TIGLFF 34 - St. Petersburg, FL
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THE CONSTITUTION (Ustav Republike Hrvatske)
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesThe story follows four people who live in the same building, but avoid each other because of the differences in their assets, sexual habits, nationality and religion.
AFTER LOUIE
Empath Partners in Care 3050 1st Ave S, St. Petersburg, FLAfter Louie explores the contradictions of modern gay life and history through Sam, a man desperate to understand how he and his community got to where they are today.
4 DAYS IN FRANCE (Jours de France)
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesPierre leaves the Parisian home that he shares with his lover Paul and leaves on a seemingly endless road-trip, guided only by Grindr hook-ups and bathroom stall phone numbers.
SCREWED (Pihalla)
Screwed (orig. Pihalla) is a Finnish drama film, where seventeen year old’s Miku and Elias find themselves and each other during a summer in the Finnish countryside. Love is not as easy as it seems.
PRINCESS CYD
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesEager to escape life with her depressive single father, 16-year-old athlete Cyd Loughlin visits her novelist aunt in Chicago over the summer. While there, she falls for a girl in the neighborhood, even as she and her aunt gently challenge each other in the realms of sex and spirit.
CLOSE KNIT (Karera ga honki de amu toki wa)
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesAfter being neglected by her mother, a little girl is taken in by her uncle and his transgender girlfriend, who create a loving home for her.
A MILLION HAPPY NOWS
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesA veteran soap opera star retires to a beach house with her publicist and partner, but her Early Onset Alzheimer's will strain the couple's relationship until they find the strength to redefine themselves and what they mean to one another.
A DATE FOR MAD MARY
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United States"Mad" Mary McArdle is released from prison and tries to reconnect with friends in Drogheda. Her best friend Charlene is getting married and Mary seeks a date to bring to her wedding.
SATURDAY CHURCH
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesA 14 year-old-boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.
RIFT (Rökkur)
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesYou know when you get a bad feeling and you just can’t explain it? You feel that something is just not quite right and you can’t shake the bad feeling. Gunnard is getting that feeling, big time. His ex-boyfriend cryptically calls in the middle of the night from a remote cabin.
SANTA Y ANDRÉS
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesThe story of an improbable friendship between a revolutionary country girl and a noncompliant gay writer she has to watch over for three consecutive days.
JUST CHARLIE (Queer Youth Celebration! – FREE!)
Tampa Museum of Art 120 W. Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa, FL, United StatesA teen football star who is being courted by a top club is torn between wanting to live up to his father's expectations or shedding his ill-fitting skin.
A Little Drama Shorts (Shorts Program)
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesOur program of dramatic shorts.
HELLO AGAIN
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesA musical ode to love and lust. Ten lost souls slip in and out of one another's arms in a daisy-chained exploration of love's bittersweet embrace.
At The End of The Day
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesAfter losing his wife and counseling practice, the only thing Dave Hopper has going for him is a part-time professorship at his alma mater, a growing Christian college in Lakeland, Florida. The college’s plans for growth hit a snag when the property they plan to develop has been promised to a gay support group that intends to open a LGBTQ homeless youth shelter.
Drama In Your Shorts
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesJoin us for a collection of seven short films that celebrate queer and trans people of diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Riot
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesIn 1978, when the push to decriminalize homosexuality in Australia stalled, a group of activists decide they must make one final attempt to celebrate who they are. They get a police permit, spread the word.and on a freezing winter's night, cloak themselves in fancy dress, join hands, and parade down oxford street. But they have no idea what is to come and that the courage they find that night will finally mobilize the nation..
Reinventing Marvin (Marvin ou la belle éducation)
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesMarvin Bijou is sensitive, creative boy living in, what he will later in life identify as, exile. He knows at a young age that he is gay and that he is completely alone when facing the sexual and physical abuse of bullies and the oppressive ignorance of his family.
Good Manners (As boas maneiras)
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United Stateslara is poor, Black, and so desperate for work that she takes a demeaning job working for what appears to be (at least on the surface) an entitled, self-absorbed wealthy, pregnant white woman. Make no mistake – nothing in this story is what it appears to be.
Mario
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesWhy should a talented young man choose between his lifetime dream and the first love of his life? Mario has been working and dreaming toward a career as a professional soccer player. He was well on his way when Leon walked into his life.
