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SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2023
Special Guest
Short Film Program

Fallen Fruit

FREE

Thu, Nov 06 @ 5:00 pm
Cambridge Public Library
in person
min total program
Chris Molina
90 min
English
USA
This is a FREE screening co presented by MGH Sexual Health Center and the CHA Sexual & Reproductive Health Department
A heartbroken 20-something reluctantly returns to his childhood home in Miami, where he’s forced to reevaluate his relationships in the face of a looming hurricane.
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SPOTLIGHT
US PREMIERE
WORLD PREMIERE
FROM 2015
Special Guest
Short Film Program

Major!

FREE

Fri, Nov 07 @ 7:00 pm
ArtsEmerson Paramount Center
in person
min total program
Annalise Ophelian
91 min
English
United States
The Queer Film Institute and the Wicked Queer Film Festival present a special free screening of Annalise Ophelian's MAJOR! Winner of the Audience and Jury Award for Best Documentary at the 2016 WQFF, MAJOR! follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a 73-year-old Black transgender woman who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years. Miss Major’s personal story and activism for transgender civil rights, from mobile outreach and AIDS prevention to fighting the prison industrial complex, intersects LGBT struggles for justice and equality from the 1960s to today. She is a veteran of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion and was incarcerated at Attica months after the 1971 Uprising. Most recently, Miss Major has served as the executive director of the San Francisco-based Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), a grassroots organization advocating for trans women of color in and outside of prison that is led by trans women of color. Miss Major passed away on October 13th, 2025 in Little Rock, Arkansas, surrounded by family and friends after a recent hospitalization. This free screening is supported by a grant from the City of Boston’s Beyond Pride Grant Program. A special thanks to the Mayor's Office of LGBTQIA2S+ Advancement for their support.
MAJOR! follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and activist fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years. A veteran of the Stonewall Rebellion and a survivor of Attica State Prison, Miss Major's life is a testament to her long-standing commitment to the cause.
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The Passionate Pursuits Of Angela Bowen

FREE

Thu, Feb 08 @ 8:00 pm
Fenway Community Health Center
Jennifer Abod
73 min
English
United States
min total program
THE PASSIONATE PURSUITS provides a window into the life of Angela Bowen who grew up in inner city Boston during the Jim Crow era, and went on to become a classical ballerina, a legendary dance teacher, a black lesbian feminist activist organizer, writer and professor. For six decades Bowen has influenced and inspired untold numbers, speaking out as strongly for the Arts, and Black and Women’s Rights as she has for LGBT Rights. Candid, compelling, and inspiring, PASSIONATE PURSUITS depicts Bowen's life across the decades, with archival footage, timeless musical selections, photographs and interviews. Bowen’s stories reveal how the challenges of race, class, gender, age, and sexuality played into her decisions and strategies for survival. PASSIONATE PURSUITS is important to anyone who wants to know more about the experiences and complexities of black women’s lives and the emergence of Black Feminism.
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CO-PRESENTED BY WQ
FROM 2017
Brattle Theater

Thelma

FREE

Fri, Jan 19 @ 6:30 pm
Brattle Theater
Joachim Trier
116 min
Norwegian
Norway
min total program
Aptly described by IndieWire as Carrie directed by Ingmar Bergman, acclaimed writer/director Joachim Trier (Oslo, August 31st) and his co-screenwriter Eskil Vogt bring us this stunning vision of a young woman with incredible powers. At first, Thelma seems like a normal university freshman coming from a sheltered upbringing into the big city – her parents call her too often, she has trouble making friends, and she’s questioning everything about her upbringing – but when she begins to have seizures that seem tied to extraordinary events, things get weird. And when she tries to fight the feelings that she’s developing for fellow student Anja (Wilkins), her repressed emotions – and her psychokinetic powers – come rushing to the foreground.
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CO-PRESENTED BY WQ
FROM 2017
Bright Lights

Stumped

FREE

Tue, Dec 05 @ 9:00 pm
ArtsEmerson Paramount Center
Robin Berghaus
72 min
English
United States
min total program
When filmmaker Will Lautzenheiser’s limbs are amputated, his life is derailed and he turns to stand-up comedy as therapy. Meanwhile, a world-famous medical team is performing transplants that restore bodies to unprecedented levels. Despite grave risks, Will agrees to undergo an experimental double-arm transplant in the hope of reclaiming his independence.
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CO-PRESENTED BY WQ
FROM 2017
Boston Jewish Film Festival

Pinksy

FREE

Sat, Nov 18 @ 11:15 pm
Somerville Theater
Amanda Lundquist
74 min
English
United States
min total program
Sophia Pinsky is doing just fine: she has a job, an apartment, and a girlfriend. That is, until her girlfriend breaks up with her and her grandfather dies on the same day. As her life starts to unravel, Sophia moves back in with her overbearing Russian-Jewish grandmother in the Boston suburbs. When her grandmother reveals that not only is she dating again but she's in love with the family's rabbi, Sophia is pitted grandmother in a struggle to define loyalty and love, all while trying to become a "real adult," once and for all.
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CO-PRESENTED BY WQ
FROM 2016
Boston Jewish Film Festival

In Between

FREE

Sat, Nov 18 @ 10:45 pm
Somerville Theater
Maysaloun Hamoud
103 min
Arabic
Israel, France
min total program
The film captures the daily duality of three young Palestinian women in Tel Aviv, caught between hometown tradition and big city abandon, and the price they must pay for a lifestyle that seems obvious to many: the freedom to work, party, fuck, and choose.
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CO-PRESENTED BY WQ
FROM 2016
Boston Jewish Film Festival

House Of Z

FREE

Tue, Nov 14 @ 9:00 pm
Coolidge Corner Theater
Sandy Chronopoulos
87 min
English
United States, Canada
min total program
Zac Posen is one of the most recognizable brands in the fashion world. Discovered as a teenager, Posen would design clothes for his high school friends: New York cool kids such as Chloë Sevigny and Claire Danes. A wunderkind who crashed and burned at an age when many designers are still finding their footing, his fast ascent to fashion stardom also was his downfall. Featuring interviews with Posen’s family and friends (including Naomi Campbell and André Leon Talley) and lots of style, House of Z follows Posen’s rise and fall…and, at last, his recovery. Official Selection, Tribeca Film Festival, 2017
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