970s.

Story so Far, The

Storme: The Lady of the Jewel Box

Deville, Noski / Sharif, Rif

Parkerson, Michelle

1994; UK; 39 min; Drama

1987; USA; 21 min; Documentary

A forgotten classic about a robbery, a taxi and a

An intimate portrait of Storme DeLarverie, a black

stolen bus with a mighty cast of local black and

woman and former MC, and male impersonator

white dyke stars. Dyke noir at its best with great

with the legendary Jewel Box Revue—America’s first

location shots across London as a group of sparky

integrated female impersonation show. A forerunner

and bright lesbians plot a night-time robbery that

to La Cage aux Folles, the multiracial revue was a

could change their lives. (Cinenova)

s

favourite act of the black theatre circuit and attracted

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

mixed mainstream audiences from the 1940s

through to the 1960s, a time marked by the violence

Straight Agenda, The

of segregation. (WMM)

Dist/Sales: WMM

Binninger, John / Turnure, Jackie

1994; USA; 19 min; Comedy

Story of a Bad Boy, The

Cast: Jackie Beat, Craig Chester, Suzie Berger

The first blatantly anti-straight propaganda film, this

Donaghy, Tom

hilarious parody exposes the moral corruption

1998; USA; 93 min; Drama

inherent in heterosexual relations. Made in response

P: Jean Doumanian; W: Tom Donaghy;

to the right-wing anti-gay film, The Gay Agenda.

C: Garrett Fisher; E: Barbara Tulliver;

M: Angelo Badalamenti, Chris Hajian

Straight Down the Aisle: Confessions of

Cast: Jeremy Hollingworth, Christina Camargo,

Giampiero Judica, Stephen Lang

Lesbian Bridesmaids

Pauly falls in love with his high school drama teacher

Hankin, Kelly / Russo, Christine

(Noel) in New Jersey 1982. He tries out for the

2000; Canada, USA; 23 min; Documentary

upcoming musical, and then falls into an uneasy

P: Christine J. Russo

relationship with Noel.

‘Always the bridesmaid, never the bride’. What does

it mean for lesbians to publicly support an institu-

Story of PuPu, The

tion they are denied? And what does it mean that

(aka: PuPu No Monogatari)

heterosexuals ask them to? This entertaining

documentary explores the contradictions and

Watanabe, Kensaku

ambiguities of this role for lesbians through revealing

1998; Japan; 73 min; Action

interviews with a diverse group of lesbian brides-

P: Miyoshi Kikuchi; W: Kensaku Watanabe;

maids. Their candid responses range from frustra-

C: Naoto Muraishi; M: June Miyake

tion, at being asked to ‘de-dyke’ for the big day or

Cast: Sakura Uehara, Rei Yamanaka, Jun Kunimura,

having their girlfriends ignored, to humour and

Reiko Matsuo

confusion about past and present relationships with

Two girls, Fu and Suzu, are on the road to visit the

the bride.

grave of a baby pig named PuPu. Along the way,

Suzu decides to pay a visit to Kijima, a man with

Straight for the Money: Interviews with

whom she once had a relationship. It becomes clear

Queer Sex Workers

that she is planning to blackmail him. On the road,

the two encounter a gay couple and a golfer in a blue

B., Hima

convertible. Thanks to Suzu’s unbridled personality,

1994; USA; 58 min; Documentary

they get into trouble from time to time. But

Cast: Annie Sprinkle, Joan Nestle, Carol Queen

whenever they do, a mysterious hero called the

Hima B. interviews eight lesbian and bisexual

385

women—lap-dancers, peepshow dancers and

after ten years. After some frustrating encounters

prostitutes—who talk about their identities as queer

with his ex-lovers he embarks on a relationship with

women whose jobs make them ‘straight for the

Quentin, a deaf-mute. A haunting and affecting film

money’. This sex-positive documentary also

from the director of the lesbian classic Anne Trister.

incorporates fascinating archival footage and

French with English subtitles.

interviews with sexperts and social commentators

Prod Comp: Les Films Telescene, Xanadu Productions

Annie Sprinkle, Joan Nestle and Carol Queen.

Dist/Sales: Alliance

(MQFF)

Dist/Sales: Himaphiliac

Straightman

Straight from the Heart: Gay and Lesbian

Berkowitz, Ben

Children

1999; USA; 101 min; B&W; Drama

P: Ben Berkowitz, Ben Redgrave; W: Ben Berkowitz, Mosbacher, Dee / Reid, Frances

Ben Redgrave; C: Jerome Biron; E: Michael Palmerio 1994; USA; 24 min; Documentary

Cast: Ben Berkowitz, Ben Redgrave, Joaquin De La

Internationally acclaimed film and Academy Award

Puenta, Butch Jerinic

s

nominee, Straight from the Heart examines the

Witty, authentic and powerful, Straightman is the

issues parents face in coming to terms with a gay or

story of best friends David Leibowitz and Jack

lesbian child. It presents interviews with parents and

Webster. David, overweight, sleazy, and in denial

children and tackles issues in a positive and thought

about his Jewish heritage, manages a Chicago

provoking manner including the diagnosis of a child

comedy club and sleeps with any woman he can lay

with HIV/AIDS. (ACMI)

his hands on, while simultaneously idolising the

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild, Wolfe, ACMI

apparently perfect relationship Jack, a construction

worker, has with his partner Maxine. Both men are

Straight from the Suburbs

stunned when Maxine walks out on Jack, leaving

him for a job on the west coast. After the two men

Ducharme, Carole

move in together, Jack begins the difficult task of

1998; Canada; 24 min; Comedy

addressing his increasing attraction towards other

P: Nathalie Ducharme, Carole Ducharme;

men, forcing both men to reassess their relationship

W: Carole Ducharme

with one another. Straightman is a film about

A comedy spoof about a family who is struck by the

identity, and the difficulties of navigating friendships

curse of heterosexuality.

between men. The film’s complex and completely

believable characters and situations are sure to

Dist/Sales: CinemaLibre

provoke discussion and debate among audiences.

Straight in the Face

(MQFF)

Prod Comp: Benzfilm Group

Demas, Peter

Dist/Sales: Vagrant

2002; Canada; 12 min; Comedy

Two gay dads, in the midst of an open relationship,

Strange Fits of Passion

are sceptical about the fashionable and cultured boy

McCredie, Elise

their daughter has brought home.

1999; Australia; 84 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: BuzzTaxi

P: Lucy McLaren; W: Elise McCredie; C: Jaems Grant; E: Chris Branagan, Ken Sallows;

Straight to the Heart

M: Cezary Skubiszewski

(aka: À Corps Perdu)

Cast: Michela Noonan, Mitchell Butel, Steve Adams,

Samuel Johnson

Pool, Léa

1988; Canada; 92 min; B&W; Drama

Meet ‘She’, a twenty-something Australian who

P: Denise Robert, Robin Spry; W: Marcel Beaulieu, Léa embarks on a crusade to lose her virginity. Meet

Francis, the enigmatic and elusive poet who

Pool; C: Pierre Mignot; E: Michel Arcand;

frequents the second-hand bookshop where She

M: Osvaldo Montes

works. The conundrum: despite her obsession with

Cast: Matthais Habich, Johanne-Marie Tremblay,

romantic poetry, She is intellectually convinced that

Michel Voïta, Jean-François Pichette

romance is a patriarchal plot to enslave women. Like

When a photojournalist arrives home in Montreal

a modern day Alice, She falls down a rabbit hole full

from an assignment in Nicaragua, he is devastated to

of the most unlikely characters who all, initially,

find both his lovers, Sarah and David have left him

seem to offer the solution to her quest. A bittersweet

386

fable with an unpredictable ending, Strange Fits of

Cast: Yolanda Ross, Medusa, Alma Dixon, Davenia

Passion is a young woman’s discovery of the meaning

McFadden, Rain Phoenix

of love, sex and desire in a post-everything world.

Treasure Lee, a young African American, has just

(Mongrel)

been transferred to the Women’s State Prison. There,

Prod Comp: ABC, Arena, Film Victoria, Meridian Films

she schemes to meet the incarcerated mother who

Dist/Sales: Beyond, Mongrel

gave her up years ago. But when she connects with

Brownie, a seasoned convict and ‘lifer’, Treasure

Strange Life and Death of Dr Turing, The

finds the path to reconciliation both twisted and

dangerous. (Wolfe)

Sykes, Christopher

1992; USA; 50 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: HBO, Wolfe

When Dr Alan Turing died of cyanide poisoning in

Strawberry and Chocolate

1954, he left a legacy of ideas—scientific theories on

the nature of life and the mind. Turing was the

(aka: Fresa y Chocolate)

originator of modern computing science and the

Alea, Tomás Gutiérrez / Tabío, Juan Carlos

concept of artificial intelligence, without which the

1993; Cuba; 70 min; Drama

s

modern computer would not have been possible. He

P: Miguel Mendoza; W: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Senel also had a secret life as a wartime code-breaker and a

Paz; C: Mario García Joya; E: Osvaldo Donatién,

homosexual. This film investigates the life story of

Miriam Talavera; M: José María Vitier

an unsung hero.

Cast: Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz, Mirta Ibarra,

Dist/Sales: Roadshow

Francisco Gattorno

Entertaining story from Cuba about the unlikely

Strange Love Affair, A

friendship between two very different men. Cultured

de Kuyper, Eric / Verstaaten, Paul

Diego, a gay artist, invites David, a naive, macho,

1985; The Netherlands; 92 min; Drama

heterosexual communist, who knows nothing about

art, to his apartment one afternoon. The experience

An American gay man teaching film in Holland

changes the naive young college student forever. A

begins a relationship with one of his students. Dutch

similar theme to Kiss of the Spider Woman—the gay

with English subtitles.

subverts the communist—but this time the smart

Dist/Sales: Howard Hensel, Karel Scheydt, Leike Leo

one is the homosexual. A sharp and acid social

commentary, loaded with swipes against the Castro

Strange One, The

regime. This is the first Cuban film to be nominated

(aka: End as a Man)

for an Academy Award (Best Foreign Film). Spanish

with English subtitles.

Garfein, Jack

Prod Comp: Franca Pelster Films

1957; USA; 100 min; B&W; Drama

Dist/Sales: Palace, 21stCentury, Swank, Miramax,

P: Sam Spiegel; W: Calder Willingham; C: Burnett ACMI

Guffey; E: Sidney Katz; M: Kenyon Hopkins

Cast: Ben Gazzara, Mark Richman, George Peppard, Pat

Stray Dogs

Hingle, James Olson

Crouch, Catherine

Ben Gazzara in a dazzling debut role as a sadistic

upper-class and closeted homosexual in a Southern

2001; USA; 97 min; Drama

military school. When his schemes threaten the

P: Yvonne Welborn; W: Julie Jensen; C: Marie-Joëlle other freshmen, they rebel against the bullying

Rizk; E: Sharon Zurek; M: Ray Nardelli, Josh Horvath menace who turns into a cowardly wimp. From

Cast: Guinevere Turner, Bill Sage, Dot Jones, Ryan

Calder Willingham’s play End as a Man. George

Kelly

Peppard also had his debut role in this film.

Set in 1958, and adapted from the award-winning

Prod Comp: Columbia, Horizon Films

stage play by Julie Jensen, Stray Dogs is a Southern

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, Columbia

Gothic film in which a young mother must choose

between her troubled marriage and her children.

Stranger Inside

Darla feels like a prisoner—she married Myers

Carter on a whim, but is now bound to him and

Dunye, Cheryl

subject to his alcohol-induced mood swings and

2000; USA; 96 min; Drama

violence. She is protected by her butch sister-in-law,

P: Michael Stipe, Jim McKay, Effie Brown; W: Cheryl Jolene, who has her own, decidedly non-sisterly

Dunye, Catherine Crouch; C: Nancy Schreiber

dreams about providing for Darla. One horrible

387

night, a turning point is reached as Darla and Jolene

Strippers

risk everything to stand up against Myers. (2002

New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

Ameer, Jorge

2000; USA; 71 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Stray Dogs LLC

P: Jorge Ameer, John Greenlaw; W: Jorge Ameer;

Dist/Sales: CottonLover

C: Aaron Kirsch, Gary Tachell; E: Rollin Olson;

Streamers

M: Paul McCarty

Cast: Tony Tucci, John Greenlaw, Jorge Ameer, Kerrie

Altman, Robert

Clark

1983; USA; 118 min; Drama

Roundly lambasted film about men and women in

P: Nick Mileti, Robert Altman; W: David Rabe;

power suits who’ll stop at nothing to get ahead in the

C: Pierre Mignot; E: Norman Smith; M: Stephen Foster world.

Cast: Matthew Modine, Michael Wright, Mitchell

Prod Comp: AJ Productions

Lichtenstein, David Alan Grier

Dist/Sales: Hollywood

Set in an Army barracks in 1965, about a group of

young soldiers awaiting assignment to Vietnam. The

Strung Up

s

draftees come from diverse backgrounds: two are

African–Americans, one a country boy and the other

Johnstone, Cathy

a Yale-educated homosexual. They are confronted by

1996; Australia; 10 min; Drama

two brutal ex-Korean War veteran sergeants. Sexual

Intense, symbolic portrait of a relationship between

and racial tensions build as the men wait in their

a circus performer and photographer that meets a

claustrophobic barracks and, eventually, shocking

sizzling end.

violence erupts. The barracks are a microcosm of the

explosive emotions and issues that surfaced in

Such a Crime

America at the time.

Newbrough, Cheryl

Prod Comp: Rank, Streamers International

1998; USA; 48 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: ACMI, TLA, UAClassics

Cast: Heather King, Michelle Maloy

Strip Jack Naked: Nighthawks II

Skip, the top agent of a band of lesbians, puts her

organisation in jeopardy with her indiscreet sexual

Peck, Ron

behaviour. Wounded and at risk, she must hide out

1991; UK; 91 min; Documentary

at a safe house where she is tended to by the

P: Ron Peck, Paul Hallam; W: Ron Peck, Paul Hallam; beautiful Jenn. Jenn wants a normal life and one

C: Ron Peck, Christopher Hughes; M: Adrian James other thing—Skip. (Wolfe)

Carbutt

Cast: John Brown, John Daimon, Nick Bolton, Derek

‘Sucker

Jarman, Ken Robertson

Murton, Iain

Strip Jack Naked is a low-budget exploration of the

London gay club scene. Using a combination of new

2001; Australia; 13 min; Horror

scenes shot on video and out-takes, loops and

Where will the night take you? To heaven, or to hell?

production notes from the original film, Peck has

A boy’s gotta get off—but what should you know

created a sequel which examines not only the

about your one night stand? A sexy boy vampire

personal struggles of a filmmaker to come to an

short.

understanding of his sexuality, but also documents

Dist/Sales: IMM

the struggles of young filmmakers to gain funding

and encouragement to create their visions on screen.

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

Part autobiography, part film-making journal, part a

history of the contemporary gay movement, Strip

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Jack Naked celebrates an aesthetic and a personal

1959; USA; 114 min; B&W; Drama

sexual expression which are not represented in

P: Sam Spiegel; W: Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams; mainstream cinema: this film is an encouragement to

C: Jack Hildyard; E: William Hornbeck, Thomas

any artist working from the margins.

Stanford; M: Buxton Orr, Malcolm Arnold

Prod Comp: BFI, Channel 4

Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Katharine

Dist/Sales: TLA, BFI, WaterBearer, NFVLS, ACMI

Hepburn, Albert Dekker

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Another brilliant Tennessee Williams adaptation.

Sugar Cookies

After a mental breakdown a young woman and her

mother with the help of her doctor, try to unravel

Gershuny, Theodore

the reason why she had a breakdown while on

1973; USA; 90 min; Horror

vacation with her homosexual brother, Sebastian. It

P: Ami Artzi, Jeffrey Kapelman, Oliver Stone;

turns out he’s been attacked and killed by street

W: Theodore Gershuny, Lloyd Kaufman;

urchins whom he preyed on to fulfil his sexual

C: Hasse Wallin; E: Dov Hoenig; M: Gershon Kingsley desires.

Cast: George Shannon, Mary Woronov, Lynn Lowry,

Monique van Vooren

Prod Comp: Columbia, Horizon Films

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, Col-Tri

Two lesbian lovers are set up to be murdered by a

filmmaker who makes pornographic films.

Suddenly Last Summer (1991)

Prod Comp: Armor Films

Beavan, Clare

Dist/Sales: Troma

1991; UK; 18 min; Comedy

P: Shauna Brown

Cast: Martina Navratilova

s

Together with women from all over Britain and

abroad, Tyneside comedienne ‘Hufty’ travels to the

Mecca of lesbian fandom, the Pilkington Glass

Ladies of Tennis Championships in Eastbourne. For

many of the women any sacrifice is worth the

opportunity to see their idol, Martina Navratilova,

in the flesh.

Prod Comp: Channel 4

Dist/Sales: ACMI

hyllis Christopher

Photo: P

Sugar High, Glitter City

Sugar High, Glitter City

Rednour, Shar / Strano, Jackie

2001; USA; 83 min; Erotica

Cast: Aimee Pearl, Charlie Skye

Urban encrusted glam... Gutter glitter lust... Join us

in a sticky belly crawl through the underworld of

‘Glitter City’. It’s the future. Sugar is outlawed and

‘Sucker

cane-addicted dykes will stop at nothing to get it—

even selling their own bodies. A fabulously diverse

Sugar and Spice

cast and multiple dyke sexualities take sticky centre

stage in this fast-paced, futuristic farce. Sugar High

Trepanier, Tania

will satisfy your hunger for screen-melting chemistry,

1997; Canada; 10 min; Drama

mind-blowing dirty talk fantasy-play and real-life,

Radha and Anna are expecting a visitor from India.

full-force, glam-sleazy dyke sex. Lesbian porn made

In anticipation of her aunt’s arrival, Radha uncharac-

by lesbians for lesbians. (SIRVideo)

teristically covers up evidence of her relationship

Prod Comp: SIRVideo Productions

with Anna, while Anna is determined to impress

Dist/Sales: SIRVideo

Durga Aunty with her Indian chai. Unexpected

outcomes follow Durga’s arrival, leaving the audience

Sugar Sweet

to determine for themselves what Durga Aunty

Lim, Desiree

makes of the two women’s relationship. (Video Pool)

2001; Japan; 67 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: VideoPool

P: Toshiyuki Fuse, Kouichi Kobayashi; W: Desiree Lim, 389

Carole Hisasue; C: Natsuyo Nakamura;

Summer Dress, A

E: Takao Yamanaka

(aka: Une Robe d’été)

Cast: Saori Kitagawa, C. Snatch Z., Mao Nakagawa

Ozon, François

Desiree Lim, the first out queer filmmaker in Japan

1997; France; 15 min; Drama

to direct a lesbian feature, turns in a delightfully

sassy, saucy and sexy feature debut. Naomi is an

On summer holiday with his boyfriend, Frederic’s

aspiring TV director who pays the bills by directing

encounter with a stranger on the beach further

lesbian porn. Her callous male bosses deride her

complicates his already ambivalent teenage sexuality.

work for its unsuitability for male viewers, and her

(Zeitgeist) French with English subtitles.

lesbian friends see her as a sell-out. Her only

Dist/Sales: Fidelite, Zeitgeist

confidante is ‘Sugar’, a secret chat-room friend on

the Internet. When Naomi gets a chance to direct an

Summer in my Veins (Director’s Cut)

episode of a popular ‘matchmaking’ TV show, she

casts her friend Azusa, who’s experiencing lesbian

Saran, Nish

bed death with her long-term girlfriend and looking

1999; India, USA; 40 min; Documentary

to spice up her life. Romantic sparks fly on the set—

A gay Indian filmmaker travels across America with

s

scorching even Naomi! Can she keep her job, her

his family visiting from India, as he struggles to

dreams and Sugar—especially Sugar—online? (2002

come out to them. He was tested for HIV before he

LA Outfest) Japanese with English subtitles .

left for the trip and will not receive his results until

they return. Under the threat of terminal illness,

made very real by an unsafe encounter with an HIV-

positive man, the filmmaker explores the dynamics

of secrecy and love that mark this very close family.

Pushing the limits of personal documentary every

moment, every achingly intimate moment—

including coming out to his mother—is caught on

film. (Frameline)

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Summer of Miss Forbes, The

(aka: El Verano de la señora Forbes)

Hermosillo, Jaime Humberto

The Sum of us

1988; Spain; 86 min; Drama

Sum of us, The

P: Evelio Delgado, Max Marambio; W: Jaime

Humberto Hermosillo; C: Rodrigo García;

Burton, Geoff / Dowling, Kevin

E: Nelson Rodríguez; M: Sergio Vitier

1994; Australia; 97 min; Comedy

Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Francisco Gattorno, Alexis

W: David Stevens; C: Geoff Burton;

Castanares

E: Frans Vandenburg; M: Dave Faulkner

The story of a frustrated and slightly unhinged

Cast: Jack Thompson, Russell Crowe, John Polson,

governess with a passion for Greek tragedies and

Deborah Kennedy

alcohol who is hired to mind two children at a

Jeff and his dad are an odd couple of lonely hearts.

holiday house for six weeks. She becomes obsessed

One an open-hearted widower, the other a young

with a beach boy, called Achilles, who is adopted by

single gay guy. Both men need some romance in

the family. The governess goes mad when she

their otherwise boring lives and decide to look for

eventually discovers that he is gay.

new ways to find it. Dad enrols in a computer dating

service to find his lady love. Son Jeff, sick of one-

Prod Comp: Televisión Española

night stands and noisy gay bars, wants a real

Summer Vacation 1999

commitment. But when he finds his Mr Right, what

will dad have to say?

(aka: 1999 Nen No Natsu Yasumi)

Prod Comp: Southern Star International, Great Sum

Kaneko, Shusuke

Film, Samuel Goldwyn Company

1988; Japan; 90 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: UIP, TLA, ACMI, SamuelGoldwyn

P: Yutaka Okada, Eiji Kishi; W: Michiyo Kishida;

390

C: Kenji Takama; E: Isao Temita; M: Yuriko Nakamura Sunflowers

Cast: Eri Miyagima, Tomoko Otakra, Miyuki Nakano,

Hainsworth, Shawn

Rie Mizuhara, Eri Fukatsu

1996; USA; 50 min; Documentary

Four teenagers are left at a boarding school for the

summer vacation of 1999. They are caught up in an

Exploring traditional cultural perceptions of

adolescent love triangle. One of them suicides but a

homosexuality and sexual identity, Sunflowers is a

new boy appears who is the image of the dead boy

moving portrait of a spirited group of gay men living

and the circle continues. This muted, romantic

in a rural Filipino town, who perform, in drag, a

fusing of love and death, in which the roles of the

traditional festival known as the Santa Cruzan.

boys are played by girls, has roots in Japanese

Accepted by the local townspeople in this small

popular culture: cross-dressing from certain

farming community, the sunflowers were organised

theatrical spectacles and male homosexuality in

in 1975 to promote the visibility and talents of its

comics for teenage girls. Although Kaneko sees the

members. As they prepare for the Santa Cruzan,

film as a re-examination of his own childhood, he

these outspoken men share childhood memories,

chose to abstract the story by setting it in the future.

coming out stories, and their thoughts about the

He wanted to deal with ‘love’ in a pure and abstract

Catholic church. Interviews with townspeople are

sense, not primarily with homosexual love. Japanese

combined with the honest, often funny stories of the

s

with English subtitles.

Sunflowers, revealing an evolving culturally rich

Prod Comp: CBS Sony Group, New Century, Shibata

community.

Organisation

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

Sun and Rain

(aka: Taiyang Yu)

Zeming, Zhang

1988; China; 90 min; Drama

Cast: Chun Sun, Xiaopin Yan, Xinxin Yi

Set in the modern city of Shenzhen, an introverted

young woman slowly moves away from her brash

boyfriend and, despite her inhibitions, develops a

crush on another young teenage woman. An eye-

opening view of modern China.

Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Schlesinger, John

1971; UK; 100 min; Drama

P: Joseph Janni; W: Penelope Gilliatt; C: Billy Williams; Super 8 1/2

E: Richard Marden; M: Ron Geesin

Cast: Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Murray Head, Peggy

Super 8 1/2

Ashcroft

La Bruce, Bruce

Glenda Jackson, a career woman separated from her

1994; Canada; 85 min; Erotica

husband, and Peter Finch, a Jewish doctor, are

P: Jürgen Brüning; W: Bruce La Bruce; C: Donna caught in a love triangle with a young bisexual

Mobbs; E: Manse James, Robert Kennedy

designer. Although the arrangement appears perfect,

Cast: Bruce La Bruce, Liza La Monica, Chris Teen

the trio must deal with jealousy, fear and self-doubt.

This absorbing character study, originally shocking,

A surprisingly hard-core film-within-a-film, an

is regarded as a forerunner of cinema’s increasingly

autobiographical drama about a washed-up porn star

mature treatment of homosexuality. Includes

whose life changes when a lesbian filmmaker begins

fantastic performances by Jackson and Finch, both

to make a film about him. From the director of No

of whom were nominated for Academy Awards.

Skin off my Ass.

Prod Comp: United Artists, Vectia

Prod Comp: Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion, Strand

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, TLA, UA, ACMI

Dist/Sales: TLA, Strand, Millivres, ACMI

391

Superdyke

Prod Comp: Surviving Films/TW Nelson Production

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Hammer, Barbara

1975; USA; 20 min; Comedy

Surviving Sabu

A comedy about a troop of shield-bearing Amazons

who take over city institutions before relaxing in the

Rashid, Ian Iqbal

country. (www.barbarahammer.com)

1997; UK; 14 min; Drama

A complex story of generational conflict in a Muslim

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy

Asian family. The Indian film actor Sabu is the focal

Warhol

point for the troubled relationship between Amin

and his father Sadru. (MQFF)

Workman, Chuck

Dist/Sales: Frameline

1990; USA; 90 min; Documentary

P: Marilyn Lewis, Peter English Nelson, Chuck

Susana

Workman; W: Chuck Workman; C: Burleigh Wartes;

Munoz, Susana

E: Stephen Stept

1980; Argentina, USA; 25 min; Documentary

s

Through the works and views of people such as

An autobiographical film about the lesbian film-

David Hockney, Tom Wolfe, Dennis Hopper, Sylvia

maker leaving her native Argentina to live her life

Miles, Grace Jones and the Campbell’s soup

outside the strictures of her Latin American culture

spokesman, we gather an insight into one of the

and family.

world’s most famous contemporary artists and a

master of publicity. Also included are interviews with

Dist/Sales: WMM

the man himself.

Swann in Love

Prod Comp: Marilyn Lewis Entertainment

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!, Wellspring, ACMI

(aka: Un Amour de Swann)

Surrender Dorothy

Schlöndorff, Volker

1983; France; 110 min; Drama

DiNovis, Kevin

P: Eberhard Junkersdorf, Margaret Ménégoz; W: Peter 1998; USA; 87 min; B&W; Comedy

Brook, Jean-Claude Carrière, Marie-Hélène Estienne,

P: Richard Goldberg; W: Kevin DiNovis; C: Jonathan Volker Schlöndorff; C: Sven Nykvist; E: Françoise Kovel; E: Kevin DiNovis; M: Christopher Matarazzo Bonnot; M: David Graham, Hans Werner Henze, Gerd

Cast: Peter Pryor, Kevin DiNovis, Jason Centeno,

Kuhr, Marcel Wengler

Elizaeth Casey

Cast: Jeremy Irons, Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Fanny

A dark comedy of gender manipulation. When

Ardant, Marie-Christine Barrault

slacker Lahn gets into trouble, lonely Trevor agrees

An elegant and educated bachelor, Charles Swann,

to hide him—but only if he disguises himself as

moves in the powerful and fashionable circles of

Dorothy, Trevor’s ideal woman. But Lahn isn’t happy

Paris in the 1890s. He falls in love with a courtesan,

as a gal, and Trevor’s not gay. The solution? Trevor

but his friends warn him not to get too close to her.

can make Dorothy into a real woman, and Lahn

His friends cast him aside when he doesn’t listen to

need never know! (Wolfe)

their warnings. Features Alain Delon as the homo-

Prod Comp: Rich Entertainment

sexual Baron.

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, TLA

Prod Comp: Gaumont, Bioskop Film, Films du Losange

Dist/Sales: ACMI, Palace, OrionClassics

Surviving Friendly Fire

Sweet Boy

Nelson, Todd

1997; USA; 60 min; Documentary

Everett, Karen

P: Todd Nelson, Michael Hofacre; C: Todd Nelson;

2001; USA; 29 min; Documentary

E: Michael Hofacre; M: Rich Meyers

Sweet Boy reveals an imaginative lesbian world where

Narrated by Sir Ian McKellen, this moving docu-

erotic fantasies bring sexual healing. Filmmaker

mentary allows gay and lesbian street kids to tell

Karen Everett’s thoughtful, stylised and highly

their stories through a theatre workshop and

personal memoir documents the passionate compli-

performance. Together they create a play about abuse

cations a lesbian couple experience as they play out a

in the home, growing up gay, and lesbian and

relational mother/boy dynamic.

surviving on the streets.

Dist/Sales: Everett

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Sweet Thing

friend, Nicola, proprietor of a piercing shop and self-

proclaimed trouble seeker. Frankie has always played

Robinson, Mark

sidekick to Nicola, so neither is prepared when two

2001; Australia; 14 min; Drama

new arrivals, a young siren hired as a waitress, and a

When a trailer park mum abandons her kids, the

drifter selling tie-dyes out of the back of his van,

resident drag queen steps into her rather

court only Frankie. Nicola’s ensuing jealousy sets in

unglamorous shoes with a hairpiece and Pyrex dish

motion a series of betrayals driving a wedge into

at the ready. Guess who turns up to parent teacher

their friendship and forces Frankie to take a stand

interviews? (MQFF)

for herself. Swimming is an intimate look at

Dist/Sales: Queerscreen

friendship, love and breaking away, set amidst the

backdrop of a bustling beach town.

(Swimmingthemovie.com)

Dist/Sales: Oceanside

Swimming Prohibited

(aka: Yuei Kinshi)

s

Oki, Hiroyuki

1989; Japan; 89 min; Experimental

W: Hiroyuki Oki; C: Hiroyuki Oki

Cast: Hiroyuki Oki

Oki documents three weeks in his life. The film is

not edited and is shown as it would have run

through the camera. It is open and frank, and deals

with his routines, pleasures, affairs, regrets and

encounters; his diary becomes a small masterpiece of

queer subjective cinema.

Dist/Sales: ImageForum

Swimming Upstream: A Year in the Life of

Karen and Jenny

Freedman, Jennifer

2001; USA; 73 min; Documentary

P: Jennifer Freedman; W: Jennifer Freedman

Swimming Upstream chronicles a year in the life of a

lesbian couple planning their first child together.

The film opens with Karen discovering that she is

Sweet Boy

indeed pregnant through artificial insemination.

Throughout the next year, as Karen’s belly grows, the

Swimming

couple must deal with a variety of complex emo-

tional issues. Both Karen and Jenny candidly discuss

Siegel, Robert J.

being lesbian, and worry about how their unborn

2000; USA; 98 min; Drama

child will be treated in the world. While dealing

P: Robert J. Siegel, Linda Moran; W: Lisa Bazadona, with lesbian issues, the film is also about relation-Grace Woodard, Robert J. Siegel; C: John Leuba;

ships as Karen and Jenny are forced to deal with

E: Frank Reynolds; M: Mark Wike

their roles and perceptions of one another through-

Cast: Lauren Ambrose, Jennifer Dundas Lowe, Joelle

out the year as their lives change. The ensuing stress

Carter, Jamie Harrold

of their upcoming family reveals itself through the

It’s the start of another Carolina summer, and it’s

couple’s financial strains and sexual issues. When

becoming increasingly clear to Frankie Wheeler, a

their baby is born with health problems, their world

is dramatically turned upside down once again.

young local, that she wants more out of life than

(MQFF)

Myrtle Beach can offer her. She spends her days

working in her family’s restaurant and wastes her

Prod Comp: Pie Town Productions

nights hanging out on the boardwalk with her best

Dist/Sales: PieTown

393

Switch (1991)

Swollen Stigma

Edwards, Blake

Pucill, Sarah

1991; USA; 99 min; Comedy

1998; UK; 21 min; B&W; Experimental

P: Tony Adams; W: Blake Edwards; C: Dick Bush; A visual, surrealist narrative of a woman travelling

E: Robert Pergament; M: Don Grady, Henry Mancini both literally and psychically through an interior

Cast: Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits, Jobeth Williams,

space of several rooms. Memories, or fantasies, of

Lorraine Bracco, Tony Roberts

another woman fill her imaginary space. Femininity,

Steve and Walter used to have a preference for

as a construction, is explored within a lesbian

blondes. Then Steve was murdered ... and came back

context where the assertion of lesbian symbolic

as one. Will being a woman make him a better man?

imagery is created. (Cinenova)

A ploy used many times, usually to extract laughs,

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

it’s Hollywood’s way of innocently examining

homoeroticism without getting its hands dirty. A

Swoon

rather lame comedy but there is one interesting

scene when Steve has an encounter with a lesbian

Kalin, Tom

s

who tries to come on to him/her.

1992; USA; 92 min; B&W; Drama

P: Christine Vachon; W: Tom Kalin, Hilton Als;

Prod Comp: Cinema Plus, HBO, Beco Films

C: Ellen Kuras; E: Tom Kalin; M: James Bennett Dist/Sales: 16MM, Col-Tri, Lauren, Warner, Swank

Cast: Daniel Schlachet, Craig Chester, Robert Read,

Switch (1999)

Ron Vawter, Michael Kirby

Tells the true story of Richard Loeb and Nathan

Thompson, Hope

Leopold—rich, young gay lovers and intellectuals

1999; Canada; 22 min; Drama

with an interest in Nietzsche, who murder a boy as a

P: Sharon Brooks; W: Hope Thompson

thrill-killing in Chicago in the 1920s. Their only

It’s 1949. Isabelle, a telephone operator is leading a

motive was to prove that they could get away with it.

double life. She is having a clandestine affair with

They later escaped the death penalty because of an

another operator, Alice, while her boyfriend Ricky is

impassioned defence case conducted by Clarence

secretly making plans to elope with her to Niagara

Darrow. Darrow argued that they were insane and

Falls. (CFMDC)

used their homosexuality as proof. Inspired by other

Prod Comp: Red Bandit Productions

films on the same subject, Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)

and Compulsion (Richard Fleischer).

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

Awards: Berlin Film Festival, 1992: Gay Teddy Award

Switchblade Sisters

Prod Comp: Intolerance, American Playhouse

Dist/Sales: ACMI, FilmsInc, FineLine, NFVLS

Hill, Jack

1975; USA; 91 min; Action

Swordsman II

W: Jack Hill

(aka: Xiao ao Jiang hu zhi Dong Fang bu bai)

Dominic is president of the Silver Daggers, a gang of

young thugs that controls the drug and prostitution

Ching, Siu-tung / Tong, Stanley

rackets in the local high school. Lace is Dominic’s

1991; Hong Kong; 110 min; Action

girl—until Maggie on the scene and turns his head.

P: Hark Tsui; W: Hanson Chan, Pik-yin Tang, Hark

When a rival gang led by Crabs tries to muscle in on

Tsui; C: Moon-tong Lau; E: Chi-sin Mak;

the Daggers’ territory and shoots Dominic’s brother

M: Richard Yuen

Guido, the result is a gang shootout at a roller

Cast: Jet Li, Brigitte Lin, Michelle Reis, Waise Lee,

skating rink in which Crabs kills Dominic. Maggie

Rosamund Kwan, Kar Lok Chin

then rallies the girls of the gang to kick out the

A continuation of the story began in Swordsman

surviving boys as ineffectual cowards and makes an

(1990). Before retiring his martial arts school to an

alliance with a revolutionary black, girls’ gang led by

isolated mountain, Blademaster visits Princess Yin-

Muff to eliminate Crabs and his organisation by

Yin, who is his love interest, and the leader of a tribe

force of arms. This is accomplished by a devastating

of snake-wielding female warriors. He finds that they

gun battle in the street that features a home-made

have been attacked, and the Princess abducted. The

armoured car. Lace’s best friend Patch, convinces

attacker is revealed to be the Princess’s evil uncle

Lace that Maggie has to be eliminated as a threat to

Fong, who years before overthrew and imprisoned

Lace’s leadership. Maggie and Lace then face off in a

Yin-Yin’s father and took over their sect. Fong has

bloody knife duel that leaves Lace dead. Cult lesbian

also stolen a sacred scroll which reveals the secrets of

trash at its best. (Picture This! Entertainment)

achieving unbeatable martial arts power. Blademaster

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!

attempts to help free Yin-Yin and her father.

394

However, his romantic attachments become more

Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne,

complicated when his childhood friend and Yin-Yin

Edmund Gwenn

are joined by a new rival, who at first Blademaster

Directed by legendary filmmaker George Cukor, the

believes to be an innocent village girl he has saved.

dazzling talents of Katharine Hepburn and Cary

He is shocked when she turns out to be Fong! It is

Grant light up the screen in this engaging lovingly

then revealed that to gain ultimate martial arts

filmed comedy adventure. When her father runs

power one must perform self-castration and become

afoul of the law in pre-war Paris, a plucky young girl

female. Cantonese & Mandarin with English

disguises herself as a boy to aid in their escape. But

subtitles.

when they team up with a lowbrow con-man, Kate’s

Prod Comp: Film Workshop Ltd.

scheming soon precipitates a disastrous series of

Dist/Sales: MeiAh

uproarious romantic misunderstandings. She/he

becomes the love interest of a beautiful young

Swordsman III: The East is Red

woman.

(aka: Dung Fong bat Baai 2: Fung wan joi hei)

Prod Comp: RKO

Lee, Raymond / Ching, Siu-tung

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ACMI, FilmsInc, BFI

1992; Hong Kong; 90 min; Action

Symposium: Ladder of Love

t

P: Hark Tsui; W: Hanson Chan, Pik-yin Tang, Hark

Tsui; C: Moon-tong Lau; E: Chi-sin Mak; M: William Sheehan, Nick

Wu, Richard Yuen

1996; Canada; 72 min; Documentary

Cast: Brigitte Lin, Shun Lau, Joey Wong

P: Greg Klymkiw; C: Harald Bachmann;

A spectacular action fantasy film that follows our

E: Caroline Christie; M: Nicholas Stirling

transsexual hero, Asia, as she goes on an incredible

A documentary about the meaning of love from a

fighting and killing spree to win back the love of her

queer perspective.

beautiful Snow. Like any good kung-fu film there are

some amazing special effects and gymnastic live

Sync Touch

action. This gender-bender is a must-see, particularly

the lesbian love scene. Cantonese with English

Hammer, Barbara

subtitles.

1981; USA; 10 min; Experimental

Prod Comp: Film Workshop, Golden Harvest Company

In Sync Touch, lesbian images are juxtaposed with

Dist/Sales: RimFilm

common clichés, providing an ironic and humorous

inquiry into the nature of the lesbian aesthetic.

Sydney - Living with Difference

(WMM)

1999; Australia; 30 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: WMM

In just over 20 years, Sydney (Australia) has

TABU V (About Which one Cannot Speak)

transformed itself from an outpost of the British

Empire to one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the

Brynntrup, Michael

world. Using Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras

1997; Germany; 13 min; Experimental

as a starting point, this film opens up questions

Death is not an event in life. One does not experi-

about Sydney’s reputation for openness and tolerance

ence death. If one understands eternity to mean

towards social diversity and alternative lifestyle

timelessness rather than eternal time, then he who

choices. Featuring interviews with members of an

lives in the present will live forever. Our life is as

Aboriginal dance group, new migrants from the

endless as our field of vision is boundless. (Brisbane

Cook Islands and people from gay and lesbian

International Film Festival)

communities, the program considers the social

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

interactions between disparate groups that go to

make up Sydney’s distinctive cultural life. (EMA)

Take Out

Dist/Sales: EMA

Monette, Jean-François

Sylvia Scarlett

2000; Canada; 38 min; Drama

In this coming of age tale, Rory is a typical high

Cukor, George

school student—he runs track, smokes, and has a

1935; USA; 97 min; B&W; Comedy

lousy after-school job. His career so far consists of

P: Pandro S. Berman; W: Gladys Unger, John Collier, delivering chicken to customers. Excitement at work

Mortimer Offner; C: Joseph August; E: Jane Loring; is limited to exchanges between his teasing co-M: Roy Webb, Alberto Colombo

worker and hungry grunting suburbanites. But on a

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delivery like any other, Rory meets Pete, a middle

loved books about life in the queer mecca of San

aged man in the midst of a breakdown. Fascinated

Francisco.

by Pete’s material trappings of success and intrigued

Prod Comp: Showtime

by the source of his breakdown, Rory is drawn into a

Dist/Sales: Showtime

friendship with him. Their platonic friendship

proves to be a catalyst: Rory’s sexuality forces him to

Tales of the City 3

reconsider his small world as his curiosity propels

him to take a risk. (CFMDC)

(aka: Further Tales of the City)

Dist/Sales: CFMDC, PictureThis!

Gang, Pierre

2001; Canada, USA; 180 min; Drama

P: Alan Poul; W: Armistead Maupin, James Lecesne;

C: Serge Ladouceur

Cast: Olympia Dukakis, Paul, Hopkins, Laura Linney,

Barbara Garrick, Jackie Burroughs

More of Armistead Maupin’s series of much-loved

books about life in the queer mecca of San Fran-

t

cisco.

Prod Comp: Showtime

Dist/Sales: Showtime

Talk of the Town

(aka: Stadtgespräch)

Kaufmann, Rainer

1995; Germany; 89 min; Comedy

P: Henrik Meyer; W: Ben Taylor; C: Klaus Eichhammer; E: Ursula Mai; M: Stefan Traub

Cast: Katja Reimann, August Zirner, Martina Gedeck,

Kai Weisinger

Tales of the City

A multilayered sexual comedy centred around

Tales of the City

Monika, a single open-minded woman who hosts a

morning radio program for those in need of advice

Reid, Alastair

on romance and relationships. The love pentagon

1993; UK, USA; 3 x 100 min; Drama

that ensues involves Monika, her married lover Erik,

P: Alan Poul; W: Richard Kramer; C: Walt Lloyd; her best friend Sabine, her brother Rene and his

E: David Gamble; M: John E. Keane

male lover. Needless to say each cast member uses

Cast: Olympia Dukakis, Donald Moffat, Laura Linney,

Monika’s radio program for their own essential

Chloe Webb

absolution. German with English subtitles.

Armistead Maupin’s cult queer novel series Tales of

Prod Comp: Studio Hamburg Produktion, ZDF

the City makes it to the screen. This modern gay

Dist/Sales: ZDF

classic takes an original and thoroughly entertaining

look at life in San Francisco in the 1970s.

Talk to me like the Rain

Prod Comp: American Playhouse, Channel 4

Kinney, Donald / Kinney, Robert

1989; USA; 17 min; Drama

Tales of the City 2

Part of the trilogy of films from brothers Robert and

(aka: More Tales of the City)

Donald Kinney, Talk to me like the Rain is a languid,

subtle tale of love gone wrong. Based on a poem by

Gang, Pierre

Tennessee Williams, the film is a tribute to the

1998; Canada, UK, USA; 330 min; Drama

writer. (MQFF)

P: Kevin Tierney; W: Armistead Maupin, Nicolas

Wright; C: Serge Ladouceur; E: Philippe Ralet

Tampon Thieves

Cast: Olympia Dukakis, Laura Linney, Colin Ferguson,

Bill Campbell, Barbara Garrick

(aka: Ladronas de tampones)

Sequel to the hugely successful Tales of the City—the

Lozano, Jorge

film version of Armistead Maupin’s series of much-

1996; Colombia; 22 min; Drama

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Zena and Tita are due in court for stealing tampons;

E: Hiroyuki Oki

they refuse to pay for the privilege of menstruating.

Cast: Masashi Mori, Takashi Furukawa, Tadayuki

They live in an abandoned warehouse on the edge of

Kataoka, Seiji Otsuta

Toronto and pay for college by selling phone sex.

Shot in black and white with no dialogue in the

Reflective and insightful, Tampon Thieves gently

home of the filmmaker. This is an avant-garde film

weaves reflections on family with love between

with a personal view that includes a series of images,

friends to tell a rich story of how women and gay

creating feeling and mood, which focus on three gay

men of colour are treated in a racist, homophobic

friends, one of whom is HIV-positive.

culture. (Frameline)

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Taste

Tanaka

Dombroski, Lisa

2000; Australia; 22 min; Comedy

Jacobson, Clayton

2001; Australia; 23 min; Drama

Meet Suz—her relationship with Pete is going sour.

W: Clayton Jacobson

Meet Danny—a chef who offers her something

Cast: Kim Dryden, Kathy Smith, Katsuhiko Suzuki Sai

sweet and a little spicy. It’s all a matter of taste in this

sexy gender-bending comedy. (MQFF)

t

Mori comes to Australia from Japan to arrange his

uncle’s funeral. But Mori’s life is changed when he

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

discovers his uncle’s secret.

Taste of Honey, A

Tangible Fathers

Richardson, Tony

Poirier, Bob

1961; UK; 100 min; B&W; Drama

1999; USA; 57 min; Documentary

P: Tony Richardson; W: Shelagh Delaney, Tony

Richardson; C: Walter Lassally; E: Antony Gibbs; A documentary which tells the story of a Catholic

M: John Addison

Priest as he discovers his homosexuality and struggles

with family relationships, his vows to the church and

Cast: Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin, Dora Bryan

his self acceptance.

Film version of Shelagh Delaney’s play about a

Dist/Sales: BobbyRoger

young girl who becomes pregnant to a black sailor.

She leaves an unsympathetic home and finds care

Tank Girl

and tenderness with a homosexual. A poignant,

moving and remarkable film, although somewhat

Talalay, Rachel

dated, with sensitive performances.

1995; USA; 93 min; Sci-Fi

Prod Comp: Bryanston

P: Richard Lewis, Pen Densham, John Watson;

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee

W: Tedi Sarafian; C: Gale Tattersall; E: James R.

Symons; M: Graeme Revell

Taste the Sweat

Cast: Lori Petty, Naomi Watts, Malcolm McDowell, Ice

T, Don Harvey, Iggy Pop

Reding, Benjamin / Reding, Dominik

Futuristic, cutting-edge action adventure based on

1997; Germany; 13 min; B&W; Experimental

the cult British comic strip. Set in the year 2033,

A young skinhead enquires about getting his first

when an ecological cataclysm has devastated the land

tattoo, dreams about how he will be treated by his

and left water the most rare and precious resource.

peers once he is inked, and fantasises about the punk

Out of this brutal landscape emerges Tank Girl, a

he meets in the tattoo studio. German with English

new kind of hard-edged heroine who heads the

subtitles.

revolt against the evil Department of Water. A great

Dist/Sales: Schlammtaucher

camp romp, with Petty as a tough-talking,

gunslinging modern girl pretending to be lovers with

Taxi to Cairo

another woman in order to protect her.

(aka: Taxi nach Kairo)

Prod Comp: United Artists, Trilogy, MGM

Dist/Sales: UIP, ReelMovies, Warner, Swank

Ripploh, Frank

1987; Germany; 90 min; Comedy

Tarch Trip

W: Tamara Kafka, Frank Ripploh; C: Dodo Simoncic; Oki, Hiroyuki

E: Peter R. Adam; M: Peter Breiner

1994; Japan; 65 min; B&W; Experimental

Cast: Frank Ripploh, Udo Schenk, Christine Neubauer

P: Jürgen Brüning; W: Hiroyuki Oki; C: Hiroyuki Oki; Frank must marry a woman in order to remain in his

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mother’s will. The only problem is that he and his

McCarthy; C: Darin Ipema; E: Darin Ipema, John

wife have fallen in love with the same man. See also

Michael McCarthy, Dave Thompson, Brian Churchill;

Frank Ripploh’s film Taxi to the Toilet (aka: Taxi zum M: Impala

Klo).

Cast: D’Lana Tunnell, Sherri Ann Bandham, Sophie

Couch, Kris Kremmers

Taxi to the Toilet

Set in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1962, a young woman

(aka: Taxi zum Klo)

becomes pregnant to a womanising man who leaves

town. She must face life as a single mother at the

Ripploh, Frank

same time that her own mother is trying to force her

1981; Germany; 100 min; Comedy

to have her pregnancy terminated. Things look grim

W: Frank Ripploh; C: Horst Schier; M: Hans Wittstadt until a gang of lesbians and a film star come to her

Cast: Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup, Tabea

assistance.

Blumenschein, Magdalena Montezuma, Gitte Lederer

Prod Comp: Big Broad Guerrilla Monster

An autobiographical account of how filmmaker

Dist/Sales: SomethingWeird

Frank Ripploh, a gay teacher who is having prob-

lems with his relationship, spends his nights picking

Tell me no Lies

t

up men in public toilets. He immerses himself in the

gay culture of Berlin while still holding on to his

Hunter, Neil

lover and job.

1993; UK; 30 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Cinevista, ACMI

Set among college students in London, this coming-

out comedy revolves around three best friends, all of

Tea and Sympathy

whom are gay but are unable to come out to the

others.

Minnelli, Vincente

1956; USA; 120 min; Drama

Tell me that you Love me, Junie Moon

P: Pandro S. Berman; W: Robert Anderson;

C: John Alton; E: Ferris Webster; M: Adolph Deutsch Preminger, Otto

Cast: John Kerr, Deborah Kerr, Leif Erickson, Edward

1969; USA; 112 min; Drama

Andrews

P: Otto Preminger; W: Marjorie Kellogg; C: Boris A sensitive youth is in conflict about his sexuality

Kaufman; E: Henry Berman, Dean Ball; M: Pete Seeger, and is teased by the other boys and called ‘Sister-Philip Springer

Boy’. He doesn’t fit in with their view of life and

Cast: Liza Minnelli, Ken Howard, Robert Moore, Kay

refuses to adopt their cruel and callous behaviour.

Thompson, James Coco

Finally he comes to terms with his sexual identity

The moving story of three misfits who, after meeting

when he has an affair with his teacher’s wife, proving

in hospital, decide to share an apartment together.

his ‘manhood’. The homosexual nature of the story

They are a young woman with bad facial scars, an

was well and truly watered down by censorship in

epileptic, and a wheelchair-bound homosexual. A

the mid 1950s.

rather dated effort that never achieves any real depth,

Prod Comp: MGM

based on a novel by Marjorie Kellogg who also

Dist/Sales: MGM

adapted the script.

Prod Comp: Paramount, Sigma Productions

Tea Leaf

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, Paramount

Novaczek, Ruth

Tell me the Truth about Love

1986; UK; 10 min; Drama

The story of a Jewish woman growing up in London

White, Susanna

in the 1960s. Denying her culture and sexuality for

2000; UK; 60 min; Documentary

years she awakens in the 1980s, fighting the system

This hauntingly beautiful BBC documentary

and poverty by stealing food from supermarkets and

examines the words and wisdom of Pulitzer Prize-

learning to love women.

winning poet W. H. Auden. When he died in 1973,

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

Auden left behind some of the greatest love poems of

the 20th century. He also left two short journals

Teenage Tupelo

containing diagrams and notes about the nature of

love, journals which reveal that Auden's poetry came

McCarthy, John Michael

not just from inspiration but also from a scientific

1995; USA; 83 min; Drama

analysis of love itself. Auden fuelled his analysis

P: John Michael McCarthy; W: John Michael

through his real-life relationships with Christopher

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Isherwood, Don Bachardy, Humphrey Spender, and

films and videos, groundbreaking filmmaker Barbara

other major literary and social figures of the 20th

Hammer casts a wry eye on her life and changing

century, many of whom are interviewed in the film.

world. In a rich montage of home movies, experi-

Tell Me the Truth About Love is full of gorgeous

mental films, news footage, and personal photo-

poetry, fascinating archival footage, and colourful

graphs, Hammer charts her growth from 1950s child

characters – a wonderful and illuminating film.

star ‘wannabe’ to 1960s straight earth mother to

(2002 Mardi Gras Film Festival)

1990s lesbian artist and activist. (WMM)

Dist/Sales: Hammer, WMM

Tenebrae Lessons

(aka: Leçons de Ténèbres)

Dieutre, Vincent

2000; France; 77 min; Experimental

P: Emmanuel Giraud; W: Vincent Dieutre; C: Jean-Marie Boulet, Benoît Chamaillard, Gilles Marchand; E:

Ariane Doublet

t

Cast: Andrzej Burzynski, Hubert Geiger, Vincent

Dieutre, Leo Bersani

Shot in alternating film and video, Tenebrae Lessons

ia a very densely constructed documentary narrative

with flashes of beauty. The film cuts between

Renaissance paintings and monologues about fisting,

along with French existentialism and a man talking

in second person about his lover.

Prod Comp: Carrré Noir, Les Films de la Croisade

Dist/Sales: Grisé

Teorema

Tell me the Truth about Love

(aka: Theorem)

Tell me Why: The Epistemology of Disco

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

1968; Italy; 104 min; Drama

Di Stefano, John

P: Franco Rossellini, Manolo Bolognini; W: Pier Paolo 1991; USA; 25 min; Comedy

Pasolini; C: Giuseppe Ruzzolini; E: Nino Baragli; M: An often humorous, and poignant look at the role

Ennio Morricone

that disco music has played in the formation of gay

Cast: Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo

male identity. The film challenges the notion of

Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky

disco as merely a ‘leisure activity’ by positing disco as

A mysterious stranger enters the lives of a bored

an important cultural expression of gay sexuality.

bourgeois family. He seduces all the members one by

one and then leaves as mysteriously as he arrived,

Tender

leaving their life in tatters as they all slowly lose their

sanity. Pasolini’s obsessions with eroticism, homo-

Dimas, Christos

sexuality, religion and social position are all exam-

1995; Greece; 13 min; Documentary

ined in this politically allegoric, controversial and

An intimate portrait of a transsexual sex worker in

often erotic film. Italian with English subtitles.

Athens. Greek with English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Aetos

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, TLA, ACMI, BFI

Tender Fictions

Terence Davies Trilogy, The

Hammer, Barbara

1995; USA; 60 min; Experimental

Davies, Terence

Innovative, funny, and historic, Tender Fictions is an

1976–1983; UK; 97 min; Drama

autobiographical exploration of the search for and

W: Terence Davies; C: William Diver; E: Digby Rumsey meaning of gay community. From a childhood spent

Cast: Phillip Maudsely, Robin Hooper, Val Lilley, Terry

being groomed as the next Shirley Temple to her

O’Sullivan, Sheila Raynor

current work as an activist and maker of over 70

In this partly autobiographical trilogy, Davies

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outlines Liverpudlian Robert Tucker’s develop-

Julian is a homeless Channel 4 celebrity. He answers

ment—from victimised schoolboy, in Children

an ad for a flatmate, arriving on the doorstep of

(1976), through a Catholic repressed gay middle age,

Terry, a rough and ready South London lad. Julian

Madonna and Child (1980), to senility and death in

soon turns the dowdy flat into a glittering, bejewel-

hospital, Death and Transfiguration (1983)—‘into a

led objet d’art, more in keeping with Julian’s

rich, resonant tapestry of impressionistic detail’. The

aesthetic requirements. Thus with a cheery wave, the

bleakness is relieved by a wry wit, imaginative use of

occasional song and one or two sordid innuendoes,

music and flashes of surrealism foreshadowing

this incongruous couple settle down to domestic

Davies’ subsequent autobiographies, Distant Voices,

bliss together ... Or do they?

Still Lives and The Long Day Closes.

Prod Comp: Wonderdog Productions

Prod Comp: BFI

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Channel4

Dist/Sales: Frameline, Strand

Thank God I’m a Lesbian

Terms of Conception

Colbert, Laurie / Cardona, Dominique

Taylor, Amanda

1992; Canada; 55 min; Documentary

1994; USA; 30 min; Documentary

Cast: Sarah Schulman, Dionne Brand, Nicole Brossard

t P: Amanda Taylor; W: Amanda Taylor; C: Amanda An uplifting and entertaining documentary about

Taylor

the diversity of lesbian identity. The women speak

Terms of Conception is a documentary about a lesbian

frankly and articulately about issues ranging from

couple and their decision to have a child through

coming out, racism, bisexuality and S/M, to the

artificial insemination with a known donor. Through

evolution of the feminist and lesbian movements,

candid interviews with a nurse practitioner, family

outing and compulsory heterosexuality. (WMM)

and marriage counsellor, lawyer, friends, relatives

Dist/Sales: WMM, CFMDC

and the parents-to-be, this complex and increasingly

common issue is examined.

That Certain Summer

Prod Comp: Fish Tayl Productions

Johnson, Lamont

Terror in the Crypt

1972; USA; 75 min; Drama

P: Richard Levinson, William Link; W: Richard

(aka: La Cripta e L’Incubo)

Levinson, William Link; C: Vilis Lapenieks; E: Edward Miller, Thomas

M. Abroms; M: Gil Melle

1964; Italy, Spain; 80 min; B&W; Horror

Cast: Hal Holbrook, Joe Don Baker, Martin Sheen,

P: William Mulligan; W: Julian Berry, Robert Bohr, Marilyn Mason

Maria del Carmen, Martinez Ramón, José L. Monter;

A son has trouble understanding why his middle-

C: Julio Ortas, Giuseppe Acquari; E: Herbert Mark; M: aged parents are separating in this made for

Herbert Buchman, Carlo Savina

television movie. When he visits his father during

Cast: Adriana Ambessi, Christopher Lee, Ursula Davis,

the summer break, he meets his father’s ‘close friend’.

José Campos

Soon it is revealed that the young man is his father’s

Another reworking of the Sheridan Le Fanu’s

lover. Considered to be groundbreaking at the time

Carmilla, which has been made many times and

it went to air in 1972.

often more successfully than in this particular

Awards: Golden Globe Awards, 1973: Best Film Made

version. A Count believes there is a curse on his

for TV

family and one of his descendants will be reincar-

Prod Comp: Universal

nated as the evil witch Sheena. Although it appears it

Dist/Sales: ABC-US

is his daughter, Laura, her friend Lyuba is the one

reincarnated as the witch.

That Tender Touch

Prod Comp: MEC Cinematographica, Hispaner Films

Vincent, Russell

Terry and Julian (Vol. 1 and 2)

1969; USA; 88 min; Drama

P: Russel Vincent; W: Russel Vincent; C: Robert Oldroyd, Liddy

Caramico; E: Maurice E. Wright

1992; UK; 90 min; Comedy

Cast: Sue Bernard, Bee Tompkins, Rick Cooper,

P: Toni Yardley; W: Julian Clary, John Henderson, Paul Margaret Read

Merton; M: Russell Churney, Barb Jungr, Michael

A rarely screened camp lesbian thriller starring Sue

Parker

Bernard ( Playboy’s Miss December 1966), whose

Cast: Julian Clary, Lee Simpson, Kate Lonergan

lesbian relationship with an ageing woman eventu-

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ally catches up with her. When the older woman

police one step behind. A stylish and witty action

attempts to rekindle their relationship tragedy

film, with a rather long kiss between the two women

ensues.

at the end. Although not on the surface a lesbian

Dist/Sales: Frameline

narrative, Thelma and Louise has become one of the

great lesbian favourites of cinema.

That’s a Family

Awards: Academy Awards, 1991: Best Screenplay

Chasnoff, Debra

Prod Comp: MGM, Pathé Entertainment, United

2000; USA; 35 min; Documentary

International Pictures

Dist/Sales: UIP, Warner, ACMI, MGM

Children from a wide variety of families share their

experiences of having lifestyles deemed different

Theme: Murder

from the ‘norm’—gay and lesbian families, adoptive

families, single parent families to name a few. From

Swetzoff, Martha

Academy Award winning director Debra Chasnoff

1998; USA; 54 min; Documentary

( It’s Elementary). (MQFF)

A real life story of murder, secrets and sexuality, set

Dist/Sales: WoMedia, NewDay

in the art world of the 1950s and 60s, Theme:

Murder takes the viewer on an immersive journey

t

Thelma

into the struggles and frustrations of living with an

unsolved homicide. The filmmaker was nine years

Meier, Pierre-Alain

old in 1968 when her father, the Boston art dealer

2001; France, Greece, Switzerland; 95 min; Drama

Hyman Swetzoff, was beaten and left to die in his

P: Robert Boner, Pierre-Alain Meier, Fenia Cossovitsa,

home. Martha’s search to make sense of her father’s

Xavier Grin; W: Jacques Akchoti, Lou Inglebert, Pierre-

unsolved murder uncovers the price of homophobia

Alain Meier, Barbara Sobeck; C: Thomas Hardmeier; E:

and also reveals many of the subtle attitudes that

Loredana Cristelli; M: Yiorgos Mandas

accompany murder. Probing and disquieting, using

Cast: Laurent Schilling, Pascale Ourbih, Nathalia Capo

lush visual and aural textures in contrast with the

d’Istria, François Germond

brutality of its subject, this film presents the

Vincent Fleury, a taxi driver in Lausanne, lives apart

experience of homicide from the inside out. (New

from his wife and son. One night he meets Thelma,

Day Films)

a young woman who offers him a large amount of

Dist/Sales: NewDay

money to take her to Crete and help her get revenge

on an ex-lover. Vincent and Thelma become close

There is no Pain in Paradise

during the trip, but Thelma remains a bit evasive.

(aka: En el Paraiso no Existe el Dolor)

Vincent has trouble understanding her game, until

one night, when their flirting gets slightly more

Saca, Victor

serious and he finds out... that she is also a man. He

1994; Mexico; 90 min; Drama

is shocked and pushes her away. However, when he

P: Victor Saca, Georgina Teja; W: Victor Saca;

discovers Thelma’s ‘other’ secret, he begins to see her

C: Jorge Medina; E: Menahem Peña

differently... (www.thelma.ch) French with English

Cast: Miguel Angel Ferriz, Evangelina Elizondo

subtitles.

After the death (from AIDS) of his lover and

Prod Comp: Thelma Films

business partner, Manuel heads to the Mexican city

Dist/Sales: Vagrant

of Monterey where he finds a disturbing world of

violence, lust and lies. He must find his way out of

Thelma and Louise

this nether world, so he can begin life afresh. Spanish

with English subtitles.

Scott, Ridley

1991; USA; 128 min; Drama, Action

Prod Comp: Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía

P: Ridley Scott, Mimi Polk Gitlin; W: Callie Khouri; Dist/Sales: IMCINE

C: Adrian Bibble; E: Thom Noble; M: Hans Zimmer Thérèse and Isabelle

Cast: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel,

Brad Pitt, Michael Madsen

Metzger, Radley

When unhappy housewife Thelma and her wise-

1968; France; 102 min; B&W; Drama

cracking friend Louise decide to take a break from

P: Radley Metzger; W: Jesse Vogel; C: Hans Jura; their lives, they embark on a trip that leads to a

E: Humphrey Wood; M: Georges Auric

tragic incident at a roadside honky tonk. In an

Cast: Essy Persson, Anna Gaël, Simone Paris, Barbara

instant, their weekend ‘getaway’ becomes just that as

Laage

they flee across the American Southwest with the

Based on the autobiographical novel by Violette

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Leducet, Thérèse and Isabelle is the sensitive drama of

Things you can Tell Just by Looking at Her

buddy female sexuality set in an all-girl Catholic

boarding school. It delves into the emotions and

Garcia, Rodrigo

passion of two young women who meet and fall in

2000; USA; 109 min; Drama

love. Even with some fairly explicit sex scenes for its

P: Jon Avnet, Lisa Lindstrom, Marsha Oglesby; W:

time it manages to remain non-exploitative.

Rodrigo Garcia; C: Emmanuel Lubezki; E: Amy E.

Duddleston; M: Edward Shearmur

Prod Comp: Amsterdam Films

Cast: Glen Close, Calista Flockhart, Kathy Baker,

Dist/Sales: TLA, Wolfe Video, FirstRunFeatures

Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter, Valeria Golina

They are Lost to Vision Altogether

Comprised of five interwoven vignettes, the film

binds the lifelines of several seemingly disconnected

Kalin, Tom

San Fernando Valley residents. Detective Kathy

1989; USA; 13 min; Documentary

Farber arrives at a crime scene to discover the body

They are Lost to Vision Altogether acts as an erotic

of Carmen, an old acquaintance. In the days

retaliation to the Helms Amendment, the United

preceding Carmen’s death, we see her skirt unnoticed

States government’s refusal to fund explicit AIDS

around the periphery of our protagonists’ lives: Dr

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prevention information for gay men, lesbians and

Elaine Keener, who tends to her infirm mother and

intravenous drug users. The film addresses the

waits anxiously for a male colleague to call; self-

contradictions of sexuality and romance in the face

reliant Rebecca Weyman, who, on discovering she is

of a monolithic and culturally compulsory hetero-

pregnant, confronts a difficult, desolate choice;

sexuality.

single mother Rose, who develops a fanciful,

Dist/Sales: VDB, Drift, EAI

comedic obsession with her new neighbour;

Thin Ice: Passion on the Pink Rink

Christine, who wrestles with the imminent death of

her ailing lesbian lover Lilly; and investigator Kathy’s

Cunningham Reid, Fiona

acerbic, blind sister, Carol, who speculates on what

1994; UK; 88 min; Drama

might have driven Carmen to suicide.

P: Fiona Cunningham-Reid; W: Fiona Cunningham-

(www.nhk.or.jp)

Reid, Geraldine Sherman; C: Belinda Parsons;

Prod Comp: Franchise Pictures

E: Rodney Sims; M: Diana McLoughlin

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, MGM, Showtime, UA, RoadshowEnt

Cast: Sabra Williams, Charlotte Avery, Ian McLellen

Thin Ice is the story of Steffi, an ambitious photogra-

Third Sex, The

pher, and her journalist partner, nice gay boy Greg,

(aka: Anders als du und ich)

who concoct a scheme to make big bucks by writing a

Harlan, Veit

story about love and lesbians on ice at the Gay Games

in New York in the mainstream press. The particular

1957; Germany; 75 min; Drama

lesbians in question are none other than Steffi and her

W: Felix Lützkendorf; C: Kurt Grigoleit; E: Walter lover, Lisa. That is, until Lisa dumps Steffi within

Wischniewsky; M: Erwin Halletz

weeks of the competition. Not to be thwarted, Steffi

Cast: Christian Wolff, Paul Dahlke, Paula Wesley

tracks down a new skating partner: the innocent,

Klaus’s father confesses to a family friend early in the

naive and straight Natalie. Through bribery, flirtation,

film that Klaus shows no interest in girls. Klaus’s

a few white lies and a little seduction, Steffi convinces

friend Manfred then comes under suspicion as the

Natalie to sign on for New York. Unfortunately it

focus and cause of Klaus’s ‘sickness’. The family takes

doesn’t all go to plan. (MQFF)

desperate measures to curtail Klaus’s friendship with

Prod Comp: Thin Ice Productions

Manfred. Klaus is forced to attend a heterosexual

gathering in the hope that closer proximity to the

Things we Said Today

opposite sex will encourage ‘normality’. Manfred is

jealous and Klaus leaves suddenly, seeking protection

Miller-Monzon, John

with the mysterious music teacher who lives in a

1992; USA; 34 min; Drama

secluded mansion on the outskirts of town (and who

P: John Miller-Monzon; W: John Miller-Monzon

has among his students an array of nubile young

The story of a few days in the life of a young lesbian

lads). Klaus is then pursued across the city by his

in New York—a pillow fight, a near affair, a major

father—a search which leads us through the gay

battle with her lover, trouble paying the rent—and

nightclubs of 1950s Berlin. (MQFF)

not a cliché in the whole 34 minutes.

Prod Comp: Arca-Filmproduktion GmbH

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Dist/Sales: 21stCentury, Constantin

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Thirst

macy—and sometimes even the very existence—of

(aka: Törst; Three Strange Loves)

lesbian and gay relationships.

Prod Comp: Alleycat Productions, Channel 4

Bergman, Ingmar

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary

1949; Sweden; 90 min; B&W; Drama

P: Helge Hagerman; W: Herbert Grevenius; C: Gunnar This is not a Very Blank Tape Dear

Fischer; E: Oscar Rosander; M: Erik Nordgren

Cast: Eva Henning, Birger Malsten, Mimi Nelson,

Cottis, Jane

Birgit Tengroth, Hasse Ekman

1989; USA; 22 min; Comedy

A couple, going through the disintegration of their

A woman sends her mother a questionnaire about

childless marriage go on a train trip to Stockholm,

her sexuality and her life.

stuck in a claustrophobic compartment. Intercut

with their story is the tale of the husband’s ex-wife,

Viola, who has a sympathetic relationship with a

female ballet dancer who becomes a lesbian. Based

on a collection of three stories by Birgit Tengroth.

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Prod Comp: Svensk Filmindustri

Dist/Sales: Kino

This I Wish and Nothing More

(aka: Nincsen Nekem Vagyam Semmi)

Mundruczo, Kornel

2000; Hungary; 80 min; Drama

P: Viktoria Petranyi, Zsofia Kende, Nota Petak, Gyorgy

This Marching Girl Thing

Durst; W: Farkas Hegyi, Kornel Mundruczo, Viktoria

Petranyi; C: Szilard Makkos; E: Bela Barsi; M: Gabor This Marching Girl Thing

Ruzsa, Csaba Faltay, Zsofia Taller

Cast: Ervin Nagy, Roland Rába, Imre Csuja, Martina

Simpson, Kelli

Kovacs

1994; Australia; 20 min; Comedy

P: Ann Turner; W: Kelli Simpson

Idyllic fantasy collides with brutal reality in Kornél

Cast: Toni Collette, Matt Day, Jenny Apostolou, Toni

Mundruczó’s energetic feature debut. Handsome

Rickards

Bruno and his pretty gymnast wife Mari live in the

country and dream of escaping their humdrum

Cindy is a baton twirler with The Southern

existence. But without Mari knowing, Bruno travels

Twirlettes. She looks like she fits in. She’s just

to the city each week to pull petty thefts and turn

beginning to feel like she doesn’t.

bizarre tricks along with Mari’s drag queen skinhead

Prod Comp: Victoria College of the Arts

brother Ringo, who wants Bruno. Bruno is also

Dist/Sales: ACMI, VCA

involved in a complex love/hate relationship with an

older married man. Able to juggle his lies for only so

This Special Friendship

long, Bruno is forced to determine which he truly

(aka: Les Amitiés Particulières)

is—dreamer or hustler. (2002 New York Lesbian &

Gay Film Festival) Hungarian with English subtitles.

Delannoy, Jean

1964; France; 100 min; B&W; Drama

Dist/Sales: MagyarFilmunio

P: Christine Gouze-Rénal; W: Jean Aurenche, Pierre This is Dedicated: Grieving When a

Bost; C: Christian Matras; E: Louisette Hautecoeur Partner Dies

Cast: Francis Lacombrade, Didier Haudepin, Michel

Bouquet, François Leccia

Mathew, Jan

A moving film set in a strict Catholic school in

1991; UK; 25 min; Documentary

France, where a young boy falls in love with one of his

The death of a loved one is difficult enough to deal

younger classmates. After repeated attempts to stop

with, hemmed in as it is with taboos and the fear of

the boys meeting, a priest lies to one of the boys to get

strong emotions. For lesbians and gay men the pain

him to leave the school and end the relationship but

of loss is frequently sharpened by the insensitivity

tragically the boy kills himself. Based on the novel by

and, at times, the quite astounding emotional

Roger Peyrefitte. French with English subtitles.

cruelty of a straight world that denies the legiti-

Dist/Sales: Facets

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Those who Love me can Take the Train

Eventually, tensions explode. (Wolfe)

Filipino with English subtitles.

Chéreau, Patrice

1998; France; 122 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Reynafilms

P: Charles Gassot; W: Patrice Chéreau, Pierre Trividic, Dist/Sales: Wolfe

Daniele Thompson; C: Eric Gautier; E: François

Three Bewildered People

Gédigier; M: Éric Neveux

Cast: Vincent Perez, Pascal Greggory, Valeria Bruni-

(aka: Three Bewildered People in the Night)

Tedeschi, Charles Berling

Araki, Gregg

Those who Love me can Take the Train is a beautifully

1987; USA; 92 min; Drama

moving celebration of new life blossoming from

P: Gregg Araki; W: Gregg Araki; C: Gregg Araki; E: tragic loss. The film follows the journey of a group

Gregg Araki

of family, friends and lovers of painter Jean-Baptiste

Cast: Mark Howell, John Lacques, Darcy Marta

from Paris to Limoges to attend his funeral.

Araki’s first feature film follows three young people

Featuring a talented cast of France’s best contempo-

in a café in Los Angeles, USA, as they work out their

rary actors, luminous cinemascope photography and

feelings and sexuality, amidst the despair and angst

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an eclectic rock soundtrack, Those who Love me is an

of the modern world.

important film which handles an intricate story line

with finesse. Even more significantly, it presents a

Three Drags and a Wedding

group of well-defined characters, of varying gender

and sexual orientation, with a degree of sensitivity

Sugarman, Andrew

and compassion rarely seen in movies today. (Kino

Australia; 44 min; Documentary

International)

P: Andrew Sugarman

French with English subtitles.

A light-hearted look at the success, both popular and

Prod Comp: Le Studio Canal+

critical, of the two films Muriel’s Wedding and The

Dist/Sales: Kino, ArtificialEye

Adventures of Priscilla, Queens of the Desert.

Thousand Miles, A

Sugarman looks at their success locally and interna-

tionally—themes covered in the film include

Feranti, Sharon

sexuality, tolerance, acceptance and Australian

2000; USA; 23 min; Drama

humour.

Jesse is a lesbian who hasn’t spoken to her mother for

Dist/Sales: Roadshow

eight years. Her younger brother Clay convinces her

Three of Hearts

to return home for a visit, and so Jesse goes home

hoping for a reconciliation, and to face her demons.

Bogayevicz, Yurek

Dist/Sales: 2XTexan

1993; USA; 101 min; Comedy

P: Matthew Irmas, Joel B. Michaels; W: Mitch Glazer, Three

Adam Greenman; C: Andrzej Sekula; E: Dennis M.

(aka: Tatlo... magkasalo)

Hill, Suzanne Hines; M: Joe Jackson

Cast: Kelly Lynch, William Baldwin, Sherilyn Fenn, Joe

Siguion-Reyna, Carlos

Pantoliano, Gail Strickland

1998; Philippines; 86 min; Drama

A woman employs a male prostitute to pursue and

P: Armida Siguion-Reyna; W: Bibeth Orteza;

break the heart of her lesbian ex-lover, believing that

C: Romulo Araojo; E: Manet A. Dayrit; M: Ryan if she is hurt badly enough, and put off men, she will

Cayabyab

come back. Unfortunately her ex-lover falls for the

Cast: Rita Avila, Gina Alajar, Ara Mina, Tonton Gutierrez boy. Thought to be a groundbreaking lesbian film

Elsie, a young Filipino housewife, is unhappily

for Hollywood, but sadly misses out, even in 1992

married to macho Tito. When she finds that her

the boy must get the girl. The film has one good

former secret lover has cancer, Elsie leaves her

point in that Kelly Lynch’s character retains her

husband for Alice. No sooner does Elsie come out

strength and dedication to lesbianism throughout.

than she discovers she is pregnant, and she, Alice and

Prod Comp: New Line Cinema

Tito must learn to get along for the sake of the baby.

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, NewLine

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Three on a Match

Throwback

Robbins, Fred A.

(aka: Spike of Bensonhurst)

1999; USA; 87 min; Comedy

Morrissey, Paul

P: Fred Cobar

1988; USA; 97 min; Comedy

Cast: Erica Shaffer, Janet Lark, Ingrid Sthare, Te-See

P: David Weisman; W: Alan Bowne; C: Herbert Bender, Gregg Hoffman

Kirkpatrick, Allen G. Thompson; E: Bernard Loftus;

This light-hearted sexy comedy begins at Annie’s

M: Coati Mundi

annual birthday bash, a special time for a group of

Cast: Sasha Mitchell, Maria Patillo, Ernest Borgnine,

old friends to reminisce about their good old days

Geraldine Smith

and to catch up on each other’s lives. This year’s hot

An ambitious boxer tries to climb his way to the top.

topic is Beth and Claire. Last year they moved in

He falls in love with the local don’s daughter and is

together and this year Beth’s maternal instinct has hit

banished from the area, so he sets up shop with a

overdrive—much to Claire’s dismay. Since artificial

hilarious Puerto Rican family. His mother is a

insemination is too cold and adoption takes forever,

lesbian.

Beth, the confirmed lesbian, goes on a manhunt.

Her search leads her to David, a nightschool teacher,

Prod Comp: FilmDallas Pictures, Sugarloaf Films

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who happens to be secretly in love with Claire.

Dist/Sales: Roadshow

While Beth wants to dip into David’s gene pool,

Thug

David wants to dip into Claire. (Wolfe)

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

Economopoulis, Spiro / Tsiolkas, Christos

1998; Australia; 12 min; Experimental

Three to Tango

Explores issues surrounding pornography, masculin-

Santostefano, Damon

ity and memory.

1999; USA; 98 min; Comedy

P: Bobby Newmyer, Jeffrey Silver, Bettina Sofia

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Viviano; W: Rodney Vaccaro, Aline Brosh McKenna;

Cimino, Michael

C: Walt Lloyd; E: Stephen Semel; M: Graeme Revell 1974; USA; 115 min; Comedy, Action, Drama

Cast: Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell, Dylan

P: Robert Daley; W: Michael Cimino; C: Frank Stanley; McDermott, Oliver Platt

E: Ferris Webster; M: Dee Barton

A business tycoon thinks it’s safe to ask his gay client

Cast: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, Geoffrey Lewis,

Oscar to spy on his mistress. Oscar isn’t ‘gay’, but to

Catherine Bach, Gary Busey

keep the tycoon happy, he agrees—and falls madly in

Four men conspire to rob an armoured car, in this

love. (Wolfe)

rather vulgar comedy-drama. Bridges gives a first-

Prod Comp: Outlaw Productions

rate performance as a young drifter after quick riches

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Warner

and spends most of the film in drag. A fairly

homophobic film with no openly gay characters but

Threesome

most of the males spend an inordinate amount of

Fleming, Andrew

time trying to hide their fear of homosexuality.

1994; USA; 93 min; Comedy

Prod Comp: United Artists, The Malpaso Company

P: Brad Krevoy, Steve Stabler; W: Andrew Fleming; Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Warner, UA

C: Alexander Gruszynski; E: William C. Carruth

M: Thomas Newman

Thundercrack!

Cast: Josh Charles, Stephen Baldwin, Lara Flynn Boyle,

McDowell, Curt

Alexis Arquette

1975; USA; 150 min; Comedy, Horror

When they said the dorms were co-ed, they didn’t

P: Charles Thomas, John Thomas; W: George Kuchar; mean guys and girls would be assigned to the same

C: Curt McDowell; E: Curt McDowell; M: Mark rooms. But Alex has a name that puts her in the

Ellinger

male column as far as the university computer is

Cast: Marion Eaton, George Kuchar, Mookie Blodgett,

concerned, so she finds herself squeezed into the

Melinda McDowell

most intimate of living arrangements! Alex has her

A bizarre black comedy that’s become a cult classic.

eye on Eddy who has his eye on Stuart!

This spoof is difficult to categorise as either comedy

Prod Comp: Motion Picture Corporation of America,

or horror. During a storm, a group of travellers,

TriStar Pictures; Dist/Sales: 16MM, Col-Tri

including a gorilla, find themselves at cackling

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Gertie’s Old Dark Masturbatorium. They are

Tim Miller: Loud and Queer

terrorised by a bunch of perverts who sexually assault

them. A sexually graphic hoot that is rarely seen in

Harrison, Richard

its original uncut version.

1992; USA; 29 min; Documentary

Widely acclaimed performance artist Tim Miller

Tidy Endings

conducts a workshop for gay men, performs excerpts

from My Queer Body and discusses the importance of

Millar, Gavin

autobiographical storytelling to lesbians, gay men

1988; USA; 60 min; Drama

and other marginalised communities. Interviews,

P: Patrick Whitley, Rick McCallum; W: Harvey

performance footage and images spanning his 15-

Fierstein; C: John Michaels; E: Ruth Foster; M: Stanley year career are interwoven as Miller confronts fear

Myers

and loss, violence, censorship, homophobia and the

Cast: Stockard Channing, Harvey Fierstein, Nathaniel

politics of AIDS in America.

Moreau, Jean De Baer

Dist/Sales: VDB

A made-for-television drama, this is a touching story

about an unusual friendship. When a man dies of

Time Being, The

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AIDS, his male lover, and his ex-wife develop a bond

Sherman, Kenneth

where they find support in their grief. A strong and

1997; Canada; 52 min; Drama

powerful drama that explores its emotional subject

with depth and understanding.

A visually stunning, powerful meditation on one

man’s struggle for survival and forgiveness after

Prod Comp: Sandollar

assisting with his lover’s euthanasia. The film begins

Ties that Bind, The

with Michael and Sebastian moving into their new

home. They are in love; embraced by friends and

Friedrich, Su

Sebastian’s unconditionally loving mother. Still, they

1984; USA; 55 min; B&W; Documentary

are not immune to social problems or human

Lesbian filmmaker, Su Friedrich examines her

weaknesses: Michael has AIDS and he betrays

mother’s life during the Nazi rule of Germany. Far

Sebastian by sleeping with someone else, though it is

different from the usual documentary and more than

not clear which precedes the other. After Michael’s

a daughter interviewing a mother.

death, Sebastian is filled with doubt about helping

him die and a consuming need to forgive not only

Dist/Sales: WMM, Cinenova, CFMDC

Michael, but himself. (Frameline)

Tillsammans

Dist/Sales: Frameline, CFMDC

(aka: Together)

Time Off

Moodysson, Lukas

Fox, Eytan

2000; Denmark; 106 min; Comedy

1990; Israel; 45 min; Drama

P: Lars Jönsson; C: Ulf Brantås; E: Fredrik Abrahamsen, Brave first film from Fox which is a drama about

Michal Leszczylowski

homosexuality in the Israeli Army. Hebrew with

Cast: Lisa Lindgren, Emma Samuelsson, Michael

English subtitles.

Nyqvist, Sam Kessel

A group of twenty-somethings in a hippie share

Time Piece

house in mid 1970s Sweden start to question their

social, moral and sexual beliefs. Elisabeth has fled

Petraska, Brian / Sprenkel, Kenn

her alcoholic husband in the hope of starting a new

1994; USA; 96 min; Drama

life for herself and her two children. The house

Cast: Eric Brizee, Markas O’Donnell, Brian Petraska

leader and his wife have an open marriage, although

From discussions of group sex, to monogamy, to

it’s clear the wife enjoys her sexual freedom more

coming out, a surprise 30th birthday party is the

than her husband. Anna and Lasse are recently

catalyst for this story based on the experiences of

separated, and Anna thinks she may be a lesbian,

seven San Francisco gay men in the early 1990s. A

whilst Lasse is confused and angry—even more so

fictional story shot in documentary style, the film

when he is propositioned by one of the household’s

explores issues that touch the personal and intimate

few single males. Swedish with English subtitles.

lives of most gay men. (Water Bearer Films)

Prod Comp: Zentropa Entertainments

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer

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Time Regained

which White received a lenient sentence, resulted in

(aka: Le Temps retrouvé)

massive rioting in San Francisco by gay and lesbian

activists. But amidst the tragedy the film builds a

Ruiz, Raoul

convincing and impassioned picture of a man

1999; France; 158 min; Drama

committed to human rights and human dignity.

W: Raoul Ruiz, Gilles Taurand; C: Ricardo Aronovich; Awards: Academy Awards, 1984: Best Documentary;

E: Denise de Casabianca; M: Jorge Arriagada

San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film

Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, John

Festival, 1985: Audience Award for Best Documentary

Malkovich, Vincent Perez, Pascal Greggory

Prod Comp: Black Sand Productions

Marcel Proust (1871–1922) is on his deathbed.

