AMC Sundial 12
Events at this venue
A Run for More
Frankie Gonzales-Wolfe goes on a personal journey and questions her relationship to her community as she runs for city council in San Antonio, Texas, and attempts to become the first openly elected transgender official in Texas.
Unidentified Objects
A 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.
The Butterfly Queen
Five years ago, best friends Casey and Robin parted ways. Casey wanted to draw cartoons and take over their grandparents’ sheep farm, Robin wanted to leave town and never look back.
Petit Mal
In 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.
Maybe Someday
Jay, 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.
Jeannette
The 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.
Documentary Shorts Program (ReDux – St. Pete)
A series of six documentary shorts.
It Is in Us All
A 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.
Chrissy Judy
When 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.
Glob Lessons – Closing Night Film
Move 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.
Potato Dreams of America
Wes 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.
Invisible: Women in Southern Music
Growing up gay in the South is hard enough, but to be an openly gay woman in country music is nearly impossible. Nashville is a man's town, yet this group of gay women have persevered anyhow.
Ideal Home
Paul (Paul Rudd) and Erasmus (Steve Coogan) are a quintessentially bitchy couple with a rhythm of contempt for each other so rutted in disdain there is an inevitable breaking point. And that’s when the kid shows up. The kid is Erasmus’ 10-year-old grandson and he is street-wise, cynical and predictably, changes everything.
HELLO AGAIN
A 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.
A Little Happiness Shorts (Shorts Program)
Some great comedy shorts.
A Little Drama Shorts (Shorts Program)
Our program of dramatic shorts.
REBELS ON POINTE
Celebrating Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo -- the all male, drag ballet company founded over 40 years ago on the heels of New York's Stonewall riots.
SANTA Y ANDRÉS
The story of an improbable friendship between a revolutionary country girl and a noncompliant gay writer she has to watch over for three consecutive days.
RIFT (Rökkur)
You 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.
SATURDAY CHURCH
A 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.
A DATE FOR MAD MARY
"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.
A MILLION HAPPY NOWS
A 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.
THE UNTOLD TALES OF ARMISTEAD MAUPIN
The documentary celebrates one of the world's most beloved storytellers, following his evolution from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to re-claim their lives.
DATING MY MOTHER
In this festival favorite, the complex relationship between widowed mother and single gay son is explored with comedy and sincerity. Danny is an unemployed screenwriter and has recently moved from LA to stay with his mother Joan.
PRINCESS CYD
Eager 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.
THE FEELS
Andi and Lu are excited to celebrate their upcoming wedding with a joint bachelorette weekend in wine country. On the first night, things get off to a rocky start when one of the brides admits that she's never had an orgasm.
ABU (Father)
Using family archives and animation, Arshad Khan shares a deeply personal story of migration from Pakistan to Canada, self-discovery and familial reconciliation.
TORREY PINES
Based on a true story, the animated film is a queer punk coming-of-age tale, taking place in the early 1990's. Raised by a schizophrenic single mother, Petersen's life story unfolds in a series of baffling and hallucinated events.
UNCLE GLORIA: ONE HELLUVA RIDE!
Uncle Gloria is a darkly funny film full of drama and family fireworks about the macho owner of an auto wrecking company in Florida who goes into hiding from the law as a woman setting off a bizarre journey of self discovery.
ALABAMA BOUND
Alabama Bound explores the roller-coaster ride of being gay in the South over the last decade, following the stories of two lesbian families as they fight for their children and the only openly-gay state legislator in Alabama.
APRICOT GROVES
Aram returns to Armenia for the first time to propose to an Armenian girlfriend Aram met and lived with in the US. Aram sees many cultural, religious, and national differences on the one day trip, but harder obstacles are ahead.
Women Who Kill
Ingrid Jungermann, 2016, USA, 93 minsMetaphor, twisted queer humor, a morbid curiosity, or all of these? Commitment phobic Morgan and her ex-girlfriend Jean, locally famous true crime podcasters, suspect that Morgan’s new love interest is a murderer. Common lesbian relationship dynamics such as living with exes, premature commitment, softball, co-ops, and ignoring one’s friends during…
Bear City 3
Doug Langway, 2016, USA, 117 mins.Sponsored by: Tampa Bay Bears Bears will be bears in this sweet and funny slice of life in the woods. This being the third and final film that we’ve all been waiting for, the trilogy celebrates the lives of big, hairy, ruggedly masculine gay men – and the men who…