FILM SERIES
A cinematic showcase for LGBTQ+ filmmaking voices, queer history, and diverse lived experiences. Through love, identity, resilience, and creativity, we celebrate movies that broke ground, shed light, opened hearts, and pushed cinema – and culture – forward, across the globe.
IN THIS SERIES
Leviticus
OPENS JUNE 19 | Horror fans, we have another summer chiller on our hands. Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most – each other.
Girls Like Girls
OPENS JUNE 19 | Based on writer/director Hayley Kiyoko’s hit single and best-selling novel of the same name and featuring all-new music from Kiyoko, GIRLS LIKE GIRLS is a heartfelt coming-of-age story set over the course of one sun-drenched summer.
Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It – June 29
BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Monday, June 29 at 7:00pm | The exhilarating story of the legendary Grammy-winning musician whose signature sound shaped the work of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Sly Stone, Aretha Franklin, and countless others.
A Mother Apart – July 1
SPECIAL SCREENING | Wednesday, July 1 at 7:30pm | In a powerful story of healing and forgiveness, Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin re-imagines mothering after being abandoned by her own. While building a new sense of home with her own daughter, she sets out on a journey of discovery.
Camp
OPENS JULY 3 | Emily is the cause of two tragedies early in her life; her dad suggests she go to a Camp for troubled youth to ease her guilt. When Emily arrives, she is taken in by the other counsellors; they accept her as she is and wrap her in a veil of peace & forgiveness. Emily stands at the forefront of a new kind of life, but there’s a voice out there in the woods she can’t ignore, telling Emily to go home.
Bouchra – July 5, 9, 13
WORLD OF ANIMATION | LIMITED RUN | Sunday, July 5 – Monday, July 13 | Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project.
Cloud Atlas – July 12
STAFF PICKS x THE WACHOWSKIS | Sunday, July 12 at 6:30pm | An epic that spans five centuries, as souls are born and reborn, they renew their bonds to one another throughout time. Starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent; from the directors of The Matrix Trilogy and Run Lola Run; based on the best-selling book.
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World – July 24 & 25
ONE TAKE DOCUMENTARY | Friday, July 24 at 7pm & Saturday, July 25 at 3pm | Featuring interviews with her close friends, never-before-seen personal photos, notebooks, and correspondence from her archive, and recitations of her work by Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Steve Buscemi, and Oprah Winfrey, Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World considers the poet’s long lifetime of work in context, capturing the uniqueness of her world and the natural beauty that inspired her.
Onda Nova – July 25-27
LIMITED RUN | July 25-27 | São Paulo, 1983: Women’s soccer has just been legalized in Brazil. A group of rebellious young women form the Gayvotas Football Club and begin training for their first match. But as the team quickly becomes a media sensation, its members are forced to confront the prejudices of the conservative military dictatorship that they live under.
Bound – July 25
THE WACHOWSKIS x PRIDE | Saturday, July 25 at 7:30pm | Tough ex-con Corky and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet’s crooked boyfriend Caesar. The Wachowskis’ debut feature film.
Blue Film – July 29 & 31
SPECIAL SCREENINGS | Wednesday, July 29 and Friday, July 31 | When fetish camboy Aaron Eagle (Kieron Moore) visits a client in exchange for $50,000, he discovers a masked man (Reed Birney) with a camera and a series of increasingly probing questions. But when the man reveals a disturbing connection to Aaron’s past, the two drop their personas and gradually reveal their true desires in this seductive thriller.
I Want Your Sex
OPENS JULY 31 | When fresh-faced Elliot (Cooper Hoffman) lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon and provocateur Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde), his fantasies come true as Erika taps him to become her sexual muse. The new film from indie auteur Gregg Araki (The Doom Generation, Nowhere).
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