Dist/Sales: ACMI, October, Telling, BFI, Wolfe,

Looking at photographs brings memories of his

NewYorker, Cowboy

childhood, his youth, his lovers, and the way the

Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His

Times Square

memories are in no particular order, they move back

and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts

Moyle, Allan

with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her

1980; USA; 111 min; Drama

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doomed husband, with the pleasure-seeking Baron

P: Robert Stigwood, Jacob Brackman; W: Jacob

de Charlus, with Marcel’s lover Albertine, and with

Blackman; C: James A. Contner; E: Tom Priestley; others; present also in memory are Marcel’s beloved

M: Blue Weaver, Robin Gibb

mother and grandmother. It seems as if to live is to

Cast: Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson, Tim Curry, Peter

remember and to capture memories is to create a

Coffield

work of great art. The memories parallel the final

A teenage rock ‘n’ roll rebel story about two young

volume of Proust’s novel. (Mongrel Media) French

women involved in a psychiatric experiment who

with English subtitles.

become close friends and decide to escape. They

Prod Comp: Le Studio Canal+

begin living on the streets and put together an all-

Dist/Sales: Kino, Mongrel, ArtificialEye, NFVLS

girl rock band and fall in love. Music supplied by the

Patti Smith Group, Lou Reed and Suzi Quatro,

Time Zones

amongst many others. Has become a cult favourite,

particularly since revelations about more overt

Jarman, Derek

lesbian scenes that were dropped from the final cut.

1976; UK; 32 min; Documentary

P: James MacKay

Prod Comp: Robert Stigwood Organisation

Dist/Sales: BFI, Swank

Three short films featuring personal video diary

work: a portrait of William Burroughs, and clips

produced for the band Throbbing Gristle.

Prod Comp: Dark Pictures

Dist/Sales: ACMI

Times of Harvey Milk, The

Epstein, Robert

1984; USA; 90 min; Documentary

P: Richard Schmiechen; W: Judith Coburn, Carter

Wilson; C: Frances Reid; E: Robert Epstein, Deborah Hoffmann; M: Mark Isham

Cast: Harvey Fierstein, Harvey Milk, Anne Kronenberg,

Tory Hartmann

Tiny and Ruby: Hell Drivin’ Women

An exceptionally moving documentary about

Tiny and Ruby: Hell Drivin’ Women

Harvey Milk, the first openly gay candidate elected

to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors. A coura-

Schiller, Greta / Weiss, Andrea

geous activist, Milk worked hard to express the

1988; USA; 30 min; Documentary

political concerns of not only gays and lesbians, but

This sequel to The International Sweethearts of

also of African–Americans, Hispanics and other so-

Rhythm profiles one of the band’s star performers,

called American minorities. After 11 months in

the legendary jazz trumpeter Ernestine ‘Tiny’ Davis,

office Milk and the Mayor of San Francisco were

and her partner for 40 years, drummer Ruby Lucas.

assassinated by Dan White, a conservative member

The film includes colourful interviews with Tiny and

of the Board of Supervisors. The subsequent trial, in

Ruby in their Chicago home, compelling archival

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material, lively musical performances, imaginative

as death separate him from his laconic boyfriend,

computer animation, and an evocative narration by

who attempts to escape from the serious issues of life

Cheryl Clarke.

via a hedonistic lifestyle. Simon’s troubles have only

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

just begun when his attempts to date other men are

Film Festival, 1988: Best Documentary

met by haunting obstruction and harassment from

Prod Comp: Jezebel Productions

the ‘other side’. This well-shot British production

combines wit, seriousness, meaty portrayals of gay

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild, BFI, Salzgeber

life, comic situations, and a great soundtrack in a

Titanic 2000

manner that will bring both laughter and tears to

any audience. (MQFF)

Fedele, John Paul

Prod Comp: Victor, British Screen

1999; USA; 85 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: TLA, FirstRunFeatures

P: Michael L. Raso; W: Clancy Fitz Simmons;

C: Timothy Healy

To Forget Venice

Cast: Tammy Parks, Michael R, Thomas, Jacob Bogert,

(aka: Dimenticare Venezia)

Suzanne Lenore

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Vampire Vladamina is a passenger on the maiden

Brusati, Franco

voyage of the ocean liner Titanic 2000. She’s there

1979; Italy; 90 min; Drama

for the ride, but also to find a woman she can turn

P: Franco Brusati, Claudio Grassetti; W: Franco Brusati, into a vampire queen. Shari, a rock groupie looks to

Jaj Fiastri; C: Romano Albani; E: Ruggero Mastroianni; be the perfect conquest, and she eventually must

M: Benedetto Ghiglia, Saverio Mercadante

choose between an eternal life as Vladamina’s sex

Cast: Erland Josephson, Mariangela Melato, David

slave, or death.

Pontremoli, Eleanora Giorgi

Dist/Sales: Seduction

A comedy/drama about a middle-aged gay man,

Nicky and his young lover, who stay with Nicky’s

To an Unknown God

sister, Marta, at her country estate. Marta is an opera

(aka: A un Dios Desconocido)

star, now dying, who lives with her adopted niece,

Anna. The visit of her brother brings back a series of

Chávarri, Jaime

childhood memories, both painful and pleasant.

1977; Spain; 95 min; Drama

Italian with English subtitles.

W: Elías Querejeta; C: Teodoro Escamilla;

Prod Comp: Rizzoli, Action

M: Luis de Pablo

Dist/Sales: ACMI

Cast: Héctor Alterio, Ángela Molina, María Rosa

Salgado

To my Women Friends

This enigmatic story centres around Jose, a gay

Sharandak, Natasha

magician, now living with his younger lover. He goes

1993; Germany, Russia; 64 min; Documentary

into what could be called a mid-life crisis and

decides to review his life. He travels to his childhood

A series of revealing interviews with six Russian

home in Granada and is flooded with the memory of

lesbians which depicts the subjects’ joys and

witnessing the assassination of the gay poet and

hardships, touching on issues like women’s prisons,

activist Federico Jose Lorca. An oblique meditation

coming out, homophobia, transsexuality and gay

on ageing, homoeroticism and childhood.

and lesbian community groups.

Dist/Sales: Frameline

To Die for

To Play or to Die

(aka: Heaven’s a Drag)

(aka: Spelen of Sterven)

Litten, Peter McKenzie

1994; UK; 97 min; Drama

Krom, Frank

P: Gary Fitzpatrick; W: Johnny Byrne; C: John Ward; 1990; The Netherlands; 50 min; B&W; Drama

E: Jeffrey Arsenault; M: Roger Bolton

P: Maria Peters, Hans Pos, Dave Schram, Jose Steen;

Cast: Thomas Arklie, Ian Williams, Dilly Keane, Tony

W: Frank Krom, Anne van de Putte; C: Nils Post;

Slattery, Ian McKellen

M: Ferdinand Bakker, Kim Hayworth

The story of the relationship between Simon, a

Cast: Tjebbo Gerritsma, Geert Hunaerts

hunky television repairman, and Mark, a HIV-

Kees, a 15-year-old boy, has developed a crush on

positive drag queen. The expressive, sensitive, witty

Charel, a classmate. When Kees’s parents go away he

and very camp Mark does not let a small event such

embarks on a plan of seduction and invites Charel to

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his house. But his plan is ultimately for revenge

people, women and his teachers. Bored with his drug

against the bullying and cruel Charel. A psycho-

use, he begins to live more dangerously. He falls in

sexual drama dealing with insanity, which is

love with another tough boy who has just been

unfortunately equated with homosexual desire.

released from a remand home. They begin a rampage

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer

of thrill-killings of young women.

Prod Comp: National General Pictures

To Ride a Cow

Dist/Sales: Warner

Deeya, Loran / Lee, Quentin

Together Alone

1992; Hong Kong, USA; 24 min; Drama

A sumptuously moody film about a young Asian

Castellaneta, P. J.

man who is finding commitment a problem—both

1991; USA; 84 min; B&W; Drama

to his girlfriend and the man he is seeing when he

P: P. J. Castellaneta; W: P. J. Castellaneta; C: David just wants to have sex.

Dechant; E: P. J. Castellaneta, Maria Lee; M: Wayne Alabardo

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything,

Cast: Todd Stites, Terry Curry

Julie Newmar

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Two gay men casually meet in a bar, go home

together and have sex. Together Alone peels away the

Kidron, Beeban

veneer of faked intimacy dredged up by a typical one

1995; USA; 108 min; Comedy

night stand. The two men humorously and antago-

P: G. Mac Brown; W: Douglas Carter Beane; C: Steve nistically discuss the many levels of mistrust evident

Mason; E: Andrew Mondshein; M: Rachel Portman

in this sort of relationship, and their sexuality.

Cast: Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo,

Beautifully filmed it is Castellaneta’s first feature film

Stockard Channing

and has won many awards. Described as the gay My

Vida and Noxeema are two sophisticated New York

Dinner with Andre.

drag queens who let hard-luck ‘drag princess’ Chi-

Awards: Berlin Film Festival, 1992: Best Gay Film; San

Chi tag along with them as they drive to Hollywood

Francisco Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 1995: Audience

in a pink Cadillac for a major drag competition. On

Award for Best Feature

the way, they run afoul of a sexist, homophobic cop,

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Forefront, BFI

get stuck in a small Nebraskan town, and change the

lives of everyone they encounter there. Made for a

Together and Apart

straight audience.

Lynd, Laurie

Prod Comp: Amblin, Universal

1986; USA; 26 min; B&W; Drama

Dist/Sales: UIP, Wolfe, TLA, Swank

A delightful musical drama about sexual and

Toc Storee

professional choices, Together and Apart is a tale of

reunited lovers and has the cast singing part of the

Ma, Ming-yuen S.

narrative in bed, across dinner tables, and on the

1992; Hong Kong, USA; 21 min; Drama

road. (CFMDC)

A film addressing the issues of sexuality, tradition

Awards: Berlin Film Festival, 1992: Best Gay Film

and identity in Asian gay contexts. Stories from

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild, CFMDC

Chinese and Japanese history are juxtaposed with

contemporary accounts and texts by authors such as

Toilers and the Wayfarers, The

James Baldwin and Trinh T. Minh-ha, to create a

sense of continuity from past to present in self-

Froelich, Keith

identification as gay Asians. (MQFF)

1995; USA; 80 min; B&W; Drama

P: Keith Froelich; W: Keith Froelich; C: James D. Tittle Todd Killings, The

Cast: Matt Klemp, Andrew Woodhouse, Ralf Schirg

Lush tale of two gay teenage boys growing up in the

Shear, Barry

conservative Midwest of America. The pressure of

1970; USA; 90 min; Drama

hiding their sexuality from their family and the local

P: Barry Shear; W: Dennis Murphy, Joel Oliansky;

community reaches boiling point when they meet a

C: Harold E. Stine; E: Walter Thompson; M: Leonard mysterious stranger and the three decide to escape to

Rosenman

find a new life in the big city. German with English

Cast: Robert F. Lyons, Richard Thomas, Belinda

subtitles.

Montgomery, Barbara Bel Geddes

Prod Comp: KJF Productions

Skipper is a good-looking dropout who hates old

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!, Wolfe

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Token of Love

city, New York City, the most photographed city in

the world, operates as a backdrop for the life of Tom

Motyl, H. D.

Chomont, a key member of the New York under-

1993; USA; 31 min; Drama

ground, a notorious video artist, AIDS sufferer,

Twisted tales of gay break-ups. Was banned in Japan

raconteur. His fantastical stories punctuate the weave

due to brief full frontal nudity.

of pictures, recounting infanticide, a mobster’s love,

incest, and a rare white light, which he imagines as

Tokyo Cowboy

both the beginning and end of all life. As the

decades roll past, excerpts from hundreds of films,

Garneau, Kathy

some archival documents, some well-known

1994; Canada; 94 min; Drama

Hollywood moments, stream past in a hypnotic rush

P: Richard Davis; W: Caroline Adderson; C: Kenneth offering a subject whose skin is cinema, whose flesh

Hewlett; M: Ari Wise

and blood has been remade into the picture plane.

Cast: Hiromoto Ida, Christianne Hirt

This is a biography about biographies. Tom travels

No Ogawa, who works in a Tokyo burger palace,

the length of his own life without arriving. Perhaps

dreams of going West to become a cowboy. His

the most important parts of his own life are never

t

childhood pen-pal Kate lives in the wilds of Canada

witnessed, experienced or understood by him. The

and No decides to visit her. Kate has returned to her

unconscious. The stolen footage is a way to reflect

small town with her lover Shelley and No falls for

on a new kind of identity (socially formed, as an

Shelley.

image). This biography is made possible even, by the

society of the spectacle. (Mike Hoolboom)

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

Tokyo Fist

(aka: Tokyo-ken)

Tsukamoto, Shinya

1995; Japan; 87 min; Drama

P: Shinya Tsukamoto; W: Shinya Tsukamoto; C: Shinya Tsukamoto; E: Shinya Tsukamoto; M: Chu Ishikawa

Cast: Fujii Kaori, Kôji Tsukamoto, Shinya Tsukomoto,

Takenaka Naoto

Tsuda, an insurance agent, encounters Takuji, an old

school chum, now a professional boxer. During a

subsequent visit and scuffle, a jealous Tsuda is KO’d

by Takuji who has attempted to seduce his fiancée,

Hizuru. This violent episode is the catalyst for

change with Tsuda who is now consumed by the

Tongues Untied

desire for revenge. He attends boxing training just as

Hizuru moves in with Takuji after piercing every

Tom Clay Jesus

available appendage and getting heavily tattooed.

Duong, Hoang A.

Has all the usual Tsukamoto homoerotic undercur-

2001; USA; 17 min; Drama

rents. Japanese with English subtitles.

A multilayered examination of one man’s experience

Prod Comp: Kajiyu Theater

of a one night stand.

Dist/Sales: Manga

Dist/Sales: HeavyBlow

Tom

Tomboychik

Hoolboom, Mike

2002; Canada; 80 min; Documentary

DuBowski, Sandi Simcha

P: Mike Hoolboom; W: Mike Hoolboom; C: Caspar 1993; USA; 15 min; Documentary

Stracke; E: Mike Hoolboom

A series of intimate Video-8 vignettes depicting the

Tom is an ‘experimental’ feature-length documentary

fierce love between Malverna, who is 88 years old,

made almost entirely of found footage. This is

and her grandson, Sandi, 22 years old. The two

cinema as déjà vu, or déjà voodoo; many moments

playmates dress up drag-esque. It is a moving

will feel all too familiar, though they’ve been

portrait of a woman’s life and struggle with gender

projected now onto the surface of a life to make up

and sexuality across three generations.

this most unusual of biographies. The history of a

Dist/Sales: VDB

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Tongues Untied

An introverted teenager with an obsession for self-

help tapes, develops a crush on a classmate with a

Riggs, Marlon

mysterious past.

1989; USA; 55 min; Documentary

Cast: Kerrigan Black, Bernard Brannier, Gerald Davis,

Tootsie

Blackberri

This is the acclaimed account of black gay life by

Pollack, Sydney

Emmy Award-winning director Marlon Riggs. Using

1982; USA; 112 min; Comedy

poetry, personal testimony, rap and performance,

P: Sydney Pollack, Dick Richards; W: Larry Gelbart, Tongues Untied describes the homophobia and

Murray Shisgal; C: Owen Roizman; E: Frederick

racism that confront black gay men.

Steinkamp, William Steinkamp; M: Dave Grusin,

Awards: Berlin International Film Festival, 1990: Teddy;

Stephen Bishop

San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney

Festival, 1990: Audience Award

Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray

Dist/Sales: Frameline, BFI, Wolfe, NFVLS, ACMI, Strand

Comedy about a struggling New York actor who is

having problems getting work because he is

Too Much Sun

considered difficult. To find work he dons drag and

t

becomes a superstar on a soap opera. Things get a

Downey Snr, Robert

little tricky when he falls for his co-lead, Jessica

1991; USA; 91 min; Comedy

Lange and, in a moment of intimacy, makes a move

P: Lisa M. Hansen; W: Robert Downey Jnr, Laura

on Lange who, of course, reads it as a lesbian

Ernst, Al Schwartz; C: Robert Yeoman;

advance.

E: Joe D’Augustine; M: David Robbins

Prod Comp: Columbia, Delphi, Mirage, Punch

Cast: Robert Downey Jnr, Eric Idle, Ralph Macchio,

Productions

Andrea Martin, Leo Rossi, Jennifer Rubin

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, 16MM, ReelMovies, Col-

Two eccentric children of a Beverly Hills millionaire

Tri, Swank

learn that they will lose $200 million in inheritance

unless one of them produces an heir within one year.

The only problem is that the son is gay and the

daughter is a lesbian. The characters are only there

for laughs and the film basically falls short of

anything more interesting.

Prod Comp: Cinetel Films

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, NewLine

Too Outrageous!

Benner, Richard

1987; Canada; 110 min; Comedy

P: Roy Krost; W: Richard, Benner; C: Fred Guthe; E: George Appleby

Cast: Craig Russell, Hollis McLaren, Rusty Ryan,

Norman Weiler

A sequel to the film Outrageous! Living in New York,

a wisecracking hairdresser and female impersonator’s

Torch Song Trilogy

life is hampered by his schizophrenic roommate.

Some great impersonations of Tina Turner, Eartha

Torch Song Trilogy

Kitt and Mae West. Both Benner and Russell died of

Bogart, Paul

AIDS in 1990.

1988; USA; 118 min; Comedy, Drama

Prod Comp: Téléfilm Canada

P: Howard Gottfried; W: Harvey Fierstein; C: Mikael Too Young

Salomon; E: Nicholas C. Smith; M: Peter Matz

Cast: Harvey Fierstein, Anne Bancroft, Matthew

(aka: Ye Maque)

Broderick, Brian Kerwin, Karen Young

Huang, Min-chen

Set around three incidents in the life of a drag artist:

1997; Taiwan; 40 min; Drama

in 1971 there is a one-off affair with a schoolteacher

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firmly in the closet; in 1973 he falls deeply in love

on by Murray, his pathologically-lying manager, who

with a young man who comes to live with him; in

claims that he’s already made it big in the overseas

1980 his mother discovers his homosexuality as an

market. Johnny’s best friend Wiley, a porn-addicted

old lover moves back in. Moving and thoughtful

bookstore clerk, is desperately trying to figure out if

reworking of the Broadway success written by one of

he’s attracted to women or men. The already

the few openly gay actors and writers, Harvey

complex friendship heads up, when Wiley puts the

Fierstein.

moves on Johnny. But what will happen when

Prod Comp: New Line Cinema

Johnny’s live-in girlfriend finds out?

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, Wolfe, BFI

(1998 Verzaubert Queer Film Festival)

Total Eclipse

Totally F***ed Up

Holland, Agnieszka

Araki, Gregg

1995; Belgium, France, UK; 110 min; Drama

1993; USA; 85 min; Drama

P: Jean-Pierre Ramsay-Levi; W: Christopher Hampton; P: Andrea Sperling, Gregg Araki; W: Gregg Araki;

C: Yorgos Arvanitis; E: Isabelle Lorente; M: Jan A. P.

C: Gregg Araki; E: Gregg Araki

Kaczmarek

Cast: James Duval, Roko Belic, Susan Behshid, Jenee Gill

t Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane

An open-structured and angst filled look into the

Bohringer, Dominique Blanc

lives of six gay and lesbian teenagers living in Los

The sensational story of Arthur Rimbaud, the 19th

Angeles. They share their views on sex, their parents

century French poet, and his affair with fellow poet

and relationships, and show their anger and

Paul Verlaine, an older and not so successful poet.

frustration at living in the homophobic 1990s.

The film follows their messy relationship up until it

Prod Comp: Desperate Pictures, Muscle + Hate Studios

turns violent and destructive.

Dist/Sales: Potential, Strand, Fortissimo, Wolfe, NFVLS,

Prod Comp: Capital Films, FIT Productions, Fine Line

ACMI

Features, K2 Film

Dist/Sales: FilmsInc, FineLine, Wolfe, UIP

Touch Me (1994)

Total Loss

Cox, Paul

1994; Australia; 30 min; Drama

Nechustan, Dana

W: Paul Cox, Barry Dickins, Margot Wilburd

2000; The Netherlands; 84 min; Drama

Cast: Gosia Dobrowolska, Claudia Karvan

Opening and ending with a spectacular and

Two women escape their frustrating relationships

harrowing tunnel car crash, Total Loss moves

and spend a weekend alone together in the country.

backwards to tell us ( Memento-like) the twisted

narrative arc. Duco, a rich arrogant doctor, and his

Touch Me (1997)

house guest/lover Reinier take in a man, Jeroen, after

his failed suicide attempt. Duco plans to arrive at his

Boos, H. Gordon

parents’ New Year’s Eve party with a surprise: both

1997; USA; 107 min; Drama

men. His parents and fiancee don’t know he’s gay

P: David Rubin, Michael Sourapas; W: H. Gordon

and living with a shady drug dealer, one who holds

Boos, Greg H. Sims; C: Giles Dunning; E: Steve

secrets to both of their pasts. A dark, stylish thriller

Nevius; M: Claude Foisy

that drops pieces of the puzzle in the viewer’s lap

Cast: Amanda Peet, Michael Vartan, Greg Louganis,

every so often, while simultaneously offering up

Peter Facinelli, Kari Wuhrer

questions about escape, manipulation and those last

Life is pretty good for Amanda as she has a new job

few minutes of life. (2002 Chicago Lesbian & Gay

and a new relationship. But a telephone call changes

International Film Festival) Dutch with English

everything when she is told her former lover in dying

subtitles.

of AIDS.

Totally Confused

Prod Comp: Devin Entertainment

Pritikin, Greg / Rosen, Gary

Touch of Evil

1998; USA; 88 min; Comedy

Welles, Orson

P: Bob Fagan; W: Greg Pritikin, Gary Rosen; C: Alan 1958; USA; 105 min; B&W; Thriller

Thatcher

P: Albert Zugsmith; W: Orson Welles; C: Russell Metty; Cast: Greg Pritikin, Gary Rosen, Heather Donaldson

E: Edward Curtiss, Aaron Stell, Virgil W. Vogel;

Rock star wannabe Johnny is continually being led

M: Henry Mancini

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Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles,

P: Elke Peters; W: Ayse Polat, Basri Polat;

Joseph Calleia, Marlene Deitrich

C: Martin Gressmann; E: Margot Neubert-Maric

Charlton Heston plays Hank Quinlan, a police

Cast: Oezlem Blume, Siir Eloglu, Oezay Fecht, Martin

captain in a corrupt city on the Mexican–American

Glade, Hilmi Soezer

border who pursues his own notion of justice. It’s a

Tour Abroad is a tender road movie that follows the

wonderful thriller that delves into the murky depths

adventures of a gay Turkish folk singer and the 11-

of corruption, justice, worship and betrayal. There’s

year-old daughter of his recently deceased friend.

a scene where Janet Leigh is roughed up by a gang of

German & Turkish with English subtitles.

thugs and raped, one of the gang members,

Prod Comp: Mira Filmproduktion, ZDF

Mercedes McCambridge, is a dyke in male drag who

Dist/Sales: MiraFilm

just wants to watch. From the novel by Whit

Masterson.

Toward Intimacy

Prod Comp: Universal

Dist/Sales: Potential, ReelMovies, NFVLS, Universal,

McGee, Debbie

ACMI

1992; Canada; 61 min; Documentary

P: Nicole Hubert

Touch of Love, A

t

A woman with a disability retains both her sexuality

(aka: Thank you all very Much; The Millstone)

and her right to seek, develop and sustain a relation-

ship with the partner of her choice. In this docu-

Hussein, Waris

mentary, four disabled women from across Canada

1969; UK; 105 min; Drama

share their personal experiences and raise important

P: Max Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky; W: Margaret

issues including sexuality, self-esteem, stereotyping

Drabble; C: Peter Suschitzky; E: Bill Blunden;

and parenting.

M: Michael Dress

Prod Comp: National Film Board of Canada

Cast: Sandy Dennis, Ian McKellen, Eleanor Bron, John

Dist/Sales: ACMI, FilmakersLibrary

Standing

Realistic, unsentimental British drama. Ph.D.

Toxic Queen

Student Sandy Dennis decides to keep her baby

Cunningham Reid, Fiona

despite being unmarried. The father of the child is a

1997; Australia; 25 min; Documentary

bisexual news reader.

In 1994 film maker Fiona Cunningham Reid

Prod Comp: Columbia, Palomar-Amicus

recorded several hours of interviews with her friend

Dist/Sales: Columbia

David McDiarmid. In these intimate conversation

Touchables, The

David reflects on his life as an artist, and a sick

queen ‘who refuses to be bitter’ in the bewildering

Freeman, Robert

age of AIDS.

1968; UK; 97 min; Comedy

Prod Comp: Starfish Films

P: John Bryan; W: Ian La Frenais; C: Alan Pudney; Dist/Sales: Starfish

M: Ken Thorne

Cast: Rick Starr, Ester Anderson, Judy Huxtable, Harry

Traditional Family Vampires

Baird

Poirier, Bob

Set in the fabulous swinging sixties in London, The

2000; USA; 17 min; Comedy

Touchables is the story of four gorgeous female models

who kidnap a rather pretty-boy pop star and take him

Wacky comedy about a right wing vampire family

to a huge inflatable dome in the country. Meanwhile

claiming victims door to door until they meet one

gangsters pursue the group and a very muscle-bound

particularly unsavoury character.

black wrestler has the hots for the young pop star.

Dist/Sales: BobbyRoger

Lots of fun, very camp and psychedelic.

Tragedy of Samantha Biggle and the

Prod Comp: Film Designs Ltd

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, 20thCenturyFox, VSM

Twins, The

Tour Abroad

Himmel, Lauren

1998; USA; 32 min; Comedy

(aka: Auslandstournee)

Tells the story of the friendship between Sam, a high

Polat, Ayse

school girl and her two new friends, twin sisters

1999; Germany; 91 min; Drama

Darcie and Charlotte. The film explores several

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themes as it traces the relationship between the trio:

complete transformation: that of homosexual to

ebbing sexuality, sister jealousy, socio-economic class

heterosexual. Ricardo is taken to Dallas where he

dynamics, and the psychological setting of the

tries very hard to transform himself: inside and out.

nuclear family.

During this process he becomes a Christian and ends

Dist/Sales: TunnelVision

up marrying Betty, a woman he meets through the

church. Together they try to start a new life away

Tragic but True

from his past. Meanwhile the church organises a trip

to New York to ‘rescue’ other transvestite street

Burt, Malcolm

walkers and invites Ricardo to go along with them

1996; Australia; 18 min; Comedy

and preach his example. Ricardo travels to New York

P: Lori-Jay Ellis, Robyn Evans; W: Malcolm Burt

and meets up with his old friends Gigi and

Take one bored raver, his dizzy sister, a macho cop

Giovanna, both of whom refuse the offer to come

and a jilted queen and what do you get? Lloyd’s

back with him to Dallas to be redeemed from their

Heaven!

sexuality. They also refuse to believe in the truth of

his transformation, and regard it openly as a

Dist/Sales: Attitude

desperate exercise in survival. Ricardo and the

t Transanimals

church committee return to Dallas empty handed.

As time goes by and Ricardo is affected by the onset

Antell, Rachel / Hill, Amy / Weiner, Rebecca

of AIDS-related illness, he looks back on his life and

2001; USA; 15 min; Comedy

reflects that if he could choose all over again he

Ever wondered why Kitty has been scratching and

would still want to be a woman. (Frameline)

clawing more than usual? Did you happen to catch

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Fido sniffing around your make-up? Take an

hilarious sneak-peak inside the world of

Transformers/AIDS

transitioning pets. (MQFF)

Kinney, Robert

Transeltown

1988; USA; 28 min; Documentary

Transformers/AIDS takes a speech by President

Paci, Myra

Reagan to the American Foundation for AIDS

1992; USA; 23 min; Drama

Research in 1987 as the point of departure for a

A morbid and tender love story that begins when a

critique of conservative policies regarding the

lonely girl drags home the naked body of a coma-

epidemic. The tape uses an assortment of lively

tose, genital-less blonde woman. (Cinenova)

visual juxtapositions to explore the language and

representations that have been produced to shape

Transexual Menace

public perceptions of the disease.

von Praunheim, Rosa

Transit: Adventures of a Boy in the Big City

1995; Germany, USA; 60 min; Documentary

Cameron, Heather

From one of Germany’s most prolific gay filmmak-

1999; Canada, Germany; 20 min; Documentary

ers, a factual yet captivating documentary about the

biology of the transgender process. Transgendered

A young Berliner reflects on how the radical changes

queers discuss the technical aspects and the com-

to Berlin’s architecture and flow influences the

plexities of male-to-female and female-to-male

emergence of his transgenderism. Ati walks through

transition.

the city and shows the locations and spaces which

help shape his daily life: cruising in the Tiergarten,

Dist/Sales: Praunheim, VDB

going shopping for suits or hardware, getting ready

Transformation, The

to dance fox-trot in Cafe Fatale, Berlin’s ‘queer

carousel’, on a Sunday night. A portrait of a

Aparicio, Carlos / Aikin, Susan

thoughtful boy confronting the unfinished state of

1995; USA; 58 min; Documentary

both his body and his city. (CFMDC)

The Transformation is a documentary that explores

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

the changes that Ricardo, a former homeless

prostitute transvestite, undergoes after discovering

Transsexual Journey, A

that he is HIV-positive and deciding that he is not

going to die on the streets. In order to move out of

Sedghi, Behzad

his street life he accepts help from a group of Born

1995; USA; 44 min; Documentary

Again Christians who in exchange demand his

Profiles Katherine Cohen (formerly Bruce Cohen)

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and her decision to undergo male-to-female sex

and clichés to fashion a tender, subtle, tense and

reassignment surgery. In interviews before the

sometimes funny look at repression and the idea of

surgery, Cohen discusses her prior life, including a

family. (2002 Santa Cruz Film Festival)

marriage and two children, relations with her family

Prod Comp: Tunnel Vision Productions

and her lifelong conflicted feelings about her

Dist/Sales: TunnelVision, Wolfe

sexuality. In separate interviews conducted a few

weeks and a full year after the operation—illustrated

in a computer animated sequence—she discusses her

decision, her new life, and her hopes for the future.

(Cinema Guild)

Dist/Sales: CinemaGuild

Trappings of Transhood

Hurwitz, Elise / Lee, Christopher

1997; USA; 27 min; Documentary

Fascinating and revealing documentary about the

t

experiences of female to male transsexuals.

Dist/Sales: LeeC

Treading Water

Trash

Treasure Island

Morrissey, Paul

King, Scott

1970; USA; 93 min; Drama

1999; USA; 86 min; B&W; Comedy

P: Andy Warhol; W: Paul Morrissey; C: Paul Morrissey; P: Adrienne Gruben; W: Scott King; C: Phillip Glau; E: Jed Johnson, Paul Morrissey

E: Dody Dorn; M: Chris Anderson

Cast: Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn, Bruce Pecheur,

Cast: Lance Baker, Nick Offerman, Jonah Blechman,

Geri Miller

Pat Healy

Joe Dallessandro plays a character driven by his need

Two World War II US Navy cryptographers write

for drugs which also render him sexually impotent.

letters for a corpse in an attempt to fool the Japanese

He has a series of encounters with characters: a

Army. But as the letters they write reveal the secrets

young ‘swinging’ married couple each with a

of their lives, the body comes alive and invades their

homosexual yen; a welfare worker with a shoe fetish

memories, their fantasies and their world. (Redeem-

and so on. Through this apparent episodic random-

able Features)

ness the relationship between Joe and his girlfriend

emerges as the film’s central focus.

Prod Comp: King Pictures, Redeemable Features

Dist/Sales: KingPix

Prod Comp: Paul Morrisey, Filmfactory

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, JourDeFete

Treaty of Chance, The

Treading Water

(aka: Le Traité du Hasard)

Mimouni, Patrick

Himmel, Lauren

2001; USA; 95 min; Drama

1998; France; 95 min; Comedy

P: Lauren Himmel; W: Julia Hollinger; C: Gary W: Patrick Mimouni; C: Vicent Buron, Florent

Henoch; E: Hilary Schroeder; M: Kristopher Carter Montcouquiol, Yann Carcedo; E: Patrick Mimouni;

Cast: Angie Redman, Nina Landey

M: Ika

Cast: Eliane Pine Carringhton, Nini Crépon, Laurent

Treading Water is a touching, sincere look at the

Chemda, Bruni Anthony de Trigance

relationship between two women as they struggle to

lead quiet, normal lives in a staid, conservative New

Blurring the gap between biography and fiction, The

England town. Living directly across the bay, Casey’s

Treaty of Chance inhabits an entirely queer world,

family maintains a desperate unwillingness to accept

focusing on a group of friends approaching middle-

her lesbian identity. It doesn’t help that Casey never

age, the nature of their survival in the face of AIDS,

introduces them to Alexandra who, at one point,

and the complex fluidity of their relationships.

waits in the car during a Christmas party. Familial

Director Patrick Mimouni stars as a filmmaker (also

tensions mount as Casey’s mother struggles to

called Patrick) who, like his oldest friend and

maintain control and keep up appearances at any

sometime lover, Bruno, has avoided the virus.

cost. Himmel uses great care in avoiding stereotypes

‘Dykess’ Lou Rockerfeller III and the sexy young

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Julien are not so lucky, though in metaphor that is

Trevor

typical of the film’s humour, Julien continually

mistakes AZT for Ecstasy! Littered with Firbankian

Rajski, Peggy

bon mots (‘now that everyone’s dead, living has

1994; USA; 18 min; Comedy

become so vulgar’) and juggling a range of refer-

P: Peggy Rajski, Randy Stone; W: James Lecesne;

ences— La Maman et la Putain, La Ronde, The Boys

C: Marc Reshovsky; E: John Tintori; M: Danny Troob in the Band, Carmen—Mimouni has created a film

Cast: Brett Barsky, Judy Kain, John Lizzi

that nevertheless avoids archness and is remarkable

Academy-award winning short film about a 13-year-

for its tenderness and authenticity. (1998 London

old boy who can’t decide whether to kill himself or

Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

become Diana Ross. An excellent piece, very funny

French with English subtitles.

and touching at the same time, which was funded in

Prod Comp: CNC, Les Films du Labyrinthe, National

part by Jodie Foster. (MQFF)

Film Cetre

Awards: Academy Awards, 1994: Best Live Action

Dist/Sales: Grisé

Short; Berlin International Film Festival, 1995: Best

Short Film; San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

Film Festival, 1995: Audience Award

t

Dist/Sales: WaterBearer, Atom

Trey Billings Show, The

Briggs, David

1999; USA; 35 min; Comedy

David Drake stars in this celebrity talk show

pastiche.

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

Treyf

Lebow, Alisa / Madansky, Cynthia

Trembling BeforeG-d

1998; USA; 54 min; Documentary

Trembling Before G-d

P: Alisa Lebow, Cynthia Madansky; W: Alisa Lebow, Cynthia Madansky

DuBowski, Sandi Simcha

2000; Israel, USA; 84 min; Documentary

An unorthodox documentary about two Jewish

lesbians who meet and fall in love at a Passover

P: Sandi Simcha DuBowski, Marc Smolowitz; C: David Seder. If something is ‘treyf,’ it’s not kosher. Like,

W. Leitner; E: Susan Korda; M: John Zorn

pork, say, or pickles... lesbians. With its compelling

In the midst of Western media dishing out flimsy

visual style and moving narrative, Treyf follows Alisa

and stereotyped portraits of religious fundamental-

and Cynthia, an enlightened, socially involved,

ism in action, Trembling Before G-d offers an

secular Jewish couple as they engage with the world

urgently needed context to the collision between

they inhabit—be that Israel or New York. Let them

monotheistic religion and western sexual mores. This

take you to their local supermarket, and then to the

award-winning documentary offers remarkably

Holy City; let them tell you about their lives; and let

detailed insights into the experiences of Orthodox

them introduce you to their ‘treyf ’ friends.

Jews who come out as lesbians and gays. Unlike in

Dist/Sales: WMM

other major religions, the subject matter is seldom

discussed, largely because Judaism tends to keep

Trials of Oscar Wilde, The

publicly quiet on the matter. As such Jewish lesbians

and gays tend not to be vocal on their religious

Hughes, Ken

experiences, which makes this documentary—shot

1960; UK; 120 min; Drama

over five years in Brooklyn, Jerusalem, Los Angeles,

P: Harold Huth, Irving Allen, Albert R. Broccoli;

San Francisco, Miami and London—a vital addition

W: Ken Hughes; C: Ted Moore; E: Geoffrey Foot; to any dinner party conversation. Orthodox gays and

M: Ron Goodwin

lesbians offer frank insights into their personal

Cast: Peter Finch, James Mason, Yvonne Mitchell, Nigel

reconciliations with themselves, hostile families,

Patrick

intolerant rabbis and fringe communities. (MQFF)

Based on the court transcripts of the trial of the

Prod Comp: Simcha Leib Productions, Turbulent Arts

celebrated author Oscar Wilde. Produced after the

Dist/Sales: Cowboy, Mongrel, NewYorker

1957 Wolfenden Report that shifted homosexuality

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from the unmentionable to a subject of enthusiastic

composer who desires a go-go dancer from his local

debate. Finch puts in a moving performance as the

club. Thinking her doesn’t have a chance, he is

ill-fated writer who sued the marquess of

shocked to find the dancer shares his attraction. The

Queensberry, his lover’s father, for libel. He lost the

only problem is they can’t find a venue to fulfil their

case and was later charged with sodomy and

attraction.

imprisoned.

Prod Comp: Good Machine, Roadside Attractions

Awards: Golden Globe Awards, 1961: Best English

Dist/Sales: GoodMachine, FineLine, Wolfe, 10%, Roadside

Language Foreign Film

Prod Comp: Warwick

Trip, The

Dist/Sales: TLA, UA

Swain, Miles

2001; USA; 93 min; Comedy

P: Houston King; W: Miles Swain; C: Charles Barbee, Scott Kevan; E: Carlo Gustaff; M: Steven Chesne

Cast: Larry Sullivan, Steve Braun, Alexis Arquette,

Sirena Irwin, Jill St John

This romantic comedy-drama chronicles the highs

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and lows of an 11-year romance that began in 1973

between Alan, a straight writer and young Republi-

can, and queer activist Tommy. The two meet

through an older, closeted lawyer, Peter, while Alan

is researching and writing an anti-gay book entitled

The Straight Truth. The attraction between Alan and

Tommy is immediate, although Alan convinces

Trevor

himself it is nothing more than friendship. Tommy

pries Alan out of his closet in a whirlwind of

Triche, La

romance, politics and polyester (it is the seventies

after all). Four years later, it is Peter who has his eye

(aka: The Cheat)

on Alan and, in a bid to get his man, he orchestrates

Bellon, Yannick

the publication of Alan’s long-forgotten book.

1984; France; 101 min; Thriller

Tommy, feeling deceived and betrayed, leaves Alan

P: Denise Petitdidier; W: Yannick Bellon, Rémi

and runs away to Mexico. Fast-forward to 1984:

Waterhouse; C: Houshang Baharlou, Dominique Le

Tommy is ill and longs to see Alan again. Mean-

Rigoleur; E: Kenout Peltier; M: Catherine Lara

while, Alan is persuaded by his mother, ex-girlfriend

Cast: Victor Lanoux, Valérie Mairesse, Anny Duperey,

and best friend to leave the scheming Peter and sets

Xavier Deluc, Michel Galabru

off to see Tommy. (2002 Toronto Lesbian & Gay

Film & Video Festival)

Michel is a modern police inspector: cultured, lucid,

disillusioned, but has an understanding view of the

Dist/Sales: FalconLair

world. Although he is married and has a son, he is

Triple Echo

bisexual. His whole life is on the edge of ruin when

he becomes involved with Bernard, the prime

Apted, Michael

suspect in a murder case. Does he protect or arrest

1973; UK; 93 min; Drama

him? French with English subtitles.

P: Graham Cottle; W: Robin Chapman; C: John Prod Comp: Les Films de l’Equinoxe, Les Productions

Coquillon; E: Barrie Vince; M: Marc Wilkinson

du Daunou

Cast: Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Jenny Lee Wright,

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

Brian Deacon, Anthony May

A young man is AWOL from the army during World

Trick

War II. He runs away to the country and persuades a

lonely woman to put him up. He disguises himself as

Fall, Jim

a woman and pretends to be her sister. He finds that

1999; USA; 90 min; Comedy

he has attracted the attention of a visiting army

P: Jim Fall, Ross Katz, Eric d’Arbeloff; W: Jason Schafer; sergeant, who invites him to a dance. The sergeant

C: Terry Stacey; E: Brian A. Kates

gets a rather large shock after a bit of fondling in the

Cast: Christian Campbell, John Paul Pitoc, Tori

back room. Based on the novel by H. E. Bates.

Spelling, Brad Beyer

Prod Comp: Senta, Hemdale

Romantic comedy about an aspiring Broadway

Dist/Sales: Equator

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Troika

relationships in the era of AIDS. At a nightclub,

Alan bumps into Stewart, a past lover who has just

Montgomery, Jennifer

recently returned to Melbourne. Stewart has been

1998; USA; 96 min; Drama

tested as HIV-positive and his lover has recently died

P: Jennifer Montgomery; W: Jennifer Montgomery;

as a result of AIDS. Allan decides to get tested for

C: Mark Serman, Horacio Marquinez, Matthew

AIDS. This is a delicately handled drama about a

Buckingham; E: Jennifer Montgomery, Lana Lin

young man coming to terms with an HIV-positive

Cast: Jenny Bass, Lev Shektman, Marina Shterenberg,

result, and how to break the news to his partner.

Valery Manenti

(ACMI)

Jennifer is doubly challenged. As a professional

Dist/Sales: ACMI

journalist, she’s trapped on a pleasure boat with

Russian ultra-nationalist and macho pig Vladimir

True Inversions

Zhirinovsky, conducting an interview that turns into

a battle of wills. At home, her lesbian lover teases

Boschman, Lorna

and insults her relentlessly. Weaving together scenes

1992; Canada; 24 min; Documentary

that present encounters with both characters,

A documentary that looks at the limits and censor-

t

Montgomery reveals their unlikely similarity by

ship of erotic images. The two actresses who are real-

employing a dispassionate style that renders each

life lovers discuss how much of their performance

power play all the more insidious. As a result, the

together is real or acting. (Cinenova)

politics of personal beliefs become impossible to

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, GroupeIntervention

imagine separately. (1998 New York Lesbian & Gay

Film Festival)

Prod Comp: Guardiez-bien

Trois

Hardy, Rob

1999; USA; 90 min; Drama

P: William Packer; W: Rob Hardy, Valencia Walker, William Packer; C: Charles Mills; E: Griff Thomas; M: Steven Gutheinz

Cast: Gretchen Palmer, Gary Dourdan, Kenya Moore

True Inversions

A marriage turns sour when the husband talk his

wife into a threesome with another man.

Truth about Gay Sex, The

Prod Comp: Rainforest Productions, TRF Productions

Clarke, Kristiene

Dist/Sales: Rainforest, Col-Tri

2001; UK; 60 min; Documentary

True Blue Camper

We hear so much about gay rights, but the idea of

what gay men actually do with one another remains

Cannon, Cairo

something of a taboo. In this documentary, the

1996; UK; 12 min; Comedy

secrets of gay sex are unpacked and we find that

The filmmaker returns to the American girls’ camp

there’s plenty to learn for straight girls and boys.

of her childhood to relive old memories of together-

(World of Wonder)

ness in the wild. Was it all that living in tents with

Prod Comp: Channel 4

natural girls and strong women leaders every

Dist/Sales: WorldOfWonder

summer that made her a lesbian? Did they know?

Do they know now? Maybe they, too, are lesbians. A

Truth about Jane, The

hilarious journey into healthy living that produces a

few surprises. (Cinenova)

Rose, Lee

2000; USA; 91 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

W: Lee Rose; C: Eric Van Haren Noman; E: Peter V.

True Faith

White; M: Terence Blanchard

Cast: Ellen Muth, Stockard Channing, RuPaul Charles,

Johnston, Lawrence

Kelly Rowan

1988; Australia; 25 min; Drama

Jane’s mom assumes her popular daughter is just like

P: Swinburne Film and Television School

every other fifteen-year old girl. Then Jane meets

True Faith is a dramatic examination of fidelity and

Taylor and falls madly in love with her. Suddenly,

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everyone is trying to figure out how to cope with the

P: Anne Lordon, George Sluizer; W: George Sluizer, realisation that Jane is a lesbian. Her classmates are

Jurriën Rood; C: Mat van Hensbergen; E: Leo De Boer; having trouble treating her like a human being, and

M: Willem Breuker

her mom refuses to have anything to do with Jane’s

Cast: Bibi Andersson, Sandra Dumas, Anthony Perkins

‘experiment’. The trouble is, this is not just a phase.

A middle-aged woman, Laura, picks up a younger

Jane knows she is gay. If her mom can’t or won’t

woman, Sylvia, and they begin an affair. After Sylvia

accept that fact, their relationship could be broken

moves in, their relationship begins to deteriorate,

forever. Based on a true story, and made for

mainly due to the difference in their age and social

television. (Wolfe)

status. Then Sylvia meets Laura’s ex-husband and

Prod Comp: Hearst Entertainment

they begin an affair resulting in a web of passion and

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

deceit. A fairly awful film, but may yet fall into the

realm of cult status.

Truth Game, The

Prod Comp: MGS Film

Cole, Jeff

Dist/Sales: Netherlands

1990; UK; 16 min; Drama

Twilight Girls, The

Paul, 18, is gay and wants to tell his father the truth.

t

They go on holiday together and with the aid of a

Hunebelle, Andre

video camera, they play the Truth Game. Back

1961; 83 min; B&W; Drama

home, they have to live with the results.

Seeking to escape a family scandal, a young woman

Turnabout

enters an exclusive boarding school for girls, and is

immediately absorbed into a clique of attractive and

Roach, Hal

wealthy young vixens. (First Run Features)

1940; USA; 80 min; Comedy

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures

P: Hal Roach; W: Mickell Novak, Berne Giler, John McLain; C: Norbert Brodine; E: Bert Jordan; M: Arthur Twilight of the Gods

Morton

Main, Stewart

Cast: Carole Landis, John Hubbard, Adolphe Menjou

1995; New Zealand; 15 min; Drama

A squabbling husband and wife, constantly com-

P: Michele Fantl; W: Stewart Main; C: Simon Raby; plain about their marital roles. Through the magical

M: David Coulson

powers of an Indian sculpture they change bodies.

Cast: Greg Mayaor, Marton Csokas, Joel Lund, Adam

She must now cope as an advertising executive and

Cohen, Craig Jenkins

he is left with the household chores. The leads aren’t

An explosive clash of two cultures occurs when two

convincing, Hubbard’s camped-up posturings are

men meet. One is a Maori warrior, the other, a

painful, but the supporting cast actually do bring the

European soldier. Set in the lush rainforest of New

film to life.

Zealand the Maori nurses the wounded soldier back

Prod Comp: Hal Roach Studios Inc., United Artists

to health, and the two become lovers. But their

Dist/Sales: UA, Strand

idyllic and innocent existence is devastated by the

Twice a Man

invasion of the outside world. Maori with English

subtitles.

Markopoulos, Gregory

Prod Comp: Zee Films

1963; USA; 47 min; Experimental

Dist/Sales: NZFC, FirstRunFeatures

P: Gregory Markopoulos

Twilight of the Golds, The

This film poem by Gregory Markopoulos adopts the

Greek legend of Hippolytus. Film phrases are used in

Marks, Ross

clusters to mix the memories and prophecies of a

1997; USA; 92 min; Drama

young man, his mother and his male lover. Dialogue

P: Paul Colichman, John Davimos, Mark R. Harris;

and music are used as heightening elements.

W: Jonathan Tolins, Seth Bass; C: Tom Richmond;

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

E: Dana Congdon; M: Lee Holdridge

Cast: Brendan Fraser, Jennifer Beals, Garry Marshall,

Twice a Woman

Faye Dunaway, Jon Tenney

(aka: Twee vrouwen)

Following a genetic analysis, pregnant Suzanne Stein

Sluizer, George

discovers that her unborn child will more than likely

1979; The Netherlands; 90 min; Drama

be born gay, like her brother David. A family crisis

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ensues while she decides whether to keep the baby,

been rejected at yet another dance audition and can’t

or have an abortion.

take it any more. Just in time, he meets a cop, with a

Prod Comp: Regent Entertainment

similar interest in dance—and a secret.

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Showtime

Twins of Evil

Twin Bracelets

(aka: The Gemini Twins)

(aka: Shuang Cho)

Hough, John

Huang Yu, Shan

1971; UK; 87 min; Horror

1992; Hong Kong, Taiwan; 100 min; Drama

P: Harry Fine, Michael Style; W: Tudor Gates;

Cast: Chen Te Jung, Liu Hsiao Hui

C: Dick Bush; E: Spencer Reeve; M: Harry Robinson The story of one young woman’s fight against

Cast: Madeleine Collinson, Mary Collinson, Peter

oppression and patriarchy in a small Chinese fishing

Cushing, Dennis Price, Kathleen Byron

village, and her efforts to capture the heart of the

Identical Austrian twins, played by real-life twins

woman she loves. Hui-hua is desperately in love with

and Playboy playmates Madeleine and Mary

Hsiu, her childhood friend, and jealous of her

Collinson, become devotees of a vampire cult. With

t

arranged marriage which Hsiu finally manages to

some mild lesbianism, they feed from their women

leave. Hui-hua begs her to fulfil their childhood vow

prey by not only biting on the neck but on the

to live and die together. Mandarin with English

breast as well. Made as a follow-up to Vampire

subtitles.

Lovers, but doesn’t quite keep up the tradition.

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

Prod Comp: Hammer, Rank Organisation

Film Festival, 1992: Audience Award for Best Feature

Dist/Sales: Rank, Universal

Dist/Sales: RimFilm

Twisted

Twin Cheeks: Who Killed the

Homecoming King?

Donsky, Seth Michael

1996; USA; 86 min; Comedy

Wild, Osker

P: Adrian Agramonte, Seth Michael Donsky; W: Seth 1995; USA; 60 min; Comedy

Michael Donsky; C: Hernan Toro; E: Seth Michael

Donsky, Tom McArdle

Queer spoof of the US television series Twin Peaks.

Cast: Ray Aranha, Elise Ballard, Keivyn McNeill Graves,

Twinkle

Billy Porter, William Hickey

Based on Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, this dark

(aka: Kira Kira Hikaru)

near-millennium fable set in New York City follows

Matusoka, Joji

the travails of Lee, a 10-year-old African American

1992; Japan; 103 min; Drama, Comedy

runaway. Unwittingly taken in by Andre, a lecherous

Cast: Hioko Yakushimaru, Etsushi Toyokawa, Michitaka

brothel owner played with devious delight by

Tsutsui

William Hickey, Lee quickly becomes immersed in a

dangerous underworld of prostitution and drugs.

Comedy drama about Matsuki, a handsome gay

Angel befriends Lee and rescues him from the evil

doctor, and Shoko, a translator with a drinking

problem. When their parents arrange their marriage,

lords of this apocalyptic subculture.

Matsuki’s boyfriend Kon becomes jealous and

(Water Bearer Films)

tensions rise. The sparks fly as both families find out

Prod Comp: Miravista Films; Dist/Sales: WaterBearer the secrets kept by their in-laws, while meanwhile

Shoko experiences a sense of failure at not being able

Twisted Sheets

to keep her husband happy. This film is a brave look

Deacon, Chris

at the difficulties of gay life in Japan. (MQFF)

1996; Canada; 14 min; Experimental

Japanese with English subtitles.

When Sue dashes to the store in her nightgown, she

Dist/Sales: HeraldAce

doesn’t count on running into her ex-boyfriend and

Twinkle Toes

his decidedly beautiful new girlfriend. On a whim,

disillusioned Sue accompanies gal pal Shelley to a

Milton, Keith

lesbian bar and runs into.... Worlds collide and

1999; USA; 15 min; Comedy

retribution is sweet in this 1990s take on the classic

P: Keith Milton; W: Keith Milton

love triangle. (CFMDC)

Black comedy about a suicidal man who’s recently

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

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Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a

any good soap (including poor production quality

Lesbian Marriage

and some hilarious ads for fictional products)—the

only difference is they’re all dykes. Now a cult classic

Achbar, Mark

on the home video market.

1999; Canada; 60 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

P: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott; C: Georgina Scott, Linda Fraser; E: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott;

M: Doug Blackley

Video diary documentary by Mark Achbar ( Manu-

facturing Consent) which follows two years in the

lives of transsexual Georgie, and Linda, the woman

Georgie falls in love with, and eventually marries.

Follows their battles at work and with their own

families.

Two Brothers

t

Bell, Richard

2000; Canada; 60 min; Drama

P: Richard Bell; W: Richard Bell; C: Richard Bell; Two in Twenty

E: Dennis Tal; M: Paul Moniz de Sa

Cast: Norbet Orlewicz, Cody Campbell, Karen Rae,

Two Men

Kevin MacDonald

Cole, Jeff

After the death of his mother Riley, a gay man,

1989; UK; 13 min; Drama

moves back to the West End to live with his older

brother Chad. Chad is unemployed and only

An English lad on holiday in Portugal finds good

concerned with how much money is left in his

company with a hot-bodied Portuguese gent, who is

mother’s estate. Chad’s girlfriend Tobie befriends

seen lying naked on the beach. A spirited holiday

Riley and introduces him to Gavin. Riley and Gavin

romance ensues. Back in London distance and

soon fall for each other but their happiness is only

language difficulties show the inadequacy of a

short lived. Chad’s tormented internal world

postcard relationship.

explodes as he’s left trying to make sense of his

abusive upbringing and the patterns he is doomed to

Two Moon Junction

repeat.

King, Zalman

Prod Comp: BellMovies

1988; USA; 104 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: BellMovies, TLA

P: Donald P. Borchers; W: Zalman King; C: Mark Two Girls and a Baby

Plummer; E: Marc Grossman; M: Jonathan Elias

Cast: Sherilyn Fenn, Richard Tyson, Louise Fletcher,

Simpson, Kelli

Kristy McNichol, Burl Ives

1997; Australia; 27 min; Comedy

Despite her approaching marriage, a rich Southern

P: Penny Robins; W: Kelli Simpson

belle, April, begins an affair with a handsome

Catherine and Liz want to have a baby. Well,

carnival worker, Perry. Her grandmother and the

Catherine does, but Liz is not sure. A baby will

local sheriff get together to stop the union. April has

change everything. Doesn’t Catherine realise that?

the choice between privilege and passion. McNichol

No, she’s too busy on the phone to the sperm bank.

has a cameo as a likeable and perky bisexual cowgirl.

Prod Comp: Annamax Films

Prod Comp: Lorimar, DDM Film Corporation

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, PictureThis!, ACMI, Atom

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, ReelMovies

Two in Twenty

Two of Us

(aka: Mates)

Chiten, Laurel / McCollum, Rachel / Qamar, Cheryl

1988; USA; 160 min; Drama

Tonge, Roger

Consists of five humorous and dramatic episodes of

1987; UK; 75 min; Drama

the amusing and entertaining lesbian soap opera,

P: Roger Tonge; W: Leslie Stewart; C: Andrew Dunn; which was called Two in Twenty because it sounds

E: Peter Barber, Caius Julyan; M: David Chilton, more fun than ‘one in ten’. It has all the elements of

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Cast: Jason Rush, Lee Whitlock, Judy Gridley, John

Cast: Kathy Bates, Rupert Everett, Jonathan Pryce, Dan

Judd, Jenny Jay

Ackroyd

The dramatic coming out story of two young

A middle-aged housewife and a gay British valet are

working class teenage boys Phil and Matthew, who

thrown together after the death of his long-time

fall in love but runaway to the seaside because of

lover, who happens to be her favourite singer.

pressure from their families and friends. A scene in

Prod Comp: New Line Cinema

the locker room of a swimming pool where the two

boys kiss was cut from the original release. Made for

Uncut

television.

Greyson, John

Prod Comp: BBC TV

1997; Canada; 90 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: TLA

P: John Greyson; W: John Greyson; C: Kim Derko; E: Two or Three Things I Know about Them

Dennis Day; M: Andrew Zealley

Cast: Michael Achtman, Matthew Ferguson, Damon

Mak, Anson

D’Oliveira, Maria Reidstra

u 1991; Hong Kong; 39 min; Experimental

A typist, Peter, is obsessed with Pierre Trudeau. A

Cast: Kim-fai Yum

student, Peter, is perplexed by circumcision. A

A four-part experimental film looking at the issues

Jackson Five fan, Peter, wants to break into broad-

that concern the newly emerging lesbian community

cast. They meet, make love and make art in this

in Hong Kong. It also profiles the lesbian opera star

Kafkaesque fable by John Greyson. (Millivres)

Yum Kim-fai who performs in male drag. Cantonese

Prod Comp: Grey Zone

with English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: TurbulentArts, Millivres, Domino, ACMI

Two Point Five

Under Heat

Sirota, Greg

Reed, Peter

1999; USA; 12 min; Comedy

1994; USA; 92 min; Drama

David is planning to conceive a child with a female

P: Denise Kasell, Frances M. Mordock, Peter Reed; W:

friend. Only problem is he hasn’t told his lover Carl

Peter Reed, Michael David Brown; C: Manfred Reiff; E: yet.

Irene Kassow; M: Elizabeth Swados

Dist/Sales: FallingDoor

Cast: Lee Grant, Eric Swanson, Robert Knepper, David

Conrad

Two Roads

A stylish contemporary feature set on a leafy upstate

Gebhardt, Amy

ranch. Hunky Eric Swanson plays Dean, who

1998; Australia; 11 min; Comedy

returns home to break the news that he’s gay and has

AIDS. Events intervene and family problems emerge

Two Roads follows the path of friendship, love and

from every handy closet. The coming-out scene is up

growing up in a small country town. Over just one

night the relationship between three school friends

there with the funniest of family outings. Eric and

can change forever.

Simon, the stable-hand, do a great roll in the hay.

Dean, his older brother and his mother are a

Uh-Oh!

vulnerable trio, seemingly bent on self-destruction.

Dean’s mellow journey to despair to a commitment

Zando, Julie

to the here and now is both believable and gratify-

1993; USA; 38 min; Experimental

ing. (MQFF)

P: Josephine Anstey; W: Julie Zando

Prod Comp: Furious Films

Cast: Emanuela Villorini, Eileen Myles

Dist/Sales: PictureThis!, 21stCentury, Wolfe

Zando retells The Story of O within and against a

contemporary love story, employing an all-female

Undercover

cast of ‘cowboys’ in romantically-staged S/M rituals

Stevens, David

in the basement of a diner.

1983; Australia; 88 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: Drift, VDB, EAI

P: David Elfick; W: Miranda Downes; C: Dean Semler; Unconditional Love

E: Tim Wellburn; M: Bruce Smeaton

Cast: Genevieve Picot, John Walton, Michael Pare

Hogan, P. J.

Set in the 1920s, the story of a girl’s rise within the

2002; USA; 121 min; Drama

international Berlei underwear company, founded by

W: P. J. Hogan, Jocelyn Moorhouse

Australian Fred Berlei. The film deals sensitively

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with historical material, without stooping to

most important people in his life to join together for

glamorise an industry that has dominated women’s

the 450 mile West Coast Cycle for AIDS. When his

perceptions of their bodies for over one hundred

homophobic identical twin brother Frank, a New

years. The secretary at Berlei is a gay man, and lead

York cop, arrives in Hollywood for Chris’s funeral,

designer is a lesbian.

he finds that he must make the ride with Chris’s

Prod Comp: Palm Beach Pictures, Filmco

lover Doug, ex-wife Melissa, and slacker best friend

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, ACMI

Gaetano. The gruelling five-day bike ride down the

spectacular California coast tests the foursome to

Union in Wait, A

their limits. Untrained for the physical exertion and

unprepared for the emotional journey, the four riders

Butler, Ryan

must navigate the geography of the land and of their

2001; USA; 28 min; Documentary

own fears and desires. As humour gives way to anger

Susan Parker and Wendy Scott were members of the

and phobia to understanding, the four come to

Wake Forest Baptist Church in North Carolina. In

terms not only with their differences, but also with

1997 the couple decided to have a union ceremony

their loss. Ultimately, each of them realises that

in Wake Forest University’s Chapel, but the

personal transformation was the final destination

university prevented this from happening. A Union

Chris intended for them, and that his spirit will bind

u

in Wait recounts the struggle of Parker and Scott to

them all together for the rest of their lives. (22nd

have their union recognised and the controversy that

San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film

divided a community. (Frameline)

Festival)

Dist/Sales: Frameline

Prod Comp: Watermark Films

Dist/Sales: Trident

Unknown Friend

(aka: Fremde Freundin)

Krohn, Anne Høegh

1999; Germany; 83 min; Drama

P: Sigrid Hoerner, Anne Leppin, Martin Walz; W: Anne Høegh Krohn; C: Sebastian Edschmid; M: Bernd

Jestram, Ronald Lippok

Cast: Inga Busch, Karoline Eichhorn, Birol Uenel

Unknown Friend is an intensely atmospheric thriller

set in Berlin in which Ellen, newly released from five

years in prison, tries to find out the truth about what

happened the night she was arrested. To do that she

seeks out her best friend, the beautiful Katrin, who

was present on the night of the crime. Katrin

initially wants nothing to do with her old friend, but

is soon won over by Ellen’s persistence. Flashbacks

fill in their shared past, including Katrin’s relation-

ship with her husband, and makes evident Ellen’s

love for her friend. But what exactly did happen that

night? Anne Høegh Krohn’s feature debut is a sexy

and taut psychological drama guaranteed to keep

Unknown Friend

audiences on the edge of their seat up through the

Unknown Cyclist, The

last minute. (2002 New York Lesbian & Gay Film

Festival)

Salzman, Bernard

Prod Comp: Moneypenny Films, ZDF

1997; USA; 96 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: Moneypenny

P: Matthew Carlisle, Betsy Pool; W: Matthew Carlisle, Howie Skora, Betsy Pool; C: Bernard Salzmann;

Up!

E: Irit Raz; M: Sydney Forest

Meyer, Russ

Cast: Vincent Spano, Stephen Spinella, Danny Nucci,

1976; USA; 72 min; Comedy

Lea Thompson

P: Russ Meyer; W: Reinhold Timme, Russ Meyer, Jim Christopher Cavetelli’s dying wish was for the four

Ryan; C: Russ Meyer; E: Russ Meyer; M: Paul Ruhland, 423

William Loose

Urinal

Cast: Robert McLane, Edward Schaaf, Elaine Collins,

(aka: Pissoir)

Su Ling

Greyson, John

Piranhas in the bath, multiple rapes, lesbians,

1988; Canada; 100 min; Comedy

homosexuals, voluptuous barmaids and martial arts

P: John Greyson; W: John Greyson; C: Adam Swica; action can all be found in this Redwood Country

whodunit. Lots of fun and as with all Russ Meyer

M: Glenn Schellenberg

films, never to be taken seriously.

Cast: Lance Eng, Pauline Carey, Paul Bettis, Keltie Creed Prod Comp: RHM

A group of famous dead gay and lesbian artists,

including Langston Hughes, Frida Kahlo and

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee

Mishima, have been transported to modern-day

Up the Academy

Toronto to the garden of two dead sculptors. They

talk about the attraction of public-toilet sex. Their

Downey Snr, Robert

purpose is to research the policing of toilet sex in

1980; USA; 84 min; Comedy

Ontario and propose solutions to this serious crisis

v P: Marvin Worth, Danton Rissner; W: Jay Tarses, Tom for the gay community. An irreverent and hilarious

Patchett; C: Harry Stradling; E: Bud Molin, Ron Spang film, made in a surrealist style.

Cast: Ralph Macchio, Wendall Brown, Tommy Citera,

Awards: Berlin Film Festival, 1989: Best Feature Film

J. Hutchison

Prod Comp: Greyson Productions

Four freshmen attending a military academy wreak

Dist/Sales: Frameline, CinemaLibre, WaterBearer

havoc with an endless series of wild pranks. Look out

for the gay dance teacher. The soundtrack features

Valentine’s Day

the music of Pat Benatar, The Kinks, Blondie and

Hoolboom, Mike

Cheap Trick.

1994; Canada; 80 min; B&W; Sci-Fi

Prod Comp: Warner; Dist/Sales: Warner

P: Mike Hoolboom; W: Mike Hoolboom; C: Steven Sanguedolce; E: Mike Hoolboom; M: Earle Peach

Cast: Babs Chula, Gabrielle Rose

In the near future, Canada is at war with Quebec,

battles are determined by television ratings, and

weapons are sponsored by McDonalds and IBM. In

the midst of social chaos, a lesbian couple, Barb and

Alex, dress themselves in protective masks, gowns

and rubber boots to spend a quiet afternoon at the

zoo. Barb is gang-raped by soldiers while taking a

short cut through a restrictive zone. Fearful of

infection, Alex begs her to take an AIDS test. With a

world imploding around them, Barb decides to

Urbania

announce her result as the punch line of a comic

routine. At first, Alex can’t see the joke, but she

Urbania

eventually joins in and engineers an attempt to make

love without touching.

Shear, Jon

1999; USA; 103 min; Drama

W: Daniel Reitz, Jon Shear; C: Shane F. Kelly; M: Marc Anthony Thompson

Cast: Dan Futterman, Alan Cumming, Matt Keeslar,

Josh Hamilton

Charlie is a lonely gay man who yearns for his lost

boyfriend Chris. He stumbles through New York

City looking for a mysterious stranger who he

believes holds the key to his existence. He seems to

be living out a series of creepy urban legends—or is

Charlie making up this whole story? (Wolfe)

Dist/Sales: Blackwatch, Wolfe, 10%

Valentine’s Day

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Valentino

and women wearing spikes on their nipples. It is the

second vampire offering from Rollin. Dubbed into

Russell, Ken

English.

1977; UK; 132 min; Drama

P: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff; W: John Byrum; Prod Comp: Les Films, ABC; Dist/Sales: Siren

C: Peter Suschitzky; E: Stuart Baird; M: Stanley Black, Ferdinand Grofe

Cast: Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, David De Keyser,

Seymour Cassel

Beginning with his death and using flashbacks to his

early days in the US, Valentino tells the story of one

of the screen’s greatest legends. Selective facts and

historical settings are used in an attempt to isolate

the real nature of the adulation of Valentino. The

film works well in the first half but becomes

disjointed towards the end. A film that views the

legend with humour and pathos. Rudolf Nureyev’s

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debut film role.

Prod Comp: United Artists, Aperture Films, Chartoff-

Winkler Productions

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, ReelMovies, UA

Vampyres, Daughters of Dracula

Vampire Lovers, The

Vampyres, Daughters of Dracula

(aka: Blood Hunger)

Baker, Roy Ward

1970; UK; 88 min; Horror

Larraz, José Ramón (aka: Larraz, Joseph)

P: Harry Fine, Michael Style; W: Tudor Gates, Harry 1974; UK; 86 min; Horror

Fine, Michael Style; C: Moray Grant; E: James Needs; P: Brian Smedley-Aston; W: Diana Daubeney; C: Harry M: Harry Robinson

Waxman; E: Geoff R. Brown; M: James Clarke

Cast: Ingrid Pitt, Pippa Steele, Peter Cushing, George

Cast: Marianne Morris, Anulka Dziubinska, Murray

Cole, Douglas Wilmer

Brown, Brian Deacon

Hammer’s chiller about lesbian vampires adapted

An explicit male fantasy film where women are seen

from Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla. Our luscious

both as objects of terror and desirable. Two beautiful

vampire enjoys sinking her teeth into the bosoms of

lesbian vampires living in a decaying mansion lure

beautiful young women. An enjoyable film,

men there for lust and blood. One of the women,

sprinkled with humour, made Ingrid Pitt a major

however, falls madly in love with her victim. He

horror cult figure.

decides to stay and gradually gets weaker and weaker,

but finally is saved by the dawn.

Prod Comp: Hammer, American International Pictures

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee, MGM, OrionHV, ACMI

Prod Comp: Essay Films, Lurco Films

Vampire Nue, La

Vampyros Lesbos

(aka: The Naked Vampire)

(aka: Lesbian Vampires; Die Erbin des Dracula)

Rollin, Jean

Manera, Franco (Franco, Jesus)

1969; France; 82 min; Horror

1970; Germany, Spain; 90 min; Horror

P: Jean Rollin, Jean Lavie; W: Jean Rollin, S. H. Mosti; P: Arturo Marcos; W: Franco Manera, Jaime Chávarri; C: Jean-Jacques Renon; M: Yvon Serault

C: Manuel Marino; E: Clarissa Ambach; M: David Cast: Oliver Martin, Maurice Lemaitre, Caroline

Khune, Manfred Hubler, Siegfried Schwab

Cartier, Bernard Musson

Cast: Susan Korda, Dennis Price, Ewa Stroemberg,

With a convoluted story-line mixing elements of

Andrés Monales, Paul Mueller

horror and science fiction, this film chronicles the

Nadina is the beautiful descendant of Count

obsession of a guilty Catholic voyeur, wallowing in

Dracula. She lives on an isolated island to which she

perversion and sin. Our hero gets involved with a

entices young women, where she does what she

young woman and soon finds himself mixed up with

wants to them in order to maintain her youth. There

a suicide cult, an old castle infested with vampires

were two versions released, the Spanish one was a

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little more tame than the German, which included

Velocity of Gary, The

salacious scenes of lesbianism and bloodsucking.

Ireland, Dan

Prod Comp: Fenix Films, CCC Telecine

1998; USA; 102 min; Drama

Vanished

P: Dan Lupovitz; W: James Still; C: Claudio Rocha; E: Luis Colina, Debra Goldfield; M: Peitor Angell Kulik, Buzz

Cast: Vincent D’Onofrio, Salma Hayek, Thomas Jane,

1971; USA; 240 min; Drama

Ethan Hawke

W: Dean Riesner; C: Lionel Lindon; E: Robert Watts; A hard-edged love fable set among the hustlers,

M: Leonard Rosenman

trannies and homeless of New York City. It tells the

Cast: Richard Widmark, Tom Bosley, Skye Aubrey,

tale of the strained love triangle between a charis-

Larry Hagman, James Farentino

matic bisexual, a male prostitute and a tempestuous

A presidential adviser disappears in mysterious

Latina. The sultry but annoyingly whinny Hayek

circumstances. The FBI has information that says he

stars as Mary Carmen, a hot-tempered beauty

was a homosexual; why won’t the President make a

desperately in love with Valentino, a small-time porn

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statement? Made for television and based on Fletcher

actor with big-time attitude. Things change when

Knebel’s best-selling novel.

Gary, a sensitive rookie male prostitute, also falls in

love with the magnetic, longhaired Valentino. Mary

Prod Comp: Universal TV

Carmen and Gary take a jealous dislike for each

Dist/Sales: NBC

other as they battle for Valentino’s affections. But

Vaudeville

when Valentino becomes ill with AIDS, the two, in a

fight to be his caretaker, are forced to look at

Sachs, Ira

themselves less as rivals and more as family. (Wolfe)

1990; USA; 55 min; Drama

Prod Comp: Cineville Inc, Columbia TriStar

The events of one relatively typical performance

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, Wolfe

night document the complex interrelationships of a

group of wandering entertainers. Events unfold

Velvet Goldmine

around Charlie Guidance, the mischievous and

Haynes, Todd

provocative cast member who seduces the manager’s

1998; UK, USA; 125 min; Comedy

boyfriend. He infuriates the neurotic star singer, and

P: Christine Vachon; W: Todd Haynes; C: Maryse plays off just about everyone else.

Alberti; E: James Lyons; M: Carter Burwell

Cast: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Ewan McGregor, Chris-

Vegas in Space

tian Bale, Toni Collette

Ford, Phillip R.

It’s 1971. Bisexual rockstar Brian Slade has grown to

1991; USA; 85 min; Comedy

hate the glamrock role model status he has created

P: Phillip R. Ford; W: Doris Fish, Miss X, Phillip R.

for himself, and so plots to have himself murdered.

Ford; C: Robin Clarke; E: Ed Jones;

When his fans discover that the murder was faked,

M: Joshua Raoul Brody

his career takes a dive. The action fast forwards to

Cast: Doris Fish, Miss X, Ginger Quest, Romona

1984 when a journalist for a New York newspaper

Fischer

begins to investigate what has become of the faded

rock star.

The four-man crew of the USS Intercourse races on

a secret mission to the planet Clitoris, a twenty-third

Prod Comp: Channel 4, Miramax, Goldwyn Films

century all-female pleasure planet where men are

Dist/Sales: Miramax, Lauren, ACMI

forbidden to touch down. Ordered by the Empress

Velvet Vampire, The

of Earth to swallow gender-reversal pills, the

spacemen swap their sex to go undercover as 20th

(aka: The Waking Hour)

century showgirls and are propelled into a dizzying

Rothman, Stephanie

caper to capture the perpetrator of a heinous crime

1971; USA; 80 min; Horror

that has hurled the orbiting resort on its path to

P: Charles S. Swartz; W: Stephanie Rothman, Charles S.

doom.

Swartz, Maurice Jules; C: Daniel Lacambre; E: Stephen Prod Comp: Troma Films

Judson, Barry Simon; M: Roger Dollarhide, Clancy B.

Dist/Sales: Troma

Grass III

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Cast: Sherry Miles, Michael Blodgett, Celeste Yarnall,

LaGrace Volcano, and explores their transformations

Gene Shane

through male hormones. (2002 New York Lesbian &

Another female vampire film, in which a vampire

Gay Film Festival)

invites a young married couple to stay at her home

English & German with English subtitles.

in the Californian desert. She attempts to vampirise

Prod Comp: ONIX Filmproduktion GmbH

the young man but, in the meantime, Miles is bitten

by a snake and the vampire sucks out the venom

Vera

saving her life. Yarnall finally kills the man and, after

Toledo, Sergio

finding his body, the young woman flees to Los

1986; Brazil; 87 min; Drama

Angeles hotly pursued by the vampire. There is a

W: Sergio Toledo

definite attraction between the two women and the

film has been described as having a strong feminist

Cast: Ana Beatriz Nogueria

slant. It is an interesting film from one of the very

A young woman leaves a boarding school for girls.

few female directors of horror.

She finds she is attracted to women but cannot see

Prod Comp: New World Pictures

that she may be a lesbian, so she begins to adopt a

male persona. Portuguese with English subtitles.

Vendetta

Prod Comp: Embrafilme, Grange

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Dist/Sales: Kino

Logan, Bruce

1985; USA; 86 min; Drama, Action

Veronica 4 Rose

P: Jeff Begun, Ken Dalton, Ken Solomon, Sidney D.

Balkin; W: Laura Cavestani, Emil Farkas, Simon

Chait, Melanie

Maskell, John K. Adams; C: Robert New; E: Glenn

1983; UK; 48 min; Documentary

Morgan; M: David Newman

This warm and engaging film explores the ups and

Cast: Karen Chase, Sandy Martin, Roberta Collins

downs of being a lesbian in a predominantly

A young woman kills a man who attempts to rape

heterosexual and homophobic society. Young women

her, and ends up in prison for manslaughter, only to

between the ages of 16 and 23 speak openly about

be brutally murdered by a lesbian prison gang leader.

their experiences of coming out, many of them recall

The authorities return a verdict of suicide and the

how they were told by their friends and family that it

case is quickly forgotten, except by Laurie, the dead

was ‘only a phase’. (Cinenova)

girl’s sister who commits a crime to get herself in to

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

the prison to exact revenge on her sister’s murderer.

Very Funny

Prod Comp: Chroma III, International Cinevision

Productions

Zachary, Bohdan

Venus Boyz

1994; USA; 16 min; Comedy

This San Francisco ‘comedy competition’ takes a

Baur, Gabriel

bleak and bitter look at homophobia in America as

2001; Germany, Switzerland, USA; 104 min; Docu-

six stand-up acts satirise and leave us speechless.

mentary

Dist/Sales: Zachary

W: Gabriel Baur; C: Sophie Maintigneux; E: Jean Vites, Daniela Roderer, Salome Pitschen; M: David Shiller

Very Natural Thing, A

Documentary which focuses on drag kings, female

Larkin, Christopher

masculinity, and gender performance in New York

1973; USA; 80 min; Drama

City and London, featuring a star-studded cast of

P: Christopher Larkin; W: Joseph Coencas, Christopher local celebrities including Dréd Gerestant, Storme

Webber, Diane Torr, and Mo Fischer, among others.

Larkin; C: C. H. Douglass; E: Terry Manning;

Director Gabriel Bauer follows a wide range of

M: Gordon Gottlieb, Bert Lucarelli

subjects, finding out about their personalities, the

Cast: Curt Gareth, Robert Joel, Bo White

male characters they’ve created, and their perceptions

A young man leaves the priesthood and moves to

of gender and performance. Why do these women

New York City in the hope of finding a meaningful

perform as men? How does it feel taking on a male

gay relationship, and very quickly falls in love with a

persona? Bauer also expands the scope of the

young advertising executive. Considered an

documentary by talking to FTMs like Hans Scheirl

important film in gay culture as it was the first

and Svar Simpson, and intersexed persons like Del

feature film made by an openly gay man about gay

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issues to get a commercial release in America.

A restrained dramatisation of the problems created

Prod Comp: Montage Creations

by the criminalisation of homosexual acts between

Dist/Sales: NewLine, WaterBearer

consenting adults. Bogarde gives one of his finest

performances as a successful barrister who places his

career on the line by coming out in order to expose a

blackmail racket. This was the first British film to

centre its narrative on male homosexuality and was

made with the specific intention of supporting the

new recommendations of the 1957 Wolfenden

Committee for the partial decriminalisation of male

homosexual acts.

Prod Comp: Allied Filmmakers, Parkway, Rank

Organisation

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, Carlton

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Victor/Victoria

Via Appia

Edwards, Blake

Via Appia

1982; UK; 129 min; Comedy

P: Tony Adams, Blake Edwards; W: Blake Edwards,

Hick, Jochen

Hans Hoemburg; C: Dick Bush; E: Ralph E. Winters; 1993; Germany; 90 min; Drama

M: Henry Mancini, Leslie Bricusse

P: Norbert Friedlander; W: Jochen Hick; C: Peter Cast: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston,

Christian Neumann; E: Claudia Vogeler; M: Charly Lesley Anne Warren, Alex Karras

Schoppner

Comic farce about gender confusions, in which a

Cast: Peter Senner, Guilherme de Pádua, Margaret

female singer in 1934 Paris becomes successful when

Schmidt, Yves Jansen

she poses as a female impersonator. Robert Preston

A young German flight attendant in Rio has a one

plays her gay friend and confidante and is great in

night stand with a street hustler. The next morning

the role, but again the gay character is just the

he finds a message on the bathroom mirror,

harmless friend of a woman.

‘Welcome to the AIDS club’. When the disease

Prod Comp: MGM, United Artists

becomes evident he returns to Brazil with a film

Dist/Sales: UIP, Ascanbee, Warner, MGM, Swank

crew in order to find the young hustler. Along the

way he interviews male prostitutes and lowlifes.

Video 28

German with English subtitles.

1988; UK; 20 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: Friedlander Filmproduction

A celebration and record of the fight against Section

Dist/Sales: TLA, Strand, Wolfe

28 of the Local Government Act. A focus for

Vicious

campaigning and inspiration to action. (Cinenova)

Prod Comp: Vera Productions

B., Hima

Dist/Sales: Cinenova

1999; USA; 20 min; Documentary

Queer women discuss their experiences of violence

Viktor/Viktoria

in relationships. The documentary footage is

Schünzel, Reinhold

blended with nonfictional testimonies.

1933; Germany; 101 min; B&W; Comedy

Dist/Sales: Himaphiliac

W: Reinhold Schünzel; C: Konstantin Irmen-Tschet; Victim

M: Franz Doelle

Cast: Hermann Thimig, Renate Müeller, Hilde

Dearden, Basil

Hildebrand, Fritz Odemar

1961; UK; 100 min; B&W; Drama

Viktor is a drag queen who persuades a young singer,

P: Michael Relph; W: Janet Green, John McCormick; Susanne, to perform as a male female impersonator.

C: Otto Heller; E: John D. Guthridge; M: Philip Green She becomes an instant success and they begin a tour

Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Sims, Dennis Price, Norman

of Europe with a series of sexual escapades. The

Bird, Anthony Nicholls

inspiration for Blake Edwards’s Victor/Victoria.

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Village Affair, A

Vintage: Families of Value

Armstrong, Moira

Allen Harris, Thomas

1994; UK; 108 min; Drama

1995; USA; 72 min; Documentary

P: Jane Wellesley; W: Alma Cullen

W: Thomas Allen Harris

Cast: Sophie Ward, Kerry Fox, Nathaniel Parker, Claire

Vintage is a meditative and reflexive look at black

Bloom, Michael Gough

families through the eyes of black lesbian and gay

In this beautifully crafted and sexy melodrama, Alice

siblings. In contrast to traditional documentaries,

is a lovely young wife and mother of three who

Vintage places the camera in the hands of family

moves with her lawyer husband Martin to a dream

members to construct a collective autobiographical

house in an English country village. Martin’s roving

presentation of family. Interweaving conversations

eye is quickly captured by Clodagh, the wild

among family members, verite documentary footage,

daughter of the wealthy neighbours, but Clodagh is

dramatic portrayals, experimental recreations, visual

interested only in Alice. The two women develop a

abstractions, music television strategies and archival

close friendship that deepens into a passionate affair.

photographs, Vintage is a mosaic of extended black

Shy, unhappy Alice gradually learns to put her own

families. (EAI)

needs on par with those of her family and to stand

Dist/Sales: EAI

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up to her domineering mother-in-law. But Martin’s

jealous older brother Anthony spitefully exposes the

Viol du Vampire, Le

two women’s affair, throwing their families—and the

entire village—into an uproar. The love scenes, in

Rollin, Jean

which the emotionally reserved Alice’s sense of

1967; France; 100 min; B&W; Horror

propriety is swept away in a torrent of self-revelation

P: Jean Rollin, Sam Selsky; W: Jean Rollin;

and pent-up longings, are exciting and sensuous. A

C: Guy Leblond, Antoine Harispé

Village Affair offers more than a simple romance. Its

Cast: Bernard Letrou, Ursule Pauly, Solange Pradel,

combination of high production values and

Nicole Romian

remarkably nuanced performances and writing offers

Made on a shoestring budget, this is the first feature

a powerful portrait of a community struggling to

and lesbian/sex vampire film from the noted French

come to terms with homosexuality in its midst.

horror director, Jean Rollin. The narrative is

(22nd San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

fragmented, making the film almost incomprehensi-

Film Festival)

ble, but it centres on two young women who think

Prod Comp: Warner Sisters, Carlton

they are vampires. The film was released under many

titles, including Les Femmes Vampires, Le Reine des

Village Voices

Vampires, The Rape of the Vampire, Queen of the

Vampires and Vampire Women. French with English

Clarke, Kristiene

subtitles.

1997; UK; 52 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: Les Films, ABC

Chronicles the development of a queer enclave in

Manchester UK.

Violet’s Visit

Villain

Turner, Richard

1995; Australia; 90 min; Comedy

Tuchner, Michael

P: Andrew Steuart; W: Barry Lowe, Andrew Creagh;

1971; UK; 98 min; Thriller

C: Edmund Milts; E: Kathryn Fenton;

P: Alan Ladd Jnr, Jay Kanter; W: Dick Clement, Ian La M: Paul Anthony Smith

Frenais; C: Christopher Challis; E: Ralph Sheldon; Cast: David Franklin, Rebecca Smart, May Lloyd, Caleb

M: Jonathan Hodge

Packham, Graham Harvey

Cast: Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport,

15-year-old Violet runs away from her small home

Donald Sinden, Fiona Lewis

town to pay a surprise visit to her Dad whom she’s

A violent crime thriller set in London’s East End,

never met. The surprise is more of a shock to Dad’s

with Burton playing an evil and brutal homosexual

long-standing boyfriend, Pete, whom she meets first.

crime boss who has a thing about a petty criminal.

To her dad she is an unwelcome reminder of a past

He moves from beating him up to bedding him. His

he’d put well and truly behind him. Can two gay

only barrier is the dedicated police inspector who is

men whose sole previous experience of parenting is a

determined to pin a crime on him.

pair of love birds cope with a teenage daughter and

Prod Comp: Anglo-EMI, Kastner/Ladd/Kanter

can the daughter cope with them?

