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Screenings & Events

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

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Four Mothers

Irish Film Festival Los Angeles

Fri, Mar 14 @ 1:00 pm

, @

Laemmle Monica Film Center

Director Darren Thornton

Darren Thornton

2024

89 min

A gay novelist is stuck caring for his aging mom--and the moms of all his friends, who have gone to Spain for a Pride party.

Edward, a novelist saddled with caring for his elderly mother, finally finds himself on the brink of literary success. With pressure to go on a US book tour mounting, the last thing Edward needs is his friends jetting off to Spain for an impromptu Pride holiday, leaving their mothers on his doorstep! Over a chaotic weekend, he has to juggle his burgeoning career with the care of four eccentric, combative, and wildly different ladies.

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Gun Hill Road

Disclosure: A Trans Re-reading of American Cinema

Fri, Mar 14 @ 7:30 pm

, @

Hammer Museum

Rashaad Ernesto Green

2011

86 min

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.

Tickets from UCLA Film & TV Archive

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The Visitor

LA Premiere

Fri, Mar 14 @ 7:30 pm

Sat, Mar 15 @ 7:30 pm

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Landmark Nuart

Filmmaker Bruce LaBruce

Bruce LaBruce

2024

101 min

London, today. A refugee washes up naked in a suitcase on the bank of the Thames. The enigmatic, sexually fluid stranger introduces himself to a bourgeois, upper-class family. He is invited to stay on as an employee. The Visitor soon seduces each member of the family in a series of explicit sexual encounters. He will turn their world upside down as they can redefine themselves in new, radical ways.

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Rent

Fri, Mar 14 @ 9:45 pm

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Vidiots Eagle Theater

Chris Columbus

2005

135 min

This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in late 1980s East Village, New York, USA. The film centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a tragedy has made Roger numb to new experiences, Mark begins capturing their world through his attempts to make a personal movie. In the year that follows, they and their friends deal with love, loss, and working together.

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Midnight Cowboy

Fri, Mar 14 @ 10:00 pm

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Art Theater Long Beach

John Schlesinger

1969

113 min

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico “Ratso” Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

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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

Michael Clowater

2024

100 min

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 Dunye

1996

85 min

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

, @

Hammer Museum

James Bidgood

1971

65 min

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

Chantal Ackerman

1976

89 min

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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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

Fabio Mollo

108 min

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.

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Young Hearts

Opened Mar 14, 2025

Opens Mar 14, 2025

Anthony Schatteman

97 min

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.

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A Nice Indian Boy

Opened Apr 04, 2025

Opens Apr 04, 2025

Roshan Sethi

96 min

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.

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The Wedding Banquet

Opened Apr 18, 2025

Opens Apr 18, 2025

Andrew Ahn

102 min

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.

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