29TH ANNUAL
DEPARTMENT OF FILM
FESTIVAL INFORMATION VENUES Opening Night, Thursday, October 16, 7:30pm Oriental Theatre | 2230 N. Farwell Ave. | (414) 276-8711
All Other Screenings Union Theatre, located in UWM Union (414) 229-4070 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. | 2nd floor, on the UWM Campus
Selected Post-Screening Events UWM Union Art Gallery | 1st level, western end
TICKETS & PASSES Festival Pass: $75 Admission to ALL screenings.
Fiver Pass: $35 general/$25 students and seniors Five shows for less than the price of four.
Opening Night Tickets: $15 general/$10 students and seniors Includes post-screening reception.
Union Theatre Screenings: $9 general/$7 for students, seniors, and members of the UWM campus community unless otherwise indicated The Union Theatre box office opens 30 minutes prior to screenings.
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29TH ANNUAL
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OPENING NIGHT! HELLO
THURSDAY
OCTOBER 16
ORIENTAL TH
EATER
7:30pm
BLACKBIRD (Patrik-Ian Polk, US, 99min., 2014) Opening Night Sponsors: Bronze Optical; Cream City Foundation; Jack H. Smith of Shorewest Relators Community Co-Sponsors: Diverse & Resilient; PFLAG Milwaukee, Outwords Books Community Co-Presenters: Project Q Youth Services; Milwaukee Film Campus Partner: UWM Inclusive Excellence Center
Randy is a good kid, a choirboy in the church chorus, for example. A devoted son in a fatherless home, he helps his lost-in-sadness mother circulate flyers beseeching any information on his missing younger sister. And Randy is a dedicated student, a rising thespian in fact, a shoo-in to be in the drama club’s non-traditionally cast Romeo and Juliet. Among his gifts, he also, it appears, has second sight. And Randy has a solid group of friends, young women and men, who are all with it, present, loyal. Yet, Randy still remains closeted, his sexuality only unfurling itself – rambunctiously – in his active dream life. The dictates of – and the sorrows within – his Baptist home hold sway, any declaration feeling impossible. Like the narrator of Larry Duplechan’s novel from which the film springs, director Patrik-Ian Polk is enamored of all that movies can contain, and his film is narratively quite lively, careening with incident. In addition to coming out drama, broken families, and evangelical tyranny, the film also interweaves all sorts of secretive sexuality; unwanted pregnancy; tragic death; addling madness and voices from the beyond. Yet Polk, embracing the novel’s geniality, never succumbs to the melodrama he enjoys, opting instead to make felt the kindness of loving suitors and the tenderness of the bonds between friends, between parents and children. Fortified by a stellar cast, including newcomer Julian Walker and an again powerful Mo’Nique in her first performance since winning an Oscar, Blackbird flies as a tribute to the healing and reconciliation possible through the consolation one finds in others. Director Patrik-Ian Polk invited to attend.
Please join us afterwards at Beans & Barley for a reception
FRIDAY
TRE UWM UNION THEA
OCTOBER 17 5pm
FIFI HOWLS FROM HAPPINESS (Mitra Farahani, Iran, in Farsi with English subtitles, 97min., 2013) Campus Partners: UWM Center for International Education, INOVA Community Co-Presenters: SAGE/Milwaukee
“I will tell you my life story myself. So that no idiot can write a biography on my behalf.” Bahman Mohasses, one of the great Iranian visual artists of the 20th century, was heralded as the “Persian Picasso,” his acclaimed paintings and sculptures dominating pre-revolutionary Iran. Later, he would meet censorship, oppression. From his perch in exile in Rome, this irreverent and uncompromising gay artist regales documentary filmmaker Mitra Farahani with stories and laments about his life, just as a new commission promises a final and grand opportunity.
