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This film festival favorite follows a group of African-American gay and transgender youth in one of Washington D.C.'s most violent neighborhoods. After being subjected to constant torment and assault, the group formed their own gang for camaraderie and protection.
An inspiring documentary about the birth and life of the AIDS activist movement from the perspective of the people in the trenches fighting the epidemic. Utilizing oral histories of members of ACT UP, as well as rare archival footage, the film depicts the efforts of ACT UP as it battles corporate greed, social indifference, and government neglect.
When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina transwoman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women decide to investigate the case: an activist attorney, a transgender journalist, and Jennifer's mother. Together, they galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of U.S. imperialism.
Director Toshio Matsumoto's shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling, unseen Tokyo night-world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art and black mascara. Stanley Kubrick cited the film as a direct influence on his own dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange.
Emotionally charged like its subjects, the film follows four ground-breaking women who took the fight for gay rights off the streets and into the halls of
government.
Jesus is a young hairdresser working at a Havana nightclub that showcases drag performers, which he hopes to be one day. But when his father has different expectations, the men struggle to understand one another and reconcile as a family.
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