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Screenings & Events

Festivals, Special Guests, Retrospectives and more "one night only" queer cinema screenings.

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ParaNorman

Animation is Film Festival

Sat, Oct 18 @ 2:00 pm
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TCL Chinese Theaters
Director Chris Butler and Star Anna Kendrick
Screening with all-new short film “ParaNorman: The Thrifting”
Co-directed by out animator Chris Butler, ParaNorman is a fun stop-motion supernatural romp, and the first animated studio film to feature a gay character.
In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock can speak to the dead, but no one other than his eccentric new friend believes his ability is real. One day, Norman’s eccentric uncle tells him of a ritual he must perform to protect the town from a curse cast by a witch centuries ago.
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The Watermelon Woman

Sat, Oct 18 @ 4:15 pm
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Vidiots Eagle Theater
Vidiots celebrates Video Store Day! Here’s the quintessential video store movie and a fun and feisty queer romantic comedy from groundbreaking filmmaker Cheryl Dunye.
Cheryl, a young black lesbian, works a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about a black actress from the 1930s known for playing the stereotypical “mammy” roles relegated to black actresses during that period. This was the first feature film directed by an “out” black lesbian.
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Doppelgängers³

Sat, Oct 18 @ 6:00 pm
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Ahamson Auditorium Pasadena
Director Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian
Bolstered by pre-show performers, post-screening panels, and limited-edition merchandise, Doppelgängers³’s theatrical “tour stops” are taking a cue from how indie musicians bring exciting experiences, beyond their art, and to audiences.
An experimental documentary that draws on the experience of diasporas to challenge the commercialisation of the moon. Through encounters with doppelgängers and meetings with scientists, visionaries, and cultural inventors, Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian and her doppelgängers offer an experimental vision and template for a future diaspora beyond Earth. The film culminates in an analog space mission in a deep cave in Spain in which we see Ben Hayoun-Stépanian and her doppelgängers experiencing a moon utopia. But things do not go according to plan.
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Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl

Animation is Film Festival

Sun, Oct 19 @ 12:00 pm
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Creator Kiana Khansmith, Voice Actors Anairis Quiñones and Christine Marie Cabanos, and Editor Emily Rifkin
With awe-inspiring powers, courageous storylines, and jaw-dropping transformation sequences, everyone wants to be a magical girl, right? Wrong! Watch the pilot animatic for Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl in a special panel and Q&A.
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Connection | Isolation

Circa: Queer Histories Festival

Sun, Oct 19 @ 7:00 pm
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Los Angeles LGBT Center
Director + Producer G. Chesler and Composer + Associate Producer Luka Fisher
The documentary Connection | Isolation presents eight intimate portraits of trans and post-gender individuals navigating the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst moments of connection and isolation, participants reveal a deepening awareness of gender, their bodies, and tra
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Shinjuku Midnight Story: Man and Woman

Circa: Queer Histories Festival

Sun, Oct 19 @ 8:00 pm
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Whammy Analog Media
Two in the Pinku podcast co-hosts Dakota Noot and Christopher Velasco
Shinjuku Midnight Story: Man and Woman (1972) is a “pink film” released by major studio Nikkatsu. It follows a lesbian bar hostess, who is betrayed by her lover for a man. Eventually, the hostess finds new love with a trans woman and cons men.
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Naked Lunch

Mon, Oct 20 @ 8:00 pm
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Brain Dead Studios
Luca Guadagnino's "Queer" is adapted from a semi-autobiographical novel by outlaw beat writer William S Burroughs, as is Naked Lunch, which director David Cronenberg describes as the story of a closeted man trying to cure himself of his homosexuality.
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill’s pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work – which he doesn’t remember writing.
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The Haunting

Mon, Oct 20 @ 10:00 pm
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Los Feliz 3
The Haunting was remarkable for 1963 for having a main character who was a lesbian, without being punished for it. The 2018 Netflix miniseries adaptation makes Theo even more explicitly gay (and badass).
Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.
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Quotations from a Ruined City

Circa: Queer Histories Festival

Wed, Oct 22 @ 7:00 pm
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Los Angeles LGBT Center
Quotations from a Ruined City is a sort of apocalyptic follies: an evening of song, dance, poetry, nudity and torture set in a world whose center has clearly long ceased to hold. Created and directed by the gifted young theatrical cult artist Reza Abdoh, the work is a kaleidoscopic catalogue of images of decay and destruction that range through the centuries and around the globe.
Theatrical runs

Now In Theaters

Prefer your movies with popcorn and trailers? Here some the queer films at LA cinemas right now...

The History of Sound
Opened Sep 12, 2025
Opens Sep 12, 2025

Two young music students, Lionel and David, attending the Boston Conservatory in 1917, bond over their shared love of folk music. They reconnect a few years later, embarking on a song collecting trip in the backwaters of Maine.

Plainclothes
Opened Sep 19, 2025
Opens Sep 19, 2025

In 1990s New York, an undercover police officer receives an assignment to lure and arrest gay men. However, he’s surprised to discover a scintillating connection with one of his targets. As their secret connection deepens and internal pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, he finds himself torn between duty and desire.

After The Hunt
Opened Oct 09, 2025
Opens Oct 09, 2025

A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.

Kiss of the Spider Woman
Opened Oct 10, 2025
Opens Oct 10, 2025

Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina recounts the plot of a Hollywood musical starring his favorite silver screen diva, Ingrid Luna.

Fairyland
Opened Oct 10, 2025
Opens Oct 10, 2025

A young girl recounts growing up in San Francisco in the ’70s and ’80s with her gay dad, activist and author Steve Abbott.

Blue Moon
Opened Oct 24, 2025
Opens Oct 24, 2025

On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.