7pm
APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR (Desiree Akhavan, US/UK, 82min., 2014) Community Co-Sponsors: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Community Co-Presenter: Classic Slice; Lesbian Alliance Campus Partners: UWM Inclusive Excellence Center; UWM Women’s Resource Center; UWM Union Art Gallery
Shirin isn’t out to her Persian-American family – they don’t know she’s bisexual – and her girlfriend has had enough. Maybe it is because Shirin fronts such a bravada that she exasperates those closest to her with her flailing? And flail she does as she tries to rebound from her crushing, inevitable break-up and from familial skirmishes; as she careens through a series of sexual escapades – with women, men, both – and stabs at daily life. Director and writer and star Desiree Akhavan has a hilarious deadpan, an approximated posture of self-possession and appropriateness that is the film’s funniest prop. So catch this emerging comic powerhouse now, and you can say you knew her and this, one of the funniest films of the year, from the beginning. Reception to follow with Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin in the UWM Union Art Gallery.
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9pm
SOMETHING MUST BREAK (Nånting måste gå sönder) (Ester Martin Bergsmark, Sweden, in Swedish with subtitles, 81min., 2014) Community Co-Sponsor: FORGE Community Co-Presenters: Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP); Genderqueer Milwaukee; Tall Lady Productions Campus Partner: UWM Center for International Education
Genderqueer Sebastian may be the most commandingly upfront character we meet this Festival: a young trans person working to transition more fully to being Ellie but, whatever her personal stumbles, defies the world, and her suitors, to meet her on her own terms. Not hesitating to smash a bottle over a ‘phobe’s head, she’s a badass, or just sensibly direct in her desires. She gets through the days, passing the time at a who-cares job, afterwards cruising for sex. But when she meets Andreas, she thinks she may have met something serious. (After they first hook-up, the immediately retreating Andreas backpedals with “Look, I’m not gay.” Sebastian replies, “I’m not either.”) Award-winning filmmaker Ester Martin Bergsmark has, once again, made a film both dreamily beautiful and rousingly raw. Tiger Award, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014; Jury Award, International Dramatic Feature, Outfest 2014
SATURDAY
OCTOBER 18
UWM UNIO N THEATR E
1pm
WHAT NOW? REMIND ME (E Agora? Lembra-me) (Joaquim Pinto, Portugal, in Portuguese with English subtitles, 164min., 2013) Community Co-Sponsor: AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin Community Co-Presenter: Sixteenth Street Community Health Center/HIV Department Campus Partners: UWM Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health; UWM Center for International Education; UWM Center for 21st Century Studies
A beautiful, epic video diary of a year spent undergoing an experimental treatment for HIV, What Now? Remind Me is an enthralling personal essay both expansive and intimate from celebrated Portuguese filmmaker Joaquim Pinto. Undergoing a series of clinical trials, he ruminates, in voiceover and through his imagery, on the ravages of his body and his psyche, and on the scarcities (economic, environmental) of a depleted planet. He finds sanctuary in his relationship with his beloved husband Nuno, with whom he works the land in the company of their pride of big, goofy-with-amiability dogs. Alert, smart, meditative, warm with feeling, and lovely to behold What Now? Remind Me “conveys more than anything the joy of being alive.” –New York Times
FREE! 4pm
FASHION
SHOW
AN AFTERNOON OF FORBIDDEN LOVE: Fashion Show + Screening Community Co-Sponsor: BMO Harris Lion’s Pride; Lesbian Fund Campus Partners: LGBT Collection at UWM Libraries Community Partners: Women’s Out to Brunch; Lesbian Alliance Media Partner: Queer Program
First: The 2014 Forbidden Love Fashion Show a celebratory response to looks butch and femme in the style of, and tribute to, the glamor of the film Forbidden Love. Thanks to Cheryl Kader and her friends for instigating and realizing this efflorescence of voguish sophistication! Second: Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (Aerlyn Weissman and Lynne Fernie, Canada, 85min. 1992) is a landmark work of lesbian cinema, now digitally re-mastered on the occasion of its 20th anniversary and as richly enjoyable as ever. Compelling, often hilarious, always rebellious, the women herein recount stories about their first loves and their search for the places where openly lesbian women gathered in the mid-20th century – all shared against a backdrop of pulp novel covers, archival footage, and tabloid headlines.
