2019 Festival Announcement: Tickets on sale!
The day you have been waiting for has arrived! Tickets are on sale for Brattle Theatre and Paramount Center screenings!
Tickets for Museum of Fine Art screenings will go on sale on March 21st!
Hurry up before they are sold out!
Join us on TOMORROW from 12 to 3 PM at Post 390 in Boston's Back Bay for the official Splash Party of the festival.
TOMORROW: Preview Party for the 35th Annual Wicked Queer Film Festival!
WHEN: Saturday, March 16th, 2019
12 PM - 3 PM
WHERE: Post 390 in Boston's Back Bay
Join us for the official Splash Party of the 35th annual festival!
We'll be announcing our 2019 schedule, screening trailers for our festival films, eating and drinking and celebrating the start of another festival!
Brunch is generously provided by Post 390 with a cash bar.
Tickets are $8.00 in advance and $12.00 at the door! All proceeds go to the films and the filmmakers.
406 Stuart Street, Boston, MA
617-399-0015
Tickets are on sale!
Buy your tickets now to get ready for 11 days of the year's best LGBTQ films! Meet filmmakers and other film fans, attend film premieres, and mix and mingle at the 35th annual festival! From feel-good romances to hard-hitting documentaries, our team is proud to bring you another year of world-class programming.
You can find the links to buy tickets on our website.
OPENING NIGHT: Just Friends (Gewoon Vrienden)
Thursday, March 28, 2019 @7:30 pm
Brattle Theatre
Medical student Yad is moving home to his family in a small Dutch city after quitting his party lifestyle back in Amsterdam. Instead of moving forward in his career, he takes a job in domestic care watching after the boisterous, elderly Ans. Playing Cupid, Ans introduces Yad to her grandson, Joris, a charming young man who is still dealing with the death of his father and his overbearing mother. The attraction is instant and the boys find comfort in each other until their families’ drag them back to reality. Ultimately, they will have to decide if their summer fling is worth carrying on or if it is enough for them to stick with each other. Refreshingly, the family conflict in this romantic comedy is not that Joris and Yad are gay, but that they are defying family expectations in other ways and must make a new set of choices about how to be themselves. It’s a truly modern tale of queer love!
This film is presented in Dutch with English subtitles.
Just Friends by Ellen Smit (Netherlands,2018, 80 min.)
Tickets include an after-party at Beat Brew Hall in Harvard Square following the screening with music and refreshments.
CLOSING NIGHT: The Heiresses (Las Herederas)
Saturday, April 6, 2019 @7:30 pm
Museum Fine Arts, Boston
Chela and Chiquita, both descended from wealthy families in Asunción, Paraguay, have been together for over 30 years. But recently their financial situation has worsened and they begin selling off their inherited possessions. But when their debts lead to Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality. Driving for the first time in years, she begins to provide a local taxi service to a group of elderly wealthy ladies. As Chela settles into her new life, she encounters the much younger Angy, forging a fresh and invigorating new connection. Chela finally begins to break out of her shell and engage with the world, embarking on her own personal, intimate revolution.
This film is presented in Spanish with English Subtitles.
The Heiresses by Marcelo Martinessi (Paraguay, 2018, 97 min)
SPOTLIGHT: The Daughters of Fire
(Las hijas del fuego)
Saturday, March 30, 2019 @8:30 pm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
At the very end of the world, three women meet by chance and start a life-changing polyamorous journey. A journey along routes and through time that turns into pure joy and rivers of pleasure and fun. They slowly unwind as they explore irreversible passion and the utopia of monogamous love, far from possession and pain, as the inevitable end to a love that fits no canon. Through her notes, Violeta tells us about the adventures of the Daughters of Fire: a group of women in the search of their own erotica.
This film is presented in Spanish with English subtitles.
The Daughters of Fire by Albertina Carri (Argentina, 2018, 115 min)
US PREMIERE: Nevrland
Saturday, March 30, 2019 @9:00 PM
The Paramount Center
We are pleased to announce the world premiere of Director Gregor Schmidinger's movie, Nevrland.
Jakob is 17 years old, works at a slaughterhouse and struggles with a crippling anxiety disorder. After a chance encounter with a 26-year-old stranger over a sex-cam chat, his journey toNevrland begins.
This film is presented in German with English subtitles.
Nevrland by Gregor Schmidinger (Austria, 2019, 88 min)
US PREMIERE: Brief Story From The Green Planet
(Breve historia del planeta verde)
Sunday, Mar 31, 2019 @6:30 PM
Brattle Theatre
Tania is a trans girl who performs at discos in Buenos Aires. Pedro is a young creature of the night, a voguing dancer. Daniela works as a waitress and deals with a break-up that’s left her in deep melancholia. The three of them are close friends. When Tania receives the news that her grandmother has passed away, she returns to their hometown with her two friends to take care of the house she’s left her as an inheritance. But she finds out that an Alien has accompanied her grandmother during her last years, keeping her company.
The grandma asks Tania to return the creature to the place where it appeared the first time. Tania, Pedro,and Daniela begin a journey looking for that unknown place. But when Tania begins to feel sick, and the road gets tough, they will have to look inside of themselves to overcome their fears and prove their true friendship so they can accomplish their mission before it is too late for the Alien and maybe for Tania.
This film is presented in Spanish with English subtitles.
Brief Story from Green Planet by Santiago Loza (Argentina, 2019, 90 min)
These and 42 other films and shorts programs will play across our venues. Check out the full lineup, and we'll be sending out series spotlights as the festival approaches.