Dist/Sales: Warner, MGM, VSM

Prod Comp: Spandau Productions; Dist/Sales: Wolfe 429

Virgin Larry, The

A gay bathhouse owner is worried that AIDS will

put him out of business. Things become quite

Dietz, Damion

surreal when the owner and his lover both contract

2001; USA; 80 min; Comedy

the disease, in this blackly comic, campy satire on

P: Vince Filippone, Damion Dietz, Lisa Dennis

society’s attitudes towards homosexuality and AIDS.

Kennedy; W: Damion Dietz; C: Vince Filippone; E: Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures

Vince Filippone

Cast: Saadia Billman, Damion DietzMichael McMullen,

Stephanie Block

Larry Gantry is a gay, self-proclaimed ‘artist’ with a

penchant for the absurd and outrageous, who is

hired by the unsuspecting arts council of Sunnymead

to put together a local artist showcase. In humor-

ously workmanlike fashion, Larry assembles his cast

and starts rehearsals, but the show’s controversial

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combination of sexual and religious themes is

definitely not what the local government and

churches had in mind. When Larry’s right to

freedom of expression is put to the test, he responds

with an ultimate act of artistic defiance that is both

hilarious and ironically satisfying.

A virus knows No Morals

(Potemkin Productions)

Visitors

Prod Comp: New Media Entertainment

Dist/Sales: Potemkin

Angguish, Dallas

1997; Australia; 13 min; Comedy

Virgin Machine

A bevy of gorgeous, dangerous and kitsch lesbian

(aka: Die Jungfrauenmaschine)

vampires from another world visit earth to sample

local cuisine.

Treut, Monika

1988; Germany; 85 min; B&W; Drama

Viva Eu!

P: Monika Treut; W: Monika Treut; C: Elfi Mikesch; M: Mona Mur, Laibach, Blazing Redheads, Pearl Harbour

Cypriano, Tania

Cast: Ina Blum, Marcelo Uriona, Dominique Gaspar,

1989; Brazil; 18 min; Documentary

Susie Sexpert, Shelly Mars, Glad Klein

Cast: Wilton Braga

The Virgin Machine follows a young West German

Documentary which follows the life of Brazilian

woman’s exploration of her own sexuality. Dorothy is

artist Wilton Braga for eight years, while he lived in

bored with her life in Hamburg and so goes to San

Barcelona, New York and Sao Paulo. During this

Francisco in search of her mother. But the fun and

time he was suffering from AIDS. Portuguese with

sexual discoveries begin on her arrival as she

English subtitles.

encounters a series of characters that bring alive her

Dist/Sales: TWN

lesbianism. German with English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Hyena Film Production, Norddeutscher

Vive l’Amour

Rundfunk

(aka: Aiqing Wansui)

Dist/Sales: 21stCentury, FirstRunFeatures, Millivres,

Tsai, Ming-liang

NFVLS, ACMI

1994; Taiwan; 118 min; Drama

Virus knows no Morals, A

P: Hu-ping Chung, Wei-hua Tzon; W: Ming-liang Tsai, Yi-chun Tsai, Pi-ying Yang; C: Peng-jung Liao, Ming-

(aka: Ein Virus kennt keine Moral)

kuo Lin; E: Fan-chen Sung

von Praunheim, Rosa

Cast: Kuei-mei Yang, Lee Kang Sheng, Chen Chao Jung

1985; Germany; 82 min; Comedy

Despite the romantic title, this film is about lack of

P: Rosa von Praunheim; W: Rosa von Praunheim;

love and fulfilment in the overworked 1980s. A real

C: Elfi Mikesch; E: Rosa von Praunheim, Michael

estate agent uses her empty apartments for quick sex.

Schaeffer; M: Maran Gosov

Spare keys fall into the hands of a lover and another

Cast: Rosa von Praunheim, Dieter Dicken, Maria

young man unsure of his sexuality, and all three end up

Hasenaecker

using the one space. Taiwanese with English subtitles.

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Awards: Venice Film Festival, 1994: Golden Lion

Waiting

Prod Comp: Central Motion Pictures

Hasson, Patrick

Dist/Sales: Strand, Mongrel

2000; USA; 80 min; Comedy

P: John Stefanic; W: Patrick Hasson;

C: Michael Perlman; E: Patrick Hasson

Cast: Will Keenan, Kerri Kenney, Hannah Dalton, Bill

Robertson

Sean McNutt is losing his mind. Customer com-

plaints, fifty cent tips, raw chicken parmigiana and

Mafioso management are gnawing away at what

sanity he has left. Welcome to the world of Waiting,

a comedy about the seamy underbelly of the

restaurant industry as told through the eyes of Sean

McNutt, a waiter trying to muster the ambition to

move on in life. Recently dumped and still living at

home, Sean drinks himself into oblivion each night

Vive l’Amour

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until an impulsive visit to a fetish club to see an old

Voices from the Front

flame results in an ejection from the club and a taste

of leather clad justice. This is the last straw, and Sean

Elgear, Sandra / Hutt, Robyn / Meieran, David

soon embarks on a campaign of romantic retaliation.

1991; USA; 90 min; Documentary

(2000 Brooklyn International Film Festival)

A powerful distillation of words and pictures from

Prod Comp: Manayunk Pictures

events organised across America to try to alter public

Dist/Sales: TLA

consciousness about AIDS, to expose profiteering by

pharmaceutical companies, and to challenge

Waiting for the Moon

government inaction and neglect concerning AIDS

and those who suffer from it.

Godmilow, Jill

1987; USA; 87 min; Drama

Awards: Berlin Film Festival, 1992: Teddy

P: Sandra Schulberg; W: Mark Magill; C: Andre Neau; Dist/Sales: Frameline, Salzgeber, Strand

E: Georges Klotz; M: Michael Sahl

Voicing the Legacy

Cast: Linda Hunt, Linda Bassett, Bruce McGill,

Bernadette Lafont, Jacques Boudet

Savage, Eleanor

A fictional look at the life of writer Gertrude Stein,

1996; USA; 35 min; Documentary

and her complex relationship with her long-time

Documentary examining the experiences of middle-

companion and lover, Alice B. Toklas. A slow-moving

aged and senior lesbians.

portrait in a production that was made for television.

Dist/Sales: Savage

Prod Comp: New Front Films, AB Films, American

Playhouse, Channel 4, Skouras Pictures

Voleurs, Les

Dist/Sales: Facets, Skouras

(aka: Thieves)

Waiting ‘round Wynyard

Téchiné, André

1996; France; 90 min; Drama

Di Chiera, Franco

P: Alain Sarde; W: André Téchiné, Gilles Taurand, 1983; Australia; 13 min; Drama

Michel Alexandre; C: Jeanne Lapoirie;

A young man, gay and unemployed, waits on the

E: Martine Giordano; M: Philippe Sarde

street, open to a sexual encounter. A film about

Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Benoît Magimel, Catherine

suspicion, desire and ambivalence towards a first

Deneuve, Laurence Côte

pickup with another man. A sensitive observation of

Lustful tale which revolves around a streetwise cop,

men, straight and gay, on the prowl on city streets.

his gangster brother and their families as they seek

Prod Comp: Australian Film TV & Radio School

out money and sex. Côte plays Deneuve’s tomboy

Dist/Sales: ACMI

lover Juliette. From the director of Wild Reeds.

French with English subtitles.

Walk on the Wild Side

Prod Comp: Le Studio Canal+, TF1 Films

Dmytryk, Edward

Dist/Sales: SonyClassics, ACMI

1962; USA; 112 min; B&W; Drama

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P: Charles K. Feldman; W: John Fante, Edmund

Best Gay Feature

Morris; C: Joseph MacDonald; E: Harry Girstad;

Prod Comp: Porchlight Films

M: Elmer Bernstein

Dist/Sales: Fortissimo, Globe, Dendy

Cast: Capucine, Jane Fonda, Laurence Harvey, Barbara

Stanwyck, Anne Baxter

Wallowitch & Ross: This Moment

In the 1930s, a penniless farmer finds the woman he

Morris, Richard

once loved working in a New Orleans brothel. He

1998; USA; 77 min; Documentary

believes he can save her from, among other things,

P: Robert Morris-Purdee; C: Don Lenzer; E: Marsha her ‘special’ relationship with the brothel madam.

Moore, Richard Morris

And so begins a battle of heterosexual power and

A documentary celebration of the 30-year relation-

dominance. A watered-down version of the original

ship and professional partnership of cabaret duo

story that aimed not to offend the audience with too

Bertram Ross and John Wallowitch.

much lesbianism or prostitution.

Prod Comp: Karmic Productions

Prod Comp: Columbia, Famartists Productions, Famous

w Artists Productions

War on Lesbians

Dist/Sales: Columbia

Cottis, Jane

1992; USA; 35 min; Drama

How do you know if you really are a lesbian?

Drawing on various pop-culture conventions and

references (film, television news and traditional

talking-head documentaries), Cottis poses a gallery

of characters and throws lesbianism into every

imaginable arena.

War Widow, The

Bogart, Paul

1978; USA; 83 min; Drama

W: Harvey Perr

Walking on Water

Cast: Frances Lee McCain, Pamela Bellwood

Walking on Water

Amy, the lonely wife of a World War I soldier, meets

and becomes friends with the free-spirited Jenny;

Ayres, Tony

soon their relationship turns to a passionate love

2002; Australia; 90 min; Drama

affair, scorned by her family and society at that time.

P: Liz Watts; W: Roger Monk; C: Robert Humphreys; As Amy’s husband is about to return from the war,

E: Reva Childs; M: Antony Partos

she must make a decision between her family and

Cast: Vince Colosimo, Maria Theodorakis, Nathaniel

the woman she loves. Made for television.

Dean , Judi Farr, Anna Lise Phillips

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

Charlie and Anna are Gavin’s two best friends. They

Film Festival, 1988: Best Video

made a pact to assist the terminally ill Gavin to die

when the time came. However, despite a massive

Was Sie nie Über Frauen Wissen Wollten

overdose of morphine, Gavin stays alive. Charlie

(aka: All you Never Wanted to know about Women)

ends up slipping a plastic bag over Gavin’s head and

Lambert, Lothar

suffocating him. This is hardly the dignified death

that they had all planned. But it’s the beginning of

1991; Germany; 80 min; B&W; Comedy

an emotional roller coaster ride, which takes Charlie

P: Lothar Lambert; W: Lothar Lambert;

and Anna through the highs and lows of the grief

C: Lothar Lambert, Albert Kitti

experience—from illicit affairs and left over

ler; E: Lothar Lambert

morphine—to devastating accusations and unwitting

Cast: Lothar Lambert, Nilgün Taifun, Dennis Buczma,

betrayals. At the end of the day, Charlie and Anna

Doreen Heins, Renate Soleymany

are forced to face the true meaning of friendship,

A feast of strange women, undertaking all manner of

loyalty and love. (www.walkingonwater.net.au)

sexual adventures with other women, and men, in

Awards: Berlin Film Festival, 2002: Teddy Award for

this hysterically camp underground classic.

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Watching Lesbian Porn

French with English subtitles.

McLeod, Dayna

Prod Comp: Euro Space, Fidélite Productions, Studio

2001; Canada; 10 min; Comedy

Images 6

A pornographic parody, that advocates the use of

Dist/Sales: Celluloid-Dreams, ArtificialEye, Zeitgeist,

feminism as lesbian foreplay. This film is directed

Haut-et-Court, ACMI

specifically at a lesbian audience attending a

Watermelon Woman, The

screening at a gay and lesbian film festival. (V Tape)

Dist/Sales: VTape, GroupeIntervention

Dunye, Cheryl

1996; USA; 90 min; Drama

P: Alexandra Juhasz, Barry Swimar; W: Cheryl Dunye; C: Michelle Crenshaw; E: Cheryl Dunye

Cast: Guinevere Turner, Cheryl Dunye, Valerie Walker,

Cheryl Clarke

Cheryl is an aspiring black filmmaker who works in

a video store. She becomes obsessed with a mammie

character actress of the 1930s, known only as the

w

Watermelon Woman, and decides to make a

documentary about her. As she works on the

documentary her own life undergoes a sudden

change when she falls for a rich white girl, Diana.

The ensuing turmoil causes Cheryl to question her

Watching Lesbian Porn

own identity, her relationship with Diana, her

community, her life and actions. One of the first

Watching You

feature films made by an out black lesbian, it opened

the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in

Abramovich, Stephanie

1996.

2000; Israel; 32 min; Drama

Awards: Berlin Film Festival, 1996: Teddy Award; LA

Sharon is a single mother hemmed in by a possessive

Outfest, 1996: Audience Award

girlfriend and a controlling boss. She escapes her

Prod Comp: Dancing Girl Productions

reality by watching and taking photos of her

attractive, but obviously troubled neighbour.

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures, Salzgeber, Wolfe, ACMI

Water Drops on Burning Rocks

Wavelengths

(aka: Gouttes d’Eau sur Pierres Brûlantes)

Parmar, Pratibha

1997; UK; 15 min; Comedy

Ozon, François

P: Janine Marmot; W: Jaden Clark

1999; France; 90 min; Comedy

After breaking up with her girlfriend, a young

P: Olivier Delbosc, Christine Gozlan, Kenzô Horikoshi,

lesbian on the lookout for someone new is con-

Marc Missonnier, Alain Sarde; W: François Ozon;

vinced by a friend to try cybersex. Her virtual lover

C: Jeanne Lapoirie; E: Laurence Bawedin, Claudine turns out to have more substance than she antici-Bouché

pated. (MQFF)

Cast: Bernard Giraudeau, Malik Zidi, Ludivine Sagnier,

Dist/Sales: Cinenova, WMM

Anna Levine

Based on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s play Tropfen

Waves

auf hiesse Steine this richly perverse and very funny

sex comedy stars Bernard Giraudeau as Leopold, an

(aka: Bølgene)

ultra successful and ultra conservative businessman

Mosvold, Frank

who seduces the young Franz. But when Franz

1998; Norway; 11 min; Drama

moves in, all expectations are overturned when it is

P: Frank Mosvold, Ivan Gasparini; W: Frank Mosvold, Leopold who refuses to compromise to Franz’s old

Øyvind Ellenes

fashioned sense of morality and domesticity. Franz

turns to his ex-girlfriend for comfort but she too

Waves looks at the friendship between 18-year-olds

ends up falling for Leopold’s cold seductive charms.

Tim and Morten as they stand at the cusp of

Their bizarre ménage à trois is then interrupted

adulthood, and employs only natural lighting and

when Leopold’s ex, Vera, a male to female trans-

handheld photography to tell its story. (MQFF)

sexual, comes for a visit. (ACMI)

Dist/Sales: NorwegianFilm

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Wax Me

Prod Comp: British Screen, Film Four International,

Gold Screen

Simpson, Kelli

Dist/Sales: Cinecom, BFI

1993; Australia; 10 min; Comedy

The story of Camille, a beauty worker caught

between the disapproval of her colleagues and her

desire for a beautiful client. Who says dykes and

drags don’t mix? (MQFF)

We Always Danced

Marquez, Nettie

1996; USA; 10 min; Drama

Anna is trying to come to terms with the loss of her

best friend to AIDS. The contradictions between her

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traditional Latin upbringing and her identity as a

lesbian leave her conflicted on how to handle her

grief. (TWN)

We Think the World of You

Dist/Sales: TWN

We were Marked with a Big A

We are Family

Weishaupt, Joseph / Jeanron, Elke

Sands, Aimee

1991; Germany; 44 min; Documentary

1987; USA; 58 min; Documentary

Powerful and thorough documentary featuring gay

A moving profile of life in three gay families, full of

man and women who share their experiences of

funny moments and everyday wisdom. Children and

surviving Nazi Germany.

parents have their say about a situation that is too

often regarded with hysteria.

We were One Man

Awards: San Francisco Film Festival, 1988: Golden Gate

(aka: Nous étions un Seul Homme)

Award

Vallois, Philippe

Dist/Sales: FilmakersLibrary

1979; France; 90 min; Drama

We are Transgenders

W: Philippe Vallois; C: François About; E: Philippe Vallois; M: Jean Jacques Ruhlmann

Ogawa, Lulu

Cast: Serge Avédikian, Piotr Stanislas, Catherine Albin

1998; Japan; 78 min; Documentary

Set during World War II, Guy, an escapee from a

An intimate look at the thriving transgender

mental hospital, hides in an isolated cottage. He

movement in contemporary Japan. A diverse range

finds a wounded German soldier, Rolf, and takes

of activists and personalities are interviewed, and

him back to the cottage where he can recuperate.

issues of gender discussed. Japanese with English

Soon they become friends, and their friendship

subtitles.

develops into a homosexual affair. Guy tries to stop

Dist/Sales: TokyoILGFF

Rolf leaving, but the outside world intrudes when

Rolf is captured. French with English subtitles.

We Think the World of You

Prod Comp: Philippe Vallois

Gregg, Colin

Dist/Sales: Frameline

1988; UK; 90 min; Comedy

We’re Funny that Way

P: Tommaso Jandelli; W: Hugh Stoddart; C: Mike Garfath; E: Peter Delfgou; M: Julian Lacobson

Adkin, David

Cast: Alan Bates, Gary Oldman, Frances Barber, Max

1998; Canada; 86 min; Documentary

Wall, Liz Smith

P: Harry Sutherland, David Adkin; C: Ali Kazimi;

Frank is very, very confused. His best friend and

E: Steve Weslak; M: Aaron Davis, John Lang

former lover, Johnny, has been sent to prison.

Eleven of North America’s funniest gay and lesbian

Suddenly Frank has fallen in love with Evie, the girl

comedians star in this documentary showcasing the

Johnny left behind. And Evie’s a real dog (we are

wit and wisdom of an unusual group of performers

talking four legs and a wet nose)!

who have, for years, taken the professional risk of

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coming out onstage. Included in the line-up are:

Squyres; M: Mader

Scott Capurro, Lea DeLaria, Kate Clinton, Jaffe

Cast: Winston Chao, May Chin, Mitchell Lichtenstein,

Cohen. Live performance clips are combined with

Ah-Leh Gua, Sihung Lung

behind-the-scenes footage and interviews in which

Wai-tung is happily settled in Manhattan in a gay

the performers candidly share their life experiences,

relationship with Simon, but is pestered by his

offer insights into the art of comedy, and discuss the

parents in Taiwan to marry and maintain the family

obstacles facing gays and other minorities within the

tradition. One of his tenants, an illegal immigrant

entertainment industry.

from Shanghai needs a green card, so a marriage of

Prod Comp: Fabulous Pictures

convenience is arranged. But no-one has reckoned

Dist/Sales: Fabulous

on the possibility of a Chinese wedding. Nominated

for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language

We’ve Been Framed

Film, 1993. Some Taiwanese with English subtitles.

Farthing, Cheryl

Prod Comp: Central Motion Pictures, Good Machine

1991; UK; 25 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: Palace, SamuelGoldwyn, GoodMachine,

Another film made for the British Channel 4 Out

Wolfe, Swank

series. Women of different ages, races and class

Wedding Video, The

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backgrounds talk about the best, the worst and the

first lesbian films they’ve seen.

Cowen, Clint / Korpi, Norman

2001; USA; 84 min; Comedy

Webcam Boys

Cast: Norman Korpi, Heather B. Gardner, Cory

Murphy, Julie Oliver, Rachel Campos

RADD

2001; USA; 57 min; Documentary

Norm and his muscular boyfriend, Sky, are about to

tie the knot. Norm wants to remember it forever, so

Webcam Boys follows ten men over four months

he hires a videographer to make a wedding video.

and films them 24 hours a day. Candid interviews

Fortunately for us, the unseen videographer and

dig deep into their personal lives. Video verite at its

relentless interviewer leaves the camera running

most voyeuristic.

when it probably should be turned off. For example,

things don’t go over quite so well when the wedding

planners find out there are two grooms. Via pre-

wedding interviews, we get introduced to Norm’s

eclectic and diverse circle of friends. When the

whole, messy group assembles at Norm’s Beverly

Hills castle to prepare for the big day, the ride really

gets bumpy. A hayride, a red dildo, and an out of

control bachelor party may end up on the cutting

room floor, but we get to see it all first. And did

someone forget to tell Norm that his new spouse is a

porn star? (2002 Austin Gay & Lesbian Interna-

tional Film Festival)

Prod Comp: Fruit Films, Rewind Services

Dist/Sales: FruitFilms

Weekend, The

Skeet, Brian

1999; UK, USA; 97 min; Drama

P: Ian Benson; W: Brian Skeet; C: Ron Fortunato; The Wedding Banquet

E: Chris Wyatt; M: Sarah Class, Dan Jones

Wedding Banquet, The

Cast: Gena Rowlands, Brooke Shields, Deborah Kara

Unger, Jared Harris, David Conrad

(aka: Hsi yen)

Marian and John Kerr are expecting an old friend,

Lee, Ang

Lyle for a weekend visit to their beautiful upstate

1993; China, Taiwan, USA; 111 min; Comedy

New York home. Emotions run high since it is the

P: Ted Hope, James Schamus, Ang Lee; W: Ang Lee,

one-year anniversary of the death of John’s brother,

James Schamus, Neil Feng; C: Jong Lin; E: Tim

the handsome and charismatic Tony, who had also

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been Lyle’s lover. Marian, who is still inconsolable

into the psyche of a man whose repressed homosexu-

after losing Tony to AIDS, is upset when Lyle brings

ality and cultural identity produces madness. Otto

his new boyfriend, a young artist, Robert. Mean-

Weininger was a contemporary of Freud; his

while, the situation is just as tense at the Kerr’s

contribution to the world of psychoanalysis was Sex

neighbours house, where oft-widowed, free spirit

and Character a misogynist rant that elevated the

Laura Ponti gets a surprise visit from her resentful,

male to godlike status and cited the female as the

angry daughter, Nina, and her married lover,

root of all evil. His denial of his own homosexual

Thierry. Matters worsen when the battling mother-

nature was expressed through the revulsion he felt

daughter duo joins the Kerr household for a dinner

toward women; the guilt he experienced being a Jew

party, where the pain-riddled diners engage in a

in turn-of-the-century Vienna resulted in a vicious

messy emotional showdown. (Strand Releasing)

anti-Semitism and a conversion to Christianity.

Prod Comp: Granada Films, Lunatics and Lovers

Based on the Volkstheater Wien’s production of

Dist/Sales: Strand, Wolfe

Joshua Sobol’s stage play, Weininger’s Nacht describes

the uneasy relationship between oppression and self-

hatred, and between homophobia and anti-

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Semitism. (MQFF)

Welcome to Africville

Inkster, Dana

1999; 15 min; Documentary

Tells the stories of three black women (two of them

lesbians) as they recount their lives in Africville on

the eve of its destruction.

Dist/Sales: VideoOut, GroupeIntervention

The Weekend

Well Lit Shadows

Weeki Wachee Girls

Collins, Paul

1994; Australia; 15 min; Drama

Cummings, Kim

1999; USA; 22 min; Comedy

He is repressed and middle-class. His escape? The

personal columns of Truth newspaper, and a sexual

Best friends forever, Katie and Maura have dreamed

adventure with a young transvestite. Fantasy and

of being part of the live mermaid show at the Wekki

reality blur, but will he ever come out of the

Wachee Spring. It’s the summer of 1979, they’re 15

shadows? (MQFF)

and everything is changing, especially when Katie

discovers Maura kissing another girl.

Well Sexy Women

Dist/Sales: Atom, CFMDC

Believeau, Lulu / Hickson, Michele / Moorcock, Sophie

Weiner Brut

/ North, Liz

1993; UK; 55 min; Documentary

Fädler, Hans

1985; Austria; 98 min; Comedy

Featuring six lesbians captured during a group

discussion that involves suggestions on how lesbians

Set among the ousted aristocracy of Austria, this

can reduce their risk to STDs and generally lead

outrageous parody tells the story of a group of punks

safer sex lives.

who help the aristocrats maintain their drug supply.

In return, however, the punks want the crown jewels

Dist/Sales: Wolfe

and to turn the opera house into a rock venue.

Well, The

Weininger’s Nacht

Lang, Samantha

Manker, Paulus

1997; Australia; 100 min; Thriller

1989; Austria; 104 min; Drama

P: Sandra Levy; W: Laura Jones; C: Mandy Walker; C: Walter Kindler; E: Marie Homolkova, Ingrid Koller; E: Dany Cooper; M: Stephen Rae

M: Hans Georg Koch

Cast: Pamela Rabe, Miranda Otto, Paul Chubb, Frank

Cast: Andrea Eckert, Paulus Manker, Sieghardt Rupp

Wilson, Steve Jacobs

Weininger’s Nacht is a fascinating, disturbing glimpse

The sun can’t seem to shine in this eerie thriller that

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suffuses the otherwise sun-baked Australian outback

loosely-structured, documentary-like scenes,

with a sickly pallid light. Ageing spinster Hester

Brüning presents their lives as refreshingly free of

brings home the spirited Katherine to assist with the

angst or conflict—they spend their time having fun,

chores around her decrepit ranch home. In contrast

dancing, cruising, modelling for photos, hustling for

to the burdens of her ailing father, Katherine’s

money, and having sex. West Fickt Ost emerges as an

youthfulness offers Hester a ray of golden sunshine

experimental portrait of unashamedly sensual gay

in her dismal gloom, and their developing relation-

male sexuality. (2002 New York Lesbian & Gay Film

ship helps her overcome her frustrations and giddily

Festival) German with English subtitles.

inspires her beyond the everyday. When the old man

Prod Comp: Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion

dies, Hester supplements the inheritance with the

Dist/Sales: Brüning

sale of the old ranch house, and the two women find

an ideal fantasy world in a new cottage home. Then

Westler: East of the Wall

one night everything changes—Katherine runs over

a man out on their deserted road. Fantasy turns into

Speck, Wieland

feverish nightmare, as distrust, paranoia, and horror

1985; Germany; 90 min; Drama

begin to run rampant. (24th San Francisco Interna-

W: Egbert Hörmann, Wieland Speck; C: Klemens

tional Lesbian & Gay Film Festival)

Becker; E: Gabriele Bartels, Wieland Speck;

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Prod Comp: New South Wales Film & TV Office,

M: Engelbert Rehm

Southern Star Xanadu

Cast: Sigurd Rachman, Rainer Strecker, Sala Kogo,

Dist/Sales: Globe

Andy Lucas

Wellness

This low-budget feature from Germany tells the

story of Felix, a young man from West Berlin, who

1996; Canada; 29 min; Documentary

on a day trip, meets and falls in love with Thomas, a

waiter from East Berlin. The boys decide on an

A community health centre gives priority to

escape plan for Thomas but they are thwarted by

marginalised women whose needs are not met by the

suspicious border guards. Even though made on a

medical system, a group of women with multiple

low budget, this first feature from Speck is refresh-

sclerosis share common concerns about health care,

ing, uplifting and fascinating—it includes illegal

and a researcher studies the health care needs of

lesbian and bisexual women in Nova Scotia. (EMA)

video footage shot in the East. German with English

subtitles.

Dist/Sales: EMA

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

West Coast Crones

Film Festival, 1986: Audience Award for Best Feature

Dist/Sales: Frameline, Salzgeber, Strand

Muir, Madeline

1991; USA; 28 min; Documentary

What a Pretty Sister

An articulate group of nine white, mostly middle-

Thomas, Yvette

class women meet to discuss issues as diverse as their

1991; New Zealand; 25 min; Documentary

initial sexual experiences, coming out, their decision

to have or not have children, their self-perception,

A sensitive exploration of a transsexual’s journey

friendships and relationships with other women as

from boyhood to her present-day life as a woman.

well as the expectancy and mental preparation for

Dist/Sales: AucklandUni

approaching infirmary and death.

What have I Done to Deserve This?

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Frameline

(aka: Qué he hecho yo para Merecer esto?!! )

West Fickt Ost

Almodóvar, Pedro

(aka: West Fucks East)

1984; Spain; 100 min; Comedy

Brüning, Jürgen

P: Tadeo Villabla, Hervé Hachuel; W: Pedro Almodóvar; 2001; Germany; 60 min; Experimental

C: Ángel Luis Fernández; E: José Salcedo;

West Fickt Ost follows three attractive men: Erik,

M: Bernardo Bonezzi

who works at the stock market; Cyrus, who spends

Cast: Carmen Maura, Juan Martinez, Luis Hostalot,

his days as a waiter; and Tim, who manages a sex

Angel de Andres-Lopez

store. The three are good friends, and, it quickly

Gloria is a typical Spanish housewife—or is she? She

becomes apparent, are involved in a seemingly

has an indifferent taxi driver husband, two sons who

uncomplicated sexual relationship. In a series of

have discovered the fringe benefits of drug-dealing,

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and a self-reliant mother-in-law with a pet lizard.

these women cannot ‘take for granted’.

When the family run out of money, one of the sons

Prod Comp: Iris Feminist Collective

is sold to a gay dentist. Gloria craves a better life or,

Dist/Sales: WMM

at least for starters, sex with a potent man.

Prod Comp: Tesauro SA, Kaktus Producciones

What’s Cooking?

Cinematográficas SA

Chadha, Gurinder

Dist/Sales: ACMI, Potential, Cinevista

2000; UK, USA; 110 min; Comedy

What is the Relationship between Rosa

P: Jeffrey Taylor; W: Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda von Praunheim and the Male Strippers of

Berges; C: Jong Lin; E: Janice Hamton; M: Craig Pruess Cast: Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Mercedes Ruehl,

San Francisco?

Kyra Sedgwick

Brüning, Jürgen / Goldstein, Mark

What’s Cooking? celebrates the quintessential

1990; USA; 15 min; Documentary

American holiday Thanksgiving through the stories

of four diverse families: African–American, Jewish,

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Interviews with the legendary filmmaker Rosa von

Praunheim are interspersed with explicit porn movie

Latino and Vietnamese. But there’s more than turkey

scenes, stripping scenes and interviews with male

being served, and the side dishes include family

strippers.

secrets, affection, tension and more. All-star cast

includes Kyra Sedgewick and Julianna Margulies as

What Kind of Music!

lesbian lovers. (Wolfe)

English, Spanish & Vietnamese with English subtitles.

(aka: Ma Che Musica!)

Prod Comp: Flashpoint, Stagescreen, Because Entertain-

Cecchi, Antonio / Gatti, Gianni

ment

1999; Italy; 13 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: Trimark, LionsGate, Wolfe

A young boy longs to be in a marching band.

What Makes a Family

Greenwald, Maggie

2001; USA; 91 min; Drama

P: Wendy Grean; W: Robert L. Freedman; C: Rhett Morita; E: Keith Reamer; M: David Mansfield

Cast: Brooke Shields, Cherry Jones, Anne Meara

After a brief but passionate courtship, two young

women, Janine Nielssen and Sandy Cataldi, seal

their commitment to each other with a beautifully

moving lesbian wedding. As they settle into

domestic life together, Sandy realises she wants to

When Boys Fly

start a family. Shortly after giving birth to a daugh-

ter, Sandy falls ill and Janine has to fight for the

When Boys Fly

custody of her daughter. (2001 Verzaubert Interna-

Halpern, Stewart / Rolov, Lenid

tional Queer Film Festival)

2001; USA; 62 min; Documentary

Prod Comp: Lifetime Television

P: Stewart Halpern, Lenid Rolov, Kevin Weiler;

What you Take for Granted

C: Clay Westervelt; E: Stewart Halpern, Lenid Rolov; M: Robert Johnson

Citron, Michelle

This erotically charged documentary focuses on four

1983; USA; 75 min; Documentary

men as they soar through the fast-paced world of the

P: Michelle Citron

USA’s biggest circuit party, a weekend of debauchery

The tentative friendship of Anna, a feisty truck

where rules don’t apply, boundaries are non-existent

driver, and Diana, an upper middle-class doctor,

and physical perfection is demanded. Brandon, 23,

provides the core for an unusual, intimate and

is a shy circuit virgin whose straight-laced life

moving look at women’s experiences in jobs

collides head-on with Tone, 21, an extroverted party

traditionally held by men. What You Take for Granted

boy trying to keep himself out of the emergency

creatively confronts issues of race and class and

room. Todd, a handsome 35-year-old businessman,

examines the cultural contradictions and stereotypes

recklessly plays the field while trying to maintain a

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relationship with Jon, his 19-year-old ‘soul mate’.

When Shirley Met Florence

Circuit parties allow professional gay men to travel

to ‘Wonderland’ to play Peter Pan, hoping to forge

Bezalel, Ronit

the kind of relationships we’re all looking for...love,

1994; Canada; 27 min; Documentary

friendship and self-worth. When Boys Fly is a

‘When I first saw Shirley, I fell in love with her’,

provocative, startling, no-holds-barred peek into the

exclaims Florence in describing a rich relationship

lives of a new generation. (2002 LA Outfest)

that she believes ‘was made in heaven’. Now, after a

Prod Comp: New Voices Production

lifetime together in Montreal, the two Jewish women

Dist/Sales: NewVoices, TLA

continue to cherish the ties that have bound them

together for 55 years and to celebrate their passion

When Love Comes

for music which first drew them to each other.

Prod Comp: National Film Board of Canada

Maxwell, Garth

Dist/Sales: Heathcliff, NFBC

1998; New Zealand; 94 min; Drama

P: Michele Fantl, Jonathan Dowling; W: Garth

Maxwell, Rex Pilgrim, Peter Wells; C: Darryl Ward;

E: Cushla Dillon; M: Angus McNaughton, Chris

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Anderton, Dave Goodison, Darryl Ward

Cast: Dean O’Gorman, Rena Owen, Sophia

Hawthorne, Nancy Brunning, Simon Westaway

Stephen is old friends with Katie (a has-been singer

from 1970s) but is in love with Mark. Lesbian punk

rockers Fig and Sally are excited about their band

and the lyrics Mark is writing for their songs. Eddie

loves Katie but does she still want him? All the

characters come together in a round of revelations

and recriminations which are handled with pathos

and humour by Maxwell. (MQFF)

When Night is Falling

Prod Comp: MF Films

When the Cat’s Away

Dist/Sales: NZFC, Millivres, JourDeFete, Wolfe, ACMI

(aka: Chacun Cherche Son Chat)

When Night is Falling

Klapisch, Cédric

Rozema, Patricia

1995; France; 95 min; Comedy

1995; Canada; 82 min; Drama

P: Farid Lahouassa, Aissa Djabri, Manuel Munz;

P: Barbara Tranter; W: Patricia Rozema; C: Douglas W: Cédric Klapisch; C: Benoit Delhomme;

Koch; E: Susan Shipton; M: Leslie Barber

E: Francine Sandberg; M: Frédéric Chopin

Cast: Pascale Bussières, Rachael Crawford, Henry

Cast: Garance Clavel, Renee Le Calm, Olivier Py,

Czerny, David Fox

Zinedine Soualem

Camille is a Christian academic, engaged to be

When make-up artist Chloe decides to take a week’s

married to a fellow theologian. Then she meets

holiday at the sea side, the only person that she can

Petra, a flamboyant performer in an avant-garde

get to mind her beloved cat, Gris Gris, is Madame

circus. Much to her surprise, Camille finds herself

Renee’, an eccentric old biddy with an apartment

falling deeply, almost magically, in love. Forced to

full of the fur balls. Finding that on her return to

choose between the woman she wants and the man

Paris Madame Renee has misplaced her cat, her grief

who loves her, Camille discovers that the true duty

has Madame organising a posse of elderly matrons

of the soul is desire. A beautiful, sensitive and often

and local folk to help Chloe and her gay flatmate

funny film from the director of I’ve Heard the

Michel hunt down the cat. As the neighbourhood

Mermaids Singing.

gets involved in the search, with a local lad develop-

Awards: Melbourne International Film Festival, 1994:

ing a crush on Chloe, and Chloe, a crush on the

Best Film; Berlin Film Festival, 1994: Audience Award

drummer who keeps everyone up at night. French

Prod Comp: Crucial Pictures

with English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: UIP, Wolfe, TLA, October, Cowboy, ACMI,

Prod Comp: Vertigo, Le Studio Canal+, France 2 Cinéma

Swank, Haut-et-Court

Dist/Sales: Palace, ArtificialEye

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When the Party’s Over

Where the Sun Beats Down

Irmas, Mathew

(aka: Onde Bate o Sol)

1992; USA; 115 min; Drama

Pinto, Joaquim

P: James A. Holt, Matthew Irmas, Ann Wycoff; W: Ann 1989; Portugal; Drama

Wycoff, Matthew Irmas; C: Alicia Weber; E: Dean

P: João Pedro Bénard; W: Joaquim Pinto; C: Joaquim Goodhill, Jerry Bixman; M: Joe Romano

Pinto; E: Claudio Martínez

Cast: Rae Dawn Chong, Sandra Bullock, Elizabeth

Cast: Antonio Pedro Figueiredo, Marcello Urgeghe,

Berridge, Kris Kamm

Manuel Lobão

The film focuses on three very different young

Set in modern-day Portugal, Nuno returns from the

women and a homosexual man sharing a house in

city to his sister’s farm where he develops a relation-

contemporary Los Angeles, as they negotiate the

ship with a young farm worker, Alberto. The

difficult transition into adulthood. All the characters

relationship threatens the stability of Nuno’s

find love at some stage except for the gay man.

snobbish family, but he is a young man determined

Prod Comp: Emby Eye

to break the sexual and class taboos of his culture.

w When the Penny Drops

Prod Comp: Grupo de Estudos e Realizações

Whether you Like it or Not: The Story of

Clifford, Barbara

1993; Australia; 20 min; Documentary

Hedwig

In this film several Australians talk about how they

Nix, Laura

have been targeted for violence, loss of employment,

2001; USA; 85 min; Documentary

denial of immigration because of their sexuality.

P: Laura Nix; E: Jeff Groth; M: Stephen Trask Where is My Love?

A fascinating documentary on the making of the

film Hedwig and the Angry Inch from its conception

(aka: Qiangpo Puguang)

in the New York underground club scene to its

Chen, Jofei

reception at the Sundance Film Festival. In addition

to rare archival footage you won’t see anywhere

1995; Taiwan; 56 min; Drama

(including Hedwig’s first appearance), you’ll find

P: Jojo Wu; W: Jofei Chen; C: Jiping Liu; intimate interviews with leading players John

E: Xiaodong Chen

Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask. (2002

Cast: Jixing Wen, Anchen Qui, Shuqing Ke, David Wang

Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival)

The debut feature from Jofei Chen, centres on two

Prod Comp: Automat Pictures

very different men. Ko is a writer and gay, but

Dist/Sales: Automat, NewLine

terrified of intimacy with another man and even

more terrified of coming out. Ko has a one-night

White People’s Business

stand with Pierre, who is openly gay. Pierre wants

more from Ko and begins to wear down the writer’s

Dacic, Diana / Seelenmeyer, Melissa

inhibitions. Chinese with English subtitles.

2001; Australia; 26 min; Documentary

Dist/Sales: ChenJ

An urban perspective on non-indigenous involve-

ment in the reconciliation movement in Australia.

Where Lies the Homo?

Features interviews with Rob Lake from Black,

White and Pink—a Sydney-based group of queers

Monette, Jean-François

who work towards providing information and action

1998; Canada; 34 min; Experimental

plans for the queer community about reconciliation.

W: Jean-Françios Monette

Dist/Sales: WhitePeople

A film diary that explores the construction of gay

identities through an analysis of media clips and

White to be Angry, The

coming out tales. The narrative’s focus is on

demystifying stereotypical representations of

Davis, Vaginal

queerness in film while offering a personal view of

1999; USA; 15 min; Experimental

growing up queer in a heterosexist culture.

Davis makes a definitive statement about American

(CFMDC)

race, gender and class relations in The White to be

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

Angry.

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Who Happen to be Gay

Wing is obsessed with pop idol Rose and her partner

and producer Sam. When she hears that Sam is on

Beldin, Dale / Krenzien, Mark

the lookout for fresh male talent, Wing dresses up as

1979; USA; 23 min; Documentary

a man to win a talent competition and ends up

A highly-acclaimed American Broadcasting Corpora-

entangled in a love triangle with them. Rose

tion television documentary which profiles six

becomes attached to Wing, so Wing tells ‘he’ is gay

professionals, three men and three women (an

to rebut her advances, only to be overheard by Sam

engineer, a college professor, a psychologist, a

who decides he is attracted to ‘him’. Cantonese &

registered nurse, a real estate agent and a doctor)

Mandarin with English & Chinese subtitles.

who have decided to lead openly gay lives.

Prod Comp: Golden Harvest, United Filmmakers

Dist/Sales: DirectCinema

Organisation, Second Studio

Dist/Sales: RimFilm

Who Killed Pasolini?

(aka: Pasolini, an Italian Crime; Pasolini, un delitto

Why am I Gay?

Italiano)

1995; UK; 57 min; Documentary

Giordana, Marco Tullio

An accessible and timely look at homosexuality

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1995; Italy; 100 min; Drama

which tackles it from the angle of development of

P: Claudio Bonivento, Rita Cecchi Gori, Vittorio

sexual orientation. Is it just a social problem? Are

Cecchi Gori, Jean-François Lepetit; W: Marco Tullio

homosexuals ‘made’ by their social world or are

Giordana, Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli; C: Franco

homosexuals born as they are?

Lecca; E: Cecilia Zanuso; M: Ennio Morricone

Prod Comp: Itel

Cast: Carlo DeFilippi, Nicoletta Braschi, Toni Bertorelli Dist/Sales: Marcom

When the famous Italian film director, poet and

social critic Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered in a

Why Not!

Rome slum in 1975, the official view was that he

(aka: Pourquoi Pas!)

was murdered by an enraged teenage boy he had

picked up for a sexual encounter. This film, made in

Serreau, Coline

the form of a docudrama, looks at the murder first

1979; France; 93 min; Comedy

in a straightforward manner, but then raises several

P: Michèle Dimitri; W: Coline Serreau; C: Jean-François provocative questions: was the boy acting alone or

Robin; E: Sophie Tatischeff; M: Jean Pierre Mas

with a gang, was it an impulse killing or was the

Cast: Mário González, Sami Frey, Nicole Jamet,

killer (or killers) hired to murder Pasolini?

Christine Murillo

Prod Comp: Flach Film

A threesome involving two men and a woman is

Dist/Sales: Alliance

going along happily until another woman enters the

scene and it becomes a foursome.

Who’s Afraid of Project 10?

Prod Comp: Dimage, SND

Greene, Scott

Dist/Sales: NewLine

1990; USA; 24 min; Documentary

Wigstock: The Movie (1987)

The special needs of gay and lesbian teenagers are

seldom dealt with by conventional high-school

Rubnitz, Tom

guidance counsellors. Project 10 is a program in

1987; USA; 20 min; Documentary

southern Californian high schools that meets the

A documentary about the annual New York

counselling needs of gay teens. This videotape moves

‘storywig-in’ organised by The Lady Bunny,

between the program’s director discussing how it

featuring Lypsinka, John Sex, John Kelly, Baby

works, the gay and lesbian teenagers who have

Gregor, Hapi Phace, Taboo, among many others.

benefited from the program, and fundamentalist

(The Kitchen)

protesters who consider this important social

Dist/Sales: Kitchen

program immoral and anti-family. (MQFF)

Wigstock: The Movie (1995)

Who’s the Woman, Who’s the Man

Shils, Barry

Chan, Peter

1995; USA; 85 min; Documentary

1996; Hong Kong; 107 min; Comedy

P: Dean Silvers, Marlen Hecht; E: Marlen Hecht, Tod C: Henry Chan

Scott Brody, Barry Shils; M: Gerry Gershman

Cast: Anita Yuen, Anita Mui, Jordan Chan, Leslie

Cast: Alexis Arquette, Candis Cayne, Crystal Waters,

Cheung

Coco Peru, RuPaul Charles

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Part concert, part frockumentary this engaging and

they each struggle for independence and maturity.

fun film journeys beneath the glamour and make-up

Among the four is the sensitive, bourgeois, François,

of the annual Wigstock Festival in New York.

who is coming to terms with his sexuality and finds

Features great performances from drag queen

he is attracted to the rather butch, working-class

luminaries such as RuPaul and Deee-lite along with

Serge. French with English subtitles.

some cute drag kings as well.

Awards: Cesar Awards, 1994: Best Film, Direction,

Dist/Sales: 21stCentury, Wolfe

Screenplay, New Actress

Prod Comp: IMA Productions, Les Films Alain Sarde,

Wild Life

Strand

Goss, John

Dist/Sales: Strand, Ronin, 21stCentury, Wolfe

1985; USA; 40 min; Drama

A portrait of two 15-year-old gay Latinos, combin-

ing documentary-style interviews with fictional

segments in which they act out their typical Los

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Angeles day. It explores the life of Carlos and Caesar,

two school friends, and how they deal with being

gay and coming out.

Dist/Sales: VideoOut

Wild Party, The

Arzner, Dorothy

1929; USA; 76 min; B&W; Drama

The Wild Reeds

W: E. Lloyd Sheldon, John V. A. Weaver, George

Marion Jnr; C: Victor Milner; E: Otho Lovering;

Wild Side

M: John Leipold

Brauner, Franklin (aka Cammell, Donald)

Cast: Clara Bow, Fredric March, Marceline Day, Shirley

1996; USA; 96 min; Thriller

O’Hara

P: Elie Cohn, John Langley, Nick Jones, Hamish

Set in an all-girls school, The Wild Party is the story

McAlpine; W: China Kong, Donald Cammell; C: Sead of a young student in love with one of the professors.

Mutarevic; E: Frank Mazzola; M: Jaimie Muhoberac, The relationships between the girls is depicted in a

Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jon Hassell

very sensual manner, although there is no overt

Cast: Christopher Walken, Joan Chen, Anne Heche,

lesbianism. Dorothy Arzner was the most prominent

Steven Bauer

female director in Hollywood from the late 1920s to

the 1940s; she was also an overt lesbian and was

The story centres on Alex, a loan officer in a bank,

tolerated by Hollywood because she was considered

who moonlights as a high class prostitute when there

‘one of the boys’.

is the threat of losing her house. She meets up with a

new client, Bruno a money launderer, his driver,

Prod Comp: Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation

who rapes Alex and turns out to be an undercover

Dist/Sales: Paramount

cop, and his lesbian wife. Alex somehow gets

Wild Reeds, The

involved in a money-laundering deal and falls in love

with the wife. There are some erotic lesbian sex

(aka: Les Roseaux Sauvages)

scenes, but the best part is that the women get away

Téchiné, André

with the loot. There is also a Director’s Cut of the

1994; France; 110 min; Drama

film ( Donald Cammell’s Wild Side released in 1999)

P: Georges Benayoun, Alain Sarde; W: André Téchiné, which was pieced together by the editor after

Olivier Massart, Giles Taurand; C: Jeanne Lapoirie;

Cammell apparently suicided when the studio cut

E: Martine Giordano

was not to his liking. The Director’s Cut is said to be

Cast: Élodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel, Stéphane Rideau,

an outstanding piece of cinema and far superior to

Frédéric Gorny

the studio release. Cammell had his name removed

from the 1996 version.

The Wild Reeds is set in 1962, the year in which the

independence of Algeria was confirmed by the Evian

Prod Comp: Nu Image, Channel 4, Mondofin BV, Wild

Treaty. An intricate web of sexual and political

Side Productions

tensions unexpectedly unites four young people as

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox, Wolfe

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Wild Things

Wildflowers

McNaughton, John

Smith, Robert

1998; USA; 108 min; Thriller

1989; UK; 65 min; Drama

P: Rodney M. Liber, Steven A. Jones; W: Stephen Peters; P: Chris Harvey; W: Sharman Macdonald;

C: Jeffrey L. Kimball; E: Elena Maganini;

E: John Davies

M: George S. Clinton

Cast: Colette O’Neil, Beatie Edney, Stevan Rimkus

Cast: Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Denise Richards,

Sadie, a young woman, goes to visit her boyfriend’s

Kevin Bacon, Bill Murray

family in a small seaside town in Scotland. She meets

A respectable Florida high school guidance counsel-

his mother and becomes increasingly fascinated by

lor’s life is upended when he is accused of rape by

her, even more so when she discovers the mother is

two rebellious students. Detective Ray Duquette is

bisexual. Made for television.

brought in to investigate, but it seems that not

Prod Comp: Channel 4, Frontroom Films

everything is as it appears, and more than one person

Dist/Sales: Frameline

is being deceived.

Prod Comp: Mandalay Entertainment

William Burroughs: Commissioner of the

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, RoadshowEnt, SonyClassics

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Sewers

Wilde

Maeck, Klaus

(aka: Oscar Wilde)

1986; USA; 60 min; Documentary

Documentary portrait on the life of author and Beat

Gilbert, Brian

personality William Burroughs.

1997; UK; 118 min; Drama

P: Marc Samuelson, Peter Samuelson; W: Julian

Willie Dynamite

Mitchell; C: Martin Fuhrer; E: Michael Bradsell; M: Debbie Wiseman

Moses, Gilbert

Cast: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave

1974; USA; 100 min; Action

In 1883, Irish-born Oscar Wilde returned to

P: Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown; W: Ron Cutler; London bursting with exuberance from a year long

C: Frank Stanley; E: Aaron Stell; M: J. J. Johnson lecture tour of the United States and Canada. Full of

Cast: Roscoe Orman, Diana Sands, Thalmus Rasulala,

talent, passion and, most of all, full of himself, he

Roger Robinson

courted and married the beautiful Constance Lloyd.

A few years later, Oscar Wilde’s wit, flamboyance

An action film set in New York City that includes

and creative genius were widely renowned. His

some very colourful characters. A pimp sets out to

literary career had achieved notoriety with the

topple big-shot Roger Robinson, who camps it up as

publication of The Picture of Dorian Gray and he and

an outrageous homosexual.

Constance had two sons. One evening Robert Ross,

Prod Comp: Universal

a young Canadian house guest, tempted Oscar and

Dist/Sales: Universal

forced him to finally confront his homosexual

feelings that had gripped him since his school days.

Willkommen im Dom

Oscar’s work thrived on the realisation that he was

gay, but his private life flew increasingly in the face

(aka: Welcome to the Dome)

of decidedly anti-homosexual conventions of late

Hick, Jochen

Victorian society. As his literary career flourished,

1992; Germany; 15 min; Documentary

risk of a huge scandal grew ever larger. By 1892, on

P: Elke Peters; C: P. C. Neumann; E: Jochen Hick the opening night of his acclaimed play Lady

Windermere’s Fan, Oscar was reintroduced to

A visual record of the spectacular ACT UP (AIDS

handsome young Oxford undergraduate, Lord

Coalition To Unleash Power) action that took place

Alfred Douglas, who was nicknamed ‘Bosie’.

during the final service of the German Bishop’s

Instantly mesmerised by the confident, dashing and

Conference on 26 August 1991. The footage was

intelligent young man, Oscar began the passionate

shot during the making of a television film about

and stormy relationship which consumed him and

this conference and the first Atheists’ Congress in the

ultimately destroyed him.

Federal Republic of Germany.

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, SonyClassics

Prod Comp: Galeria Alaska Productions

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Willy/Milly

Thornley, David Perry; E: Melanie Read; M: Hens

(aka: Something Special)

Teeth

This film examines the individual and collective

Schneider, Paul

oppression of homosexuals in Australia against the

1986; USA; 90 min; Comedy

background of such oppression throughout history.

P: David Chilewich; W: Walter Carbone, Carla Reuben; It grew out of a gay liberation protest march in

C: Dominique Chapuis; E: Michael R. Miller;

Sydney where police clashed with homosexuals.

M: David McHugh

Believed to be the first Australian documentary

Cast: Pamela Segall, Patty Duke, John Glover, Eric

made on gay rights and the gay liberation move-

Gurry

ment.

Milly Niceman’s dream comes true when she wishes

Prod Comp: One in Seven Collective

to be a boy and grows ‘a guy thing down there’. Now

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

all the girls are taking a different interest in Milly,

now Willy, and with the right equipment Willy is

determined to have a good time as well. Not sighted

since it’s release, Willy Milly is a rare example of a

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Hollywood transgender comedy where the girl gets

to be a boy.

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox

Wilma’s Sacrifice

Lanteigne, Kat

1999; Canada; 15 min; Drama

This film tells the tale of young Wilma’s romantic

escapades with Christine a woman from the ‘outside’

world. Surrealistically set in the 1950s, the town of

Withnail and I

Eden is a place where the air is haunted with silence.

Withnail and I

Wilma has to choose whether to redeem herself in

the eyes of her religiously obsessed brother James,

Robinson, Bruce

her neurotic chain-smoking Mother, and her

1987; UK; 108 min; Comedy

opprobrious Father; or escape Eden, a place where

P: Paul M. Heller; W: Bruce Robinson; C: Peter one can never feel quite clean enough. (CFMDC)

Hannan; E: Alan Strachan; M: David Dundas, Rick

Dist/Sales: CFMDC

Wentworth

Cast: Paul McGann, Richard E. Grant, Richard

Windows

Griffiths, Ralph Brown

Willis, Gordon

Set at the end of the swinging 1960s, the film

documents the tale of two down-and-out actors who

1980; USA; 88 min; Thriller

flee their London flat for a weekend country idyll

P: Mike Lobell; W: Barry Siegel; C: Gordon Willis; that turns into a vine-covered hell. The cottage,

E: Barry Malkin; M: Ennio Morricone

offered to them by Withnail’s gay uncle, has no

Cast: Elizabeth Ashley, Talia Shire, Joseph Cortese, Kay

power, lights or running water, and their nightmare

Medford

begins. An intelligent and funny film with a witty

Thriller set in New York involving a homicidal

script and entertaining gay subtext.

lesbian, who develops a fatal passion for a straight

Prod Comp: Handmade Films

young woman who is her neighbour. Ashley stalks

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, Equator

Shire, turning peeping Tom, and taking dire actions

to secure her affections. Very lesbophobic.

Without you I’m Nothing

Prod Comp: Mike Lobell Productions, United Artists

Boskovich, John

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, Warner, UA, VSM, ACMI

1990; USA; 90 min; Comedy, Musical

Witches, Faggots, Dykes and Poofters

P: Jonathan D. Krane; W: Sandra Bernhard, John

Boskovich; C: Joseph Yacoe; E: Pamela Malouf-Cundy; One in Seven Collective

M: Patrice Rushen

1979; Australia; 45 min; Documentary

Cast: Sandra Bernhard, John Doe, Steven Antin, Lu

P: Digby Duncan; C: Wendy Freecloud, Jan Kenny, Jeni Leonard

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Based on Sandra Bernhard’s one-woman show,

classical philosophy and the development of a

Without You I’m Nothing is an ecstatic celebration of

challenging deconstruction of language which was to

deviancy and sexual difference. Bernhard is a

bring him into conflict with more positivist

sardonic and biting comedian who, in a series of

philosophies. Scripted by renowned English

inspired personas, exposes the hypocrisy and

academic, Professor Terry Eagleton, the film revolves

shallowness that dominate contemporary American

around a series of arguments and discussions

culture. Whether sending up her suburban Jewish

between Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell and their

upbringing or the excesses of Hollywood stardom,

university peers. In the long run, Wittgenstein’s

Bernhard’s stand-up routines reclaim the transgres-

break with the hierarchy at Cambridge is not only a

sive bitchiness of camp.

product of intellectual speculation but is also rooted

Prod Comp: MCEG Productions

in his problematic and alienated homosexuality

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, ACMI

which could not find direct expression in the highly

austere and conventional environment of ‘high

academia’.

Prod Comp: BFI, Channel 4, Uplink Co., Bandung

Dist/Sales: ACMI, Zeitgeist, BFI

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Wolves of Kromer, The

Gould, Will

2000; UK; 80 min; Horror

P: Charles Lambert; W: Charles Lambert, Matthew

Read; C: Laua Remacha; E: Carol Salter; M: Basil Moore-Asfouri

Cast: Angharad Rees, Kevin Moore, Rita Davies,

Margaret Towner, Rosemary Dunham

Two young wolves fall in love, while two old maids

plot to murder their mistress and frame the wolves

for the crime.

Prod Comp: Discodog Productions

Dist/Sales: FirstRunFeatures, Wolfe

Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein

Jarman, Derek

1993; UK; 75 min; Drama

P: Tariq Ali; W: Derek Jarman, Terry Eagleton, Ken Butler; C: James Welland; E: Budge Tremlett;

M: Jan Latham-Koenig

Cast: Tilda Swinton, Karl Johnson, Michael Gough,

Clancy Chassay, Jill Balcon

The film traces Ludwig Wittgenstein’s life and

thoughts on the philosophy of language and

meaning through the First World War; his career as a

schoolteacher and eventually as an academic at

Cambridge University; to his final abandonment of

The Wolves of Kromer

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Woman Accused, A

P: Sidney H. Levine; W: Joseph Van Winkle; C: Ron (aka: In the Glitter Palace)

Johanson; E: John Duffy; M: Eddy Manson

Cast: Gloria Manon, Michael Champion, Dane Clark,

Butler, Robert

Joan Blondell

1977; USA; 90 min; Drama

Gloria Manon plays the role of a male Vietnam

P: Jay Daniel, Jerrold L. Ludwig; W: Jerrold L. Ludwig; veteran who decides to have a sex-change operation.

C: Gerald Perry Finnerman; E: Richard Bracken,

Herbert H. Dow; M: John Carl Parker

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox

Cast: Barbara Hershey, Chad Everett, Howard Duff,

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox

Salome Jens, Carole Cook

Woman Like Eve, A

A lesbian is accused of murder when the man

blackmailing her is found dead. Everett plays her

(aka: Een Vrouw als Eva)

defence lawyer determined to discover the truth. At

van Brakel, Nouchka

the time of its release it was a groundbreaking film in

1979; The Netherlands; 100 min; Drama

its treatment of lesbianism. Made for television.

P: Matthijs van Heijningen; W: Judith Herzberg,

Prod Comp: Columbia Pictures TV, The Writers’

Nouchka van Brakel; C: Nurith Aviv; E: Ine Schenkkan; w Company

M: Laurens van Rooyen

Dist/Sales: Columbia, NBC

Cast: Maria Schneider, Monique van de Ven, Marijke

Merckens

Woman Hunt

This early positive portrayal of lesbians tells the

Romero, Eddie

sensitive story of Eve, a bored housewife, who leaves

1972; Philippines, USA; 80 min; Action

her marriage, finds feminism and falls in love with

P: John Ashley, Eddie Romero; W: David Hoover;

Liliane, a free-spirited lesbian folk singer.

C: Justo Paulino; E: Ben Barcelon, Joseph Zucchero Prod Comp: Sigma Films

Cast: John Ashley, Sid Haig, Lisa Todd, Pat Woodell

Woman on Top

An action adventure where kidnapped women are used

as prey. Todd’s dull performance as a black-leather-clad

Torres, Fina

lesbian sadist wouldn’t even amuse her fans.

2000; USA; 92 min; Comedy

Prod Comp: New World Pictures

P: Alan Poul; W: Vera Blasi; C: Thierry Arbogast; E: Leslie Jones; M: Luis Bacalov

Woman in Flames, A

Cast: Penelope Cruz, Murilo Benicio, Harold Perrineau

(aka: Flaming Desire; Die Flambierte Frau)

Jnr, Mark Feuerstein

van Ackeren, Robert

Isabella is a great cook, which is largely why her

1982; Germany; 105 min; Drama

husband’s restaurant in Brazil has been a success. She

also has severe motion sickness, and to control it, she

P: Robert Van Ackeren; W: Catherine Zwerenz, Robert has to insist on doing the driving, and she must be

van Ackeren; C: Jürgen Jürges; E: Tanja Schmidbauer; on top during sex. Her misogynist husband,

M: Peer Raben

Toninho, uses this as an excuse to stray. Eventually

Cast: Mathieu Carrière, Gudrun Landgrebe, Gabriele

Isabella can’t take anymore, and moves to San

Lafari, Hanna Zischler

Francisco to be with her childhood friend, Monica, a

A woman leaves her boring marriage and husband to

cross-dresser. Toninho eventually arrives in San

become a high-class hooker. She teams up with a

Francisco with the intention of winning her back.

bisexual gigolo whom she falls in love with. A study

However, he finds her hosting a popular food show

of obsessive sex and passion, and sex without

on TV, whilst accepting the advances of her

passion. A very slick and glossy portrayal of the

producer.

complex psychology of sexual politics, but not

Prod Comp: Fox Searchlight

always from an optimistic view. German with

Dist/Sales: FoxSearchlight, 20thCenturyFox

English subtitles.

Prod Comp: Dieter Geissler Filmproduktion

Woman to Woman

Woman Inside, The

Sheedy, Laura

1994; Australia; 23 min; Documentary

Van Winkle, Joseph

Interviews with young Melbourne lesbians, who talk

1981; Canada; 95 min; Drama

about life, work and getting married... (MQFF)

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Women I Love

and Holly Woodlawn are members of feminist group

PIGs (Politically Involved Girls). Covers their

Hammer, Barbara

boredom with the workforce, along with the trials

1976; USA; 25 min; Experimental

and tribulations of relationships with men (and

Portraits of Hammer’s friends and lovers.

women), their feminist attacks on men. A politically

Dist/Sales: Canyon, WMM

incorrect farce not to be taken seriously.

Dist/Sales: NewVision

Women in Cages

(aka: Women’s Penitentiary III)

Women Like us/Women Like that

de Leon, Gerardo

Neild, Suzanne / Pearson, Rosalind

1971; USA; 73 min; Action

1990; UK; 49 min; Documentary

P: Ben Balatrat, Roger Corman, Cirio H. Santiago;

Two part series featuring sixteen older lesbians from

W: Jim Osterhout, James Watkins; C: Felipe Sacdalan; diverse backgrounds, ranging in age from 50 to 80+,

E: Ben Barcelon

as they tell about their lives from the 1920s to the

Cast: Judy Brown, Roberta Collins, Pam Grier, Jennifer

present. Moving and intimate portraits explore the

Gan

experiences of women during the World War II,

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butch/femme roles, the emergence of modern

Women-behind-bars melodrama, with lots of sadism

feminism and coming out later in life to husbands

and scantily dressed women. Pam Grier plays a

and children. Women Like That is a poignant sequel

lesbian prison guard who tortures her prisoners in a

to Women Like Us in which eight participants discuss

chamber called the Play-pen.

their changed lives since the film’s popular broadcast

Prod Comp: New World Pictures, Premiere Productions

in England. (WMM)

Women in Love

Dist/Sales: WMM

Russell, Ken

Women of Brewster Place, The

1969; UK; 128 min; Drama

Deitch, Donna

P: Larry Kramer; W: Larry Kramer; C: Billy Williams; 1989; USA; 189 min; Drama

E: Michael Bradsell; M: Georges Delerue

P: Reuben Cannon, Patricia K. Meyer; W: Karen Hall; Cast: Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Jennie Linden, Alan

C: Alexander Gruszynski; E: Jerrold L. Ludwig;

Bates

M: David Shire

A powerful adaptation of D. H. Lawrence’s novel

Cast: Oprah Winfrey, Robin Givens, Paula Kelly, Mary

about two sisters who have relationships with two

Alice, Olivia Cole, Moses Gunn

men. Bates’s character seems unable to be fulfilled by

A portrait of seven black women living in an

a woman and craves the companionship of men.

apartment building whose crumbling walls have

This craving culminates in a very homoerotic nude

turned the address of Brewster Place into both a real

wrestling scene by the fireside between his character

and symbolic dead end. The cast of characters ranges

and Reed’s. The film ends with Reed killing himself

from welfare mothers to a sophisticated lesbian

because he can’t return Bates’s affection and Bates

couple. Based on the novel by Gloria Naylor and

crying ‘He should have loved me. I offered it’.

made for TV by the director of Desert Hearts.

Awards: Academy Awards, 1970: Best Actress (Glenda

Prod Comp: Harpo Productions, King Phoenix

Jackson), Best Adapted Screenplay (Larry Kramer)

Entertainment

Prod Comp: United Artists, Brandywine Productions

Dist/Sales: 21stCentury

Dist/Sales: ReelMovies, ACMI, UA

Women of Gold

Women in Revolt

Abbink, Marilyn / Lee, Eileen

Morrissey, Paul

1990; USA; 30 min; Documentary

1971; USA; 89 min; Comedy

‘Being athletic is not something that we, as Asian

P: Andy Warhol; W: Paul Morrissey; C: Jed Johnson, women, were encouraged to be’ says body builder

Andy Warhol; E: Paul Morrissey

Kitty Tsui in this engaging record of the experiences

Cast: Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, Jackie Curtis,

of Asian-Pacific athletes who participated in the

Penny Arcade, Betty Blue

1990 Gay Games. (MQFF)

Three drag queens, Jackie Curtis, Candy Darling,

Dist/Sales: WMM

447

Women on the Roof

backgrounds (class and ethnic groups) who talk

(aka: Kvinnorna på taket)

about their experiences, how they deal with their

sexuality and society’s attitudes towards them. The

Nykvist, Carl-Gustaf

film is neither militant nor analytical, and is an

1989; Sweden; 90 min; Drama

important document of gay and lesbian culture.

P: Katinka Faragó; W: Carl-Gustaf Nykvist, Lasse

Prod Comp: Mariposa Film Group

Summanen; C: Jörgen Persson, Ulf Brantas; E: Lasse Summanen; M: Håkan Möller

Work

Cast: Helena Bergstrom, Amanda Ooms, Stellan

Skarsgård, Percy Brandt

Reichman, Rachel

1996; USA; 90 min; Drama

Set in 1914, this slow-moving film is the story of a

P: Susan A. Stover; W: Rachel Reichman

timid young woman, Linnea, who befriends a

Cast: Cynthia Kaplan, Sonja Sohn

sophisticated photographer, Anna. They soon

develop a romantic interest in each other but things

The story of two women trapped in an economically

change when the young girl’s ex-boyfriend arrives in

ravaged small town. Jenny is out of work and stuck

w

town. Carl-Gustaf Nykvist is the son of the great

in a loveless marriage with a boring man. She spends

Swedish cinematographer, Sven Nykvist, who has

her days in the depressing search for work. The only

worked with, among others, Ingmar Bergman.

light in her life is an affair with her next-door

Swedish with English subtitles.

neighbour, June. June is a 20-year-old student and

plans to leave the town she hates. Conflict arises

Prod Comp: Swedish Film Institute, Filmhuest, Svensk

when Jenny doesn’t seem to mind her situation and

Filmindustri

is happy to stay.

Dist/Sales: SwedishFilminstitute

Dist/Sales: District, ACMI

Wonder Boys, The

Working Class Dykes from Hell

Hanson, Curtis

Lawrence, Jacquie

2000; Germany, Japan, UK, USA; 112 min; Drama,

1992; UK; 20 min; Documentary

Comedy

P: Curtis Hanson, Scott Rudin; W: Steve Kloves;

Similar experiences have shaped a working-class gay

C: Dante Spinotti; E: Dede Allen; M: Leonard Cohen, lifestyle, but even the lesbian who purges class from

personal or political agendas lives a life generated by

Christopher Young

class-based experience. Class, though not the only

Cast: Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances

factor, can become an important one in the choice of

McDormand, Robert Downey Jnr

a lover.

In this touching comedy drama, Michael Douglas

stars as Grady Tripp, a university professor struggling

to write a second novel after the wild success of his

first book seven years ago. The action takes place on

the Pittsburgh campus where Tripp teaches, during a

weekend literary festival. Tripp, stoned and depressed

by the departure of his third wife, drifts from mishap

to mishap clad in a fuzzy pink bathrobe. In one

humorous subplot, Robert Downey Jnr, playing

Tripp’s gay editor, shows up at the festival with a

transvestite he’s picked up, then dumps him to

pursue one of Tripp’s students. (Wolfe)

Prod Comp: BBC, Paramount

Dist/Sales: Wolfe, Paramount, Warner, Swank

Word is Out

Working Girls

Working Girls

Adair, Peter

1977; USA; 124 min; Documentary

Borden, Lizzie

P: Nancy Adair, Peter Adair, Andrew Brown, Robert

1986; USA; 90 min; Drama

Epstein, Lucy Massie Phenix, Veronica Selver

P: Lizzie Borden, Andi Gladstone; W: Lizzie Borden, A documentary that focuses on the conversations of

Sandra Kay; C: Judy Irola; E: Lizzie Borden; M: David 26 American gays and lesbians from a variety of

Van Tieghen

448

Cast: Louise Smith, Deborah Banks, Liz Caldwell,

collector. When Mark’s father dies, Mark starts to

Marusia Zach, Amanda Goodwin

make a cathedral with his own hands—he wants to

A comical and non-judgmental look at prostitution,

build ‘something that’s going to last forever’.

where it is viewed as an economic alternative and a

Awards: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay

business transaction. Set in Manhattan, it is the story

Film Festival, 1995: Audience Award for Best Feature

of Molly, an aspiring photographer, who lives with

Prod Comp: 1 in 10 Films

her black lesbian lover and child.

Dist/Sales: Strand, Wolfe, 10%

Prod Comp: Alternative Current

World is Sick (sic), The

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri, ACMI, Miramax, NFVLS, BFI

World According to Garp, The

Greyson, John

1989; Canada; 38 min; Documentary

Hill, George Roy

A humorous account of activism and journalism at

1982; USA; 131 min; Comedy

the Fifth International Conference on AIDS in

P: George Roy Hill, Robert L. Crawford; W: Steve

Montreal in June 1989.

Tesich; C: Miroslav Ondrícek; E: Ronald Roose,

Stephen A. Rotter; M: David Shire

Worthy Mothers

w

Cast: Glenn Close, Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt,

Bega, Jessica Anna

John Lithgow, Jessica Tandy

1996; USA; 63 min; Documentary

A complex, unpredictable man takes an eccentric

journey through life. He’s the bastard son of a nurse

Worthy Mothers is a powerful and touching video

and as an adult marries and pursues a career as a

documentary which looks into the everyday lives of

writer. Some great performances, including those by

two lesbian couples who chose to raise children.

Close and Lithgow (who plays a transsexual), make

Through candid interviews, the members of the two

this a most intelligent, well-crafted and enjoyable

multiracial, multicultural families portrayed share

film. Lithgow was nominated for an Academy

the personal, social and legal experience in becoming

Award. Based on the novel by John Irving.

mothers.

Prod Comp: Pan Arts Productions, Warner

Woubi Chéri

Dist/Sales: Roadshow, Warner

Bocahut, Laurent / Brooks, Philip

1998; France, Ivory Coast; 62 min; Documentary

P: Philip Brooks, Laurent Bocahut

Woubi Chéri is the first film to give African

homosexuals a chance to describe their world in

their own words. Often funny, sometimes ribald, but

always real, this documentary introduces us to

gender pioneers demanding their right to construct a

distinct African homosexuality.

(California Newsreel)

French with English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: CaliforniaNewsreel

World and Time Enough

Wrecked for Life: The Trip & Magic of

World and Time Enough

Trocadero Transfer

Goss, John

Mueller, Eric

1993; USA; 60 min; Documentary

1994; USA; 90 min; Drama

P: Andrew Peterson, Julie Hartley; W: Eric Mueller; C: Goss interviews the past employees of San Francis-Kyle Bergersen; E: Laura Stokes; M: Eugene

co’s famed gay nightclub Trocadero Transfer.

Huddleston

Wrestlers, The

Cast: Gregory G. Giles, Matt Guidry, Kraig Swartz,

Peter Macon

(aka: Uttara)

Mark is a sculptor who is HIV-positive and mounts

Dasgupta, Buddhadeb

politically based environmental installations, and

2000; India; 98 min; Drama

Joey is his teddy-bear boyfriend, a highway garbage

P: Buddhadeb Dasgupta; W: Buddhadeb Dasgupta,

449

Samaresh Bose; C: Asim Bose; E: Rabi Ranjan Maitra; Yen) and a Fairy Enchantress who moves between

M: Biswadep Dasgupta

male and female personas vie for the affections of the

Cast: Jaya Seal, Tapas Pal, Shankar Chakraborty, Tapas

Emperor Qi. (Shelly Kracier with Sebastian Tse,

Adhikari, R. I. Asad

Chinese Cinema)

Cantonese with English subtitles.

Dasgupta’s visually rich feature focuses on the lives of

Balram and Nemai, two station masters who while

Dist/Sales: Seng

away their days on remote railway station, working

together and sharing their passion for wrestling.

X Y and Zee

Exploring the boundaries of Dosti—the Indian

(aka: Zee and Co.)

concept of close relationships between men—

Hutton, Brian G.

Dasgupta reveals an undercurrent of homoeroticism

that resonates throughout the film. But this rural

1971; UK; 105 min; Drama

idyll is threatened when Balram unexpectedly arrives

P: Jay Kanter, Alan Ladd Jnr; W: Edna O’Brian; C: Billy back from a visit home with a new wife and the local

Williams; E: Jim Clark; M: Stanley Myers

priest becomes the target of an anti-Christian gang.

Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susanna York,

y

Dasgupta has created a unique and mysterious world

Margaret Leighton

populated with Hindu folk dancers and a commu-

A well-to-do architect has an affair with a young

nity of small people, and his influences appear to run

designer but events change when his wife discovers

from Fellini to photographer Diane Arbus. This is a

the young woman’s bisexuality and exacts her revenge.

standout example of contemporary Indian arthouse

She fights tooth and nail to get her husband back,

cinema, both ravishing and provocative to watch.

and winds up in the young woman’s bed herself.

(BFI)

Prod Comp: Columbia, Zee Company

Bengali with English subtitles.

Dist/Sales: Col-Tri

Dist/Sales: LesGrands

XXXY

Wrong Son, The

Gale, Porter / Soomekh, Laleh

Oliver, Bill

2000; USA; 13 min; Documentary

1993; USA; 15 min; Comedy

Moving portrait of two intersex individuals born

Poaching material from an old television game show

with ambiguous genitalia, and their struggle with the

in which the contestants have to guess who is telling

medical establishment and society’s rigid gender

the truth and who is lying, this clever film neatly

system. (MQFF)

captures the ridiculous dilemmas facing gays in the

military. (MQFF)

Wu Yen

Wai, Kai-fai / To, Johnnie

2001; Hong Kong; 120 min; Drama

P: Johnnie To, Kai-fai Wai; W: Kai-fai Wai, Nai-hoi Yau, Ben King-fai Wong; C: Siu-keung Cheng; E: Wing-cheong Lau, Wing-ming Wong; M: Raymond Wong

Cast: Anita Mui, Sammi Cheng, Cecilia Cheng,

Raymond Wong

Wu Yen is a collaboration by director/producers

Johnnie To and Ka-fai Wai, who set the standard for

quality in the post-1997 Hong Kong film industry

Y tu Mamá También

with their Milkyway Image film company produc-

tions. Wu Yen is their first Chinese New Year film.

Y tu Mamá También

The plot is based on an old Chinese folk legend that

(aka: And your Mother Too)

has been depicted in several earlier Hong Kong films

and featured in Cantonese opera. As portrayed in the

Cuaron, Alfonso

current film, the story concerns a complicated love

2001; Mexico, USA; 105 min; Drama

triangle set in the distant past. A female outlaw

P: Jorge Vergara; W: Alfonso Cuaron, Carlos Cuaron; warrior Zheng Wuyan (aka Chung Mo-yim, aka Wu

C: Emmanuel Lubezki

450

Cast: Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, Maribel Verdu,

manners, a sizzling stir-fry with more than a hint of

Y tu Mamá También is a dynamic coming-of-age

oriental spice, a dash of camp and a trace of glamour.

road movie. Like most teen males, Tenoch and Julio

(Frameline)

are on a crotch-first rush into adulthood. With their

Prod Comp: Sankofa Film

girlfriends away in Europe, they collect beautiful

Dist/Sales: Frameline

‘older woman’ Luisa on the road and head for an

imaginary beach paradise. Competing for her

Yentl

affections, unspoken jealousies throw open matters

Streisand, Barbra

of friendship and the heart. (2002 Melbourne

1983; USA; 130 min; Drama

International Film Festival)

Spanish with English subtitles.

P: Barbra Streisand, Rusty Lemorande; W: Jack

Rosenthal, Barbra Streisand; C: David Watkins; E: Terry Dist/Sales: GoodMachine, Dendy, Globe

Rawlings; M: Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn

Yang±Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

Bergman

Cast: Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving,

Kwan, Stanley

Steven Hill, Nehemiah Persoff

1996; Hong Kong, UK; 77 min; B&W; Documentary

y

Set around the turn of the century in Eastern

W: Elmond Yeung; C: Christopher Doyle; E: Maurice Li Europe, and tells the story of Yentl a young woman

Uncovers depictions of homosexuality, cross-

who, in order to study the scriptures, disguises

dressing, and gender fluidity across 100 years of

herself as a boy. The disguise is perfect, almost too

Chinese cinema.

good, as Yentl, ends up marrying Hadass.

Prod Comp: BFI

Awards: Golden Globe Awards, 1984: Best Director,

Dist/Sales: BFI, NFVLS

Motion Picture

Prod Comp: United Artists

Yearning for Sodom

Dist/Sales: ACMI, Warner, MGM, Swank

Baethe, Hanno

Yes

1988; Germany; 44 min; Drama

E: Michael F. Huse

(aka: To Ingrid my Love Lisa; Kvinnolek)

Cast: Hans Hirschmüller, Kurt Raab

Sarno, Joseph W.

During the 1970s, actor Kurt Raab collaborated

1968; Sweden; 90 min; Drama

with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder on over 30

W: Joseph W. Sarno; C: Åke Dahlqvist

films. In 1982, he wrote about this intense creative

Cast: Gun Falck, Heinz Hopf, Lars Lind, Mimi Nelson

period in Die Sensuchtdes Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Lisa is a fashion designer who falls in lust with her

When he was later asked to write about himself and

neighbour’s daughter, Ingrid. After a lot of hard

the New German Cinema, Raab decided to present

work, food and drink, Lisa finally succeeds in getting

the subject in the form of 33 video scenes entitled

Ingrid into bed, but it’s a long and painful time

Sensucht Nach Sodom ( Yearning for Sodom). Only six before she submits. An over-the-top lesbian

scenes had been completed when Raab was diag-

obsession film that still manages to be enjoyable.

nosed with AIDS. With the assistance of his friends,

Prod Comp: Omega Film

actor Hans Hirschmuller and director Hanno

Baethe, Raab continued to work on this, his last

Yo Yo Gang

film, a moving mixture of diary and performance

that shows Kurt for the fierce fighter and gifted artist

Jones, G. B.

that he was. (MQFF)

1992; Canada; 20 min; Action

Prod Comp: Hanno Baethe Film und Videoproduktion

An exuberant girl-gang action-adventure film

involving intrigue, yo-yos, skateboards, romance, go-

Yellow Fever

go boy slaves and sparkling dialogue.

Yeung, Raymond

You are not Alone

1998; UK; 26 min; Comedy

P: Johann Insanally

(aka: Du er ikke Alene)

A love story set in 1990s London, following the life

Johansen, Ernst / Nielsen, Lasse

of Monty, a gay Chinese Anglophile, desperately

1978; Denmark; 90 min; Comedy

seeking his ‘white knight’. A modern comedy of

P: Steen Herdel; W: Lasse Nielsen, Bent Petersen; 451

C: Henry Herbert; E: Hanne Hass; M: Sebastian E: John Wilson; M: Simon Boswell

Cast: Peter Bjerg, Anders Agensø

Cast: Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Dorian Healy,

A funny and charming account of two boys who fall

Frances Barber, Sophie Okonedo

in love at a Danish boarding school. One of the boy’s

Set during the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977, Young

fathers, who happens to be the principal, finds out

Soul Rebels depicts the youth, music and passion of

and threatens to destroy the relationship. Fortu-

the era in the UK through the eyes of two black

nately, love conquers all.

men, one gay, the other straight, who both operate a

Prod Comp: Steen Herdel Filmproduktion

pirate radio station.

Awards: Cannes Film Festival, 1990: Critic’s Award

You don’t know Dick: Courageous Hearts

Prod Comp: BFI, Film Four International

of Transsexual Men

Dist/Sales: Dendy, Col-Tri, Swank, BFI

Cram, Bestor / Schermerhorn, Candace

1996; USA; 75 min; Documentary

P: Candace Schermerhorn, Bestor Cram; C: Bestor

y Cram, Mike Majoros, Michael A. Gorenberg, Bruce

Johnson; E: Mike Majoros

“I kept waiting for that facial hair to come ... instead

l got breasts.” You don’t know Dick presents a series of

honest and self-effacing insights into the lives and

minds of female-to-male transsexuals. Ted, Michael,

James, Max, Stephan and Loren discuss their

experiences of ‘living a lie’, bilateral mastectomies,

genital reconstruction, testosterone injections,

intimate relationships, ‘doing it’ and ‘fitting in’.

Prod Comp: Northern Light Productions

Dist/Sales: FilmsTransit

You Taste American

Greyson, John

1986; Canada; 24 min; Experimental

Michel Focault and Tennessee Williams have an

affair in Orillia, Ontario, and get caught up in the

Canadian washroom arrests of 1983.

You’ve had Worse Things in Your Mouth

Liddi, Allison

1994; USA; 50 min; Comedy

Cast: Billi Gordon

Food takes a back seat to the 400-pound transsexual

Billi Gordon’s one-liners as she tries to host the

cooking show from hell.

Young Soul Rebels

Dist/Sales: TLA

Your Brother, my Tidda

Young Soul Rebels

Martin, Kelrick

Julien, Isaac

2002; Australia; 20 min; Documentary

1991; UK; 103 min; Drama

Coming out to family and living with HIV are some

P: Nadine Marsh-Edwards; W: Paul Hallam, Isaac

of the life-changing situations faced by two Aborigi-

Julien, Derrick McClintock Saldaan; C: Nina Kellgren;

nal gay men, Sam and Aaron. (queerDOC 2002)

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Your Heart is all Mine

Zazie dans le Métro

Gotz, Elke

Malle, Louis

1992; Germany; 50 min; Comedy

1959; France; 88 min; Comedy

The story centres around two women who not only

P: Louis Malle; W: Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Louis Malle; have to contend with who is the butchest but a

C: Henri Raichi; E: Kenout Peltier; M: Fiorenzo Carpi, clinging, semi-incestuous mother as well.

André Pontin

Cast: Vittorio Caprioli, Yvonne Clech, Hubert

Your Mother Wears Combat Boots

Deschamps, Annie Fratellini, Jacques Dufilho

Scandalous and maniacal surrealist comedy by the

Swenson, Laurel

director of Pretty Baby and Atlantic City. A preco-1996; USA; 16 min; Documentary

cious 11-year-old with too much time on her hands

A defiant montage of testimony, home video

is sent to spend the weekend with her uncle in Paris.

footage, interviews and rants. Young, angry and in-

She is greeted at the door by her uncle who is

your-face, these women talk about poverty, classism,

wearing a dress. French with English subtitles.

and the day-to-day trials, absurdities and joys of

Prod Comp: Nouvelles Éditions de Films

being a young, low-income lesbian mother.

Dist/Sales: Ascanbee

z

Dist/Sales: VideoOut

Zero Budget

Youth Outloud!

Hindley, Emma

Burklee, Becky / Hines, Kathy

1996; UK; 25 min; Documentary

2000; USA; 50 min; Documentary

An inspirational documentary looking at independ-

The complexities of coming out and the injustice of

ent film productions from the US. It deals in

homophobia are the true essence of this documen-

particular with lesbian feature filmmakers and shows

tary.

clips from films such as Go Fish. There are also

Dist/Sales: Sun&Moon

stories from, and interviews with, filmmakers like

Christine Vachon.

Zanjeer

Prod Comp: Channel 4

(aka: The Chain)

Dist/Sales: Frameline, Channel4

Mehra, Prakash

Zero de Conduite

1973; India; 146 min; Drama

P: Prakash Mehra; W: Javed Akhtar, Salim Khan;

(aka: Zero for Conduct)

C: N. Satyen; E: R. D. Mahadik; M: Kalyanyi Anandji Vigo, Jean

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri, Pran, Om

1933; France; 47 min; B&W; Drama

Prakash

Cast: Jean Daste, Robert le Lon, Louis Lefebvre

This adaptation of the Hollywood crime melodrama

A marvellously subversive film about the rebellion of

to the Hindi entertainment film was a major success

four boys at a French provincial school. Banned for

for superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who plays a man

many years, it was re-released in 1945 although it

consumed by the desire for revenge. As a child, Vijay

was considered to contain anti-French sentiment.

saw his parents murdered by a gunman following his

Included is a young homosexual boy who develops a

father’s release from prison. In adulthood Vijay

tender friendship with a classmate. French with

becomes a police officer who treats criminals as

English subtitles.

personal enemies: he breaks the law while ostensibly

Dist/Sales: NFVLS, ACMI

upholding it. He threatens the criminal activities of a

highly respectable businessman who trades in illicit

Zero Patience

liquor. Vijay forms what amounts to a homoerotic

relationship with an honest Pathan, Sher Khan, but

Greyson, John

according to codes of Indian destana (male friend-

1993; Canada; 95 min; Comedy, Musical

ship) the relationship cannot be acknowledged as

P: Louise Garfield, Anna Stratton; W: John Greyson; homosexual. Vijay’s masculinity is affirmed in action

C: Miroslaw Baszak; E: Miume Jan; M: Glenn scenes and through his relationship with Mala, a

Schellenberg

knife grinder. Hindi with English subtitles.