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7pm
THE CIRCLE (Der Kreis) (Stefan Haupt, Switzerland, in Swiss German and German with English subtitles, 102min., 2014) Community Co-Sponsor: Bronze Optical Community Co-Presenters: SAGE/Milwaukee; Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) Campus Partners: LGBT Collection of UWM Libraries; UWM Center for International Education
In the 1940’s, a cadre of gay Swiss writers unveiled Der Kreis, a magazine that offered news, physique pictorials, and, in its network of writers and subscribers, a sense of gay male community. The only European gay organization to survive Nazism, Der Kreis flourished after the war, its “underground” balls establishing Zurich as the gay capital of Europe. This narrative/documentary hybrid recounts the story of school teacher Ernst Ostertag and drag performer Röbi Rapp who met at one such ball – in the twilight of this flowering of liberation. Teddy Award, Best Documentary, 2014 Berlin Film Festival; Grand Jury Award, Best Documentary, OUTFEST 2014
9pm
PARTY CRASHERS AND OTHER RE-ORDERINGS: An Evening of Women’s Shorts Community Co-Sponsors: PrideFest, The Tool Shed, Art-Bar Riverwest Community Co-Presenter: Lesbian Alliance; Fair Wisconsin Campus Partner: UWM LGBT Alumni Chapter
Femmes fatales, cat burglars, and trespassers (literally) stuck in the closet, tonight’s program includes a roster of women in situations somewhat compromising. Party on girls! Titles include Bombshell (Erin Sanger, US, 14min., 2013); Social Butterfly (Lauren Wolkstein, France/US, 14min., 2013); Jellyfish (Rosie Haber, Malaysia, in Tagalog with English subtitles, 11min., 2013); What Keeps Me Here (Danielle Wright, US, 6.5min., 2014) and Dykes on Bycycles (Bettie Allen & Andi Woodward, US, 2014) and more!
Join us for drinks, good talk, and other spirits afterwards at Art Bar-Riverwest – 722 E Burleigh
SUNDAY
OCTOBER 19
E N THEATR UWM UNIO
1pm
REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG (Nancy Kates, US, 100min., 2014) Community Co-Sponsor: Boswell Books Campus Partner: Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at UWM; UWM Center for 21st Century Studies
An intimate, nuanced documentary on the life and work – if such territories can here be separated – of one of the most influential, provocative, and well-known intellectuals of the 20th Century. Ardent – protean even – in her intellectual pursuits and advocacy, Susan Sontag (1939-2007) unfurled and sustained an impressive and public career as a cultural critic. She was as well as a playwright, novelist, filmmaker, saloniste, more. Director Kates, whose last documentary was Brother Outsider about Bayard Rustin, shares a richly detailed, formally nimble film that also feels tonally astute, a consideration more than a marshaling of facts. Reflections and testimony, archival footage, and passages of her own writing (given voice by actress Patricia Clarkson) shape the film as it weighs the Sontags we know and are still just meeting: the aspirant intellect, the lesbian, the public figure, the icon. Talkback to follow screening. Special Jury Prize, 2014 Tribeca Film Festival; Honorable Mention, Best Documentary, Frameline 2014
5pm
DRUNKTOWN’S FINEST (Sydney Freeland, US, 95min., 2014) Community Co-Presenter: Sixteenth Street Community Health Center/HIV Department Campus Partners: UWM Inclusive Excellence Center; UWM Native American Film Festival
Three young people grasp after any opportunity that will allow a route to an elsewhere they can’t specify, maybe even away from the Navajo reservation that they ambivalently regard as home. Nizhoni takes on a volunteer stint on the reservation, in search of her biological Native American parents. Bound for the Army, Sick Boy is going to be a father soon, yet he keeps cultivating some sort of trouble in acts plainly resistant to definitions of responsibility. And transwoman Felixia is sure her audition for the “Women of the Navajo” calendar will be a step towards a modeling career. No trajectory here proves easy as these three, mirrors for each others’ restlessness, cross paths, discovering who they are, who – and where – they can be. Grand Jury Award: US Dramatic Feature; Audience Award: First US Dramatic Feature, 2014 OUTFEST
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7pm