Mapplethorpe – NARRATIVE CENTERPIECE
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesPatti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe are not Ricky and Lucy – as Patti so eloquently muses. Celebrated documentarian Ondi Timoner’s first scripted narrative film peeks into her version of one of the most controversial artists of our time.
Postcards From London
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesThis highly stylized visual feast follows Jim (Harris Dickinson of Beach Rats fame) as he moves away from his family home in Essex to follow his artistic dreams in London. Upon arriving in Soho, Jim encounters a group of high-class male escorts, the Raconteurs, whose specialty is post-coital intelligent conversation.
Sorry, Angel (Plaire, Aimer et Courir Vite)
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesChristophe Honoré’s (Love Songs) skillfully crafted and thoroughly engaging new effort is a time capsule back 25 years to when AIDS was on the mind of every gay man and cruising in parks and theaters was in vogue .Novelist Jacques lives downstairs from friend Mathieu who sometimes cares for Jacques’ young son Loulou.
White Rabbit
freeFall Theatre 6099 Central Ave, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesRecently single, Korean-born LA artist Sophia Lee devotes herself to her public performance art, whether it’s a provocative Korean perspective on the LA Riots at a park or supermarket, or quirky digital art on social media. Meanwhile, when a stranger makes Sophia late for a TaskRabbit gig, she loses her temper, only to run into her repeatedly and discover a strong connection.
This is Not Berlin (Esto no es Berlín)
Metro Wellness and Community Center 3251 3rd Ave N, St Petersburg, FL, United StatesIn high school Carlos is an outsider who likes unpopular music and building robotic sculptures. But one night when he gains entrance to the unique El Azteca nightclub in Mexico City, he suddenly finds himself to be at home among a crowd of outsiders.
Something to Cry About: Drama In Your Shorts
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesJoin us for a collection of eight dramatic short films that celebrate queer people of diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Last Ferry
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesA young lawyer is looking for love on Fire Island. As he explores what little there is to do during the “off-season,” he is drugged, mugged, and witnesses a murder. When a handsome stranger comes to his aid, Joseph believes his luck is changing.
Billie and Emma
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesBillie and Emma are sent to a Catholic high school for very different reasons. Set in the Philippines of the mid-1990’s, Billie is banished by her city parents to get her away from her girlfriend. Emma is brilliant, overachieving, popular, and on course for a bright future.
More Beautiful For Having Been Broken
Metro Wellness and Community Center 3251 3rd Ave N, St Petersburg, FL, United StatesDevoted FBI Agent McKenzie “Max” De Ridder has recently lost her mother. In the wake of grief, she forms a bond with a young boy with special needs and an unexpected - and at first tense, then loving - relationship with his mother.
Paradise Hills
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesIn this futuristic fairy tale, Uma (Emma Roberts) wakes up in a rose- and tulle-filled boarding school for wayward young women, whose families pay big bucks for their daughters to emerge perfect. With the love and support of the women in this beautiful prison, she must find a way to escape, or risk being erased.
The Ground Beneath my Feet (Der Boden unter den Füßen)
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesLola is a jet-setting overachiever in a cutthroat corporate environment. She keeps both her relationship with her boss, Elise, and the existence of an older sister, Conny, a secret. But when she receives the news that Conny has attempted suicide, Lola's secrets threaten to explode into the open.
Kattumaram
Metro Wellness and Community Center 3251 3rd Ave N, St Petersburg, FL, United StatesAnandhi understands loss. Her parents and relatives perished into the waves of a Tsunami off the coast of India. Her Uncle Singaram feels the loss even deeper, as he is the only one left to look after Anandhi, with all the tenderness and the hand wringing of an anxious father.
Clementine
Metro Wellness and Community Center 3251 3rd Ave N, St Petersburg, FL, United StatesHeartbroken Karen becomes unwittingly entangled with the younger Lana after breaking into her ex's lake house on a bender of passion and without much forethought. She comes to find that Lana is a loose cannon, and with a little weed and nothing better to do, the women grow a friendship that might be another bad idea.
History Lessons (Shorts)
Metro Wellness and Community Center 3251 3rd Ave N, St Petersburg, FL, United StatesJoin us for a collection of six short films that celebrate the history of queer people from long before Stonewall to the present day.
