Happy Pride!
Join us in celebrating Pride Month by revisiting our Queer Cinema panel discussion and updating your queues with these prideful projects directed by members of Film Fatales...
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Ahead of the Curve directed by Jen Rainin and Rivkah Beth Medow
This film tracks the power of lesbian visibility and community from the early '90s to the present day through the story of Franco's founding of Curve magazine. Decades later, in the wake of a disabling injury, Franco learns that Curve will fold within the year and questions the relevance of the magazine in the face of accelerating threats to LGBTQ+ community. To forge a path forward, Franco reaches out to women working in today's queer spaces to understand what queer women need today and how Curve can continue to serve the community.
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Alaska Is A Drag directed by Shaz Bennett
The story of a fish out of water, literally. Leo had to learn to survive and his boss, an amateur boxer, notices it. When a new boy offers to train with him, Leo and his twin sister are forced to face the real reason they are trapped in that place.
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(A)sexual directed by Angela Tucker
Facing a sex obsessed culture, a mountain of stereotypes and misconceptions, and a lack of social or scientific research, asexuals - people who experience no sexual attraction - struggle to claim their identity.
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AWOL directed by Deb Shoval
A young woman Joey is in search of direction in her small town. A visit to an army recruiting office appears to provide a path, but when she meets and falls in love with Rayna that path diverges in ways that neither woman anticipates.
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Circumstance directed by Maryam Keshavarz
A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.
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Circus of Books directed by Rachel Mason
In 1976, Karen and Barry Mason had fallen on hard times and were looking for a way to support their young family when they answered an ad in the Los Angeles Times. Larry Flynt was seeking distributors for Hustler Magazine. What was expected to be a brief sideline led to their becoming fully immersed in the LGBT community as they took over a local store.
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Extra Terrestres directed by Carla Cavina
A family, 100,000 chickens with a death sentence, a secret that will unveil all family secrets, and a star 2,500 million light years away that will make them understand that we all are metaphorically ExtraTerrestrials.
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Fall Back Down directed by Sara Beth Edwards
A depressed ex-activist takes a job in a sweatshop where he and his coworker make a grim discovery.
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Leitis in Waiting directed by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu
A portrait of Joey Mataele, the leader of an intrepid group of leitis, or indigenous transgender women, that is fighting a rising tide of religious fundamentalism and intolerance in the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga.
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Lez Bomb directed by Jenna Laurenzo
A still closeted young woman brings her girlfriend home for Thanksgiving, only to have her coming out efforts thwarted by the unexpected arrival of her male roommate.
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Lingua Franca directed by Isabel Sandoval
Olivia, an undocumented Filipino transwoman, works as a caregiver to Olga, an elderly Russian woman, in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. When Olivia runs out of options to attain legal status in the US, she becomes romantically involved with Alex, Olga's adult grandson, in the pursuit of a marriage-based green card.
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My Fiona directed by Kelly Walker
Best friends for life, Jane and Fiona have done everything together since kindergarten - Jane following wherever Fiona will lead. Left devastated and adrift following Fiona's sudden suicide, Jane's only way to make sense of everything is by helping Fiona's widow Gemma care for their young son Bailey.
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Paris is Burning directed by Jennie Livingston
A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
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Pride Denied directed by Kami Chisholm
In Pride Denied, queer and trans activists and artists call for a return to prioritizing political activism and community support that characterized the emergence of the contemporary LGBT rights movement more than 40 years ago.
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P.S. Burn This Letter Please by Jennifer Tiexiera
A box of letters, held in secret for nearly 60 years, ignites a five-year exploration into a part of LGBTQ+ history that has never been told.
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Real Boy directed by Shaleece Haas
A transgender teenager searches for his voice as a musician, friend, son, and a man.
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Same Sex Attracted co-directed by Maddie Purves
LGBT students grapple with questions of faith, sexuality, gender and love while attending Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
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Sister Aimee directed by Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann
In 1926, the world's most famous evangelist, Sister Aimee Semple McPherson, fakes her own death in order to run away to Mexico with her married lover. They hire Rey, a former Mexican Soldadera turned smuggler, to help them cross the border.
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Stray Dolls directed by Sonejuhi Sinha
Leaving India behind to break with a life of petty crime, Riz arrives stateside and gets a housekeeping job at the decidedly landlocked Tides Plaza Motel.
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Suicide Kale directed by Carly Usdin
The film centers on Jasmine and Penn, a lesbian couple who unexpectedly find a hidden suicide note in the home of their friends Billie and Jordan.
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Surviving the Silence directed by Cindy Abel
Two women in love are surviving the demands of a closeted military career when one is forced to expel an Army hero for being a lesbian. The way she does it, however, leads to re-instatement and eventual change in U.S. military policy.
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Tahara directed by Olivia Peace
A queer, coming-of-age drama set in Rochester, NY about an anxious teen girl who is manipulated into a romantic encounter with her best friend during the funeral service of their former Hebrew school classmate.
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Tales from the Waria directed by Kathy Huang
In Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country, biological men live openly as women.
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The Archivettes directed by Megan Rossman
For more than 40 years, the Lesbian Herstory Archives has combated lesbian invisibility by literally rescuing history from the trash.
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The Campaign directed by Christie Herring
Follows the people behind California's historic No-on-8 campaign to defend same-sex marriage.
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The F Word directed by Nico Opper
A digital PBS documentary series following one queer couple's journey to adopt a child from foster care in Oakland.
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The Most Fun I've Ever Had with My Pants On directed by Drew Denny
The film follows two childhood girlfriends Andy and Liv who reunite to scatter Andy's dad's ashes from LA to Austin where Liv will audition for the role of a vixen spy in a noir film.
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The Promised Band directed by Jen Heck
Using a band as a cover story, a group of unlikely rebels with dubious musical skills pass over forbidden borders and into each other's tangled lives in Israel and Palestine.
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The Whistle directed by StormMiguel Florez
A 45 year old Latinx trans man returns to his birthplace - Albuquerque, New Mexico - in search for the origin of a secret lesbian code he learned when he identified as a teenage dyke in the 80s.
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Transmilitary directed by Fiona Dawson
At a time when transgender people are banned from serving in the U.S. military, four of the thousands of transgender troops risking discharge fight to attain the freedom they so fiercely protect.
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Union directed by Whitney Hamilton
A woman disguises herself as her dead brother, Henry, in order to survive in the Confederate ranks during the Civil War. He marries a widow to rescue her from an arranged marriage. They keep each other's secrets and find true love.
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Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf? directed by Anna Margarita Albelo
In this eccentric all-female romantic comedy, charismatic filmmaker Anna faces a midlife crisis. She has neither job nor girlfriend, and lives in her friend's garage in Los Angeles. Just when she's about to throw in the towel, she meets Katia, who becomes her muse, inspiring her to write and direct an all-female remake of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
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Wild Nights With Emily directed by Madeleine Olnek
Dramatization of the little known side of the writer Emily Dickinson's life, in particular, her relationship with another woman.
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Women Who Kill directed by Ingrid Jungermann
Commitment phobic Morgan and her ex-girlfriend Jean, locally famous true crime podcasters, suspect Morgan's new love interest is a murderer.