LILTING (Hong Khaou, UK, in English and Mandarin with English subtitles, 86min., 2014) Community Co-Sponsor: PFLAG Milwaukee; BMO Harris Lion’s Pride Community Co-Presenter: Camerata, Florentine Opera Campus Partners: UWM Center for International Education; UWM Inclusive Excellence Center
Lilting chronicles the attempts hazarded by Richard (Ben Whishaw) to connect with Junn (Cheng Pei Pei), the Cambodian-Chinese mother of Kai, his longtime lover. Kai’s unexpected death has sent them both into isolating grief, but separated by culture, generation, and language (Junn knows no English), the two are wary, even resentful of the other. Kai never disclosed his relationship with Richard to his mother, and the possessiveness each feels towards their beloved stymies the other’s understanding. Hong Khaou’s film of mourning and reconciliation is exquisite in its tenderness, unfolding with such assurance and delicacy. And the performances from Cheng Pei Pei (Junn) and Ben Whishaw (Richard) are extraordinary, with Whishaw, as a widow fissured by longing, offering one of the most beautiful experiences of the Festival. Grand Jury Award, International Feature Special Recognition, 2014 OUTFEST
E N THEATR UWM UNIO
FREE! NO TICKETS NEEDED! MONDAY, OCTOBER 20
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22
7pm
7pm
7pm
arts.uwm.edu/lgbtfilm ONE DAY PINA ASKED (Chantal Akerman, France, in German and French with English subtitles, 57min., 1983) Community Co-Sponsor: Lynden Sculpture Garden Community Co-Presenter: Alverno Presents; Milwaukee Film Campus Partner: UWM Department of Dance
One great artist considers another in this meditative immersion into the methods and achievements of revered choreographer Pina Bausch (1940-2009) by the celebrated filmmaker Chantal Akerman. This portrait-through-process generously shares quite beautiful passages from Bausch’s mesmerizing tableaus, while pausing for dancers’ testimony and tributes – all entrancingly enunciated through Akerman’s characteristic compositional guile and long-take eloquence. +
SHOULDER
(Andy Warhol, US, 16mm, 4min., 1964) A silent portrait of Lucinda Childs, or that is, her shoulder; or, that is a dance piece of characteristic minimalism (Child’s; Warhol’s).
SAN DIEGO SURF (Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey, 16mm, 90 min., 1968/1995) Festival Sponsor: Joseph R. Pabst Community Co-Presenters: Milwaukee Art Museum; Green Gallery; Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) Campus Partners: Experimental Tuesdays at the Union Theatre
A movie both outrageous and louche, San Diego Surf is the film Andy Warhol & Co. made after completing Lonesome Cowboys, all involved repairing to La Jolla, CA to fashion this sequel of sorts, a movie as much about surfing as the previous was a Western. Warhol stars Viva and Taylor Mead play a married couple, unhappy yet also recent parents. They open their beach house to a bunch of surfers and desires crest. The film, which remained without a final edit until 1996, would be the last on which Warhol was directly involved, the artist shot by Valerie Solanas one month after filming was completed. The film, however, ends with a christening of sorts, a newly anointed Mead proclaiming, “I’m a real surfer now, a real surfer.” ©2014 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved. Films still courtesy The Andy Warhol Museum.
GOODBYE GAULEY MOUNTAIN: An Ecosexual Love Story (Beth Stephens, with Annie Sprinkle, US, 70min., 2013) Community Co-Presenter: Lesbian Alliance Campus Partners: UWM Center for 21st Century Studies; Share the Earth Environmental Film Series
Art professor Beth Stephens and her partner, feminist porn star Annie Sprinkle, join forces with environmental activists to save the Appalachian Mountains from the coal industry’s devastating ecological disregard. Beth was born and raised in West Virginia, in the bosom of Gauley Mountain, which is under siege by mountain top removal (MTR) coal mining. This eco-documentary chronicles these activists’ fight for environmental justice, a struggle whose tactics include queer art making practices, sexy fun, and other surprising (and most serious) strategies. Goodbye Gauley Mountain raises awareness about the devastation of MTR while celebrating the Earth in all its sensuous, ecosexual glory.
