US PREMIERE

SHORT FILM PROGRAM

WORLD PREMIERE

FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT

THROWBACK FROM 

1994

The Boys Of St. Vincent

Saturday

Jun 3, 1995

@

2:00 pm

11th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival

With in person.
Director
John N. Smith
Year
1994
Run Time
186
min
Country
Canada
Language
PROGRAM Time
minutes
CONTENT WARNING:
The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage, run by a religious community in Newfoundland.
This film is presented in with English subtitles.
Based on disturbing recent events in Canada and elsewhere, this gripping drama of moral darkness centers on the St. Vincent orphanage for boys. Avoiding docu-drama-of-the-week formulas, the film (which also scrupulously avoids homophobic inferences) explores troubling sadism and pedophilia, neither smothering this touchy material in tastefulness nor betraying it through sensationalism.
Wicked Queer is proud to co-present this program with
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