Knives and Skin
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesCarolyn, Joanna, Laurel, and Charlotte are your average teenage girls in rural Ohio: they front afro punk bands, make out with fellow cheerleaders in the woods, and deal with unstable parents. But when Carolyn disappears one night, the town must come together to investigate this unimaginable trauma.
End of the Century (Fin de siglo)
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesTime bends in this sexy film about the chance meetings of two scruffy, handsome men. Ocho meets Javi while vacationing in Barcelona. The electricity between them is immediate.
TIGLFF: Next Scene – FREE!
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesA new initiative to offer viewing and filmmaking experiences to our younger audience members who live their lives online and stream On Demand. We are offering opportunities for these young filmmakers, activists, and audience members.
A Dog Barking At The Moon
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesXiaoyu returns to China with her American husband in tow to visit her parents, whose relationship is as dysfunctional as ever. Her father's homosexuality set off a domestic earthquake many years ago, with aftershocks extending to the present as the family still struggles to maintain their integrity.
And Then We Danced
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesMerab has been dancing since he was ten. He aspires to make the National Ballet and he feels confident, until Irakli shows up. Irakli is strong, handsome, and confident in the way someone can be when they have always been better than everyone else.
PORT AUTHORITY
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEThe NYC Port Authority is a mecca dedicated to getting people where they need to go but when Paul, a young Midwestern probation dodger with a damaged past and a chip on his shoulder, first arrives here - he’s got nowhere to go. His desperate search for a sense of belonging finds him reluctantly working for crooked movers who prey on the poor.
SHORTS PROGRAM #3: MIXED SIGNALS
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEThese sly and sardonic shorts prove that technology can’t improve our relationships when it comes to the confusion spawned by human flaws in communication
SHORTS PROGRAM #1: RITES OF PASSAGE
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEFrom birthdays and bat mitzvahs to prom dates and expiration dates, this bittersweet program celebrates those special occasions that leave indelible impressions on a life’s journey from adolescence to adulthood
SHORTS PROGRAM #2: WILDEST DREAMS
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEOh the places you’ll go… with these sexy, sensual, surreal, and silly journeys into the subconscious.
A SKELETON IN THE CLOSET (TODOS TENEMOS UN MUERTO EN EL PLACARD O UN HIJO EN EL CLOSET)
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEPeak inside a playfully loving family and their coming out, coming-of-age, and coming around discoveries as they unravel their long-held layers of prejudice and pride.
YOUNG HUNTER (EL CAZADOR)
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEA horny teen left alone by vacationing parents may have a familiar ring but this film’s intimate treatment of a gay boy’s early sexual explorations is far more original with its mystery and mayhem mix of thriller and coming-of-age story.
DRAMARAMA
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEIn this bittersweetly nostalgic drama-rama-com set in 1994, pop-culture references and witty wordplay are as plentiful as clues in a mystery novel when five high school theater friends dress up in costumes for one final murder mystery party before they leave for college.
BREAKING FAST
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINECocooned in strict Muslim beliefs about family, faith, and food, Mo – an adorably shy gay doctor in postbreak-up mode – cautiously expands his comfort zone during Ramadan to connect with Kal, an All-American gay actor who happens to speak Arabic and make great mloukieh (jute stew).
STAGE MOTHER
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEStage Mother delivers the ultimate wish-fulfillment fantasy for any misfit who longs for their parent’s unconditional approval. This feel-good, laugh-out-loud, sing-along comedy proves that it is never too late to change your mind, change your views, and change your life.
SHORTS PROGRAM #4: DESPERATE MEASURES
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEWhen up against formidable odds, these truth-seekers discover that the ultimate battle is waged within their own minds and, to win a sense of peace, they must out-maneuver themselves.
SHORTS PROGRAM #5: IDENTITY CRISIS
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEIt’s not me…it’s YOU. These perceptive shorts show that sometimes the only identity crisis that’s going on is the one that’s happening in someone else’s judgmental mind.
MINYAN
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINESet in the Russian-Jewish enclave of Brighton Beach during the 1980’s, this contemplative coming-of-age/ coming-out story follows the soul-searching journey of David, a closeted gay Yeshiva student who moves in with his grandfather in a Jewish religious center.
