US PREMIERE
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
WORLD PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
THROWBACK FROM
European Short Films
Tuesday
May 10, 2011
@
6:30 pm
Boston LGBT Film Festival 2011
As part of our focus on New European Cinema we bring you some of the best short films from across the Atlantic which happened to cross our desks! As the European Union grows so does our selection of films.
Wicked Queer is proud to co-present this program with
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This short film program includes the following films:
Il barbiere De Siviglia (The Barber de Seviglia)
Sergio is a barber who works in a little suburban shop in Milan. His shop is insignificant, a photo hanging in the corner pictures him with his wife, but he doesn't smile. The shop is quite empty and customers are always the same middle-aged men of the neighbourhood. Frustrated by his life Sergio prefers hiding in dreams, in which he is a successful hair stylist.He is satisfied with his job, highlights, fashionable haircuts, extensions, everyday is a challenge, he tests himself with boldness and determination.
Birthday
Sara’s preparing a surprise for her wife Katrina’s birthday in this Swedish short, but Katrina may have some surprises of her own.
James Dean
James Dean follows the Faulkner's as they desperately try to leave for their family holiday. Efforts to co-ordinate the trip are thwarted by their inability to get all members into the car at the same time. Frustrated by their dawdling, 14 year old daughter Alex has picked this inopportune moment to tell her elder sister Morvern, Mum and Dad that she thinks she may actually be a boy, or at least, the reincarnation of James Dean. However, with a distracted and currently disinterested family, she realises the only way to tell them is to show them.
Orange/Milk
Damian and Alex are perfect people, with jobs, cars and a healthy diet. They are perfectly adjusted to the demands of the modern society. However their friendship is built around obsession: one for people-watching, and one for each other. After a long time spent apart, they meet at the beach house where they grew up. They spend their days reconnecting through intense voyeuristic habits. When one of the boys turns the camera towards the other, the pleasure of viewing becomes even more problematic.
Tiden imellom (The Time In Between)
The Time In Between (Tiden imellom) is inspired by a true story; the secret relationship between the famous Norwegian poet Gunvor Hofmo and a talented young Jew, Ruth Maier, who died in Auschwitz on the 1st of December 1942. The story takes place over a few days in October/November 1942, when 768 Norwegian Jews got arrested and were deported to the concentration camps in Poland and Germany.
Cappuccino
Tells the simple but touching story of Jeremiah, a young teenager who has his first homosexual experience, then must overcome his inability to talk to his mother.
la fille du boulanger (The Baker’s Daughter)
The Baker's Daughter has things to tell her father: things of love, of accepting oneself, of the radiating feeling of being free which comes in full force, despite the weight of others' looks which could be threatening
