November 8,9,10    2024

Tickets for each Time Block are $12

Ticket Package for a Weekend Pass (all Time Blocks) are $56

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Call 513-241-6550  (press #1 for the ticket staff)
tickets also available at the door
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General Admission seating

 

 

Friday Nov 8th. Opening Night

7:30 PM

 

- One Story At A Time: Celeste Lecesne

   Director: Eva Tenuto & Natalia lyudin

   10 minutes     USA

In this docu-short, Celeste Lecesne candidly shares how he not only escaped the confines of homophobia but combatted it by finding the courage to share his truth. We see how an off-broadway solo-show becomes an Academy Award-winning film that ultimately inspires The Trevor Project, the largest suicide preventionlifeline for LGBTQIA+ youth. Now, 25 years later, countless lives have been saved and Celeste stays the course, inspiring the next generation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Booked

  Director:  Cassie Maurer       

  75 minutes     USA

Produced in Cincinnati, BOOKED is the hilarious feature-length comedy about two high school theatre geeks who are snubbed for the leads in their senior year musical performance. To prove their worth in the eyes of their dismissive and invalidating classmates and teacher, they audition for top college BFA Musical Theatre programs to prove they have what it takes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Saturday Nov 9th

1 PM (Shorts, Shorts, and More Shorts)

 

-Trans Heaven, Pennsylvania

  Director: Hansen Bursic     

  12 minutes    USA

In the 1970s and 1980s, the small Pennsylvania town of New Hope was among a few safe havens outside of major cities for gay men to find community. Over 30 years later, the town’s legacy remained, but now for a different community: transgender women.

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Emerald City

  Director: Josef Steiff    

  21 minutes    USA

Two young men cross paths on the back roads of the American Southwest and despite their different backgrounds, find common ground along the Border.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Maurice’s Bar

  Dirs: Tzor Edery & Tom Prezman    

   15 minutes     France

 

In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen remembers a night from her past in one of Paris’ first queer bars. Remnants of customer gossip recall this mythic bar and its mysterious Jewish-Algerian owner.

 

 

 

 

-Lee Baby

 Director: Leah Raidt    

 13 minutes    USA

Lee, a trans man, and his wife Charlie are smack dab in the middle of creating a family. Insecurities, hormone imbalances, loss of bodily autonomy, and the exhaustion of new parenthood test the limits of this resilient queer couple. 

 

 

 

 

 

-If

 Director: Tathagata Ghosh    

 25 mins  India

An arranged marriage tears a lesbian couple apart, but with a mother’s love, perhaps another future is possible.

 

 

 

 

 

-Here on Earth

 Director: Katie Neuhof    

 16 minutes    USA

When a writing gig goes more successful than expected, a young writer has to choose between the life he wants and the life he's been told he's supposed to have.

 

 

 

 

 

-Safety State

 Dir: Jeanette L Buck   

 15 minutes     USA

In the dystopian near future, a gay and a lesbian couple form an unlikely friendship as they flee the midwest for safety in New England. As rights are being rolled back and travel bans are going into effect, Two couples decide to leave their home in Ohio and travel East to a safety state where it is safe and legal to be queer.

 

 

 

 

 

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Saturday Nov 9th

3:30 PM

 

-Asian Bitches Speak

 Director: Janet Chen Ma    

 16 mins    USA

After generations of cultural silence, years of pandemic anxiety, and one anti-Asian hate crime, queer filmmaker Janet takes her retired single mom Diana on a mental health discovery road trip. Along the way, they spill the tea about their own family history, and start the journey to healing.

 

 

 

 

 

-An Unexpected Community

 Director: Kathryn L. Beranich.    

 70 mins  USA

In the early days of the pandemic, Andrea Meyerson, founder of Women On A Roll, launched an online platform for lesbians and queer women. She called it Women On The Net. Five nights a week, Meyerson provided a place for women all over the world to gather and share a wide range of entertaining programming. Feelings of isolation and loneliness were replaced with joy, laughter, and new friends - all via Zoom. An Unexpected Community captures the magic these women shared during one of the most challenging events in our lifetime. Featuring: Lily Tomlin, Kate Clinton, Meredith Baxter, Vickie Shaw, Suzanne Westenhoefer and more!

 

 

 

 

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Saturday Nov 9th

5:30 PM

 

-Sister Wives

 Dir: Louisa Connolly-Burnham       

  28 minutes     United Kingdom

Sister Wives is a multi-layered love story that tells the tale of young women living in a strict, fundamentalist, polygamous society in 2003 Utah. Kaidence and Galilee find themselves bound to one another, under the same roof, in the same marriage, as they develop scary, new, exciting feelings for each other. In a harsh, regressive, watchful community where being queer is considered a cardinal sin, they begin having thoughts of leaving the only life they have ever known behind.

 

 

 

 

-Last ExMas

  Director: Sarah Rotella    

  90 minutes     USA

The film follows Maggie & Julianne, ex-girlfriends whose bitter breakup led them down different paths until they unexpectedly rekindle the spark during a visit to their hometown for the holidays. Are they meant to be or is it just the magic of the season? Maggie and Julianne will have to navigate their feelings, the gossiping town, and ghosts of exes past to find out!

 

 

 

 

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8:00 PM Saturday Centerpiece Film

 

-Lavender Men

 Director: Lovell Holder     99 minutes    USA

Taffeta, a contemporary queer person of color, summons Abraham Lincoln to perform an elaborate historical fantasia within her own head, only to learn that she can't hide from her own present-day demons in the shadows of someone else's past.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sunday November 10th

2:00 PM

 

-Kuch Sapney Apne
(Dreams Such As Ours)

 Director: Sridhar Rangayan     120 mins  India

Kartik & Aman's relationship is tested when one of them has a fling which leads to a domestic spat. Kartik's parents' relationship breaks apart when Damodar and Vasudha have a tiff. Will these two couples be ever able resolve their differences? Will their relationships stand the test of time? Kuch Sapney Apne is a sensitive heartwarming film about relationships, queer or not, and what happens when relationships are challenged by uncomfortable truths.

Kuch Sapney Apne is a stand-alone sequel to the Hindi feature film 'Evening Shadows', which screened at OutReels Cincinnati in 2018.

 

 

 

 

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Sunday November 10th

4:30 PM

 

-E is For

 Dir: Rebecca Isbill Davis    105 mins    USA

When a Black Queer Non-Binary barista/street medic who just moved back to their southern hometown realizes they’ve connected to an alternate version of themselves in another timeline, it brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “You’re just talking to yourself.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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7:00 PM. Closing Night Film

 

-Regarding Us

 Director: David Beck     98 minutes    USA

Fired from her teaching job at a Catholic school, a transgender woman contemplates suicide until she meets a young girl with two fathers, and they have a profound impact on each other's lives.

“Regarding Us” is a full-length feature that started as a short film, “Back-Up Plan” which screened at OutReels Cincinnati in 2019.