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TODAY’S SCREENINGS
• MURDER and murder, 1:00 pm (Alliance, $8)
• African Roots, African Diaspora, 3:30 pm
• (Alliance, $8)
• Love Stories, 5:00 pm (Alliance, $8)
• Trick, 7:30 pm (Colony, $15)
MURDER and murder
Directed by Yvonne Rainer
USA, South Florida Premiere
MURDER and murder plus
Girls On A Summer Afternoon party, $20. Complete afternoon package
includes Love Stories for $25.
Soap opera, black comedy, romance and political meditation, MURDER
and murder is a beautiful, funny and challenging film about
middle-aged lesbian love, and the joys and fears of growing older.
Doris, a Jewish New York artist of modest means, at the age of sixty-two
finds herself, for the first time in her life, in a relationship with
a woman. Her lover Mildred, an unabashed lesbian in her early fifties,
is a professional, successful WASP. The two are oil and water at times,
magnetically linked at others.
Their love and their faith are put to the test when Doris receives
a dreaded breast cancer diagnosis. Bending the conventions of traditional
narrative cinema, Yvonne Rainer, for decades a trail-blazing filmmaker
and artist, mixes memories, time-frames, fact and fiction in this
magical and extraordinary work.
The New York Times has called the actresses performances at the center
of the film “... luminously real. [They] effortlessly evoke the
sensibilities of people who have lived long enough to know the preciousness
of time.“
Director Yvonne Rainer will attend the screening and discuss her work
with the audience.
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African Roots,
African Diaspora
3:30 pm (Alliance, $8)
Two works that tell stories of black gay life in Africa and England,
in very different ways.
• Heterosexuality
Directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair
United Kingdom, South Florida Premiere
Kwame, a typical adolescent, is eager to take his new sex drive for
a spin. Naturally, this throws his delightfully fierce father Max
(a leopard print-clad, dreadlocked, in-line skating instructor) into
a tizzy and sets off a turn of events in which everyone gains new
respect for one another. This wildly funny romp through hip London
puts a twist on the standard family drama: a black, gay male couple
help their straight teenage son cope with his budding heterosexuality.
• Woubi Cheri
Directed by Phillip Brooks and Laurent Bocahut
France/Guinea, South Florida Premiere
This unique look at gay life in the African nation of the Ivory Coast
is at turns funny, fascinating, and moving. It follows a diverse group
of gender pioneers through the capital city and the lush, more traditional
countryside, allowing us to learn about the intricacies of gay life
in one African culture. As in the West, homosexuality here comes in
many different forms.
A refugee from Burkina Faso is not only gay but a traditional griot
or storyteller. Two men find a tender love and commitment with one
another. And the president of a Transvestite Association takes her
message of tolerance for gays directly to market women and fishermen
with often hilarious results. In French with English subtitles.
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Love Stories,
5:00 pm (Alliance, $8)
These two amazing films focus on lesbian love and Jewish woman.
• Love Story
Directed byCatrine Clay
United Kingdom, Miami Premiere
Berlin, 1943. Lilly Wust, a young mother and the wife of a low-ranking
Nazi officer, discovers for the first time a romantic and sexual intimacy
with another woman, the vivacious and outgoing Felice Schraderheim.
But Felice is a German Jew, living under a false identity with the
help of the Jewish underground, whose life is always at risk. This
gripping and ultimately heartbreaking documentary includes riveting
interview footage with the now eighty-something Lily.
It creates a powerful portrait of loyalty and loss amidst the oppressive
Nazi regime, and the way in which two women, in an era when lesbian
love was barely acknowledged, dared to imagine a life together.
• Tryef
Directed by Alisa Lebow
USA, South Florida Premiere
The word treyf means not kosher or unclean in Yiddish, and filmmakers
and real life couple Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky simultaneously
examine, reject and embrace the concept as applied to themselves as
Jewish lesbians.
In this often whimsical but ultimately serious autobiographical film
they combine personal narration, documentary footage, re-enactments
and a compelling story line into an entertaining and witty examination
of their upbringing and contemporary identities.
The film bounces between hilarious visuals from the kitschy 1950s
to Hasidic Brooklyn to Jerusalem and back, ending with a celebratory
Jewish lesbian gathering-of-the-tribe in an old former synagogue on
New York’s Lower East Side.
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Trick, 7:30 pm
(Colony, $15)
Directed by Jim Fall
USA, South Florida Premiere
9:30 pm - Festival Awards Party at the Steinhoff
Gallery, 904 Lincoln Road. Join the Festival film directors and other
special guests for our closing night celebration where the First Annual
Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Awards will be presented. Catering
by Trillium Fine Food with drinks provided by Bacardi Martini USA.
Tickets: $35 for screening and party, $15 for screening.
A trashy drag queen, an estranged couple and a horny roommate. These
are just a few of the people complicating matters for two young men
desperately searching for a place to be alone and consummate things
in this very 90s version of the Hollywood screwball comedy.
Aspiring musical theater writer Gabriel (played by Christian Campbell,
Neve’s brother) is talented but out of touch with his own emotions.
His constant companion is his crazy actress friend Katherine, Beverly
Hills, 90210’s Tori Spelling.
To Gabriel’s surprise, he finds himself being picked up on his
subway ride home by Mark, the perfectly hot go-go boy from the bar
he has just left. Thus ensues an all-night odyssey that takes Mark
and Gabriel on a tour of downtown Manhattan, as fate, friends and
misunderstandings conspire to keep them from attending to their passion.
In the end, as the sun rises over Greenwich Village, the would-be
lovers are left with the feeling that the evening has yielded something
more gratifying than a simple one-night stand. Tender and funny, the
film was the buzz of this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Director Jim Fall will attend the screening and discuss his work with
the audience.
Preceded by Against the Grain, Directed
by Ronald “Otts“ Bolisay, USA, 1997, video, 8 min. This
erotic and wry made-in-Miami short takes a look at Asian men and the
white guys who want them.
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