The next Queer Thursday presentation will be announced soon. Generally, on the Second Thursday of each month we show a movie from a mix of newer films and classics or some of the most popular flicks from recent festivals that you may have missed or want to watch again. For more info click here.
JUST FRIENDS (Gewoon Vrienden) Joris is trying to come to terms with his broken family relationships on the 10th anniversary of his father’s death when he meets the free-spirited, Yad. Also dealing with family issues, Yad has returned home to The Netherlands after living on his own. Joris and Yad spark an instant connection and decide they want to be […]
Out Film CT announces lineup for the 32nd Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival, May 31-June 8, 2019 Connecticut’s Oldest Film Festival’s Inclusive Line-up Highlights the Wide Diversity of LGBTQ Stories FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS: Film screening dates, times, locations and additional titles will be announced at the beginning of May. The 32nd annual Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival kicks off on Friday, May 31 […]
Inspired by the real life of singer/songwriter Alyssa Robbins, BECKS follows a musician (Hall) who moves back to her childhood home in St. Louis after a crushing breakup with her longtime girlfriend (Kiyoko). While performing for tips at a local tavern and struggling to reconnect with her ultra-Catholic mother (Lahti), she strikes up a unique friendship with the wife (Suvari) […]
New York photographer Ronit Krushka flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for her childhood attraction to Esti, a female friend. Their fortuitous and happy reunion soon reignites their burning passion as the two women explore boundaries of faith and sexuality. […]
Invited to present his first feature film “My life with James Dean” in Normandy, the young director Géraud Champreux has no idea this film tour is about to change his life. From wild stampedes to woeful screenings, from trawler trips to drunken evenings, Géraud ends up finding inspiration in this unlikely town at the end of the earth. In French […]
Out Film CT is collaborating with the Wadsworth Atheneum to bring you the film Tipping the Velvet, the erotic lesbian romp through the 1890s Victorian England underworld, with prostitution, cross-dressing, music halls, and rich society women who keep love slaves. Find yourself cheering for our heroine Nan as she stumbles on the way from village oyster girl to London’s unsavory […]
For October we’re celebrating the first widely-released film to feature a positive lesbian relationship on screen: no one is self-destructive, drinks to excess, or morosely pines for straight girls! Directed by Donna Deitch (who is planning a sequel), this breakthrough movie is set in 1959, as a Columbia University literature professor (Helen Shayer) arrives in Reno to divorce her husband. […]
Out Film CT is collaborating with the Wadsworth Atheneum to bring you the film Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia). An avant-garde composer (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period of personal and artistic stress. But he finds no peace there, for he soon develops a troubling attraction to […]
Heartland tells the story of Lauren, an artist living in suburban Oklahoma, who has moved back home with her mom, Crystal, following the sudden death of her girlfriend. The relentlessly chipper Crystal assumes her daughter is headed back to the straight and narrow, but Lauren is only paying lip service to her mother’s plans to stave off the pain of […]
