US PREMIERE
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
WORLD PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
THROWBACK FROM
International Short Films
Sunday
May 8, 2011
@
12:30 pm
Boston LGBT Film Festival 2011
Once again the Boston LGBT Film Festival brings you the best of short films from around the world. This year our program takes you from Nigeria to New Zealand and around the world.
Wicked Queer is proud to co-present this program with
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This short film program includes the following films:
Noche sin Luna (Moonless Night)
Set in the 1970s, Noche sin luna (Moonless Night) is the story of Oscar Rodríguez, an introverted handsome gay professional wrongfully accused of killing his friend Julio. Guilty until proven innocent, Oscar is taken to the police precinct and is pressured by Inspector Sánchez to confess to Julio’s murder or else. In the story Oscar is painfully caught between preconceptions and the Inspector's agenda of getting a murder case under his belt.
Braids on a Bald Head
Hauwa Bello is a quiet and petite hairdresser who lives with her jobless and abrasive husband Musa in a semi-rural community in Northern Nigeria. Theirs is a marriage which has grown loveless over the years. During the course of her day she runs into a new neighbour Samira, who is beautiful with an effortless charm. She incites an interest in Hauwa which leads her in a quest for this woman's story; first from her husband who is upset that he's being asked about a woman who lives alone and next from the women who come to the hair salon where she works.
Deep Red
Gur and Yuval will stop at nothing to make enough money for a fresh start in Berlin. But as they approach their goal, their tension grows until an unexpected event causes Gur to question their plan.
The Colonel's Outing
Eighty-something Tristan Arthur Jones used to write about fictional war heroes, and fell in love with every single one. He always hoped he'd meet one for real, and with the arrival of Colonel Robert Leadley at his rest home, it seems like his dreams have come true. The Colonel moves into Tristan's room and they grow very close, much to the concern of the patronising Matron, who seems determined to interfere at every turn. There's no option but to escape.
The Lesson
Angela Worthington, 45, has taught English in Tokyo for longer than she cares to remember. But at this point, it is the only life she knows. She mainly teaches Japanese businessmen who must use English for their work. Although she dislikes her job, it is how she met the one man that turned her world around, the one man she thought might make a difference in her life. But her hesitation is why he ultimately left her--and why she ultimately has stayed on, searching in vain for someone to take his place. On this day, though, one of her students, Mr.
