TIGLFF 34 - St. Petersburg, FL
Comedy
Language Lessons – Opening Night Film
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesNatalie Morales directs this charming feature film that she stars in alongside Mark Duplass, her co-writer, to tell a story that is extremely timely and and underscores the importance of human connection in this technologically isolating time.
Mascarpone
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesAntonio is a 30-year-old family man, whose life finds an unexpected twist when he's suddenly dumped by his husband, whom he depends both psychologically and economically.
Nimby
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesMervi and Kata, a lesbian couple living in Helsinki, are considering coming out of the closet but when they visit Mervi’s hometown and family, all hell breaks loose.
Nora Highland
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesBased on out-actor Ryan Spahn's play of the same name and shot entirely on computers during the Covid-19 Pandemic, Nora Highland, follows the casting process of a notable gay character in an upcoming Broadway revival.
Between Them (Toutes les deux)
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesThis tongue-in-cheek homage to spy thrillers and screwball comedies follows a lesbian private eye who is hired by a desperately jealous Russian professor to follow his wife who he is convinced is cheating on him. Having to travel to Montreal for the stakeout, she must sleep in her car since most hotels in Montreal were closed during lockdown.
Kiss Me Kosher
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesWhen two generations of Israeli women fall for a German and a Palestinian, chaos follows in this romantic misadventure crossing all borders.
Dreams and Nightmares – Shorts Program
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEA series of shorts in the Fantasy/Horror/Comedy genre.
Sugar and Spice – Shorts Program
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEA series of womens' shorts.
Snips and Snails – Shorts Program
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEA series of mens' shorts.
It’s A Queer World After All…Shorts Program
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEA series of international shorts.
Potato Dreams of America
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesWes Hurley’s autobiographical dark comedy about growing up gay in the Soviet Union and emigrating to America with his mail-order bride mother is divided into two strikingly different halves featuring two different pairs of actors playing the nick-named Potato and his mother.
Glob Lessons – Closing Night Film
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesMove over Felix and Oscar, the latest odd couple is Alan and Jesse, two mismatched strangers who are paired together by a children’s theater company to perform low-budget productions of Robin Hood and A Christmas Carol in elementary schools.
33rd ANNUAL TAMPA BAY INTERNATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL
All Man: The International Male Story
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesA nostalgic and colorful peek behind the pages and personalities of International Male, one of the most ubiquitous and sought-after mail-order catalogs of the 80s and 90s.
Narrative Shorts Program
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesAll The Awards I Never Gave You Caio Scot, 2021, Brazil, 17 min In the bathroom at an awards ceremony, an unexpected encounter between two young actors brings up unresolved…
The Sixth Reel
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesWhen the death of a close friend unearths the long-thought-lost final reel of a classic film, Jimmy (drag legend Charles Busch) and his cohorts each concoct underhanded schemes involving false romances, drag personas and maybe even vampires to cash in on a big sale of the film.
Waking Up Dead
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesGorgeous, hard partying Danny Maldonado was once about to conquer Hollywood. But at 35, his acting career has flatlined, his boyfriend has dumped him, and his long estranged drug-addict mother is dying.
No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesNo Straight Lines chronicles the journeys of five scrappy queer artists from the margins of the underground comics scene to mainstream acceptance.
Chrissy Judy
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesWhen his best friend and creative partner suddenly couples off and moves away, an ambitious New York drag queen determined for the limelight must reinvent himself or risk becoming an irrelevant solo act both onstage and off.
Maybe Someday
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesJay, a non-binary 40-something photographer, attempts to move across the country to start her life over again in the midst of separating from her wife.
Unidentified Objects
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesA curmudgeonly gay dwarf and his unstable, alien-obsessed neighbor are thrown together on an impossible road trip that will alter their strange friendship (and their sense of reality) forever.
AQRONYM: A Night of Queer Comedy
The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewery 1510 E 8th Avenue, Tampa, FL, United StatesJoin our Master of Ceremony Shaine O'Laine as he leads you through an incredibly fun night of great humor and a good time with Melissa Nichols, featuring Kye Saunders, and headlining Jenn Snyder.
Mambo Italiano
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesThe son of Italian immigrants to Canada struggles to find the best way to reveal to his parents that he's gay.
At the End of the Day
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesA conservative, Christian professor experiences a profound change when he finds himself planted in a gay support group to stop their plans to open an LGBTQ youth shelter in their small town.
Love! Valour! Compassion!
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesTerrence McNally adaptation his Tony-winning Broadway play about the lives and loves of eight gay friends who gather at a vacation home.
Evolution of Drag – Drag Through the Decades
Palladium Theater 253 5th Ave N, St Petersburg, FL, United StatesGlamazon and drag performer/producer Daphne Ferraro brings her smash hit multi-media drag extravaganza to St. Pete
Evolution of Drag – Drag Through the Decades
Palladium Theater 253 5th Ave N, St Petersburg, FL, United StatesGlamazon and drag performer/producer Daphne Ferraro brings her smash hit multi-media drag extravaganza to St. Pete
Saving Face
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesIn Manhattan, the brilliant Chinese-American lesbian surgeon Wil is surprised by the arrival of her forty-eight year old widow mother to her apartment. Ma was banished from Flushing, Queens, when…
The Mattachine Family
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesOscar (Juan Pablo di Pace, Mamma Mia) and Thomas (Nico Tortorella, Scream 4) meet cute, get married, have charming friends and burgeoning careers. Fate steps in and the two agree to be foster parents to a little boy, Arthur. When Arthur is reunited with his birth mother, Thomas realizes he loves being a dad.
Big Boys
AMC West Shore - Theatre 8 210 Westshore Plaza, Tampa, FL, United StatesBig Boys is a sweet and humorous story about the awkwardness of growing up and feeling different from your peers. Jamie is an anxious and chubby, 14-year old. While he’s not the least bit interested in sports, he might just be a culinary master.
Afternoon Delights Shorts
AMC West Shore - Theatre 7 210 Westshore Plaza, Tampa, FL, United StatesA series of short films.
A Big Gay Hairy Hit! Where The Bears Are: The Documentary
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesRick Copp, Ben Zook and Joe Dietl are friends and colleagues who have been in “the business” for decades. Between them they have worked on Golden Girls, Scooby Doo, The Brady Bunch Movie, Two and a Half Men, The Thin Pink Line, and Jack and Jill. As does happen in Hollywood, there came the inevitable lapse for all of them.
Egghead and Twinkle
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesAfter coming out to her parents, an Asian American teenage girl takes off on a road trip to meet her online crush with the help of her nerdy best friend.
Imagine Me & You
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesRachel is a nice girl who is going to marry Hector ('Heck'), her longtime boyfriend. While she is working on the wedding preparations she meets wedding-florist Luce and unexpectedly falls in love with her and discovers what having love feelings for another woman is like.