Cast: John Robinson, Norman Fauteux, Dianne

Dist/Sales: NFVLS

Heatherington, Richardo Keens-Douglas

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Zorro, the Gay Blade

This AIDS musical tells the story of 70-year-old

sexologist, Sir Richard Burton, who is preparing a

Medak, Peter

sensationalist museum display about Patient Zero,

1981; USA; 93 min; Comedy

Gaetan Dugas, the airline steward accused of

P: George Hamilton, E. O. Erickson; W: Greg Alt, Hal bringing AIDS to America. Zero’s ghost is on hand

Dresner, Don Moriarty, Bob Randall; C: John A.

to set the record straight. It includes a number of

Alonzo; E: Hillary Jane Kranze; M: Ian Fraser

Busby Berkeley-style musical numbers such as The

Cast: George Hamilton, Lauren Hutton, Brenda

Butthole Duet.

Vaccaro, Ron Leibman

Prod Comp: Zero Patience Productions

A very likeable and funny spoof of the original story

Dist/Sales: Potential, Fortissimo, Cinevista, Cowboy,

with George Hamilton playing the two Zorros.

NFVLS, ACMI

When the real Zorro hurts his foot, he calls on his

Zindagi Zindabad

effeminate gay brother to temporarily assume his

heroic role with some humorous results.

(aka: Long Live Life)

Prod Comp: 20th Century-Fox, Melvin Simon Produc-

z Bhave, Sumitri / Sukthankar, Sunil

tions

2000; India; 130 min; Drama

Dist/Sales: 20thCenturyFox

P: Sumitri Bhave, Sunil Sukthankar; W: Sumitri Bhave; C: Charudatta Dukhande; E: Sumitri Bhave, Sunil

Sukthankar; M: Anand Modak

Cast: Mita Vasisht, Milind Gunaji, Uttara Baokar,

Abhiram Bhadkamkar

Three stories merge to illustrate the realities of HIV/

AIDS in modern urban India. A rare Indian

perspective on a worldwide problem. Hindi with

English subtitles.

Zippers & Tits

(aka: Fasuna to Chibusa)

Shirakawa, Koji

2001; Japan; 60 min; Drama

W: Koji Shirakawa; E: Koji Shirakawa; M: Kiyohito Komatsu

Cast: Kentaro Takayama, Sachiko Ejiri, Manami

Ogawa, Yoshifumi Tsubota

Shirakawa Koji’s film gets inside the heads of two

prostitutes, a young rent boy and a 30-year-old

woman. The boy in Zipper works the city streets,

servicing his johns in back-alleys, and goes home to

a boyfriend who takes him completely for granted.

Thanks to the hypocrisy/hostility of many of the

johns, the boy’s self-esteem is so low it barely

registers on the scale. The woman in Tits works in

the small apartment she shares with a boyfriend who

cooks for her and serves as her banker. The episode

centres on the day she receives her first female client,

a brittle, unsympathetic woman who turns out to

have an ulterior motive for coming. Not long after,

the boyfriend moves out. (2001 Vancouver Interna-

tional Film Festival)

Japanese with English subtitles.

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Films of Particular Interest

Bisexual

Cross-dressing,

2 Seconds

Kinsey 3, The

Transgender &

(aka: 2 secondes; Deux secondes)

Kissing Jessica Stein

Transsexual

Adjuster, The

Larry’s Visit

Anita: Dances of Vice

Life History of a Star

99% Woman

(aka: Anita: Tanze des Lasters)

Life that We Dreamt, The

About Vivien

Audit

(aka: Het Leven dat we Droomden)

Across the Rubicon

Becoming Colette

Lonely Lady, The

Adventures in the Gender Trade

Berlin Affair, The (aka: Interno Berlinese)

Love=ME3

All about My Father

Beyond Therapy

Marlene

(aka: Alt om min far)

Bisexual Kingdom, The

Mirror Images II

All Men are Liars

Bob & Rose

North of Vortex

(aka: Goodnight Irene)

Bound and Gagged: A Love Story

Notorious C.H.O.

Alley of the Tranny Boys

Break of Day

Peixe-Lua (aka: Moon-Fish)

Always Walter! An Inner View of

Cabaret

Pillow Book, The

Walter Larrabee

California Suite

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Angels!

Cha-Cha for the Fugitive, A

Roi Danse, Le

Ballad of Little Jo, The

(aka: Gai Tao-wan-je de ChaCha)

(aka: The King is Dancing)

Battle of Tuntenhaus

Change of Heart, A

Room of Words, The

Belle al Bar (aka: Belles at the Bar)

Chasing Amy

(aka: La Stanza della parole)

Black Lizard (aka: Kurotokage)

Clancy’s Kitchen

Rose, The

Blank Point: What is Transsexualism?, The

Cleopatra’s Second Husband

Sand and Blood (aka: De sable et de sang)

Blessed Art Thou

Confessions of Felix Krull, The

Score

(aka: A Question of Faith)

(aka: Bekenntnisse des

Second Skin (aka: Segunda Piel)

Blue Haven

Hochstaplers Felix Krull)

Seduction: The Cruel Woman

Bombay Eunuch

Confusion of Genders

(aka: Verführung: Die grausame Frau)

Boy Named Sue, A

(aka: La confusion des genres)

Slaves to the Underground

Boys Don’t Cry

Day for Night

Smokers Only

Boys from Brazil, The

(aka: La Nuit Américaine)

(aka: Vagón Fumador)

Boys in the Backyard

Desire (1999)

Something for Everyone

Brandon Teena Story, The

Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die

(aka: Black Flowers for the Bride)

Bugis Street

(aka: N’Oublie pas que tu vas Mourir)

Straight to the Heart

(aka: Yao jie huang hou)

Dry Cleaning (aka: Nettoyage à sec)

(aka: À Corps Perdu)

Butterflies on the Scaffold

Équilibristes, Les

Sunday, Bloody Sunday

(aka: Mariposas en el andiamo)

(aka: Walking a Tightrope)

To Ride a Cow

By Hook or by Crook

Exploding Oedipus

Totally Confused

Cage aux Folles, La

Final Programme, The (aka: The

Touch of Love, A (aka: Thank You

Cage aux Folles II, La

Last Days of Man on Earth)

All Very Much; The Millstone)

Cage aux Folles III, La

Geschlecht in Fesseln: dei Sexualnot

Trois

Calamity Jane

der Gefangenen (aka: Sex in Chains)

Velocity of Gary, The

Christine Jorgensen Story, The

Happily Ever After

Why Not! (aka: Pourquoi Pas!)

Cinema Fouad

(aka: Além da Paixão)

Woman in Flames, A

Come Back to the Five and Dime,

Henry and June

(aka: Flaming Desire; Die

Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

Iris

Flambierte Frau)

Coming Out (1972)

Kali’s Vibe

X Y and Zee (aka: Zee and Co.)

Creature

Karmen Geï

Y tu Mamá También

Crying Game, The

Kesher Ir (aka: Urban Feel)

(aka: And Your Mother Too)

Curse of the Queerwolf

Danger Girl, The

Bisexual 457

Danzón

Just Call Me Kade

Queens Don’t Lie

Day I Decided to be Nina, The

Just like a Woman

(aka: Tunten Lügen Nicht)

Derrière, Le (aka: From Behind)

Just One of the Girls

Salt Mines, The

Different for Girls

(aka: Anything for Love)

Sando to Samantha: The Art of Dikvel

Dog Day Afternoon

Kalihgat Fetish

Second Serve

Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde

(aka: Kalighat Athikatha)

Sex Change: Shock! Horror! Probe!

Drag Attack

Ladies Please!

Sex Flesh in Blood

Dragtime

Lady

Sex Warriors and the Samurai

Dream Girls

Lady in Waiting, The

Sexe des étoiles, Le

Dressed to Kill

Ladyboys

(aka: Sex of the Stars)

Eat the Rich

Lip Gloss

Shadey

Ed Wood

Liquid Sky

Shantay

Eine Tunte zum Dessert

Little Bit of Lippy, A

Shinjuku Boys

(aka: A Fairy for Dessert)

Luminous Procuress

Sir: Just a Normal Guy

F2M

Ma Vie en Rose (aka: My Life in Pink)

Some Like It Hot

Fanci’s Persuasion

Made in Heaven

Southern Comfort

Fight to Be Male, The

Mascara

Speaking for Ourselves

Flawless

Matt

Split: Portrait of a Drag Queen

Flora’s Garment Bursting into Bloom

Men Like Me

(aka: Split: William to Chrysis)

Florida Enchantment, A

Metamorphosis: Man into Woman

Stepping Out

Fontvella’s Box

Metamorphosis: The Remarkable

Storme: The Lady of the Jewel Box

Forever Mary (aka: Mery per sempre)

Journey of Granny Lee

Surrender Dorothy

Forms and Motifs

Mi Novia El

Sweet Thing

Gendernauts

Miguel/Michelle

Switch (1991)

Georgie Girl

Mirror, Mirror (aka: Lille spejl)

Swordsman II (aka: Xiao ao jiang

Girl Stroke Boy

Monsieur Hawarden

hu zhi dong fang bu bai)

Glen or Glenda

Mrs Doubtfire

Swordsman III: The East is Red

Haunted World of Edward D.

My Friend Su

(aka: Dung fong bat baai 2: fung

Wood Jnr, The

Mystère Alexina, Le

wan joi hei)

He’s My Girl

(aka: The Mystery of Alexina)

Sylvia Scarlett

Heart’s Root, The

Myth of Father

Taste

(aka: A Raiz Do Coração)

Never Look Back

Tender

Her Life as a Man

No Dumb Questions

Thelma

Homecoming Queen

Norang Mori 2

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Every-

Homicidal

(aka: Running Blue; Yellow Hair 2)

thing, Julie Newmar

Hu-Du-Men (aka: Stage Door)

On Becoming

Tootsie

I Am My Own Woman

Orlando

Transanimals

(aka: Ich Bin Meine Eigene Frau)

Outlaw

Transexual Menace

I Don’t Wanna Be a Boy

Outrageous!

Transformation, The

I Want What I Want

P(l)ain Truth

Transit: Adventures of a Boy in the

If She Only Knew

Pansexual Public Porn (aka: The

Big City

Impossible on Saturday

Adventures of Hans and Del)

Transsexual Journey, A

In a Year of Thirteen Moons

Paradise Bent

Trappings of Transhood

(aka: In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden)

(aka: Fa’afafines in Paradise)

Trevor

In the Flesh (2000)

Paris is Burning

Triple Echo

Iron Ladies, The (aka: Sa tree lex)

Pencas de Bicuda

Turnabout

It’s a Boy! Journeys from Female to Male

Phantom Pain

Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of

Jake ‘Today I Became a Man’

Pink Angels, The

a Lesbian Marriage

Jareena: Portrait of a Hijda

Portion of a Lady

Vegas in Space

Jewel’s Darl

Princesa

Venus Boyz

Joey Goes to Wigstock

Queen of the Whole Wide World

Vera

Juggling Gender

Queen, The

Victor/Victoria

Just a Woman

Viktor/Viktoria

458 Cross-dressing, Transgender & Transsexual

Wax Me

Bitter Harvest (1993)

Ein Toter Hing im Netz

We Are Transgenders

Black and White

(aka: Girls of Spider Island)

What a Pretty Sister

(aka: Noir et Blanc)

Enfants Terribles, Les

Whether You Like It or Not: The

Black Mama, White Mama

(aka: The Strange Ones)

Story of Hedwig

Blazing Saddles

Equus

Who’s the Woman, Who’s the Man

Blood and Concrete

Escalier C

Wigstock: The Movie (1995)

Blood Money

Fearless Vampire Killers, The

Willy/Milly (aka: Something Special)

Bloodlust

(aka: Dance of the Vampires)

Woman Inside, The

Blunt: The Fourth Man

Fisher King, The

Woman on Top

Borderline

Flirt

XXXY

Boston Strangler, The

Four Weddings and a Funeral

You Don’t Know Dick: Courageous

Boys Next Door, The

Foxfire

Hearts of Transsexual Men

Breaking the Code

Frankie and Johnny

Zazie dans le Métro

Broadway Melody, The

Freebie and the Bean

Burning Secret

Full Monty, The

Fringe

Bus Riley’s Back in Town

Full Moon in New York

Butcher’s Wife, The

(aka: Ren zai Niu Yue)

Abysses, Les

Calamity Jane

Funny Lady

Acting on Impulse

Cat and the Canary, The

Garbo Talks

(aka: Eyes of a Stranger)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Genesis Children, The

Adam’s Rib

Cat People

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Adieu Bonaparte

Cecil B Demented

Getting of Wisdom, The

After Hours

Celeste

Gilda

Alexandria...Why? (aka: Iskanderija...lih?)

Celestial Clockwork

Girl in Every Port, A

Alien Prey

(aka: Mecaniques Celestes)

Girl Thing, A

All the Queens Men

Chain of Desire

Girlfriends (1978)

American Beauty

Chained Heat

Go

Anderson Tapes, The

Chanel Solitaire

Gold Diggers, The

Angel (1983)

Choirboys, The

Good Family, The

Anniversary, The (1968)

Chuck and Buck

(aka: Thanksgiving Day)

Any Wednesday

Clancy Street Boys

Good Father, The (aka: Fathers’ Rites)

Aqueles Dois

Cleopatra Jones

Goodbye Girl, The

Astragale, L’

Comfort of Strangers, The

Haunted Summer

Barry Lyndon

Company of Strangers, The

Haunting, The

Basketball Diaries, The

(aka: Strangers in Good Company)

Headhunter

Beat

Confessions of a Window Cleaner

Hearing Voices

Beau Travail (aka: Good Work)

Coonskin (aka: Street Fight)

Hell’s Highway

Beautiful Dreamers

Coup de Grace

Hidden Assassin (aka: The Shooter)

Bed of Lies

(aka: Der Fangschuss)

Higher Learning

Bedazzled

Crush (1992)

Hired to Kill

Beethoven’s Nephew

Daisies (aka: Sedmikrásky)

I Am a Camera

(aka: Le Neveu de Beethoven)

Darling

I Vitelloni (aka: The Young and the

Belle de Jour

Day of the Jackal, The

Passionate)

Belle époque

Deadfall

In Bed with Madonna

Ben Hur

Deliverance

(aka: Madonna: Truth or Dare)

Best Man, The

Devil’s Playground, The

In This House of Brede

(aka: Gore Vidal’s The Best Man)

Diabolique

Inspecteur Lavardin

Betsy, The

Diaboliques, Les (aka: Diabolique)

Internal Affairs

Beware a Holy Whore (aka:

Doctors’ Wives

Johnny Guitar

Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte)

Doom Generation

Journey Among Women

Big Business

Double Face

Julia

Big Sky, The

Eiger Sanction, The

Just One of the Guys

Fringe 459

Killer, The

Night of Varennes, The

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

(aka: Die Xue Shuang Xiong)

(aka: La Nuit de Varennes)

Thelma and Louise

King and Country

Night Rhythms

Things You Can Tell Just by

King Girl

No Way Out

Looking at Her

King of the City (aka: Club Life)

Ode to Billy Joe

Thirst (aka: Törst; Three Strange Loves)

Kings of the Road

Only When I Laugh

Three to Tango

(aka: Im Lauf der Zeit)

Order to Kill

Throwback

L-Shaped Room, The

(aka: El Clan de los Immorales)

(aka: Spike of Bensonhurst)

Lady in Cement

Other Voices, Other Rooms

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Ladybugs

Passed Away

Todd Killings, The

Last Emperor, The

Peter’s Friends

Tokyo Fist (aka: Tokyo-ken)

Last Married Couple in America, The

Pillow Talk

Touch of Evil

Last Metro, The

Play It as It Lays

Two Moon Junction

(aka: Le Dernier métro)

Pleasure Principle, The

Undercover

Last of Sheila, The

Postman (aka: Youchai)

Up the Academy

Laughing Policeman, The

Prince of Tides, The

Velvet Goldmine

Legend of Lylah Clare, The

Private Benjamin

Well, The

Lightship, The

Quai des Orfèvres

When the Cat’s Away

Live Nude Girls

(aka: Jenny Lamour)

(aka: Chacun Cherche Son Chat)

Living Out Loud

Question of Attribution, A

Wild Party, The

Long Voyage Home, The

Rachel, Rachel

Wild Things

Loose Connections

Reaching for the Moon

William Burroughs: Commissioner

Loot

Red River

of the Sewers

Loss of Innocence

Reflecting Skin, The

Willie Dynamite

(aka: The Greengage Summer)

Reform School Girls

Withnail and I

Love in a Women’s Prison

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

Woman Hunt

(aka: Diario Segreto da un

Scenes from the Class Struggle in

Women of Brewster Place, The

Carcere Femminile)

Beverly Hills

Wonder Boys, The

Love Letter, The

Second Awakening of Christa

World According to Garp, The

Loved One, The

Klages, The (aka: Das Zweite

Wrestlers, The (aka: Uttara)

Lulu

Erwachen der Christa Klages)

Yentl

Madame Sousatzka

Secret Ceremony

Zanjeer (aka: The Chain)

Magic Christian, The

Secret Policeman’s Private Parts, The

Magnolia

Seducers, The (aka: Death Game)

Gay

Mahogany

Separate Peace, A

Manhattan

Set It Off

10 Attitudes

Mannequin

Seven Women

100 Days Before the Command

Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence

Sex, Drugs and Democracy

(aka: Sto dnej do prikaza)

Mike’s Murder

Shanghai Panic (aka: Wo men hai pa)

101 Rent Boys

Milou in May

Sign of the Cross, The

2 by 4 (aka: 2 x 4)

(aka: Milou en Mai; May Fools)

Silence of the Lambs, The

24 Nights

Miracle Alley

Silence, The (aka: Tystnaden)

$30

(aka: El Callejon de los Milagros)

Silkwood

45 Minutes of Bondage

Mona Lisa

Sincerely Yours

’68

Morocco

Spy Who Came, The

7 Steps to Sticky Heaven

Mountains of the Moon

Streamers

90 Miles

Mull (aka: Mullaway)

Strippers

A.K.A

My Best Friend’s Wedding

Summer of Miss Forbes, The (aka:

Abandoned (aka: Torzók)

Naked in New York

El Verano de la señora Forbes)

Above the Sea (aka: Au essus de la Mar)

Nea: The Young Emmanuelle (aka: Nea)

Swann in Love

Absolution of Anthony, The

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

(aka: Un Amour de Swann)

Abuse

460 Gay

Achilles

Anxiety of Inexpression and the

Big House, The

Acla

Otherness Machine, The

Bigger Splash, A

(aka: La Discesa di Aclà a Floristella)

Anything Once

Bike Boy

Actions Speak Louder than Words

Apariencias

Billy Turner’s Secret

Adam

Apart From Hugh

Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss

Addicted to Love

Apartment Zero

Biloxi Blues

(aka: Boku wa koi ni muchu)

Arabian Nights (aka: Il Fiore delle

Birdcage, The

Adiós Roberto

mille e una notte)

Birthday Time

Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of

Arch Brown’s Top Story

Bishonen...Beauty

the Desert, The

Armistead Maupin is a Man I

(aka: Meishaonian zhi lian)

Adventures of Sebastian Cole, The

Dreamt Up

Black Sheep Boy

Advise and Consent

Arrangement, An

Blind Fairies

Affairs of Love, The

Art of Cruising Men, The

(aka: Le Fate Ignoranti)

(aka: Las Cosas del Querer)

As Far Away as Here

Blind Faith

Affirmations

As Good As It Gets

Block Party

Afflicted

As Is

Blond Man, The

Aide Mémoire

Asa Branca: A Brazilian Dream

Blonde Cobra

Alabaster Lions

At Home

Bloodbrothers (aka: A Father’s Love)

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

Away with Words (aka: Kujaku)

Blue

Algie the Miner

baba-It (aka: At Home)

Blue Hour, The (aka: Die Blaue Stund)

Alias

Baby

Blue Jeans

Alive and Kicking (aka: Indian Summer)

Baby Steps

Body without Soul

Alkali, Iowa

Backroom

Bombay Boys

All about Alice

Bad News Bachelors

BOMgaY

All Over the Guy

Ballad of Reading Gaol

Borstal Boy

All the Rage

Be Careful What Kind of Skin You

Boy like Many Others, A

All-American Story, An

Pull Back, You Never Know

(aka: Un Ragazzo come Tanti)

Alpsee

What Kind of Head Will Appear

Boy Next Door

Alternative, The

Beautiful Thing

Boychick

Amazing Grace (aka: Hessed Mufla)

Beauty Before Age

Boyfriends (1995)

American Fabulous

Bedrooms & Hallways

Boyfriends (1999)

American Gigolo

Beefcake

Boys in the Band, The

Amerikanos

Before Night Falls

Boys’ Night Out

Amic/Amat (aka: Beloved/Friend)

Behind Glass

Boys of Cell Block Q

Amigos (aka: Friends)

Behind Walls

Boys of Manchester, The

Among Men

Being at Home with Claude

Brad

Among Others

Bellas de Noche

Breaking the Surface

Amos Gutman, Filmmaker

Benjamin Smoke

Brian Epstein Story, The

(aka: Amos Gutman, Bamay Kolnoa)

Bent

Bright Spell (aka: L’Embellie)

Anatomy of a Hate Crime

Bertrand is Missing

Britney Baby - One More Time

And the Band Played On

(aka: Bertrand Disparu)

Broadway Damage

And Then Came Summer

Best In Show

Broken Branches (aka: Naeil Ui

Anders als die Anderen

Best Way, The

Hyahae Hurunun Kang)

(aka: Different from Others)

(aka: La Meilleure façon de marcher)

Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic

Angelic Conversation, The

Better Dead than Gay

Comedy, The

Angelos (aka: Angel)

Beyond Gravity

Bubbeh Lee and Me

Animal Factory

Beyond the Catwalk: The Search

Buck House

Anniversary, The (1995)

for Mr Gay Australia 2000

Buckeye and Pinto

Another 45 Minutes of Bondage

Bezness

Buddies

Another Country

Big Eden

Bungee Jumping of Their Own

(aka: Beonjijeonpeureul hada)

Gay 461

Burlesk King

Compromised Immunity

Deep End, The

Burning Boy, The

Compulsion

Deep Inside Clint Star

Burnt Money (aka: Plata quemada;

Confession, The

Deflatable Man, The

Burning Money)

Conformist, The

Defying Gravity

Business of Fancydancing, The

(aka: Il Conformista)

Delta, The

Busting

Connections: Gay Aboriginal Men

Demons

Butch Camp

in Sydney

Deserter (aka: Lipotaktis)

Butley

Consenting Adult

Desperate Acquaintances

c-l-o-s-e-r

Consequence, The (aka: Die Konsequenz)

(aka: Desperate Bekjentskaper)

Cage aux Folles, La

Conta Pra Mim (aka: Trust Me)

Detective, The

Cage aux Folles II, La

Conversation Piece (aka: Gruppo di

Diary of a Male Whore

Cage aux Folles III, La

famiglia in un interno)

Different Kind of Black Man, A

Camp

Corps Imagé, Le

Different Kind of Love, A

Campfire (aka: Kampvuur)

Corps Ouverts, Les (aka: Open Bodies)

Different Shades of Pink

Cap Tourmente

Could Be Worse

Dinner Guest, The

Caravaggio

Crash and Burn

Diputado, El (aka: The Deputy)

Caretaker, The (aka: The Guest)

Crazy Richard

Disco Years, The

Carrington

Creation of Adam, The

Doing Time on Maple Drive

Casta Diva

(aka: Sotvoreniye Adama)

Don’t Tell Anyone

Cater Waiter

Crocodile Tears

(aka: No Se Lo Digas a Nadie)

Caught

Crossing, The (aka: La Traversée)

Dona Herlinda and Her Son

Caught Looking

Cruising

(aka: Doña Herlinda y su hijo)

Cavafy (aka: Kavafis)

Crush (2000)

Doors Cut Down

Chaero

Daddy and the Muscle Academy

Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun

Change

Daddy & Papa

Drama in Blonde

Changing Face

Dads (aka: Papas)

Drawing Girls

Chant d’Amour, Un

Dadshuttle, The

Dreaded Experimental Comedies:

Children of Hannibal

Daisy Chain Project, The

How to Lessons, Body Rhythms,

(aka: Figli di Annibale)

Dakan

My New Lover, The

Children of the Regime

Damned, The (aka: Gotterdammer-

Dreck (aka: Dirt)

Chill Out

ung; La Caduta degli Dei)

Dress Gray

Chinese Characters

Dark and Lovely, Soft and Free

Dresser, The

Chop Suey

(aka: Nega Do Cabelo Duro)

Drift

Chuck Solomon: Coming of Age

Dark Sun: Bright Shade

Drifting (aka: Nagu’a)

Circuit

Darker Side of Black, The

Drowning Lessons

Citizen Cohn

Das Trio (aka: The Trio)

Duffer

Claire

David & Goliath

Dyke Blend

Clay Farmers, The

David Searching

Early Frost, An (1985)

Clinic E

Day the Fish Came Out, The

Early Frost, An (2000)

Clinic, The

(aka: Otan ta psaria vgikan sti steria)

East Palace West Palace

Close To Home

Days (aka: Giorni)

(aka: Dong Gong Xi Gong)

Closet, The (aka: Le Placard)

Dead Boys’ Club, The

Eban and Charley

Closets Are Health Hazards

Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men

Echte Kerle

Closing Numbers

Deaf Heaven

(aka: Regular Guys)

Coffee Date

Dear Boys (aka: Lieve Jongens)

Eclipse

Cold Footsies

Dear Rock

Edge of Seventeen (aka: Edge of 17)

Cold Lands, The (aka: Les Terres Froides)

Death in the Family, A

Edward II

Colegas (aka: Pals)

Death in Venice (aka: Morte a Venezia)

Eika Katappa

Colonel Redl (aka: Oberst Redl)

Death in Venice, CA

Einstein of Sex: The Life and Work

Coming of Age

Deathtrap

of Dr Magnus Hirschfeld, The

Coming Out (1989)

Deathwatch

Elegant Criminal, L’ (aka: Lacenaire)

Coming to Terms

Decodings

Elegy in the Streets

462 Gay

Elevation

Forty Deuce

Gypsy Boys

Elton John: Tantrums and Tiaras

Fox and His Friends

Habit

Empire State

(aka: Faustrecht der Freiheit)

Half Mongrel

Empty Bed, An

Francis Bacon

Hallelujah!

Englishman Abroad, An

Freddie Mercury: The Untold Story

Hamam: The Turkish Bath

Entertaining Mr Sloane

French Dressing

(aka: Steam)

Ernesto

(aka: Furenchi doressingu)

Hanging Garden, The

Escorte, L’

Freunde: The Whiz Kids

Happy Birthday Gemini

Evening Dress

Friend of Dorothy, A

Happy Texas

(aka: Tenue de Soirée; Menage)

Friends and Family

Happy Together

Evenings, The (aka: De Avonden)

Friends Forever (aka: Venner for Altid)

(aka: Cheun gwong tsa sit)

Everlasting Secret Family, The

Friends in High Places

Hard

Execution of Justice

Frisk

Hard Fat

Exiles of Love

From the Ashes

Hard God, A

F. is a Bastard (aka: F. est un salaud)

From the Edge of the City

Harold and Hiroshi

Faggots are for Burning

(aka: Apo tin akri tis polis)

Hate Crime

Fairy Who Didn’t Want to Be a

Frostbite

He Bop!

Fairy, The

Fruit Machine, The (aka: Wonderland)

He’s Bald and Racist, He’s Gay and Fascist

Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay

Full Speed (aka: À Toute Vitesse)

He’s Like

Pornography, The

Fun Down There

Head On (aka: Loaded)

Fated to be Queer

Funeral Parade of Roses

Heart Exposed, The

Fear of Love

(aka: Bara No Soretsu)

(aka: La Coeur Découvert)

Fete des Peres, La (aka: Dad’s Day)

Funny Felix (aka: Dróle de Félix;

Heaven, Earth and Hell

Fighting in South-West Louisiana

The Adventures of Felix)

Heaven-6-Box

Film for Two

Garden, The

(aka: Tengoku No Muttsu No Hako)

Finding North

Gasp

Hellion Heatwave

Finished

Gay Agenda, The

Hidden Injuries

Fireworks

Gay Bombay

Hit and Runway

First Breath

Gay Deceivers, The

hITCH

First Love and Other Pains

Gay Voices, Gay Legends

HIV Rollercoaster

Fixing Frank

Gay Voices, Gay Legends 2

Hold You Tight (aka: Yue Kuai Le)

Flames of Passion

Get Real

Hole

Flaming Creatures

Get Your Stuff

Holi: Festival of Fire

Flavor of Corn, The

Ghosts of the Civil Dead

Hollow Reed

(aka: Il Sapore del Grano)

Ginger Beer

Home for the Holidays

Fleeing By Night (aka: Ye Ben)

Girls in Boy’s Bars

Homme Blessé, L’

Flight of Fancy

Glider, The (aka: Le Planeur)

(aka: The Wounded Man)

Flow

Glitterbug

Homme Que J’aime, L’

Fluffer, The

God, Sreenu & Me

(aka: The Man I Love)

Flush

Godass

Hooking Up

Fly Away Homo

Gods and Monsters

Hope Along the Wind: The Life of

Food of Love

Gohatto (aka: Taboo)

Harry Hay

For a Lost Soldier

Going West

Hope is a Thing With Feathers

(aka: Voor een verloren soldaat)

Gonin (aka: The Five)

Horror Vacui: The Fear of Emptiness

For Better or for Worse: A Celebra-

Got 2 B There

(aka: Horror Vacui: Die Angst

tion of Enduring Relationships

Gotta Have Heart (aka: Ba’al Ba’al Lev)

vor der Leere)

Forbidden Justice (aka: Short Eyes)

Grace of God, The

Horse Dreams in BBQ Country

Forbidden Love of the Hero, The

Green Plaid Shirt

Hours and Times, The

Forbidden Passion: Oscar Wilde the Movie

Green Pubes

House of Pain

Forgive & Forget

Grief

How I Love You (aka: Shou Bhebbak)

Forsaken

Guardian of the Frontier

How Old is the River?

Fortune and Men’s Eyes

(aka: Varuh Meje)

(aka: Fuyu no Kappa)

Gay 463

Hubo un Tiempo en que Los

James Baldwin: The Price of the

Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, The

Suenos Dieron Paso a Largas

Ticket

Like Grains of Sand

Noches de Insomnio

Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an

(aka: Nagisa no Shindobaddo)

Hush!

Unknown

Like It Is

Hustler White

Jeffery’s Hollywood Screen Trick

Lilies (aka: Lilies - les Feluettes)

I Am a Man

Jeffrey

Limites

I Am Not What You Want

Jerker

Liu Awaiting Spring

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

Jim Loves Jack: The James Egan Story

Living End, The

(aka: Ich will nicht nur, daß ihr

Joey Breaker

Living with AIDS

mich liebt)

Joggernaught

Loads

I Hate Faggy Fag Fag

Johnny Eager

Lola and Billy the Kid

I Know a Place

Johns

(aka: Lola and Bilidikid)

I Like You, I Like You Very Much

Journey of Jared Price, The

Lone Star Hate

(aka: Anata-Ga Suki Desu, Dai

Jungle Boy, The

Lonely without You

Suki Desu)

Just for Fun

Long Day Closes, The

I Love You Baby

Karmarama

Longtime Companion

I Love You, I’ll Kill You

Keep the River on Your Right

Looking for Angel

(aka: Ich Liebe Dich, Ich Töte Dich)

Kevin’s Room

(aka: Tenshi No Rakuen)

I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life

Kicking On

Looking for Langston

of Marlon Riggs

Killer in the Village

Looking for Mr Goodbar

I Think I Do

Kind of Family, A

Lorenza

I’ll Love You Forever - Tonight

Kipling Trilogy, The

Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel

Icarus

Kiss in the Snow, A

Lost Language of Cranes, The

If

Kiss Me Guido

Lot in Sodom

If All Goes Well I’ll Meet You on

Kiss of the Spider Woman, The

Love and Death on Long Island

the Next Train

Kizuna Volume 1 & 2

(aka: Amour et mort à Long Island)

If the Family Fits

Km. 0 (aka: Kilometro cero)

Love and Human Remains

Ifti

Krámpack (aka: Nico & Dani)

Love is the Devil

Illegal Tender

Krays, The

Love Like Any Other, A

Image in the Snow

L. I. E.

(aka: Eine Liebe wie andere auch)

In on Earth as It Is in Heaven

Lan Yu

Love Machine, The

In & Out

Last Bus Home, The

Love of a Man, The

In the Flesh (1997)

Last Exit to Brooklyn

(aka: Amor de hombre)

In the Gloaming

Last of England, The

Love! Valour! Compassion!

In the Shadow of the Sun

Latin Boys Go To Hell

Loverfilm

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome

Laura

Loverville 2: The Honeymoon

Inside Out

Lawless Heart, The

Lucifer Rising

Interview with the Vampire

Leather

Ludwig

Invocation of My Demon Brother

Leather Boys, The

Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King

Iro Kaze (aka: Colour Wind)

Leather Jacket Love Story

(aka: Ludwig: Requiem für einen

It Dwells in Mirrors

Legacies

jungfräulichen König)

It is Not the Homosexual Who is

Legal Memory

Lunch with Eddie

the Pervert but the Society in

Lesson 9

Luster

Which He Lives

Letters from Home

Lycanthrophobia

(aka: Nicht der Homosexuelle ist

Liberace

Lysis

pervers, sondern die Situation, in

Liberace: Behind the Music

M! Mom, Madonna and Me

der er lebt)

Lie Down with Dogs

Ma Vie (aka: My Life)

It’s My Party

Life

Macho Dancer

J’embrasse pas

(aka: Containment; Out of the Blue)

Madagascar Skin

(aka: I Don’t Kiss)

Life and Death

Madras Eyes

Jackson: My Life Your Fault

Life and Death on the A-List

Maids, The

464 Gay

Making Love

Moscow Fags

Olivier, Olivier

Mala Noche (aka: Bad Night)

Mountain King, The

On Being Gay: A Conversation

Mama, I Have Something to Tell You

Mr Christie

with Brian McNaughton

Man in Her Life, The

Muscle

ON_LINE

(aka: Ang lalaki sa buhay ni Selya)

Music Lovers, The

On the Bus

Man is a Woman (aka: L’Homme

Must be the Music

Once upon a Time in the East

est une femme comme les autres)

My Addiction

(aka: Il était une fois dans l’est)

Man Man Woman Woman

My Beautiful Laundrette

One of Them

(aka: NanNan NuNu; Men and Women)

My Body

One + One

Man of No Importance, A

My Brother’s Keeper

Opposite of Sex, The

Man of the Year

My Cousin Mike

Ordinary Sinner

Man Who Drove with Mandela, The

My First Suit

Original Schtick

Mandragora

My Hustler

Other Side, The

Manila: In the Claws of Darkness

My Own Private Idaho

(aka: Del Otro Lado)

(aka: Maynila: Sa mga kuko ng liwanag)

My Pal Rachid

Otra Historia de Amour

Map of Sex and Love, The

My Summer Vacation

(aka: Another Love Story)

(aka: Qingse ditu)

My Survival as a Deviant

Our Brothers, Our Sons

Marble Ass (aka: Dupe od Mramora)

Naked Civil Servant, The

Our Lady of the Assassins

March in April

Naked Highway

(aka: La Virgen de los sicarios)

Marching into Darkness

Nana, George and Me

Our Sons (aka: Too Little, Too Late)

Mare, Il (aka: The Sea)

Naughty Little Peeptoe

Out in the Open

Markova: Comfort Gay

Nervos de Aco

Out of the Closet, Off the Screen:

Martin Four

(aka: Nerves Made of Steel)

The Life & Times of William Haines

Mass Appeal

Nervous Energy

Outcasts, The

Massillon

Next Best Thing, The

(aka: Niezi; The Outsiders)

Matter of Taste, A (aka: A Question

Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, The

Outrageous!

of Taste; Une affaire de goût)

Night Out

P. S. Your Cat is Dead

Maurice

Night Trade

Panic Bodies

Maybe I Can Give You Sex?

Night Warning

Paper Cranes

Me and the Girls

Nighthawks

Paragraph 175

Melody for Buddy Matsumae

Nijinsky

Parallel Sons

(aka: Matsumae-Kun No Senritsu)

Nijinsky

Parting Glances

Memory Pictures

(aka: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky)

Partners

Men in Love

No Backup

Passing Resemblance

Men Men Men

No One Sleeps

Past Caring

(aka: Uomini uomini uomini)

No Ordinary Love

Paul Cadmus: Enfant Terrible at 80

Menmaniacs: The Legacy of Leather

No Skin Off My Ass

Paul Monette: The Brink of

Meteor and Shadow

Nocturne (1989)

Summer’s End

(aka: Meteoro kai Skia)

Norman, is that You?

Pedagogue

Michael, a Gay Son

Not Angels, But Angels

Penitentiary

Midnight Cowboy

Not Love, Just Frenzy

Pensao Globo

Midnight Dancers (aka: Sibak)

(aka: Mas Que Amor, Frenesi)

Peoria Babylon

Midnight Express

Number 96

Perfect Son, The

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Nunzio’s Second Cousin

Peter Allen: The Boy from Oz

Mikaël (aka: Chained)

O Boys: Parties, Porn & Politics, The

Phantom (aka: O Fantasma)

Minoru and Me

Object of My Affection, The

Philadelphia

Moffie Called Simon, A

Offering, The

Pianese Nunzio

Montgomery Clift: The Prince

Oi Queer

(aka: Fourteen in May; Sacred Silence)

Montreal Main

Oi! Warning

Pierre et Gilles, Love Stories

More Love

Okoge

Pink Narcissus

Morris Loves Jack

Oliver

Gay 465

Pink Ulysses

Rites of Passage

Siberia

Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco

Ritual

Siege (aka: Self Defense)

Place Between Our Bodies, The

Ritz, The

Siegfried

Place in the Sun, A

Rock Hudson

Silencis (aka: Silent Moments)

Play Dead

Rock Hudson’s Home Movies

Silverlake Life: The View From Here

Pleasure Beach

Rock the Boat

Sissy

Poetry for an Englishman

Rockwell

Six Degrees of Separation

Point of Departure, A

Roommates

Sixth Happiness, The

Poison

Rope

Skin and Bone

Pony Glass

Rough Sketch of a Spiral

Skin Complex

Pool Days

(aka: Rasen No Sobyo)

Skin Flick (aka; Skin Gang)

Portrait of Jason

Roy Cohn / Jack Smith

Sleep in a Nest of Flames

Positiv

RSVP

Sleepy Haven

Positive Story (aka: Sipur Hiyuvi)

Sad Disco Fantasia

Slight Fever of a 20-Year-Old

Possible Loves (aka: Amores Possiveis)

Safe Journey

(aka: Hatachi No Binetsu)

Postcards from America

Safe Place, A

Smear

Pouvoir Intime

Sagitario

Smoke

Presque Rien

Sailor (aka: Matroos)

Snake Boy, The

(aka: Come Undone; Almost Nothing)

Saint

Sodom

Pretty Baby (aka: Maybe...Maybe

Salome’s Last Dance

Soft Hearts (aka: Pusong Mamon)

Not; Der Bewegte Mann; The

Salut Victor!

Soliloquy of Dale Cunningham, The

Most Desired Man)

Satdee Nite

Solos Y Soledades

Pretty Boy (aka: Smukke Dreng)

Saturday Night at the Baths

Some of My Best Friends Are

Prick Up Your Ears

Saturn’s Return

Some of These Days

Priest

Satyricon

Something Close to Heaven

Prince in Hell

Sauve Qui Peut (aka: Slow Motion)

Song of the Loon

(aka: Prinz in Holleland)

Savage Nights (aka: Les Nuits fauves)

Sordid Lives

Private Wars

School Fag

Sospiro d’amore nell’attesa

Protagonist, The (aka: Shujinko)

Scorpio Rising

Soufflé

Public Opinion

Scout’s Honor

Sparky’s Shoes

Punks

Sea in the Blood

Special Day, A

Queen’s Cantonese Conversational

Seamen

(aka: Una Giornata particolare)

Course, The

Sebastian

Special Guest Star

Queens Logic

Sebastiane

Speedway Junky

Queer Story, A (aka: Jilao Sishi)

Second Coming, The

Speedy Boys

Querelle

Secrets

Spent

Questioning Faith

Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force

Spin the Bottle

Rainbow Serpent, The

Sergeant, The

Split World, The

(aka: Haltéroflic)

Servant, The

Spokes

Raising Heroes

Sex Becomes Her: The True Life

Sprinter, The

Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall

Story of Chi Chi LaRue

Squeeze

Red Dirt

Sex Is...

Staircase

Red Ribbon Blues

Sex is Sex: Conversations with Male

Star is Porn, A

Reflections

Prostitutes

Star Maps

Relax

Sex/Life in LA

Stargaze

Resident Alien

Shall We Dance

Stephen

Resonance

Shampoo Horns

Story of a Bad Boy, The

Return to Go! (aka: Züruck Auf Los!)

(aka: Cuernos de espuma)

Straight in the Face

Revolutions Happen like Refrains

Shinjuku Triad Society

Straightman

in a Song

(aka: Shijuku Kuro Shakai)

Strange Life and Death of Dr

Rhythm & Blues

Shooting Porn

Turing, The

Rice and Potatoes

Show Me Your Pic

Strange Love Affair, A

466 Gay

Strange One, The (aka: End as a Man)

Tim Miller: Loud and Queer

Vanished

Strawberry and Chocolate

Time Being, The

Vaudeville

(aka: Fresa y Chocolate)

Time Off

Very Funny

Strip Jack Naked: Nighthawks II

Time Piece

Very Natural Thing, A

‘Sucker

Time Regained

Via Appia

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

(aka: Le Temps retrouvé)

Victim

Sum of Us, The

Time Zones

Villain

Summer Dress, A

To an Unknown God

Violet’s Visit

(aka: Une Robe d’été)

(aka: A un Dios Desconocido)

Virgin Larry, The

Summer in My Veins (Director’s Cut)

To Die for (aka: Heaven’s a Drag)

Virus Knows No Morals, A

Summer Vacation 1999

To Forget Venice

(aka: Ein Virus kennt keine Moral)

(aka: 1999 Nen No Natsu Yasumi)

(aka: Dimenticare Venezia)

Vive l’Amour (aka: Aiqing Wansui)

Super 8 1/2

To Play or to Die

Waiting

Surviving Sabu

(aka: Spelen of sterven)

Waiting ‘round Wynyard

Swimming Prohibited (aka: Yuei Kinshi)

Toc Storee

Walking On Water

Swoon

Together Alone

Wallowitch & Ross: This Moment

TABU V (about which one cannot speak)

Together and Apart

Waves (aka: Bølgene)

Take Out

Toilers and the Wayfarers, The

We Think the World of You

Talk of the Town (aka: Stadtgespräch)

Token of Love

We Were One Man

Talk to Me like the Rain

Tom

(aka: Nous étions un Seul Homme)

Tanaka

Tom Clay Jesus

Webcam Boys

Tangible Fathers

Tongues Untied

Wedding Banquet, The (aka: Hsi yen)

Tarch Trip

Too Much Sun

Wedding Video, The

Taste of Honey, A

Too Young (aka: Ye Maque)

Weekend, The

Taxi to Cairo

Torch Song Trilogy

Weiner Brut

(aka: Taxi nach Kairo)

Total Eclipse

Weininger’s Nacht

Taxi to the Toilet

Total Loss

Well Lit Shadows

(aka: Taxi zum Klo)

Tour Abroad (aka: Auslandstournee)

West Fickt Ost (aka: West Fucks East)

Tea and Sympathy

Toxic Queen

Westler: East of the Wall

Tell Me No Lies

Trials of Oscar Wilde, The

What is the Relationship between

Tell Me the Truth About Love

Triche, La (aka: The Cheat)

Rosa von Praunheim and the

Tell Me Why: The Epistemology of Disco

Trick

Male Strippers of San Francisco?

Tenebrae Lessons

Trip, The

What Kind of Music!

(aka: Leçons de Ténèbres)

True Faith

(aka: Ma Che Musica!)

Teorema (aka: Theorem)

Truth About Gay Sex, The

When Boys Fly

Terence Davies Trilogy, The

Truth Game, The

When the Party’s Over

Terry and Julian (Vol. 1 and 2)

Twice a Man

Where Is My Love?

That Certain Summer

Twilight of the Gods

(aka: Qiangpo Puguang)

Theme: Murder

Twilight of the Golds, The

Where Lies the Homo?

There is no Pain in Paradise (aka:

Twinkle (aka: Kira Kira Hikaru)

Where the Sun Beats Down

En el Paraiso no Existe el Dolor)

Twinkle Toes

(aka: Onde Bate o Sol)

Third Sex, The

Twisted

Who Killed Pasolini?

(aka: Anders als du und ich)

Two Brothers

(aka: Pasolini, an Italian Crime;

This I Wish and Nothing More

Two Men

Pasolini, un delitto Italiano)

(aka: Nincsen Nekem Vagyam Semmi)

Two of Us (aka: Mates)

Wild Life

This Special Friendship

Two Point Five

Wild Reeds, The

(aka: Les Amitiés Particulières)

Unconditional Love

(aka: Les Roseaux Sauvages)

Three Bewildered People (aka:

Uncut

Wilde (aka: Oscar Wilde)

Three Bewildered People in the Night)

Under Heat

Wittgenstein

Threesome

Unknown Cyclist, The

Wolves of Kromer, The

Thug

Urbania

Women in Love

Tidy Endings

Valentino

World and Time Enough

Gay 467

Wrong Son, The

Anne Trister

Body of a Poet: A Tribute to Audre

Yearning for Sodom

Another Way (aka: Egymásra Nézve)

Lorde 1934-1992, The

Yellow Fever

Antonia’s Line

Boots, Boobs and Bitches: The Art

You Are Not Alone (aka: Du er ikke alene)

Apartments

of G. B. Jones

You Taste American

Are You Greedy?

Border Line...Family Pictures

Young Soul Rebels

Ashley 22

Born in Flames

Your Brother, My Tidda

Atomic Sake

Bound

Zero de Conduite

B. D. Women

Bounty, The

(aka: Zero for Conduct)

B.U.C.K.L.E.

Boy Germs

Zero Patience

B/side

Boy Girl

Zippers & Tits (aka: Fasuna to Chibusa)

Bad Brownies

Boys on the Side

Zorro, the Gay Blade

Badass Supermama

Breaking the Silence

Baise-moi (aka: Fuck Me; Rape Me)

Breaking up Really Sucks

Lesbian

Balcony, The

Brincando el Charco: Portrait of a

Bar Girls

Puerto Rican

10 Violent Women

Bargain Lingerie

Bubbles Galore!

101 Reykjavik

Basement Girl, The

But I Was a Girl: The Story of

17 Rooms

Basic Instinct

Frieda Belinfante

(or What Do Lesbians Do in Bed?)

Basic Necessities

Butter & Pinches

2 or 3 Things But Nothing for Sure

Because the Dawn

Butterfly Kiss

27 Pieces of Me

bed

By Design

301 - 302

Beguines, The

Caged

4pm

(aka: Le Rampart des Beguines)

Caged Fury

99 Women

Being John Malkovich

Call Me Your Girlfriend

(aka: Isle of Lost Women; 99 mujeres)

Belle

Came Out, It Rained, Went Back

Acquiring a Taste for Raffaella

Below the Belt

in Again

After the Break (1992)

Berlin Affair, The (aka: Interno Berlinese)

Can’t You Take a Joke?

After the Break (1998)

Bete Noire

Cancer in Two Voices

After the Game

Better than Chocolate

Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst Is

Afternoon Breezes

Between the Lines

Your Waffen

(aka: Kaze tachi No Gogo)

Between Two Women

Carmilla

Age 12: Love with a Little L

Biches, Les (aka: The Does)

Cass

Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a

Bilitis

Cat Nip

Serial Killer

Bird in the Hand

Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks!

Aimée and Jaguar

Bisexual Kingdom, The

Cats, The (aka: Kattorna)

Airport

Bitter Moon

Celine and Julie Go Boating

Alicia was Fainting

Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The

(aka: Céline et Julie vont en bateau)

All Fall Down

(aka: Die Bitteren Tränen der

Certain Grace, A

All Girl Action: The History of

Petra von Kant)

Chained Girls

Lesbian Erotica

Bittersweet

Chained Heat II

All Over Me

Black Sheep

Change the Frame

Alles Wird Gut

Black Sunday

Chastity

(aka: Everything Will Be Fine)

(aka: La Maschera del Demonio)

Chicks in White Satin

Almost the Cocktail Hour

Black Widow

Child-Play

Älskande par (aka: Loving Couples)

Blessed are Those Who Thirst

Children’s Hour, The

Alternative Conceptions

(aka: Salige er de som tørster)

Choosing Children

Amelia Rose Towers

Blind Moment, The

Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town

Amor Maldito

Blood and Roses

Chosen Family, The

Amorosa

(aka: Et Mourir de Plaisir)

Chrissy

And/Or=One

Blood Splattered Bride, The

Chutney Popcorn

Anna und Edith

(aka: La Novia Ensangrentada)

Cicely

Anna und Elisabeth

Bloodsisters: Leather Dykes and S&M

Claire of the Moon

Bodies in Trouble

468 Lesbian

Clips

Double Strength

Flaming Ears (aka: Rote Ohren

Closer

Dozens, The

Fetzen Durch Asche)

Closets Are for Clothes

Dr T & the Women

Flesh and Paper

Club de Femmes

Dracula’s Daughter

Flesh on Glass

(aka: The Women’s Club; Girl’s Club)

Drama Queen

Florida Enchantment, A

Coal Miner’s Granddaughter

Dreamers of the Day

Forbidden Fruit

Coconut / Cane and Cutlass

Dry Kisses Only

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed

Color Purple, The

Dykes and Their Dogs

Stories of Lesbian Lives

Come and Go

Dykes and Tykes

Forever (1991)

Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts, A

Each Other (aka: Rega’im)

Fourth Sex, The

Common Flower, A

Eight Million

(aka: Le Quatrième sexe)

Companions: Tales from the Closet

Eileen is a Spy

Fox, The

Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter

Elegant Spanking, The

Framing Lesbian Fashion

Conception

Ellen DeGeneres: The Beginning

Freebird

Confessions of a Pretty Lady

Emergence

French Twist (aka: Gazon Maudit)

Corpo, O (aka: The Body)

Emily and Gitta

Fresh Blood: A Consideration of

Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality, A

Emmanuelle

Belonging

Costa Brava

Enchantment, The (aka: Yuwakusha)

Fresh Kill

Countess Dracula

Entre Nous (aka: Coup de Foudre)

Fried Green Tomatoes

Crimes of Passion

Entwined

Frisson des Vampires, Le

Crocodiles in Amsterdam

Erika’s Passions

(aka: Sex and the Vampire)

(aka: Krokodillen in Amsterdam)

(aka: Erika’s Leidenschaften)

Fuga, La (aka: The Escape)

Cruel

Erotica: A Journey into Female Sexuality

Fun

Crueles, Las (aka: The Cruel Ones)

Erotique

Fun with a Sausage (aka: L’Ingenue)

Cuz It’s Boy

Et L’Amore

Future is Woman, The

Cynara: Poetry in Motion

Eve’s Daughters

(aka: Il Futuro è Donna)

Dallas Doll

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Gaea Girls

Damned if You Don’t

Everything Relative

Gang Girls 2000

Danza Macabra, La

Execution of Wanda Jean, The

Gang of Four, The

(aka: Castle of Blood)

Extramuros (aka: Beyond the Walls)

(aka: La Bande des Quatre)

Dark Habits (aka: Entre tinieblas)

Family Affair, A (1995)

Gay Tape: Butch and Femme

Darling International

Family Affair, A (2001)

Gemini Affair, The

Daughter of Dykes

Family Pack (aka: Que Faisaient les

Gently down the Stream

Daughters of Darkness

Femmes Pendant que L’homme

Gertrude Stein and a Companion

(aka: Le Rouge aux Lévres)

Marchait sur la Lune?)

Gertrude Stein: When You See This

Daughters of the Sun

Family Values

Remember Me

Day in the Life of a Bull-Dyke, A

Fantasy Dancer

Get the Bowheads

Deal, The

Farewell, The (aka: Avskedet)

Getting It On

Dear Mom

Farewell to Charms

Gia

Deccada

Fascination

Girl King

Depart to Arrive

Felicity

Girl Power

(aka: Weggehen um Anzukommen)

Female Closet, The

Girl, The

Desert Hearts

Female Misbehavior

Girl with the Golden Eyes, The

Desi’s Looking for a New Girl

Female Perversions

(aka: La Fille aux yeux d’or)

Devotion

Fiction and Other Truths: A Film

Girlfriends (1993)

Different Corner, A

about Jane Rule

Girls Can’t Swim

Dirty Fingernails

Fingered!

(aka: Les filles ne savent par nager)

Disgraceful Conduct

Fire

Girls Who Like Girls

Do You Think We Can Talk about

First Base

Gladys, A Cuban Mother

Anything but Love?

First Comes Love (1997)

Glasses Break

Domestic Bliss

Fish & Elephant

Go Fish

Double Entente

(aka: Jin Nian Xia Tian)

Goblin Market

Lesbian 469

Golden Threads

Infidel

Late Bloomers

Good Citizen: Betty Baker

Inn Trouble

Lavender Limelight: Lesbians in Films

Goodbye Emma Jo

Interviews With My Next Girlfriend

Leave It!

Grapefruit

Intimate Friendship, An

Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk, The

Groove on a Stanley Knife

Intimates, The (aka: Ji Sor)

Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire Too

Group

Investigator, The

Lesbian Bed Death: Myth or Epidemic

Group, The

Irma Vep

Lesbian Health Matters

Hand on the Pulse

Is Mary Wings Coming?

Lesbian Physicians on Practice,

Hard Love & How to Fuck in High Heels

Isle of Lesbos

Patients & Power

Haunting of Morella, The

It Wasn’t Love

Lesbian Teenagers in High School

Health Status Survey

It’s Personal

Lesbian Tongues

Heatwave

It’s That Age

Lesbians Behaving Badly

Heavenly Creatures

Janine

Lesbians Go Mad in Lesbos

Her Urge

Jenny

Lesbians in the Pulpit

Hey Sailor, Hey Sister

Jodie: An Icon

Lesbians Olé

Hide and Seek

Jodie Promo, The

Let’s Love Hong Kong (aka: Ho Yuk)

High Art

Joe-Joe

Let’s Play Prisoners

High Tech Rice

Johanna, D’Arc of Mongolia

Lez B Friends: A Biker Bitch Hate Story

History Lessons

(aka: Joan of Arc of Mongolia)

Lez Be Friends

History of the World According to

Johnny Greyeyes

Lianna

a Lesbian, The

Jollies

Life is a Woman

Holding

Journey to Kafiristan, The

(aka: Zhizn-Zhenshchina)

Home Movie

(aka: Die Reise nach Kafiristan)

Life’s a Butch!

Home You Go

Julie Johnson

Lifetime Commitment: A Portrait of

Home-Made Melodrama

Jumping the Gun

Karen Thomson

How to Female Ejaculate

Jupon Rouge, Le

Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc’s

How to Find Your Goddess Spot

(aka: Manuela’s Loves)

Adventures in Plastic

How to Have a Sex Party

Just Because of Who We Are

Lilith

How to Kill Her

Just Desserts

Listen

Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf

Just the Two of Us

Listening for Something

Hunger, The

Justine’s Film (aka: Le Film de Justine)

Live Nude Girls UNITE!

Hungry Hearts

Kalin’s Prayer

Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100

I Became a Lesbian and So Can You

Kamikaze Hearts

Long Awaited Pleasure

I, Eugenia

Kate’s Addiction

Long Time Comin’

I, the Worst of All

Keep it Up, Jack! (aka: Auntie)

Loose Ends

(aka: Yo, la Peor de Todas)

Khush

Losing Lois

I Will Not Think about Death Anymore

Killer Nun (aka: Suor Omicidi)

Loss of Heat

I’m Starving

Killing of Sister George, The

Lost and Delirious

I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing

Kim

Love and Other Catastrophes

Ice Palace, The

Kindling Point, The

Love in Progress (aka: Amori in corso)

If She Grows Up Gay

Kings

Love Story: Berlin 1942, A

If These Walls Could Talk 2

Kiss Me Monster

Love/Juice

Images

(aka: Bésame Monstruo)

Low-Fat Elephants

Immacolata e Concetta - l’altra gelosia

Kiss the Boys and Make Them Die

Lune

In My Father’s House

Kore Cara Mia

Lust for a Vampire

In the Best Interests of the Children

L Is for the Way You Look

(aka: To Love a Vampire)

Incidental Journey

Labor More than Once

Luv Tale, A

(aka: Haijiao Tianya)

Lakme Takes Flight

M.U.F.F. Match

Incredibly True Adventures of Two

Last Call at Maud’s

Macumba

Girls in Love, The

Last Empress, The

Mad, Bad and Barking

Independently Blue

(aka: Wei dai huang hou)

470 Lesbian

Madame X: An Absolute Ruler

My Two Loves

Peach

(aka: Madame X: Eine Absolute

Mystère Alexina, Le

Peccatum Mutum (aka: The Silent Sin)

Herrscherin)

(aka: The Mystery of Alexina)

Peony Pavilion (aka: Youyuan jingmeng)

Mädchen in Uniform

Nadja

Peony Pavilion, The

(aka: Girls in Uniform) (1931)

Naked Killer (aka: Chiklo gouyeung)

Pepi, Luci and Bom

Mädchen in Uniform

Naomi’s Legacy

Peppermills

(aka: Girls in Uniform) (1957)

Naya Zamana

Persona

Mafu Cage, The

Need and Want

Personal Best (1982)

(aka: My Sister, My Love)

Nice Girls Don’t

Personals

Mai’s America

Nice Girls Don’t Do It

Perverted Justice

Maid of Honor

Nietta’s Diary

Petals

Maiden Work

Night Visions

Pixel Pose

Manji (aka: All Mixed Up)

Nine Days

Place Called Lovely, A

Manodestra

Nitrate Kisses

Place of Rage, A

Mark of Lilith, The

No Exit

Playing the Part

Martirio (aka: Sufferance)

No Exit (aka: Huis Clos)

Please Don’t Stop: Lesbian Tips for

Mask of Desire

Noche de Walpurgis, La

Givin’ and Gettin’ It

(aka: Shades of Black)

Nocturne (1990)

Politics of Fur, The

Match that Started My Fire, The

Not Just Passing Through

Portland Street Blues

Maybe We’re Talking About a

November Moon (aka: Novembermond)

Portrait of a Marriage

Different God

Nuestra Salud: Violencia Domestica

Portrait of a Young Girl at the End

Mayhem

Nun, The (aka: La Religieuse)

of the ’60s in Brussels

Meeting Magdalene

Odd Girl Out

(aka: Portrait d’une jeune fille de

Meeting of Two Queens

Oh Baby, A Baby! (aka: Zwei

la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles)

Memento Mori (aka: Yeogo Guidam II)

Frauen, ein Mann und ein Baby)

Potluck and the Passion, The

Memsahib Rita

Olga’s Girls

Prefaces

Mercy (1989)

Olivia (aka: The Pit of Loneliness)

Prisonnières

Mercy (1999)

On Guard

Privilege

Metalguru

Once Is Not Enough (aka: Jacqueline

Pump

Midwife’s Tale, The

Susann’s Once Is Not Enough)

Queen Christina

Minor Disturbances

One Shadowless Hour

Queen: Marianne Hoppe, The

Moments: The Making of Claire of

One Small Step

(aka: Die Königin: Marianne Hoppe)

the Moon

Only the Brave

Queen of the Night

Monkey’s Mask, The

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

(aka: La Reina de la Noche)

More than Friends: The Coming

Orlando

Quest for Love

Out of Heidi Leiter

Other Mothers

Question of Love, A

Mujeria

Our Mom’s a Dyke

Rachel Williams Documentary

Mulholland Drive

Out For a Change: Homophobia in

Radical Harmonies

Mum’s the Word

Women’s Sports

Rainbow, The

MURDER and murder

Out in Suburbia

Real Ellen Story, The

Muriel’s Parents Have Had it up to Here

Out of Our Time

Rebel Rebel

(aka: Muriel fait le désespoir de

Out of Season

Red Heat

ses parents)

Out: The Making of a Revolutionary

Red Label

Murmur of Youth

Outtakes

Red Rain

(aka: Mei li zai chang ge)

Override

Red Shoe Diaries 3, The: Another

My Babushka

Pandora’s Box

Woman’s Lipstick

My Father is Coming

(aka: Die Büchse der Pandora)

Reno Finds Her Mom

My Feminism

Paris Was a Woman

Replay (aka: La Répétition)

My Femme Divine

Party Favor, The

Requiem pour un Vampire

My Girlfriend Did It

Party Safe with DiAna and Bambi

(aka: Vierges et Vampires)

My Left Breast

Pasajes (aka: Passages)

Rescuing Desire

My Mother is an Alien

Passengers

Lesbian 471

Residencia, La

Skin Deep

Tampon Thieves

(aka: The House that Screamed)

Skindeep

(aka: Ladronas de tampones)

Return of Sarah’s Daughters, The

Skud

Tank Girl

Revoir Julie (aka: Julie and Me)

Sleep Come Free Me

Tea Leaf

Richard’s Things

Sluts and Goddesses Video Workshop

Teenage Tupelo

Righteous Babes, The

Snatch it

Tender Fictions

Rosebud

Some Ground to Stand On

Terms of Conception

Rules of the Road

Some Prefer Cake

Terror in the Crypt

Ruthie & Connie: Every Room in

Sotto Sotto (aka: Softly, Softly;

(aka: La Cripta e L’Incubo)

the House

Sotto... sotto... strapazzato da

Thank God I’m a Lesbian

S.

anomala passione)

That Tender Touch

Sabor a Mi (aka: Savour Me)

Souvenir

Thérèse and Isabelle

Safe is Desire

Spacked Out (aka: Mo yan ka sai)

Thin Ice: Passion on the Pink Rink

Salmonberries

Spot the Lesbian

Things We Said Today

Sambal Belacan in San Francisco

Staceyann Chin - A Poetry Slammer

This Is Not a Very Blank Tape Dear

Sari Red

Stand on Your Man

This Marching Girl Thing

Satan’s Princess (aka: Malediction)

Steers and Queers

Thousand Miles, A

Scent Uva Butch

Sticky Fingers of Time, The

Three (aka: Tatlo... magkasalo)

Scrubbers

Stolen Diary, The (aka: Le Cahier Volé)

Three of Hearts

Seduction of Innocence

Stolen Moments

Three on a Match

See the Sea (aka: Regarde la Mer)

Story of PuPu, The

Ties that Bind, The

Self-Destruction of Gia, The

(aka: PuPu No Monogatari)

Times Square

Serving in Silence: The Marguerite

Story So Far, The

Tiny and Ruby: Hell Drivin’ Women

Cammermeyer Story

Straight Down the Aisle: Confes-

Titanic 2000

Set Me Free (aka: Emporte-moi)

sions of Lesbian Bridesmaids

To My Women Friends

Sex Bytes

Straight for the Money: Interviews

Tokyo Cowboy

Sex Monster, The

with Queer Sex Workers

Touch Me (1994)

Shades

Strange Fits of Passion

Touch Me (1997)

Shatzi is Dying

Stranger Inside

Toward Intimacy

She Don’t Fade

Stray Dogs

Tragedy of Samantha Biggle and the

She Even Chewed Tobacco

Strung Up

Twins, The

She Must Be Seeing Things

Such a Crime

Transeltown

She Wears Cufflinks

Suddenly Last Summer (1991)

Treading Water

She’s Real Worse than Queer

Sugar and Spice

Treyf

Sherlock, Louise and Mina

Sugar Cookies

Troika

Shifting Positions

Sugar High, Glitter City

True Blue Camper

Shoplifting Chanel

Sugar Sweet

True Inversions

Show Me Love (aka: Fucking Åmål)

Sun and Rain (aka: Taiyang Yu)

Truth About Jane, The

Signed: Lino Brocka

Superdyke

Twice a Woman (aka: Twee vrouwen)

Silences

Susana

Twilight Girls, The

Silent Thrush, The

Sweet Boy

Twin Bracelets (aka: Shuang Cho)

(aka: Shisheng Huamei)

Swimming

Twins of Evil (aka: The Gemini Twins)

Simone

Swimming Upstream: A Year in the

Twisted Sheets

Sink or Swim

Life of Karen and Jenny

Two Girls and a Baby

Siren

Switch (1999)

Two in Twenty

Sister Louise’s Discovery

Switchblade Sisters

Two or Three Things I Know about Them

Sister My Sister

Swollen Stigma

Two Roads

Sister Smile (aka: Suor Sorriso)

Swordsman III: The East is Red

Uh-Oh!

Sisters Lumiere, The

(aka: Dung fong bat baai 2: fung

Union in Wait, A

(aka: Sisters of Light)

wan joi hei)

Unknown Friend

Size ‘Em Up

Sync Touch

(aka: Fremde Freundin)

472 Lesbian

Valentine’s Day

Woman like Eve, A

Apostles of Civilised Vice

Vampire Lovers, The

(aka: Een Vrouw als Eva)

Aren’t You Lucky You Brought Your

Vampire Nue, La

Woman to Woman

Own Chair

(aka: The Naked Vampire)

Women I Love

Army of Lovers: or Revolt of the Perverts

Vampyres, Daughters of Dracula

Women in Cages

Attack of the Giant Moussaka, The

(aka: Blood Hunger)

(aka: Women’s Penitentiary III)

Avenge Tampa

Vampyros Lesbos

Women Like Us/Women Like That

Ballot Measure 9

(aka: Lesbian Vampires; Die

Women of Gold

Barbarella

Erbin des Dracula)

Women on the Roof

Bare

Velvet Vampire, The

(aka: Kvinnorna på taket)

Because this is About Love

(aka: The Waking Hour)

Work

Before Stonewall: The Making of a

Vendetta

Working Class Dykes from Hell

Gay and Lesbian Community

Vera

Working Girls

Best of Out and Out on Tuesday, The

Veronica 4 Rose

Worthy Mothers

Betty Anderson

Vicious

Wu Yen

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Village Affair, A

Yes (aka: To Ingrid My Love Lisa;

Bill Called William, A

Viol du Vampire, Le

Kvinnolek)

Bit of Scarlett, A

Virgin Machine

Yo Yo Gang

Bite Me Again

(aka: Die Jungfrauenmaschine)

Your Heart is All Mine

Black Glove, The

Visitors

Your Mother Wears Combat Boots

Black Is... Black Ain’t

Voicing the Legacy

Black Nations/Queer Nations?

Voleurs, Les (aka: Thieves)

Queer

Blair Princess Project, The

Waiting for the Moon

Blood for Dracula

Walk on the Wild Side

21st Century Nuns

Bloody Mama

War on Lesbians

Absolutely Positive

Blow Job

War Widow, The

After Stonewall

Blue Boys

Watching Lesbian Porn

After the Bath

Bolo! Bolo!

Watching You

After the War You Have to Tell

Box, The

Watermelon Woman, The

Everyone about the Dutch Gay

Boy Next Door? A Profile of Boy George

Wavelengths

Resistance Fighters

Bradfords Tour America, The

Wax Me

Age of Dissent

Bright Eyes

We Always Danced

Agora

Broadcast Tapes of Dr Peter, The

We’ve Been Framed

AIDS

Broken Goddess

Weeki Wachee Girls

AIDS Show: Artists Involved with

But, I’m a Cheerleader

Welcome to Africville

Death and Survival, The

By the Dawn’s Early Light

Well Sexy Women

AIDS: Words from One to Another

Caligula

Wellness

All About My Mother

Call to Witness

West Coast Crones

(aka: Todo sobre mi madre)

Camp Lavender Hill

What Makes a Family

All God’s Children

Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?

What You Take for Granted

All of Me

Can’t Stop Dancing

When Night Is Falling

All Out Comedy

Can’t Stop the Music

When Shirley Met Florence

Alone Together: Young Adults

Car Wash

Wild Side

Living with HIV

Castro, The

(aka: Donald Cammell’s Wild Side)

Ambiguous Feeling, An

Caught in the Crossfire

Wildflowers

American Slices

Celluloid Closet, The

Wilma’s Sacrifice

Among Good Christian Peoples

Changing Our Minds: The Story of

Windows

Anatomy of Desire

Dr Evelyn Hooker

Without You I’m Nothing

Andy Warhol and His Work

Charlie

Woman Accused, A

Anguished Love

Chelsea Girls, The

(aka: In the Glitter Palace)

Annie Sprinkle’s Herstory of Porn:

China Dolls

Reel to Real

Chocolate Babies

Queer 473

City of Lost Souls (aka: Stadt der

Everything in Between

Grass is Greener, The

Verlorenen Seelen)

Excuse Me Duckie, But Lucas

Greetings from Out Here

Closet Space

Loved Me (aka: Perdona Bonita,

Greetings from Washington

Cockettes, The

pero Lucas me queria a mi)

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

Come As You Are

Eyes of Tammy Faye, The

Gypsy 83

Coming Home

Fag Hag

Hairspray

Coming Out, Coming Home: Asian

Family Fundamentals

Hammer and Sickle

and Pacific Islander Family Stories

Family Values: An American Tragedy

(aka: Serp i molot)

Coming Out of the Iron Closet

Fantasm

Happy Gordons, The

Coming Out under Fire

Fantasm Comes Again (aka: Fantasm 99)

Harlequin Exterminator

Common Ground

Farewell My Concubine

He’s a Woman, She’s a Man

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

(aka: Ba wang bie ji)

(aka: Gum gee yuk yip)

Comrades in Arms

Fassbinder’s Women

Heat

Criminal Lovers

Feed Them to the Cannibals!

Heavy Petting (1988)

(aka: Les Amants Criminels)

Female Trouble

Heavy Petting (1991)

Critical Mass: Gay Games Amsterdam

Fighting Chance

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Cruising in the Channels

First Comes Love (1991)

Hell Bento!

Dads Wanted

Flesh (aka: Andy Warhol’s Flesh)

Hell For Leather

Dandy Dust

Flesh for Frankenstein

Heterosexual Agenda, The

Danny

Flesh Gordon

Heterosexuality

Darkness before Dawn

Flowing Hearts: Thailand Fighting AIDS

Hey, Happy!

De Colores

For Straights Only

Hidden Child

Dear Jesse

Forbidden Fruit: Unfinished Stories

High Heels (aka: Tacones lejanos)

Debutantes, The

of our Lives

Home Sweet Home

Desire (1989)

Forever (1994)

Homo Heights (aka: Happy Heights)

Desperate Living

Fostering

Homo Promo

Desperate Remedies

Fourth Man, The (aka: Di Vierde Man)

Homophobia in Hollywood

Destiny’s Children

Framed Youth (aka: Revolt of the

Homophobia: That Painful Problem

Destroying Angel

Teenage Perverts)

Homosexuality: A Film for

Devil in the Holy Water, The

Franchesca Page

Discussion

Diane Linkletter Story, The

Frankenstein Created Woman

Homosexuality and Lesbianism

Different Story, A

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

Homoteens

Ding Dong

Fucked in the Face

Hotel New Hampshire, The

Dirty Laundry (1995)

Full Blast

Hunting Season, The

Divine Trash

Gaudi Afternoon

I Almost Feel Like a Tourist

Does Your Mother Know?

Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay

I Am the Camera Dying

Dog’s Dialogue

Movement

I Exist: Voices From the Lesbian and

(aka: Colloque de chiens)

Gay Cuba

Gay Middle Eastern Community

Double Trouble

Gay Games

I.K.U

Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde

Gay & Gray in New York City

I Shot Andy Warhol

Drop Dead Georgeous: The Power

Gay Rock and Roll Years, The

I’ll Be Your Mirror

of HIV Positive Thinking

Gay Sera Sera

I’m the One that I Want

Drugs ‘R’ Us

Gay USA

Imagining October

e-male

Gay Youth

Immigration

Eagle Shooting Heroes, The

Gay’ze in Wonderland

Impromptu

(aka: Sediu yinghung tsun tsi

Gaymes, The

Improper Conduct

dung sing sai tsau)

Get Bruce

(aka: Mauvaise Conduite)

Educate Your Attitude

Get Out

In Pursuit of Prince/ess Charming

Endangered

Get Over It

Indecent Acts

Enter the Clowns

Ghost of Roger Casement, The

Inside Monkey Zetterland

(aka: Choujue Dengchang)

God, Gays and the Gospel

Inverted Minstrel

Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus

Mann Story

474 Queer

It’s a Queer World

Long Weekend, The

Osaka Story

It’s Elementary: Talking about Gay

(aka: The Long Weekend (O’Despair))

Our House: A Very Real Documentary

Issues in School

Looking for a Space

Our Private Idaho

It’s in the Water

Looking for Common Ground

Out At Work: America Undercover

It’s My Life

Love and Marriage

Out in Africa

It’s Not Unusual: A Lesbian and

Love Ltd.

Out in Nature: Homosexual Behaviour

Gay History

Love Makes a Family: Gay Parents

in the Animal Kingdom

Jaundiced Eye, The

in the ’90s

Out in South Africa

Je, tu, il, elle

Lust and Liberation

Out Loud

Joys of Smoking, The

Lust in the Dust

Out of the Past

Julian Clary - The Mincing

M Butterfly

Out: Stories of Lesbian and Gay

Machine Tour

Madam Wang’s

Youth

Just One Time

Making of Monsters

Over Our Dead Bodies

Kamikaze Summer

Man in the Irony Mask, The

Over the Rainbow: Parts 1 - 4

Kanada

Man like Eva, A

Oy Gay

Kansas Anymore

(aka: Ein, Mann wie Eva)

Parents of Gays

Karen Black Like Me

March on Washington, The

Party Monster

Ke Kulana He Mahu: Remember-

Mary’s Place

Passion of Remembrance, The

ing a Sense of Place

Metrosexuality

Performance

Keep Your Laws off My Body

Militia Battlefield

Personal Best (1991)

Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood

Mob Queen

Piccadilly Pickups

Babylon (aka: Kenneth Anger)

Modesty Blaise

Pink Flamingos

Kika

Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers

Pink Pimpernel, The

Killer Condom

Most Unknowable Thing, The

Pink Triangle: A Study of Prejudice

(aka: Kondom des Grauens)

Multiple Maniacs

Against Gays & Lesbians

Labyrinth of Passion

Myra Breckinridge

Pink Video: Out-Rageously Pink, The

(aka: Laberinto de pasiones)

Naked Lunch

Playing Gay

Laramie Project, The

Neptune’s Rocking Horse

Plushies & Furries

Last Coming Out, The

Neurosia: 50 Years of Perversity

Poisoned Blood

Last Island, The

Never Met Picasso

Polskiseks

Last Song, The

New Women, The

Polyester

Latin Queens: Unfinished Stories of

Night Porter, The

Pourquoi Pas Moi? (aka: Why Not Me?)

Our Lives

(aka: Il Portiere di notte)

Pride Divide

Lavender Tortoise

Night with Derek, A

Pride in Puerto Rico

Law of Desire (aka: La Ley del Deseo)

Nightwork

Pride, Politics and Pissheads

Let Me Die, Again

No Rewind

Privates on Parade

Licensed to Kill

No Sad Songs

Psycho Beach Party

Lickerish Quartet, The

Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien

Queer As Folk (1998)

(aka: The Erotic Quartet)

(aka: No Regret)

Queer As Folk 2

Life is Like a Cucumber

None of the Above

Queer As Folk (2000)

(aka: Affengeil)

Not All Parents are Straight

Queer Geography: Mapping Our

Life's Evening Hour

Not Alone: A Hallowe’en Romance

Identities

Live Flesh (aka: Carne Trémula)

Nowhere

Queer Son

Live to Tell: The First Gay and

Ode

Queercore: A Punk-u-mentary

Lesbian Prom in America

Off the Straight and Narrow: Lesbians,

Rainmakers - Zimbabwe

Living and Dying

Gays, Bisexuals and Television

Rape of Ganymede, The

(aka: Ich Lebe Gern, Ich Sterbe Gern)

Olive Tree, The

Razor Blade Smile

Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit

One Nation Under God

Reaching Out to Lesbian, Gay and

of Happiness

Opening Closet X: A Voice for

Bisexual Youth

Lonesome Cowboys

Queer Youth

Reframing AIDS

Orientations

Relationships

Queer 475

Relax... It’s Just Sex

Some Aspect of a Shared Lifestyle

Twin Cheeks: Who Killed the

Rendez-vous d’Anna, Les

Somewhere in the City

Homecoming King?

Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie

Sonny Boy

Up!

(aka: Shôjo kakumei Utena:

Spartacus

Urinal (aka: Pissoir)

Adolescence mokushiroku)

Spikes and Heels

Victor/Victoria

Rewriting the Script: Love Letter to

Stand Together

Video 28

Our Families

Stiff Sheets

Viktor/Viktoria

Right to be Different, The

Still Sane

Village Voices

Right Wing, Right Off, Right

Stonewall

Vintage: Families of Value

Hons, Right?

Stonewall 25: Voices of Pride and

Viva Eu!

Rights and Reactions

Protest

Voices from the Front

Ritual Nation

Storm in a Teacup

Was Sie Nie Über Frauen Wissen

Rocky Horror Picture Show, The

Straight Agenda, The

Wollten

Rules of the Game

Straight from the Heart: Gay and

(aka: All You Never Wanted to

Running Gay: Lesbian and Gay

Lesbian Children

Know about Women)

Participation in Sport

Straight from the Suburbs

Water Drops on Burning Rocks

Sacred Lies, Civil Truths

Sunflowers

(aka: Gouttes d’Eau sur Pierres

Sadness

Superstar: The Life and Times of

Brûlantes)

Salivation Army

Andy Warhol

We Are Family

Salo (aka: The 120 Days of Sodom)

Surviving Friendly Fire

We Were Marked with a Big A

Salon Kitty (aka: Madam Kitty)

Sydney - Living with Difference

We’re Funny that Way

Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers

Symposium: Ladder of Love

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

Scenes from a Queer Planet

Tales of the City

(aka: Qué he hecho yo para

School’s Out: Lesbian and Gay Youth

Tales of the City 2

merecer esto?!! )

Scream, Teen, Scream

(aka: More Tales of the City)

What’s Cooking?

Search for Intimacy, The

Tales of the City 3

When Love Comes

Seashell and the Clergyman, The

(aka: Further Tales of the City)

When the Penny Drops

(aka: La Coquille et le Clergyman)

Taste the Sweat

White People’s Business

See How They Run

That’s a Family

White to be Angry, The

Sex 121 and the Gulag

They Are Lost to Vision Altogether

Who Happen to be Gay

Sex and Balls

This is Dedicated: Grieving When a

Who’s Afraid of Project 10?

Sex and the Sandinistas

Partner Dies

Why am I Gay?

Sex and the Single Gene?

Those Who Love Me Can Take the

Wigstock: The Movie (1987)

Sex Wars

Train

Willkommen im Dom

Sexing the Label: Love and Gender

Three Drags and a Wedding

(aka: Welcome to the Dome)

in a Queer World

Thundercrack!

Witches, Faggots, Dykes and

Sexual Identity

Tillsammans (aka: Together)

Poofters

Sexual Orientation: Reading

Times of Harvey Milk, The

Women in Revolt

Between the Labels

Tomboychik

Word is Out

Shades of Gray

Too Outrageous!

World is Sick (sic), The

Shame No More

Totally F***ed Up

Woubi Chéri

Silence=Death

Touchables, The

Wrecked for Life: The Trip &

(aka: Die AIDS-Trilogie:

Traditional Family Vampires

Magic of Trocadero Transfer

Schweigen=Tod)

Transformers/AIDS

Yang±Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

Silence that Silences, The

Trash

You’ve Had Worse Things in Your

Silent Pioneers

Treasure Island

Mouth

Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender, The

Treaty of Chance, The

Youth Outloud!

Simon and I: Steps for the Future

(aka: Le Traité du Hasard)

Zero Budget

SIS: The Perry Watkins Story

Trembling Before G-d

Zindagi Zindabad

Sitcom

Trey Billings Show, The

(aka: Long Live Life)

476 Queer

Films Listed by Genre

Action

Comedy

10 Violent Women

10 Attitudes

Bedrooms & Hallways

Ben Hur

101 Reykjavik

Being John Malkovich

Black Mama, White Mama

17 Rooms (or What Do Lesbians

Belle al Bar (aka: Belles at the Bar)

Bloody Mama

Do in Bed?)

Belle époque

Caged Fury

24 Nights

Below the Belt

Cecil B Demented

4pm

Best In Show

Cleopatra Jones

Acting on Impulse

Best Way, The

Hidden Assassin (aka: The Shooter)

(aka: Eyes of a Stranger)

(aka: La Meilleure façon de marcher)

Hired to Kill

Adam’s Rib

Better than Chocolate

Johanna, D’Arc of Mongolia

Addicted to Love

Beware a Holy Whore

(aka: Joan of Arc of Mongolia)

(aka: Boku wa koi ni muchu)

(aka: Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte)

Killer, The

Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of

Beyond Gravity

(aka: Die Xue Shuang Xiong)

the Desert, The

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk, The

After Hours

Beyond Therapy

Love in a Women’s Prison

After the Break (1998)

Big Business

(aka: Diario Segreto da un

Airport

Billy Turner’s Secret

Carcere Femminile)

Algie the Miner

Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss

Naked Killer

All About My Mother

Biloxi Blues

(aka: Chiklo gouyeung)

(aka: Todo sobre mi madre)

Birdcage, The

Portland Street Blues

All Men are Liars

Birthday Time

Raising Heroes

(aka: Goodnight Irene)

Bisexual Kingdom, The

Set It Off

All Out Comedy

Black Lizard (aka: Kurotokage)

Siege (aka: Self Defense)

All Over the Guy

Blair Princess Project, The

Story of PuPu, The

All the Queens Men

Blazing Saddles

(aka: PuPu No Monogatari)

All the Rage

Block Party

Switchblade Sisters

Alles Wird Gut

Blue Haven

Swordsman II (aka: Xiao ao jiang

(aka: Everything Will Be Fine)

Bound and Gagged: A Love Story

hu zhi dong fang bu bai)

American Fabulous

Bounty, The

Swordsman III: The East is Red

American Slices

Box, The

(aka: Dung fong bat baai 2: fung

Among Others

Boy Germs

wan joi hei)

Angels!

Boy Next Door

Thelma and Louise

Anniversary, The (1968)

Boychick

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Anniversary, The (1995)

Boyfriends (1995)

Vendetta

Any Wednesday

Boyfriends (1999)

Willie Dynamite

Anything Once

Boys’ Night Out

Woman Hunt

Apariencias

Boys of Cell Block Q

Women in Cages

Arabian Nights

Breaking up Really Sucks

(aka: Women’s Penitentiary III)

(aka: Il Fiore delle mille e una notte)

Britney Baby - One More Time

Yo Yo Gang

As Good As It Gets

Broadway Damage

Ashley 22

Broadway Melody, The

Animation

Atomic Sake

Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic

Attack of the Giant Moussaka, The

Comedy, The

Achilles

B.U.C.K.L.E.

Bubbeh Lee and Me

Green Pubes

Bad Brownies

Bubbles Galore!

