This Winter may have seemed endless, but the 28th Connecticut LGBT Film Festival will be here before you know it. Mark your calendars now for Friday May 29 through Saturday June 6, 2015 so you won’t miss a show.
Come see the film that inspired this Broadway Musical. Charlie Price faces the impending shut down of the shoe factory that his family has owned and operated for generations. Just when he feels that all is lost, he has a chance encounter with Lola, a flamboyant drag queen. Lola’s desire for stylish, kinky boots for herself and her colleagues provides a […]
For 40-something Kat, another birthday and another boyfriend have come and gone. After receiving a gift of a getaway weekend at a couples retreat, Kat is persuaded by her BFF Samantha to take the trip together by pretending to be lovers. Samantha and Kat go through the motions of repairing their relationship and in doing so discover that they might […]
Eric Schaeffer’s new film is a poignant, sexy, romantic coming of age comedy about three twenty year-olds living in Kentucky: Robby (Michael Welch, Twilight) and his best friend since childhood, Ricky, a gorgeous transgender girl, have never dated. Lamenting the lack of eligible bachelors, Ricky even considers dating a girl. In walks Francesca, a beautiful young debutante waiting for her […]
Feeling invisible in her bland marriage, Emma moves in with her son, Elliot, who lives in a downtown L.A. loft. Elliot, a young chef, is facing foreclosure on his lackluster Chinese restaurant–and he’s gay. Emma’s disapproval has made strangers of mother and son, but the two need each other now more than ever, as Emma explores her newfound freedom–with the […]
This shocking documentary based on the true story of what the newspapers called the New Jersey 4. Under the neon lights in a gay-friendly neighborhood of New York City, four young African-American lesbians are violently and sexually threatened by a man on the street. Most men would have moved on, but the man in question instead threw slurs at the […]
The absurdly talented Desiree Akhavan (who some of you may know from the lesbian web series The Slope) wrote, directed and stars in the film as Shirin. She’s a sharp-tongued bisexual twentysomething who is reeling from a breakup with Maxine (Rebecca Henderson) her activist vanilla girlfriend. Being part of a perfect Persian family isn’t easy. Her family doesn’t know she’s […]
The bittersweet story of a family learning to accept each other, Axel Ranish’s gay coming-of-age tale is told with equal parts humor, absurdity, honesty, and pain, with a sensitive touch that never loses sight of the film’s refreshingly awkward sweetness. As a pudgy teen who loves disco and struggles with his sexuality, Florian’s overbearing dad just doesn’t get him at […]
The 1998 beating and murder of a 21-year-old college student, Matthew Shepard, raised the world’s awareness about discrimination against LGBT people. Directed by his childhood friend, this film takes you on a journey to learn about Matt’s charismatic personality, which is documented through family photos, vacation videos, and even his personal diary entries. It is the story of loss, love, […]
Set in the summer of 1984 – Margaret Thatcher is in power and determined to break up the National Union of Mineworkers strike. Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) starts an effort to raise money to support the families of the striking miners. When the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support, the activists are not deterred. They identify […]
