FILM

The 28th Annual Boston LGBT Film Festival

OPENING NIGHT
The 28th Annual Boston LGBT Film Festival opens at the ICA this year! Celebrate the beginning of ten days of LGBT cinema throughout Boston!

Thursday, May 3:

Loose Cannons (Mine Vaganti). Directed by Ferzan Ozpetek. 2010, Italy, 110 minutes, 35 mm, Italian (with English subtitles)

6:45 pm - 7:45 pm - VIP cocktail party and screening - $75

8:15pm - 10:15 pm - Film screening - $20 tickets, $18 ICA members, students and seniors

Festival favorite Ferzan Ozpetek (Ignorant Fairies; Saturn in Opposition) returns with a light-hearted tale of family obligation and repressed desire that is as playful and sunny as a weekend on the Italian Riviera. Tommaso has a comfortable life in Rome as an aspiring writer and a steady relationship with his boyfriend Marcoa life he has kept secret from his family. He has no desire to move back to his hometown or to give up his writing career, so he plans to announce to his family at the dinner that he is gay. That evening, however, just as Tomasso begins his speech, he is upstaged by his brother, who, to everyones surprise, reveals his own secret!

Watch the trailer.

Saturday, May 5:

Question One. Directed by Joe Fox. 2011, USA, 113 minutes

3:00 pm - Film screening - $11 tickets, $9 ICA members, students and seniors

On May 6th, 2009 Maine became the first state in this country to legislatively grant same-sex couples the right to marry. Seven months later, on November 3rd, 2009 Maine, thru a referendum election, reversed, becoming the thirty-first state in this country to say “no” to gay and lesbian marriage. Question One, a new documentary by award-winning filmmakers Joe Fox and James Nubile, chronicles the fierce and emotional battle that took place in Maine during that time.

Watch the trailer.

Sunday, May 6:

United in Anger: A History of ACT UP. Directed by Jim Hubbard. 2012, USA, 93 minutes

2:30 pm - Film screening - $11 tickets, $9 ICA members, students and seniors

United in Anger: A History of ACT UP explores the story of ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) from the grassroots perspective—how a small group of men and women of all races and classes, came together to change the world and save each others lives. The film takes the viewer through the planning and execution of a dozen exhilarating major actions including Seize Control of the FDA, Stop the Church, and Day of Desperation, with a timeline of many of the other zaps and actions that forced the U.S. government and mainstream media to deal with the AIDS crisis. Director Jim Hubbard will be present for the screening.

Funkytown. Directed by Daniel Roby. 2011, Canada, 132 minutes

5:00 pm - Film screening - $11 tickets, $9 ICA members, students and seniors

Set during a tumultuous period of French-Canadian history, Funkytown follows the lives of eight people who are linked to a world famous Montreal nightclub called The Starlight in the late 1970s, when disco, casual sex, cocaine, and corruption reigned supreme. By 1980, as the disco lifestyle fades, the characters feel the hangover acutely and are forced to make some difficult life choices. With many characters based on real-life figures from the era, Funkytown is a portrait of the Montreal melting pot as it coped with an identity crisis and emerged as a sober, modern metropolis.