GIVE OR TAKE
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEWhen a disillusioned New Yorker’s father dies, he goes home to Cape Cod and prepares the house for sale while sharing it with his father’s temperamental live-in boyfriend. Grieving, they circle each other, butt heads, and are forced to negotiate how to remember the man they both loved.
ALICE JÚNIOR
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEIn this uber hip, pop culture film laced with electrifying emojis, the stunningly gorgeous Anna Celestino Mota stars as Alice Junior - a high octane social influencer and Teen Top Model trans girl – who panics when she finds she must move to the Brazilian hinterlands to attend a Catholic school.
FIRST BLUSH
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEWhen a young married couple becomes involved with another woman, they learn to navigate the emotional intricacies of a polyamorous relationship in this tenderly told, relatable story about the pursuit of love.
UNSOUND
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEThere’s a silent synchronicity on the screen when Noah, a disillusioned musician, returns home to Australia for some soul searching and falls for Finn, a deaf trans DJ.
TWO OF US (DEUX)
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINETender lesbian love story. Edge-of-your-seat thriller. Wickedly amusing dark comedy. Director Filippo Meneghetti delicately blends disparate genres in a grippingly unique tale about “open-door policy” neighbors.
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.
Jump, Darling
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesScreen legend Cloris Leachman gives a masterful final starring performance in this bittersweet family drama as an old woman in rural Prince Edward County, Ontario whose mental and physical decline means she may soon be moved to a nursing home.
The Novice
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesThis darkly thrilling sports drama about a queer college student climbing the ranks of her university’s rowing team is based on director Lauren Hadaway’s own experiences as a competitive collegiate rower.
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.
Firebird
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesBased on the late Sergey Fetisov’s memoir “The Story of Roman,” this romantic drama tells the story of star-crossed lovers who have the supreme misfortune of falling into a relationship during the height of the Cold War in the Soviet Union, where someone is always looking over your shoulder and sexual relations between two men is punished with five years’ hard labor.
Sugar and Spice – Shorts Program
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEA series of womens' shorts.
It’s A Queer World After All…Shorts Program
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEA series of international shorts.
Snips and Snails – Shorts Program
TIGLFF SCREENING ROOM-ONLINEA series of mens' 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.
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Thanks to Her
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesThanks to Her is a film that focuses on the self, sexuality, and how that plays out in one's community.
Lonesome
Tampa Theatre 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL, United StatesFleeing a mysterious drama in his hometown, a country boy nearly loses himself in the easy sex and pervasive loneliness of the big city in this erotic and dark-hued drama from Craig Boreham.
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 feelings and a love story that may not have come to an end yet. Aura Guy Hodgkinson, 2022, United Kingdom, 10 min When given an…
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.
It Is in Us All
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesA Londoner returns to his ancestral homeland of Donegal in the west of Ireland and is drawn in by a teenage boy who almost kills him in a car crash.
Jeannette
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesThe film begins in the aftermath of the Pulse nightclub massacre and follows Jeannette as she recovers, backslides, and eventually finds support and healing through community.
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.
Petit Mal
AMC Sundial 12 151 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesIn director Ruth Caudeli's latest collaborative chronicle of queer life, three charismatic women living in an intimate, passionate partnership must learn to navigate the shift in their dynamic when one lover is called away for a long-term project.
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.
Desert Hearts
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesWhile waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed professor of literature is unexpectedly seduced by a carefree, spirited young lesbian.
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.
Lianna
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesA happily married woman comes to realize herself of being a repressed lesbian after she has an affair with a female college professor, and then tries to come to terms with her newfound lifestyle.
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.
When Night Is Falling
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesAn uptight conservative literacy professor at an urban university finds herself attracted to a free-spirited liberal woman who works at a carnival that comes to town.
Our Son
AMC West Shore - Theatre 7 210 Westshore Plaza, Tampa, FL, United StatesFeaturing great lead performances by two talented gay actors, Our Son is an absorbing exploration of parenthood and family. Gabriel (Pose’s Billy Porter) and Nicky (Beauty and the Beast’s Luke Evans) share a life in a spacious city apartment with their sweet 7 year old son, Owen (Christopher Woodly). Nicky works long hours while Gabriel stays home to care for Owen.