Jeffery’s Hollywood Screen Trick

Badass Supermama

Buck House

Kizuna Volume 1 & 2

Bar Girls

Buckeye and Pinto

Mujeria

Barbarella

But, I’m a Cheerleader

Pony Glass

Bare

Butch Camp

Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie

Bargain Lingerie

Butcher’s Wife, The

(aka: Shôjo kakumei Utena:

Beautiful Thing

Butter & Pinches

Adolescence mokushiroku)

Because the Dawn

By Design

Bedazzled

Cage aux Folles II, La

Action, Animation & Comedy 477

Cage aux Folles III, La

Dear Boys (aka: Lieve Jongens)

Female Trouble

Cage aux Folles, La

Deathtrap

Fete des Peres, La (aka: Dad’s Day)

Calamity Jane

Derrière, Le (aka: From Behind)

Final Programme, The

California Suite

Desperate Living

(aka: The Last Days of Man on Earth)

Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?

Desperate Remedies

Finding North

Can’t Stop Dancing

Diane Linkletter Story, The

Fingered!

Can’t Stop the Music

Different for Girls

First Comes Love (1997)

Can’t You Take a Joke?

Different Story, A

First Love and Other Pains

Car Wash

Ding Dong

Fisher King, The

Cat and the Canary, The

Dirty Fingernails

Flawless

Cater Waiter

Does Your Mother Know?

Flesh (aka: Andy Warhol’s Flesh)

Caught Looking

Dog’s Dialogue

Florida Enchantment, A

Cecil B Demented

(aka: Colloque de chiens)

Fluffer, The

Celestial Clockwork

Domestic Bliss

Fontvella’s Box

(aka: Mecaniques Celestes)

Dona Herlinda and Her Son

Forms and Motifs

Certain Grace, A

(aka: Doña Herlinda y su hijo)

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Chained Girls

Doom Generation

Franchesca Page

Charlie

Double Entente

Frankie and Johnny

Chastity

Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde

Freebie and the Bean

Children of Hannibal

Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde

Freebird

(aka: Figli di Annibale)

Dr T & the Women

French Twist (aka: Gazon Maudit)

Chocolate Babies

Drag Attack

Friends and Family

Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town

Drama in Blonde

Fucked in the Face

Chosen Family, The

Dreaded Experimental Comedies:

Full Monty, The

Chuck and Buck

How to Lessons, Body Rhythms,

Fun Down There

Chutney Popcorn

My New Lover, The

Funny Felix (aka: Dróle de Félix;

City of Lost Souls

Dyke Blend

The Adventures of Felix)

(aka: Stadt der Verlorenen Seelen)

Dykes and Their Dogs

Gang Girls 2000

Clancy Street Boys

Eagle Shooting Heroes, The

Garbo Talks

Clancy’s Kitchen

(aka: Sediu yinghung tsun tsi

Gaudi Afternoon

Clinic, The

dung sing sai tsau)

Gay Deceivers, The

Closet, The (aka: Le Placard)

Early Frost, An (2000)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Closets Are for Clothes

Eat the Rich

Get Over It

Club de Femmes

Echte Kerle (aka: Regular Guys)

Get the Bowheads

(aka: The Women’s Club; Girl’s Club)

Ed Wood

Get Your Stuff

Coffee Date

Edge of Seventeen (aka: Edge of 17)

Ginger Beer

Cold Footsies

Eika Katappa

Girl in Every Port, A

Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts, A

Eine Tunte zum Dessert

Girl King

Conception

(aka: A Fairy for Dessert)

Girl Power

Confessions of a Window Cleaner

Englishman Abroad, An

Girl Stroke Boy

Confusion of Genders

Entertaining Mr Sloane

Girlfriends (1993)

(aka: La confusion des genres)

Escalier C

Go

Coonskin (aka: Street Fight)

Escorte, L’

Go Fish

Costa Brava

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Going West

Crazy Richard

Evening Dress

Good Citizen: Betty Baker

Criminal Lovers

(aka: Tenue de Soirée; Menage)

Good Family, The

(aka: Les Amants Criminels)

Excuse Me Duckie, But Lucas Loved Me

(aka: Thanksgiving Day)

Crocodiles in Amsterdam

(aka: Perdona Bonita, pero Lucas

Goodbye Girl, The

(aka: Krokodillen in Amsterdam)

me queria a mi)

Gotta Have Heart (aka: Ba’al Ba’al Lev)

Curse of the Queerwolf

Fag Hag

Grapefruit

Daisies (aka: Sedmikrásky)

Fairy Who Didn’t Want to Be a

Grass is Greener, The

Dallas Doll

Fairy, The

Grief

Danger Girl, The

Family Pack (aka: Que Faisaient les

Gypsy 83

Dark Habits (aka: Entre tinieblas)

Femmes Pendant que L’homme

Gypsy Boys

Das Trio (aka: The Trio)

Marchait sur la Lune?)

Hairspray

David Searching

Fanci’s Persuasion

Happy Birthday Gemini

Day the Fish Came Out, The

Fearless Vampire Killers, The

Happy Texas

(aka: Otan ta psaria vgikan sti steria)

(aka: Dance of the Vampires)

Harlequin Exterminator

Deal, The

Female Misbehavior

He Bop!

478 Comedy

He’s a Woman, She’s a Man

Kiss Me Guido

Men Men Men

(aka: Gum gee yuk yip)

Kissing Jessica Stein

(aka: Uomini uomini uomini)

He’s My Girl

Km. 0 (aka: Kilometro cero)

Mi Novia El

Heat

Labyrinth of Passion

Mirror, Mirror (aka: Lille spejl)

Heatwave

(aka: Laberinto de pasiones)

Modesty Blaise

Hell For Leather

Lady

Morris Loves Jack

Her Life as a Man

Lady in Waiting, The

Mr Christie

Her Urge

Ladybugs

Mrs Doubtfire

Heterosexual Agenda, The

Lakme Takes Flight

Multiple Maniacs

Heterosexuality

Last Married Couple in America, The

My Addiction

High Heels (aka: Tacones lejanos)

Late Bloomers

My Best Friend’s Wedding

High Tech Rice

Latin Boys Go To Hell

My Body

Hit and Runway

Laura

My Cousin Mike

Home for the Holidays

Lavender Tortoise

My Father is Coming

Home You Go

Law of Desire (aka: La Ley del Deseo)

My First Suit

Homo Heights (aka: Happy Heights)

Leave It!

My Hustler

Homo Promo

Lesbian Bed Death: Myth or Epidemic

My Pal Rachid

Hooking Up

Let Me Die, Again

My Summer Vacation

Hotel New Hampshire, The

Lez B Friends: A Biker Bitch Hate Story

Myra Breckinridge

I Became a Lesbian and So Can You

Lez Be Friends

Naked in New York

I Think I Do

Lie Down with Dogs

Naya Zamana

Impossible on Saturday

Life’s a Butch!

Neurosia: 50 Years of Perversity

Impromptu

Lip Gloss

Never Met Picasso

In & Out

Little Bit of Lippy, A

New Women, The

Incredibly True Adventures of Two

Live Flesh (aka: Carne Trémula)

Next Best Thing, The

Girls in Love, The

Live Nude Girls

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

Inn Trouble

Living End, The

Nice Girls Don’t

Inside Monkey Zetterland

Lonely without You

Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, The

Inside Out

Lonesome Cowboys

Nightwork

Inspecteur Lavardin

Long Awaited Pleasure

Norman, is that You?

Interviews With My Next Girlfriend

Loose Connections

Not Alone: A Hallowe’en Romance

Irma Vep

Loot

Notorious C.H.O.

Iron Ladies, The (aka: Sa tree lex)

Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel

Oh Baby, A Baby! (aka: Zwei

Is Mary Wings Coming?

Love and Human Remains

Frauen, ein Mann und ein Baby)

It Wasn’t Love

Love and Other Catastrophes

Okoge

It’s a Queer World

Love in Progress (aka: Amori in corso)

Olga’s Girls

It’s in the Water

Love Letter, The

One Small Step

Jeffrey

Love Ltd.

Only When I Laugh

Jodie Promo, The

Love Machine, The

Outrageous!

Joe-Joe

Love=ME3

Override

Joey Breaker

Love! Valour! Compassion!

P. S. Your Cat is Dead

Joggernaught

Loved One, The

Party Favor, The

Julian Clary - The Mincing

Loverville 2: The Honeymoon

Passed Away

Machine Tour

Low-Fat Elephants

Peccatum Mutum (aka: The Silent Sin)

Just Desserts

Lust in the Dust

Pedagogue

Just like a Woman

Lycanthrophobia

Peoria Babylon

Just One of the Girls

M.U.F.F. Match

Pepi, Luci and Bom

(aka: Anything for Love)

Ma Vie (aka: My Life)

Peppermills

Just One of the Guys

Mad, Bad and Barking

Peter’s Friends

Just One Time

Madagascar Skin

Pillow Talk

Justine’s Film

Madam Wang’s

Pink Angels, The

(aka: Le Film de Justine)

Made in Heaven

Pink Flamingos

Karen Black Like Me

Magic Christian, The

Pink Video: Out-Rageously Pink, The

Keep it Up, Jack! (aka: Auntie)

Making of Monsters

Play Dead

Kicking On

Man of the Year

Playing the Part

Kika

Manhattan

Politics of Fur, The

Killer Condom

Mannequin

Polyester

(aka: Kondom des Grauens)

Match that Started My Fire, The

Pourquoi Pas Moi? (aka: Why Not Me?)

Kinsey 3, The

Meeting of Two Queens

Comedy 479

Pretty Baby (aka: Maybe...Maybe

Staircase

Twinkle Toes

Not; Der Bewegte Mann; The

Star Maps

Twisted

Most Desired Man)

Straight Agenda, The

Two Girls and a Baby

Private Benjamin

Straight from the Suburbs

Two Point Five

Privates on Parade

Straight in the Face

Two Roads

Privilege

Such a Crime

Up!

Psycho Beach Party

Suddenly Last Summer (1991)

Up the Academy

Pump

Sum of Us, The

Urinal (aka: Pissoir)

Punks

Superdyke

Vegas in Space

Queen’s Cantonese Conversational

Surrender Dorothy

Velvet Goldmine

Course, The

Switch (1991)

Very Funny

Queens Logic

Sylvia Scarlett

Victor/Victoria

Rape of Ganymede, The

Talk of the Town (aka: Stadtgespräch)

Viktor/Viktoria

Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall

Taste

Violet’s Visit

Reaching for the Moon

Taxi to Cairo

Virgin Larry, The

Red Label

(aka: Taxi nach Kairo)

Virus Knows No Morals, A

Red Ribbon Blues

Taxi to the Toilet

(aka: Ein Virus kennt keine Moral)

Relax... It’s Just Sex

(aka: Taxi zum Klo)

Visitors

Rescuing Desire

Tell Me No Lies

Waiting

Rhythm & Blues

Tell Me Why: The Epistemology of Disco

Was Sie Nie Über Frauen Wissen Wollten

Ritz, The

Terry and Julian (Vol. 1 and 2)

(aka: All You Never Wanted to

Rocky Horror Picture Show, The

This Is Not a Very Blank Tape Dear

Know about Women)

Roy Cohn / Jack Smith

This Marching Girl Thing

Watching Lesbian Porn

Safe is Desire

Three of Hearts

Water Drops on Burning Rocks

Salome’s Last Dance

Three on a Match

(aka: Gouttes d’Eau sur Pierres

Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers

Three to Tango

Brûlantes)

Scenes from the Class Struggle in

Threesome

Wavelengths

Beverly Hills

Throwback

Wax Me

Scream, Teen, Scream

(aka: Spike of Bensonhurst)

We Think the World of You

Secret Policeman’s Private Parts, The

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Wedding Banquet, The

Secrets

Thundercrack!

(aka: Hsi yen)

Sex Monster, The

Tillsammans (aka: Together)

Wedding Video, The

Shadey

Titanic 2000

Weeki Wachee Girls

Shame No More

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Every-

Weiner Brut

Shantay

thing, Julie Newmar

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

She Don’t Fade

Too Much Sun

(aka: Qué he hecho yo para

Shoplifting Chanel

Too Outrageous!

merecer esto?!! )

Sister Louise’s Discovery

Tootsie

What’s Cooking?

Sitcom

Torch Song Trilogy

When the Cat’s Away

Size ‘Em Up

Totally Confused

(aka: Chacun Cherche Son Chat)

Skin and Bone

Touchables, The

Who’s the Woman, Who’s the Man

Skud

Traditional Family Vampires

Why Not! (aka: Pourquoi Pas!)

Slaves to the Underground

Tragedy of Samantha Biggle and the

Willy/Milly (aka: Something Special)

Sleep Come Free Me

Twins, The

Withnail and I

Snatch it

Tragic But True

Without You I’m Nothing

Soft Hearts (aka: Pusong Mamon)

Transanimals

Woman on Top

Some Like It Hot

Treasure Island

Women in Revolt

Some Prefer Cake

Treaty of Chance, The

Wonder Boys, The

Something for Everyone

(aka: Le Traité du Hasard)

World According to Garp, The

(aka: Black Flowers for the Bride)

Trevor

Wrong Son, The

Somewhere in the City

Trey Billings Show, The

Yellow Fever

Sonny Boy

Trick

You Are Not Alone

Sordid Lives

Trip, The

(aka: Du er ikke alene)

Sotto Sotto

True Blue Camper

You’ve Had Worse Things in Your Mouth

(aka: Softly, Softly; Sotto... sotto...

Turnabout

Your Heart is All Mine

strapazzato da anomala passione)

Twin Cheeks: Who Killed the

Zazie dans le Métro

Special Guest Star

Homecoming King?

Zero Patience

Sprinter, The

Twinkle (aka: Kira Kira Hikaru)

Zorro, the Gay Blade

480 Comedy

Beauty Before Age

Chinese Characters

Documentary

Because this is About Love

Choosing Children

Beefcake

Chop Suey

101 Rent Boys

Before Stonewall: The Making of a

Chrissy

2 or 3 Things But Nothing for Sure

Gay and Lesbian Community

Chuck Solomon: Coming of Age

21st Century Nuns

Benjamin Smoke

Cinema Fouad

90 Miles

Best of Out and Out on Tuesday, The

Close To Home

99% Woman

Better Dead than Gay

Closer

About Vivien

Beyond the Catwalk: The Search

Closet Space

Absolutely Positive

for Mr Gay Australia 2000

Closets Are Health Hazards

Across the Rubicon

Bigger Splash, A

Cockettes, The

Actions Speak Louder than Words

Bill Called William, A

Come As You Are

Adventures in the Gender Trade

Bit of Scarlett, A

Coming Home

After Stonewall

Bite Me Again

Coming Out (1972)

After the Bath

Black Is... Black Ain’t

Coming Out, Coming Home:

After the Break (1992)

Black Nations/Queer Nations?

Asian and Pacific Islander Family Stories

After the War You Have to Tell

Black Sheep

Coming Out of the Iron Closet

Everyone about the Dutch Gay

Blank Point: What is Transsexualism?, The

Coming Out under Fire

Resistance Fighters

Bloodsisters: Leather Dykes and S&M

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

Age of Dissent

Blue Boys

Companions: Tales from the Closet

AIDS

Body without Soul

Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter

AIDS Show: Artists Involved with

Bolo! Bolo!

Comrades in Arms

Death and Survival, The

Bombay Eunuch

Confessions of a Pretty Lady

AIDS: Words from One to Another

Boots, Boobs and Bitches: The Art

Connections: Gay Aboriginal Men

Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a

of G. B. Jones

in Sydney

Serial Killer

Border Line...Family Pictures

Could Be Worse

Alias

Boy Girl

Creature

All about my Father

Boy Named Sue, A

Crimes of Passion

(aka: Alt om min Far)

Boy Next Door? A Profile of Boy George

Critical Mass: Gay Games Amsterdam

All Girl Action: The History of

Boys from Brazil, The

Crossing, The (aka: La Traversée)

Lesbian Erotica

Boys in the Backyard

Cruising in the Channels

All God’s Children

Boys of Manchester, The

Daddy and the Muscle Academy

Alone Together: Young Adults

Bradfords Tour America, The

Daddy & Papa

Living with HIV

Brandon Teena Story, The

Dads (aka: Papas)

Alternative Conceptions

Breaking the Silence

Dads Wanted

Always Walter! An Inner View of

Brian Epstein Story, The

Daisy Chain Project, The

Walter Larrabee

Bright Eyes

Danny

Ambiguous Feeling, An

Brincando el Charco: Portrait of a

Dark and Lovely, Soft and Free

Among Good Christian Peoples

Puerto Rican

(aka: Nega Do Cabelo Duro)

Amos Gutman, Filmmaker

Broadcast Tapes of Dr Peter, The

Darker Side of Black, The

(aka: Amos Gutman, Bamay Kolnoa)

But I Was a Girl: The Story of

Darkness before Dawn

Anatomy of Desire

Frieda Belinfante

Daughter of Dykes

Andy Warhol and His Work

Butterflies on the Scaffold

Day I Decided to be Nina, The

Annie Sprinkle’s Herstory of Porn:

(aka: Mariposas en el andiamo)

De Colores

Reel to Real

By the Dawn’s Early Light

Dear Jesse

Apostles of Civilised Vice

Call Me Your Girlfriend

Dear Rock

Are You Greedy?

Call to Witness

Deep Inside Clint Star

Armistead Maupin is a Man I

Camp Lavender Hill

Desire (1989)

Dreamt Up

Cancer in Two Voices

Destiny’s Children

Army of Lovers: or Revolt of the Perverts

Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst Is

Destroying Angel

Art of Cruising Men, The

Your Waffen

Devil in the Holy Water, The

Avenge Tampa

Castro, The

Different Corner, A

B. D. Women

Caught in the Crossfire

Different Kind of Black Man, A

Ballot Measure 9

Celluloid Closet, The

Different Shades of Pink

Battle of Tuntenhaus

Changing Our Minds: The Story of

Dirty Laundry (1995)

Be Careful What Kind of Skin You

Dr Evelyn Hooker

Divine Trash

Pull Back, You Never Know

Chicks in White Satin

Double Trouble

What Kind of Head Will Appear

Children of the Regime

Dragtime

China Dolls

Drama Queen

Documentary 481

Dream Girls

Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay

Hunting Season, The

Drop Dead Georgeous: The Power

Movement

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

of HIV Positive Thinking

Gay Cuba

(aka: Ich will nicht nur, daß ihr mich liebt)

Drugs ‘R’ Us

Gay Games

I Don’t Wanna Be a Boy

Dry Kisses Only

Gay & Gray in New York City

I Exist: Voices From the Lesbian

Dykes and Tykes

Gay Sera Sera

and Gay Middle Eastern

Educate Your Attitude

Gay Tape: Butch and Femme

Community

Eileen is a Spy

Gay USA

I Know a Place

Ellen DeGeneres: The Beginning

Gay Voices, Gay Legends

I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life

Elton John: Tantrums and Tiaras

Gay Voices, Gay Legends 2

of Marlon Riggs

Emergence

Gay Youth

I’ll Be Your Mirror

Erotica: A Journey into Female Sexuality

Gay’ze in Wonderland

I’m the One that I Want

Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus

Gaymes, The

If She Grows Up Gay

Mann Story

Gendernauts

Ifti

Execution of Wanda Jean, The

Georgie Girl

Immigration

Exiles of Love

Gertrude Stein: When You See This

Improper Conduct

Eyes of Tammy Faye, The

Remember Me

(aka: Mauvaise Conduite)

F2M

Get Bruce

In Bed with Madonna

Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay

Get Out

(aka: Madonna: Truth or Dare)

Pornography, The

Ghost of Roger Casement, The

In Pursuit of Prince/ess Charming

Family Fundamentals

Girls in Boy’s Bars

In the Best Interests of the Children

Family Values

Girls Who Like Girls

In the Flesh (2000)

Family Values: An American

Gladys, A Cuban Mother

Indecent Acts

Tragedy

God, Gays and the Gospel

It’s a Boy! Journeys from Female to Male

Fassbinder’s Women

God, Sreenu & Me

It’s Elementary: Talking about Gay

Fated to be Queer

Golden Threads

Issues in School

Fear of Love

Got 2 B There

It’s My Life

Feed Them to the Cannibals!

Greetings from Out Here

It’s Not Unusual: A Lesbian and

Female Closet, The

Greetings from Washington

Gay History

Fiction and Other Truths: A Film

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

It’s Personal

about Jane Rule

Habit

Jake ‘Today I Became a Man’

Fight to Be Male, The

Hallelujah!

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

Fighting Chance

Hand on the Pulse

Jareena: Portrait of a Hijda

Fighting in South-West Louisiana

Happy Gordons, The

Jaundiced Eye, The

Finished

Hard Fat

Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an

Flesh and Paper

Haunted World of Edward D.

Unknown

Flowing Hearts: Thailand Fighting AIDS

Wood Jnr, The

Jenny

For Better or for Worse: A Celebra-

He’s Bald and Racist, He’s Gay and Fascist

Jim Loves Jack: The James Egan Story

tion of Enduring Relationships

Heaven-6-Box

Jodie: An Icon

For Straights Only

(aka: Tengoku No Muttsu No Hako)

Joey Goes to Wigstock

Forbidden Fruit

Heavy Petting (1988)

Journey to Kafiristan, The

Forbidden Fruit: Unfinished Stories

Heavy Petting (1991)

(aka: Die Reise nach Kafiristan)

of our Lives

Hell Bento!

Juggling Gender

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed

Hide and Seek

Just a Woman

Stories of Lesbian Lives

History Lessons

Just Because of Who We Are

Fostering

HIV Rollercoaster

Just Call Me Kade

Framed Youth (aka: Revolt of the

Home Sweet Home

Kalihgat Fetish

Teenage Perverts)

Homecoming Queen

(aka: Kalighat Athikatha)

Framing Lesbian Fashion

Homophobia in Hollywood

Kalin’s Prayer

Francis Bacon

Homophobia: That Painful Problem

Kamikaze Summer

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

Homosexuality: A Film for Discussion

Ke Kulana He Mahu: Remember-

Freddie Mercury: The Untold Story

Homosexuality and Lesbianism

ing a Sense of Place

Fresh Blood: A Consideration of

Homoteens

Keep the River on Your Right

Belonging

Hope Along the Wind: The Life of

Keep Your Laws off My Body

Friends in High Places

Harry Hay

Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood

Gaea Girls

Horse Dreams in BBQ Country

Babylon (aka: Kenneth Anger)

Gay Agenda, The

How I Love You (aka: Shou Bhebbak)

Killer in the Village

Gay Bombay

How to Female Ejaculate

Kim

How to Find Your Goddess Spot

Kind of Family, A

482 Documentary

Kings

Mandragora

On Being Gay: A Conversation

Kipling Trilogy, The

March on Washington, The

with Brian McNaughton

L Is for the Way You Look

Markova: Comfort Gay

On the Bus

Labor More than Once

Mary’s Place

One Nation Under God

Ladies Please!

Matt

One + One

Ladyboys

Maybe We’re Talking About a

One Shadowless Hour

Last Call at Maud’s

Different God

Opening Closet X: A Voice for

Last Coming Out, The

Mayhem

Queer Youth

Latin Queens: Unfinished Stories of

Memory Pictures

Orientations

Our Lives

Men Like Me

Original Schtick

Lavender Limelight: Lesbians in Films

Menmaniacs: The Legacy of Leather

Osaka Story

Leather

Metamorphosis: Man into Woman

Our Brothers, Our Sons

Legacies

Metamorphosis: The Remarkable

Our House: A Very Real Documentary

Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire Too

Journey of Granny Lee

Our Mom’s a Dyke

Lesbian Health Matters

Michael, a Gay Son

Our Private Idaho

Lesbian Physicians on Practice,

Militia Battlefield

Out At Work: America Undercover

Patients & Power

Minoru and Me

Out For a Change: Homophobia in

Lesbian Teenagers in High School

Moffie Called Simon, A

Women’s Sports

Lesbian Tongues

Moments: The Making of Claire of

Out in Africa

Lesbians Behaving Badly

the Moon

Out in Nature: Homosexual

Lesbians Go Mad in Lesbos

Montgomery Clift: The Prince

Behaviour in the Animal

Lesbians in the Pulpit

Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers

Kingdom

Lesbians Olé

Moscow Fags

Out in South Africa

Licensed to Kill

Most Unknowable Thing, The

Out in Suburbia

Life and Death on the A-List

Mum’s the Word

Out in the Open

Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, The

MURDER and murder

Out Loud

Life is Like a Cucumber

My Babushka

Out of the Closet, Off the Screen:

(aka: Affengeil)

My Feminism

The Life & Times of William

Life's Evening Hour

My Femme Divine

Haines

Lifetime Commitment: A Portrait

My Friend Su

Out of the Past

of Karen Thomson

My Girlfriend Did It

Out: Stories of Lesbian and Gay Youth

Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc’s

My Left Breast

Out: The Making of a Revolutionary

Adventures in Plastic

My Mother is an Alien

Outlaw

Limites

My Survival as a Deviant

Over Our Dead Bodies

Listening for Something

Myth of Father

Over the Rainbow: Parts 1 - 4

Live Nude Girls UNITE!

Nana, George and Me

Oy Gay

Live to Tell: The First Gay and

Naughty Little Peeptoe

P(l)ain Truth

Lesbian Prom in America

Need and Want

Pansexual Public Porn (aka: The

Living and Dying

Nice Girls Don’t Do It

Adventures of Hans and Del)

(aka: Ich Lebe Gern, Ich Sterbe Gern)

Night with Derek, A

Paradise Bent

Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit

Nijinsky

(aka: Fa’afafines in Paradise)

of Happiness

(aka: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky)

Paragraph 175

Living with AIDS

Nitrate Kisses

Parents of Gays

Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100

No Backup

Paris is Burning

Lone Star Hate

No Dumb Questions

Paris Was a Woman

Long Time Comin’

No Rewind

Party Monster

Looking for a Space

No Sad Songs

Party Safe with DiAna and Bambi

Looking for Common Ground

Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien

Paul Cadmus: Enfant Terrible at 80

Lorenza

(aka: No Regret)

Paul Monette: The Brink of

Losing Lois

Not All Parents are Straight

Summer’s End

Love and Marriage

Not Angels, But Angels

Pencas de Bicuda

Love Makes a Family: Gay Parents

Not Just Passing Through

Personal Best (1991)

in the ’90s

Nuestra Salud: Violencia Domestica

Personals

Love Story: Berlin 1942, A

O Boys: Parties, Porn & Politics, The

Perverted Justice

Lust and Liberation

Off the Straight and Narrow: Lesbians,

Peter Allen: The Boy from Oz

Mai’s America

Gays, Bisexuals and Television

Pierre et Gilles, Love Stories

Mama, I Have Something to Tell You

Oliver

Pink Triangle: A Study of Prejudice

Man in the Irony Mask, The

On Becoming

Against Gays & Lesbians

Man Who Drove with Mandela, The

Place of Rage, A

Documentary 483

Playing Gay

Sambal Belacan in San Francisco

Spot the Lesbian

Please Don’t Stop: Lesbian Tips for

Sando to Samantha: The Art of Dikvel

Staceyann Chin - A Poetry Slammer

Givin’ and Gettin’ It

Sari Red

Stand Together

Plushies & Furries

Scenes from a Queer Planet

Star is Porn, A

Poisoned Blood

Scent Uva Butch

Steers and Queers

Polskiseks

School Fag

Stepping Out

Portion of a Lady

School’s Out: Lesbian and Gay Youth

Stiff Sheets

Portrait of Jason

Scout’s Honor

Still Sane

Positiv

Search for Intimacy, The

Stolen Moments

Positive Story (aka: Sipur Hiyuvi)

See How They Run

Stonewall 25: Voices of Pride and Protest

Pride Divide

Self-Destruction of Gia, The

Storm in a Teacup

Pride in Puerto Rico

Sex 121 and the Gulag

Storme: The Lady of the Jewel Box

Pride, Politics and Pissheads

Sex and Balls

Straight Down the Aisle: Confes-

Private Wars

Sex and the Sandinistas

sions of Lesbian Bridesmaids

Queen: Marianne Hoppe, The

Sex and the Single Gene?

Straight for the Money: Interviews

(aka: Die Königin: Marianne Hoppe)

Sex Becomes Her: The True Life

with Queer Sex Workers

Queen of the Whole Wide World

Story of Chi Chi LaRue

Straight from the Heart: Gay and

Queen, The

Sex Change: Shock! Horror! Probe!

Lesbian Children

Queens Don’t Lie

Sex, Drugs and Democracy

Strange Life and Death of Dr

(aka: Tunten Lügen Nicht)

Sex Is...

Turing, The

Queer Geography: Mapping Our

Sex is Sex: Conversations with Male

Strip Jack Naked: Nighthawks II

Identities

Prostitutes

Summer in My Veins (Director’s Cut)

Queer Son

Sex Wars

Sunflowers

Queercore: A Punk-u-mentary

Sex/Life in LA

Superstar: The Life and Times of

Questioning Faith

Sexing the Label: Love and Gender

Andy Warhol

Rachel Williams Documentary

in a Queer World

Surviving Friendly Fire

Radical Harmonies

Sexual Identity

Susana

Rainmakers - Zimbabwe

Sexual Orientation: Reading

Sweet Boy

Reaching Out to Lesbian, Gay and

Between the Labels

Swimming Upstream: A Year in the

Bisexual Youth

Shades of Gray

Life of Karen and Jenny

Real Ellen Story, The

Shatzi is Dying

Sydney - Living with Difference

Red Rain

She Even Chewed Tobacco

Symposium: Ladder of Love

Reframing AIDS

She Wears Cufflinks

Tangible Fathers

Relationships

She’s Real Worse than Queer

Tell Me the Truth About Love

Reno Finds Her Mom

Shinjuku Boys

Tender

Resident Alien

Shooting Porn

Terms of Conception

Return of Sarah’s Daughters, The

Show Me Your Pic

Thank God I’m a Lesbian

Revolutions Happen like Refrains

Signed: Lino Brocka

That’s a Family

in a Song

Silence=Death (aka: Die AIDS-

Theme: Murder

Rewriting the Script: Love Letter to

Trilogie: Schweigen=Tod)

They Are Lost to Vision Altogether

Our Families

Silent Pioneers

This is Dedicated: Grieving When a

Rice and Potatoes

Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender, The

Partner Dies

Right to be Different, The

Silverlake Life: The View From Here

Three Drags and a Wedding

Right Wing, Right Off, Right

Simon and I: Steps for the Future

Ties that Bind, The

Hons, Right?

Sir: Just a Normal Guy

Tim Miller: Loud and Queer

Righteous Babes, The

SIS: The Perry Watkins Story

Time Zones

Rights and Reactions

Sissy

Times of Harvey Milk, The

Ritual Nation

Sister Smile (aka: Suor Sorriso)

Tiny and Ruby: Hell Drivin’ Women

Rock Hudson’s Home Movies

Skin Complex

To My Women Friends

Rock the Boat

Sleep in a Nest of Flames

Tom

Rough Sketch of a Spiral

Sluts and Goddesses Video Workshop

Tomboychik

(aka: Rasen No Sobyo)

Snake Boy, The

Tongues Untied

Rules of the Game

Some Aspect of a Shared Lifestyle

Toward Intimacy

Running Gay: Lesbian and Gay

Some Ground to Stand On

Toxic Queen

Participation in Sport

Soufflé

Transexual Menace

Ruthie & Connie: Every Room in

Southern Comfort

Transformation, The

the House

Speaking for Ourselves

Transformers/AIDS

Sacred Lies, Civil Truths

Spikes and Heels

Transit: Adventures of a Boy in the

Sadness

Split: Portrait of a Drag Queen

Big City

Salt Mines, The

(aka: Split: William to Chrysis)

Transsexual Journey, A

484 Documentary

Trappings of Transhood

XXXY

Älskande par (aka: Loving Couples)

Trembling Before G-d

Yang±Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

Alternative, The

Treyf

You Don’t Know Dick: Courageous

Amazing Grace (aka: Hessed Mufla)

True Inversions

Hearts of Transsexual Men

American Beauty

Truth About Gay Sex, The

Your Brother, My Tidda

American Gigolo

Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of

Your Mother Wears Combat Boots

Amerikanos

a Lesbian Marriage

Youth Outloud!

Amic/Amat (aka: Beloved/Friend)

Union in Wait, A

Zero Budget

Amigos (aka: Friends)

Venus Boyz

Among Men

Veronica 4 Rose

Drama

Amor Maldito

Vicious

Amorosa

Video 28

100 Days Before the Command

Anatomy of a Hate Crime

Village Voices

(aka: Sto dnej do prikaza)

And the Band Played On

Vintage: Families of Value

2 by 4 (aka: 2 x 4)

And Then Came Summer

Viva Eu!

2 Seconds

And/Or=One

Voices from the Front

(aka: 2 secondes; Deux secondes)

Anders als die Anderen

Voicing the Legacy

27 Pieces of Me

(aka: Different from Others)

Wallowitch & Ross: This Moment

$30

Angelos (aka: Angel)

We Are Family

’68

Anguished Love

We Are Transgenders

99 Women (aka: Isle of Lost

Animal Factory

We Were Marked with a Big A

Women; 99 mujeres)

Anita: Dances of Vice

We’re Funny that Way

A.K.A

(aka: Anita: Tanze des Lasters)

We’ve Been Framed

Abandoned (aka: Torzók)

Anna und Edith

Webcam Boys

Above the Sea

Anna und Elisabeth

Welcome to Africville

(aka: Au essus de la Mar)

Anne Trister

Well Sexy Women

Absolution of Anthony, The

Another Country

Wellness

Abuse

Another Way (aka: Egymásra Nézve)

West Coast Crones

Abysses, Les

Antonia’s Line

What a Pretty Sister

Acla (aka: La Discesa di Aclà a

Anxiety of Inexpression and the

What is the Relationship between

Floristella)

Otherness Machine, The

Rosa von Praunheim and the

Acquiring a Taste for Raffaella

Apart From Hugh

Male Strippers of San Francisco?

Adam

Apartments

What You Take for Granted

Adieu Bonaparte

Aqueles Dois

When Boys Fly

Adiós Roberto

Arch Brown’s Top Story

When Shirley Met Florence

Adjuster, The

Arrangement, An

When the Penny Drops

Adventures of Sebastian Cole, The

As Is

Whether You Like It or Not: The

Advise and Consent

Asa Branca: A Brazilian Dream

Story of Hedwig

Affairs of Love, The

Astragale, L’

White People’s Business

(aka: Las Cosas del Querer)

At Home

Who Happen to be Gay

Affirmations

Audit

Who’s Afraid of Project 10?

Afflicted

Away with Words (aka: Kujaku)

Why am I Gay?

After the Game

baba-It (aka: At Home)

Wigstock: The Movie (1987)

Afternoon Breezes

Baby Steps

Wigstock: The Movie (1995)

(aka: Kaze tachi No Gogo)

Bad News Bachelors

William Burroughs: Commissioner

Agora

Balcony, The

of the Sewers

Aimée and Jaguar

Ballad of Reading Gaol

Willkommen im Dom

Alabaster Lions

Barry Lyndon

(aka: Welcome to the Dome)

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

Basic Necessities

Witches, Faggots, Dykes and

Alexandria... Why?

Basketball Diaries, The

Poofters

(aka: Iskanderija... lih?)

Beat

Woman to Woman

Alicia was Fainting

Beau Travail (aka: Good Work)

Women Like Us/Women Like That

Alive and Kicking (aka: Indian Summer)

Beautiful Dreamers

Women of Gold

Alkali, Iowa

Becoming Colette

Word is Out

All about Alice

Bed of Lies

Working Class Dykes from Hell

All Fall Down

Beethoven’s Nephew

World is Sick (sic), The

All of Me

(aka: Le Neveu de Beethoven)

Worthy Mothers

All Over Me

Before Night Falls

Woubi Chéri

All-American Story, An

Beguines, The

Wrecked for Life: The Trip &

Almost the Cocktail Hour

(aka: Le Rampart des Beguines)

Magic of Trocadero Transfer

Behind Glass

Drama 485

Behind Walls

Breaking the Surface

Claire

Bellas de Noche

Bright Spell

Claire of the Moon

Belle

(aka: L’Embellie)

Clay Farmers, The

Belle de Jour

Broken Branches (aka: Naeil Ui

Cleopatra’s Second Husband

Bent

Hyahae Hurunun Kang)

Clinic E

Berlin Affair, The

Buck House

Closing Numbers

(aka: Interno Berlinese)

Buddies

Coal Miner’s Granddaughter

Bertrand is Missing

Bugis Street

Coconut / Cane and Cutlass

(aka: Bertrand Disparu)

(aka: Yao jie huang hou)

Cold Lands, The

Best Man, The

Bungee Jumping of Their Own

(aka: Les Terres Froides)

(aka: Gore Vidal’s The Best Man)

(aka: Beonjijeonpeureul hada)

Colegas (aka: Pals)

Bete Noire

Burlesk King

Colonel Redl (aka: Oberst Redl)

Betsy, The

Burning Boy, The

Color Purple, The

Betty Anderson

Burning Secret

Come and Go

Between Two Women

Burnt Money (aka: Plata quemada;

Come Back to the Five and Dime,

Bezness

Burning Money)

Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

Biches, Les (aka: The Does)

Bus Riley’s Back in Town

Comfort of Strangers, The

Big Eden

Business of Fancydancing, The

Coming of Age

Big House, The

Busting

Coming Out (1989)

Bike Boy

Butley

Coming to Terms

Bird in the Hand

By Hook or By Crook

Common Flower, A

Bishonen...Beauty

c-l-o-s-e-r

Common Ground

(aka: Meishaonian zhi lian)

Cabaret

Company of Strangers, The

Bitter Moon

Caged

(aka: Strangers in Good Company)

Bittersweet

Caligula

Compromised Immunity

Black and White (aka: Noir et Blanc)

Came Out, It Rained, Went Back

Confession, The

Black Glove, The

in Again

Confessions of Felix Krull, The

Black Sheep Boy

Campfire (aka: Kampvuur)

(aka: Bekenntnisse des

Blessed Art Thou

Cap Tourmente

Hochstaplers Felix Krull)

(aka: A Question of Faith)

Caravaggio

Conformist, The

Blind Fairies

Caretaker, The (aka: The Guest)

(aka: Il Conformista)

(aka: Le Fate Ignoranti)

Carrington

Consenting Adult

Blind Moment, The

Cass

Consequence, The

Blond Man, The

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

(aka: Die Konsequenz)

Blood and Concrete

Cats, The (aka: Kattorna)

Conta Pra Mim (aka: Trust Me)

Blood Money

Caught

Conversation Piece (aka: Gruppo di

Bloodbrothers

Cavafy (aka: Kavafis)

famiglia in un interno)

(aka: A Father’s Love)

Celeste

Corpo, O (aka: The Body)

Blue Hour, The

Cha-Cha for the Fugitive, A

Corps Ouverts, Les

(aka: Die Blaue Stund)

(aka: Gai Tao-wan-je de ChaCha)

(aka: Open Bodies)

Blue Jeans

Chaero

Coup de Grace (aka: Der Fangschuss)

Blunt: The Fourth Man

Chain of Desire

Crash and Burn

Bob & Rose

Chained Heat

Creation of Adam, The

Body of a Poet: A Tribute to Audre

Chained Heat II

(aka: Sotvoreniye Adama)

Lorde 1934-1992, The

Chanel Solitaire

Cruel

Bombay Boys

Change

Cruising

BOMgaY

Change of Heart, A

Crush (1992)

Borderline

Change the Frame

Crush (2000)

Borstal Boy

Changing Face

Cynara: Poetry in Motion

Box, The

Chant d’Amour, Un

Dadshuttle, The

Boy like Many Others, A

Chasing Amy

Dakan

(aka: Un Ragazzo come Tanti)

Children’s Hour, The

Damned, The (aka: Gotterdammer-

Boys Don’t Cry

Chill Out

ung; La Caduta degli Dei)

Boys in the Band, The

Chocolate Babies

Danzón

Boys Next Door, The

Choirboys, The

Dark Sun: Bright Shade

Boys on the Side

Christine Jorgensen Story, The

Darling

Brad

Cicely

Darling International

Break of Day

Circuit

Daughters of the Sun

Breaking the Code

Citizen Cohn

Day for Night

(aka: La Nuit Américaine)

486 Drama

Days (aka: Giorni)

Elevation

Fourth Sex, The

Dead Boys’ Club, The

Emily and Gitta

(aka: Le Quatrième sexe)

Debutantes, The

Empty Bed, An

Fox and His Friends

Deaf Heaven

Enfants Terribles, Les

(aka: Faustrecht der Freiheit)

Death in the Family, A

(aka: The Strange Ones)

Fox, The

Death in Venice

Enter the Clowns

Foxfire

(aka: Morte a Venezia)

(aka: Choujue Dengchang)

French Dressing

Death in Venice, CA

Entre Nous (aka: Coup de Foudre)

(aka: Furenchi doressingu)

Deathwatch

Entwined

Fresh Kill

Defying Gravity

Équilibristes, Les

Freunde: The Whiz Kids

Deliverance

(aka: Walking a Tightrope)

Fried Green Tomatoes

Delta, The

Equus

Friend of Dorothy, A

Demons

Erika’s Passions

Friends Forever

Depart to Arrive

(aka: Erika’s Leidenschaften)

(aka: Venner for Altid)

(aka: Weggehen um Anzukommen)

Ernesto

Frisk

Desert Hearts

Erotique

From the Ashes

Deserter (aka: Lipotaktis)

Et L’Amore

From the Edge of the City

Desi’s Looking for a New Girl

Eve’s Daughters

(aka: Apo tin akri tis polis)

Desire (1999)

Evenings, The (aka: De Avonden)

Fruit Machine, The

Desperate Acquaintances

Everlasting Secret Family, The

(aka: Wonderland)

(aka: Desperate Bekjentskaper)

Everything in Between

Fuga, La (aka: The Escape)

Detective, The

Everything Relative

Full Blast

Devil’s Playground, The

Execution of Justice

Full Moon in New York

Devotion

Exploding Oedipus

(aka: Ren zai Niu Yue)

Diary of a Male Whore

Extramuros (aka: Beyond the Walls)

Full Speed (aka: À Toute Vitesse)

Different Kind of Love, A

F. is a Bastard (aka: F. est un salaud)

Fun

Dinner Guest, The

Family Affair, A (2001)

Fun with a Sausage (aka: L’Ingenue)

Diputado, El (aka: The Deputy)

Fantasy Dancer

Funeral Parade of Roses

Disco Years, The

Farewell My Concubine

(aka: Bara No Soretsu)

Disgraceful Conduct

(aka: Ba wang bie ji)

Future is Woman, The

Doctors’ Wives

Farewell, The (aka: Avskedet)

(aka: Il Futuro è Donna)

Dog Day Afternoon

Female Perversions

Gang of Four, The

Doing Time on Maple Drive

Film for Two

(aka: La Bande des Quatre)

Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die

Fire

Garden, The

(aka: N’Oublie pas que tu vas Mourir)

First Base

Gasp

Don’t Tell Anyone

First Breath

Gemini Affair, The

(aka: No Se Lo Digas a Nadie)

Fish & Elephant

Genesis Children, The

Doors Cut Down

(aka: Jin Nian Xia Tian)

Gertrude Stein and a Companion

Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun

Fixing Frank

Geschlecht in Fesseln: dei Sexualnot

Dozens, The

Flames of Passion

der Gefangenen (aka: Sex in Chains)

Drawing Girls

Flavor of Corn, The

Get Real

Dreamers of the Day

(aka: Il Sapore del Grano)

Getting It On

Dress Gray

Fleeing By Night (aka: Ye Ben)

Getting of Wisdom, The

Dresser, The

Flight of Fancy

Ghosts of the Civil Dead

Drift

Flirt

Gia

Drifting (aka: Nagu’a)

Flora’s Garment Bursting Into Bloom

Gilda

Drowning Lessons

Flow

Girl, The

Dry Cleaning (aka: Nettoyage à sec)

Flush

Girl Thing, A

Duffer

Food of Love

Girl with the Golden Eyes, The

e-male

For a Lost Soldier

(aka: La Fille aux yeux d’or)

Each Other (aka: Rega’im)

(aka: Voor een verloren soldaat)

Girlfriends (1978)

Early Frost, An (1985)

Forbidden Justice (aka: Short Eyes)

Girls Can’t Swim (aka: Les filles ne

East Palace West Palace

Forbidden Love of the Hero, The

savent par nager)

(aka: Dong Gong Xi Gong)

Forbidden Passion: Oscar Wilde the Movie

Glasses Break

Eban and Charley

Forever (1991)

Glen or Glenda

Eclipse

Forever Mary (aka: Mery per sempre)

Glider, The (aka: Le Planeur)

Edward II

Forgive & Forget

Goblin Market

Einstein of Sex: The Life and Work

Forsaken

Godass

of Dr Magnus Hirschfeld, The

Fortune and Men’s Eyes

Gods and Monsters

Elegant Criminal, L’ (aka: Lacenaire)

Forty Deuce

Gohatto (aka: Taboo)

Drama 487

Gold Diggers, The

Hush!

Johnny Eager

Good Father, The (aka: Fathers’ Rites)

I Am a Camera

Johnny Greyeyes

Goodbye Emma Jo

I Am a Man

Johns

Grace of God, The

I Am My Own Woman

Journey Among Women

Green Plaid Shirt

(aka: Ich Bin Meine Eigene Frau)

Journey of Jared Price, The

Groove on a Stanley Knife

I Am Not What You Want

Joys of Smoking, The

Group, The

I, Eugenia

Julia

Guardian of the Frontier

I Hate Faggy Fag Fag

Julie Johnson

(aka: Varuh Meje)

I Like You, I Like You Very Much

Jumping the Gun

Half Mongrel

(aka: Anata-Ga Suki Desu, Dai

Jupon Rouge, Le (aka: Manuela’s Loves)

Hamam: The Turkish Bath

Suki Desu)

Just for Fun

(aka: Steam)

I Love You Baby

Just the Two of Us

Hammer and Sickle (aka: Serp i molot)

I Love You, I’ll Kill You (aka: Ich

Kali’s Vibe

Hanging Garden, The

Liebe Dich, Ich Töte Dich)

Kamikaze Hearts

Happily Ever After

I Shot Andy Warhol

Kansas Anymore

(aka: Além da Paixão)

I, the Worst of All

Karmarama

Happy Birthday Gemini

(aka: Yo, la Peor de Todas)

Kesher Ir (aka: Urban Feel)

Happy Together

I Vitelloni (aka: The Young and the

Kevin’s Room

(aka: Cheun gwong tsa sit)

Passionate)

Khush

Hard God, A

I Want What I Want

Killing of Sister George, The

Harold and Hiroshi

I Will Not Think about Death Anymore

King and Country

Hate Crime

I’ll Love You Forever - Tonight

King Girl

Haunted Summer

I’m Starving

King of the City (aka: Club Life)

Head On (aka: Loaded)

I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing

Kings of the Road

Health Status Survey

Icarus

(aka: Im Lauf der Zeit)

Hearing Voices

Ice Palace, The

Kiss in the Snow, A

Heart Exposed, The

If

Kiss of the Spider Woman, The

(aka: La Coeur Découvert)

If All Goes Well I’ll Meet You on

Kiss the Boys and Make Them Die

Heart’s Root, The

the Next Train

Krámpack (aka: Nico & Dani)

(aka: A Raiz Do Coração)

If She Only Knew

Krays, The

Heavenly Creatures

If the Family Fits

L. I. E.

Hell’s Highway

If These Walls Could Talk 2

L-Shaped Room, The

Henry and June

Images

Lady in Cement

Hidden Child

Immacolata e Concetta - l’altra gelosia

Lan Yu

Hidden Injuries

In a Year of Thirteen Moons

Laramie Project, The

High Art

(aka: In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden)

Larry’s Visit

Higher Learning

In on Earth as It Is in Heaven

Last Bus Home, The

hITCH

In the Flesh (1997)

Last Emperor, The

Hold You Tight (aka: Yue Kuai Le)

In the Gloaming

Last Empress, The

Holding

In This House of Brede

(aka: Wei dai huang hou)

Holi: Festival of Fire

Incidental Journey

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Hollow Reed

(aka: Haijiao Tianya)

Last Island, The

Homme Blessé, L’

Infidel

Last Metro, The (aka: Le Dernier métro)

(aka: The Wounded Man)

Intimate Friendship, An

Last of England, The

Homme Que J’aime, L’

Intimates, The (aka: Ji Sor)

Last Song, The

(aka: The Man I Love)

Investigator, The

Latin Boys Go To Hell

Horror Vacui: The Fear of Emptiness

Iris

Laughing Policeman, The

(aka: Horror Vacui: Die Angst

It is Not the Homosexual Who is

Law of Desire (aka: La Ley del Deseo)

vor der Leere)

the Pervert but the Society in

Lawless Heart, The

Hotel New Hampshire, The

Which He Lives (aka: Nicht der

Leather Boys, The

Hours and Times, The

Homosexuelle ist pervers,

Leather Jacket Love Story

How Old is the River?

sondern die Situation, in der er lebt)

Legal Memory

(aka: Fuyu no Kappa)

It’s My Party

Legend of Lylah Clare, The

How to Kill Her

It’s That Age

Let’s Love Hong Kong

Hu-Du-Men (aka: Stage Door)

J’embrasse pas (aka: I Don’t Kiss)

(aka: Ho Yuk)

Hubo un Tiempo en que Los

Jackson: My Life Your Fault

Let’s Play Prisoners

Suenos Dieron Paso a Largas

Je, tu, il, elle

Lianna

Noches de Insomnio

Jerker

Liberace

Hungry Hearts

Jewel’s Darl

Liberace: Behind the Music

488 Drama

Life (aka: Containment; Out of the

Madras Eyes

Miracle Alley

Blue)

Magnolia

(aka: El Callejon de los Milagros)

Life and Death

Mahogany

Mob Queen

Life History of a Star

Maid of Honor

Montreal Main

Life is a Woman

Maiden Work

More Love

(aka: Zhizn-Zhenshchina)

Maids, The

More than Friends: The Coming

Life that We Dreamt, The

Making Love

Out of Heidi Leiter

(aka: Het Leven dat we Droomden)

Mala Noche (aka: Bad Night)

Morocco

Like Grains of Sand

Man in Her Life, The

Mountain King, The

(aka: Nagisa no Shindobaddo)

(aka: Ang lalaki sa buhay ni Selya)

Mountains of the Moon

Like It Is

Man is a Woman

Mull (aka: Mullaway)

Lilies (aka: Lilies - les Feluettes)

(aka: L’Homme est une femme

Muriel’s Parents Have Had it up to Here

Lilith

comme les autres)

(aka: Muriel fait le désespoir de

Liu Awaiting Spring

Man like Eva, A

ses parents)

Living End, The

(aka: Ein, Mann wie Eva)

Murmur of Youth

Living Out Loud

Man Man Woman Woman (aka:

(aka: Mei li zai chang ge)

Lola and Billy the Kid

NanNan NuNu; Men and Women)

Muscle

(aka: Lola and Bilidikid)

Man of No Importance, A

Music Lovers, The

Lonely Lady, The

Manila: In the Claws of Darkness

Must be the Music

Long Day Closes, The

(aka: Maynila: Sa mga kuko ng

My Beautiful Laundrette

Long Voyage Home, The

liwanag)

My Brother’s Keeper

Long Weekend, The

Manji

My Own Private Idaho

(aka: The Long Weekend (O’Despair))

(aka: All Mixed Up)

My Two Loves

Longtime Companion

Map of Sex and Love, The

Mystère Alexina, Le

Looking for Angel

(aka: Qingse ditu)

(aka: The Mystery of Alexina)

(aka: Tenshi No Rakuen)

Marble Ass

Naked Civil Servant, The

Looking for Mr Goodbar

(aka: Dupe od Mramora)

Naomi’s Legacy

Loose Ends

March in April

Nea: The Young Emmanuelle (aka: Nea)

Loss of Heat

Marching into Darkness

Neptune’s Rocking Horse

Loss of Innocence

Mare, Il (aka: The Sea)

Nervos de Aco

(aka: The Greengage Summer)

Marlene

(aka: Nerves Made of Steel)

Lost and Delirious

Martin Four

Nervous Energy

Lost Language of Cranes, The

Martirio (aka: Sufferance)

Never Look Back

Lot in Sodom

Mask of Desire (aka: Shades of Black)

Nietta’s Diary

Love and Death on Long Island

Mass Appeal

Night of Varennes, The

(aka: Amour et mort à Long Island)

Maurice

(aka: La Nuit de Varennes)

Love and Human Remains

Maybe I Can Give You Sex?

Night Out

Love is the Devil

Me and the Girls

Night Porter, The

Love Like Any Other, A

Meeting Magdalene

(aka: Il Portiere di notte)

(aka: Eine Liebe wie andere auch)

Memento Mori (aka: Yeogo Guidam II)

Night Trade

Love of a Man, The

Men in Love

Night Visions

(aka: Amor de hombre)

Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence

Nighthawks

Love/Juice

Metalguru

Nijinsky

Ludwig

Meteor and Shadow

Nine Days

Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King

(aka: Meteoro kai Skia)

No Exit

(aka: Ludwig: Requiem für einen

Metrosexuality

No Exit (aka: Huis Clos)

jungfräulichen König)

Midnight Cowboy

No One Sleeps

Lulu

Midnight Dancers

No Ordinary Love

Lunch with Eddie

(aka: Sibak)

Nocturne (1989)

Lune

Midnight Express

Nocturne (1990)

Luster

Midnight in the Garden of Good

None of the Above

Luv Tale, A

and Evil

Norang Mori 2

M Butterfly

Midwife’s Tale, The

(aka: Running Blue; Yellow Hair 2)

Ma Vie en Rose (aka: My Life in Pink)

Miguel/Michelle

North of Vortex

Macho Dancer

Mikaël (aka: Chained)

Not Love, Just Frenzy

Madame Sousatzka

Mike’s Murder

(aka: Mas Que Amor, Frenesi)

Mädchen in Uniform

Milou in May

November Moon

(aka: Girls in Uniform) (1931)

(aka: Milou en Mai; May Fools)

(aka: Novembermond)

Mädchen in Uniform

Minor Disturbances

Nowhere

(aka: Girls in Uniform) (1957)

Drama 489

Number 96

Personal Best (1982)

Reform School Girls

Nun, The (aka: La Religieuse)

Petals

Relax

Nunzio’s Second Cousin

Peter’s Friends

Rendez-vous d’Anna, Les

Object of My Affection, The

Phantom (aka: O Fantasma)

Replay (aka: La Répétition)

Ode

Phantom Pain

Resonance

Ode to Billy Joe

Philadelphia

Return to Go! (aka: Züruck Auf Los!)

Offering, The

Pianese Nunzio (aka: Fourteen in

Revoir Julie (aka: Julie and Me)

Oi Queer

May; Sacred Silence)

Richard’s Things

Oi! Warning

Piccadilly Pickups

Ritual

Olive Tree, The

Pillow Book, The

Rock Hudson

Olivia (aka: The Pit of Loneliness)

Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco

Rockwell

Olivier, Olivier

Place in the Sun, A

Roi Danse, Le

On Guard

Play It as It Lays

(aka: The King is Dancing)

ON_LINE

Pleasure Principle, The

Room of Words, The

Once Is Not Enough

Poetry for an Englishman

(aka: La Stanza della parole)

(aka: Jacqueline Susann’s Once Is

Point of Departure, A

Roommates

Not Enough)

Poison

Rose, The

Once upon a Time in the East

Pool Days

Rosebud

(aka: Il était une fois dans l’est)

Portrait of a Marriage

Rules of the Road

One of Them

Portrait of a Young Girl at the End

S.

One Small Step

of the ’60s in Brussels

Safe Journey

Only the Brave

(aka: Portrait d’une jeune fille de

Safe Place, A

Only When I Laugh

la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles)

Sagitario

Opposite of Sex, The

Possible Loves

Saint

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

(aka: Amores Possiveis)

Salmonberries

Ordinary Sinner

Postcards from America

Salon Kitty (aka: Madam Kitty)

Orlando

Postman (aka: Youchai)

Salut Victor!

Other Mothers

Potluck and the Passion, The

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

Other Side, The (aka: Del Otro Lado)

Presque Rien (aka: Come Undone;

Sand and Blood

Other Voices, Other Rooms

Almost Nothing)

(aka: De sable et de sang)

Otra Historia de Amour

Pretty Boy (aka: Smukke Dreng)

Satdee Nite

(aka: Another Love Story)

Prick Up Your Ears

Saturday Night at the Baths

Our Lady of the Assassins

Priest

Saturn’s Return

(aka: La Virgen de los sicarios)

Prince in Hell

Satyricon

Our Sons (aka: Too Little, Too Late)

(aka: Prinz in Holleland)

Sauve Qui Peut (aka: Slow Motion)

Out of Our Time

Prince of Tides, The

Savage Nights (aka: Les Nuits fauves)

Out of Season

Princesa

Score

Outcasts, The

Prisonnières

Scrubbers

(aka: Niezi; The Outsiders)

Privilege

Seashell and the Clergyman, The

Outtakes

Public Opinion

(aka: La Coquille et le Clergyman)

Pandora’s Box

Quai des Orfèvres (aka: Jenny Lamour)

Sebastian

(aka: Die Büchse der Pandora)

Queen Christina

Sebastiane

Paper Cranes

Queen of the Night

Second Awakening of Christa

Parallel Sons

(aka: La Reina de la Noche)

Klages, The (aka: Das Zweite

Parting Glances

Queer As Folk (1998)

Erwachen der Christa Klages)

Partners

Queer As Folk 2

Second Serve

Pasajes (aka: Passages)

Queer As Folk (2000)

Second Skin (aka: Segunda Piel)

Passengers

Queer Story, A (aka: Jilao Sishi)

Secret Ceremony

Passing Resemblance

Querelle

Seduction of Innocence

Passion of Remembrance, The

Quest for Love

Separate Peace, A

Past Caring

Question of Attribution, A

Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force

Peach

Question of Love, A

Sergeant, The

Peixe-Lua (aka: Moon-Fish)

Rachel, Rachel

Servant, The

Penitentiary

Rainbow, The

Serving in Silence: The Marguerite

Peony Pavilion

Rebel Rebel

Cammermeyer Story

(aka: Youyuan jingmeng)

Red Dirt

Set Me Free (aka: Emporte-moi)

Peony Pavilion, The

Red Shoe Diaries 3, The: Another

Seven Women

Perfect Son, The

Woman’s Lipstick

Sex Bytes

Performance

Reflections

Sex Warriors and the Samurai

Persona

Reflections in a Golden Eye

490 Drama

Sexe des étoiles, Le

Story of a Bad Boy, The

Things We Said Today

(aka: Sex of the Stars)

Story So Far, The

Things You Can Tell Just by

Shades

Straight to the Heart

Looking at Her

Shall We Dance

(aka: À Corps Perdu)

Third Sex, The

Shampoo Horns

Straightman

(aka: Anders als du und ich)

(aka: Cuernos de espuma)

Strange Fits of Passion

Thirst

Shanghai Panic (aka: Wo men hai pa)

Strange Love Affair, A

(aka: Törst; Three Strange Loves)

She Must Be Seeing Things

Strange One, The (aka: End as a Man)

This I Wish and Nothing More

Sherlock, Louise and Mina

Stranger Inside

(aka: Nincsen Nekem Vagyam Semmi)

Shifting Positions

Strawberry and Chocolate

This Special Friendship

Shinjuku Triad Society

(aka: Fresa y Chocolate)

(aka: Les Amitiés Particulières)

(aka: Shijuku Kuro Shakai)

Stray Dogs

Those Who Love Me Can Take the

Show Me Love (aka: Fucking Åmål)

Streamers

Train

Siberia

Strippers

Thousand Miles, A

Siegfried

Strung Up

Three (aka: Tatlo... magkasalo)

Sign of the Cross, The

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

Three Bewildered People (aka:

Silence, The (aka: Tystnaden)

Sugar and Spice

Three Bewildered People in the Night)

Silences

Sugar Sweet

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Silencis (aka: Silent Moments)

Summer Dress, A

Tidy Endings

Silent Thrush, The

(aka: Une Robe d’été)

Time Being, The

(aka: Shisheng Huamei)

Summer of Miss Forbes, The

Time Off

Simone

(aka: El Verano de la señora Forbes)

Time Piece

Sincerely Yours

Summer Vacation 1999

Time Regained

Sink or Swim

(aka: 1999 Nen No Natsu Yasumi)

(aka: Le Temps retrouvé)

Sister My Sister

Sun and Rain

Times Square

Six Degrees of Separation

(aka: Taiyang Yu)

To an Unknown God

Sixth Happiness, The

Sunday, Bloody Sunday

(aka: A un Dios Desconocido)

Skin Deep

Surviving Sabu

To Die for (aka: Heaven’s a Drag)

Skindeep

Swann in Love

To Forget Venice

Slight Fever of a 20-Year-Old

(aka: Un Amour de Swann)

(aka: Dimenticare Venezia)

(aka: Hatachi No Binetsu)

Sweet Thing

To Play or to Die

Smear

Swimming

(aka: Spelen of sterven)

Smoke

Switch (1999)

To Ride a Cow

Smokers Only

Swoon

Toc Storee

(aka: Vagón Fumador)

Take Out

Todd Killings, The

Sodom

Tales of the City

Together Alone

Soliloquy of Dale Cunningham, The

Tales of the City 2

Together and Apart

Solos Y Soledades

(aka: More Tales of the City)

Toilers and the Wayfarers, The

Some of My Best Friends Are

Tales of the City 3

Token of Love

Some of These Days

(aka: Further Tales of the City)

Tokyo Cowboy

Something Close to Heaven

Tokyo Fist (aka: Tokyo-ken)

Talk to Me like the Rain

Song of the Loon

Tom Clay Jesus

Tampon Thieves

Sonny Boy

Too Young (aka: Ye Maque)

(aka: Ladronas de tampones)

Sospiro d’amore nell’attesa

Torch Song Trilogy

Tanaka

Souvenir

Total Eclipse

Taste of Honey, A

Spacked Out (aka: Mo yan ka sai)

Total Loss

Tea and Sympathy

Spartacus

Totally F***ed Up

Tea Leaf

Special Day, A

Touch Me (1994)

Teenage Tupelo

(aka: Una Giornata particolare)

Touch Me (1997)

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

Speedway Junky

Touch of Love, A (aka: Thank You

Teorema (aka: Theorem)

Spin the Bottle

All Very Much; The Millstone)

Terence Davies Trilogy, The

Split World, The

Tour Abroad (aka: Auslandstournee)

That Certain Summer

Spokes

Transeltown

That Tender Touch

Spy Who Came, The

Trash

Thelma

Squeeze

Treading Water

Thelma and Louise

Stargaze

Trials of Oscar Wilde, The

There is no Pain in Paradise

Stephen

Triple Echo

(aka: En el Paraiso no Existe el Dolor)

Stolen Diary, The (aka: Le Cahier Volé)

Troika

Thérèse and Isabelle

Stonewall

Trois

Thin Ice: Passion on the Pink Rink

Drama 491

True Faith

Where the Sun Beats Down

Flesh Gordon

Truth About Jane, The

(aka: Onde Bate o Sol)

Hard Love & How to Fuck in High Heels

Truth Game, The

Who Killed Pasolini?

Hellion Heatwave

Twice a Woman (aka: Twee vrouwen)

(aka: Pasolini, an Italian Crime;

Hey Sailor, Hey Sister

Twilight Girls, The

Pasolini, un delitto Italiano)

How to Have a Sex Party

Twilight of the Gods

Wild Life

Hustler White

Twilight of the Golds, The

Wild Party, The

Kindling Point, The

Twin Bracelets (aka: Shuang Cho)

Wild Reeds, The

Kore Cara Mia

Twinkle (aka: Kira Kira Hikaru)

(aka: Les Roseaux Sauvages)

Lickerish Quartet, The

Two Brothers

Wilde (aka: Oscar Wilde)

(aka: The Erotic Quartet)

Two in Twenty

Wildflowers

Mirror Images II

Two Men

Wilma’s Sacrifice

Naked Highway

Two Moon Junction

Wittgenstein

No Skin Off My Ass

Two of Us (aka: Mates)

Woman Accused, A

Olga’s Girls

Unconditional Love

(aka: In the Glitter Palace)

Pink Narcissus

Uncut

Woman in Flames, A

Pleasure Beach

Under Heat

(aka: Flaming Desire; Die

Salo (aka: The 120 Days of Sodom)

Undercover

Flambierte Frau)

Seduction: The Cruel Woman

Unknown Cyclist, The

Woman Inside, The

(aka: Verführung: Die grausame Frau)

Unknown Friend

Woman like Eve, A

Sex Flesh in Blood

(aka: Fremde Freundin)

(aka: Een Vrouw als Eva)

Siren

Urbania

Women in Love

Skin Flick (aka; Skin Gang)

Valentino

Women of Brewster Place, The

Sugar High, Glitter City

Vanished

Women on the Roof

Super 8 1/2

Vaudeville

(aka: Kvinnorna på taket)

Velocity of Gary, The

Wonder Boys, The

Experimental

Vendetta

Work

Vera

Working Girls

7 Steps to Sticky Heaven

Very Natural Thing, A

World and Time Enough

Age 12: Love with a Little L

Via Appia

Wrestlers, The (aka: Uttara)

Aide Mémoire

Victim

Wu Yen

Alpsee

Village Affair, A

X Y and Zee (aka: Zee and Co.)

Amelia Rose Towers

Virgin Machine

Y tu Mamá También

Angelic Conversation, The

(aka: Die Jungfrauenmaschine)

(aka: And Your Mother Too)

Aren’t You Lucky You Brought Your

Vive l’Amour (aka: Aiqing Wansui)

Yearning for Sodom

Own Chair

Voleurs, Les (aka: Thieves)

Yentl

As Far Away as Here

Waiting for the Moon

Yes (aka: To Ingrid My Love Lisa;

B/side

Waiting ‘round Wynyard

Kvinnolek)

Baby

Walk on the Wild Side

Young Soul Rebels

Basement Girl, The

Walking On Water

Zanjeer (aka: The Chain)

bed

War on Lesbians

Zero de Conduite

Between the Lines

War Widow, The

(aka: Zero for Conduct)

Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The

Watching You

Zindagi Zindabad

(aka: Die Bitteren Tränen der

Watermelon Woman, The

(aka: Long Live Life)

Petra von Kant)

Waves (aka: Bølgene)

Zippers & Tits (aka: Fasuna to Chibusa)

Blonde Cobra

We Always Danced

Blow Job

We Were One Man (aka: Nous

Erotica

Blue

étions un Seul Homme)

Bodies in Trouble

Weekend, The

45 Minutes of Bondage

Broken Goddess

Weininger’s Nacht

Alley of the Tranny Boys

Camp

Well Lit Shadows

Another 45 Minutes of Bondage

Casta Diva

Westler: East of the Wall

Backroom

Cat Nip

What Kind of Music!

Baise-moi (aka: Fuck Me; Rape Me)

Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks!

(aka: Ma Che Musica!)

Bilitis

Celine and Julie Go Boating

What Makes a Family

Chained Girls

(aka: Céline et Julie vont en bateau)

When Love Comes

Elegant Spanking, The

Chelsea Girls, The

When Night Is Falling

Emmanuelle

Child-Play

When the Party’s Over

Fantasm

Clips

Where Is My Love?

Fantasm Comes Again (aka: Fantasm 99)

Corps Imagé, Le

(aka: Qiangpo Puguang)

Felicity

Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality, A

492 Erotica & Experimental

Cuz It’s Boy

Lucifer Rising

Horror

Damned if You Don’t

Luminous Procuress

Dandy Dust

Lysis

Alien Prey

David & Goliath

M! Mom, Madonna and Me

Black Sunday

Day in the Life of a Bull-Dyke, A

Macumba

(aka: La Maschera del Demonio)

Dear Mom

Madame X: An Absolute Ruler

Blood and Roses

Deccada

(aka: Madame X: Eine Absolute Herrscherin)

(aka: Et Mourir de Plaisir)

Decodings

Manodestra

Blood for Dracula

Deflatable Man, The

Massillon

Blood Splattered Bride, The

Do You Think We Can Talk about

Melody for Buddy Matsumae (aka:

(aka: La Novia Ensangrentada)

Anything but Love?

Matsumae-Kun No Senritsu)

Bloodlust

Double Strength

Memsahib Rita

Carmilla

Dreck (aka: Dirt)

Mercy (1989)

Cat People

Eight Million

Naked Lunch

Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town

Elegy in the Streets

Odd Girl Out

Countess Dracula

Endangered

Panic Bodies

Crocodile Tears

Faggots are for Burning

Pensao Globo

Danza Macabra, La

Family Affair, A (1995)

Pink Pimpernel, The

(aka: Castle of Blood)

Farewell to Charms

Pink Ulysses

Daughters of Darkness

Fireworks

Pixel Pose

(aka: Le Rouge aux Lévres)

First Comes Love (1991)

Place Between Our Bodies, The

Dracula’s Daughter

Flaming Creatures

Place Called Lovely, A

Ein Toter Hing im Netz

Flesh on Glass

Prefaces

(aka: Girls of Spider Island)

Fly Away Homo

Protagonist, The (aka: Shujinko)

Fascination

Forever (1994)

RSVP

Flesh for Frankenstein

Frostbite

Sabor a Mi (aka: Savour Me)

Frankenstein Created Woman

Gently down the Stream

Sad Disco Fantasia

Frisson des Vampires, Le

Glitterbug

Sailor (aka: Matroos)

(aka: Sex and the Vampire)

Group

Salivation Army

Haunting of Morella, The

He’s Like

Scorpio Rising

Haunting, The

Heaven, Earth and Hell

Sea in the Blood

Headhunter

Hey, Happy!

Seamen

Homicidal

History of the World According to

Second Coming, The

Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf

a Lesbian, The

Silence that Silences, The

Hunger, The

Hole

Sisters Lumiere, The

Interview with the Vampire

Home Movie

(aka: Sisters of Light)

Killer Nun (aka: Suor Omicidi)

Home-Made Melodrama

Sleepy Haven

Kiss Me Monster

Hope is a Thing With Feathers

Sparky’s Shoes

(aka: Bésame Monstruo)

House of Pain

Speedy Boys

Lust for a Vampire

I Almost Feel Like a Tourist

Spent

(aka: To Love a Vampire)

I Am the Camera Dying

Swimming Prohibited (aka: Yuei Kinshi)

Mark of Lilith, The

Illegal Tender

Swollen Stigma

Nadja

Image in the Snow

Sync Touch

Noche de Walpurgis, La

Imagining October

TABU V (about which one cannot speak)

Razor Blade Smile

In My Father’s House

Tarch Trip

Reflecting Skin, The

In the Shadow of the Sun

Taste the Sweat

Requiem pour un Vampire

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome

Tender Fictions

(aka: Vierges et Vampires)

Independently Blue

Tenebrae Lessons

Satan’s Princess (aka: Malediction)

Inverted Minstrel

(aka: Leçons de Ténèbres)

‘Sucker

Invocation of My Demon Brother

Thug

Sugar Cookies

Iro Kaze (aka: Colour Wind)

Twice a Man

Terror in the Crypt

It Dwells in Mirrors

Twisted Sheets

(aka: La Cripta e L’Incubo)

Janine

Two or Three Things I Know about Them

Thundercrack!

Jollies

Uh-Oh!

Twins of Evil (aka: The Gemini Twins)

Jungle Boy, The

West Fickt Ost (aka: West Fucks East)

Vampire Lovers, The

Lesson 9

Where Lies the Homo?

Vampire Nue, La

Letters from Home

White to be Angry, The

(aka: The Naked Vampire)

Loads

Women I Love

Vampyres, Daughters of Dracula

Looking for Langston

You Taste American

(aka: Blood Hunger)

Loverfilm

Horror

493

Vampyros Lesbos (aka: Lesbian

Bitter Harvest (1993)

Touch of Evil

Vampires; Die Erbin des Dracula)

Black Widow

Triche, La (aka: The Cheat)

Velvet Vampire, The

Blessed are Those Who Thirst

Villain

(aka: The Waking Hour)

(aka: Salige er de som tørster)

Well, The

Viol du Vampire, Le

Blind Faith

Wild Side (aka: Donald Cammell’s

Wolves of Kromer, The

Boston Strangler, The

Wild Side)

Bound

Wild Things

Musical

Butterfly Kiss

Windows

Compulsion

Western

Because the Dawn

Crueles, Las (aka: The Cruel Ones)

Broadway Melody, The

Cruising

Ballad of Little Jo, The

Cabaret

Crying Game, The

Big Sky, The

Calamity Jane

Day of the Jackal, The

Calamity Jane

Can’t Stop the Music

Deadfall

Johnny Guitar

City of Lost Souls (aka: Stadt der

Deep End, The

Red River

Verlorenen Seelen)

Diabolique

Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men

Diaboliques, Les (aka: Diabolique)

Eika Katappa

Double Face

Funny Lady

Dressed to Kill

Gay Rock and Roll Years, The

Eiger Sanction, The

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Empire State

Ginger Beer

Enchantment, The (aka: Yuwakusha)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Fourth Man, The (aka: Di Vierde Man)

Isle of Lesbos

Gonin (aka: The Five)

Karmen Geï

Hard

Making of Monsters

Internal Affairs

Stand on Your Man

Kate’s Addiction

Without You I’m Nothing

Last of Sheila, The

Zero Patience

Lightship, The

Listen

Sci-Fi

Mafu Cage, The

(aka: My Sister, My Love)

Mascara

Barbarella

Matter of Taste, A (aka: A Question

Born in Flames

of Taste; Une affaire de goût)

Dandy Dust

Mercy (1999)

Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde

Mona Lisa

Flaming Ears (aka: Rote Ohren

Monkey’s Mask, The

Fetzen Durch Asche)

Monsieur Hawarden

I.K.U

Mulholland Drive

Kanada

Night Rhythms

Liquid Sky

Night Warning

Naked Lunch

No Way Out

New Women, The

Order to Kill

Sticky Fingers of Time, The

(aka: El Clan de los Immorales)

Tank Girl

Pouvoir Intime

Valentine’s Day

Rainbow Serpent, The

(aka: Haltéroflic)

Thriller

Red Heat

Residencia, La

301 - 302

(aka: The House that Screamed)

Acting on Impulse

Rites of Passage

(aka: Eyes of a Stranger)

Rope

Anderson Tapes, The

Seducers, The (aka: Death Game)

Angel (1983)

See the Sea (aka: Regarde la Mer)

Apartment Zero

Silence of the Lambs, The

Basic Instinct

Silkwood

Being at Home with Claude

Sticky Fingers of Time, The

494 Musical, Sci-Fi, Thriller & Western

Lists of Films by Country

Argentina

Adiós Roberto

Connections: Gay Aboriginal Men

Martin Four

Apariencias

in Sydney

Mary’s Place

Burnt Money

Corps Imagé, Le

Men Like Me

(aka: Plata quemada; Burning Money)

Crazy Richard

Monkey’s Mask, The

I, the Worst of All

Dallas Doll

Morris Loves Jack

(aka: Yo, la Peor de Todas)

Deccada

Mull (aka: Mullaway)

No Exit

Devil’s Playground, The

My Survival as a Deviant

Otra Historia de Amour

Different Shades of Pink

Night Out

(aka: Another Love Story)

Double Trouble

Night Trade

Scenes from a Queer Planet

Drugs ‘R’ Us

Nightwork

Smokers Only

Dykes and Tykes

Nijinsky

(aka: Vagón Fumador)

Elevation

(aka: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky)

Susana

Everlasting Secret Family, The

None of the Above

F2M

Number 96

Australia

Faggots are for Burning

On Becoming

Fantasm

On Guard

About Vivien

Fantasm Comes Again (aka: Fantasm 99)

Only the Brave

Acquiring a Taste for Raffaella

Farewell to Charms

Original Schtick

Adam

Feed Them to the Cannibals!

Paradise Bent

Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of

Felicity

(aka: Fa’afafines in Paradise)

the Desert, The

Flesh on Glass

Parents of Gays

AIDS

Flight of Fancy

Personals

Alabaster Lions

Getting of Wisdom, The

Peter Allen: The Boy from Oz

Alias

Ghosts of the Civil Dead

Poetry for an Englishman

All Men are Liars

Half Mongrel

Point of Departure, A

(aka: Goodnight Irene)

Hard God, A

Red Label

Alternative, The

Hate Crime

Resonance

Amelia Rose Towers

Head On (aka: Loaded)

Sadness

And/Or=One

Hell Bento!

Satdee Nite

Apartments

Hidden Injuries

Saturn’s Return

Bad News Bachelors

Homecoming Queen

Seamen

Bare

Homosexuality: A Film for Discussion

Sex and Balls

Bete Noire

I Almost Feel Like a Tourist

Sexing the Label: Love and Gender

Beyond the Catwalk: The Search

I, Eugenia

in a Queer World

for Mr Gay Australia 2000

Icarus

Shanghai Panic (aka: Wo men hai pa)

Big House, The

Independently Blue

Show Me Your Pic

Black Sheep

Is Mary Wings Coming?

Sissy

Blond Man, The

Jenny

Skindeep

Bloodlust

Journey Among Women

Skud

Box, The

Jumping the Gun

Soliloquy of Dale Cunningham, The

Brad

Just Desserts

Soufflé

Break of Day

Karmarama

Special Guest Star

Buck House

Kicking On

Spot the Lesbian

Buckeye and Pinto

Ladies Please!

Strange Fits of Passion

Burning Boy, The

Last Coming Out, The

Strung Up

Can’t You Take a Joke?

Laura

‘Sucker

Cass

Let Me Die, Again

Sum of Us, The

China Dolls

Life

Sweet Thing

Chrissy

(aka: Containment; Out of the Blue)

Sydney - Living with Difference

Clinic, The

Liu Awaiting Spring

Tanaka

Closet Space

Living with AIDS

Taste

Cold Footsies

Love and Other Catastrophes

This Marching Girl Thing

Come As You Are

Low-Fat Elephants

Three Drags and a Wedding

Man in the Irony Mask, The

Country 495

Thug

Brazil

Camp

Touch Me (1994)

Cap Tourmente

Toxic Queen

Amor Maldito

Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks!

Tragic But True

Aqueles Dois

Child-Play

True Faith

Asa Branca: A Brazilian Dream

Chinese Characters

Two Girls and a Baby

Boys from Brazil, The

Chosen Family, The

Two Roads

Conta Pra Mim (aka: Trust Me)

Coconut / Cane and Cutlass

Undercover

Corpo, O (aka: The Body)

Come and Go

Violet’s Visit

Dark and Lovely, Soft and Free

Coming Out of the Iron Closet

Visitors

(aka: Nega Do Cabelo Duro)

Coming to Terms

Waiting ‘round Wynyard

Happily Ever After

Company of Strangers, The

Walking On Water

(aka: Além da Paixão)

(aka: Strangers in Good Company)

Wax Me

Hunting Season, The

Daisy Chain Project, The

Well Lit Shadows

If All Goes Well I’ll Meet You on

Dark Sun: Bright Shade

Well, The

the Next Train

Day in the Life of a Bull-Dyke, A

When the Penny Drops

Kiss of the Spider Woman, The

Deep Inside Clint Star

White People’s Business

Metalguru

Destiny’s Children

Witches, Faggots, Dykes and Poofters

Nervos de Aco

Devil in the Holy Water, The

Woman to Woman

(aka: Nerves Made of Steel)

Dirty Laundry (1995)

Your Brother, My Tidda

Pencas de Bicuda

Dreamers of the Day

Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco

Eclipse

Austria

Possible Loves (aka: Amores Possiveis)

Educate Your Attitude

Princesa

Erotica: A Journey into Female Sexuality

All the Queens Men

Vera

Escorte, L’

Dandy Dust

Viva Eu!

Fairy Who Didn’t Want to Be a

Drag Attack

Fairy, The

Ein Toter Hing im Netz

Bulgaria

Family Pack (aka: Que Faisaient les

(aka: Girls of Spider Island)

Femmes Pendant que L’homme

Flaming Ears (aka: Rote Ohren

Marchait sur la Lune?)

Ambiguous Feeling, An

Fetzen Durch Asche)

Fiction and Other Truths: A Film

Lulu

about Jane Rule

Oh Baby, A Baby! (aka: Zwei

Canada

Fighting Chance

Frauen, ein Mann und ein Baby)

Fire

Weiner Brut

2 Seconds

First Comes Love (1997)

Weininger’s Nacht

(aka: 2 secondes; Deux secondes)

Flow

Adjuster, The

Forbidden Fruit: Unfinished Stories

Belgium

After the Bath

of our Lives

Anatomy of Desire

Forbidden Love: The Unashamed

Anne Trister

Stories of Lesbian Lives

Campfire (aka: Kampvuur)

Aren’t You Lucky You Brought Your

Fortune and Men’s Eyes

Celestial Clockwork

Own Chair

Fox, The

(aka: Mecaniques Celestes)

Atomic Sake

Fresh Blood: A Consideration of

Daughters of Darkness

Bad Brownies

Belonging

(aka: Le Rouge aux Lévres)

Basement Girl, The

From the Ashes

Je, tu, il, elle

Beautiful Dreamers

Frostbite

Life that We Dreamt, The

bed

Full Blast

(aka: Het Leven dat we Droomden)

Beefcake

Girl King

Lonely without You

Being at Home with Claude

Going West

Ma Vie en Rose (aka: My Life in Pink)

Below the Belt

Good Citizen: Betty Baker

Mascara

Better than Chocolate

Got 2 B There

Monsieur Hawarden

Bisexual Kingdom, The

Grace of God, The

Presque Rien

Bodies in Trouble

Hanging Garden, The

(aka: Come Undone; Almost Nothing)

Bolo! Bolo!

Hard Fat

Rendez-vous d’Anna, Les

Boots, Boobs and Bitches: The Art

Health Status Survey

S.

of G. B. Jones

Heart Exposed, The

Sailor (aka: Matroos)

Boy Girl

(aka: La Coeur Découvert)

Saint

Broadcast Tapes of Dr Peter, The

Heterosexual Agenda, The

Sisters Lumiere, The

Bubbles Galore!

Hey, Happy!

(aka: Sisters of Light)

Butley

High Art

Total Eclipse

By Design

House of Pain

496 Country

Hustler White

Pink Pimpernel, The

Urinal (aka: Pissoir)

I Am the Camera Dying

Pixel Pose

Valentine’s Day

I Know a Place

Pouvoir Intime

Watching Lesbian Porn

I Will Not Think about Death

Psycho Beach Party

We’re Funny that Way

Anymore

Queen’s Cantonese Conversational

Wellness

I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing

Course, The

When Night Is Falling

If the Family Fits

Queercore: A Punk-u-mentary

When Shirley Met Florence

Interviews With My Next Girlfriend

Rainmakers - Zimbabwe

Where Lies the Homo?

Jim Loves Jack: The James Egan Story

Revoir Julie (aka: Julie and Me)

Wilma’s Sacrifice

Johnny Greyeyes

Rewriting the Script: Love Letter to

Woman Inside, The

Jungle Boy, The

Our Families

World is Sick (sic), The

Justine’s Film (aka: Le Film de Justine)

RSVP

Yo Yo Gang

Kanada

Sabor a Mi (aka: Savour Me)

You Taste American

Karmen Geï

Salivation Army

Zero Patience

Kind of Family, A

Salut Victor!

Kings

School Fag

Chile

Kipling Trilogy, The

Search for Intimacy, The

Kore Cara Mia

Set Me Free (aka: Emporte-moi)

Amigos (aka: Friends)

Lakme Takes Flight

Sexe des étoiles, Le

Lorenza

Legal Memory

(aka: Sex of the Stars)

Letters from Home

Siege (aka: Self Defense)

Lez Be Friends

Skin Deep

China

Life's Evening Hour

Skin Flick (aka; Skin Gang)

Lilies (aka: Lilies - les Feluettes)

Sparky’s Shoes

Darkness before Dawn

Limites

Special Day, A

East Palace West Palace

Lip Gloss

(aka: Una Giornata particolare)

(aka: Dong Gong Xi Gong)

Listening for Something

Spent

Enter the Clowns

Long Time Comin’

Stand Together

(aka: Choujue Dengchang)

Lost and Delirious

Stargaze

Farewell My Concubine

Love and Death on Long Island

Still Sane

(aka: Ba wang bie ji)

(aka: Amour et mort à Long Island)

Stolen Moments

Fish & Elephant

Love and Human Remains

Straight Down the Aisle: Confes-

(aka: Jin Nian Xia Tian)

M! Mom, Madonna and Me

sions of Lesbian Bridesmaids

Last Emperor, The

Ma Vie (aka: My Life)

Straight from the Suburbs

Last Empress, The

Making of Monsters

Straight in the Face

(aka: Wei dai huang hou)

Martirio (aka: Sufferance)

Straight to the Heart

Maiden Work

Michael, a Gay Son

(aka: À Corps Perdu)

Man Man Woman Woman

Moffie Called Simon, A

Sugar and Spice

(aka: NanNan NuNu; Men and Women)

Montreal Main

Super 8 1/2

Postman (aka: Youchai)

Moscow Does Not Believe in Queers

Switch (1999)

Shanghai Panic (aka: Wo men hai

My Addiction

Symposium: Ladder of Love

pa)

My Cousin Mike

Take Out

Snake Boy, The

My Feminism

Tales of the City 2

Sun and Rain (aka: Taiyang Yu)

My Left Breast

(aka: More Tales of the City)

Wedding Banquet, The (aka: Hsi yen)

My Summer Vacation

Tales of the City 3

Naked Lunch

(aka: Further Tales of the City)

Columbia

Nana, George and Me

Thank God I’m a Lesbian

Night Visions

Time Being, The

Our Lady of the Assassins

No Sad Songs

Tokyo Cowboy

(aka: La Virgen de los sicarios)

No Skin Off My Ass

Tom

Tampon Thieves

Not Alone: A Hallowe’en Romance

Too Outrageous!

(aka: Ladronas de tampones)

Offering, The

Toward Intimacy

Once upon a Time in the East

Transit: Adventures of a Boy in the

Cuba

(aka: Il était une fois dans l’est)

Big City

Orientations

True Inversions

Butterflies on the Scaffold

Out: Stories of Lesbian and Gay Youth

Twisted Sheets

(aka: Mariposas en el andiamo)

Outrageous!

Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of

Gay Cuba

Panic Bodies

a Lesbian Marriage

Solos Y Soledades

Passengers

Two Brothers

Strawberry and Chocolate

Perfect Son, The

Uncut

(aka: Fresa y Chocolate)

Country 497

Czech Republic

Best Way, The (aka: La Meilleure

Doom Generation

façon de marcher)

Dry Cleaning (aka: Nettoyage à sec)

Body without Soul

Bezness

Each Other (aka: Rega’im)

Daisies (aka: Sedmikrásky)

Biches, Les (aka: The Does)

Early Frost, An (2000)

Mandragora

Bitter Moon

Elegant Criminal, L’ (aka: Lacenaire)

Not Angels, But Angels

Black and White (aka: Noir et Blanc)

Emmanuelle

Black Sunday

Enfants Terribles, Les

Denmark

(aka: La Maschera del Demonio)

(aka: The Strange Ones)

Blind Fairies (aka: Le Fate Ignoranti)

Entre Nous (aka: Coup de Foudre)

Blood and Roses

Équilibristes, Les

101 Reykjavik

(aka: Et Mourir de Plaisir)

(aka: Walking a Tightrope)

By the Dawn’s Early Light

Blood for Dracula

Escalier C

Cats, The (aka: Kattorna)

Blue Jeans

Evening Dress (aka: Tenue de

Friends Forever

Bright Spell (aka: L’Embellie)

Soirée; Menage)

(aka: Venner for Altid)

Burnt Money

F. is a Bastard (aka: F. est un salaud)

Mirror, Mirror (aka: Lille spejl)

(aka: Plata quemada; Burning Money)

Family Pack (aka: Que Faisaient les

Pretty Boy (aka: Smukke Dreng)

Cage aux Folles, La

Femmes Pendant que L’homme

Show Me Love (aka: Fucking Åmål)

Cage aux Folles II, La

Marchait sur la Lune?)

Tillsammans (aka: Together)

Cage aux Folles III, La

Fascination

You Are Not Alone

Carrington

Fete des Peres, La (aka: Dad’s Day)

(aka: Du er ikke alene)

Cavafy (aka: Kavafis)

Flesh for Frankenstein

East Germany

Cecil B Demented

Fourth Sex, The

Celestial Clockwork

(aka: Le Quatrième sexe)

Coming Out (1989)

(aka: Mecaniques Celestes)

French Twist (aka: Gazon Maudit)

Celine and Julie Go Boating

Frisson des Vampires, Le

Egypt

(aka: Céline et Julie vont en bateau)

(aka: Sex and the Vampire)

Chanel Solitaire

Full Speed (aka: À Toute Vitesse)

Adieu Bonaparte

Chant d’Amour, Un

Funny Felix (aka: Dróle de Félix;

Alexandria... Why?

Closet, The (aka: Le Placard)

The Adventures of Felix)

(aka: Iskanderija... lih?)

Club de Femmes (aka: The

Gang of Four, The

Women’s Club; Girl’s Club)

(aka: La Bande des Quatre)

Cold Lands, The

Gay’ze in Wonderland

Finland

(aka: Les Terres Froides)

Girl, The

Conformist, The

Girl with the Golden Eyes, The

Daddy and the Muscle Academy

(aka: Il Conformista)

(aka: La Fille aux yeux d’or)

Farewell, The (aka: Avskedet)

Confusion of Genders

Girls Can’t Swim

P(l)ain Truth

(aka: La confusion des genres)

(aka: Les filles ne savent par nager)

Corps Ouverts, Les (aka: Open Bodies)

Glider, The (aka: Le Planeur)

France

Coup de Grace (aka: Der

Homme Blessé, L’

Fangschuss)

(aka: The Wounded Man)

101 Reykjavik

Criminal Lovers (aka: Les Amants

Homme Que J’aime, L’

Above the Sea (aka: Au essus de la Mar)

Criminels)

(aka: The Man I Love)

Abysses, Les

Crossing, The (aka: La Traversée)

Homophobia: That Painful Problem

AIDS: Words from One to Another

Dakan

I, the Worst of All

Arabian Nights (aka: Il Fiore delle

Danza Macabra, La

(aka: Yo, la Peor de Todas)

mille e una notte)

(aka: Castle of Blood)

I Vitelloni

Arrangement, An

Daughters of Darkness

(aka: The Young and the Passionate)

Astragale, L’

(aka: Le Rouge aux Lévres)

Impossible on Saturday

Baise-moi (aka: Fuck Me; Rape Me)

Day for Night

Impromptu

Barbarella

(aka: La Nuit Américaine)

Improper Conduct

Beau Travail (aka: Good Work)

Day of the Jackal, The

(aka: Mauvaise Conduite)

Beefcake

Derrière, Le (aka: From Behind)

Inspecteur Lavardin

Beethoven’s Nephew

Diaboliques, Les (aka: Diabolique)

Irma Vep

(aka: Le Neveu de Beethoven)

Do You Think We Can Talk about

J’embrasse pas (aka: I Don’t Kiss)

Beguines, The

Anything but Love?

Je, tu, il, elle

(aka: Le Rampart des Beguines)

Dog’s Dialogue

Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an

Belle de Jour

(aka: Colloque de chiens)

Unknown

Bertrand is Missing

Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die

Jupon Rouge, Le

(aka: Bertrand Disparu)

(aka: N’Oublie pas que tu vas Mourir)

(aka: Manuela’s Loves)

498 Country

Just a Woman

See the Sea (aka: Regarde la Mer)

Anna und Elisabeth

Karmen Geï

Set Me Free (aka: Emporte-moi)

Army of Lovers: or Revolt of the

Last Metro, The

Simone

Perverts

(aka: Le Dernier métro)

Sitcom

Be Careful What Kind of Skin You

Live Flesh (aka: Carne Trémula)

Staircase

Pull Back, You Never Know

Love is the Devil

Stolen Diary, The (aka: Le Cahier Volé)

What Kind of Head Will Appear

Ludwig

Summer Dress, A (aka: Une Robe d’été)

Becoming Colette

Ma Vie en Rose (aka: My Life in Pink)

Swann in Love (aka: Un Amour de

Berlin Affair, The (aka: Interno Berlinese)

Man is a Woman (aka: L’Homme

Swann)

Beware a Holy Whore

est une femme comme les autres)

Tenebrae Lessons

(aka: Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte)

Mascara

(aka: Leçons de Ténèbres)

Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The

Matter of Taste, A (aka: A Question

Thelma

(aka: Die Bitteren Tränen der

of Taste; Une affaire de goût)

Thérèse and Isabelle

Petra von Kant)

Milou in May

This Special Friendship

Blue Hour, The

(aka: Milou en Mai; May Fools)

(aka: Les Amitiés Particulières)

(aka: Die Blaue Stund)

Mulholland Drive

Those Who Love Me Can Take the

Burning Secret

Mum’s the Word

Train

Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?

Muriel’s Parents Have Had it up to Here

Time Regained

Celeste

(aka: Muriel fait le désespoir de

(aka: Le Temps retrouvé)

Chained Heat

ses parents)

Total Eclipse

Chill Out

My Pal Rachid

Treaty of Chance, The

City of Lost Souls

Mystère Alexina, Le

(aka: Le Traité du Hasard)

(aka: Stadt der Verlorenen Seelen)

(aka: The Mystery of Alexina)

Triche, La (aka: The Cheat)

Confessions of Felix Krull, The

Nea: The Young Emmanuelle (aka: Nea)

Vampire Nue, La

(aka: Bekenntnisse des

Night of Varennes, The

(aka: The Naked Vampire)

Hochstaplers Felix Krull)

(aka: La Nuit de Varennes)

Viol du Vampire, Le

Conformist, The

No Exit (aka: Huis Clos)

Voleurs, Les (aka: Thieves)

(aka: Il Conformista)

Nun, The (aka: La Religieuse)

Water Drops on Burning Rocks

Consequence, The

Olivia (aka: The Pit of Loneliness)

(aka: Gouttes d’Eau sur Pierres

(aka: Die Konsequenz)

Olivier, Olivier

Brûlantes)

Coup de Grace (aka: Der

Our Lady of the Assassins

We Were One Man

Fangschuss)

(aka: La Virgen de los sicarios)

(aka: Nous étions un Seul Homme)

Dads (aka: Papas)

Peixe-Lua (aka: Moon-Fish)

When the Cat’s Away (aka: Chacun

Damned, The (aka: Gotterdammer-

Pierre et Gilles, Love Stories

Cherche Son Chat)

ung; La Caduta degli Dei)

Pillow Book, The

Why Not! (aka: Pourquoi Pas!)

Das Trio (aka: The Trio)

Portrait of a Young Girl at the End

Wild Reeds, The

Daughters of Darkness

of the ’60s in Brussels

aka: Les Roseaux Sauvages)

(aka: Le Rouge aux Lévres)

(aka: Portrait d’une jeune fille de

Woubi Chéri

Depart to Arrive (aka: Weggehen

la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles)

Zazie dans le Métro

um Anzukommen)

Pourquoi Pas Moi? (aka: Why Not Me?)

Zero de Conduite

Double Face

Presque Rien (aka: Come Undone;

(aka: Zero for Conduct)

Dr T & the Women

Almost Nothing)

Drama in Blonde

Prisonnières

Germany

Dreck (aka: Dirt)

Quai des Orfèvres (aka: Jenny Lamour)

Echte Kerle (aka: Regular Guys)

Queen: Marianne Hoppe, The

99 Women

Eika Katappa

(aka: Die Königin: Marianne Hoppe)

(aka: Isle of Lost Women; 99 mujeres)

Ein Toter Hing im Netz

Rainbow Serpent, The

Aide Mémoire

(aka: Girls of Spider Island)

(aka: Haltéroflic)

Aimée and Jaguar

Eine Tunte zum Dessert

Replay (aka: La Répétition)

Airport

(aka: A Fairy for Dessert)

Requiem pour un Vampire

All of Me

Einstein of Sex: The Life and Work

(aka: Vierges et Vampires)

All the Queens Men

of Dr Magnus Hirschfeld, The

Roi Danse, Le

Alles Wird Gut

Erika’s Passions

(aka: The King is Dancing)

(aka: Everything Will Be Fine)

(aka: Erika’s Leidenschaften)

Salon Kitty (aka: Madam Kitty)

Alpsee

Erotique

Sand and Blood

Among Men

Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus

(aka: De sable et de sang)

Anders als die Anderen

Mann Story

Sauve Qui Peut (aka: Slow Motion)

(aka: Different from Others)

Fassbinder’s Women

Savage Nights (aka: Les Nuits fauves)

Anita: Dances of Vice

Female Misbehavior

Seashell and the Clergyman, The

(aka: Anita: Tanze des Lasters)

Flirt

(aka: La Coquille et le Clergyman)

Anna und Edith

Fontvella’s Box

Country 499

Forbidden Fruit

Mädchen in Uniform

Transit: Adventures of a Boy in the

Fox and His Friends

(aka: Girls in Uniform) (1957)

Big City

(aka: Faustrecht der Freiheit)

Man like Eva, A

Unknown Friend

Freunde: The Whiz Kids

(aka: Ein, Mann wie Eva)

(aka: Fremde Freundin)

Friends in High Places

Marlene

Vampyros Lesbos (aka: Lesbian

Gay Courage: 100 Years of the Gay

Maybe I Can Give You Sex?

Vampires; Die Erbin des Dracula)

Movement

Menmaniacs: The Legacy of Leather

Venus Boyz

Gendernauts

Mikaël (aka: Chained)

Via Appia

Geschlecht in Fesseln: dei Sexualnot

My Father is Coming

Viktor/Viktoria

der Gefangenen (aka: Sex in Chains)

Neurosia: 50 Years of Perversity

Virgin Machine

He’s Bald and Racist, He’s Gay and

No One Sleeps

(aka: Die Jungfrauenmaschine)

Fascist

No Skin Off My Ass

Virus Knows No Morals, A

Horror Vacui: The Fear of Emptiness

Noche de Walpurgis, La

(aka: Ein Virus kennt keine Moral)

(aka: Horror Vacui: Die Angst

November Moon

Was Sie Nie Über Frauen Wissen Wollten

vor der Leere)

(aka: Novembermond)

(aka: All You Never Wanted to

I Am My Own Woman (aka: Ich

Oi! Warning

Know about Women)

Bin Meine Eigene Frau)

Pandora’s Box

We Were Marked with a Big A

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

(aka: Die Büchse der Pandora)

West Fickt Ost (aka: West Fucks East)

(aka: Ich will nicht nur, daß ihr

Paragraph 175

Westler: East of the Wall

mich liebt)

Pensao Globo

Willkommen im Dom

I Love You, I’ll Kill You (aka: Ich

Positiv

(aka: Welcome to the Dome)

Liebe Dich, Ich Töte Dich)

Pretty Baby (aka: Maybe...Maybe

Woman in Flames, A (aka: Flaming

In a Year of Thirteen Moons

Not; Der Bewegte Mann; The

Desire; Die Flambierte Frau)

(aka: In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden)

Most Desired Man)

Wonder Boys, The

It is Not the Homosexual Who is

Prince in Hell

Yearning for Sodom

the Pervert but the Society in

(aka: Prinz in Holleland)

Your Heart is All Mine

Which He Lives (aka: Nicht der

Princesa

Homosexuelle ist pervers,

Queen: Marianne Hoppe, The (aka:

Greece

sondern die Situation, in der er lebt)

Die Königin: Marianne Hoppe)

Johanna, D’Arc of Mongolia

Queens Don’t Lie

Amerikanos

(aka: Joan of Arc of Mongolia)

(aka: Tunten Lügen Nicht)

Angelos (aka: Angel)

Journey to Kafiristan, The

Querelle

Attack of the Giant Moussaka, The

(aka: Die Reise nach Kafiristan)

Red Heat

Cavafy (aka: Kavafis)

Killer Condom

Return to Go! (aka: Züruck Auf Los!)

Day the Fish Came Out, The

(aka: Kondom des Grauens)

Rules of the Game

(aka: Otan ta psaria vgikan sti steria)

Kings of the Road

Salmonberries

Deserter (aka: Lipotaktis)

(aka: Im Lauf der Zeit)

Salon Kitty (aka: Madam Kitty)

From the Edge of the City

Kiss Me Monster

Second Awakening of Christa

(aka: Apo tin akri tis polis)

(aka: Bésame Monstruo)

Klages, The (aka: Das Zweite

Meteor and Shadow

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Erwachen der Christa Klages)

(aka: Meteoro kai Skia)

Life is Like a Cucumber

Seduction: The Cruel Woman

Tender

(aka: Affengeil)

(aka: Verführung: Die grausame Frau)

Thelma

Lola and Billy the Kid

Sex/Life in LA

(aka: Lola and Bilidikid)

Skin Flick (aka; Skin Gang)

Loose Ends

Sleepy Haven

Guinea

Lorenza

Spokes

Love Like Any Other, A

Sprinter, The

Dakan

(aka: Eine Liebe wie andere auch)

TABU V (about which one cannot speak)

Loverfilm

Talk of the Town (aka: Stadtgespräch)

Hong Kong

Ludwig

Taste the Sweat

Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King

Taxi to Cairo (aka: Taxi nach Kairo)

Anxiety of Inexpression and the

(aka: Ludwig: Requiem für einen

Taxi to the Toilet

Otherness Machine, The

jungfräulichen König)

(aka: Taxi zum Klo)

Away with Words (aka: Kujaku)

Macumba

Third Sex, The

Bishonen...Beauty

Madame X: An Absolute Ruler

(aka: Anders als du und ich)

(aka: Meishaonian zhi lian)

(aka: Madame X: Eine Absolute

To My Women Friends

Eagle Shooting Heroes, The

Herrscherin)

Tour Abroad

(aka: Sediu yinghung tsun tsi

Mädchen in Uniform

(aka: Auslandstournee)

dung sing sai tsau)

(aka: Girls in Uniform) (1931)

Transexual Menace

First Love and Other Pains

500 Country

Full Moon in New York

Khush

Beguines, The

(aka: Ren zai Niu Yue)

My Friend Su

(aka: Le Rampart des Beguines)

Happy Together

Petals

Belle al Bar (aka: Belles at the Bar)

(aka: Cheun gwong tsa sit)

Scenes from a Queer Planet

Belle de Jour

He’s a Woman, She’s a Man

Sixth Happiness, The

Berlin Affair, The (aka: Interno Berlinese)

(aka: Gum gee yuk yip)

Summer in My Veins (Director’s Cut)

Biches, Les (aka: The Does)

Hold You Tight (aka: Yue Kuai Le)

Wrestlers, The (aka: Uttara)

Black Sunday

Hu-Du-Men (aka: Stage Door)

Zanjeer (aka: The Chain)

(aka: La Maschera del Demonio)

I Am Not What You Want

Zindagi Zindabad

Blind Fairies (aka: Le Fate Ignoranti)

Intimates, The (aka: Ji Sor)

(aka: Long Live Life)

Blood and Roses

Killer, The

(aka: Et Mourir de Plaisir)

(aka: Die Xue Shuang Xiong)

Iran

Blood for Dracula

Lan Yu

Boy like Many Others, A

Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk, The

Daughters of the Sun

(aka: Un Ragazzo come Tanti)

Let’s Love Hong Kong (aka: Ho Yuk)

Just a Woman

Cage aux Folles, La

Map of Sex and Love, The

Caligula

(aka: Qingse ditu)

Caravaggio

Naked Killer (aka: Chiklo gouyeung)

Ireland

Children of Hannibal

Peony Pavilion

(aka: Figli di Annibale)

(aka: Youyuan jingmeng)

Borstal Boy

Conformist, The (aka: Il Conformista)

Portland Street Blues

Chaero

Conversation Piece

Queer Story, A (aka: Jilao Sishi)

Change

(aka: Gruppo di famiglia in un interno)

Spacked Out (aka: Mo yan ka sai)

Ghost of Roger Casement, The

Damned, The (aka: Gotterdammer-

Swordsman II (aka: Xiao ao jiang

Happy Gordons, The

ung; La Caduta degli Dei)

hu zhi dong fang bu bai)

Last Bus Home, The

Danza Macabra, La

Swordsman III: The East is Red

On Being Gay: A Conversation

(aka: Castle of Blood)

(aka: Dung fong bat baai 2: fung

with Brian McNaughton

Daughters of Darkness

wan joi hei)

Silences

(aka: Le Rouge aux Lévres)

To Ride a Cow

Day for Night

Toc Storee

Israel

(aka: La Nuit Américaine)

Twin Bracelets (aka: Shuang Cho)

Days (aka: Giorni)

Two or Three Things I Know about Them

Afflicted

Death in Venice (aka: Morte a Venezia)

Who’s the Woman, Who’s the Man

Amazing Grace (aka: Hessed Mufla)

Double Face

Wu Yen

Amos Gutman, Filmmaker

Ernesto

Yang±Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

(aka: Amos Gutman, Bamay Kolnoa)

Flavor of Corn, The

At Home

(aka: Il Sapore del Grano)

Hungary

baba-It (aka: At Home)

Flesh for Frankenstein

Drifting (aka: Nagu’a)

Forbidden Love of the Hero, The

Abandoned (aka: Torzók)

Each Other (aka: Rega’im)

Forever Mary (aka: Mery per sempre)

All the Queens Men

Gay Games

Fuga, La (aka: The Escape)

Another Way

Gotta Have Heart (aka: Ba’al Ba’al Lev)

Future is Woman, The

(aka: Egymásra Nézve)

Impossible on Saturday

(aka: Il Futuro è Donna)

Colonel Redl (aka: Oberst Redl)

It’s That Age

Genesis Children, The

This I Wish and Nothing More

Kesher Ir (aka: Urban Feel)

Hamam: The Turkish Bath

(aka: Nincsen Nekem Vagyam Semmi)

Positive Story (aka: Sipur Hiyuvi)

(aka: Steam)

Safe Place, A

I Vitelloni

Iceland

Speedway Junky

(aka: The Young and the Passionate)

Time Off

If All Goes Well I’ll Meet You on

Trembling Before G-d

the Next Train

101 Reykjavik

Watching You

Immacolata e Concetta - l’altra gelosia

Impossible on Saturday

India

Italy

Killer Nun (aka: Suor Omicidi)

Last Emperor, The

Bombay Boys

Acla (aka: La Discesa di Aclà a

Love in a Women’s Prison

Bombay Eunuch

Floristella)

(aka: Diario Segreto da un

BOMgaY

Arabian Nights (aka: Il Fiore delle

Carcere Femminile)

Fire

mille e una notte)

Love in Progress (aka: Amori in corso)

Holi: Festival of Fire

Are You Greedy?

Ludwig

Kalihgat Fetish (aka: Kalighat Athikatha)

Barbarella

Madras Eyes

Country 501

Marching into Darkness

Gohatto (aka: Taboo)

Mare, Il (aka: The Sea)

Gonin (aka: The Five)

Korea

Men Men Men

Heaven-6-Box

(aka: Uomini uomini uomini)

(aka: Tengoku No Muttsu No Hako)

301 - 302

Montgomery Clift: The Prince

How Old is the River?

Broken Branches (aka: Naeil Ui

Nietta’s Diary

(aka: Fuyu no Kappa)

Hyahae Hurunun Kang)

Night Porter, The

Hush!

Bungee Jumping of Their Own

(aka: Il Portiere di notte)

I.K.U

(aka: Beonjijeonpeureul hada)

Order to Kill

I Like You, I Like You Very Much

Memento Mori

(aka: El Clan de los Immorales)

(aka: Anata-Ga Suki Desu, Dai

(aka: Yeogo Guidam II)

Pianese Nunzio

Suki Desu)

Norang Mori 2

(aka: Fourteen in May; Sacred Silence)

Iro Kaze (aka: Colour Wind)

(aka: Running Blue; Yellow Hair 2)

Princesa

Kizuna Volume 1 & 2

Right to be Different, The

Like Grains of Sand

Room of Words, The

(aka: Nagisa no Shindobaddo)

Lebanon

(aka: La Stanza della parole)

Looking for Angel

Salo (aka: The 120 Days of Sodom)

(aka: Tenshi No Rakuen)

Cinema Fouad

Salon Kitty (aka: Madam Kitty)

Love is the Devil

How I Love You (aka: Shou Bhebbak)

Satyricon

Love/Juice

Sister Smile (aka: Suor Sorriso)

Manji (aka: All Mixed Up)

Mexico

Sospiro d’amore nell’attesa

Melody for Buddy Matsumae

Sotto Sotto (aka: Softly, Softly;

(aka: Matsumae-Kun No Senritsu)

Border Line...Family Pictures

Sotto... sotto... strapazzato da

Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence

Danzón

anomala passione)

More Love

Dona Herlinda and Her Son

Special Day, A

Muscle

(aka: Doña Herlinda y su hijo)

(aka: Una Giornata particolare)

Okoge

Hubo un Tiempo en que Los

Split World, The

One Shadowless Hour

Suenos Dieron Paso a Largas

Stolen Diary, The (aka: Le Cahier Volé)

Protagonist, The (aka: Shujinko)

Noches de Insomnio

Teorema (aka: Theorem)

Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie

Miracle Alley

Terror in the Crypt

(aka: Shôjo kakumei Utena:

(aka: El Callejon de los Milagros)

(aka: La Cripta e L’Incubo)

Adolescence mokushiroku)

Other Side, The

To Forget Venice

Rough Sketch of a Spiral

(aka: Del Otro Lado)

(aka: Dimenticare Venezia)

(aka: Rasen No Sobyo)

Queen of the Night

What Kind of Music!

Shinjuku Triad Society

(aka: La Reina de la Noche)

(aka: Ma Che Musica!)

(aka: Shijuku Kuro Shakai)

There is no Pain in Paradise

Who Killed Pasolini?

Slight Fever of a 20-Year-Old

(aka: En el Paraiso no Existe el Dolor)

(aka: Pasolini, an Italian Crime;

(aka: Hatachi No Binetsu)

Y tu Mamá También

Pasolini, un delitto Italiano)

Story of PuPu, The

(aka: And Your Mother Too)

(aka: PuPu No Monogatari)

Ivory Coast

Sugar Sweet

Netherlands

Summer Vacation 1999

Woubi Chéri

(aka: 1999 Nen No Natsu Yasumi)

After the War You Have to Tell

Swimming Prohibited

Everyone about the Dutch Gay

Japan

(aka: Yuei Kinshi)

Resistance Fighters

Tarch Trip

Antonia’s Line

Tokyo Fist (aka: Tokyo-ken)

Addicted to Love

Behind Glass

Twinkle (aka: Kira Kira Hikaru)

(aka: Boku wa koi ni muchu)

Belle

We Are Transgenders

Afternoon Breezes

But I Was a Girl: The Story of

Wonder Boys, The

(aka: Kaze tachi No Gogo)

Frieda Belinfante

Zippers & Tits (aka: Fasuna to Chibusa)

Black Lizard (aka: Kurotokage)

Casta Diva

Closets Are for Clothes

Crocodiles in Amsterdam

Enchantment, The (aka: Yuwakusha)

Kazakhstan

(aka: Krokodillen in Amsterdam)

Flirt

Day I Decided to be Nina, The

French Dressing

Life is a Woman

Dear Boys (aka: Lieve Jongens)

(aka: Furenchi doressingu)

(aka: Zhizn-Zhenshchina)

Evenings, The (aka: De Avonden)

Funeral Parade of Roses

Fear of Love

(aka: Bara No Soretsu)

For a Lost Soldier

Gaea Girls

(aka: Voor een verloren soldaat)

502 Country

Fourth Man, The (aka: Di Vierde Man)

Peru

Senegal

I Don’t Wanna Be a Boy

Last Island, The

Don’t Tell Anyone

Karmen Geï

Man Who Drove with Mandela, The

(aka: No Se Lo Digas a Nadie)

Pink Ulysses

Scenes from a Queer Planet

Siberia

Serbia

Strange Love Affair, A

To Play or to Die (aka: Spelen of sterven)

Philippines

Marble Ass (aka: Dupe od Mramora)

Total Loss

Twice a Woman (aka: Twee vrouwen)

Burlesk King

Singapore

Woman like Eve, A

Children of the Regime

(aka: Een Vrouw als Eva)

Macho Dancer

Bugis Street (aka: Yao jie huang hou)

Man in Her Life, The

New Zealand

(aka: Ang lalaki sa buhay ni Selya)

Manila: In the Claws of Darkness

Slovenia

(aka: Maynila: Sa mga kuko ng liwanag)

Beyond Gravity

Markova: Comfort Gay

Guardian of the Frontier

Crush (1992)

Midnight Dancers (aka: Sibak)

(aka: Varuh Meje)

Dads Wanted

Miguel/Michelle

Death in the Family, A

Oliver

South Africa

Desperate Remedies

Poisoned Blood

Forever (1994)

Private Wars

Across the Rubicon

Georgie Girl

Revolutions Happen like Refrains

Apostles of Civilised Vice

God, Sreenu & Me

in a Song

Dark and Lovely, Soft and Free

Heavenly Creatures

Sex Warriors and the Samurai

(aka: Nega Do Cabelo Duro)

Jewel’s Darl

Soft Hearts (aka: Pusong Mamon)

It’s My Life

Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence

Three (aka: Tatlo... magkasalo)

Man Who Drove with Mandela, The

My First Suit

Woman Hunt

Metamorphosis: The Remarkable

Naughty Little Peeptoe

Journey of Granny Lee

Naya Zamana

Quest for Love

One of Them

Poland

Sando to Samantha: The Art of Dikvel

Peach

Simon and I: Steps for the Future

Squeeze

Siegfried

Stepping Out

Twilight of the Gods

What a Pretty Sister

Portugal

When Love Comes

Soviet Union

Heart’s Root, The

Norway

(aka: A Raiz Do Coração)

100 Days Before the Command

Peixe-Lua (aka: Moon-Fish)

(aka: Sto dnej do prikaza)

101 Reykjavik

Pensao Globo

All About My Father

Phantom (aka: O Fantasma)

Spain

(aka: Alt om min far)

Where the Sun Beats Down

Blessed are Those Who Thirst

(aka: Onde Bate o Sol)

Affairs of Love, The

(aka: Salige er de som tørster)

(aka: Las Cosas del Querer)

c-l-o-s-e-r

Puerto Rico

All About My Mother

Desperate Acquaintances

(aka: Todo sobre mi madre)

(aka: Desperate Bekjentskaper)

Pride in Puerto Rico

Amic/Amat (aka: Beloved/Friend)

Ice Palace, The

Backroom

Kiss in the Snow, A

Russia

Bargain Lingerie

Life and Death

Bellas de Noche

Sebastian

Belle époque

Creation of Adam, The

Waves (aka: Bølgene)

Blood Splattered Bride, The

(aka: Sotvoreniye Adama)

(aka: La Novia Ensangrentada)

Hammer and Sickle (aka: Serp i molot)

Palestine

Burnt Money (aka: Plata quemada;

High Tech Rice

Burning Money)

Moscow Fags

Celestial Clockwork

Diary of a Male Whore

Scenes from a Queer Planet

(aka: Mecaniques Celestes)

To My Women Friends

Colegas (aka: Pals)

Country 503

Costa Brava

Sweden

Turkey

Crueles, Las (aka: The Cruel Ones)

Danzón

Älskande par (aka: Loving Couples)

Hamam: The Turkish Bath

Dark Habits (aka: Entre tinieblas)

Amorosa

(aka: Steam)

Desire (1999)

Companions: Tales from the Closet

Diputado, El (aka: The Deputy)

Farewell, The (aka: Avskedet)

Doors Cut Down

United Kingdom

Persona

Excuse Me Duckie, But Lucas

Show Me Love (aka: Fucking Åmål)

Loved Me (aka: Perdona Bonita,

17 Rooms (or What Do Lesbians

Silence, The (aka: Tystnaden)

pero Lucas me queria a mi)

Do in Bed?)

Thirst (aka: Törst; Three Strange Loves)

Extramuros (aka: Beyond the Walls)

21st Century Nuns

Women on the Roof

Food of Love

4pm

(aka: Kvinnorna på taket)

Gaudi Afternoon

99 Women

Yes (aka: To Ingrid My Love Lisa;

Gladys, A Cuban Mother

(aka: Isle of Lost Women; 99 mujeres)

Kvinnolek)

Harlequin Exterminator

A.K.A

High Heels (aka: Tacones lejanos)

Achilles

I Love You Baby

Switzerland

Actions Speak Louder than Words

Kika

After the Break (1998)

Km. 0 (aka: Kilometro cero)

F. is a Bastard (aka: F. est un salaud)

Age of Dissent

Krámpack (aka: Nico & Dani)

Friends in High Places

Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a

Labyrinth of Passion

Killer Condom

Serial Killer

(aka: Laberinto de pasiones)

(aka: Kondom des Grauens)

Alive and Kicking (aka: Indian Summer)

Law of Desire (aka: La Ley del Deseo)

Living and Dying

Andy Warhol and His Work

Live Flesh (aka: Carne Trémula)

(aka: Ich Lebe Gern, Ich Sterbe Gern)

Angelic Conversation, The

Love of a Man, The

Manodestra

Anniversary, The (1968)

(aka: Amor de hombre)

Peppermills

Another Country

Meeting of Two Queens

Pourquoi Pas Moi? (aka: Why Not Me?)

Apartment Zero

Mi Novia El

Set Me Free (aka: Emporte-moi)

Armistead Maupin is a Man I

Noche de Walpurgis, La

Thelma

Dreamt Up

Not Love, Just Frenzy

Venus Boyz

Art of Cruising Men, The

(aka: Mas Que Amor, Frenesi)

B. D. Women

Our Lady of the Assassins

Taiwan

Baby

(aka: La Virgen de los sicarios)

Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pasajes (aka: Passages)

Cha-Cha for the Fugitive, A

Barry Lyndon

Peixe-Lua (aka: Moon-Fish)

(aka: Gai Tao-wan-je de ChaCha)

Battle of Tuntenhaus

Pepi, Luci and Bom

Fleeing By Night (aka: Ye Ben)

Beautiful Thing

Pourquoi Pas Moi? (aka: Why Not Me?)

Incidental Journey

Bedazzled

Residencia, La

(aka: Haijiao Tianya)

Bedrooms & Hallways

(aka: The House that Screamed)

Murmur of Youth

Beefcake

Sagitario

(aka: Mei li zai chang ge)

Bent

Second Skin (aka: Segunda Piel)

Outcasts, The

Best of Out and Out on Tuesday, The

Shampoo Horns

(aka: Niezi; The Outsiders)

Better Dead than Gay

(aka: Cuernos de espuma)

Peony Pavilion, The

Between Two Women

Silencis (aka: Silent Moments)

Silent Thrush, The

Bilitis

Summer of Miss Forbes, The

(aka: Shisheng Huamei)

Bill Called William, A

(aka: El Verano de la señora Forbes)

Too Young (aka: Ye Maque)

Bit of Scarlett, A

Terror in the Crypt

Twin Bracelets (aka: Shuang Cho)

Bitter Moon

(aka: La Cripta e L’Incubo)

Vive l’Amour (aka: Aiqing Wansui)

Blind Moment, The

To an Unknown God

Wedding Banquet, The (aka: Hsi yen)

Blue

(aka: A un Dios Desconocido)

Where Is My Love?

Blue Boys

Vampyros Lesbos (aka: Lesbian

(aka: Qiangpo Puguang)

Blunt: The Fourth Man

Vampires; Die Erbin des Dracula)

Bob & Rose

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

Thailand

Body of a Poet: A Tribute to Audre

(aka: Qué he hecho yo para

Lorde 1934-1992, The

merecer esto?!! )

Borderline

Anguished Love

Borstal Boy

Flowing Hearts: Thailand Fighting AIDS

Boy Next Door? A Profile of Boy George

I Am a Man

Boyfriends (1995)

Iron Ladies, The (aka: Sa tree lex)

Boyfriends (1999)

Ladyboys

Boys from Brazil, The

Last Song, The

504 Country

Boys in the Backyard

Empire State

Illegal Tender

Breaking the Code

Englishman Abroad, An

Imagining October

Breaking the Silence

Entertaining Mr Sloane

Immigration

Brian Epstein Story, The

Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus

Impromptu

Bright Eyes

Mann Story

In on Earth as It Is in Heaven

Burning Secret

Exiles of Love

In Pursuit of Prince/ess Charming

Butley

Eyes of Tammy Faye, The

In the Shadow of the Sun

Butterfly Kiss

Fearless Vampire Killers, The

Indecent Acts

Call Me Your Girlfriend

(aka: Dance of the Vampires)

Investigator, The

Came Out, It Rained, Went Back

Fight to Be Male, The

Iris

in Again

Final Programme, The (aka: The

It’s a Queer World

Caravaggio

Last Days of Man on Earth)

It’s Not Unusual: A Lesbian and

Caretaker, The (aka: The Guest)

Flames of Passion

Gay History

Carrington

Flesh and Paper

Jackson: My Life Your Fault

Cat and the Canary, The

Forbidden Passion: Oscar Wilde the Movie

Jodie: An Icon

Caught Looking

Forever (1991)

Julian Clary - The Mincing

Chanel Solitaire

Forgive & Forget

Machine Tour

Clancy’s Kitchen

Fostering

Just like a Woman

Closer

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Keep it Up, Jack! (aka: Auntie)

Closing Numbers

Framed Youth

Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood

Comfort of Strangers, The

(aka: Revolt of the Teenage Perverts)

Babylon (aka: Kenneth Anger)

Coming Out (1972)

Francis Bacon

Khush

Compromised Immunity

Frankenstein Created Woman

Killer in the Village

Comrades in Arms

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

Killing of Sister George, The

Confessions of a Pretty Lady

Freddie Mercury: The Untold Story

King and Country

Confessions of a Window Cleaner

Fruit Machine, The (aka: Wonderland)

King Girl

Countess Dracula

Full Monty, The

Krays, The

Crimes of Passion

Gaea Girls

L-Shaped Room, The

Cruising in the Channels

Garden, The

Ladyboys

Crying Game, The

Gay Bombay

Last Emperor, The

Dandy Dust

Gay Rock and Roll Years, The

Last of England, The

Darker Side of Black, The

Gay Sera Sera

Lawless Heart, The

Darling

Get Real

Leather Boys, The

Day of the Jackal, The

Ginger Beer

Lesbian Health Matters

Day the Fish Came Out, The

Girl Stroke Boy

Lesbians Behaving Badly

(aka: Otan ta psaria vgikan sti steria)

Girls in Boy’s Bars

Lesbians Go Mad in Lesbos

Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men

Glasses Break

Lesbians Olé

Deadfall

Glitterbug

Like It Is

Deflatable Man, The

Goblin Market

Little Bit of Lippy, A

Desire (1989)

Gods and Monsters

Lone Star Hate

Different Corner, A

Gold Diggers, The

Long Day Closes, The

Different for Girls

Good Father, The (aka: Fathers’ Rites)

Looking for Langston

Different Kind of Love, A

Grass is Greener, The

Loose Connections

Disgraceful Conduct

Groove on a Stanley Knife

Loot

Does Your Mother Know?

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

Loss of Heat

Domestic Bliss

Hanging Garden, The

Loss of Innocence

Double Entente

Haunting, The

(aka: The Greengage Summer)

Double the Trouble, Twice the Fun

Heatwave

Lost Language of Cranes, The

Double Trouble

Heavy Petting (1991)

Love and Death on Long Island

Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde

Hell For Leather

(aka: Amour et mort à Long Island)

Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde

Heterosexuality

Love and Marriage

Dream Girls

Hollow Reed

Love is the Devil

Dresser, The

Home Sweet Home

Love Story: Berlin 1942, A

Duffer

Home You Go

Lune

Dyke Blend

Home-Made Melodrama

Lust and Liberation

e-male

Homophobia in Hollywood

Lust for a Vampire

Eat the Rich

Hunger, The

(aka: To Love a Vampire)

Eban and Charley

I Am a Camera

M.U.F.F. Match

Edward II

I Want What I Want

Ma Vie en Rose (aka: My Life in Pink)

Emergence

If

Country 505

Mad, Bad and Barking

Polskiseks

Surviving Sabu

Madagascar Skin

Portion of a Lady

Swollen Stigma

Madame Sousatzka

Portrait of a Marriage

Tales of the City

Magic Christian, The

Postcards from America

Taste of Honey, A

Man of No Importance, A

Prick Up Your Ears

Tea Leaf

Man Who Drove with Mandela, The

Pride, Politics and Pissheads

Tell Me No Lies

Mark of Lilith, The

Priest

Tell Me the Truth About Love

Matt

Privates on Parade

Terence Davies Trilogy, The

Maurice

Queer As Folk (1998)

Terry and Julian (Vol. 1 and 2)

Me and the Girls

Queer As Folk 2

Thin Ice: Passion on the Pink Rink

Memory Pictures

Question of Attribution, A

This is Dedicated: Grieving When a

Memsahib Rita

Rachel, Rachel

Partner Dies

Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence

Rachel Williams Documentary

Time Zones

Metrosexuality

Rainbow, The

To Die for (aka: Heaven’s a Drag)

Midnight Express

Razor Blade Smile

Total Eclipse

Militia Battlefield

Reflecting Skin, The

Touch of Love, A (aka: Thank You

Minoru and Me

Reframing AIDS

All Very Much; The Millstone)

Modesty Blaise

Relax

Touchables, The

Mona Lisa

Rhythm & Blues

Trials of Oscar Wilde, The

Music Lovers, The

Richard’s Things

Triple Echo

My Beautiful Laundrette

Right Wing, Right Off, Right

True Blue Camper

My Mother is an Alien

Hons, Right?

Truth About Gay Sex, The

Naked Civil Servant, The

Righteous Babes, The

Truth Game, The

Naked Lunch

Ritz, The

Twins of Evil (aka: The Gemini Twins)

Nervous Energy

Rocky Horror Picture Show, The

Two Men

Nice Girls Don’t

Rosebud

Two of Us (aka: Mates)

Nietta’s Diary

Running Gay: Lesbian and Gay

Valentino

Night with Derek, A

Participation in Sport

Vampire Lovers, The

Nighthawks

Salome’s Last Dance

Vampyres, Daughters of Dracula

Nijinsky

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

(aka: Blood Hunger)

Nocturne (1990)

Sari Red

Velvet Goldmine

North of Vortex

Scrubbers

Veronica 4 Rose

Oi Queer

Sebastiane

Victim

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Secret Ceremony

Victor/Victoria

Orlando

Secret Policeman’s Private Parts, The

Video 28

Osaka Story

Servant, The

Village Affair, A

Other Voices, Other Rooms

Sex 121 and the Gulag

Village Voices

Our Private Idaho

Sex and the Sandinistas

Villain

Out in Nature: Homosexual

Sex Becomes Her: The True Life

Wavelengths

Behaviour in the Animal Kingdom

Story of Chi Chi LaRue

We Think the World of You

Over Our Dead Bodies

Sex Change: Shock! Horror! Probe!

We’ve Been Framed

Oy Gay

Sex Warriors and the Samurai

Weekend, The

Pansexual Public Porn

Sex Wars

Well Sexy Women

(aka: The Adventures of Hans and Del)

Sexual Identity

What’s Cooking?

Paragraph 175

Shadey

Why am I Gay?

Party Monster

Sherlock, Louise and Mina

Wilde (aka: Oscar Wilde)

Passion of Remembrance, The

Shinjuku Boys

Wildflowers

Past Caring

Sister My Sister

Withnail and I

Pedagogue

Sixth Happiness, The

Wittgenstein

Performance

Skin Complex

Wolves of Kromer, The

Personal Best (1991)

Sodom

Women in Love

Perverted Justice

Staircase

Women Like Us/Women Like That

Peter’s Friends

Stand on Your Man

Wonder Boys, The

Piccadilly Pickups

Star is Porn, A

Working Class Dykes from Hell

Pillow Book, The

Stonewall

X Y and Zee (aka: Zee and Co.)

Pink Video: Out-Rageously Pink, The

Storm in a Teacup

Yang±Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

Place in the Sun, A

Story So Far, The

Yellow Fever

Place of Rage, A

Strip Jack Naked: Nighthawks II

Young Soul Rebels

Playing Gay

Suddenly Last Summer (1991)

Zero Budget

Pleasure Principle, The

Sunday, Bloody Sunday

506 Country

Uruguay

Always Walter! An Inner View of

Betty Anderson

Walter Larrebee

Between the Lines

Burnt Money (aka: Plata quemada;

American Beauty

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Burning Money)

American Fabulous

Beyond Therapy

American Gigolo

Big Business

USA

American Slices

Big Eden

Amerikanos

Big Sky, The

Among Good Christian Peoples

Bigger Splash, A

10 Attitudes

Among Others

Bike Boy

10 Violent Women

Anatomy of a Hate Crime

Billy Turner’s Secret

101 Rent Boys

And the Band Played On

Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss

2 by 4 (aka: 2 x 4)

And Then Came Summer

Biloxi Blues

2 or 3 Things But Nothing for Sure

Anderson Tapes, The

Bird in the Hand

24 Nights

Angel (1983)

Birdcage, The

27 Pieces of Me

Angels!

Birthday Time

$30

Animal Factory

Bite Me Again

45 Minutes of Bondage

Annie Sprinkle’s Herstory of Porn:

Bitter Harvest (1993)

’68

Reel to Real

Bittersweet

7 Steps to Sticky Heaven

Anniversary, The (1995)

Black Glove, The

90 Miles

Another 45 Minutes of Bondage

Black Is... Black Ain’t

99% Woman

Anxiety of Inexpression and the

Black Mama, White Mama

Absolutely Positive

Otherness Machine, The

Black Nations/Queer Nations?

Absolution of Anthony, The

Any Wednesday

Black Widow

Abuse

Anything Once

Blair Princess Project, The

Acting on Impulse

Apart From Hugh

Blank Point: What is Transsexualism?, The

(aka: Eyes of a Stranger)

Arch Brown’s Top Story

Blazing Saddles

Adam’s Rib

As Far Away as Here

Blessed Art Thou

Adventures in the Gender Trade

As Good As It Gets

(aka: A Question of Faith)

Adventures of Sebastian Cole, The

As Is

Blind Faith

Advise and Consent

Ashley 22

Block Party

Affirmations

Audit

Blonde Cobra

After Hours

Avenge Tampa

Blood and Concrete

After Stonewall

B.U.C.K.L.E.

Blood Money

After the Break (1992)

B/side

Bloodbrothers (aka: A Father’s Love)

After the Game

Baby Steps

Bloodsisters: Leather Dykes and S&M

Age 12: Love with a Little L

Badass Supermama

Bloody Mama

Agora

Balcony, The

Blow Job

AIDS Show: Artists Involved with

Ballad of Little Jo, The

Blue Haven

Death and Survival, The

Ballot Measure 9

Bombay Eunuch

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn

Bar Girls

Border Line...Family Pictures

Algie the Miner

Basic Instinct

Born in Flames

Alicia was Fainting

Basic Necessities

Boston Strangler, The

Alien Prey

Basketball Diaries, The

Bound

Alkali, Iowa

Beat

Bound and Gagged: A Love Story

All about Alice

Beauty Before Age

Bounty, The

All Fall Down

Because the Dawn

Boy Germs

All Girl Action: The History of

Because this is About Love

Boy Named Sue, A

Lesbian Erotica

Becoming Colette

Boy Next Door

All God’s Children

Bed of Lies

Boychick

All Out Comedy

Before Night Falls

Boys Don’t Cry

All Over Me

Before Stonewall: The Making of a

Boys in the Band, The

All Over the Guy

Gay and Lesbian Community

Boys Next Door, The

All the Queens Men

Behind Walls

Boys’ Night Out

All the Rage

Being John Malkovich

Boys of Cell Block Q

All-American Story, An

Ben Hur

Boys of Manchester, The

Alley of the Tranny Boys

Benjamin Smoke

Boys on the Side

Almost the Cocktail Hour

Best In Show

Bradfords Tour America, The

Alone Together: Young Adults

Best Man, The

Brandon Teena Story, The

Living with HIV

(aka: Gore Vidal’s The Best Man)

Breaking the Surface

Alternative Conceptions

Betsy, The

Breaking up Really Sucks

Country 507

Brincando el Charco: Portrait of a

Chicks in White Satin

Danger Girl, The

Puerto Rican

Children’s Hour, The

Danny

Britney Baby - One More Time

Chocolate Babies

Darling International

Broadway Damage

Choirboys, The

Daughter of Dykes

Broadway Melody, The

Choosing Children

David & Goliath

Broken Goddess

Chop Suey

David Searching

Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic

Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town

De Colores

Comedy, The

Christine Jorgensen Story, The

Dead Boys’ Club, The

Bubbeh Lee and Me

Chuck and Buck

Deaf Heaven

Buddies

Chuck Solomon: Coming of Age

Deal, The

Burning Secret

Chutney Popcorn

Dear Jesse

Bus Riley’s Back in Town

Cicely

Dear Mom

Business of Fancydancing, The

Circuit

Dear Rock

Busting

Citizen Cohn

Death in Venice, CA

But, I’m a Cheerleader

Claire

Deathtrap

Butch Camp

Claire of the Moon

Deathwatch

Butcher’s Wife, The

Clancy Street Boys

Debutantes, The

Butley

Clay Farmers, The

Decodings

Butter & Pinches

Cleopatra Jones

Deep End, The

By Design

Cleopatra’s Second Husband

Defying Gravity

By Hook or By Crook

Clinic E

Deliverance

Cabaret

Clips

Delta, The

Caged

Close To Home

Demons

Caged Fury

Closets Are Health Hazards

Desert Hearts

Calamity Jane

Coal Miner’s Granddaughter

Desi’s Looking for a New Girl

California Suite

Cockettes, The

Desire (1999)

Caligula

Coffee Date

Desperate Living

Call to Witness

Color Purple, The

Destroying Angel

Camp Lavender Hill

Come Back to the Five and Dime,

Detective, The

Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please?

Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

Devotion

Can’t Stop Dancing

Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts, A

Diabolique

Can’t Stop the Music

Coming Home

Diane Linkletter Story, The

Cancer in Two Voices

Coming of Age

Different Kind of Black Man, A

Car Wash

Coming Out, Coming Home:

Different Story, A

Carmelita Tropicana: Your Kunst Is

Asian and Pacific Islander Family Stories

Ding Dong

Your Waffen

Coming Out under Fire

Dinner Guest, The

Carmilla

Common Flower, A

Dirty Fingernails

Castro, The

Common Ground

Disco Years, The

Cat Nip

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

Divine Trash

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter

Doctors’ Wives

Cat People

Compulsion

Dog Day Afternoon

Cater Waiter

Conception

Doing Time on Maple Drive

Caught

Confession, The

Doom Generation

Caught in the Crossfire

Consenting Adult

Double Strength

Cecil B Demented

Coonskin (aka: Street Fight)

Dozens, The

Celluloid Closet, The

Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality, A

Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde

Certain Grace, A

Could Be Worse

Dr T & the Women

Chain of Desire

Crash and Burn

Dracula’s Daughter

Chained Girls

Creature

Dragtime

Chained Heat

Critical Mass: Gay Games Amsterdam

Drama Queen

Chained Heat II

Crocodile Tears

Drawing Girls

Change of Heart, A

Cruel

Dreaded Experimental Comedies:

Change the Frame

Cruising

How to Lessons, Body Rhythms,

Changing Face

Crush (2000)

My New Lover, The

Changing Our Minds: The Story of

Curse of the Queerwolf

Dress Gray

Dr Evelyn Hooker

Cuz It’s Boy

Dressed to Kill

Charlie

Cynara: Poetry in Motion

Drift

Chasing Amy

Daddy & Papa

Drop Dead Georgeous: The Power

Chastity

Dadshuttle, The

of HIV Positive Thinking

Chelsea Girls, The

Damned if You Don’t

Drowning Lessons

508 Country

Dry Kisses Only

Flirt

Gia

Dykes and Their Dogs

Flora’s Garment Bursting Into Bloom

Gilda

Early Frost, An (1985)

Florida Enchantment, A

Girl in Every Port, A

Eban and Charley

Flow

Girl Power

Ed Wood

Flowing Hearts: Thailand Fighting AIDS

Girl, The

Edge of Seventeen (aka: Edge of 17)

Fluffer, The

Girl Thing, A

Eiger Sanction, The

Flush

Girlfriends (1978)

Eight Million

Fly Away Homo

Girlfriends (1993)

Eileen is a Spy

Food of Love

Girls Who Like Girls

Elegant Spanking, The

For Straights Only

Glen or Glenda

Elegy in the Streets

Forbidden Justice (aka: Short Eyes)

Go

Ellen DeGeneres: The Beginning

Forms and Motifs

Go Fish

Elton John: Tantrums and Tiaras

Forsaken

God, Gays and the Gospel

Emily and Gitta

Fortune and Men’s Eyes

Godass

Empty Bed, An

Forty Deuce

Gods and Monsters

Endangered

Fox, The

Golden Threads

Entwined

Foxfire

Good Family, The

Equus

Framing Lesbian Fashion

(aka: Thanksgiving Day)

Erotique

Franchesca Page

Goodbye Emma Jo

Et L’Amore

Frankie and Johnny

Goodbye Girl, The

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Freebie and the Bean

Grapefruit

Everything in Between

Freebird

Green Plaid Shirt

Everything Relative

Fresh Kill

Green Pubes

Execution of Justice

Fried Green Tomatoes

Greetings from Out Here

Execution of Wanda Jean, The

Friend of Dorothy, A

Greetings from Washington

Exploding Oedipus

Friends and Family

Grief

Eyes of Tammy Faye, The

Frisk

Group

Fag Hag

Fucked in the Face

Group, The

Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay

Full Moon in New York

Gypsy 83

Pornography, The

(aka: Ren zai Niu Yue)

Gypsy Boys

Family Affair, A (1995)

Fun

Habit

Family Affair, A (2001)

Fun Down There

Hairspray

Family Fundamentals

Fun with a Sausage (aka: L’Ingenue)

Hallelujah!

Family Values

Funny Lady

Hand on the Pulse

Family Values: An American Tragedy

Gang Girls 2000

Happy Birthday Gemini

Fanci’s Persuasion

Garbo Talks

Happy Texas

Fantasy Dancer

Gasp

Hard

Fated to be Queer

Gay Agenda, The

Hard Love & How to Fuck in High Heels

Fearless Vampire Killers, The

Gay Cuba

Harlequin Exterminator

(aka: Dance of the Vampires)

Gay Deceivers, The

Harold and Hiroshi

Female Closet, The

Gay & Gray in New York City

Haunted Summer

Female Misbehavior

Gay Tape: Butch and Femme

Haunted World of Edward D. Wood

Female Perversions

Gay USA

Jnr, The

Female Trouble

Gay Voices, Gay Legends

Haunting of Morella, The

Fighting in South-West Louisiana

Gay Voices, Gay Legends 2

Haunting, The

Film for Two

Gay Youth

He Bop!

Finding North

Gaymes, The

He’s Like

Fingered!

Gemini Affair, The

He’s My Girl

Finished

Genesis Children, The

Headhunter

Fireworks

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Hearing Voices

First Base

Gently down the Stream

Heat

First Breath

Gertrude Stein and a Companion

Heaven, Earth and Hell

First Comes Love (1991)

Gertrude Stein: When You See This

Heavy Petting (1988)

Fisher King, The

Remember Me

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Fixing Frank

Get Bruce

Hell’s Highway

Flaming Creatures

Get Out

Hellion Heatwave

Flawless

Get Over It

Henry and June

Flesh (aka: Andy Warhol’s Flesh)

Get the Bowheads

Her Life as a Man

Flesh for Frankenstein

Get Your Stuff

Her Urge

Flesh Gordon

Getting It On

Hey Sailor, Hey Sister

Country 509

Hidden Assassin (aka: The Shooter)

In the Flesh (2000)

Ke Kulana He Mahu: Remember-

Hidden Child

In the Gloaming

ing a Sense of Place

Hide and Seek

In This House of Brede

Keep the River on Your Right

High Art

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome

Keep Your Laws off My Body

High Tech Rice

Incredibly True Adventures of Two

Kevin’s Room

Higher Learning

Girls in Love, The

Kim

Hired to Kill

Infidel

Kindling Point, The

History Lessons

Inn Trouble

King of the City (aka: Club Life)

History of the World According to

Inside Monkey Zetterland

Kinsey 3, The

a Lesbian, The

Inside Out

Kiss Me Guido

Hit and Runway

Internal Affairs

Kiss of the Spider Woman, The

hITCH

Interview with the Vampire

Kiss the Boys and Make Them Die

HIV Rollercoaster

Intimate Friendship, An

Kissing Jessica Stein

Holding

Inverted Minstrel

L. I. E.

Hole

Invocation of My Demon Brother

L Is for the Way You Look

Home for the Holidays

Iris

Labor More than Once

Home Movie

Isle of Lesbos

Lady

Homicidal

It Dwells in Mirrors

Lady in Cement

Homo Heights (aka: Happy Heights)

It Wasn’t Love

Lady in Waiting, The

Homo Promo

It’s a Boy! Journeys from Female to Male

Ladybugs

Homosexuality and Lesbianism

It’s Elementary: Talking about Gay

Laramie Project, The

Homoteens

Issues in School

Larry’s Visit

Hooking Up

It’s in the Water

Last Call at Maud’s

Hope Along the Wind: The Life of

It’s My Party

Last Emperor, The

Harry Hay

Jake ‘Today I Became a Man’

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Hope is a Thing With Feathers

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

Last Married Couple in America, The

Horse Dreams in BBQ Country

Janine

Last of Sheila, The

Hotel New Hampshire, The

Jareena: Portrait of a Hijda

Late Bloomers

Hours and Times, The

Jaundiced Eye, The

Latin Boys Go To Hell

How to Female Ejaculate

Jeffery’s Hollywood Screen Trick

Laughing Policeman, The

How to Find Your Goddess Spot

Jeffrey

Lavender Limelight: Lesbians in Films

How to Have a Sex Party

Jerker

Lavender Tortoise

How to Kill Her

Jodie Promo, The

Leather

Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf

Joe-Joe

Leather Jacket Love Story

Hungry Hearts

Joey Breaker

Leave It!

I Became a Lesbian and So Can You

Joey Goes to Wigstock

Legacies

I Exist: Voices From the Lesbian

Joggernaught

Legend of Lylah Clare, The

and Gay Middle Eastern

Johnny Eager

Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire Too

Community

Johnny Guitar

Lesbian Bed Death: Myth or Epidemic

I Hate Faggy Fag Fag

Johns

Lesbian Physicians on Practice,

I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life

Jollies

Patients & Power

of Marlon Riggs

Journey of Jared Price, The

Lesbian Teenagers in High School

I Shot Andy Warhol

Joys of Smoking, The

Lesbian Tongues

I Think I Do

Juggling Gender

Lesbians in the Pulpit

I’ll Be Your Mirror

Julia

Lesson 9

I’ll Love You Forever - Tonight

Julie Johnson

Let’s Play Prisoners

I’m Starving

Just Because of Who We Are

Lez B Friends: A Biker Bitch Hate

I’m the One that I Want

Just Call Me Kade

Story

If She Grows Up Gay

Just for Fun

Lianna

If She Only Knew

Just One of the Girls

Liberace

If These Walls Could Talk 2

(aka: Anything for Love)

Liberace: Behind the Music

Ifti

Just One of the Guys

Licensed to Kill

Image in the Snow

Just One Time

Lickerish Quartet, The

Images

Just the Two of Us

(aka: The Erotic Quartet)

In Bed with Madonna

Kali’s Vibe

Lie Down with Dogs

(aka: Madonna: Truth or Dare)

Kalin’s Prayer

Life and Death on the A-List

In My Father’s House

Kamikaze Hearts

Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, The

In & Out

Kamikaze Summer

Life’s a Butch!

In the Best Interests of the Children

Kansas Anymore

Lifetime Commitment: A Portrait

In the Flesh (1997)

Karen Black Like Me

of Karen Thomson

Kate’s Addiction

510 Country

Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc’s

Man of the Year

Never Look Back

Adventures in Plastic

Manhattan

Never Met Picasso

Lightship, The

Mannequin

New Women, The

Lilith

March in April

Next Best Thing, The

Liquid Sky

March on Washington, The

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

Listen

Mascara

Nice Girls Don’t Do It

Live Nude Girls

Mask of Desire (aka: Shades of Black)

Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, The

Live Nude Girls UNITE!

Mass Appeal

Night Rhythms

Live to Tell: The First Gay and

Massillon

Night Warning

Lesbian Prom in America

Match that Started My Fire, The

Nine Days

Living End, The

Maybe We’re Talking About a

Nitrate Kisses

Living Out Loud

Different God

No Backup

Living Proof: HIV and the Pursuit

Mayhem

No Dumb Questions

of Happiness

Meeting Magdalene

No Exit

Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis @ 100

Men in Love

No Ordinary Love

Loads

Mercy (1989)

No Rewind

Lonely Lady, The

Mercy (1999)

No Way Out

Lonesome Cowboys

Metamorphosis: Man into Woman

Nocturne (1989)

Long Awaited Pleasure

Midnight Cowboy

Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien

Long Voyage Home, The

Midnight Express

aka: No Regret)

Long Weekend, The

Midnight in the Garden of Good

Norman, is that You?

(aka: The Long Weekend (O’Despair))

and Evil

Not All Parents are Straight

Longtime Companion

Midwife’s Tale, The

Not Just Passing Through

Looking for a Space

Mike’s Murder

Notorious C.H.O.

Looking for Common Ground

Minor Disturbances

Nowhere

Looking for Mr Goodbar

Mirror Images II

Nuestra Salud: Violencia Domestica

Losing Lois

Mob Queen

Nunzio’s Second Cousin

Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel

Moments: The Making of Claire of

O Boys: Parties, Porn & Politics, The

Lot in Sodom

the Moon

Object of My Affection, The

Love Letter, The

More than Friends: The Coming

Odd Girl Out

Love Ltd.

Out of Heidi Leiter

Ode

Love Machine, The

Morocco

Ode to Billy Joe

Love Makes a Family: Gay Parents

Most Unknowable Thing, The

Off the Straight and Narrow:

in the ’90s

Mountain King, The

Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and

Love=ME3

Mountains of the Moon

Television

Love! Valour! Compassion!

Mr Christie

Olga’s Girls

Loved One, The

Mrs Doubtfire

Olive Tree, The

Loverville 2: The Honeymoon

Mujeria

ON_LINE

Lucifer Rising

Mulholland Drive

On the Bus

Luminous Procuress

Multiple Maniacs

Once Is Not Enough

Lunch with Eddie

MURDER and murder

(aka: Jacqueline Susann’s Once Is

Lust in the Dust

Must be the Music

Not Enough)

Luster

My Babushka

One Nation Under God

Luv Tale, A

My Best Friend’s Wedding

One + One

Lycanthrophobia

My Body

One Small Step

Lysis

My Brother’s Keeper

Only When I Laugh

M Butterfly

My Father is Coming

Opening Closet X: A Voice for

Madam Wang’s

My Femme Divine

Queer Youth

Madame Sousatzka

My Girlfriend Did It

Opposite of Sex, The

Made in Heaven

My Hustler

Ordinary Sinner

Mafu Cage, The

My Own Private Idaho

Other Mothers

(aka: My Sister, My Love)

My Two Loves

Other Side, The (aka: Del Otro Lado)

Magnolia

Myra Breckinridge

Other Voices, Other Rooms

Mahogany

Myth of Father

Our Brothers, Our Sons

Mai’s America

Nadja

Our House: A Very Real Documentary

Maid of Honor

Naked Highway

Our Mom’s a Dyke

Maids, The

Naked in New York

Our Sons (aka: Too Little, Too Late)

Making Love

Naomi’s Legacy

Out At Work: America Undercover

Mala Noche (aka: Bad Night)

Need and Want

Out in Africa

Mama, I Have Something to Tell You

Neptune’s Rocking Horse

Out in South Africa

Country 511

Out in Suburbia

Prefaces

Rules of the Road

Out in the Open

Pride Divide

Ruthie & Connie: Every Room in

Out Loud

Pride in Puerto Rico

the House

Out of Our Time

Prince of Tides, The

Sacred Lies, Civil Truths

Out of Season

Private Benjamin

Sad Disco Fantasia

Out of the Closet, Off the Screen:

Privilege

Safe is Desire

The Life & Times of William

Public Opinion

Safe Journey

Haines

Pump

Salt Mines, The

Out of the Past

Punks

Sambal Belacan in San Francisco

Out: The Making of a Revolutionary

Queen Christina

Satan’s Princess (aka: Malediction)

Outlaw

Queen of the Whole Wide World

Saturday Night at the Baths

Outtakes

Queen, The

Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers

Over the Rainbow: Parts 1 - 4

Queens Logic

Scenes from the Class Struggle in

Override

Queer As Folk (2000)

Beverly Hills

P. S. Your Cat is Dead

Queer Geography: Mapping Our

Scent Uva Butch

Paper Cranes

Identities

School’s Out: Lesbian and Gay Youth

Paragraph 175

Queer Son

Score

Parallel Sons

Question of Love, A

Scorpio Rising

Paris is Burning

Questioning Faith

Scout’s Honor

Paris Was a Woman

Radical Harmonies

Scream, Teen, Scream

Parting Glances

Raising Heroes

Sea in the Blood

Partners

Rape of Ganymede, The

Second Coming, The

Party Favor, The

Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall

Second Serve

Party Monster

Reaching for the Moon

Secrets

Party Safe with DiAna and Bambi

Reaching Out to Lesbian, Gay and

Seducers, The (aka: Death Game)

Passed Away

Bisexual Youth

Seduction of Innocence

Passing Resemblance

Real Ellen Story, The

See How They Run

Paul Cadmus: Enfant Terrible at 80

Rebel Rebel

Self-Destruction of Gia, The

Paul Monette: The Brink of

Red Dirt

Separate Peace, A

Summer’s End

Red Heat

Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force

Peccatum Mutum (aka: The Silent Sin)

Red Rain

Sergeant, The

Penitentiary

Red Ribbon Blues

Serving in Silence: The Marguerite

Peoria Babylon

Red River

Cammermeyer Story

Peppermills

Red Shoe Diaries 3, The: Another

Set It Off

Personal Best (1982)

Woman’s Lipstick

Seven Women

Phantom Pain

Reflections

Sex Bytes

Philadelphia

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Sex, Drugs and Democracy

Pillow Talk

Reform School Girls

Sex Flesh in Blood

Pink Angels, The

Relax... It’s Just Sex

Sex Is...

Pink Flamingos

Reno Finds Her Mom

Sex is Sex: Conversations with Male

Pink Narcissus

Rescuing Desire

Prostitutes

Pink Triangle: A Study of Prejudice

Resident Alien

Sex Monster, The

Against Gays & Lesbians

Return of Sarah’s Daughters, The

Sex/Life in LA

Place Between Our Bodies, The

Rice and Potatoes

Sexual Orientation: Reading

Place Called Lovely, A

Rights and Reactions

Between the Labels

Play Dead

Rites of Passage

Shades

Play It as It Lays

Ritual

Shades of Gray

Playing the Part

Ritual Nation

Shall We Dance

Please Don’t Stop: Lesbian Tips for

Rock Hudson

Shame No More

Givin’ and Gettin’ It

Rock Hudson’s Home Movies

Shantay

Pleasure Beach

Rock the Boat

Shatzi is Dying

Plushies & Furries

Rockwell

She Don’t Fade

Poison

Rocky Horror Picture Show, The

She Even Chewed Tobacco

Politics of Fur, The

Room of Words, The

She Must Be Seeing Things

Polyester

(aka: La Stanza della parole)

She Wears Cufflinks

Pony Glass

Roommates

She’s Real Worse than Queer

Pool Days

Rope

Shifting Positions

Portrait of Jason

Rose, The

Shooting Porn

Postcards from America

Roy Cohn / Jack Smith

Shoplifting Chanel

Potluck and the Passion, The

Rules of the Game

Sign of the Cross, The

512 Country

Signed: Lino Brocka

Story of a Bad Boy, The

Things You Can Tell Just by

Silence=Death (aka: Die AIDS-

Straight Agenda, The

Looking at Her

Trilogie: Schweigen=Tod)

Straight Down the Aisle: Confes-

This Is Not a Very Blank Tape Dear

Silence of the Lambs, The

sions of Lesbian Bridesmaids

Thousand Miles, A

Silence that Silences, The

Straight for the Money: Interviews

Three Bewildered People (aka: Three

Silent Pioneers

with Queer Sex Workers

Bewildered People in the Night)

Silkwood

Straight from the Heart: Gay and

Three of Hearts

Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender, The

Lesbian Children

Three on a Match

Silverlake Life: The View From Here

Straightman

Three to Tango

Sincerely Yours

Strange Life and Death of Dr

Threesome

Sink or Swim

Turing, The

Throwback (aka: Spike of Bensonhurst)

Sir: Just a Normal Guy

Strange One, The (aka: End as a Man)

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Siren

Stranger Inside

Thundercrack!

SIS: The Perry Watkins Story

Stray Dogs

Tidy Endings

Sister Louise’s Discovery

Streamers

Ties that Bind, The

Six Degrees of Separation

Strippers

Tim Miller: Loud and Queer

Size ‘Em Up

Such a Crime

Time Piece

Skin and Bone

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

Times of Harvey Milk, The

Slaves to the Underground

Sugar Cookies

Times Square

Sleep Come Free Me

Sugar High, Glitter City

Tiny and Ruby: Hell Drivin’ Women

Sleep in a Nest of Flames

Summer in My Veins (Director’s Cut)

Titanic 2000

Sluts and Goddesses Video Workshop

Sunflowers

To Ride a Cow

Smear

Superdyke

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Every-

Smoke

Superstar: The Life and Times of

thing, Julie Newmar

Snatch it

Andy Warhol

Toc Storee

Some Aspect of a Shared Lifestyle

Surrender Dorothy

Todd Killings, The

Some Ground to Stand On

Surviving Friendly Fire

Together Alone

Some Like It Hot

Susana

Together and Apart

Some of My Best Friends Are

Sweet Boy

Toilers and the Wayfarers, The

Some of These Days

Swimming

Token of Love

Some Prefer Cake

Swimming Upstream: A Year in the

Tom Clay Jesus

Something Close to Heaven

Life of Karen and Jenny

Tomboychik

Something for Everyone

Switch (1991)

Tongues Untied

(aka: Black Flowers for the Bride)

Switchblade Sisters

Too Much Sun

Somewhere in the City

Swoon

Tootsie

Song of the Loon

Sylvia Scarlett

Torch Song Trilogy

Sonny Boy

Sync Touch

Totally Confused

Sordid Lives

Tales of the City

Totally F***ed Up

Southern Comfort

Tales of the City 2

Touch Me (1997)

Souvenir

(aka: More Tales of the City)

Touch of Evil

Spartacus

Tales of the City 3

Traditional Family Vampires

Speaking for Ourselves

(aka: Further Tales of the City)

Tragedy of Samantha Biggle and the

Speedway Junky

Talk to Me like the Rain

Twins, The

Speedy Boys

Tangible Fathers

Transanimals

Spikes and Heels

Tank Girl

Transeltown

Spin the Bottle

Tea and Sympathy

Transexual Menace

Split: Portrait of a Drag Queen

Teenage Tupelo

Transformation, The

(aka: Split: William to Chrysis)

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

Transformers/AIDS

Spy Who Came, The

Tell Me Why: The Epistemology of Disco

Transsexual Journey, A

Staceyann Chin - A Poetry Slammer

Tender Fictions

Trappings of Transhood

Staircase

Terms of Conception

Trash

Star Maps

That Certain Summer

Treading Water

Steers and Queers

That Tender Touch

Treasure Island

Stephen

That’s a Family

Trembling Before G-d

Sticky Fingers of Time, The

Thelma and Louise

Trevor

Stiff Sheets

Theme: Murder

Trey Billings Show, The

Stonewall

They Are Lost to Vision Altogether

Treyf

Stonewall 25: Voices of Pride and Protest

Things We Said Today

Trick

Storme: The Lady of the Jewel Box

Trip, The

Country 513

Troika

When Boys Fly

Trois

When the Party’s Over

Truth About Jane, The

Whether You Like It or Not: The

Turnabout

Story of Hedwig

Twice a Man

White to be Angry, The

Twilight of the Golds, The

Who Happen to be Gay

Twin Cheeks: Who Killed the

Who’s Afraid of Project 10?

Homecoming King?

Wigstock: The Movie (1987)

Twinkle Toes

Wigstock: The Movie (1995)

Twisted

Wild Life

Two in Twenty

Wild Party, The

Two Moon Junction

Wild Side

Two Point Five

Wild Things

Uh-Oh!

William Burroughs: Commissioner

Unconditional Love

of the Sewers

Under Heat

Willie Dynamite

Union in Wait, A

Willy/Milly (aka: Something Special)

Unknown Cyclist, The

Windows

Up!

Without You I’m Nothing

Up the Academy

Woman Accused, A

Urbania

(aka: In the Glitter Palace)

Vanished

Woman Hunt

Vaudeville

Woman on Top

Vegas in Space

Women I Love

Velocity of Gary, The

Women in Cages

Velvet Goldmine

(aka: Women’s Penitentiary III)

Velvet Vampire, The

Women in Revolt

(aka: The Waking Hour)

Women of Brewster Place, The

Vendetta

Women of Gold

Venus Boyz

Wonder Boys, The

Very Funny

Word is Out

Very Natural Thing, A

Work

Vicious

Working Girls

Vintage: Families of Value

World According to Garp, The

Virgin Larry, The

World and Time Enough

Voices from the Front

Worthy Mothers

Voicing the Legacy

Wrecked for Life: The Trip &

Waiting

Magic of Trocadero Transfer

Waiting for the Moon

Wrong Son, The

Walk on the Wild Side

XXXY

Wallowitch & Ross: This Moment

Y tu Mamá También

War on Lesbians

(aka: And Your Mother Too)

War Widow, The

Yentl

Watermelon Woman, The

You Don’t Know Dick: Courageous

We Always Danced

Hearts of Transsexual Men

We Are Family

You’ve Had Worse Things in Your Mouth

Webcam Boys

Your Mother Wears Combat Boots

Wedding Banquet, The (aka: Hsi yen)

Youth Outloud!

Wedding Video, The

Zorro, the Gay Blade

Weekend, The

Weeki Wachee Girls

Yugoslavia

West Coast Crones

What is the Relationship between

Score

Rosa von Praunheim and the

Male Strippers of San Francisco?

What Makes a Family

Zimbabwe

What You Take for Granted

What’s Cooking?

Forbidden Fruit

514 Country

Distributors

10%

7thArt

ACMI

10% Productions

Seventh Art Releasing

Australian Centre for the Moving

6165 Santa Monica Blvd

7551 Sunset Blvd, Suite 104

Image (ACMI) Collections

Los Angeles CA 90038

Los Angeles CA 90046

222 Park St

USA

USA

South Melbourne Vic 3205

P: 1 323 460 4661

P: 1 323 845 1455

Australia

F: 1 323 460 6252

F: 1 323 845 4717

P: 61 3 9929 7040

www.10percent.com

E: seventhart@7thart.com

F: 61 3 9929 7027

www.7thart.com

E: collections@acmi.net.au

16MM

www.acmi.net.au

Sixteen Millimetre Australia Pty Ltd

ABC-US

136 Canterrbury Rd

American Broadcasting Company

Acrobat

Canterbury NSW 2193

500 S. Buena Vista St

Acrobat Films

Australia

Burbank CA 91521-4551

1 Penn St

P: 61 2 9718 7800

USA

North Balwyn Vic 3104

P: 1 800 2255 222

Australia

20thCenturyFox

www.abc.go.com

P: 61 3 9857 0553

20th Century Fox Film Corporation (Aust)

F: 61 3 9857 0553

PO Box 834

Absolute

E: info@acrobat-films.com

Lane Cove NSW 2066

Absolute Productions

www.acrobat-films.com

Australia

15 Coalmeadow Close, Walsall

P: 61 2 9418 3111

West Midlands W53 ZPR

Adobe

F: 61 2 9418 3377

United Kingdom

Adobe Productions

www.foxmovies.com

P: 44 192 271 2467

5283 Park Ave, Suite 5

F: 44 121 353 5973

Montréal Québec H2V 4G9

20thCenturyFox

E: simhort@hotmail.com

Canada

20th Century Fox Film Corporation (USA)

P: 1 514 272 3113

www.foxmovies.com

Academy

F: 1 514 272 3301

Academy Pictures

E: courrier@adobeproductions.com

21stCentury

Via Fratelli Ruspoli, 8

www.adobeproductions.com

21st Century Pictures

Rome 00198

AdVitam

449 Darling St

Italy

Balmain NSW 2041

P: 39 6 840 424

Ad Vitam

Australia

F: 39 6 8417 043

6 rue de I’ecole de Medecine

P: 61 2 9555 7133

E: academy@politecnos.it

Paris 75006

F: 61 2 9555 7322

www.politecnos.it/academy-pict/

France

P: 33 1 4634 7574

2XTexan

AchabFilm

E: cineclassic-advitam@wanadoo.fr

2 X Texan Productions

Achab Film

AFTRS

1014 Bedford St

Viale Gorizia 24C

Los Angeles CA 90035

Rome 00198

Australian Film TV & Radio School

USA

Italy

PO Box 126

P: 1 310 657 8170

P: 39 06 854 7230

North Ryde NSW 1670

F: 39 06 8535 5692

Australia

E: jef.nuyts@tiscalinet.it

P: 61 2 9805 6455

F: 61 2 9805 6563

E: ruths@aftrs.edu.au

www.aftrs.edu.au

Distributors

515

Alexandros

Altermedia

ArteFrance

Alexandros Film

Altermedia

Arte France

Agalianou 13

PO Box 010 -084

8 rue Marceau

Athens 11476

St George Station

Issy-les-Moulineaux 92785

Greece

Staten Island NY 10301

France

P: 30 1 6421 1656

USA

P: 33 1 5500 7074

F: 30 1 6454 466

P: 1 718 273 8829

F: 33 1 5500 7396

www.compulink.gr/gavafy

E: a-charbonnel@paris.arte.fr

AMAC

www.artefrance.fr

All-Girl-Action

Academy of Media Arts Cologne

All-Girl-Action-Productions

Peter-Welter-Plate 2

ArtemisInt

530 West 113th St, #1D

Cologne 50676

Artemis International

New York NY 10025

Germany

Suite 3, 24 Thorogood St

USA

P: 43 221 201 89330

Victoria Park WA 6100

P: 1 212 665 4402

F: 43 221 210 8917

Australia

F: 1 212 854 7702

E: dilger@khm.de

P: 61 8 9470 2936

E: jf295@columbia.edu

F: 61 8 9362 5500

AmericanFilm

E: terri@artemisfilms.com

Alliance

American Film Institute

www.artemisfilms.com

Alliance Atlantis Communications

2021 North Western Ave

121 Bloor St East, Suite 1500

Los Angeles CA 90027

ArtificialEye

Toronto Ontario M4W 3M5

USA

Artificial Eye

Canada

P: 1 323 856 7600

12 King St

P: 1 416 967 1174

F: 1 323 467 4578

1st Floor

F: 1 416 960 0971

www.afi.com

London WC2

E: info@allianceatlantis.com

United Kingdom

www.allianceatlantis.com

AMIP

www.artificial-eye.com

AMIP Multimedia

AlliedArtists

52 rue Charlot

ArtisticLicense

Allied Artists, Bob Poirier

Paris 75003

Artistic License Films

105 North St, #3

France

470 Park Ave, 9th Floor

Portland MA 04101

P: 33 1 4887 4513

New York NY 10016

USA

F: 33 1 4887 4010

USA

P: 1 207 828 4030

E: amip@worldnet.fr

P: 1 212 779 0290

F: 1 212 696 9546

Alquimia

API-PFLAG

E: ArtLic@aol.com

Alquimia Cinema

API - PFLAG Project

www.artlic.com

Parma 8

PO Box 640223

Madrid 28043

San Francisco CA USA

ArtistView

Spain

P: 1 415 921 8850

Artist View Entertainment

P: 34 91 748 9040

F: 1 415 563 6658

12500 Riverside Drive, Suite 201-B

F: 34 91 300 5909

E: apipflag@aol.com

North Hollywood CA 91607

E: iker.monfort@alquimia.com

USA

www.alquimiacinema.com

Arrow

P: 1 818 752 2480

Arrow Entertainment

F: 1 818 752 9339

E: arrowfilms@yahoo.com

E: artistview@earthlink.net

516 Distributors

Ascanbee

Automat

BBCTV

Ascanbee

Laura Nix, Automat Pictures

BBC Worldwide Television

323 Princes Hwy

3255 Wilshire Blvd

Woodlands

Banksia NSW 2216

Suite 615

80 Wood Lane

Australia

Los Angeles CA 90010

London W12 OTT

P: 61 2 9556 2833

USA

United Kingdom

F: 61 2 9556 2844

P: 1 213 351 0444

P: 44 181 576 2000

F: 1 213 351 0445

F: 44 181 749 0538

Asparas

E: laura@automatpictures.com

www.bbc.co.uk

Asparas Film & TV Productions

www.automatpictures.com

2091 East 47th Ave

Behind-Walls

Vancouver British Columbia V5P 1R2

Avalanche

Behind Walls Productions

Canada

Avalanche Home Entertainment c/- Lions Gate Films

345 West 50th St, #7Z

P: 1 604 299 9685

www.lionsgatefilms.com

New York NY 10019

F: 1 604 299 9685

USA

E: asparasfilm@yahoo.com

Babylegs

P: 1 212 581 6085

Babylegs Entertainment

F: 1 212 956 2499

Atom

E: Filmprodny@aol.com

E: behindwalls@hotmail.com

Atom Films

www.atomfilms.com

BBC-Arena

bellecote

BBC - Arena

belle cote pictures

AttaGirl

London United Kingdom

1237 North Detroit, #7

Atta Girl Productions

P: 44 20 8895 6766

Los Angeles CA 90046

PO Box 130874

F: 44 20 8895 6974

USA

Carlsbad CA 92013

E: lucie.prescott@bbc.co.uk

P: 1 323 883 0725

USA

www.bbc.co.uk

E: bellecote@earthlink.net

P: 1 760 603 0121

F: 1 760 603 0121

BBC-Enterprises

BellMovies

E: hlesnick@attagirlprods.com

BBC Enterprises

Bell Movies

www.attagirlprods.com

Woodlands

202-1370 Davie St

80 Wood Lane

Vancouver British Columbia V6K 1K1

Attitude

London W12 OTT

Canada

Attitude Films

United Kingdom

P: 1 604 687 2329

300 Mercer St, Suite 26L

P: 44 181 576 0202

F: 1 604 605 8263

New York NY 10003

F: 44 181 749 0538

E: richard@bellmovies.com

USA

www.bbc.co.uk

www.bellmovies.com

P: 1 212 995 9008

F: 1 212 254 5135

BBC-Scotland

Berkeley

E: mail@attitudefilms.com

BBC Scotland

Berkeley Film Group

www.attitudefilms.com

Broadcasting House

CA USA

Queen Margaret Dr

P: 1 510 893 1820

AucklandUni

Glasgow G12 8DG

F: 1 510 893 0816

University of Auckland

United Kingdom

E: berkfilmgrp@lmi.net

Audio Visual Centre

P: 44 141 576 7642

Private Bag 92019

F: 44 141 576 8419

Auckland 1020

E: enquiries.scot@bbc.co.uk

New Zealand

www.bbc.co.uk/scotland

P: 64 9 373 7599 (ext 8918)

F: 64 9 373 7413

E: postmaster@auckland.ac.nz

www.auckland.ac.nz

Distributors

517

Beta

BiProduct

BobbyRoger

Beta Film

Bi Product Productions

BobbyRoger

Robert-Buerkle-Strasse 2

1216 Tenth Ave

105 North St, #3

Ismaning 85737

Seattle WA 98122

Portland MA 04101

Germany

USA

USA

P: 49 89 9956 2134

P: 1 206 323 0557

P: 1 207 761 7236

F: 49 89 9956 2703

F: 1 206 323 0118

F: 1 207 761 7236

E: DSchuerhoff@betacinema.com

E: minadog10@hotmail.com

E: bob@bobbyroger.com

www.betacinema.com

www.biproductproductions.com

www.bobbyroger.com

Beyond

Bizarre

BrokenHip

Beyond Films

Bizarre Productions

Broken Hip Films

53-55 Brisbane St

2501 Oak Quarters

240 East 35th St, #3J

Surry Hills NSW 2010

Smyrna GA 30080

New York NY 10016

Australia

USA

USA

P: 61 2 8217 2000

P: 1 770 319 8837

E: brokenhipfilms@aol.com

F: 61 2 8217 2035

F: 1 770 805 4079

E: films@beyond.com.au

E: tellsid@aol.com

Brüning

www.beyond.com.au

Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion

BlackCat

Kottbusserdamm 32

BFI

Black Cat Productions

Berlin 10467

British Film Institute

6111 North Talman

Germany

21 Stephen St

Chicago IL 60659

P: 49 30 6900 1042

London W1T 1LN

USA

F: 49 30 6900 1043

United Kingdom

P: 1 773 274 2300

E: anger@snafu.de

P: 44 20 7255 1444

F: 1 773 274 1200

F: 44 20 7436 7950

E: info@blackcatfilm.net

Budapest

E: booking.films@bfi.org.uk

www.blackcatfilm.net

Budapest Film

www.bfi.org.uk

www.budapestfilm.hu

Blackwatch

Big&Little

Blackwatch Communications Inc

BuenaVista

Big and Little Films

1410, rue Stanley Bureau 606

Buena Vista (Aust)

365 Barkly St

Montréal Québec H3A 1P8

Level 5, Como Centre

St Kilda Vic 3182

P: 1 514 844 6655

650 Chapel St

Australia

South Yarra Vic 3141

P: 61 3 9531 3319

BlowUp

Australia

F: 61 3 9531 7962

Blow Up Doll Productions

P: 61 3 9823 7800

3288 21st St, #149

F: 61 3 9826 0411

BigFilm

San Francisco CA 94110-2423

Big Film Shorts/Tigris Films

USA

BuenaVista

3727 W. Magnolia Blvd, Suite 189

P: 1 617 983 3443

Buena Vista International

Burbank CA 91510

E: srozen@earthlink.net

500 S. Buena Vista St

P: 1 818 563 2633

Burbank CA 91521

E: info@tigrisfilms.com

USA

www.bigfilmshorts.com

P: 1 818 295 3673

F: 1 818 843 6925

movies.go.com

518 Distributors

Bulgarian

Cambridge

Carlton

Bulgarian Gay Organisaiton

Cambridge Documentary Films

Carlton International

PO Box 123

PO Box 390385

35-38 Portman Square

Sofia 1784

Cambridge MA 02139-0004

London W1H 6NU

Bulgaria

USA

United Kingdom

P: 359 2 987 6872

P: 1 617 484 3993

P: 44 20 7224 3339

E: bgogemini@einet.bg

F: 1 617 484 0754

F: 44 20 7486 1707

www.bgogemini.org

E: cdf@shore.net

E: enquiries@carltonint.co.uk

nautilus.shore.net/~cdf/testsite

www.carltonint.co.uk

BustinOut

/home.html

Bustin’ Out Films

Casper

1011 Palm Ave #103

CanadianBroadcasting

Casper Films

West Hollywood CA 90069

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

70B Ranelagh

USA

PO Boz 500 Station A

Dublin 6

P: 1 310 854 0304

Toronto Ontario M5W 1E6

Ireland

E: cjrusso@pacbell.net

Canada

P: 353 1 497 0981

P: 1 416 205 3700

F: 353 1 497 0981

Butter&Pinches

www.cbc.ca

Butter & Pinches Productions

CastleHill

2213 Dwight Way, # 1/2

Canal+

Castle Hill Productions, Inc.