THURSDAY
OCTOBER 23
UWM UNIO N THEATR E
7pm
SALVATION ARMY (L’armée du Salut) (Abdellah Taïa, France/Morocco, In Arabic and French with English subtitles, 84min., 2013) Community Co-Sponsor: Woodland Pattern Book Center Community Co-Presenter: Alliance Française de Milwaukee Campus Partners: UWM Center for International Education; Festival of Films in French; UWM LGBT Studies Program; UWM Center for 21st Century Studies
The most poetically realized film of this year’s Festival is this beautifully observed succession of vignettes depicting the coming of age of one Moroccan gay man, a story of one boy’s emergence into self and, therefore, into exile. Directed by Moroccan author Abdellah Taïa, who here translates his own memoiristic novel to the screen, Salvation Army recounts two formative chapters (more like stanzas, really) of Abdellah’s life: his boyhood in a Moroccan village where he sustains his first lessons in sexuality and power; and his arrival in the Western world – on scholarship to Switzerland – where he must meet instruction of a different sort. With the considerable assistance of renowned cinematographer Agnès Godard, Taïa’s film is strikingly quiet yet, graced with the time of observation, compelling with an earned sense of how language, race, and sexuality work in negotiating a hostile world.
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9pm
SCORE (Radley Metzger, 35mm on Blu ray, USA/Yugoslavia, 90min., 1974) Festival Sponsor: Joseph R. Pabst Campus Partner: UWM Art History Department
The sexploitation genre of the late 1960’s and early ‘70s had its auteur in Radley Metzger, whose filmic softcore roundelays stirred a following among the then new movie-going class of porn-curious swingers, heterosexual couples, mostly, whose pursuit of faddish liberation included sampling new cinematic positions. Romanticized for its unfettered bisexuality, Score is perhaps Metzger’s most polymorphously amorous film. The worldly, been-there duo of Elvira and Jack are engaging in bets over who can seduce whom. Up next: newlyweds Betsy and Eddie. Elvira hopes to seduce Betsy by midnight, while Jack plays downstairs with Eddie (played here by gay porn star Casey Donovan). The Film Society of Lincoln Center, who recently enjoyed a retrospective of Metzger’s bountiful oeuvre, claims this film as “a kinky, sex-romp reworking of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” but there’s no screaming or dark-night-of the-soul stuff here. Everyone finds satisfaction at this uninhibitedly randy party, and at this often quite funny, from another planet, film. And please note, this celebrated cult film merits the cautionary if not explanatory provison of “adult content.” Screening to be introduced by Dr. Elena Gorfinkel, Assistant Professor, UWM Art History Department, and sexploitation historian.
FRIDAY
OCTOBER 24
E N THEATR UWM UNIO
FREE! 5pm
KATE BORNSTEIN IS A QUEER AND PLEASANT DANGER (Sam Feder, US, 72min., 2014) Community Co-Sponsor: FORGE Community Co-Presenter: Genderqueer Milwaukee; Fair Wisconsin Campus Partner: UWM LGBT Resource Center
Artist/theorist Kate Bornstein explodes binaries while deconstructing gender – and her own identity. Trans-dyke. Reluctant polyamorist. Sadomasochist. Recovering Scientologist. Pioneering gender outlaw. Sam Feder’s playful, meditative documentary joins Bornstein on her latest tour, capturing rollicking public performances and personal revelations as it bears witness to Kate as a trailblazing artist-theorist-activist who inhabits a space between male and female with wit, style and astonishing candor. We unfurled this so great, really lovely film last February and we bring it back at audience insistence and also in anticipation of Bornstein’s visit to the UWM campus on October 30, to be hosted by the UWM LGBT Resource Center.
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7pm
THE FOXY MERKINS (Madeleine Olnek, US. 82min., 2013) Community Co-Sponsor: The Tool Shed Community Co-Presenter: Classic Slice; Lesbian Alliance Campus Partner: UWM Union Art Gallery
A lively, unstoppingly funny and triumphantly absurdist comedy about the travails of two lesbian hookers, The Foxy Merkins smartly skewers conventional cinematic depictions of sex work while also, warmly, being a buddy film about hooker-in-training Margaret (co-screenwriter Lisa Haas) and her mentor, the savvy street veteran Jo (co-screenwriter Jackie Monahan). The two negotiate Port Authority sleeping quarters, closeted conservative women, customers conditioned by retail to expect bargains, and their own feelings for each other. Please know, filmmaker Madeleine Olnek, is, hands down, the funniest filmmaker currently working. And also know that the humor of this film is not directed against sex workers. Or, that is to say, that this film is no more derisive of lesbian hookers than Waiting for Godot is of clowns.
