TIGLFF 34 - St. Petersburg, FL
Lesbian
Paris Is Burning
Screen Door: An Ybor City Microcinema 1624 E 7th Ave #228, Tampa, FL, United StatesA chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
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.
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.
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…
Jess Plus None
AMC West Shore - Theatre 7 210 Westshore Plaza, Tampa, FL, United StatesLet’s just say it: Jess is a hot mess. She is impulsive, whiney, and completely self-absorbed. That she is the maid of honor for her best friend is like an afterthought to Jess’ preoccupation with her recent breakup. The wedding is literally in the woods and a reunion of sorts for college friends and partners.
It’s Only Life After All
AMC West Shore - Theatre 7 210 Westshore Plaza, Tampa, FL, United States“Fans want to know what is personal,” says Emily Saliers. And, in spite of her admitted discomfort with the personal, Saliers and Amy Ray, the iconic Indigo Girls, go there in this acclaimed documentary by filmmaker Alexandria Bombach (On Her Shoulders).
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.
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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Rivière
Green Light Cinema 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg, FL, United StatesSeventeen-year-old Manon leaves the Swiss mountains to head out in search of her father, who is nowhere to be found. As she forms new bonds and encounters her first love , she is determined to follow the path she has set herself on the ice: to become a professional hockey player.
SPONSORED BY: St. Pete Clearwater Film Commission
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.
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.