Berkeley CA 94704

Le Studio Canal+

1414 Avenue of the Americas

USA

17 rue Dumont D’Urville

New York NY 10019

P: 1 510 849 0802

Paris 75116

USA

E: mcmpress@yahoo.com

France

P: 1 212 888 0080

P: 33 1 4443 9800

F: 1 212 644 0956

BuzzTaxi

F: 33 1 4720 2967

Buzz Taxi

www.canal-plus.com

CBS

#201-1110 Yonge St

Columbia Broadcasting Service

Toronto Ontario M4W 2L6

Canyon

7800 Beverly Blvd, Suite 310

Canada

Canyon Cinema

Los Angeles CA 90036

P: 1 416 920 3800

145 Ninth St, # 260

USA

F: 1 416 920 3998

San Francisco CA 94103

E: info@buzztaxi.com

USA

Celluloid-Dreams

www.buzztaxi.com

P: 1 415 626 2255

Celluloid Dreams

F: 1 415 626 2255

24 rue Lamartine

CaliforniaNewsreel

E: films@canyoncinema.com

Paris 75009

California Newsreel

www.canyoncinema.com

France

500 Third St, Suite 500

P: 33 1 4970 0370

San Francisco CA 94107

CargoCult

F: 33 1 4970 0371

USA

Cargo Cult Productions

E: pierre@celluloid-dreams.com

P: 1 415 284 7800

243 Dearing St

www.celluloid-dreams.com

F: 1 415 284 7801

Athens Georgia 30605

E: contact@newsreel.org

USA

CentralMotion

www.newsreel.org

P: 1 706 543 0652

Central Motion Picture Corporation

F: 1 706 542 0226

Taipei Taiwan

P: 886 2 2371 5191

F: 886 2 2231 0681

E: cmpc5A@ms32.HINET.NET

Distributors

519

CFMDC

ChenM

CineL’Mod

Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre

Michelle Chen

Cine L’Mod Inc

37 Hanna Ave, Suite 220

Panorama Studio

802 Lexington Ave

Toronto Ontario M6K 1W8

12 Beisanhuan Dong Lu

4th Floor

Canada

Beijing 100013

New York NY 10021

P: 1 416 588 0725

China

USA

F: 1 416 588 7956

P: 86 10 8425 3498

P: 1 212 751 6483

E: bookings@cfmdc.org

F: 86 21 6420 7482

F: 1 212 751 6974

www.cfmdc.org

E: chenmm02@msn.com

E: giafilm@hotmail.com

Channel4

Chili

CinemaEsperance

Channel 4 Television Corporation

Chili Films

Cinema Esperance International

124 Horseferry Rd

101 Eton Rd

96 Spadina Ave, #301

London SW1P 2TX

Lindfield NSW 2070

Toronto Ontario M5V 2J6

United Kingdom

Australia

Canada

P: 44 171 306 8477

P: 61 2 9413 8678

P: 1 416 865 1225

F: 44 171 306 8357

F: 61 2 9413 8794

F: 1 416 865 9223

www.channel4.com

E: info@chilifilms.com.au

www.chilifilms.com.au

CinemaGuild

Chapel

Cinema Guild

Chapel Distribution

Chimpanzee

130 Madison Ave

Astor Theatre

Chimpanzee Productions

2nd Floor

1 Chapel St

P: 718 643 0342

New York NY 10016-7038

St Kilda Vic 3182

F: 718 246 0184

USA

Australia

E: taharris@ucsd.edu

P: 1 212 685 6242

P: 61 3 9505 6253

F: 1 212 685 4717

F: 61 3 9532 7951

Christensen

E: info@cinemaguild.com

E: potfilms@ozemail.com.au

Christensen Productions

www.cinemaguild.com

www.potentialfilms.com.au

230 East 44th St, Apt 14D

New York NY 10017

CinemaLibre

Cheek2Cheek

USA

Cinema Libre, Distribution

Cheek 2 Cheek Productions

P: 1 212 983 1142

460 Ste-Catherine O

36B South Hill Park, Hampstead

F: 1 212 692 9116

Suite 500

London NW3 2SJ

Montréal Québec H3B 1A7

United Kingdom

Cineclick

Canada

P: 44 171 431 0687

Cineclick Asia

P: 1 514 861 9030

F: 44 171 833 3905

Incline Bldg, 3F, 891-37 Daechi-dong

F: 1 514 861 3634

E: janetpotter@beeb.net

Gangnam-gu

E: reception@cinemalibre.com

Seoul 135-280

www.cinemalibre.com

ChenJ

South Korea

Jo-fei Chen

P: 82 2 538 0211

CinemaService

No. 3, Alley 20, Lane 115

F: 82 2 538 0479

Cinema Service Co Ltd

Sec. 1, Pei-Yi Rd, Hsin-Dien

E: yjsuh@cineclickasia.com

5th Floor, Heung-Kuk Bldg

Taipei 231

www.cineclick.co.kr

43-1 Jooja-Dong, Joong-Gu

Taiwan

Seoul 100-240

P: 886 2 2911 7931

Cinecom

South Korea

F: 886 2 2911 7931

Cinecom Pictures

P: 82 2 2264 4667

E: jofei@ms17.hinet.net

850 3rd Ave

F: 82 2 2264 2180

New York NY 10022

E: josh@cinemaservice.com

USA

www.cinemaservice.com

P: 1 212 319 5000

520 Distributors

Cinemax

CoffeeDate

Convergence

see HBO

Coffee Date Productions

Convergence Productions

842 S. Sycamore Ave

21 Kingscote Rd

Cinenova

Los Angeles CA 90036

London W4 5L1

Cinenova

USA

United Kingdom

113 Roman Rd

P: 1 323 938 7804

F: 44 181 994 9467

London E2 0HU

F: 1 323 938 7619

United Kingdom

E: stewartnla@aol.com

CottonLover

P: 44 208 981 6828

Cotton Lover Films

F: 44 208 983 4441

Col-Tri

1440 West Jarvis Ave

E: info@cinenova.org.uk

Columbia TriStar International

Chicago IL 60626

www.cinenova.org

10202 W. Washington Blvd

USA

Culver City CA 90232-3195

P: 1 773 764 6648

Cinepix

USA

F: 1 773 764 6170

Cinepix Inc.

P: 1 310 244 4000

E: crouch@sistercinema.com

8275 Mayrand

F: 1 310 244 1875

www.catherinecrouch.com

Montréal Québec H4P 2C8

www.columbiatristar.net

Canada

Could-Be-Worse

P: 1 514 342 2340

Col-Tri

Could Be Worse

F: 1 514 342 1922

Columbia TriStar Film Distributors

63 Jay St

E: info@cinepix.com

10202 W. Washington Blvd

Cambridge MA 02139

www.cinepix.com

Culver City CA 90232-3195

USA

USA

P: 1 617 876 9141, 1 860 535 1677

Cinevista

P: 1 310 244 4000

F: 1 617 876 4358

Cinevista

F: 1 310 244 1875

E: zack@midburb.com

353 West 39th St

www.couldbeworsethemovie.com

New York NY 10018

CollinsR

USA

Rhonda Collins

Cowboy

P: 1 212 947 4373

879 58th St

Cowboy Pictures

Oakland CA 94608

13 Laight St, 6th Floor

Cinexport

USA

New York NY 10010

Cinexport

P: 1 510 594 2546

USA

78 avenue des Champs-Elysées

E: sonrevolution@excite.com

P: 1 212 925 7800

Paris 75008

F: 1 212 965 5655

France

Columbia

E: info@cowboypictures.com

P: 33 1 4562 4945

Columbia Pictures Corporation

www.cowboypictures.com

F: 33 1 4563 8526

see Sony Pictures Entertainment

E: cinexport@wanadoo.fr

www.sonypictures.com

Crepeau

Jeanne Crepeau

Clarence

Constantin

P: 1 514 288 2899

Clarence Pictures

Constantin Film AG

F: 1 514 288 7192

13 Merrion Square

Kaiserstrasse 39

E: j.crepeau@onf.ca

Dublin 2

Munich 80801

Ireland

Germany

Crossing-the-Line

P: 353 1 661 4022

P: 49 89 38 6090

Crossing the Line Films

F: 353 1 661 4186

F: 49 89 38 60942

Sommerville House

E: info@clarencepix.ie

E: frauke.allstadt@constantin-film.de

Church Rd

www.clarencepix.com

www.constantin-film.com (English site)

Greystones County Wicklow

United Kingdom

P: 353 1 287 2622

F: 353 1 287 2622

E: johnmurr@indigo.ie

Distributors

521

Daddy&Papa

DeepFocus

Devine

Daddy and Papa

DeepFocus Productions

Devine Productions

PO Box 3486

PO Box 39548

256 Keen St

Berkeley CA 94703

Los Angeles CA 90039-0548

Lismore NSW 2480

USA

USA

Australia

P: 1 510 653 8763

P: 1 323 662 6575

P: 61 2 6622 7270

F: 1 510 653 8783

F: 1 323 662 6577

E: christine@nrg.com.au

E: info@daddyandpapa.com

E: info@deepfocusproductions.com

www.daddyandpapa.com

www.deepfocusproductions.com

DirectCinema

Direct Cinema Ltd

Daiei

Dendy

PO Box 69799

Daiei Motion Picture Co

Dendy Films

Los Angeles CA 900069

1-1-16 Higashi-Shimbashi, Minato-ku

19 Martin Pl

USA

Tokyo 105-0021

Sydney NSW 2000

P: 1 800 525 0000

Japan

Australia

F: 1 310 396 3233

P: 81 3 3573 8700

P: 61 2 9233 8558

E: directcinema@attmail.com

F: 81 3 3573 8145

F: 61 2 9232 3841

E: dendy@dendy.com.au

Discodali

Daly/Harris

www.dendy.com.au

Discodali Productions

Daly/Harris Productions,

437 North Stanley Ave

Paramount Pictures

DesiFilms

Los Angeles CA 90036

5555 Melrose Ave

Desi Films

USA

Marx Bros Bldg, #208

1048 Manzanita St

P: 1 213 508 4477

Hollywood CA 90038

Los Angeles CA 90029

F: 1 323 653 8649

USA

USA

E: discodaliprods@hotmail.com

P: 1 323 956 8930

P: 1 213 666 4911

F: 1 323 862 1067

F: 1 213 935 1393

District

E: rothstar@aol.com

District Pictures

Deva

149 Sullivan St, #5E

DameWork

Deva Films, SL

New York NY 10012

Dame Work Inc.

Madrid Spain

USA

192 1st Ave, #1

P: 34 1 361 2161

P: 1 212 777 1148

New York NY 10009

F: 34 1 361 0028

F: 1 212 777 1474

USA

E: pedrocosta@nexo.es

P: 1 212 654 8357

Diversity

F: 1 212 505 7485

DevilBunny

Diversity Productions

E: damework@rcn.com

Devil Bunny in Bondage

1202 East Pike St, Suite 885

www.damework.com

3356A 16th St

Seattle WA 98122

San Francisco CA 94114

USA

DanishFilm

USA

P: 1 206 722 9079

Danish Film Institute

P: 1 415 355 0922

Feature Film Dept

E: ungoy76@hotmail.com

DMC

Vognmagegade 10, 2

Dept of Mass Communications

Copenhagen K DK-1120

DevilsAdvocate

2490 S. Gaylord St

Denmark

Devil’s Advocate

University of Denver

P: 45 3374 3400

Flat 83, 25 Gresse St

Denver CO 80208

F: 45 3374 3401

London W1P 1PD

USA

United Kingdom

P: 1 303 377 0309

P: 44 171 580 6796

F: 1 303 871 4949

F: 44 171 580 6796

E: rbuxton@qwest.net, rbuxton@du.edu

E: MichaelHuls@compuserve.com

522 Distributors

Dominant7

Drift

Egocentric

Dominant 7 Productions

Drift Distribution

Egocentric Productions

19 rue Martel

611 Broadway, #742

738 East 6th St, #2B

Paris 75010

New York NY 10012

New York NY 10009

France

USA

USA

P: 33 1 4824 1960

P: 1 212 254 4118

P: 1 212 529 0935

F: 33 1 4824 1947

F: 1 212 254 3154

E: dominant7@free.fr

EMA

Dubois

Educational Media Australia

DominantPredator

Cleo Dubois Academy of SM Arts

214 Park St

Dominant Predator Productions

PO Box 2345

South Melbourne Vic 3205

206 Rivington St, #4D

Menlo Park CA 94026

Australia

New York NY 10002

USA

P: 61 3 9699 7144

USA

P: 1 650 322 0124

F: 61 3 9699 4947

P: 1 212 614 9491

F: 1 650 326 2639

E: info@ema.com.au

E: aaronkrach@att.net

E: cleo@cleodubois.com

www.ema.com.au/tertiary

www.cleodubois.com

Domino

Empire

Domino Film & TV International

e2Filmworks

Empire Pictures

4002 Grey Ave

e2 Filmworks

350 5th Ave, Suite 7801

Montréal Québec PQ H4A 3P1

1635 North Cahuenga Blvd

New York NY 10118

Canada

5th Floor

USA

P: 1 514 484 0446

Los Angeles CA 90028

P: 1 212 629 3535

F: 1 514 484 0468

USA

E: info@empirepicturesusa.com

E: domino@dominofilm.ca

P: 1 323 860 1550

www.empirepicturesusa.com

www.@dominofilm.ca

F: 1 323 860 1554

Englewood

DoRo

EAI

Englewood Entertainment

DoRo Wien Film und

Electronic Arts Intermix

10917 Winner Rd

Fernsehproduktion GmbH

535 W. 22nd St, 5th Floor

Independence MO 64052

Winckelmannstrasse 8

New York NY 10011

USA

Wien A-1150

USA

P: 1 888 573 5490

Austria

P: 1 212 337 0680

www.englewd.com

P: 43 1892 4444

F: 1 212 337 0679

F: 43 1892 4445

E: info@eai.org

Equator

E: doro@wien.doro.net

www.eai.org

Equator Films

www.doro.net

6 Heddon St

Eccentric

London W1B 4BT

DosEspiritus

Eccentric Orbit Films

United Kingdom

Dos Espiritus, S.C.

1633 North Damien St, 2nd Floor

P: 44 20 7025 7400

183A Lexington St

Chicago IL 60647

F: 44 20 7025 7401

San Francisco CA 94110

USA

E: steve.turney@equatorfilms.co.uk

USA

P: 1 773 227 6328

www.equatorfilms.co.uk

P: 1 415 778 4050

F: 1 312 440 0799

E: mcallitzin@aol.com

E: meatdog3@aol.com

Distributors

523

EroSpirit

Eyebite

Fanlight

EroSpirit Institute

EyeBite Productions

Fanlight Productions

PO Box 3893

68 Eureka St

4196 Washington St, Suite 2

Oakland CA 94609

San Francisco CA 94114

Boston MA 02131

USA

USA

USA

P: 1 510 281 1555

P: 1 415 551 1723

P: 1 617 469 4999

F: 1 510 652 4354

F: 1 415 551 1723

F: 1 617 469 3379

E: kramer@erospirit.org

E: info@eyebite.com

E: fanlight@fanlight.com

www.erospirit.org

www.eyebite.com

www.fanlight.com

Eureka

Fabulous

Farallon

Eureka Street Pictures

Fabulous Pictures

Farallon Films

285 Eureka St

18 Dupont St

1442A Walnut St, #50

San Francisco CA 94114

Toronto Ontario M5R 1V2

Berkeley CA 94709

USA

Canada

USA

P: 1 415 626 7867

P: 1 416 323 3860

P: 1 415 495 3934

F: 1 415 645 4000

F: 1 416 964 1980

F: 1 415 777 5633

E: jamesarnold@yahoo.com

home.inforamp.net/~bglawson/

E: info@farfilm.com

fabpics.htm

www.farfilm.com

Everett

Karen Everett

Facets

FDFilms

1603 McGee Ave

Facets Multimedia Inc

F D Films LLC

Berkeley CA 94703

1517 W. Fullerton Ave

P: 1 415 350 6870

USA

Chicago IL 60614

F: 1 415 920 9061

P: 1 415 641 5614

USA

F: 1 415 641 7841

P: 1 773 281 9075

FearlessPictures

E: karen@kareneverett.org

F: 1 773 929 5437

Fearless Pictures

www.kareneverett.org

E: sales@facets.org

11225 Morrison St, #308

www.facets.org

North Hollywood CA 91601

Explore

USA

Explore International

FalconLair

P: 1 818 752 8115

33 Ovington Square

Falcon Lair Films LLC

F: 1 818 752 8115

London SW3 ILJ

P: 323 850 2757

E: fearpics1@aol.com

United Kingdom

F: 323 850 2787

P: 44 20 7581 7100

E: houston_king@hotmail.com

FearlessProd

F: 44 20 7581 7200

Fearless Productions

E: info@explore-intl.com

FallingDoor

PO Box 8928

www.explore-intl.com

Falling Door Films

Atlanta GA 30306-9998

224 East 11th St, #3

USA

Exportfilm

New York NY 10003

P: 1 404 897 5218

Exportfilm Bischoff & Co.

USA

F: 1 404 897 5565

Isabellastrasse 20

P: 1 212 539 1040

Munich D-80798

F: 1 212 995 4063

FeminaleEV

Germany

E: gs226@.nyu.edu

Feminale E. V.

P: 49 89 272 9360

Maybachstr 111

F: 49 89 2729 3636

Cologne 50670

Germany

P: 49 221 130 0225

F: 49 221 130 0281

E: info@feminale.de

www.feminale.de

524 Distributors

Fever

FilmAust

FineLine

Fever Films

Film Australia

Fine Line Features

23 East 10th St, #PHG

101 Eton Rd

888 Seventh Ave, 20th Floor

New York NY 10003

Lindfield NSW 2070

New York NY 10106

USA

Australia

USA

P: 1 212 539 1023

P: 61 2 9413 8634

P: 1 212 649 4800

F: 1 212 475 1399

F: 61 2 9416 9401

F: 1 212 956 1942

E: skj@echonyc.com

E: sales@filmaust.com.au

E: fineline.features@newline.com

www.filmaust.com.au

www.finelinefeatures.com

Fidelite

Fidelite Productions

FilmFour

FirstFloor

13 rue Etienne Marcel

Film Four International

First Floor Features

Paris 75001

76-78 Charlotte St

Czaar Peterstraat 213

France

London W1P 1LX

Amsterdam 1018 PL

P: 33 1 5534 9808

United Kingdom

The Netherlands

F: 33 1 5534 9810

P: 44 171 868 7700

P: 31 20 330 2222

F: 44 171 868 7766

F: 31 20 622 7282

FifthEstate

E: melinda@firstfloorfeatures.com

Fifth Estate Productions

FilmIngk

www.firstfloorfeatures.com

1007 Montana Ave, #610

Film Ingk

Santa Monica CA 90403

1648 NE 86th St

FirstLook

USA

Seattle WA 98115

First Look Media/Overseas Filmgroup

P: 1 310 289 3900

USA

8800 Sunset Blvd

F: 1 310 289 3909

P: 1 206 985 8012

Los Angeles CA 90069

E: amy@pissantprod.com

E: scottingk@hotmail.com

USA

www.thejaundicedeye.com

P: 1 310 855 1199

FilmmakersCoop

F: 1 310 855 0152

FillingTheGap

Filmmakers’ Cooperative

E: info@firstlookmedia.com

Filling The Gap Productions

175 Lexington Ave

www.firstlookmedia.com

111 West Main St

New York NY 10003

Mesa AZ 85201

USA

FirstRelease

USA

P: 1 212 889 3820

Distributed by Col-Tri

P: 1 800 800 6665

F: 1 212 889 3821

Level 30, 1 Market St

F: 1 602 649 9846

E: film6000@aol.com

Sydney NSW 2000

E: fillingthegap@msn.com

Australia

FilmsInc

P: 61 2 9911 3300

FilmakersLibrary

Films Incorporated

F: 61 2 9911 3333

Filmakers Library

5547 N. Ravenswood Ave

124 East 40th St

Chicago IL 60640

FirstRun/Icarus

New York NY 10016

USA

First Run/Icarus Films

USA

P: 1 312 878 2600

32 Court St, 21st Floor

P: 1 212 808 4980

Brooklyn NY 11201

F: 1 212 808 4983

FilmsTransit

USA

E: info@filmakers.com

Films Transit International

P: 1 718 488 8900

www.filmakers.com

402 East Notre-Dame, # 100

F: 1 718 488 8642

Montréal Québec H2Y 1C8

E: mail@frif.com

Canada

www.frif.com

P: 1 514 844 3358

F: 1 514 844 7298

E: info@filmstransit.com

www.filmstransit.com

Distributors

525

FirstRunFeatures

Fortissimo

Frameline

First Run Features

Fortissimo Film Sales (Netherlands)

Frameline Distribution

153 Waverly Pl

Cruquiusweg 40

145 Ninth St, Suite 300

New York NY 10014

Amsterdam 1019 AT

San Francisco CA 94103

USA

The Netherlands

USA

P: 1 800 229 8575

P: 31 20 627 3215

P: 1 415 703 8650

F: 1 212 989 7649

F: 31 20 626 1155

F: 1 415 861 1404

E: info@firstrunfeatures.com

E: info@fortissimo.nl

E: distribution@frameline.org

www.firstrunfeatures.com

www.fortissimo.nl

www.frameline.org/distribution

FirstTime

Fortissimo

FruitFilms

First Time Films

Fortissimo Film Sales (Hong Kong)

Fruit Films LLC

3305 SE 12th St

14/F, 10 Knutsford Terrace, TST

USA

Lower Portland OR 97202

Kowloon Hong Kong

P: 1 323 656 7415

USA

P: 852 2311 8081

F: 1 323 656 7215

P: 1 503 221 1156

F: 852 2311 8023

E: clint@rewindservices.com

F: 1 503 294 0874

www.rewindservices.com

E: sarahmarcus@chickmail.com

Fountain

Fountain Films Co

Gallant

Flickerfest

3F-1, #26, Sec.3, Jen-Ai Rd

Gallant Entertainment

Flickerfest Short Film Bureau

Taipei Taiwan

15540 Valley Vista Blvd

PO Box 7416

P: 886 2 708 5501

Encino CA 91436

Bondi Beach NSW 2026

F: 886 2 703 8728

USA

Australia

P: 1 818 905 9848

P: 61 2 9365 6877

Fox

F: 1 818 906 9965

F: 61 2 9365 6899

Now trading as 20th Century Fox

E: gallantent@aol.com

E: flickerfest@bigpond.com.au

www.flickerfest.com.au

FoxSearchlight

Gassman

Allan Gassman

FloridaUni

Fox Searchlight Pictures

USA

PO Box 29879

Florida State University

P: 1 310 369 5584

Los Angeles CA 90029

School of Motion Picture

www.foxsearchlight.com

USA

A3100 University Centre

P: 1 323 953 4742

Tallahassee FL 32306

FPI

F: 1 323 953 4742

USA

E: gassman@aol.com

P: 1 850 645 4840

Flach Pyramide International

F: 1 850 644 2626

5 rue du Chevalier de Saint George

GBF

E: ksb2063@garnet.acns.fsu.edu

Paris 75008

France

GBF Productions

6312 Hollywood Blvd, #23

Forefront

P: 33 1 4296 0220

F: 33 1 4020 0551

Hollywood CA 90028

Forefront Films

E: pricher@flach-pyramide.com

USA

401 Broadway

www.flach-pyramide.com

P: 1 323 769 4344

Suite 1012

F: 1 213 381 1305

New York NY 10013

E: GBF@pacbell.net

USA

P: 1 917 653 8643

E: forefront.films@verizon.net

www.forefrontfilms.com

526 Distributors

Gemini

Globe

Goldwyn

Gemini Films

Globe Film Co.

Goldwyn Films

34 boul Sébastopol

Level 1, 11 Waltham St

10 Stephen Mews

Paris 75004

Artarmon NSW 2064

London W1P 1PP

France

Australia

United Kingdom

P: 33 1 4454 1717

P: 61 2 9437 0613

P: 44 171 333 6466

F: 33 1 4454 1725

F: 61 2 9439 7560

F: 44 171 306 9029

E: gemini@easynet.fr

E: andrew@globefilm.com.au

E: info@mgm.com

www.globefilm.com.au

www.mgm.com

GFC

Greek Film Centre

Gloria

GoodMachine

10, Panepistimiou Ave, 106

Gloria Films

Good Machine International

Athens Greece

65, rue Montmartre

417 Canal St, 4th Floor

P: 30 1 3631 733, 30 1 3634 586

Paris 75002

New York NY 10013

F: 30 1 3614 336

France

USA

E: pcoutras@otenet.gr

P: 33 1 4221 4211

P: 1 212 343 9230

F: 33 1 4221 4331

F: 1 212 343 9645

Gidalya

E: mel@gloriafilms.fr

E: lkistner@goodmachine.com

Gidalya Pictures

49 Bleecker St, 4th Floor

GNCTV

Goodvibes

New York NY 10012

Grupo Novo de Cinema e TV

Good Vibrations

USA

Rua Capitao Salomao 42

1688 15th St

P: 1 212 358 9620

Botafogo

San Francisco CA 94103

F: 1 212 358 9426

Rio de Janeiro - RJ 22271-040

USA

E: gidalya@aol.com

Brasil

P: 1 415 974 8985 (ext 237)

P: 21 2539 1538

F: 1 415 975 2925

GilProd

F: 21 2266 3637

www.goodvibes.com

Gil Productions

E: jvargas@gnctv.com.br

8 Hata’asiya St

Gosse

Tel Aviv 67139

GoinBack

Bob Gosse

Israel

Goin’ Back Productions

E: bobgosse@ix.netcom.com

P: 972 3 562 5111

390 1/2 De Longpre Ave

F: 972 3 562 2113

Los Angeles CA 90027

Gray-Lee

E: gilprod@actcom.co.il

USA

Geoff Gray-Lee

P: 1 323 953 8520

PO Box 376

Gimlet

F: 1 801 640 3026

Northcote Vic 3070

Gimlet Productions

E: crushfilm@aol.com

Australia

21 Knowsley Rd

Battersea

GoldenHarvest

Greycat

London SW11 5BN

Golden Harvest Entertainment

Greycat Films

United Kingdom

16/F The Peninsula Office Tower

3829 Delaware Lane

P: 44 171 350 2878

18 Middle Rd

Las Vegas NV 89109

F: 44 171 350 2878

Tsim Sha Tsui Kowloon Hong Kong

USA

P: 852 2352 8222

P: 1 702 737 5258

F: 852 2351 1683

www.greycatonline.com

E: movies@goldenharvest.com

www.goldenharvest.com/first.html

Distributors

527

Grisé

HBO

HeraldAce

Pierre Grisé Distribution

Home Box Office

Herald Ace/Hippon Herald Films

21 avenue du Maine

2049 Century Park East

Tokyo Japan

Paris 75015

41st Floor

P: 81 3 3248 1151

France

Los Angeles CA 90067-3215

F: 81 3 3248 1170

P: 33 1 4544 2045

USA

F: 33 1 4544 0040

P: 1 310 201 9536

Heure

E: pierre-grise-distribution@wanadoo.fr

F: 1 310 201 9552

Heure D’Ete Productions

E: reilly_anne@hbo.com

Chemin De La Cascade

GroupeIntervention

www.hbo.com/films

Uzes 30700

Groupe Intervention Video

France

5505 Blvd St Laurent, #3015

Heathcliff

P: 33 4 6603 6325

Montréal Québec H2T 1S6

Heathcliff Distribution

F: 33 4 6603 6017

Canada

PO Box 3158

E: summertime@fnac.net

P: 1 514 271 5506

Robina Town Centre Qld 4230

F: 1 514 271 6980

Australia

HFF

www.givideo.org

P: 61 7 5575 9499

HFF “Konrad Wolf ”

F: 61 7 5575 9488

Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11

Gypsy83

E: info@heathcliff.com.au

Potsdam 14482

Gypsy 83 LLC

www.heathcliff.com.au

Germany

137 Barrow St, #5B

P: 49 331 620 2564

New York NY 10014

HeavyBlow

F: 49 331 620 2569

USA

Heavy Blow Productions

E: distribution@hff-potsdam.de

P: 1 212 620 7645

501 Cathedral Parkway, #2B

F: 1 212 255 2585

New York NY 10025

Himaphiliac

E: Gypsy083@aol.com

USA

Himaphiliac Productions

www. gypsy83.com

P: 1 917 701 0372

PO Box 460697

F: 1 425 963 5723

San Francisco CA 94146

Hammer

E: heavyblow@yahoo.com

USA

Barbara Hammer Films

P: 1 415 339 8411

55 Bethune St, #114G

HellsBells

F: 1 415 647 9658

New York NY 10014

Hells Bells Productions

E: himabee@hotmail.com

USA

212 Berry St

P: 1 212 645 9077

Brooklyn NY 11211

Hochschule

F: 1 212 645 9077

USA

Hochschule fur Fernsehen und Film

E: bjhammer@aol.com

P: 1 718 486 5812

Franuenthalestr 23

www.barbarahammerfilms.com

E: estherbell@mindspring.com

Munich 8000 BRD

www.estherbell.com

Germany

Haut-et-Court

P: 49 89 6800 0444

Haut et Court

Hemdale

F: 49 89 6800 0436

38 rue des Martyrs

Hemdale Film Corporation

Paris 75009

7966 Beverly Blvd

Hollywood

France

Los Angeles CA 90048

Hollywood Independents

P: 33 1 5531 2727

USA

1335 North La Brea Ave, Suite 2197

F: 33 1 5531 2728

P: 1 213 966 3750

Hollywood CA 90028

E: info@hautetcourt.com

F: 1 213 653 5452

USA

www.hautetcourt.com

P: 1 323 876 0975

F: 1 323 876 0975

E: jaa@inetworld.net

www.hollywoodindependents.com

528 Distributors

Horwitz

IMA

In-The-Life

Horwitz Productions

IMA Productions

In the Life Media Inc

341 West 11th St, #1B

34 rue de la Pompe

Attn: Video Sales

New York NY 10014

Paris 75016

30 West 26th St, 7th Floor

USA

France

New York NY 10010

P: 1 212 691 8030

P: 33 1 4072 7244

USA

F: 33 1 4072 7244

P: 1 212 255 6012 (ext 305)

Howard

E: mpeyton@inthelifetv.org

Silas Howard

ImageForum

www.inthelifetv.org

P: 1 510 594 0778

Image Forum

E: silas898@aol.com

Fudosan, Kaikan Bldg

Incident

1, 6F 3-5, Yotsuya, Shinjuku-ku

Incident

Hung

Tokyo Japan

Sint Annadreef 26 - 1020

Kit Hung Productions

P: 81 3 5766 0116

Brussels Belgium

D5/15F Lung Kee Bldg

F: 81 3 5466 0054

P: 32 2 4789 888

23 Matauwai Rd

E: info@imageforum.co.jp

E: amarona@skynet.be

Hung Hom Hong Kong

www.imageforum.co.jp

P: 852 9740 9001

Indican

F: 852 2353 4398

IMCINE

Indican Pictures

E: kithung@gmx.net

IMCINE Mexican Film Institute

8205 Santa Monica Blvd, #200

Tepic 40

Los Angeles CA 90046

Iberoamerica

DF 06760

USA

Iberoamerica Films

Mexico

P: 1 323 650 0832

Velazquez 12, 7th Floor

P: 52 5574 4902

F: 1 323 650 6832

Madrid 28001

F: 52 5574 0712

E: admin@indicanpitures.com

Spain

E: promint@imcine.gob.mx

www.indicanpitures.com

www.imcine.gob.mx

Idol

Infected

IMM

Idol Pictures

Infected Films, Jennifer Gentile

32 Main Rd

IMM Productions

PO Box 2004

Muizenberg, Cape Town 7949

15/12 York St

Hollywood CA 90078

South Africa

St Kilda West Vic 3182

USA

P: 27 21 788 9163

Australia

P: 1 323 461 7910

F: 27 21 788 3973

P: 61 3 9534 8680

E: jentile@earthlink.net

E: idoljack@iafrica.com

F: 61 3 9534 8680

idol.co.za

E: iainmurton@yahoo.com

Insomnio

Insomnio Films

Ihsan

IN*SITE

249 Eldridge St, #16

Ihsan Talkies

IN*SITE

New York NY 10002

J.G.2 / 748-B Vikas Puri

273 East 10th St, #9

USA

New Delhi 110018

New York NY 10009

P: 1 212 475 2736

India

USA

E: delvalleo@hotmail.com

P: 91 11 561 8748

P: 1 212 604 4466

E: neerajbh@vsnl.net,

F: 1 212 673 1467

neerajbhasin@ihsan-talkies.com

E: insitement@earthlink.net

www.ihsan-talkies.com

Distributors

529

Intercinema

Kanpaï

Kinofist

Intercinema Agency

Kanpaï Distribution

Kinofist Imageworks

15 Druzhinnikovskaya Str

102 rue du Fbg Poissoniere

PO Box 1102

Moscow 123242

Paris 75010

Columbia MO 65202-1102

Russia

France

USA

P: 7 095 255 9082

P: 33 1 5325 0208

P: 1 573 875 7151

F: 7 095 255 9052

F: 33 1 5325 0205

E: intercin@edunet.ru

E: kanpaidistri@wanadoo.fr

Kismet

www.intercinema.ru

kanpai.free.fr/distribution

Kismet Talkies

USA

Intra

KGB

P: 1 212 420 7000

Intra Films

KGB Films

F: 1 212 358 1870

Via E. Manfredi, 15

607 Dunsmuir, #302

E: kismet@vortexweb.net

Rome 00197

Los Angeles CA 90036

Italy

USA

Kitchen

P: 39 06 807 7252

P: 1 323 936 3072

The Kitchen

F: 39 06 807 6156

E: KGBFILMS@aol.com

512 West 19th St

E: intraf@tin.it

New York NY 10011

KillerPix

USA

IslandGirl

Killer Pix

P: 1 212 255 5793

Island Girl Productions

1048 Manzanita St

F: 1 212 645 4258

4250 Wilshire Blvd

Silver Lake CA 90029

E: info@thekitchen.org

Los Angeles CA 90010

USA

www.thekitchen.org

USA

P: 1 213 666 4911

P: 1 323 936 8951

F: 1 213 935 1393

KMPPC

F: 1 323 936 8951

Korean Film Commission

E: island4475@aol.com

KingPix

CPO Box 2978

King Pictures

Myungong Post Office

JourDeFete

815 North Occidental Blvd

Seoul 100-629

Jour de Fête Films

Los Angeles CA 90026-2925

South Korea

5955 West 6th St

USA

P: 82 17 210 7882

Los Angeles CA 90036

P: 1 213 484 4443

E: darcy@koreanfilm.org

USA

F: 1 213 484 4482

www.koreanfilm.org

P: 1 323 933 2733

E: worker@kingpix.com

F: 1 323 933 3929

www.kingpix.com

Kushner-Locke

E: dan@jourdefete.com,

Kushner-Locke International

rialtojf@pacbell.net

Kino

11601 Wilshire Blvd

www.jourdefete.com

Kino International

Suite 2030

333 West 39th St

Los Angeles CA 90025

KalisVibe

Suite 503

USA

Kali’s Vibe Pictures

New York NY 10018

P: 1 310 481 2000

P: 1 212 281 5926

USA

F: 1 310 481 2101

F: 1 212 281 1774

P: 1 212 629 6880

www.kushner-locke.com

E: kali2vibe@aol.com

F: 1 212 714 0871

E: contact@kino.com

Kwan

www.kino.com

Kwan’s Creation Workshop

No 15, 1/F Lion Rock Rd

Kowloon City Hong Kong

P: 852 2383 0267

F: 852 2794 3709

530 Distributors

L’Altra

Leonor

LionsGate

L’Altra Comunicazione

Leonor Films

Lion’s Gate Films

Piazza san Carlo, 161

93 avenue Niel

4553 Glencoe Ave, Suite 200

Torino 10123

Paris 75017

Marina Del Rey CA 90292

Italy

France

USA

P: 39 011 534 888

P: 33 1 4763 0033

P: 1 310 314 2000

F: 39 011 521 796

F: 33 1 4763 0032

F: 1 310 392 0252

E: feedback@lgecorp.com

Laika

LesGrands

www.lionsgatefilms.com

Laika Films

Les Grands Films Classiques

Zuidstraat 147, #8

E: grands.films.classiques@wanadoo.fr

LittleBelly

Brussels 1000

Little Belly Productions

Belgium

Letsou

1726 West Division St, #3

P: 32 2 502 6637

Viví Letsou

Chicago IL 60622

F: 32 486 46 3770

E: info@skeletonwoman.com

USA

E: laika@skynet.be

www.skeletonwoman.com

P: 1 773 252 8517

E: reverie555@aol.com

Lauren

Liberty

Lauren Film

LittleMore

Liberty Home Video/VCI Entertainment

E: info@laurenfilm.es

11333 East 60th Place

Little More Company

www.laurenfilm.es

Tulsa OK 74146

Japan

USA

P: 81 3 3401 1042

LaVieEstBelle

P: 1 918 254 6337

F: 81 3 3401 1052

La vie est belle Films Associes

F: 1 918 254 6117

E: info@littlemore.co.jp

7 rue Ganneron

E: vci@vcientertainment.com

www.littlemore.co.jp

Paris France

www.vcihomevideo.com

P: 33 1 4387 0042

Lola

F: 33 1 4387 3472

LIFS

Lolafilms, Laura Plotkin

E: Iveb@club-internet.fr

London International Film School

4131 Shafter Ave, #12

24 Shelton St

Oakland CA 94609

LeeC

London WC2H 9UB

USA

Christopher Lee

United Kingdom

P: 1 510 450 0571

PO Box 14354

P: 44 20 7836 9642

F: 1 510 450 0571

San Francisco CA 94114

F: 44 20 7497 3718

E: Lola3@earthlink.net

USA

E: film.school@lfs.org.uk

www.lolafilms.net

P: 1 415 820 3225

www.lifs.org.uk

E: trannyfest@aol.com

LolaFilms

Lilliput

Lola Films International, Spain

Lehmann-Moore

Lilliput Pictures

Velasquez 12, 7th Floor

Lehmann-Moore Productions Inc

573 6th St, #1

Madrid 28001

3301 Garfield Ave S, #3

Brooklyn NY 11215

Spain

Minneapolis MN 55408-3643

USA

P: 34 1 431 4246

USA

P: 1 718 369 0601, 1 212 414 7654

F: 34 1 435 5994

P: 1 612 822 1240

F: 1 718 369 0601

F: 1 612 822 1248

E: EWelthorpe@aol.com

E: homohts@aol.com

Distributors

531

Lot47

Manmade

MBC

Lot 47 Films

Manmade Multimedia

MBC- Filmproduktion,

22 West 19th St, 8th Floor

887 West 9th St

Michael Brynntrup

New York NY 10011

San Pedro CA 90731

Hermannstr 64

USA

USA

Berlin 12049

P: 1 212 691 4747

P: 1 310 833 2020

Germany

F: 1 212 691 7477

F: 1 310 833 2345

P: 49 30 621 7800

E: questions@lot47.com

E: manmade@

F: 49 30 621 7800

www.lot47.com

manmademultimedia.com

E: brynntrup@mbcc.de

www.manmademultimedia.com

www.brynntrup.de

Luster

Luster Films

Marcom

MCrown

P: 1 503 449 4125

Marcom Projects

MCrown Productions

F: 1 503 289 9034

PO Box 4215

31-22, 31st St, Apt 2

E: inquiries@lusterfilm.com

Loganholme Qld 4129

LIC NY 11106

www.lusterfilm.com

Australia

USA

P: 61 7 3801 5600

P: 1 646 391 6427

M6

F: 61 7 3801 5600

E: mcrown212@aol.com

M6 Droits Audio Visuals

E: marcom@marcom.com.au

89 avenue Charles de Gaulle

www.marcom.com.au

MediaEdFound

Neuilly-sur-Seine

Media Education Foundation

Cedex 92575

Margin

26 Center St

France

Margin Films

Northampton MA 01060

P: 33 1 4192 6866

8306 Wilshire Blvd

USA

F: 33 1 4192 6869

PMB 225

P: 1 800 897 0089

E: lmarty@m6.fr

Los Angeles CA 90211

F: 1 800 659 6882

www.m6da.com

USA

E: info@mediaed.org

P: 1 213 382 8022

www.mediaed.org

MagyarFilmunio

F: 1 213 382 5589

Magyar Filmunio

E: mail@marginfilms.com

MediaLuna

V rosligeti fasor 38

Media Luna Entertainment GmbH

Budapest 1068

Maximum-Vacuum

Hochstadenstrasse 1-3

Hungary

Maximum Vacuum

Cologne D-50674

P: 36 1 351 7760

270 Jay St, #16E

Germany

F: 36 1 352 6734

Brooklyn NY 11201

P: 49 221 139 2222

E: filmunio@filmunio.hu

USA

F: 49 221 139 2224

P: 1 718 624 1222

E: info@medialuna-entertainment.de

Majnounak

F: 1 718 624 1222

www.medialuna-entertainment.de

Majnounak Films

E: mselditch@aol.com

PO Box 13-6676

Mediatique

Chouran 1102 2140

MayaVision

Mediatique Inc

Lebanon

MayaVision International

11 rue Ontario

P: 961 1 336 820

Ist Floor

Toronto Ontario M5A 4L7

F: 961 1 336 820

43 New Oxford St

Canada

E: bpanther@cyberia.net.lb

London WC1A 1BH

P: 1 416 367 8464

United Kingdom

F: 1 416 367 8466

Manga

P: 44 20 7836 1113

E: mediatique@on.aibn.com

Manga Entertainment

F: 44 20 7836 5169

www.manga.com

E: info@mayavisionint.com

www.mayavisionint.com

532 Distributors

Mefistofilm

Millivres

MK2Diffusion

Mefistofilm

Millivres Multimedia

Marin Karmitz Diffusion

Gyldenloves Gate 41-N-0260

116-134 Bayham St

France

Oslo Norway

London NW1 0BA

E: florence.stern@mk2.com

P: 47 2243 8260

United Kingdom

www.mk2.com

F: 47 2255 7777

P: 44 171 482 2576

E: mefisto2@online.no

F: 44 171 284 0329

MollyBeGood

E: info@millivres.co.uk

Molly Be Good

MeiAh

www.millivres.co.uk/mmm/

950 N. Kings Rd, #157

Mei Ah Entertainment

West Hollywood CA 90069

E: meiah@meiah.com

Minotaur

USA

www.meiah.com

Minotaur International

P: 1 323 656 7105

160 Great Portland St

E: dpbridge@aol.com

Merrison

London W1W 5QA

Lindsey Merrison Film

United Kingdom

MOMA

Ebereschenallee 15

P: 44 20 7299 5712

Museum of Modern Art

Berlin D-14050

F: 44 20 7299 5777

Film Library

Germany

E: general@minotaur.co.uk

11 West 53rd St

P: 49 30 3061 4448

www.minotaur.co.uk

New York NY 10019

F: 49 30 3061 4447

USA

E: merrison@aol.com

MiraFilm

P: 1 212 708 9433

www.merrison.de

Mira Filmproduktion GmbH

www.moma.org

Wielandstrasse 27

MF-Films

Bremen 28203

Moneypenny

MF Films

Germany

Moneypenny Films

23 Curran St

P: 49 421 70 7071

Linienstr. 160

Herne Bay, Auckland

F: 49 421 70 7076

Berlin D-10115

New Zealand

Germany

P: 64 9 376 0876

Miramax

P: 49 30 2838 4077

F: 64 9 376 9675

Miramax Films

F: 49 30 2859 930

E: linda@mffilms.co.nz

99 Hudson St

New York NY 10013

Mongrel

MGM

USA

Mongrel Media

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

P: 1 212 219 4100

109 Melville Ave

www.mgmhomevideo.com

F: 1 212 941 3836

Toronto Ontario M6G 1Y3

www.miramax.com

Canada

Mid-Bar

P: 1 416 516 9775

Mirovision

Mid-Bar Films

F: 1 416 516 0651

175 5th Ave, #2582

Mirovision Inc

E: info@mongrelmedia.com

New York NY 10010

1-151 Shinmunro 2Ga

www.mongrelmedia.com

USA

Chongro Gu

P: 1 212 889 1704

Seoul 110-062

Monobrow

South Korea

Monobrow Productions

Miller/Hildebrand

P: 82 2 737 1185

30 Gordon Square

F: 82 2 737 1184

Miller/Hildebrand Films

Marrickville NSW 2204

E: kyunghee@mirovision.com

8233 W. 4th St

Australia

www.mirovision.com

Los Angeles CA 90048-4401

P: 61 2 9517 2529, 61 2 9569 2609

USA

F: 61 2 9362 3558

MixBrasil

P: 1 323 852 1269

E: yasmineclement@hotmail.com

F: 1 323 852 1269

Festival Mix Brasil

E: divacourt@hotmail.com

www.mixbrasil.com.br

Distributors

533

Mosvold

Neofilm

NewTown

Frank Mosvold

Neofilm, Roger Deutsch

New Town Films

8745 Delgany Ave, Apt 104

P: 39 06 687 2723

12/37 Nicholson St

Playa Del Ray CA 90293

F: 39 06 868 5058

East Balmain NSW 2041

USA

E: rld@attglobal.net

Australia

P: 1 310 822 0130

P: 61 2 9810 9825

F: 1 310 822 0130

Nepantla

E: newtownfilms@ozemail.com.au

Nepantla Films

Moxie

644 Dehart Rd

NewVague

Moxie Firecracker Films

Kelowna British Columbia V1W 1C6

New Vague Films

180 Varick St, # 1207

Canada

205 Mulberry St, Basement

New York NY 10014

P: 1 416 486 5501

New York NY 10012

USA

F: 1 416 486 3657

USA

P: 1 212 620 7727

E: jorgemanzano@nepantla.co.ca

P: 1 212 274 0046

F: 1 212 620 0383

www.nepantla.com

F: 1 212 274 0046

E: info@moxiefirecracker.com

E: jk237@nyu.edu

www.moxiefirecracker.com

Neter

Sydney Neter Distribution

NewVision

Multimedia

PO Box 94385

NewVision Film Distributors

Multimedia

Amsterdam 1090 GL

PO Box 159

Sieker Lanstr. 39A

The Netherlands

Port Melbourne Vic 3207

Hamburg 22143

P: 31 20 404 0707

Australia

Germany

F: 31 20 404 0708

P: 61 3 9646 5555

P: 49 40 6757 4231

E: sydneter@worldonline.nl

F: 61 3 9646 2411

F: 49 40 6757 4171

E: fwaters@newvision.com.au

Netherlands

www.newvision.com.au

MyAss

Netherlands Ministry of Culture

My Ass Productions

PO Box 25000

NewVoices

856 Erie, #A

The Netherlands

New Voices Productions

Oakland CA 94610

P: 31 79 323 2323

11824 Oxnard St

USA

F: 31 79 323 2320

North Hollywood CA 91606

P: 1 510 625 8473

E: info@minocw.nl

USA

E: lzbash@aol.com

www.minocw.nl

E: NewVoicesLA@aol.com

www.whenboysfly.com

NBC

NewDay

National Broadcasting Company

New Day Films

USA

22-D Hollywood Ave

NewYorker

www.nbc.com

Hohokus NJ 07423

New Yorker Films

USA

85 Fifth Ave, 11th Floor

Need

P: 1 201 652 6590

New York NY 10003

Need Productions

F: 1 201 652 1973

USA

109 rue du Fort

E: curator@newday.com

P: 1 212 645 4600

Brussels B-1060

www.newday.com

F: 1 212 645 3030

Belgium

E: info@newyorkerfilms.com

P: 32 2 534 4057

NewLine

www.newyorkerfilms.com

F: 32 2 534 7574

New Line Home Video or Cinema

E: need-prod@skynet.be

www.newline.com

www.needproductions.com

534 Distributors

NFBC

NorwegianFilm

OasisPC

National Film Board of Canada

Norwegian Film Institute

Oasis P.C.

PO Box 6100

Filmens Hus

Rey Francisco 3

Station Centre-Ville

Dronningens Gate 16

Madrid 28008

Montréal Québec H3C 3H5

Oslo N 0105

Spain

Canada

Norway

P: 34 1 930 3156

P: 1 514 283 9000, 1 800 267 7710

P: 47 2247 4500

F: 34 1 541 3387

F: 1 514 283 7564

F: 47 2247 4599

E: jtg2881@wanadoo.es

E: webcustserv@nfb.ca

E: nfi@nfi.no

www.nfb.ca

www.nfi.no

Oceanside

Oceanside Pictures

NFVLS

NoSacrifice

P: 1 212 874 6041

National Film & Video Lending Service

No Sacrifice

F: 1 212 873 9477

Australian Centre for the Moving

5 rue Taylor

E: oceansidepix@aol.com

Image (ACMI) Collections

Paris 75010

222 Park St

France

October

South Melbourne Vic 3205

P: 33 1 4484 9700

October Films see USA Films

Australia

F: 33 1 4484 9701

P: 61 3 9929 7040

E: prod@nosacrifice.com

OFG

F: 61 3 9929 7027

E: collections@acmi.net.au

Nu-Image

Overseas Film Group

www.nla.gov.au

8800 Sunset Blvd

Nu Image

Los Angeles CA 90069

9145 Sunset Blvd

NJB

USA

Los Angeles CA 90069

P: 1 310 855 1199

Nice Jewish Boy Productions

USA

F: 1 310 855 0719

1016 North Croft Ave

P: 1 310 246 0240

E: info@ofg.com

Los Angeles CA 90069

F: 1 310 246 1655

www.ofg.com

USA

P: 1 323 654 8745

NZFC

Ognon

F: 1 323 654 8745

New Zealand Film Commission

E: boychickmovie@aol.com

Ognon Pictures

PO Box 11-546

14 rue Montmartre

Wellington New Zealand

Nordisk

Paris F-75001

P: 64 4 4382 7680

France

Nordisk Film

F: 64 4 4383 9717

P: 33 1 4026 5608

Mosedalvej 14

E: info@nzfilm.co.nz

F: 33 1 4026 0209

Valby DK-2500

www.nzfilm.co.nz

E: ognon2@online.fr

Denmark

P: 45 3618 8200

O-Filmproduktion

OpenEye

E: nordiskfilm@nordiskfilm.dk

Ö-Filmproduktion

www.nordiskfilm.dk

Open Eye Productions

Löprich & Schlösser GmbH

91 Seward St

Langhansstr 86

NorthernArts

San Francisco CA 94114

Berlin 13086

USA

Northern Arts Entertainment

Germany

P: 1 415 552 5735

Williamsburg MA 01096

P: 49 30 446 7260

F: 1 415 552 5173

USA

F: 49 30 446 72626

E: openeyepix@aol.com

P: 1 413 268 9301

E: mail@oefilm.de

F: 1 413 268 9309

www.oefilm.de

Distributors

535

ORF

ParamountHV

PieTown

ORF/Austrian Broadcasting

Paramount Home Video

Pie Town Productions

Wurzburggasse. 30

www.paramount.com

5433 Laurel Canyon Blvd

Vienna 1136

North Hollywood CA 91607

Austria

PBS

USA

P: 43 1 87 878 14515

Public Broadcasting Service USA

P: 1 818 255 9300

F: 43 1 87 878 13726

www.pbs.org

F: 1 818 255 9300

E: elfriede.hufnagl@orf.at

E: jennifer_gold@pietown.tv

Peccadillo

www.pietown.tv

Orion

Peccadillo Pictures

Orion Pictures Corporation

Pilgrims4

36B Shipton St

1888 Century Park East

London E2 7RU

Pilgrims 4 Corporation

Los Angeles CA 90067

United Kingdom

173 East 64th St

USA

P: 44 20 7729 5225

New York NY 10021

www.orionpictures.com

F: 44 20 7729 3074

USA

E: peccadillo.pictures@virgin.net

P: 1 212 861 0696

OrionClassics

www.peccadillopictures.com

F: 1 212 249 5177

Orion Classics

www.orionpictures.com

Phaedra

Pineapple

Phaedra Cinema

Pineapple Princess Productions

OrionHV

now Pathfinder Pictures

54 Station St

Orion Home Video

801 Ocean Front Walk, Suite 7

Newtown NSW 2042

www.orionpictures.com

Venice CA 90291

Australia

USA

P: 61 2 9517 1909

Palace

P: 1 310 664 1500

E: c.boreham@bigpond.com

Palace Entertainment Corporation

F: 1 310 664 0400

Pinkplot

233 Whitehorse Rd

E: ghatanaka@aol.com

Balwyn Vic 3103

Pinkplot Productions

Australia

PictureRoom

PO Box 8548

P: 61 3 9817 6421

The Picture Room

New York NY 10116

F: 61 3 9817 4921

286 Spring St, Suite 203

USA

E: palace@palace.net.au

New York NY 10013

P: 1 323 876 2748

www.palace.net.au

USA

F: 1 323 876 9743

P: 1 212 414 2150

E: sales@pinkplot.com

Paramount

F: 1 212 414 2150

www.pinkplot.com

Paramount Pictures

E: picture1rm@aol.com

Pinq

5555 Melrose Ave

Hollywood CA 90038

PictureThis!

Pinq Creations

USA

Picture This! Entertainment

P: 61 412 633 976

P: 1 323 956 5000

PO Box 46872

E: pkinau@yahoo.com.au

www.paramount.com

Los Angeles CA 90046

www.geocities.com/pkinau

USA

ParamountClassics

P: 1 323 852 1398

Piranha

Paramount Classics

F: 1 323 658 7265

Piranha Productions

www.paramountclassics.com

E: info@PictureThisEnt.com

United House

www.PictureThisEnt.com

North Rd

London N7 9DP

United Kingdom

P: 44 171 607 3355

F: 44 171 607 9980

536 Distributors

PKProd

PonyCanyon

ProductionIG

PK Productions

Pony Canyon

Production IG LLC

336 Central Park West

2-5 10 Toranomon, Minato-ku

Japan

New York NY 10025

Tokyo 105-8487

P: 81 310 530 3532

USA

Japan

F: 81 310 530 3526

P: 1 212 865 1469

P: 81 3 5521 8024

E: maki@productionig.com

F: 1 212 512 5223

F: 81 3 5521 8122

www.productionig.com

E: sakoda@ponycanyon.co.jp

PlanetOut

Prometheus

Planet Out Distribution

Potemkin

Studio Prometheus

1360 Mission St, #200

Potemkin Productions

11911 Mayfield Ave, #5

San Francisco CA 94103

1300 Waterloo Court

Los Angeles CA 90049

USA

Riverside CA 92506

USA

P: 1 415 252 6285

USA

P: 1 310 248 4806

F: 1 415 252 6287

P: 1 310 701 9101

F: 1 310 725 9781

F: 1 562 866 3667

E: dustin1@earthlink.net

Point-Du-Jour

Point Du Jour

Potential

Put-Down-the-Plow

38 rue Croix des Petits Champs

Potential Films

Put Down the Plow Productions

Paris 75001

34 Halstead St

P: 40 4622 7912

France

Caulfield Vic 3161

F: 40 4622 7912

P: 33 1 4703 4000

Australia

E: milliet@mindspring.com

F: 33 1 4139 9459

P: 61 3 9505 6253

www.clairefilm.com

www.pointdujour.fr

F: 61 3 9532 7951

E: potfilms@ozemail.com.au

Pyewackett

PollyTickle

www.potentialfilms.com

Rick Castro

Polly Tickle Productions

Pyewackett Productions

302 Bedford Ave, Suite 133

PotentPussy

E: pyewackett@attbi.com

Brooklyn NY 11211

Potent Pussy Productions

www.rickcastro.com

USA

8 Albemarle Row, Hotwells

P: 1 718 599 2644

Bristol B58 4LY

QueenFAD

E: inka666@earthlink.com

United Kingdom

Queen For a Day Productions

P: 44 117 7914 1903

3055 W. Sunnyside Ave, #2

PolyGram

F: 44 117 377 0884

Chicago IL 60625

PolyGram Film International

E: raineppp@hotmail.com

USA

4th Floor, Oxford House

P: 1 773 267 3106

76 Oxford St

Praunheim

E: hmajid@aol.com

London W1N 0HQ

Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion

United Kingdom

Konstanzer Strasse 56

Queerscreen

P: 44 171 307 1300

Berlin D-10707

Queerscreen

F: 44 171 307 1301

Germany

PO Box 1081

P: 49 30 883 5496

Darlinghurst NSW 2010

PolyGram

F: 49 30 881 2958

Australia

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

E: rosavp@aol.com

P: 61 2 9332 4938

9348 Civic Center

www.rosavonpraunheim.de

F: 61 2 9331 2988

Beverly Hills CA 90210

E: info@queerscreen.com.au

USA

www.queerscreen.com.au

Distributors

537

R&BFilms

Rapido

Reilly

R&B Films

Rapido TV

Life of Reilly Productions

2910 Motor Ave

14-16 Great Pulteney St

11 Fifth Ave, Suite 9S

Los Angeles CA 90064

London W1F 9ND

New York NY 10003

P: 1 310 280 0214

United Kingdom

USA

P: 44 20 7440 5700

P: 1 212 995 1367

Ragamuff

F: 44 20 7439 2733

E: nyevita@aol.com

Ragamuff Productions

E: info@planetrapido.com

USA

www.rapido.co.uk

Remstar

P: 1 415 285 9236

Remstar Corporation Inc.

E: maria_breaux@hotmail.com

Rattled

85 rue Saint-Paul Ouest

Rattled Productions

Montréal Québec H2Y3V4

Rainforest

1633 Broadway, #15 - 111

Canada

Rainforest Productions

New York NY 10019

P: 1 514 847 1136

2141 Powers Ferry Rd

USA

F: 1 514 847 1163

Marietta GA 30067

P: 1 212 708 1452

E: josee@remstarcorp.com

USA

F: 1 212 708 1211

www.remstarcorp.com

P: 1 770 960 8733

E: burkhart@interport.net

F: 1 770 960 0848

Reno

E: willpower@

Rednavel

Reno Co

rainforestproductions.com

rednaveL fiLmworx

38 N. Moore #2

6418 Santa Monica Blvd

New York NY 10013

RaiTrade

Los Angeles CA 90038

USA

RAI Trade

USA

P: 1 212 334 8320

Via Novaro 18

P: 1 323 467 7778

F: 1 212 966 8436

Rome 00195

F: 1 323 467 7774

E: renoren@idt.net

Italy

E: rednavel@ix.netcom.com

P: 39 06 3749 8469

REP

F: 39 06 370 1343

RedProd

REP Film Distributors Pty Ltd

E: filippelli@raitrade.it

Red Production Company

Level 2, 11 Waltham St

www.raitrade.rai.it

United Kingdom

Artarmon NSW 2064

P: 44 161 827 2530

Australia

Rank

F: 44 161 827 2518

P: 61 2 9438 3377

Rank Organisation

E: redlimited@dial.pipex.com

F: 61 2 9439 1827

c/- Carlton International Media

www.bobandrose.tv

35-38 Portman Square

Republic

London W1H 6NU

ReelMovies

Republic Pictures Corporation

United Kingdom

Reel Movies

12636 Beatrice St

P: 44 20 7224 3339

Box 2581

Los Angeles CA 90066

F: 44 20 7486 1707

GPO Sydney NSW 2001

USA

E: enquiries@carltonint.co.uk

Australia

P: 1 213 306 4040

www.carltonint.co.uk

P: 61 2 9552 8605

F: 61 2 9660 3213

538 Distributors

reVision

Roadshow

Ronin

reVision Films

Roadshow

Ronin Films

2534 Fourth Ave

Box 2581 GPO

PO Box 1005

Los Angeles CA 90018

Sydney NSW 2001

Civic Square ACT 2608

USA

Australia

Australia

P: 1 323 419 1983

P: 61 2 9552 8600

P: 61 2 6248 0851

F: 1 509 267 3096

F: 61 2 9566 2510

F: 61 2 6249 1640

E: mwm@reVisionfilms.com

E: daneille_turner@roadshow.com.au

E: orders@roninfilms.com.au

www.reVisionfilms.com

www.roadshow.com.au

www.roninfilms.com.au

RimFilm

RoadshowEnt

RoyalCollege

Rim Film Distributors

Roadshow Entertainment

Royal College of Art

9884 Santa Monica Blvd

E: daneille_turner@roadshow.com.au

Film & Television,

Beverly Hills CA 90212

www.village.com.au

School of the Moving Image

USA

Stevens Bldg, Kensington Gore

P: 1 310 203 8182

Roadside

London SW7 2EU

F: 1 310 551 1530

Roadside Attractions

United Kingdom

427 North Canon Drive, Suite 216

P: 44 20 7590 4444

Ripefilms

Beverly Hills CA 90210

F: 44 20 7590 4500

Ripefilms

USA

E: info@rca.ac.uk

21 West 129th St, #A

P: 1 310 860 1692

www.rca.ac.uk

New York NY 10027

F: 1 310 860 1693

USA

E: chadm@roadsideattractions.com

RVQ

P: 1 212 828 0705

www.roadsideattractions.com

RVQ Productions

E: ripefilms@yahoo.com

P: 63 2 241 4840

RockingHorse

F: 63 2 241 4855

Riverfilms

Rocking Horse Productions

E: rvqprod@the.net.ph

River Films

84 Horatio St, #2D

310 West 95th St

New York NY 10014

SACIS

Suite 5F

USA

SACIS

New York NY 10025

P: 1 212 627 9538

Via Teulada 66

USA

F: 1 212 627 9538

Rome 00195

P: 1 212 678 7103

E: jmcarlo@aol.com

Italy

F: 1 212 280 1476

P: 39 06 370 1343

E: riverflix@aol.com

Rocvale

www.riverfilms.net

RocVale Films (Aust)

Sagittaire

PO Box 2040

Sagittaire Films

Riveter

Mount Waverley Vic 3149

122 rue la Boétie

Riveter Productions

Australia

Paris 75008

1639 Redesdale Ave

P: 61 3 9888 1033

France

Los Angeles CA 90026

F: 61 3 9888 1066

P: 33 1 5669 2930

USA

F: 33 1 5669 2940

P: 1 323 665 9211

Rocvale

E: desgris.sagittaire@wanadoo.fr

F: 1 323 665 8211

Rocvale Films (New Zealand)

www.sagittairefilms.com

E: westamber@aol.com

VM Distribution

PO Box 37-376

Parnell, Auckland New Zealand

P: 64 9 378 1394

F: 64 9 309 8790

Distributors

539

Salud

ScoutsHonor

Seng

Nuestra Salud

Scout’s Honor Documentary Project

Tai Seng

464 East 19th St

1679A Church St

170 South Spruce Ave, #200

Brooklyn NY 11226

San Francisco CA 94131

San Francisco CA 94080

USA

USA

USA

P: 1 331 4580 2839

P: 1 415 641 5700

P: 1 650 871 8118

F: 1 331 4580 2839

E: tomshepard@earthlink.net

F: 1 650 871 2392

E: newman41@compuserve.com

www.scouts-honor.com

E: jonsoo@taiseng.com

www.taiseng.com

Salzgeber

Scrine

Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH

Gil Scrine Films

SevenArts

Friedrichstrasse 122

44 Northcote St

Seven Arts Pictures

Berlin 10117

East Brisbane Qld 4169

7080 Hollywood Blvd, Suite 201

Germany

Australia

Hollywood CA 90028

P: 49 30 285 290 90

P: 61 7 3391 0124

USA

F: 49 30 285 290 99

F: 61 7 3391 0154

P: 1 323 464 0225

E: info@salzgeber.de

E: gilsfilm@cairnes.net.au

F: 1 323 464 8305

www.salzgeber.de

www.eg.com.au/gilscrinefilms

E: info@sevenarts.net

SamuelGoldwyn

Seduced

ShadesOfGray

Samuel Goldwyn Films

Seduced and Exploited Entertainment

Shades of Gray LLC

10203 Santa Monica Blvd

1832 1/2 N. Wilcox Ave

USA

Los Angeles CA 90067

Hollywood CA 90028

P: 1 785 841 0859

USA

USA

E: timd@sunflower.com

P: 1 310 860 3100

P: 1 323 251 3007

F: 1 310 860 3195

F: 1 323 466 4765

Sharmill

E: bigboy@seducedandexploited.com

Sharmill Films

Savage

Suite 4, 200 Toorak Rd

Savage Productions

Seduction

South Yarra Vic 3141

3229 Pillsbury Ave

Seduction Cinema

Australia

South Minneapolis MN 54408

www.seductioncinema.com

P: 61 3 9826 9077

USA

F: 61 3 9826 1935

P: 1 612 823 8431

Seductor

E: distribution@sharmillfilms.com.au

F: 1 612 375 7657

Seductor Productions

www.sharmillfilms.com.au

PO Box 68420

Schlammtaucher

Newton, Auckland New Zealand

SheFilms

Schlammtaucher FILM

P: 64 9 358 2460

She Films

Sonnenalle 7

F: 64 9 358 2461

10 Sherwood Pl

Berlin 12047

E: cushla.d@clear.net.nz

North Ryde NSW 2113

Germany

Australia

P: 49 30 6900 1108

Senator

P: 61 2 9870 7923

F: 49 30 6900 1335

Senator Entertainment AG

F: 61 2 9870 7924

E: office@schlammtaucher.de

Kurfürstendamm 65

E: imak@hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au

www.schlammtaucher.de

Berlin D-10707

Germany

P: 49 30 8809 1700

F: 49 30 8809 1723

E: info@senator.de

www.senatorfilm.de

540 Distributors

Shorelands

SIRVideo

Smokescreen

Shorelands Productions

S. I. R. Video Productions

Smokescreen Pictures

9 Shorelands Place

3288 21st St, #94 PMB

6/358 Beaconsfield Pde

Old Greenwich CT 06870

San Francisco CA 94110

St Kilda VIC 3182

USA

USA

Australia

P: 1 203 618 4803

P: 1 415 701 0243

P: 0407 740 897

F: 1 203 629 8554

F: 1 415 621 5949

E: annadegs@hotmail.com

E: shorelands123@aol.com

E: jackie@sirvideo.com, panicstrkn@aol.com

www.sirvideo.com

SockPuppet

Showcase

now trading as

Showcase Television

Skarda

Hungry Jackal Productions

121 Bloor St East, Suite 200

Skarda International Communications Ltd

7411 Hawthorn Ave

Toronto Ontario M4W 3M5

7 Portland Mews

Los Angeles CA 90046

Canada

London W1V 3FJ

USA

P: 1 416 967 0022

United Kingdom

P: 1 323 876 2298

F: 1 416 967 0044

P: 44 20 7734 7776

E: hungryjackal@hungryjackal.com

www.showcase.ca

F: 44 20 7734 1360

www.sockpuppetent.com

E: martin@skarda.net

Showtime

www.skarda.net

Sogepaq

Showtime Networks

Sogepaq Distribución, S.A.

10880 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1600

Skouras

c/- Gran Via, 32-1st Floor

Los Angeles CA 90024

Skouras Pictures

Madrid 28013

USA

1040 N. Las Palmas Ave

Spain

P: 1 310 234 5200

Hollywood CA 90038

P: 34 1 524 7200

F: 1 310 234 5392

USA

F: 34 1 521 0875

www.showtimeonline.com (USA) or

P: 1 323 467 3000

E: info@sogepaq.es

alt.sho.com

F: 1 323 467 0740

www.sogepaq.es

Sinister

Slotar

SomethingWeird

Sinister Cinema

Dean Slotar

Something Weird Video

PO Box 4369

PO Box 20039

Dept. JADA

Medford OR 97501

New York NY 10025

PO Box 33664

USA

USA

Seattle WA 98133

P: 1 541 773 6860

P: 1 917 774 2193

USA

F: 1 541 779 8650

F: 1 917 222 3592

P: 1 206 361 3759

E: sinister@magick.net

E: dslotar@aol.com

F: 1 206 364 7526

www.sinistercinema.com

www.somethingweird.com

SlovenianFF

Siren

Slovenian Film Fund

SonyClassics

Siren Entertainment

Miklosiceva 38

Sony Pictures Classics

23 Wangaratta St

Ljubljana 1000

550 Madison Ave

Richmond Vic 3121

Slovenia

New York NY 10022

Australia

P: 386 61 433 7175

USA

P: 61 3 9429 9555

F: 386 61 430 6250

P: 1 212 833 8846

F: 61 3 9429 9333

E: tanika.sajatovic@film-sklad.si

F: 1 212 833 4190

E: info@sirenent.com.au

www.film-sklad.si

www.sony.com

www.sirenent.com.au

Distributors

541

SonyPictures

Stock

SwedishFilminstitute

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Michael Stock Filmproduktion

Swedish Filminstitute

www.sonypictures.com

Adalbert Strasse 75

Borgv. 5, Box 27126

Berlin 1000

Stockholm 102 52

Souvenir

Germany

Sweden

Souvenir Pictures

P: 49 30 614 2379

P: 46 8 665 1100

USA

F: 49 30 611 7603

F: 46 8 661 1820

P: 1 323 512 4677

F: 1 323 512 4679

Strand

SweetChild

E: info@souvenirpictures.com

Strand Releasing

Sweet Child Films

www.souvenirpictures.com

1460 Fourth St, Suite 302

10 Richmond Rd

Santa Monica CA 90401

Brighton BN2 3RN

Sparker

USA

United Kingdom

Sparker Films

P: 1 310 395 5002

P: 44 1273 673 171

4108 19th St

F: 1 310 395 2502

F: 44 1273 673 172

San Francisco CA 94114

E: strand@strandrel.com

E: sweet@dircon.co.uk

USA

www.strandrel.com

P: 1 415 860 7986

Symbiosis

E: sparker-films@sparker.net

Stratosphere

Symbiosis Films

www.sparker.net/films

Stratosphere Entertainment

777 West End Ave, #2B

767 5th Ave, Suite 4700

New York NY 100125

Spectrum

New York NY 10153

USA

Spectrum Media

USA

P: 1 212 666 0724

28 West 46th St, #3F

P: 1 212 605 1010

F: 1 212 666 0724

New York NY 10036

F: 1 212 813 0300

E: symbiosis@sleepinanestofflames.com

USA

E: stratronna@aol.com

www.sleepinanestofflames.com

F: 1 425 977 9953

prime.ground0.com/defunct/strat/

E: sean@spectrummedia.net

Telling

www.ritualnation.com

Suma

Telling Pictures

Suma Films

2261 Market St, #506

Splendid

P: 351 21 315 9066

San Francisco CA 94114

Splendid Choice

E: sumafilmes@mail.telepac.pt

USA

Hong Kong

www.tellingpictures.com

F: 852 277 454 15

Sun&Moon

Sun & Moon Vision Productions

TF1

Springfield

PO Box 34235

Cinematheque de TF1 International

Springfield Consulting

San Diego CA 92163

1 quai du point du jour

306A St Kilda Rd

USA

Boulogne 92656

St Kilda VIC 3182

P: 1 619 296 3668

France

Australia

P: 33 4141 1234

P: 61 3 9536 8000

Swank

F: 33 4141 2133

F: 61 3 9536 8099

Swank Motion Pictures

E: emef@ozemail.com.au

201 S. Jefferson Ave

ThirdRock

St Louis MI 63103-2579

Duncan Roy, Third Rock Films

Starfish

USA

2 Seaway Cottages

Starfish Films

P: 1 800 876 5577

Wavecrest

37 Burnie St

E: mail@swank.com

Whitstable, Kent CT5 1EQ

Clovelly NSW 2031

www.swank.com

United Kingdom

Australia

P: 61 2 9665 9678

F: 61 2 9665 9678

542 Distributors

TLA

Touchstone

Troma

TLA Releasing

Touchstone Home Video

Troma Entertainment Inc

235 Market St, 5th Floor

500 S. Buena Vista St

733 9th Ave

Philadelphia PA 19106

Burbank CA 91521

New York NY 10019

USA

USA

USA

P: 1 215 733 0608

www.movies.go.com

P: 1 212 757 4555

F: 1 215 790 1502

F: 1 212 399 9885

E: contact@tlareleasing.com

Trabelsi

www.tlareleasing.com

Trabelsi Productions

TunnelVision

Danti St No.11, PO Box 8579

Lauren Himmel

TMPPA

Jaffa 61084

Tunnel Vision Productions

Thai Motion Picture Producers Association

Israel

160 Moss Way

514 Banmanangkasila Lanluang Rd

P: 972 3 518 2182

Oakland CA 94611

Bangkok 10300

F: 972 3 602 4927

USA

Thailand

E: tawfikabuwael@hotmail.com

P: 1 510 832 7860

F: 1 510 653 7807

Tokuma

Transit

E: email@laurenhimmel.com

Tokuma International

Transit Films

1-1-16, Higashi Shimbashi

Dachauer Strasse 35

TurbulentArts

Minato-ku

Munich 80335

Turbulent Arts

Tokyo 105-0002

Germany

673 Oak St, #1

Japan

P: 49 89 599 8850

San Francisco CA 94117

P: 81 3 3573 8100

F: 49 89 5998 8520

USA

F: 81 3 3573 8145

E: transitfilm@compuserve.com

P: 1 415 552 1952

F: 1 415 552 3620

TokyoILGFF

Trident

E: turbarts@sirius.com

Tokyo International Lesbian

Trident Releasing

& Gay Film Festival

8401 Melrose Pl, 2nd Floor

Tutak

5-24-16 Nakano, #601

Los Angeles CA 90069

Tutak Films

Nakano-ku

USA

622 East 20th St, #6H

Tokyo 164-0001

P: 1 323 655 8818

New York NY 10009

Japan

F: 1 323 655 0515

USA

P: 81 3 5380 5760

E: info@tridentreleasing.com

P: 1 212 228 7381

F: 81 3 5380 5767

www.tridentreleasing.com

F: 1 212 228 7381

E: lgff@tokyo.office.ne.jp

E: robert@tutakfilms.com

Trimark

tutakfilms.com

Tomorrow

Trimark Pictures/Lions Gate Films

Tomorrow Pictures

4553 Glencoe Ave, Suite 200

Tuzi

45 West 36th St, 9th Floor

Marina Del Rey CA 90292

Federica Tuzi

New York NY 10018

USA

via Salaria 1373

USA

E: feedback@lgecorp.com

Rome 00138

P: 1 212 736 6533 (ext 244)

www.trimarkpictures.com

Italy

F: 1 212 563 4891

P: 39 06 888 219, 39 330 244 978

E: degender@libero.it

Distributors

543

TWN

UniFrance

Valhalla

Third World Newsreel

UniFrance Film International

Valhalla Video Productions

545 Eighth Ave, 10th Floor

4 Villa Bosquet

PO Box 31927

New York NY 10018

Paris 75007

San Francisco CA 94131

USA

France

USA

P: 1 212 947 9277

P: 33 1 4753 9580

P: 1 415 978 9938

F: 1 212 594 6417

F: 33 1 4705 9655

E: scooterj33@hotmail.com

E: twn@twn.org

E: contact@unifrance.org

www.twn.org

www.unifrance.org

VCA

Victorian College of the Arts

UA

Universal

School of Film & Television

United Artists

Universal Pictures

234 St Kilda Rd

www.unitedartists.com

www.universalpictures.com

South Bank Vic 3006

Australia

UAClassics

Uplink

P: 61 3 9685 9000

United Artists Classics

UPLINK Company

F: 61 3 9685 9001

www.unitedartists.com

3F, 1-8-1x, Jinnan, Shibuya-ku

E: ftv.info@vca.unimelb.edu.au

Tokyo 150-0041

www.vca.unimelb.edu.au

UGC

Japan

VDB

Union Générale Cinématographique

P: 81 3 5489 0755

(UGC International)

F: 81 3 5489 0754

Video Data Bank

2 rue des Quatre-Fils

E: film@uplink.co.jp

c/- School of the Art Institute

Paris 75003

www.uplink.co.jp

of Chicago

France

112 S. Michigan Ave

P: 33 1 4029 8900

USAFilms

Chicago IL 60603

F: 33 1 4029 8910

USA Films

USA

E: hernst@ugc.fr

100 North Crescent Drive

P: 1 312 345 3550

www.ugc.fr

Beverly Hills CA 90210

F: 1 312 541 8073

USA

E: info@vdb.org

UIP

P: 1 310 385 4400

www.vdb.org

United International Pictures Aust

F: 1 310 385 4408

Vega

GPO Box 4040

www.octoberfilms.com

Sydney NSW 2001

Vega Film AG

Australia

USC

Kraftstrasse 33 - Postfach

P: 61 2 9264 7444

University of Southern California

Zurich CH8044

F: 61 2 9264 2499

School of Cinema

Switzerland

www.uip.com

Lusac Instructional Bldg

P: 41 1 252 6000

Room 209

F: 41 1 252 6635

UIP

Los Angeles CA 90089

Verging

United International Pictures USA

USA

www.uip.com

P: 1 213 740 2235

Verging Productions

www.usc.edu

1572 Grove St

Ulmann

San Francisco CA 94117

Vagrant

USA

Roni Ulmann

P: 1 415 931 6478

Freystrasse 19

Vagrant Films

F: 1 415 775 0634

Zurich CH8004

E: vagrantfilms@go.com

E: pdmiller@pclient.ml.com

Switzerland

F: 41 1 241 4626

E: roniulmann@compuserve.com

544 Distributors

Verlag

Vidiola

WalkingIris

Reinery Verlag Filmproduktion GmbH

Vidiola

Walking Iris Films

Wässigertal 16

117 Burniston St

831 South Dunsmuir Ave

Remagen

Scarborough WA 6019

Los Angeles CA 90036

Germany

Australia

USA

P: 49 2642 23011

E: vidiola@hotmail.com

P: 1 323 936 5476

F: 1 323 936 5476

Vicarious

Viva

E: walkingiris@earthlink.net

Vicarious Production

Viva Films

31 Rosenay Cres

334 E. Rodriquez Sr. Ave

Warner

Battersea

New Manila, Quezon City Philippines

Warner Home Video Aust

London SW1 4R9

P: 63 2 414 1635

235 Pyrmont St

United Kingdom

F: 63 2 415 7176

Pyrmont NSW 2009

P: 44 171 228 0679

E: bgil@viv.com.ph

Australia

F: 44 171 585 3459

P: 61 2 9552 8700

Volcano

VideoAmericain

Del LaGrace Volcano

Warner

Video Americain

P: 44 171 704 1300

Warner Bros

243 Elkton Rd

E: disgrace@dircon.co.uk

www.warnerbros.com

Newark DE 19711

USA

VSM

WaterBearer

P: 1 302 369 3593

Video Search of Miami

Water Bearer Films

F: 1 302 369 0658

E: vsom@aol.com

20 West 20th St, 2nd Floor

www.videoamericain.com

www.vsom.com

New York NY 10011

USA

VideoOut

VTape

P: 1 212 242 8686

Video Out Distribution

V Tape

F: 1 212 242 4560

1965 Main St

401 Richmond St West

E: sales@waterbearerfilms.com

Vancouver

Suite 452

www.waterbearerfilms.com

British Columbia V5T 3C1

Toronto Ontario M5V 3A8

Canada

Canada

WelbFilm

P: 1 604 872 8449

P: 1 416 351 1317

Welb Film Pursuits

F: 1 604 876 1185

F: 1 416 351 1509

PO Box 3011

E: videoout@telus.net

E: cynthial@vtape.org

Woodinville Washington 98072

www.vtape.org

USA

VideoPool

P: 1 206 686 1572

Video Pool Inc

WadiaMovietone

E: welb@earthlink.net

#300, 100 Arthur St

Wadia Movietone

www.fallsapart.com

Winnipeg Manitoba R3B 1H3

8AB Andromeda, 89 Worli Sea Face

Canada

Mumbai 400 025

Wellspring

P: 1 204 949 9134

India

Wellspring Media

F: 1 204 942 1555

P: 91 22 494 7517

419 Park Ave South, 20th Floor

E: vpdist@videopool.org

F: 91 22 493 8228

New York NY 10016

www,videopool.org

USA

P: 1 212 686 6777

F: 1 212 685 2625

E: slevine@wellspring.com

www.wellspring.com

Distributors

545

WesternDragon

Wolfe

WorldOfWonder

Western Dragon Productions

Wolfe Video

World of Wonder (UK)

P: 86 21 6216 0202

P: 1 800 438 9653

40 Chelsea Wharf, Lots Rd

F: 86 21 3225 0383

www.wolfevideo.com

London SW10 0QJ

E: ausgonb@yahoo.com

United Kingdom

WomanVision

P: 44 20 7349 9000

WhitePeople

Woman Vision

F: 44 20 7349 9777

White People’s Business

c/- Transit Media Film Library

E: wow@worldofwonder.co.uk

Apt 3824, 38 rue Jean Longuet

22D Hollywood Ave

www.worldofwonder.net

Bagneux 92220

Hohokus NJ 07423

France

USA

WringingHands

P: 33 1 4223 6309

P: 1 800 343 5540

Wringing Hands Productions

F: 33 1 684 89 8518

F: 1 201 652 1973

USA

E: whitepeoplesbusiness@yahoo.com

E: info@woman-vision.org

P: 1 212 439 1184

www.woman-vision.org

E: Jay_Corcoran@Scubber.com

Wildshot

Wildshot Pictures

WoMedia

wtp-film

707 Brouwersgracht

Women’s Educational Media

wtp-film

Amsterdam 1015 GJ

2180 Bryant St, Suite 203

Bayriches Filmzentrum

The Netherlands

San Francisco CA 94110

Bavariafilmplatz 7

P: 31 20 420 5441

USA

Geiselgasteig 82031

F: 31 20 420 6442

P: 1 415 641 4616

Germany

F: 1 415 641 4632

P: 49 89 6498 1112

Wilhelm

E: wemfilms@womedia.org

F: 49 89 6498 1312

Bettina Wilhelm Filmproduktion

www.womedia.org

E: miragittner@wtpfilm.de

Kottbusser Damm 2

www.wtpfilm.de

Berlin D-1000

Wonderphil

Germany

Wonderphil Productions

Xingu

615 5th Ave

Xingu Films

WiseWomen

San Francisco CA 94118

Estate House 921A Fulham Rd

Wise Women Productions

USA

London SW6 5HU

1 Springcroft Ave

P: 1 415 221 9711

United Kingdom

London N2 9JH

E: wonderphilprods@hotmail.com

P: 44 171 736 7946

United Kingdom

F: 44 171 371 0054

P: 44 777 568 3702

WorldOfWonder

F: 44 870 126 9723

World of Wonder (USA)

Yong

E: wisewomenproductions

6500 Hollywood Blvd, Suite 400

Chen Yong Productions

@hotmail.com

Hollywood CA 90028

P: 86 1390 138 7635

USA

E: chengyongfe@hotmail.com

WMM

P: 1 323 603 6301

Women Make Movies

F: 1 323 603 6301

Zachary

462 Broadway

E: wow@worldofwonder.net

Bohdan Zachary

Suite 500E

www.worldofwonder.net

PO Box 460910

New York NY 10013

San Francisco CA 94146

USA

USA

P: 1 212 925 0606

P: 1 415 621 6115

F: 1 212 925 2052

F: 1 415 552 7723

E: info@wmm.com

www.wmm.com

546 Distributors

Zang

Zang Pictures

1690 Ala Moana Blvd

Honolulu HA 96815

USA

P: 1 808 945 0996

F: 1 808 949 1142

E: zangpictures@cs.com

www.zangpictures.net

ZDF

ZDF Enterprises

Spichernstrasse 75-77

Cologne 50672

Germany

P: 49 221 9488 850

F: 49 221 9499 951

E: westphal.s@zdf.de

www.zdf-enterprises.de

Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist Films

247 Centre St, 2nd Floor

New York NY 10013

USA

P: 1 212 274 1989

F: 1 212 274 1644

E: mail@zeitgeistfilm.com

www.zeitgeistfilms.com

Ziegler

Regina Ziegler Film Production

Neue Kanstrase 14

Berlin 14057

Germany

P: 49 30 32 9050

F: 49 30 322 7353

Distributors

547

548

Selected Queer Film Festivals

Australia

Belgium

Brisbane Queer Film Festival

Brussels Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

Brisbane Powerhouse Centre for the Live Arts

Tels Quels asbl

119 Lamington St

81, rue Marché au Charbon

New Farm Qld 4005

Brussels B-1000

P: 61 7 3358 8622

E: info@fglb.org

F: 61 7 3358 8611

www.fglb.org

E: catherineo@brisbanepowerhouse.org

January

www.brisbanepowerhouse.org

April

Brazil

Mardi Gras Film Festival

Mix Brasil

PO Box 1081

Rua Joao Moura 2432

Darlinghurst NSW 1300

San Paulo CEP 105413.004

P: 61 2 9332 4938

P: 55 11 3819 5116

F: 61 2 9331 2988

F: 55 11 3819 5360

E: info@queerscreen.com.au

E: mixbrasil@uol.com.br

www.queerscreen.com.au

www.mixbrasil.com.br

February

Canada

Melbourne Queer Film Festival

image+nation

6 Claremont St

Montréal International Queer Film & Video Festival

South Yarra VIC 3141

4067 boul St Laurent, Suite 404

P: 61 3 9827 2022

Montréal Québec H2W 1Y7

F: 61 3 9827 1622

P: 1 514 285 1562

E: info@melbournequeerfilm.com.au

E: info@image-nation.org

www.melbournequeerfilm.com.au

www.image-nation.org

March

September

Western Australian Queer Film Festival

London Lesbian Film Festival

44 Ethelwyn St

PO Box 46014

Hilton WA 6163

London Ontario N5W 3A1

P: 61 8 9331 2986

E: iiff@sympatico.ca

F: 61 8 9331 2472

llff.lweb.net

E: fanny_jacobson@yahoo.com.au

gfd.net.au/walgff

Making Scenes Film & Video Festival

Austria

Arts Court

2 Daly Ave, Suite 250

Identities Queer Film Festival

Ottawa Ontario K1N 6E2

DV8-Film

P: 1 613 566 2113

Postfach 282

F: 1 613 233 0698

Vienna A-1071

E: scenes@magma.ca

P: 43 1 524 6274

www.makingscenes.ca

F: 43 1 522 9874

September

E: office@identities.at

www.identities.at

June

Film Festivals 549

Toronto Lesbian & Gay Film & Video

France

Festival

Paris Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

Inside Out

8, rue du Repos

219-401 Richmond St

Paris 75020

Toronto Ontario M5V 3A8

P: 33 1 4356 5366

P: 1 416 977 6847

F: 33 1 4356 5366

F: 1 416 977 8025

E: info@ffglp.net

E: inside@insideout.on.ca

www.ffglp.net

www.insideout.on.ca

December

May

Vancouver Queer Film & Video Festival

Paris Lesbian Film Festival

37 avenue Pasteur

PO Box 521

Montreuil 93100

1027 Davie St

P: 33 1 4870 7711

Vancouver BC V6E 4L2

F: 33 1 4870 7711

P: 1 604 844 1615

E: cineffable@fr.fm

F: 1 604 844 1698

www.dpi-europe.fr/~ebrun/cineffable/

E: general@outonscreen.com

October

www.outonscreen.com

August

Germany

Denmark

Bremen Queer Film Festival

Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

c/o Kino 46

Waller Heerstrasse 46

Det Danske Filminstitut

Bremen 28217

Gothersgade 55

P: 49 421 387 6736

Copenhagen K DK-1123

F: 49 421 387 6734

E: info@cglff.dk

E: info@queerfilm.de

www.cglff.dk

www.queerfilm.de

October

October

Finland

Hamburg Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

Turku Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

Querbild e. V.

