Week of Apr 15
American Cinematheque's inaugural year of the "This is Not a Fiction" documentary festival has been a treasure--and this week features two amazing double features from Queer Black documentarians! Check out Marlon Riggs' Tongues Untied and Black Is... Black Ain't on Wednesday, then join Yance Ford for a special Q&A to accompany Power and Strong Island.
Tongues Untied (1989) // Black Is... Black Ain't (1994)
April 17 @ 10pm, Los Feliz 3
Catch this double feature from Emmy-winning gay Black documentarian Marlon T. Riggs. Tongues Untied is a seminal portrait of gay Black culture in the 1980s; Black Is... Black Ain't is a vast meditation on Black identity, completed by Riggs from his hospital bed as he died of AIDS-related complications.
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FREE: Power (2024) // Strong Island (2017)
April 18 @ 7pm, Aero Theater
Q&A with director Yance Ford
This free screening is the Los Angeles premiere of Power, a history of American policing from trans director Yance Ford. Stay after for a double feature with Ford's Oscar-nominated autobiographical true crime doc Strong Island.
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Also this week:
SOLD OUT: The People's Joker
April 19 @ 9:45pm, Vidiots
Writer/director/star Vera Drew in person
This parody of a certain caped crusader through the lens of trans creator Vera Drew was quick to disappear after its premiere at TIFF, due to rights issues from an unnamed giant media company. Why so serious?
In Cinemas
Femme (2023)
This erotic revenge thriller from the 2023 Berlinale is not for the sensitive--as it follows a drag artist who is victim of a homophobic attack, and then sets out to seduce his closeted attacker after spotting him at a gay sauna.
Housekeeping for Beginners (2024)
Director Goran Stolevski is on a hot streak. Of An Age was warmly received in theaters in 2022. Then he went on to win the Queer Lion at Venice in 2023 with this new heartwarming comedy about a blended queer family, set in his homeland of North Macedonia.