Lead actor and co-screenwriter Lisa Haas to be in attendance. Reception to follow in celebration of Lisa Haas and of the 10th Anniversary of The Tool Shed in the UWM Union Art Gallery.
9pm
NOT, LIKE, A LIFETIME MOVIE MOMENT: An Evening of Men’s Shorts Community Co-Sponsors: BESTD Clinic; PrideFest; The Tool Shed; Art Bar-Riverwest Community Co-Presenter: Fair Wisconsin Campus Partner: UWM LGBT Alumni Chapter
The stuff of gay romance! Rachet poets; cinephilic go-betweens; fan fiction writers; Horror movie fans coated in fake blood; one particularly annoying elephant, and more. This isn’t your average after school special. Titles include: A Day For Cakes and Accidents (Steve Reinke & Jessie Mott, US, 4min., 2013); Trunk (Jack Taylor Cox, Australia, 12min., 2013); Monster Mash (Mark Pariselli, Canada, 21min., 2014); Cakes Da Killa: No Homo (Ja’Tovia Gary, US, 13min., 2013); S/ash (Clay Liford, US, 9min., 2012); BTW (Brennan Johnston, US, 10min., 2014), and more!
Join us for drinks, good talk, and other spirits afterwards at Art Bar-Riverwest – 722 E Burleigh
SATURDAY
OCTOBER 25
N UWM UNIO
THEATRE
1pm
OUT IN THE NIGHT (blair dorosh-walther, US, 75min., 2013) Community Co-Presenter: ACLU of Wisconsin; Lesbian Alliance Campus Partner: UWM Inclusive Excellence Center Media Sponsor: Queer Program
One night in August 2006, a group of young African American lesbian friends are harassed in a gay friendly neighborhood of New York City. They defend themselves; a fight ensues. Charged with gang assault and sensationalized as a “Lesbian Wolfpack” in the mainstream media, four of the women begin an emotional and psychological battle as they claim self-defense. This powerful documentary about the “New Jersey Four” is an impressively thorough bulletin of advocacy, laying bare the blindly prejudicial reflexes of the structures of power and making clear the struggles for agency – the struggles of just walking down the street – that continue to challenge women and people of color. Angela Davis testifies here. “You either assent to the homophobia of everyday culture or you figure out a way to speak out, to resist.” Panel discussion/presentation from the ACLU of Wisconsin to follow.
5pm
CATEGORIAL REFUTATION: An Evening of Trans* Shorts Community Co-Sponsors: PrideFest; The Tool Shed; FORGE Community Co-Presenter: Genderqueer Milwaukee Campus Partner: UWM LGBT Alumni Chapter
Definitions claimed and ignored in this energetic conflation of characters engaging with disclosure, athletics, postmodernism, robots (possibly), mothers, and a bling bedecked walker as vehicles for getting where and who you need to be. To screen: Bradley Manning Had Secrets (Adam Butcher, UK, 5min., 2011); Dating Sucks: A Genderqueer Misadventure (Sam Berliner, US, 12:40, 2013); Gender Games (Meg Smaker and Veronica Lopez, US, 9min., 2013); Black is Blue (Cheryl Dunye, US, 21min., 2014); MyMy (Anna Helme, Australia, 15min., 2014); two from Zackary Druckart: Fish (US, 2min., 2008) and She Gone Rogue (with Rhys Ernst, US, 22min., 2012), and more!
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7pm
THE WAY HE LOOKS (Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho) (Daniel Ribeiro, Brazil, in Portuguese with English subtitles, 95min., 2014) Community Co-Sponsors: PrideFest; PFLAG Milwaukee Community Co-Presenters: Sixteenth Street Community Health Center/HIV Department Campus Partners: UWM Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies; UWM Inclusive Excellence Center
A beguilingly sweet story of high school romance swirling around the resourcefully sturdy teenager Leonardo, who already has to endure bullies – and also overprotective parents, understandably worried about how their blind son negotiates the world. While the limits placed on him can frustrate, Leonardo has being blind down. It is his crush on new student Gabriel that confounds him. That and the fact that his best friend Giovanna has a crush on Gabriel too. What makes this award-winning feature so uncommon is that Leonardo’s coming out is part of his in-general desire for the chance to be the author of his own world. And like the Belle and Sebastian tunes that adorn soundtrack, this pitch perfect film takes the foibles it portrays seriously but also delights in – and roots for – the pleasures these young people can find in each other’s company.
