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Wicked Queer Announces 39th Film Festival

Queers Take Over Cinemas Across Boston March 31-April 9; Virtual Encore April 10-30

Wicked Queer: Boston’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival, a project of the Queer Film Institute, announces the films and shorts programs for the 39th Festival. The festival will be a celebration of Queer joy and connection. Among the feature length titles are the World Premiere of Santiago León Cuéllar’s The Good Manners; the US premieres of Big Boys and Wolf and Dog; the international premieres of Fiona Clark: Unafraid, Heels Over Wheels, and LasVegas; New England premieres of Portuguese auteur João Pedro Rodrigues’ musical odyssey Will-o’-the-Wisp, Blue Jean, Heartbeast, Splendid Isolation, A Place of Our Own, Joyland, and Follow the Protocol; and east coast premieres of Body Shop, Youtopia, Queendom, and Mutt.

The Opening Night selection, Corey Sherman’s Big Boys, will screen at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston on March 31. The Closing Night selection, Vuk Lungulov-Klotz’s Mutt, will screen at the Brattle Theatre on April 9.

The festival will screen at the Brattle Theatre, Emerson College’s Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center, the ICA, Museum of Fine Arts, and partner screenings will happen at Boston University, the French Library, and as part of the Bright Lights Cinema Series at Emerson. Many of the films and shorts collections will be available at-home for a virtual encore on Eventive after the in-person festival; features and shorts will be available starting April 10.

This year, for the first time, the audience award winning short films will be screened together in Best in Show on April 12 at Boston University.

Tickets will go on sale March 24 through the venues with the full schedule available on WickedQueer.org.

See the Schedule

Join Us at the Splash Party

The festival invites the community to kick off the celebration at a Splash Party on Thursday, March 23, at Worden Hall from 6:00 to 9:00 PM.

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“LASVEGAS” | dir. Kolja Malik

Here are the all of the official selections for the 39th annual Wicked Queer Film Festival:

Feature Films

• Big Boys (USA) - dir. Corey Sherman
• The Blue Caftan (France/Morocco/Belgium/Denmark) - dir. Maryam Touzani
• Blue Jean (England) - dir. Georgia Oakely
• Body Shop (Hong Kong) - dir. Scud
• Chrissy Judy (USA) - dir. Todd Flaherty
• Follow the Protocol (Brazil) - dir. Fábio Leal
• The Good Manners (Colombia) - dir. Santiago León Cuéllar
• Heartbeast (France, Finland, Germany) - dir. Aino Suni
• Heels Over Wheels (Spain) - dir. Pau Canivell
• L'Homme Blessé (The Wounded Man) (France) - dir. Patrice Chareau
• El Houb (Netherlands) - dir. Shariff Nasr
• Joyland (Pakistan) - dir. Saim Sadiq
• LasVegas (Germany) - dir. Kolja Malik
• Mutt (USA) - dir. Vuk Lungulov-Klotz
• A Place of Our Own (India) - dir. Ektara Collective
• Splendid Isolation (Netherlands) - dir. Urszula Antoniak
• Unidentified Objects (USA) - dir. Juan Felipe Zuleta
• The Venus Effect (Denmark) - dir. Anna Emma Haudal
• Will-o'-the-Wisp (Portugal) - dir. João Pedro Rodrigues
• Wolf and Dog (Portugal) - dir. Cláudia Varejão
• Youtopia (USA) - dir. Scout Durwood

Documentary Films

• 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted A Culture (USA) - dir. Sharon Roggio
• Daddy and the Muscle Academy (1992) (Finland) - dir. Ilppo Pohjola
• Fiona Clark: Unafraid (New Zealand) - dir. Lula Cucchiara
• Queendom (Russia) - dir. Agniia Galdanova

Shorts Programs

• BIPOC Shorts: Ubuntu: I Am Because of Who We Are
• Firsts: Shorts from Up & Coming Filmmakers
• GTFO
• International Shorts: Across the Pond
• Men’s Shorts: Connection, Connecting and Connected
• Perpetual Becomings: Queer Experimental Shorts
• Queer Middle East and North Africa
• This is a Life: Queer Asian Stories
• Wicked Trans: People Living
• Wicked Funny: Comedy Shorts
• Within me, the dreams of the world: Latinx Shorts
• Women's Shorts: Ladies who love Ladies.

Partner Screenings

• All the Beauty and Bloodshed (2022) (USA) - dir. Laura Poitras
• Best in Show Shorts: Audience Winners from the Shorts Programs
• Framing Agnes (2022) (USA) - dir. Chase Joynt
• Lie With Me (2022) (France) - dir. Olivier Peyon
• Rafiki (2018) (Kenya, South Africa, Germany, Netherlands, France, Norway, Lebanon, UK) - dir. Wanuri Kahiu
• Saving Face (2004) (USA) - dir. Alice Wu

See the Schedule

“Tank Fairy” (in “This is a Life: Queer Asian Stories”) | dir. Erich Rettstadt 雷利

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