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

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Pedaling With Purpose

Circa: Queer Histories Festival 2024

Circa: Queer Histories Festival

  
Oct 9, 2024 7:00 PM
  
Los Angeles LGBT Center
  
Filmmakers in attendance
   
   
 min
Short documentary film in which six Papis, Black and Latino men, discuss the impact of HIV/AIDS on their communities, and how a 545-mile bike ride across California has changed their lives.
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Will & Harper

  
Oct 9, 2024 7:30 PM
  
Vidiots Eagle Theater
  
Harper Steele and director Josh Greenbaum
Josh Greenbaum
   
2024
   
114
 min
KCRW, Vidiots, and Netflix invite you to a special screening of Will & Harper followed by a conversation with Harper Steele and director Josh Greenbaum.
When Will Ferrell finds out his close friend of 30 years is coming out as a trans woman, the two decide to embark on a cross-country road trip to process this new stage of their relationship in an intimate portrait of friendship, transition, and America.
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Queer Retro

Undertow (Contracorriente)

With Queer Film LA Meetup

  
Oct 10, 2024 7:00 PM
  
Vidiots Eagle Theater
  
Writer/director Javier Fuentes-León
Javier Fuentes-León
   
2009
   
100
 min
This romantic, soulful ghost story set in a Peruvian seaside village won the Sundance Audience Award in 2010 before a wildly successful festival run. Director Javier Fuentes-León joins in person for a special 15th anniversary screening in honor of National Coming Out Day.
A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town’s rigid traditions.
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Plan 9 From Outer Space

Ed Wood, Jr. Centennial Retrospective

Ed Wood Centennial Retrospective

  
Oct 10, 2024 7:00 PM
  
Los Feliz 3
  
Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait & Author Harry Medved
Ed Wood Jr,
   
1957
   
79
 min
Program begins with preview of the upcoming PBS SoCal show, LOCATIONLAND, featuring an episode devoted to PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE filming locations. Screening on Ed Wood Jr's birthday, with an introduction by comedian Bobcat Goldthwait and author Harry Medved.
In California, an old man grieves the loss of his wife and on the next day he also dies. However, the space soldier Eros and her mate Tanna use an electric device to resurrect them both and the strong Inspector Clay that was murdered by the couple. Their intention is not to conquest Earth but to stop mankind from developing the powerful bomb “Solobonite” that would threaten the universe. When the population of Hollywood and Washington DC sees flying saucers on the sky, a colonel, a police lieutenant, a commercial pilot, his wife and a policeman try to stop the aliens.
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Night of the Ghouls

  
Oct 10, 2024 8:00 PM
  
Whammy Analog Media
  
Film critics Chris Shields and Sarah Fensom
Ed Wood Jr
   
1959
   
69
 min
Reports of strange activities out by the Old Willow’s place signal new adventures for Kelton the Cop & Co. An apparent mystic, Dr. Acula is engaging in rituals designed to raise the dead. But he may get more than he bargained for…
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Let the Right One In

  
Oct 11, 2024 2:00 PM
  
New Beverly Cinema
  
Tomas Alfredson
   
2008
   
115
 min
A relationship forms between the bullied, lonely Oskar and the mysterious vampire Eli. Diverging from the novel, the film adaptation navigates the subtle, yet complex status of Eli's gender and creates a coming-of-age story that is equally as dark as it is tender.
Oskar is a bullied 12 year-old boy, longing to extract revenge on his tormentors but unable to build the courage to do it himself. But then he meets a girl called Eli, who gives him the strength he’s been looking for. But Eli is not all she seems to be…
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Promblematic AF

Silence of the Lambs

  
Oct 11, 2024 7:30 PM
Oct 11, 2024 10:00 PM
  
Gardena Cinema
  
Jonathan Demme
   
1991
   
119
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Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI’s training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
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Fanatical: The Catfishing Of Tegan and Sara

  
Oct 11, 2024 7:30 PM
  
Vidiots Eagle Theater
  
Tegan and Sara
Erin Lee Carr
   
2024
   
99
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Tegan Quin (from Tegan and Sara) has been the victim of identity theft and an ongoing catfishing scam for over 15 years. While investigating, she shares for the first time, how she was ensnared in toxic fan culture that revealed the dark side of fame.
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UNIDAD: Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos

Circa: Queer Histories Festival 2024

Circa: Queer Histories Festival

  
Oct 11, 2024 8:00 PM
  
Los Angeles LGBT Center
  
Director Gregory Davila
Gregorio Davila
   
2022
   
40
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Winner of a 2024 Los Angeles Press Club Award, UNIDAD: Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos is a feature-length documentary, directed by Gregorio Davila, that tells the story of the country’s first Queer Latine organization, formed in Los Angeles in 1981 to highlight Queer Latine issues.
The story of the Los Angeles organization Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos (GLLU), a political and social group formed in 1981 to help bring Queer Latino issues to light in the LGBTQIA+ community.
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Theatrical runs

Now In Theaters

Make space at the multiplex! Here are the queer films at LA cinemas right now...

Will and Harper
Josh Greenbaum
114
 min
Opens 
Sep 13

When Will Ferrell finds out his close friend of 30 years is coming out as a trans woman, the two decide to embark on a cross-country road trip to process this new stage of their relationship in an intimate portrait of friendship, transition, and America.

When Will Ferrell finds out his close friend of 30 years is coming out as a trans woman, the two decide to embark on a cross-country road trip to process this new stage of their relationship in an intimate portrait of friendship, transition, and America.

All Shall Be Well
Ray Yeung
93
 min
Opens 
Sep 27

When her partner Pat unexpectedly dies, Angie is left to worry about the flat in which the couple lived together for over 30 years. Supported by her chosen family, Angie begins a later-life journey into emancipation.

Emilia Pérez
Jacques Audiard
132
 min
Opens 
Nov 1

Karla Sofía Gascón became the first Trans actor to win a major prize at Cannes, thanks to this extravagant musical about a Mexican drug lord who hires a lawyer to help stage her death and flee the country, in order to transition and live her true life abroad.

Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.