SUNDAY - PART 3

THE INSOMNIACS THE WORLD UNSEEN

THE WORLD UNSEEN

BE LIKE OTHERS

CHASING THE DEVIL BE LIKE OTHERS BE LIKE OTHERS

SUNDAY

The Insomniacs

Director: Kami Chisholm 11 Minutes, USA

A butch dyke who can't sleep goes to a nightly 3am Insomniacs Anonymous meeting and meets the girl of her dreams.

The World Unseen

Director: Shamim Sarif 94 Minutes, UK

Early apartheid South Africa is an unlikely place to be free. Yet here’s Amina, scandalizing her conservative Indian community by living as she pleases. They gossip about her wearing men’s clothes and taking women lovers; they wonder if she’ll ever marry. Furthermore, Amina owns a successful café with her “coloured” business partner Jacob. To skirt the law, they pretend he is just an employee. Into this haven of rebels comes young wife and mother Miriam, who stuns Amina with her shy beauty. Their immediate mutual attraction surprises them both. Seeing such a self-possessed Indian woman makes Miriam think and feel things she hasn’t before. She discovers just how imprisoned she is in her traditional marriage and starts to look for ways to have her own voice and enter the larger world. As the two women get to know each other through a series of driving lessons, passion ensues, and events soon force them to stand up to the ever-vigilant and volatile apartheid police.

Bringing her award-winning novel to the screen, director Shamim Sarif gives us fully realized characters resisting dehumanization in a touching story of the daily fight for liberation and its immediate rewards, where the beauty of the surrounding land belies the turmoil in a system built on fear, hatred and separation.

Chasing The Devil: Inside The Ex-Gay Movement

Directors: Mishara Canino-Hussung & Bill Hussung 102 Minutes, USA

Chasing the Devil is a feature documentary film presenting an unflinching look at the personal journeys of four people who claim to have changed their sexual orientation from gay to straight. Their stories mark the first time documentary filmmakers have been allowed inside the "ex-gay" movement and provide an empathetic and, at times, devastating portrait of those who claim homosexuality is an illness that can be healed.

Be Like Others

Director: Tanaz Eshaghian 74 Minutes, Iran, Canada, UK, USA Farsi with English Subtitles

Under Iran’s current fundamentalist rule, a homosexual may be harassed, arrested and punished with the most extreme measures possible. Yet changing your gender is not only legal, it’s perfectly acceptable under Islamic law. So, to avoid constant persecution and possible death, a high percentage of the nation’s next-generation gay population opt to willingly sign up for costly, traumatic sexualreassignment operations. For some, these state-sanctioned surgeries are excruciating ordeals that ultimately aren’t worth the agony; for others, the medical procedure is the first step toward complete, personal liberation. This extraordinary chronicle of Iran’s transsexual community follows several patients who’ve either gone through the process or are just beginning their journey to a new life. After spending time with these brave, beautiful souls who are forced by society to physically transform themselves, you’ll understand why they’re willing to risk everything in order to follow their hearts. They don’t want to be like others; they simply want to be themselves.