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Screenings & Events

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

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Drive Back Home

Sat, Mar 15 @ 11:00 am
Sun, Mar 16 @ 11:00 am
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Art Theater Long Beach
A conservative plumber from a small east coast village who travels to Toronto in order to get his brother out of jail after he is arrested for having sex with another man in a public park. At the insistence of their strong willed mother, the two brothers must drive the 1000 mile trip back home to New Brunswick, together - discovering each other and themselves along the way.
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The Watermelon Woman

Sat, Mar 15 @ 1:50 pm
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Alamo Drafthouse DTLA
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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Pink Narcissus

Legacy Project Screening Series

Sat, Mar 15 @ 7:30 pm
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Hammer Museum
West Coast Restoration Premiere!
This lush erotic epic, framed as the fantasies of a bored rentboy, was filmed over the course of six years on elaborate sets built inside the Manhattan apartment of director James Bidgood. No advance sales, tickets are free and open to the public.
An outrageous erotic poem focusing on the daydreams of a beautiful boy prostitute who, from the seclusion of his ultra-kitsch apartment, conceives a series of interlinked narcissistic fantasies populated by matadors, dancing boys, slaves, and leather-clad bikers.
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News From Home

Sun, Mar 16 @ 4:15 pm
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Vidiots Eagle Theater
Out director Chantal Ackerman directs this minimalist meditation on isolation and homesickness, featuring letters written by her own mother when she lives in New York.
Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman’s loving mother back home in Brussels. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradually fade away.
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The Garden

Sun, Mar 16 @ 7:00 pm
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Miles Memorial Playhouse
A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and pilloried, tarred, feathered, and beaten. Loose in this contemporary world of electrical-power transmission lines is also Jesus. The elements, particularly fire and water, content with political power, which is intolerant and murderous.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Disclosure: A Trans Re-reading of American Cinema

Sun, Mar 16 @ 7:30 pm
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Hammer Museum
Author Tre’vell Anderson
A visiting city reporter’s assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
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Thundercrack!

Sun, Mar 16 @ 7:30 pm
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Whammy Analog Media
An eccentric and alcoholic widow hosts a motley assortment of travelers - four men, three women and one gorilla - who arrive one eventful night to get out of a torrential rainstorm.
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Pickpocket

Fri, Mar 21 @ 8:40 pm
Sat, Mar 22 @ 8:40 pm
Sun, Mar 23 @ 8:40 pm
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New Beverly Cinema
Bresson's tense thriller is never overtly gay, and in many ways is a moral parable. But the sensuous connections of pickpocketing, the psychosexual thrill, and the strange meetings of thieves (like in men's bathrooms) leaves a distinctly Queer impression on this nimble art.
Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother’s neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.
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Blonde Death

Video Capital of the World: 45 Years of EZTV in LA

Tue, Mar 25 @ 7:30 pm
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Brain Dead Studios
When James Dillinger’s shot-on-video masterpiece Blonde Death premiered at West Hollywood’s EZTV Video Gallery on October 6, 1983, it instantly became the closest thing that the space had to a “hit”, playing as a late-night movie for months.
This outrageous 80s time capsule, shot on video for $2000 by pulp author and "the world's angriest gay man" James Robert Baker, Blonde Death is a John Waters-inspired true punk film about a teenage girl on a crime spree with her two bisexual best friends.
Tammy, an angry, nihilistic teenager fed up with the mediocrity of suburban life, descends into a hedonistic spree of drugs, crime and murder.
Theatrical runs

Now In Theaters

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

Born for You
Opened Mar 12, 2025
Opens Mar 12, 2025

Alba has Down’s Syndrome and was left in the hospital when she was born. Thirty families rejected her before the court decided to entrust her to Luca: a Catholic — and gay — single man.

Young Hearts
Opened Mar 14, 2025
Opens Mar 14, 2025

Fourteen-year-old Elias increasingly feels like an outsider in his village. When he meets his new neighbour of the same age, Alexander, Elias is confronted with his burgeoning sexuality.

Layla
Opened Mar 21, 2025
Opens Mar 21, 2025

When Layla, a struggling Arab drag queen, falls in love for the first time, they lose and find themself in a transformative relationship that tests who they really are.

A Nice Indian Boy
Opened Apr 04, 2025
Opens Apr 04, 2025

When Naveen brings his fiancé Jay home to meet his traditional Indian family, they must contend with accepting his white-orphan-artist boyfriend and helping them plan the Indian wedding of their dreams.

Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
Opened Apr 04, 2025
Opens Apr 04, 2025

Janis Ian and the Art of Song (working title) will chronicle the singer’s epic life journey beginning with her Jewish childhood on a chicken farm in New Jersey; her youthful struggle with notoriety following her hit “Society’s Child"" (about an interracial love); her ascent to fame with the single “At Seventeen" (about body shaming); and her release of the disruptive album Breaking Silence which she leveraged to come out publicly about her loving relationship with her wife Pat Snyder.

Viet and Nam
Opened Apr 04, 2025
Opens Apr 04, 2025

In the depths of the underground coal mines, where danger awaits and darkness prevails, Nam and Viêt, both young miners, cherish fleeting moments, knowing that one of them will soon leave for a new life across the sea.

The Wedding Banquet
Opened Apr 18, 2025
Opens Apr 18, 2025

Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee’s expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min’s grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet.