Sunday, Dec 3 @ 1 PM — BPM (Beats Per Minute) @ REAL ART WAYS

Out Film CT is thrilled to partner with our friends at REAL ART WAYS to present the spectacular new film BPM (beats per minute) which had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, and will represent France’s foreign language film submission to the Academy Awards this year.

Synopsis: In Paris in the early 1990s, a group of activists goes to battle for those stricken with HIV/AIDS, taking on sluggish government agencies and major pharmaceutical companies in bold, invasive actions. The organization is ACT UP, and its members, many of them gay and HIV-positive, embrace their mission with a literal life-or-death urgency. Amid rallies, protests, fierce debates and ecstatic dance parties, the newcomer Nathan falls in love with Sean, the group’s radical firebrand, and their passion sparks against the shadow of mortality as the activists fight for a breakthrough.

After the film, stay for a discussion with Shawn Lang, Deputy Director of AIDS CT.

Please note: This film will be screening at REAL ART WAYS (56 Arbor Street, Hartford), not at Cinestudio. Click here for more information.

Purchase tickets here.

France, 2017, 140 min. In French with English subtitles.
Directed by Robin Campillo. Cast: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel.