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Screenings & Events

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

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The Matrix

  
Feb 15, 2025 7:30 PM
  
Academy Museum
  
When The Matrix came out in 1999, nobody thought it was a queer movie--but directors Lily and Lana Wachowski have come out as trans (and made the wildly queer series Sense8). Watching the Matrix today shines a new light on its epic battles for liberation and authenticity.
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.

Documenting Michelle: Night One

  
Feb 21, 2025 7:30 PM
  
Hammer Museum
  
Filmmaker Michelle Parkerson
The UCLA Film and TV archive presents a two-night celebration of New Black Cinema filmmaker, writer, and performance artist Michelle Parkerson. A trailblazing Black lesbain voice, Parkerson has worked in both narrative and documentary film. Free and open to the public.

Documenting Michelle: Night Two

  
Feb 22, 2025 7:30 PM
  
Hammer Museum
  
Filmmaker Michelle Parkerson
The UCLA Film and TV archive presents a two-night celebration of New Black Cinema filmmaker, writer, and performance artist Michelle Parkerson. A trailblazing Black lesbain voice, Parkerson has worked in both narrative and documentary film. Free and open to the public.

Gay Girls Riding Club

Legacy Project Screening Series

  
Feb 23, 2025 7:30 PM
  
Hammer Museum
  
Come see new digital restorations of four short films by the Gay Girls Riding Club, a pre-Stonewall club of gay entertainment industry pros (including cinematographers Ray Harrison and James Crabe) who made high camp drag satires of popular films.

Brother to Brother

Legacy Project Screening Series

  
Feb 28, 2025 7:30 PM
  
Hammer Museum
  
A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.

Disclosure

Disclosure: A Trans Re-reading of American Cinema

  
Mar 1, 2025 7:30 PM
  
Hammer Museum
  
Tre’vell Anderson, Jen Richards, editor Stacy Goldate
An investigation of how Hollywood’s fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.

Drunktown's Finest

Disclosure: A Trans Re-reading of American Cinema

  
Mar 7, 2025 7:30 PM
  
Hammer Museum
  
On a desolate Navajo reservation in New Mexico, three young people – a college-bound, devout Christian; a rebellious and angry father-to-be; and a promiscuous but gorgeous Nádleehi (trans person)- search for love and acceptance.

The Queen

Disclosure: A Trans Re-reading of American Cinema

  
Mar 9, 2025 7:30 PM
  
Hammer Museum
  
Artist and filmmaker Zackary Drucker
In 1967, New York City is host to the Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant. This documentary takes a look behind the scenes, transporting the viewer into rehearsals and dressing rooms as the drag queen subculture prepares for this big national beauty contest. Jack/Sabrina is the mistress of ceremonies, and their protégé, Miss Harlow, is in the competition. But, as the pageant approaches, the glamorous contestants veer from camaraderie to tension.

Gun Hill Road

Disclosure: A Trans Re-reading of American Cinema

  
Mar 14, 2025 7:30 PM
  
Hammer Museum
  
An ex-con returns home to the Bronx after three year in prison to discover his wife estranged and his teenage son exploring a sexual transformation that will put the fragile bonds of their family to the test.
Theatrical runs

Now In Theaters

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

Luther: Never Too Much
Dawn Porter
101
 min
Opens 
Oct 30

This documentary about R&B talent Luther Vandross, which premiered at Sundance this year, explores Vandross' triumphs and struggles, and the media's fascination, with his weight and sexuality.

Luther Vandross started his career supporting David Bowie, Roberta Flack, Bette Midler, and more. His undeniable talent earned platinum records and accolades, but he struggled to break out beyond the R&B charts. Intensely driven, he overcame personal and professional challenges to secure his place amongst the greatest vocalists in history.

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.

Queer
Luca Guadagnino
137
 min
Opens 
Nov 27

In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American expat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.

Sabbath Queen
Sandi Simcha Dubowski
105
 min
Opens 
Dec 5

Sabbath Queen is a remarkable 20 year journey in the life of Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, a 39th generation Orthodox rabbi — and drag queen.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Jacques Demy
92
 min
Opens 
Dec 13

NEW RESTORATION! Though married to Agnes Varda for most of this life, French New Wave icon Jacques Demy was bisexual and died of AIDS-related complications in 1990. He is best known for his sunny musicals of the 1960s, where his voice shines through with romantic optimism.

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother’s chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy’s return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.