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2011-12

THU, OCT 27, 2011, 7pm

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Ghosted

(Monika Treut, 2010)
In Person
Q&A with director, Monika Treut, immediately following the film
Grand Cinemas Crossroads 6 / FREE
The screening is made possible by major funding from the UA Institute for LGBT Studies, and co-sponsored by the Hanson Film Institute, the Departments of German Studies and Gender & Women's Studies, and the School of Theatre, Film & Television.
Still from Ghosted

In this mysterious love story, a Hamburg artist, Sophie, is trying to come to terms with her Taiwanese lover Ai-Ling’s murder. After a run-in with the seductive Mei-Li, a journalist investigating Ai-Ling’s death, Sophie flees back to Germany. But when Mei-Li turns up on her Hamburg doorstep, the mystery deepens.

WED, NOV 16, 2011, 7pm

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Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria

(Victor Silverman and Susan Stryker, 2005)
In Person
Susan Stryker, one of the film's directors, and the new Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies at UA, will speak after the film.
UA Gallagher Theater / FREE
Sponsors include The Queer Film Series, Institute for LGBT Studies, Women's Resource Center, LGBTQ Affairs, Wingspan's Southern Arizona Gender Alliance
Still from Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton Cafeteria

Tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States — a 1966 riot in San Francisco’s impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, 3 years before Stonewall.

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THU, FEB 2, 2012, 7:30pm

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Circumstance

(Maryam Keshavarz, 2011)
The Loft Cinema
Still from Circumstance

Taboo-busting snapshot of contemporary Tehran. Two beautiful teenage schoolmates are attracted to each other — and to a host of things considered subversive in their repressive, male-dominated homeland; at night, the young women boldly doff their head scarves, slip into revealing dresses and party away in an underground dance club.

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THU, FEB 23, 2012, 7:30pm

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I Am

(Sonali Gulati, 2011)
UA Gallagher Theater / FREE
Still from I Am

Sonali Gulati, Indian lesbian filmmaker, returns to Delhi after an eleven year absence to re-open what was once her family home. There, she confronts the loss of her mother, to whom she never came out. As she speaks to parents of other LGBT Indians, she pieces together the meaning of family, in a landscape where, until recently, her very identity was a criminal offense.

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WED, MAR 21, 2012, 7:30pm

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Tomboy

(Céline Sciamma, 2011)
The Loft Cinema
Lesbian Looks is co-sponsoring this film as part of the Loft Film Fest Showcase, presented by the Casino del Sol Resort and Conference Center.
Still from Tomboy

A family moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holidays. With her Jean Seberg haircut and tomboy ways, daughter Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids, and decides to pass herself off as “Mikael,” a boy different enough to catch the attention of leader of the pack Lisa, who becomes smitten. At home with her parents and girlie younger sister, she is Laure: with her new pals and girlfriend, she is Mikael. At the end of an idyllic summer, Mikael/Laure confronts the dilemma of revealing her secret.

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WED, JUN 13, 2012, 7:30pm

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Chely Wright: Wish Me Away

(Bobbie Birleffi & Beverly Kopf, 2012)
The Loft Cinema
Lesbian Looks is pleased to support this film as a community partner. The screening is presented by the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation.
Still from Chely White: Wish Me Away

Personal and intimate look at Chely Wright, the first country music star to come out as gay. After a lifetime of hiding, she shatters cultural and religious stereotypes within Nashville, her conservative heartland family, and most importantly, herself.

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