9pm
DUAL (Dvojina) (Nejc Gazvoda, In Danish, English, and Slovenian with English subtitles, 102min., 2013) Community Co-Sponsor: Lesbian Fund; Lesbian Alliance Campus Partner: UWM Center for International Education
Iben is bound for Greece, her travel a way of denying a secret that’s a part of her baggage. Tina is at her last night of her summer hotel job, shuttling guests here and there. But, unexpectedly stranded in Ljubljana, Iben asks the helpful driver for a tour of the city, and Iben and Tina light out on a nighttime frolic that feels like a prolonged dare, in its impromptu itinerary, in the discovery of desire. Dual bypasses its screwball comedy set-up and moves towards a sobering morning after, the film weaving gravity within its whimsy, mapping a more general portrait of the twenty-somethings emerging from today’s economically embattled Europe, a generation lost, maybe, or perhaps defiantly adrift.
SUNDAY
OCTOBER 26
UWM UNIO N THEATR E
1pm
CUPCAKES (Bananot) (Eytan Fox, Israel, in Hebrew with English subtitles, 90min., 2013) Community Co-Presenters: Milwaukee Jewish Film Festival; Milwaukee Jewish Meat Club Campus Partner: Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at UWM
How do a motley group of neighbors end up representing Israel in a Eurovison-style song contest? Well, the six friends – a lesbian folksinger; a political aide to a conservative politician; a beauty queen-turned-corporate lawyer; a blogger who prefers the remoteness the ether allows; a successful bakery owner (you know, she makes cupcakes); and a nursery school teacher whose classroom is also a platform for his drag flamboyance – turn to song one night to console one of their own. Their singing is generously buoyant but the forwarded phone video of their impromptu performance earns them, get this, the chance to represent their nation in global competition. Unabashed in its giddy adherence to a let’s-put-on-a-show pop recipe, Cupcakes is a tuneful confection decorated with pastel production design and infused with lessons-learned-on-the-way, with various modes of coupledom as, of course, the only resolutions possible. Talkback to follow screening.
First 100 patrons get a complementary kosher cupcake!
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7pm
52 TUESDAYS (Sophie Hyde, Australia, 109 min., 2013) Community Co-Sponsors: FORGE; PFLAG Milwaukee; BMO Harris Lion’s Pride Community Co-Presenters: Milwaukee LGBT Community Center; Genderqueer Milwaukee Campus Partner: UWM LGBT Resource Center; UWM LGBT Studies Program
52 Tuesdays is, truly, 52 consecutive Tuesdays in the relationship between a gendertransitioning mother and her daughter, the year that the mother starts to transition and reluctantly asks her teenager to live with her father. Tuesdays will be the day that they reserve for each other, to hang out. The year brings changes for both of them: James, the transitioning parent, working to declare his identity while maintaining a sense to the relationship with the daughter he loves, and the 16 year-old Billie, unmoored, and defiant a bit, beginning to explore her own sexuality and making clumsy stabs at adulthood in the process. Both stumble towards new declarations of identity, and the balance the two work to sustain between their own relationship and their emerging sense of self makes for a compelling, quite moving dance. It’s a beautiful film. And the filmmaking itself worked to meet the dictates of James and Billie’s relationship. Filmmaker Sophie Hyde shot this drama over the course of a single year also, in chronological order – and only on Tuesdays. The non-professional cast got their scripts, and only their own lines, one week in advance. No gimmick this: with the aches and triumphs here genuinely felt, 52 Tuesdays accumulates powerfully.
CLOSING NIGHT!
BYE
THANK YOU SPONSORS! Thanks to our sponsors, campus and community partners, and the many individuals and businesses who support the Festival. For all the ways you can support LGBT programs at UWM, contact Diane Grace, Director of Major and Planned Giving at (414) 229-6734 or dkgrace@uwm.edu.