Afternoon Delights Shorts
AMC West Shore - Theatre 7 210 Westshore Plaza, Tampa, FL, United StatesA series of short films.
Lie With Me (Arrête avec tes mensonges)
AMC West Shore - Theatre 8 210 Westshore Plaza, Tampa, FL, United StatesBased on the bestselling French novel, Lie With Me is a story about lost love and the importance of being true to yourself. Established author Stéphane Belacourt (Guillaume de Tonquédec) returns to his beautiful hometown to promote a renowned local cognac distillery and deliver a keynote speech.
All the Colours of the World are Between Black and White
AMC West Shore - Theatre 8 210 Westshore Plaza, Tampa, FL, United StatesAs the title of this debut film suggests, those who are willing to see beyond their own rigid black and white points of view, are able to see a full spectrum of vibrant colors, nuances, and complexity. When Bambino, a salt of the earth delivery driver in Lagos, meets aspiring photographer, Bawa, the two men form an instant intimacy.
The Lost Boys (Le Paradis)
AMC West Shore - Theatre 7 210 Westshore Plaza, Tampa, FL, United StatesFeaturing an invigorating original score by Bachar Mar-Khalife and engaging performances, Lost Boys boldly explores ideas of freedom, the human need for love, and the ever-lingering effects that experiences in the juvenile detention system have on young people.
Jewelle: A Just Vision/Swimming in the Dark
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesDorothy Allison (Bastard Out of Carolina,) says of Jewell Gomez’s The Gilda Stories, “Why hadn’t it occurred to anybody that the perfect vampire would be a Black Lesbian?” Why, indeed! After graduating from Columbia School of Journalism Jewelle started writing poetry and plays. Screening with Swimming in the Dark.
Barrio Boy
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesBarrio Boy is a coming of age story with an edge and with heart. Quique is surrounded by machismo at the Nuyorican barber shop where he cuts hair. One summer day while playing ball with his coworkers, he has a chance encounter with an Irish stranger.
Golden Delicious
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesEveryone wants something from high school senior Jake: his father is pushing him to try out for the basketball team—an abandoned dream of his own—and his girlfriend wants to take their relationship to the next level. But it’s not until Aleks, an openly gay teen with a love for basketball, moves in across the street that Jake begins to struggle with his own desires.
Mutt
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesMutt follows Feña (Lio Mehiel) through a stress-filled New York City day, as he anticipates his estranged Chilean father’s visit. In his feature debut, Vuk Lugulov-Klotz, who is also trans, builds the story by consistently adding unfair burdens onto Feña’s shoulders.
The Venus Effect
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesLiv is in her early twenties. She works at her family’s garden center in the province. Totally unprepared, she falls in love with the chaotic but spirited Andrea. Andrea has sought refuge at her uncle’s idyllic apple plantation because of stress.
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Norwegian Dream
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesSet against the majestic beauty of the Norwegian Island of Sotra, immigrant and newly hired 19-year-old Robert (Hubert Milkowski) navigates the racist and homophobic world of the fish factory camaraderie against the undeniable intrigue for his mentor, Ivar (Karl Bekele Steinland). Both men are young, beautiful, and quietly raging...
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Lie With Me
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesBased on the bestselling French novel, Lie With Me is a story about lost love and the importance of being true to yourself. Established author Stéphane Belacourt (Guillaume de Tonquédec) returns to his beautiful hometown to promote a renowned local cognac distillery and deliver a keynote speech.
SPONSORED BY: Love the Golden Rule
Moonlight
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesThree time periods - young adolescence, mid-teen and young adult - in the life of black-American Chiron is presented.
Moonlight
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesThree time periods - young adolescence, mid-teen and young adult - in the life of black-American Chiron is presented.
I Can’t Think Straight
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesTala, a London-based Jordanian of Palestinian origin prepares for an elaborate wedding with her Jordanian fiancé, when she encounters Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend Ali. Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla could not be more different from each other but the attraction is immediate.
Love Lies Bleeding
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesLou is a reclusive gym manager who falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder who's heading to Las Vegas to pursue her dream. Their love soon leads to violence as they get pulled deep into the web of Lou's criminal family.