Turun Seudun SETA ry, Vinokino Film Festival

Schanzenstr. 45

PO Box 288

Hamburg D-20357

Turku FIN-20101

P: 49 40 348 0670

P: 358 2 2500 695

F: 49 40 34 0522

F: 358 2 2512 905

E: mail@lsf-hamberg.de

E: vinokino@tuseta.fi

www.lsf-hamburg.de

www.tuseta.fi

October

November

Lesben Film Festival Berlin

Koburger Strasse 14

Berlin 10825

P: 49 30 787 18 108

F: 49 30 787 18 106

E: filmfestivalberlin@hotmail.com

www.lesbenfilmfestival.de

October

550 Film Festivals

Verzaubert International Queer Film

Japan

Festival

Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film

Rosebud Entertainment

Festival

Fregestr. 36

Berlin 12161

5-21-16 #601

P: 49 30 861 4532

Nakano Nakano-ku

F: 49 30 861 4539

Tokyo 164-0001

E: rosebud_entertainment@t-online.de

P: 81 3 5380 5760

www.queer-view.com/verzaubert

F: 81 3 5380 5767

December

E: lgff@tokyo.office.ne.jp

l-gff.gender.ne.jp

Ireland

August

Dublin Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

New Zealand

Tower One, Fumbally Court

Out Takes Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

Fumbally Lane

Dublin

Reel Queer Inc

P: 353 1 473 0599

PO Box 12-201

F: 353 1 473 0597

Wellington

E: dlgff@ireland.com

P: 64 4 972 6775

www.gcn.ie/dlgff

F: 64 4 801 9906

August

E: info@outtakes.org.nz

www.outtakes.org.nz

Italy

May

Milano International Lesbian & Gay Film

Norway

Festival

Oslo Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

MBE 209

PO Box 6838

via del Torchio 12

Oslo 0130

Milano 20123

P: 47 22 20 1960

P: 39 2 5412 2225

F: 47 22 20 1960

F: 39 2 7200 2942

E: oglff@online.no

E: info@cinemagaylesbico.com

www.skeivefilmer.no

www.cinemagaylesbico.com

June

June

Portugual

Turin International Gay & Lesbian Film

Festival

Lisbon Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

L’altra Comunicazione

Lisbon

Piazza San Carlo, 161

E: lisboa.filmfest@netcabo.pt

Torino 10123

www.lisbonfilmfest.org

P: 39 11 534 888

September

F: 39 11 535 796

E: info@turinglfilmfestival.com

Slovenia

www.turinglfilmfestival.com

Ljubljana Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

April

c/-Slovenian Film Fund

Miklosiceva 38

Ljubljana 1000

Film Festivals 551

P: 386 1 431 2056

United Kingdom

F: 386 1 430 6250

E: info@film-sklad.si

London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

www.film-sklad.si

National Film Theatre

Southbank, Waterloo

South Africa

London SE1 8XT

P: 44 20 7255 1444

South African Gay & Lesbian Film

www.outuk.com/llgff

Festival

April

924-926 Groote Kerk Gebou

39 Adderley St

USA

Cape Town 8000

Adam Baran Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

P: 27 21 465 1927

F: 27 21 465 1927

1877 Kalakaua Ave

E: info@oia.co.za

Honolulu HI 96815

www.oia.co.za

P: 1 808 941 0424

November

F: 1 808 943 1724

E: info@hglcf.org

Spain

www.hawaiiscene.com/hglcf

May

Barcelona International Exhibition of Gay

& Lesbian Films

Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film

Enric Granados 135, 1r 2A

Festival

Barcelona 08008

1216 E. 51st

P: 34 93 218 6327

Austin TX 78723

F: 34 93 218 6398

P: 1 512 302 1088

E: info@festivalbarcelona.com

F: 1 512 302 9889

www.festivalbarcelona.com

E: kino@agliff.org

October

www.agliff.org

August

Switzerland

Frameline

Pink Apple - Schwullesbisches

San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

Filmfestival

145 Ninth St, Suite 300

Postfach 729

San Francisco CA 94103

Frauenfeld CH-8501

P: 1 415 703 8650

E: info@pinkapple.ch

F: 1 415 861 1404

www.pinkapple.ch

E: info@frameline.org

April

www.frameline.org

June

The Netherlands

Houston Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

Amsterdam Roze Filmdagen

803 Hawthorne

Amsterdam Pink Filmdays

Houston TX 77006

Filmhuis Cavia, Van hallstraat 52-1

E: hglff@cs.com

Amsterdam 1051 HH

www.hglff.org/hglff

P: 31 20 6811 419

May

E: info@rozefilmdagen.nl

www.rozefilmdagen.nl

December

552 Film Festivals

ImageOut

Out Takes Dallas

Rochester Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival

The Dallas Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

274 N. Goodman St

3818 Cedar Springs Rd, #101-405

Rochester NY 14607

Dallas TX 75219

P: 1 716 271 2640

P: 1 214 528 4233

F: 1 716 271 3798

E: artistic@outtakesdallas.org

E: imageout@rochester.rr.com

www.outtakesdallas.org

www.imageout.org

November

October

Outfest

Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

1521 Alton Rd, #147

3470 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1022

Miami Beach FL 33139

Los Angeles CA 90010

P: 1 305 534 9924

P: 1 213 480 7088

F: 1 305 534 2377

F: 1 213 480 7099

E: info@miamigaylesbianfilm.com

E: outfest@outfest.org

www.miamigaylesbianfilm.com

www.outfest.org

April

July

Mix NYC

Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian

New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Festival

Film Festival

29 John St, PMB 132

Philadelphia PA 19102

New York NY 10038

E: paul@phillyfests.com

P: 1 212 571 4242

www.phillyfests.com/piglff

E: info@mixnyc.org

July

www.mixnyc.org

November

Pittsburgh International Lesbian & Gay

Out Far!

Film Festival

Phoenix International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

PO Box 81237

619 East Vista Ave

Pittsburgh PA 15217

Phoenix AZ 85020

P: 1 412 232 3277

P: 1 602 410 1074

E: pilgff@aol.com

E: outfarfilmfest@aol.com

www.pilgff.org

www.outfar.org

October

February

Reel Affirmations

Out On Film

Washington International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

Atlanta Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

PO Box 73587

75 Bennett St, NW, Suite N-1

Washington DC 20056

Atlanta GA 30309

P: 1 202 986 1119

P: 1 404 352 4225

E: info@reelaffirmations.org

F: 1 404 352 0173

www.reelaffirmations.org

E: afvf@imagefv.org

October

www.outonfilm.com

November

Film Festivals 553

Reeling

The New Festival Inc.

Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival

New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

5243 N. Clarke St, 2rd Floor

32 Broadway, 14th Floor

Chicago IL 60640

New York NY 10012

P: 1 773 293 1447

P: 1 212 558 6855

F: 1 773 293 0575

F: 1 212 558 6851

E: info@chicagofilmmakers.org

E: info@newfestival.org

www.chicagofilmmakers.org/navreel.htm

www.newfestival.org

July

June

Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

Tranny Fest

1122 E. Pike St, #1313

Transgender Film Festival

Seattle WA 98122

584 Castro St, #273

P: 1 206 323 4274

San Francisco CA 94114

F: 1 206 323 4275

P: 1 415 820 3223

E: filmfest@seattlequeerfilm.com

F: 1 415 282 4536

www.seattlequeerfilm.com

E: trannyfest@aol.com

October

www.trannyfest.com

Sensory Perceptions

Portland LGBT Film Festival

818 SW 3rd, #1224

Portland OR 97204

P: 1 503 289 8282

F: 1 503 289 8500

E: john@sensoryperceptions.org

www.sensoryperceptions.org

September

Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film

Festival

PO Box 18445

Tampa FL 33679-8445

P: 1 813 879 4220

E: mmurray@pridefilmfest.com

pridefilmfest.com

October

554 Film Festivals

Index of Directors

Aaron, Paul 133

Alston, Macky 339

Arthur, Karen 269

Abbink, Marilyn 447

Altman, Robert

Arzner, Dorothy 442

Abrahams, Jim 67

66, 110, 138, 388

Asher, William 297

Abrahams Wilson, Andy 205

Ameer, Jorge 388

Ashley, Carol 282

Abramovich, Stephanie 433

Amon, Sergio 52

Ashley, Christopher 225

Achbar, Mark 421

Anbe, Brent 233

Askinazi, Edward 194

Achmat, Zackie 52

Anderson, Jane 214

Assayas, Olivier 220

Achten, Irma 62

Anderson, Kelly 312

Ataman, E. Kutlug 256, 381

Acklin, Claudia 255

Anderson, Lindsay 214

Audry, Jacqueline 298, 305

Adair, Peter 33, 38, 448

Anderson, Paul Thomas 270

Austin, Todd 383

Adkin, David 225, 314, 434

Andrade, Ed 294

Avikunthak, Ashish 232

Adlon, Percy 97, 353

Andrew, Paul 271

Avnet, Jon 171

Aeberhard, Dan 51

Anemogiannis, Con 242

Ayaso, Dunia 152

Ah Mon, Lawrence 379

Anger, Kenneth

Ayoup, Colleen 237

Aho, Michael 324, 362

160, 217, 220, 265, 357

Ayres, Tony

Aikin, Susan 353, 414

Angguish, Dallas 430

103, 137, 352, 432

Aikman, Anthony 179

Ankele, John 151, 277

Ajalon, Jamika 365

Antell, Rachel 414

B., Hima 111, 385, 428

Akarasainee, Pisan 48, 244

Aparicio, Carlos 354, 414

B. Y. 230

Akeret, Julie 258

Apon, Annette 118

Babbit, Jamie 88

Akerman, Chantal

Appleby, Daniel 79

Babenco, Hector 238, 326

224, 329, 344

Apted, Michael 417

Badger, Clarence G. 122

Albacete, Alfonso 211, 301

Araki, Gregg

Baer, Daniel 206

Alberta, Clint 128

137, 255, 258, 302, 404, 412

Baer, Max 303

Alberton, Paulo 123

Aranda, Vincente 75, 118

Baethe, Hanno 451

Albicocco, Jean-Gabriel 183

Arcand, Denys 261

Baggott, Kevin 163

Aldrich, Robert 103, 236, 247

Archambault, Louise 54

Bailey, Fenton

Alea, Tomás Gutiérrez 387

Ardill, Susan

29, 140, 153, 313, 318,

Alexandresco, Stéphane 312

64, 178, 261, 382

341, 366

Alexie, Sherman 88

Arena, Tony 189

Baillargeon, Paule 364

Algrant, Dan 292

Armstrong, Gillian 355

Baker, Roy Ward 49, 138, 425

Allen Harris, Thomas 429

Armstrong, Moira 429

Bakhurst, Samantha 31

Allen, Woody 273

Arnesen, Heidi 378

Bakshi, Ralph 115

Almendros, Néstor 216

Arnol, Steven 265

Balasko, Josiane 170

Almereyda, Michael 292

Arnold, Jennifer 270

Balass, Joe 131, 293

Almodóvar, Pedro

Arnold, Jim 311

Baldwin, Robbie 368

40, 123, 201, 235, 240,

Aronson, Jerry 251

Balfour, Patricia 214

245, 254, 321, 437

Arteta, Miguel 104, 383

Balletbò-Coll, Marta 116, 194

Directors 555

Ballyot, Sylvie 135

Benner, Richard

Black, Emma 166

Barassat, Philippe 291

193, 314, 411

Black, Noel 291

Barbato, Randy

Bennett Clay, Stanley 348

Blackman, Inge 55

29, 140, 153, 313, 318,

Benning, Sadie

Blackwood, Christian 369

341, 366

183, 222, 227, 326

Blackwood, Maureen 318

Barbosa, Peter 210, 313

Benveniste, Michael 163

Blakemore, Michael 334

Bardem, Miquel 301

Benvenuti, Alessandro 62

Blank, Jonathan 363

Barreto, Bruno 192

Benz, Obie 197

Blasco, Didier 53

Barriga, Cecilia 277

Beresford, Bruce 181

Bleckner, Jeff 361

Bartel, Paul 266, 356

Bergen, Brian 363

Blier, Bertrand 151

Bartell, Phillip J. 119

Berggold, Craig 144

Blom, Per 214

Bartoni, Doreen 112

Bergman, Ingmar

Bocahut, Laurent 179, 449

Bashore, Juliet 58, 232

321, 369, 403

Bociurkiw, Marusia 297

Bat-Adam, Michal 142

Bergström, Nina 112

Boeken, Ludi 84

Batista, Djalma Limongl 53

Berkowitz, Ben 386

Bogart, Paul 411, 432

Baur, Gabriel 427

Berlanti, Greg 85

Bogayevicz, Yurek 404

Baus, Janet 247

Berliner, Alain 267

Boisvert, Johanne 62

Bautista, Pablo 157

Bernard, Chris 254

Bokova, Jana 282

Bava, Mario 72

Bernard, Lionel 205

Bolden, Oriana 327

Beadle-Blair, Rikki 199, 280

Bernardos, Peter 302

Bolden-Kramer, Rachel 338

Beatty, Maria 71, 146, 376

Bernaza, Lius Felipe 89

Böll, Christoph 382

Beaudin, Jean 62

Berrios, Javier Antonio 377

Bolton, James 143

Beaudine, William 106

Berruti, Giulio 235

Bonder, Diane 126

Beaumont, Gabrielle 94, 195

Bertolucci, Bernardo 114, 242

Boorman, John 128

Beaumont, Harry 84

Bertolucci, Giuseppe 262

Boos, H. Gordon 412

Beauvois, Xavier 136

Bettell, Paul 128, 215

Borden, Lizzie 79, 149, 448

Beavan, Clare 204, 389

Bezalel, Ronit 439

Bordowitz, Gregg 191, 377

Beerson, Jaque 231

Bezucha, Thomas 67

Boreham, Craig 358

Beeson, Constance 202

Bhasin, Neeraj 290

Boschman, Lorna 80, 418

Bega, Jessica Anna 449

Bhave, Sumitri 454

Bosko, Mark 184

Behrens, Alec 210

Biasatti, John 347

Boskovich, John 444

Beiersdorf, Dagmar 145

Bidgood, Jim 325

Böttger, Fritz 145

Beldin, Dale 441

Bijan, Ali 360

Boullata, Peter Tyler 46

Believeau, Lulu 436

Binder, Mike 363

Boumans, Toni 88

Bell, Esther 186

Binninger, John 385

Bouzid, Nouri 67

Bell, Richard 421

Bird, Antonia 333

Bracewell, Charles 203

Belliveau, Lulu 333

Birkin, Andrew 87

Bradley, Maureen 104

Bellon, Yannick 417

Birot, Anne-Sophie 184

Bramer, Monte 319

Bemberg, María Luisa 212

Black, Dustin Lance

Branagh, Kenneth 323

Benestad, Even 40

228, 306, 378

Brand, Dionne 254, 257

556 Directors

Brandner, Uwe 211

Buck, Jeanette L. 313

Carow, Heiner 111

Brass, Tinto 92, 353

Buckley, David 355

Carpenter, Shari 232

Brassard, André 307

Bugden, Paul 34

Carriere, Paul 287

Brauner, Franklin 442

Buncel, Irene 213

Carroll, Robert Martin 378

Brave, Alice B. 71

Buñuel, Luis 62

Cartagena, Chiqui 371

Bravo, Michael Edgar 213

Burin des Roziers, Hughes 77

Casaril, Guy 54, 61

Bressan Jnr, Arthur J.

Burke, Betsy 341

Castellaneta, P. J. 344, 409

33, 86, 178, 327

Burklee, Becky 453

Castle, William 203

Briand, Manon 30

Burrows, James 317

Castro, Abel 61

Bridges, James 282

Burt, Malcolm 414

Castro, Rick

Briggs, David 233, 416

Burton, Geoff 390

31, 49, 198, 208, 327

Bright, Susie 41

Burton, Tim 144

Catania, John 82

Broadbent, Lucinda 362

Buscemi, Steve 48

Cates, Gilbert 114, 243

Brocka, Lino 267, 273

Butera, Angelo 39

Cattaneo, Peter 174

Brodie, Diana J. 366

Butler, David 92

Cautherley, Julian 76

Broinowski, Anna 198, 364

Butler, Robert 446

Cavani, Liliana 64, 296

Brooke, Kaucylia 141

Butler, Ryan 423

Cecchi, Antonio 438

Brooks, James L. 53

Buxton, Rodney 202

Chabrol, Claude 67, 219

Brooks, Katherine 314

Byrne, Wenona 355

Chadha, Gurinder 438

Brooks, Mel 73

Chahine, Youssef 35, 39

Brooks, Philip 179, 449

Cabatu, Joanne L. 201

Chait, Melanie 83, 427

Brooks, Richard 95, 259

Cacoyannis, Michael 125

Chamberlain, Joy 136, 300

Broomfield, Nick 38

Caims, Glen 380

Chambers, Sara 268

Brougher, Hilary 383

Caise, Yule 82

Chan, Evans 274

Brown, Arch 52

Calparsoro, Daniel 318

Chan, Peter 195, 262, 441

Brown, Arvin 99

Camara, Mohamed 121

Charman, Karen 221

Brown, Emma 367

Camarda, George 305

Chasnoff, Debra

Brown, Larry G. 325

Cameron, Heather 414

103, 222, 401

Brown, Rowland 75, 198

Cammell, Donald 321, 442

Chávarri, Jaime 36, 408

Brown, Shauna 178

Cannon, Cairo 418

Cheang, Shu Lea 171, 210

Browne, Jaime 235

Cantraine, Yves 185

Chechik, Jeremiah 132

Bruce, Richard 155

Capuano, Antonio 323

Chen, Jialin 243

Bruce, Sue Maluwa 166

Cardona, Dominique

Chen, Jofei 217, 440

Brunet, Jean-Francois 159

63, 289, 400

Chen, Kuo-fu 320

Brüning, Jürgen

Carland, Tammy Rae 303

Chen, Michelle 376

58, 195, 277, 437, 438

Carlomusto, Jean

Chen, Verónica 376

Brusati, Franco 408

240, 301, 366

Cheng, Andrew 365

Brynntrup, Michael

Carlsen, Henning 96

Cheng, Sheng-fu 370

38, 264, 395

Carnoy, Jon 283

Chéreau, Patrice 204, 404

Buchanan, Justine 185

Carolfi, Jerome 53

Chesla, Nicholas 178

Directors 557

Cheung, Jacob 220

Collier, David 165

Cronenberg, David 267, 293

Chiandetti, Marco 329

Collins, Chris 232

Cronin, Laura Jean 74, 246

Chiang, S. Leo 307, 352

Collins, Paul 436

Crookshank, Ross 216

Child, Abigail

Collins, Rhonda 314

Crouch, Catherine 308, 387

55, 145, 277, 279, 331

Columbus, Chris 286

Cuadra, Teresa 302

Ching, Siu-tung 394, 395

Condon, Bill 186

Cuaron, Alfonso 450

Chionglo, Mel 87, 281

Conn, Nicole 106, 120, 283

Cuesta, Michael 239

Chiten, Laurel 421

Conrad, Patrick 275

Cui, Zi’en 148

Cholodenko, Lisa 200, 379

Conrad, Randall 137

Cukor, George 34, 395

Chomicz, Alex 191

Constantinou, Sophie 66

Cullen, Colette 203, 369

Chowdhry, Maya 351

Cook, Cathy 276

Cummings, Kim 436

Christensen, Garth 49

Cooke, Gregory 31

Cummins, Stephen

Christopher, Mark 40, 125

Coolidge, Martha 214

86, 115, 146, 345

Chung, Simon 161

Coppel, Ann 118, 380

Cunliffe, Mike 339

Chytilová, Vera 121

Corbiau, Gérard 349

Cunningham Reid, Fiona

Cimber, Matt 179

Corcoran, Jay 250

157, 402, 413

Cimino, Michael 405

Corman, Roger 75

Cypriano, Tania 430

Cipelletti, Claudio 347, 381

Cornelius, Henry 209

Cirker, Ira 180

Cornell, Clare 202

Dacic, Diana 440

Citron, Michelle 438

Corsini, Catherine 344

Dakota, Reno 45

Clark, Donna 322

Cottam, Kevin 173

Dal, Reno 114

Clark, Duane 70

Cottis, Jane 141, 403, 432

Daley, Martin 328

Clarke, Kristiene

Coulthard, Edmund 213

Dall, Christine 137

52, 113, 418, 429

Coury, Kristen 172

Dallas, Peter 85

Clarke, Shirley 330

Cowan, Tom 228

Dallas, Wendy 104

Clay, Catrine 263

Cowen, Clint 435

Daniel, Xavier 185

Clifford, Barbara 440

Cox, Paul 297, 374, 412

Danielewski, Tad 298

Clouzot, Henri-Georges

Cozarinsky, Edgardo 225

Daniels, Alan 82

132, 336

Cram, Bestor 452

Dannelly, Brian 195

Cohen, David 327

Crary, Ashley 111

Dasgupta, Buddhadeb 449

Cohen, Ilan Duran 114

Creager, Cindi 178

D’Auria, Mark 376

Cohen, Jem 63

Creed, Barbara 205

David Hinton 169

Cohn, Marya 367

Crépeau, Jeanne 231, 346

Davidson, John-Paul 81

Colbert, Laurie 63, 289, 400

Crickard, Paula 193

Davies, Terence 257, 399

Cole, Jeff 419, 421

Cristofer, Michael 182

Davis, John Henry 309

Cole, Kermit 256

Croall, Heather 316

Davis, Julie 42

Coleman, Lionel 213

Crocetti, Daniela 294

Davis, Kate 379

Colker, Flavio 279

Croghan, Emma-Kate

Davis, Vaginal 440

Collard, Cyril 356

110, 261

Dawi, Enrique 35

Collector, Robert 341

Cromwell, John 91

Daymond, Kathy 295

558 Directors

De Bisschop, Sarah 257

DeSales 232

Donsky, Seth Michael 420

de Campo, Gianni 162

Despins, Joseph 141

Dougherty, Cecilia

De Gaetano, Alessandro 89

Deutsch, Roger 372

108, 178, 188, 226

De Hert, Robbe 251

Devakul, M. L. Bhandevanop

Douglas, Gordon

de Kuyper, Eric 95, 325, 387

209

131, 240, 371

de la Iglesia, Eloy 109, 134

Deval, Jacques 108

Doundakov, Ilko 44

de la Pena, Nonny 224

Devers, Claire 71

Dowell, James 375

de Leon, Gerardo 447

Deville, Noski 260, 385

Dowling, Kevin 390

De Lussanet, Paul 126

Devine, Christine 142

Downey Snr, Robert 411, 424

de Marcken, Anne 189

Dexter, John 213

Downing, Todd 225

De Mille, Cecil B. 369

Dezu 108

Doyle, Christopher 54

De Palma, Brian 140

Di Chiera, Franco 55, 431

Drew, Sidney 164

de Paola, Alessio 101

di Silvestro, Rino 262

Dreyer, Carl 282

de Sica, Christian 278

Di Stefano, John 399

D’Souza, Kevin 121

De Simone, Tom 343

Dickerson, Ernest 73

Dubini, Donatello 228

de Solliers, Bertrand 38

Dickson, Deborah 351

Dubini, Fosco 228

de Vries, Sonja 177, 314

Dieterle, William 180

DuBowski, Sandi Simcha

de Zárate, Américo Ortiz 310

Dietz, Damion 154, 430

410, 416

Deacon, Chris 420

Dieutre, Vincent 399

Ducastel, Olivier 175

Dean-Pilcher, Lydia 344

DiFeliciantonio, Tina 30

Ducharme, Carole 386

Dearden, Basil 428

Diller, Steven 320

Duckworth, Jacqui 203

Debarros, Luiz 279

Dimas, Christos 45, 399

Dulac, Germaine 358

DeCerchio, Tom 303

DiNovis, Kevin 392

Dun, Viki 93, 342

DeCoteau, David 246

Disney, Tim 73

Dunkhorst, Silke 39

Deeya, Loran 409

Ditsie, Beverley Palesa 370

Dunye, Cheryl

Defurne, Bavo 93, 352, 353

Dmytryk, Edward 431

224, 331, 366, 387, 433

Deitch, Donna 112, 130, 447

Dodge, Harry 90

Duong, Hoang A. 410

del Valle, Claudio 45

Dolenzal, Rudi 170

Dupre, Jeff 314

Del Valle, Desi 118

Domalik, Andrzej 368

Durr, Shawn 173

DelaBarre, Eric 233

Dombroski, Lisa 397

Dvoracek, Ted 335

Delain, Rosemary 146

Donaghy, Tom 385

Dyer, Julia 244

Delannoy, Jean 403

Donahoe, Gerald 31

Dyke TV 54

Delgado, Miguel M. 62

Donahue, Lizzie 210

Demas, Peter 386

Donaldson, Roger 299

East, Kippy 381

Demme, Jonathan 323, 369

Donen, Stanley 60, 382

Eastwood, Clint 144, 281

Dempsey, Shawna 125, 187

Dong, Arthur 111, 154, 249

Ebersole, P. David 127

Denis, Claire 58

Donner, Clive 94

Economopoulis, Spiro 405

Deocampo, Nick

Donoughy, Tom 121

Eddey, Paul 44, 80

102, 305, 334, 347, 363

Donovan, Martin 51

Edel, Ulrich 243

DePaepe, Tim 365

Donovan, Paul 368

Edwards, Blake 394, 428

Directors 559

Edwards, Pauline 184

Faucon, Philippe 287

Fox, Eytan 188, 406

Eggleston, Colin 156

Fedele, John Paul 408

Francis, Dean 116

Ehm, Christine 371

Fellini, Federico 212, 355

Franco, Jesus 32, 238, 425

Eisenman, Rafael 342

Feranti, Sharon 404

Franko, Justine 80

Elgear, Sandra 431

Ferber, Lawrence 69

Frears, Stephen 288, 332, 354

Elliot, Steven 55

Féret, René 291

Freccia, Ilaria 269

Elliott, Stephan 35

Fernandez, Agustin 263

Freda, Riccardo 137

Ellsworth, Robert 343

Fernando, Sonali 77

Freed, Leonard 226

Eltringham, Billie 265

Fernie, Lynne 159, 166

Freedman, Estelle 366

Englander, Julie 178

Ferrario, Davide 101

Freedman, Jennifer 393

Epstein, Robert

Ferreri, Marco 175

Freeman, Marilyn 189, 277

38, 98, 112, 316, 407

Figgis, Mike 219

Freeman, Robert 413

Erkenov, Hussein 29

Finch, Nigel 234, 260, 384

Frey, Sayer 145

Erman, John 39, 142, 311

Finlayson, Kaya 200

Friedberg, Lionel 34

Erreca, Jean-Baptiste 84

Finnane, Gabrielle 210

Friedkin, William 81, 118

Escanilla, Claudia Morgado

Fionda, Bruna 275

Friedman, Jeffrey

275, 352

Fisher, Terence 169

98, 112, 316

Evans, Bronwen 290

Fisher Turk, Ellen 381

Friedman, Peter 159, 370

Evans Morris, Betsan 92

Fitzgerald, Jon 51

Friedrich, Su

Evans, Rodney 107

Fitzgerald, Thom 60, 192

121, 160, 179, 200, 247,

Everett, Karen

Fitzwater, William 194

351, 371, 406

169, 211, 289, 392

Fleck, Paula 318

Frilot, Shari 71, 115

Eyre, Richard 220, 259, 319

Fleischer, Richard 79, 113

Froelich, Keith 409

Fleming, Andrew 405

Fuest, Robert 159

Fädler, Hans 436

Fleming, Edward 283

Fukasaku, Kinji 71

Falick, Steven 93

Fleras, Jomar 328

Funari, Vicky 255

Fall, Jim 417

Fleury, Joy 158

Fung, Richard

Fanaka, Jamaa 320

Flynn, John 361

103, 134, 159, 309, 356, 357

Farahani, Mitra 230

Fockele, Jorge 351, 381

Furie, Sidney J. 241, 246

Färberböck, Max 39

Foiles, Stacey 41, 223, 247

Furnish, David 146

Farino, Julian 77

Foix, Vincent Molina 352

Farkas, Jackie 44

Fons, Jorge 282

Gabrea, Radu 272

Farlinger, Leonard 321

Fontaine, Anne 141

Gajilan, Arlyn 236

Farrant, Kim 39

Forbes, Bryan 126, 240

Gale, Porter 450

Farrelly, Colleen 107

Ford, Derek 234

Galea, Lee 233

Farrow, Jane 211

Ford, John 257, 362

Gallagher, Daniel 311

Farthing, Cheryl

Ford, Phillip R. 426

Gallant, Michael 29

92, 222, 223, 350, 364, 435

Fosse, Bob 90

Gallen, Joel 146

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner

Foster, Jodie 203

Gallus, Maya 149

66, 70, 168, 216, 338

Fowler-Smith, Penny 300

Galvin, Kieran 87

560 Directors

Ganatra, Nisha 104

Glatzer, Richard 164, 189

Graves, Lisa 326

Gang, Pierre 396

Glawson, Bruce 280

Gray, Bradley Rust 202

Garbus, Liz 152

Glover, Louise 72

Gray, Donna 37

García, José Antonio Fernández

Godard, Jean-Luc 355

Gray, F. Gary 361

115

Godges, Mary Jo 142

Green, David 77

Garcia, Rodrigo 402

Godmilow, Jill 350, 431

Green, Guy 306

Garfein, Jack 387

Gogan, Johnny 242

Greenaway, Peter 324

Garneau, Kathy 410

Gold, Jack 292

Greene, David 249

Gasper, Mark 147

Gold, Tami 147, 229, 312

Greene, Scott 441

Gassman, Allan 303

Goldberg, Paula 72

Greenwald, Maggie 56, 438

Gatti, Gianni 438

Goldin, Nan 213

Gregg, Colin 434

Gaulke, Cheri 313

Goldman, Henrique 334

Gregory, Tony 141

Gauthier, Paula 383

Goldson, Annie 179

Greyson, John

Gay, Cesc 239

Goldstein, Amy 59

37, 230, 237, 253, 271,

Gaylord, Glenn 80

Goldstein, Mark 438

283, 285, 325, 422, 424,

Gebhardt, Amy 422

Gonick, Noam 199

449, 452, 453

Genet, Jean 100

Gonzalez, A. P. 106

Greytak, Sharon 196

Gentile, Jennifer M. 251

Goodman, Karen Sloe 214

Griffi, Guiseppe Patroni 274

Georgiades, Jimmy 160

Gordon, Bert I. 355

Griffith, C. A. 78, 310

Gershuny, Theodore 389

Gordon, Bryan 341

Grimaldi, Aurelio 33

Gharavi, Tina 107

Gordon, Michael 324

Grodecki, Wiktor

Giannaris, Constantine

Gordy, Berry 270

77, 273, 301

96, 173, 301, 326

Gorham, Caz 248

Gucovsky, Michelle 78

Gibbs, Rolf 142

Gorn, Phil 111

Guest, Christopher 64

Gilbert, Barry 199

Gorris, Marleen 50, 243

Guest, Val 114

Gilbert, Brian 443

Goss, John

Gund Saalfield, Catherine

Gilbert, Lewis 260

164, 195, 383, 442, 449

45, 55, 69, 120, 191,

Gilbert, Sky 210, 288, 291

Gosse, Bob 229

218, 234, 301, 352

Gilliam, Terry 161

Gotschall, Christopher 96

Gupta-Smith, Vismita 165

Gilpin, Margaret 89

Gottlieb, Lisa 231

Gustad, Kaizad 78

Gilsenan, Alan 181

Gottlieb, Michael 273

Gutiérrez Maesso, José 309

Ginsburg, Lisa 315

Gotz, Elke 453

Guttenberg, Steve 315

Giordana, Marco Tullio 441

Gould, Jason 219

Guttman, Amos

Giovanni, Marita 56

Gould, Will 445

36, 44, 140, 352

Girod, Francis 146

Goulding, Edmund 341

Guy-Blaché, Alice 39

Girolami, Lisa 126

Governi, Valeria 379

Guzmán, Mary 37, 130

Gisler, Marcel 76, 153

Graef, Roger 359

Gypkens, Martin 120

Gittens, Debbie 372

Graham, David 116

Giusti, Stéphane 204, 331

Graham, William A. 60

Haber, Rosalind

Gladwin, Polly 275

Graves, Chris 166

198, 203, 315

Directors 561

Haberman, Hardy 246

Hasick, Paul 301

Hill, Jack 394

Hackworth, Ben 275

Hasson, Patrick 431

Hill, Julie 260

Hainsworth, Shawn 391

Hattu, Jean-Pascal 33

Hill, Paul 292

Hale, William 249

Haverstick, Mary 276

Hillcoat, John 182

Hall, Dolly 226

Hawks, Howard

Hiller, Andrew 165

Halpern, Stewart 438

68, 179, 182, 342

Hiller, Arthur 270

Halwes, Shannon 45

Hayes, Lisa 249

Hillyer, Lambert 138

Hamilton, David 68

Hayes, Matt 98

Himmel, Lauren 413, 415

Hammer, Barbara

Hayn, Stefan 165

Hindley, Emma 385, 453

137, 147, 158, 201, 288,

Haynes, Todd 328, 426

Hindmarsh, Gary 86

298, 312, 392, 395, 399, 447

Haywood-Carter, Annette 168

Hines, Kathy 453

Hampton, Christopher 94

Hazan, Jack 68

Hinton, David 126

Handelman, Michelle 75

He, Jianjun 331

Hippolyte, Gregory 283, 296

Hankin, Kelly 385

Heatherman, Margaret 372

Hirsh, Arie 194

Hannam, Ken 83

Heche, Anne 214

Hisashi, Saito 170

Hannon, Gerald 289

Hegner, Isabel 321

Hitchcock, Alfred 350

Hans Schierl, Angela 162

Henderickx, Guido 351

Hitchins, Geoff 380

Hanson, Curtis 448

Hens, Antonio 137

Hoffman, Philip 131

Harding, Sarah 337

Henszelman, Stefan 172

Hoffmann, Deborah 113

Hardy, Rob 418

Herbert, Andrew 378

Hoffmann, Kurt 114

Harlan, Veit 402

Herbert, Henry 166

Hofmann, Sonia 285

Harlot, Scarlot 49

Herbert, James 381

Hofmeyr, Nicolaas 383

Harmon, Jeff B. 221

Herd, Kelli 139, 222

Hogan, P. J. 288, 422

Harold, Wayne 184

Herman-Wurmfeld, Charles

Holland, Agnieszka 305, 412

Harrington, Raquel Cecilia 148

155, 238

Holliman, Elaine 101

Harris, Damian 279

Hermosillo, Jaime Humberto

Hoolboom, Mike

Harris, Mark T. 299

136, 390

206, 232, 249, 316, 410, 424

Harris, Thomas, Allen 197

Hernandez, Julian 208

Horton, Simon 81

Harrison, Hugh 225

Hernandez, Theresa 338

Hoskins, Dan 104

Harrison, John Kent 58

Hetherman, Margaret 167

Hough, John 420

Harrison, Ray 40

Hewitt, Jon 75

House, Uncle Steak 249

Harrison, Richard 406

Hick, Jochen

Houston, Robert 349

Harron, Mary 212

279, 298, 364, 428, 443

Howard, Silas 90

Hart, Harvey 88, 167

Hickox, Douglas 148

Hsu, Li-kong 162

Hart, Robbie 340

Hickson, Michele 436

Huang, Min-chen 411

Hartley, Hal 163

Hidalgo de la Riva, Teresa 286

Huang Yu, Shan 420

Harvey, Alex 68

High, Kathy 367

Hubbard, Jim 146

Harvey, Anthony 347

Hildebrand, David 181

Huckert, John 193

Hashiguchi, Ryosuke

Hill, Amy 414

Huda, Menhaj 337

208, 252, 376

Hill, George Roy 449

Huestis, Marc 104, 278, 363

562 Directors

Hughes, Ken 416

Jacobs, Ken 74

Kalin, Tom 394, 402

Hughes, Terry 89

Jacobson, Clayton 397

Kalitowski, Toby 152

Hughes, Todd 134, 295

Jaeckin, Just 147

Kalliat, Prem 224

Hughey, Angela Evers 220

James, Grant 66

Kalvert, Scott 58

Humfress, Paul 358

James, Sheila 241

Kaminsky, Sean 348

Hunebelle, Andre 419

Jammeh, Kasi 363

Kamitsuna, Mako 66

Hung, Kit 209

Janger, Lane 231

Kaneko, Shusuke 391

Hunsinger, Tom 80, 245

Jansen, Doerthe 362

Kanievska, Marek 50

Hunt, Simon 345

Jansen, Ingeborg 125

Kaplan, Mindy 132

Hunt, Victoria 65

Jarman, Derek

Kaplan, Nelly 293

Hunter, Neil 80, 245, 398

48, 76, 94, 144, 185, 215,

Kaplan, Patti 138

Hunter, Tim 46

217, 243, 358, 407, 445

Kaplan, Robert J. 356

Huntgeburth, Hermine 123

Jarmel, Marcia 346

Karpinski, Barbara 296

Hurwitz, Elise 415

Jeanron, Elke 434

Katakouzinos, George 48

Hussein, Waris 373, 413

Jenkins, Jeff 327

Katsapetses, Nicholas 180, 229

Huston, Danny 59

Jenkins, Julie 267

Kaufman, Moisés 242

Huston, John 343

Jenkins, Scooter 70

Kaufman, Philip 198

Hutt, Robyn 431

Jiménez Leal, Orlando 216

Kaufmann, Rainer 396

Hutton, Brian G. 450

Joffé, Alex 215

Kay, Manuela 39

Hyams, Peter 88

Johansen, Ernst 451

Kaze, Shindo 264

Hyde, Roger 337

Johnson, Lamont 400

Kearney, Brian 47

Hytner, Nicholas 303

Johnston, Lawrence

Kearns, Patricia 214

250, 296, 418

Keitel, John 43, 128

Ibáñez-Serrador, Narcisco 345

Johnstone, Cathy 388

Kellett, Bob 183

Iborra, Juan Luis 239

Jokel, Lana 47

Kelly, Max 308

Ichaso, Leon 152

Jones, G. B. 451

Kennedy, Gregory 141

Ignacio, Charles 82

Jones, William E.

Kennedy, Michael 358

Ikuhara, Kunihiko 346

154, 160, 276

Kennedy, Sarah 134

Illsley, Mark 193

Jonze, Spike 62

Kennerley, Annette

Ingratta, Brenda 384

Jordan, Glenn

37, 81, 276

Inkster, Dana 436

139, 276, 289, 308

Kent, Gabi 248

Inyang, Etang 55

Jordan, Neil 119, 219, 283

Kerbosch, Roeland 165

Ireland, Dan 426

Joslin, Tom 370

Kerridge, Nicola 295

Irmas, Mathew 440

Jubela, Joan 205

Keshishian, Alek 216

Irvin, Sam 34

Julien, Isaac

Kessler, Bruce 177

Ishii, Takashi 187

123, 169, 259, 318, 452

Keusch, Michael 231

Ivory, James 276

Jutra, Claude 90

Khanna, Natthalie 177

Kidel, Mark 80

Jackson, Jane 363

Kaczender, George 99

Kidron, Beeban 308, 409

Jackson, Peter 197

Kaige, Chen 156

Kijak, Stephen 294

Directors 563

Kim, Dae-seung 86

Krokidas, John 365

Lanteigne, Kat 444

Kim, Tae-yong 277

Krom, Frank 408

Lapine, James 215

Kim, Yoo-min 300

Krüger, Jan H. 171

Larkin, Christopher 427

King, Robert Lee 134, 335

Kruger, Ken 138

Larraz, José Ramón 425

King, Scott 415

Ku, Alexander 133

Larraz, Joseph 425

King, Zalman 342, 421

Kubrick, Stanley 57, 380

Larsen, Ronnie 367

Kinney, Donald

Kuehn, Andrew J. 180

Latta, Cayte 153

38, 129, 270, 369, 383, 396

Kulik, Buzz 426

Lau, Jeffrey 142

Kinney, Nan 107, 207, 208

Kümel, Harry 124, 284

Lau, Mishann 110

Kinney, Robert

Kumiss, Mary 151

Lautner, Georges 91

38, 129, 270, 369, 383, 396, 414

Kunath, Beate 166

Lavin, Julianna 254

Kinsella, Stephen 274, 294

Kurys, Diane 148

Law, Clara 149

Kiønig, Carl Jørgen 73

Kwan, Stanley

Lawrence, Jacquie 137, 448

Kirkman, Tim 126, 295

174, 202, 241, 451

Layumas, Rune 277

Klahr, Lewis 328

Kwietniowski, Richard

Le Roy, Mervyn 227

Klapisch, Cédric 439

34, 56, 64, 161, 190, 261,

Leaf, Paul 361

Klausner, Kim 103

297, 322, 328, 348, 362

Lebow, Alisa 314, 416

Kleiser, Randal 223

Kwoi 123

Lecchi, Alberto 51

Klimovsky, León 299

Kybartas, Stashu 122

L’Ecuyer, Gerald 188

Klopfenstein, Karen 314

Leder, Evie 60

Knight, Leone 248

La Bruce, Bruce

Lee, Ang 435

Kobufs, Remco 263

208, 299, 374, 391

Lee, Chi 195

Kodaka, Kazuma 239

La Rosa, Melanie 371

Lee, Christopher 43, 363, 415

Kokkinos, Ana 195, 308

Labrune, Jeanne 354

Lee, Eileen 447

Kolomvakis, John 375

Lacey, Margaret 317

Lee, Gerard 41

Kordon, Beatrice 135

Lafia, Marc 153

Lee, Melissa 275

Kormákur, Baltasar 29

Laforce, Jean-Yves 196

Lee, Paul 304

Korpi, Norman 435

LaGravenese, Richard 256

Lee, Quentin

Korras, Giorgas 130

Lamangan, Joel 377

50, 140, 164, 409

Koster, Andrew 236

Lambert, Lothar 138, 432

Lee, Raymond 395

Kot, Hagar 223

Lambert, Susan 306

Leech, Marla 222, 263

Kotcheff, Ted 199, 342

Lamond, John D. 157

Leeman, Lisa 279

Kotler, Beth 189

Lane, Dorrie 207

Lefèbvre, Geneviève 230

Kotzer, Ran 46, 178, 330

Lane, Eric 96

Lemercier, Valérie 129

Koutras, Panos H. 54

Lang, Charley 255

Lennhoff, Stephen 347, 374

Kovacs, Steven 31

Lang, Paul 202

Lenoir, Garrett 210

Krenzien, Mark 441

Lang, Samantha 284, 436

Leonard, Zoe 234

Krishnamma, Suri 272

Langlois, Denis 150, 267

Lepore, Sandy 34

Krishnan, Tinge 189

Langlois, Michel 93

Lesnick, Helen 154

Krohn, Anne Høegh 423

Langway, Douglas 340

Less, Vadan 349

564 Directors

Lester, Richard 348

Luketic, Robert 74, 245

Mantello, Joe 263

Levitt, Steve 126

Lumet, Sidney

Manuel, William L. 117

Levy, Jefery 219

47, 127, 135, 149, 190

Manzano, Jorge 227

Levy, Wendy 293

Lynch, David 286

Manzart, Richard 109

Lewis, Everett 266, 374

Lynd, Laurie 154, 351, 409

Marcos, Teresa 57

Lewis, Jack 354

Marenco, Susan 35

Lewis, Pat 180

Ma, Ming-yuen S. 409

Margheriti, Antonio

Li, Xiao 376

Maas, Willard 215

75, 122, 163

Li, Yu 161

Maccarone, Angelina 43

Markopoulos, Gregory

Liddi, Allison 452

MacCubbin, Jeffrey 164, 210

266, 419

Lifshitz, Sébastien

MacDonald, Heather 56

Marks, Ross 419

109, 115, 118, 331

MacDonald, Hettie 59

Marquez, Nettie 434

Lim, Desiree 389

MacDonald, Sean 78

Marre, Jeremy 241

Lim, Madeleine 354

MacGeorge, Samuel 377

Marshall, Garry 169

Liman, Doug 185

Machado, Andre 115

Marshall, Stuart

Lin, Cheng-sheng 287

Machado, Lorene 302

76, 84, 113, 130, 315, 319

Lin, Lana 43

Mack-Nataf, Isiling 275

Marshall, Teresa 144

Lindsay-Hogg, Michael 53

Macksoud, Anne 151, 277

Martin, J. J. 360

Lipinska, Christine 384

MacLean, Alison 119

Martin, Kelrick 452

Lipman, Andy 113

MacLean, Stephen 322

Martineau, Jacques 175

Lippman, Jane 348

MacMillan, Ian 223

Martinez, Rico 48

Liss, Janet 215

MacPherson, Kenneth 78

Marzella, Phillip 264

Litten, Peter McKenzie

Madansky, Cynthia 416

Masenza, Claudio 284

53, 408

Maeck, Klaus 443

Mastorakis, Nico 201

Littleboy, Helen 135

Maggenti, Maria 218

Mathers, Katrina 116

Liu, Bingjian 272

Magnaye, Michael 93

Mathew, Jan 403

Livingston, Christopher 202

Magrina, Gala 298

Mathias, Sean 63

Livingston, Jennie 317

Main, Stewart

Matsumoto, Neil 323

Livnev, Sergei 192

64, 127, 131, 186, 289,

Matsumoto, Toshio 175

Logan, Bruce 427

307, 419

Matthews, Mary C. 89

Lombardi, Francisco J. 136

Majid, Hajira 215

Matusoka, Joji 420

London, Jeff 47

Mak, Anson 422

Mauceri, Marc 245

Long, Susan 278

Makk, Károly 50

Mawra, Joseph P. 99, 305

Longinotto, Kim 139, 367

Malle, Louis 282, 453

Maxwell, Garth 66, 293, 439

López , Temistocles 98

Mamoulian, Rouben 336

Maybury, John 262

Losey, Joseph

Manana, Giovanna 257

Mayson, Michael 68

236, 283, 359, 361

Manera, Franco 425

Mazursky, Paul 295

Lovanne, Auntie Lou 249

Maniaci, Teodoro 307

McBride, Jason 383

Loyer, Bertrand 312

Manker, Paulus 436

McCabe, Mitch 327

Lozano, Jorge 396

Mankiewicz, Joseph L. 388

McCarthy, John Michael 398

Directors 565

McCaskell, Tim 356

Meyer, Russ 66, 423

Moodysson, Lukas 368, 406

McCollum, Rachel 421

Meynell, Kate 52

Mooney, Shayne 256

McCredie, Elise 386

Mifsud, John 380

Moorcock, Sophie 436

McDougall, Charles 337

Mignatti, Victor 84, 159

Moore, Sara 204

McDowell, Curt 256, 405

Mikels, Ted V. 29

Mora, Philippe 207

McEwen, Mary Anne 186

Mikesch, Elfi 268, 360

Morais, Jose Alvaro 319

McGann, Brad 110

Milici, Jennifer 363

Moreira, Rita 208

McGee, Debbie 413

Millan, Lorri 125, 187

Morel, Gaël 174

McGehee, Scott 128

Millar, Gavin 406

Morement, Lea 31

McGlone, Jennifer 83

Miller Adato, Peter 180

Moreton, David 144

McGrath, Joseph 269

Miller, Claude 65

Morgan, U. B. 82

McHenry, Bryan 124, 139

Miller, Courtney 181

Morris, Richard 432

McKay, Barry 154, 209

Miller, Robert Ellis 50, 198

Morrissey, Paul

McKibben, Kerry 247

Miller, Sam 236

61, 68, 75, 163, 167,

McLaughlin, Sheila 366

Miller, Tanya 58

197, 268, 405, 415, 447

McLean, Steve 330

Miller, Thomas 400

Morrow, Vic 127

McLennan, Don 286, 328

Miller-Monzon, John 378, 402

Morse, Emily 360

McLennan, Gordon 217

Milling, Bill 91

Mortimer, Sarah 113

McLeod, Dayna 433

Mills, Brian 133

Mosbacher, Dee

McMurchy, Megan 51

Milton, Keith 420

41, 108, 125, 247, 312,

McNaughton, John 443

Mimouni, Patrick 415

340, 386

Mead, Wrik 93, 173

Min, Kyu-dong 277

Moses, Gilbert 443

Meckler, Nancy 40, 372

Minello, Gianni 80

Mosvold, Frank

Medak, Peter 239, 454

Minerba, Giovanni 166

90, 167, 237, 433

Mehra, Prakash 453

Minnelli, Vincente 398

Motyl, H. D. 410

Mehta, Deepa 160

Mirkin, Ekaterine 201

Moyle, Allan 407

Mehta, Ketan 202

Mitchell, Allyson 55

Mozen, Paula 299

Meier, Pierre-Alain 401

Mitchell, John Cameron 198

Mueller, Eric 449

Meieran, David 431

Mitchell, Max 181

Mueller, Matthais

Melville, Jean-Pierre 148

Mitchell, Roy 211

43, 320, 375

Mendes, Sam 44

Mobley, Doug 226

Muijser, Marijn 210

Menéndez, Jessica 312

Moffet, Frederic 194

Muir, Madeline 437

Menkes, David 211, 301

Moffett, Joel 289

Muller, Clare 311

Merrison, Lindsey 172

Mohabeer, Michelle 101, 109

Muller, Klaus 37

Mersky, Liz 240

Molé, Franco 349

Mulligan, Robert 75

Metzger, Alan 350

Molinaro, Edouard 91

Munch, Christopher 206

Metzger, Radley

Monette, Jean-François

Mundruczo, Kornel 403

95, 250, 357, 401

46, 395, 440

Munoz, Susana 392

Mew, Michael 187

Monger, Christopher 230

Murnberger, Wolfgang 304

Meyer, Armgard 181

Montgomery, Jennifer 37, 418

Murray, Karen 251

566 Directors

Murton, Iain 388

Niskanen, Tuija-Maija 156

Oremland, Paul 253

Muscardin, Laura 125

Nix, Laura 328, 440

Oshima, Nagisa 186, 279

Muska, Susan 83

Noguerira, Helena 339

Oswald, Richard 47

Muxel, Paule 38

Nolan, Monica 54

Otalvaro-Hormillosa, Gigi 220

Noonan, Chris 95

Ottinger, Ulrike 226, 268

Naczek, Jason 80

Noorani, Arif 121

Oxenberg, Jan 110, 203

Nagasaki, Shunichi 147

Norman, Abigail 230

Oxley, Chris 220

Nakajima, Takehiro 304

North, Jacqui 104

Oz, Frank 216

Nakata, Toichi 282, 310

North, Liz 436

Ozon, François

Narizzano, Silvio 259

Nossiter, Jonathan 345

117, 360, 373, 390, 433

Nasile, Vic 384

Novaczek, Ruth 398

Ozpetek, Ferzan 73, 191

Natale, Richard 189

Novaro, María 122

Natarajan, Suresh 322

Noyce, Phillip 82

Pabst, G. W. 315

Nauffts, Geoffrey 55

Nunn, Jan 82

Paci, Myra 414

Neal, Sarah 218

Nykvist, Carl-Gustaf 448

Pacilio, Casi 313

Neant-Falk, Cecilia 112

Page, Anthony 359

Nechustan, Dana 412

O’Brien, Kelly 160

Palmer, Amilca 124

Negrón-Muntaner, Frances 84

O’Connell, Maura 368

Papatakis, Nico 33, 148

Neild, Suzanne 447

O’Connell, Raoul 172

Paperny, David 84

Nelson, Melanie 69

O’Driscoll Gray-Lee, Geoffrey

Park, Chul-soo 31

Nelson, Mervyn 378

44

Park, Jae-ho 85

Nelson, Todd 392

Ogawa, Lulu 434

Parker, Alan 281

Nero, Carlo Gabriel 242

O’Hare, Christopher 65

Parker, Candy 78

Nettlebeck, Sandra 98, 259

O’Haver, Tommy 68

Parker, Christine 319

Neuhaus, Gerrit 49

Okazaki, Steven 43

Parkerson, Michelle 385

Newbrough, Cheryl 188, 388

O’Keefe, Kevin 131

Parmar, Pratibha

Newby, Christopher 268, 344

Oki, Hiroyuki

137, 147, 163, 226, 235,

Newell, Mike 167, 187

197, 211, 221, 277, 335,

278, 326, 343, 348, 354, 433

Newman, Nicky 371

393, 397

Parry, William 38, 218

Newman, Paul 339

Olafsdottir, Greta 83

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

Newman, Suzanne 302

Oldroyd, Liddy 400

52, 353, 399

Nguyen, Hoang Tan 32

Olin, Ken 136

Passer, Ivan 194

Niami, Ramin 378

Olivé-Bellés, Nuria 39

Patierno, Mary 285

Nicholas, Paul 99

Oliver, Bill 127, 450

Patton, Parris 117

Nichols, Mike 69, 370

Oliver, Jorge 333

Patuasz, Lidia 384

Nicol, Nancy 382

Olson, Jenni 204, 226

Pavlov, Yuri 117

Nicolaou, Cassandra 220

Olye, David 230

Pearson, Rosalind 447

Nicolella, John 349

One in Seven Collective 444

Peart, Amory 324

Nielsen, Lasse 451

O’Neil, Robert Vincent 47

Peck, Ron 147, 297, 388

Nisbett, Alec 235

Onodera, Midi 57, 374

Peehl, Scott 286

Directors 567

Peer, Ellie 74

Poirier, Anne Claire 354

Rajski, Peggy 416

Peerce, Larry 360

Poirier, Bob 397, 413

Ralph, Sheryl Lee 359

Peeters, Barbara 231

Poirier, Paris 242, 332

Ram, Eric 156

Peirce, Kimberly 81

Poklar, Micki 294

Ramaka, Joseph Gaï 233

Pellizzari, Monica 230

Polanski, Roman 70, 157

Randera, Safiya 196

Peloso, Larry 111

Polat, Ayse 413

Rapp, Bernard 276

Pemberton, Justin 120

Polish, Diana 308

Rappaport, Mark 349, 370

Pendra 239

Polk, Patrik-Ian 335

Rapper, Irving 104

Perez, Dolores 301

Pollack, Sharon 152

Rash, Steve 337

Perry, Frank 327

Pollack, Sydney 411

Rashid, Ian Iqbal 77, 392

Perry, Nickolas 288, 380

Pons, Ventura 45, 165

Ray, Nicholas 227

Peters, Charlie 318

Pontiac, Carla 156

Raymond, James 160

Petersen, Wolfgang 114

Pool, Léa 49, 260, 362, 386

Rea, Seamus 182

Peterson, Kristine 375

Pope, Angela 203

Rebehy, Mario Alves 214

Petraska, Brian 406

Poras, Marlo 270

Reding, Benjamin

Petrie, Daniel 65

Portes, Gil M. 275, 282

139, 304, 397

Pfahl, Berengar 53

Poselski, Iakov 285

Reding, Dominik

Pfirman, Carl 80, 113

Postoff, Shawn 112

139, 304, 397

Pflaum, Hans Gunther 210

Potter, Sally 187, 309

Rednour, Shar 194, 389

Pham, Van M 133

Preece, David John 265

Reed, Peter 316, 422

Phang, Jennifer 263

Preminger, Otto 36, 398

Reeve, Christopher 217

Phenix, Lucy Massie 93

Price, David 137

Reeves, Jennifer Todd 123

Philpott, Ger 99

Price, Luther 377

Regan, Melissa 298

Phipps, Cyrille 352

Prince, Harold 378

Reichardt, Kelly 303

Phungula, Thulanie 354

Pritikin, Greg 412

Reichman, Rachel 448

Picazo, Miguel 153

Pucill, Sarah 394

Reid, Alastair 396

Pierrepont III, Julie Jay 260

Pugh, George 38

Reid, Frances 41, 217, 386

Pierson, Frank 105

Pürrer, Ursula 162

Reiner, Jeffrey 74

Pietrobruno, Ileana 96, 182

Purves, Barry 33

Reinke, Steve 352

Pinaud, Pierre 142

Purvis, Tag 341

Reiss, John 107

Pinder, Phil 86

René, Norman 258

Pineyro, Marcelo 87

Qamar, Cheryl 421

Rey, Cristina 99, 218

Pinheiro, Dacio 319

Query, Julia 255

Rhue, Sylvia 41

Pinter, Harold 89

Quizon, Enrico 377

Rice, Teri 236

Pinto, Joaquim 440

Richardson, Peter 143

Pirro, Mark 120

RADD 435

Richardson, Tony

Piscicelli, Salvatore 215

Rader, Peter 201

206, 264, 397

Plotkin, Laura 342

Rafelson, Bob 72, 285

Richter, Kathy 260

Podeswa, Jeremy 143

Raine, Amanda 189

Ridley, Philip 343

Pohjola, Ilppo 120, 315

Rainer, Yvonne 287, 335

568 Directors

Riggs, Marlon

Rossen, Robert 253

Sarno, Joseph W. 451

36, 71, 300, 411

Rosser Goodman, A. 251

Sartain, Claudine 128

Ripkens, Martin 262

Rosson, Arthur 342

Sasagawa, Narusa 307

Ripploh, Frank 397, 398

Rothman, Stephanie 426

Sasdy, Peter 116, 257

Ripstein, Arturo 336

Roy, Duncan 32, 106, 223

Sato, Hisayasu 288

Risi, Marco 166

Rozema, Patricia 213, 439

Savage, Eleanor 431

Rivette, Jacques 97, 302

Roznowski, Robert 100, 294

Saville, Philip 173, 365

Rizzo, Teresa 305

Rubnitz, Tom 441

Saw, Andrew 240

Roach, Hal 419

Rudolph, Alan 269

Saxena, Gita 77

Robbins, Fred A. 405

Ruiz, Raoul 136, 407

Sayles, John 249

Roberts, Cynthia 85

Rupa, Mandrika 293

Sbrizzi, Paul 221

Robinson, Angela 237

Rush, Richard 170

Scagliotti, John 37, 274

Robinson, Bruce 444

Russell, Ken

Schaefer, George 135, 217

Robinson, Mark 393

288, 340, 353, 425, 447

Schaeffer, Francis 196

Rocha, Paulo 196

Russo, Christine 373, 385

Schaffner, Franklin 64

Rocksavage, David 310

Ruzowitzky, Stefan 42

Scheirl, Hans 122

Rodrigue, Jean 174

Rydell, Mark 168, 350

Schepelern, Mette-Ann 382

Rodrigues, Joao Pedro 323

Rzeznick, Francine 307

Schepisi, Fred 132, 373

Roeg, Nicolas 321

Schermerhorn, Candace 452

Rogers, Adam 345

Sabroso, Félix 152

Scherrer, Dominik 198

Rogers, Gerry 290

Saca, Victor 401

Schiller, Greta

Rokab, Sylvie 341

Sachs, Ira 129, 240, 426

61, 272, 317, 407

Rollin, Jean

Sagall, Jonathan 55, 234

Schipek, Dietmar 162

157, 172, 345, 425, 429

Sagan, Leontine 268

Schlatter, George 301

Rolov, Lenid 438

Saks, Eva 155

Schlesinger, John

Romano, Gabriella 295

Salaberry, Enrique Cahen 280

123, 148, 268, 280, 295,

Romero, Eddie 71, 446

Salazar, Wayne 131

339, 391

Romilly, Jason 381

Salmon, Norah 247

Schlöndorff, Volker 116, 392

Rony, Fatimah Tobing 152

Salva, Victor 348

Schmidt, Laurie 375

Roos, Don 308

Salvo, Calogero 271

Schmiechen, Richard 100

Rosacher, Hannes 170

Salzman, Bernard 423

Schnabel, Julian 61

Rose, Lee 183, 418

Sampaio, Adélia 46

Schneider, Jane 230, 297

Rosen, Gary 412

Samperi, Salvatore 149

Schneider, Paul 444

Rosenberg, Robert 61

Sands, Aimee 434

Schrader, Paul 45, 110

Rosenberg, Stuart 245

Sane, Kelley 169

Schroder, Elizabeth G. 69

Rosenfeld, Shoshana 356

Sangster, Jimmy 265

Schroeder, Barbet 311

Rosenthal, Barbara 260

Sanoussi-Bliss, Pierre 346

Schroeter, Werner 145, 336

Rosenzweig, Joshua 100, 357

Santostefano, Damon 405

Schultz, Michael 94

Ross, Herbert

Saran, Nish 390

Schumacher, Joel 162

82, 92, 175, 188, 244, 297

Sarne, Michael 291

Schünzel, Reinhold 428

Directors 569

Scola, Ettore 296, 380

Sherman, Kenneth 406

Smallhorne, Jimmy 30

Scorsese, Martin 36

Sherwood, Bill 317

Smaragdis, Yannis 97

Scott, Cynthia 112

Shils, Barry 441

Smith, Jack 161

Scott, Margaret 52

Shimada, Koshi 284

Smith, Jo 186

Scott, Ridley 401

Shiori, Kazama 207

Smith, Kevin 100

Scott, Tony 208

Shirakawa, Koji 454

Smith, Leslie L. 124

Sedghi, Behzad 414

Shiva, Alexandra 78

Smith, Robert 443

Seelenmeyer, Melissa 440

Shore, Simon 181

Smith, Sidra 266

Segal, Jonathan 54, 55

Shores, Del 379

Snee, Patrick 263

Seidelman, Susan 176

Shu, Kei 207, 338

Sodo, Mario 138

Seidler, Ellen 151

Sichel, Alex 42

Sønder, Carsten 332

Seitchik, Vickie 338

Siddiqi, Atif 267

Soo, Andrew 254

Selditch, Michael 161

Siegel, David 128

Soomekh, Laleh 450

Sender, Katherine 303

Siegel, Lois 253

Sopsits, Árpád 32

Serikbayeva, Zhanna 251

Siegel, Robert J. 393

Sotile, Renee 142

Serra, M. M 123

Sigal, David 113

Soueid, Mohammed 105

Serrano, Yolanda Garcia 239

Siguion-Reyna, Carlos

Spadola, Meema 311

Serreau, Coline 441

271, 404

Spalding, Ron 356

Sethna, Jagu 78

Silber, Rolf 143

Spano, Massimo 274

Severance, Abigail 335

Siler, Megan 160, 281

Speck, Wieland 46, 150, 437

Shadbolt, Jane 322

Sillen, Peter 63

Spence, Richard 133

Shafer, Dirk 105, 272

Silver, Scott 227

Spencer, Patricia 139

Shahriar, Maryam 124

Silver, Suzie 170, 319

Spetsiotis, Takis 280

Shallat, Lee 310

Silvera, Charlotte 334

Spheeris, Penelope 82

Shallcross, Alan 277

Simandl, Lloyd 99

Spielberg, Steven 110

Shapiro, David 234

Simmons, Aishah Shahidah

Spinola, Paolo 173

Shapiro, Laurie Gwen 234

216

Spiro, Ellen 179, 189, 318

Sharandak, Natasha 408

Simo, Ana Maria 207

Sport, Kathy 33

Sharif, Rif 385

Simon, Frank 337

Spottiswoode, Roger 47

Sharman, Jim 349

Simoneau, Yves 331

Sprenkel, Kenn 406

Sharp, Andrew 379

Simpson, Kelli 403, 421, 434

Sprinkle, Annie 49, 376

Sharp, Jan 225

Singer, Leslie 226

Spyke 199

Shear, Barry 409

Singleton, John 201

Stafrace, Inka 376

Shear, Jon 424

Sirota, Greg 422

Stahlberg, Michael 260

Sheedy, Laura 446

Skeet, Brian 435

Stappen, Chris Vander 155

Sheehan, Nick 299, 395

Skolimowski, Jerzy 252

Starr, Steven 226

Sheldon, Caroline 30

Slade, Eric 205

Starrett, Jack 107

Shepard, Tom 93, 357

Sloan, Brian 212, 329, 365

Steele, Lisa 247

Shepp, Brian 190

Slotar, Dean 33

Steger, Lawrence 319

Sheridan, Peter 79

Sluizer, George 419

Stein, Peter 95

570 Directors

Stempel, Hans 262

Takashi, Miike 367

Towne, Robert 322

Stephan, Tom 30

Tal, Efrat 298

Traynor, Peter S. 359

Stephens, Kathy 197

Talalay, Rachel 397

Treleaven, Scott 338, 353

Stephens, Todd 190

Tanasescu, Gino 187

Trepanier, Tania 389

Stern, Steven Hilliard 83

Tarrant, Crea 111

Treut, Monika

Stevens, David 107, 422

Tate, Robert 100, 294

149, 158, 179, 289, 360, 430

Stevens, Elizabeth 217, 366

Taylor, Amanda 95, 154, 400

Trinh Thi, Coralie 55

Stewart, Jean 294

Taylor, Ben 217

Troche, Rose 60, 185

Stigliano, Roger 175

Taylor, Christian 241

Troyano, Ela 94, 244

Stock, Michael 333

Taylor, Mark 248

Trueba, Fernando 63

Stöckl, Ula 149

Tec, Roland 42, 205

Truffaut, François 124, 243

Strano, Jackie 194, 389

Téchiné, André 223, 431, 442

Tsai, Ming-liang 430

Stratis, Zach 116

Temple, Julien 359

Tsiolkas, Christos 405

Stratton, Margaret 238

Thane, Lucy 367

Tsukamoto, Shinya 410

Streisand, Barbra 334, 451

Thiele, Rolf 265

Tsukerman, Slava 253

Streitfeld, Susan 158

Thistlethwaite, Polly 301

Tuchner, Michael 429

Strick, Joseph 56

Thomas, Milford 106

Tucker, Duncan 285

Struck, Andreas 102

Thomas, Yvette 437

Turner, Ann 121, 163

Strutt, Deborah 57

Thompson, Brett 194

Turner, Kieran 30

Suenke, Orlow 368

Thompson, Hope 394

Turner, Richard 382, 429

Sugarman, Andrew 404

Thompson, Rob 105

Turnure, Jackie 385

Sukthankar, Sunil 454

Thongkonthun, Youngyooth

Tuzi, Federica 52

Sully, Andrew 163, 198

221

Sun, Qingguo 243

Thornhill, Michael 151

Ubelemann, Cleo 273

Sundahl, Debi 107, 208, 352

Thorpe, Jerry 339

Udelson, Lisa 252, 317

Sunley, Christina 44

Thorsen, Karen 223

Sutherland, David 319

Tilley, Brian 222

Vadim, Roger 56, 74

Suzuki, Akihiro 258

To, Brian 54

Vallois, Philippe 340, 434

Swain, Miles 417

To, Johnnie 450

van Ackeren, Robert 446

Swan, Donna 374

Toledano, Manuel 365

van Brakel, Nouchka 446

Swenson, Laurel 453

Toledo, Sergio 427

Van den Berg, Rudolf 151

Swetzoff, Martha 401

Tolentino, Julie 55

Van Leperen, Ab 61

Swords, Sara 371

Tomczak, Kim 247

Van Sant, Gus 151, 271, 290

Syberberg, Hans Jürgen 265

Tong, Stanley 394

Van Winkle, Joseph 446

Sykes, Christopher 387

Tonge, Roger 421

Vanderborght, Karen 372

Symons, Johnny 59, 120, 312

Topping, John 139

Vane, Norman Thaddeus 237

Szabó, István 109

Torrealba, José M. 188, 253

Veber, Francis 108

Torregrossa, Jorge 130

Vellenga, Frank 157

Tabío, Juan Carlos 387

Torres, Fina 97, 446

Veltri, Danl 263

Tacchella, Jean-Charles 150

Tourneur, Jacques 95

Vennerod, Peter 250

Directors 571

Vera, Gerardo 359

Wallin, Michael 72, 128, 326

Wells, Peter

Verhoeven, Paul 57, 168

Walsh, Aisling 167

64, 127, 131, 179, 225, 293

Verow, Todd 172

Walsh, Jack 127, 358

Wenders, Wim 237

Verstaaten, Paul 387

Walton, Pam

Werneck, Sandra 330

Vesterskov, Knud 90

92, 155, 178, 312

Wertheim, Ron 382

Victor, Harry 266

Walz, Martin 235

Wertmüller, Lina 379

Vidor, Charles 182

Wam, Svend 130, 250, 358

Wescott, Margaret 384

Vigo, Jean 453

Wang, Guangli 270

West, Dawn 290

Vilsmaier, Joseph 275

Wang, Tsai-sheng 98

West, Jake 341

Vincent, Russell 400

Wang, Xiao-Yen 72

West, Wash 164, 292

Visconti, Luchino

Ward, Mark 107

Wexler, Tanya 159

115, 122, 127, 265

Ward, Rachel 68

Wheeler, Anne 65

Vista, Linda 156

Warhol, Andy

White, Susanna 398

Vitale, Frank 284

68, 76, 101, 257, 290

White, Wally 250

Vitale, Tony 238

Warren, Norman J. 40

Whitley, Brian 200

Vivienne, Sonja 322

Warshow, Joyce P. 192, 377

Whitman, Tom 340

Volcano, Del LaGrace 316

Wascou, Daniel 318

Whittaker, Stephen 108, 329

von Grote, Alexandra 129, 302

Watanabe, Kensaku 385

Wichard, Michel 168

von Praunheim, Rosa

Waters, John

Wild, Osker 420

49, 53, 93, 105, 145, 157,

97, 131, 133, 158, 191,

Wilder, Billy 377

177, 206, 209, 221, 251,

287, 325, 328

Wilding, Gavin 254

294, 330, 337, 369, 414, 430

Watson Jnr, James Sibley 261

Wilhelm, Bettina 41

von Radványi, Géza 269

Webber, Melville 261

Wilhite, Ingrid 175

von Sternberg, Josef 285

Weber, Bill 108

Williams, Jano 139, 367

von Trotta, Margarethe 358

Weber, Bruce 103

Williams, Rachael 352

Voupouras, Christos 130

Weber, Eva 135, 141

Williams, Sandra R. 96

Vu, Trac 46

Weeks, Andrew 381

Williams, Tod 36

Vuolo, Cristina 52

Weill, Claudia 184

Willis, Gordon 444

Wein, Chuck 290

Wilson, Andy Abrahams 85

Wachowski, Andy 79

Weiner, Rebecca 414

Wilson, David 233

Wachowski, Larry 79

Weintroub, Jed 306

Wilson, Todd 347

Wade, Stewart 109

Weishaupt, Joseph 434

Winer, Lucy 187, 189, 370

Wadia, Riyad Vinci 78

Weiss, Andrea 70, 150, 407

Winkler, Charles 342

Wael, Tawfik Abu 133

Weiss, Maja 190

Winter, Stephen 103

Wagner, Anton 166, 244

Weissman, Aerlyn 159, 166

Winterbottom, Michael 89

Wagner Jane 30

Weissman, David 108

Wise, Herbert 83

Wai, Kai-fai 450

Wekland, Sean 246

Wise, Robert 195

Walker, Nancy 93

Welborn, Yvonne 256

Wise, Sheila J. 133

Walkow, Gary 58

Welles, Orson 412

Witkins, Doug 298

Wall, Anthony 84

Wells, Brendon 86

Wivel, Ullrik 382

572 Directors

Woehmann, Dustin 340

Yiu-leung, Clarence Fok 293

Wolstencroft, Richard 75

Yonfan 70, 86, 320

Wong, Kar-wai 193

Yoshiyuki, Yumi 35

Woo, John 236

Young, John G. 316

Wood, Andrew 134

Young, Melina 241

Wood, Edward D. 185

Young, Robert M. 166

Wood, Philip 139

Yu, Kan-ping 314

Woodcock, Steven 66

Yuen, Corey 247

Woods, Mark Kenneth 199

Yule, Paul 256

Woodson, Jacqueline 45

Yung, Wayne 337

Woodward, Ken 245

Workman, Chuck 392

Zaatari, Akram 206

Wortmann, Sönke 332

Zachary, Bohdan

Wright, Douglas 166

41, 264, 427

Wright, Joe 77

Zalcock, Bev 268

Wright, Suzanne 352

Zaldivar, Juan Carlos 32

Wszelaki, Maciej 309

Zalutsky, Sam 376

Wu, Feng 123

Zando, Julie 248, 422

Wunderman, Eva 316

Zapata, J. 43

Wyler, William 63, 102

Zeig, Sande 183

Wyman, Julie 80

Zeldes, Kiki 252

Wynne, Stephanie 214

Zeming, Zhang 391

Wynorski, Jim 195

Zetterling, Mai 43, 46, 357

Wysbar, Frank 49

Zhang, Yuan 142

Zheutlin, Cathy 217

Xavier, Daniel 370

Zieff, Howard 334

Xian, Kathryn 233

Ziehm, Howard 163

Zielinski, Rafal 174

Yael, B. H. 171

Zilbermann, Jean-Jacques 271

Yasufumi, Kojima 350

Zilnik, Zelimir 274

Yasuzo, Masumura 273

Zinc, Felix 74

Yates, Peter 140

Zinnemann, Fred 125, 229

Yau, Ching 213, 248

Zoates, Toby 291

Yazaki, Hitoshi 37

Zolten, Sam 230

Yeager, Steve 135

Zook, Ben 93

Yerkes, Jamie 381

Zuckerman, Francine 318

Yeung, Raymond 451

Zuckmantel, Yvonne 166

Yin, Chi 162

Zurek, Sharon 234

Yip, Raymond 329

Zwickler, Phil 348, 369

Directors 573

574

Selected Websites of Interest

www.imdb.com

www.tgwebbuilders.com/TGRL/

The Internet Movie Database features general

movies.html

listings of films including comprehensive credit

Listings and film reviews of titles relevant to the

details such as cast, crew, production companies,

transgendered communities.

distributor, year, running time etc. Also has links

to external film reviews.

www.queerhorror.com

Explores the horror genre from a queer perspec-

www.gay.com

tive.

Vast website containing information on all things

queer, including a large section related to queer

www.cinemaweb.com

film.

Cinema Web is a collective of independent film

and video websites combining the resources of

www.planetout.com/pno/splash.html

smaller companies, publications and authors.

Popcorn Q is a comprehensive gay, lesbian,

bisexual and transgender film website, which

www.qcinema.com/festivals.asp

features an online video shop, viewing of short

Queer Cinema includes film reviews, profiles on

films and classic film trailers, live chats and

queer casts and crews and hot links to queer film

interviews; reviews and information about

festivals around the world

thousands of queer films, film festivals and

distributors.

shergoodforest.com/movies/home.html

Shergood Forest contains a wide reaching database

www.movies-too-gay.com

of information on international films of gay

Over 1,100 film reviews of queer films from

interest.

around the world.

www.sexuality.org/l/lesbigay/glbfilm.html

www.queerfilm.com

Sexuality.Org contains a large listing of queer film,

Cinema Q is a comprehensive video and media

and other information relevant to the queer

resource for lesbians and gay men interested in

community.

queer film.

www.allmovie.com

www.qrd.org

Database of general films including what’s on and

The Queer Resources Directory contains thou-

where, film finder, reviews and essays.

sands of files about everything queer and has

downloads and links to other queer film sites.

www.advocate.com

Major US gay and lesbian lifestyle and news

www.filmfestivals.com/index.shtml

magazine, features regular features and articles on

Packed full of information about film festivals

queer film, as well as gay arts and media archives.

from all over the world.

Websites 575

Document Outline

- Title page

- Contents

- Acknowledgements

- Introduction

- How to use this book

- Essays

- Queer Cinema Since 1997

- Queer Asian Cinemas

- The Transgender Look

- History Lessons

- A-Z listing of films

- Films of Particular Interest

- Bisexual

- Cross-dressing, Transgender & Transsexual

- Fringe

- Gay Interest

- Lesbian Interest

- Queer Interest

- Indexes for Films Listed by Genre

- Action

- Animation

- Comedy

- Documentary

- Drama

- Erotica

- Experimental

- Horror

- Musical

- Sci-Fi

- Thriller

- Western

- Index of Films by Country

- Argentina

- Australia

- Austria

- Belgium

- Brazil

- Bulgaria

- Canada

- Chile

- China

- Columbia

- Cuba

- Czech Republic

- Denmark

- East Germany

- Egypt

- Finland

- France

- Germany

- Greece

- Guinea

- Hong Kong

- Hungary

- Iceland

- India

- Iran

- Ireland

- Israel

- Italy

- Ivory Coast

- Japan

- Kazakhstan

- Korea

- Lebanon

- Mexico

- Netherlands

- New Zealand

- Norway

- Palestine

- Peru

- Philippines

- Poland

- Portugal

- Puerto Rico

- Russia

- Senegal

- Serbia

- Singapore

- Slovenia

- South Africa

- Soviet Union

- Spain

- Sweden

- Switzerland

- Taiwan

- Thailand

- Turkey

- United Kingdom

- Uruguay

- USA

- Yugoslavia

- Zimbabwe

- Distributors

- Selected Queer Film Festivals

- Directors

- Selected Websites of Interest

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ...................................................................................

Introduction .......................................................................................

How to use this book ...............................................................................

Essays

Queer Asian Cinemas by Helen Hok-Sze Leung ............................................. 14

The Transgender Look by Judith Halberstam ................................................... 18

History Lessons: An interview with Barbara Hammer...................................... 22

A–Z of films .......................................................................................

Bisexual Interest ..................................................................................

Fringe .............................................................................................

Gay Interest........................................................................................

Lesbian Interest ...................................................................................

Queer Interest .....................................................................................

Action .............................................................................................

Documentary ........................................................................................

Drama ..............................................................................................

Erotica ............................................................................................

Horror .............................................................................................

Musical ............................................................................................

Index of films by Country ..........................................................................

Distributors .......................................................................................

Selected Queer Film Festivals ......................................................................

Directors ..........................................................................................

Selected Websites of Interest ......................................................................

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Austria

Chile

Czech Republic

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Ivory Coast

New Zealand

Sweden

Uruguay

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