FESTIVAL SPONSORS Joseph R. Pabst Wisconsin Gazette
OPENING NIGHT SPONSORS Bronze Optical Cream City Foundation Jack H. Smith of Shorewest Realtors 88Nine Radio Milwaukee WMSE 91.7FM
VIP SPONSORS Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Eldon E. Murray Foundation Fund Quest and Outbound Magazines
MAJOR SPONSORS PrideFest WUWM 89.7 US Bank
BEST FRIENDS EVER AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin BESTD Clinic BMO Harris Lion’s Pride, Wisconsin D.A. Leonard and W. Michael Ross National Association of Black and White Men Together Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin
EVEN BETTER FRIENDS Art Bar-Riverwest Beans & Barley Kilwins Bayshore Town Center Lesbian Fund
DEPARTMENT OF FILM
Penny PFLAG Milwaukee Wolfe Releasing
FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL Neil and Eleanor Bogner Jerome J. Chingo-Harris Gerald P. Coon Dr. Kimberly Cosier and Josie Osborne G/L Community Fund, Inc. Martha E. Garske Jeffrey M. Goldberg Bruce D. Hall John W. Hanin Helmut W. Hampel, CPA Cliff Heise Elna and Lloyd Hickson David Jacob and John F. Kannenberg Daniel P. Lagerman Lynden Sculpture Garden James A. Mortell Ono KineGrindz Christina A. Prevetti Todd Siefert and Roger Kocher William Stotts and Richard Runkel Mark E. Straight and Paul S. Nowak Gary E. Timm and Ross Spens Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce Kevin Zuehlsdorf An Anonymous Donor
COMMUNITY CO-PRESENTERS ACLU of Wisconsin Alliance Française de Milwaukee Alverno Presents
Boswell Books Camerata, The Florentine Opera’s LGBT Affinity Group Classic Slice Diverse & Resilient Fair Wisconsin FORGE Genderqueer Milwaukee Green Gallery Lesbian Alliance Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee Film Milwaukee Jewish Film Festival Milwaukee Jewish Meat Club Milwaukee LGBT Community Center Project Q Youth Services SAGE/Milwaukee Women’s Out to Brunch Outwords Books Queer Program Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) Sixteenth Street Community Health Center/HIV Department Tall Lady Productions The Tool Shed Woodland Pattern Book Center
UWM CAMPUS PARTNERS Center for 21st Century Studies Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center for International Education Department of Art History Department of Dance Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres Department of French, Italian and Comparative Literature Experimental Tuesdays at the Union Theatre Festival of Films in French Inclusive Excellence Center INOVA Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health LGBT Alumni Chapter LGBT Collection at UWM Libraries LGBT Resource Center Native American Film Festival
Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies Share the Earth Environmental Film Series Union Art Gallery Women’s Resource Center
FESTIVAL SUPPORT Peck School of the Arts Dean Scott Emmons Associate Dean Kim Cosier Interim Assistant Dean Jim Burmeister Assistant to Dean Mary McCoy Assistant Dean for Business Administration Amanda Obermeyer Human Resources Manager Sandy Stetter UWM Film Department Rob Yeo / Michelle Oddo / Bill Berens / Ken Wood / Isaac Sherman UWM Union Programming Linda Corbin-Pardee UWM Union Theatre Brian McGuire / Projectionists & Theatre staff Landmark’s Oriental Theatre Eric Levin / Theatre Staff Outwords Books Carl Szatmary Beans & Barley Peg Silvestrini / Lynn Sbonik / everyone... Festival Team Carl Bogner, Director Brennan Johnston, Shorts Programming Support for Undergraduate Research Fellow Diane Grace, Director of Major and Planned Giving Chris Ciancimino, Director of Development Lauren McMurry, Development Assistant Ellen Friebert Schupper, Director of Marketing and Community Relations Tonia Klein, Interim Box Office Manager Chelsey Porth, Interim Communications Assistant Kendell Hafner, Designer Riley Jules Vandervest, Logo Designer Aoife Moloney / Linda Lewis, Festival Table
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