Program 01: Princess Cyd

Stephen Cone / Narrative Feature, Special Guests, Friday, Oct. 6 / USA / 2017 / 96 mins

When 16-year-old Cyd (Jessie Pinnick, in what should be a star-making turn) comes to stay with her aunt Miranda (Rebecca Spence) at her Chicago home for the summer, she’s looking for an escape. With a depressed father back at home in South Carolina, Cyd is ready for some time on her own.

Program 02: God’s Own Country

Francis Lee / ASL Interpreted, Narrative Feature, Friday, Oct. 6 / UK / 2017 / 105 mins

As the sole able-bodied man of the house, Johnny Saxby (Josh O’Connor) handles much of the responsibility on the isolated Yorkshire farm where he lives with his grandmother (Gemma Jones) and ailing father, Martin (Ian Hart). It’s not a household prone to outward shows of emotion, and Johnny numbs himself to his stifling existence through drinking and casual sex, when he manages to find time.

Program 04: Tamara

Elia K. Schneider / Subtitled, Narrative Feature, Saturday, Oct. 7 / Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela / 2016 / 114 mins

On December 6, 2015, Tamara Adrian made history by becoming the first transgender person ever to be elected to the Venezuelan National Assembly. Elia K. Schneider directs this intensely sensitive and tightly woven drama depicting the story of Tamara’s journey. Offering an honest and balanced insight, this excellent biopic examines some of the doubts, fears, sacrifices, and decisions that face many trans individuals

Program 06: I Dream in Another Language

Ernesto Contreras / Subtitled, Narrative Feature, Saturday, Oct. 7 / Mexico, Netherlands / 2017 / 103 mins

In this beautifully evocative tale of love and loss, a handsome young linguist named Martín (Fernando Álvarez Rebeil) travels to a remote village in Mexico, hoping to preserve a dying language. To Martín’s knowledge, the elderly Jacinta (Monica Miguel) and Isauro (José Manuel Poncelis) are the sole remaining locals to speak the ancient dialect known as Zikril. But he soon learns of a third person fluent in the language: the ill-tempered Evaristo (Eligio Meléndez).

Program 08: Signature Move

Jennifer Reeder / Subtitled, Narrative Feature, Saturday, Oct. 7 / USA / 2017 / 80 mins

Giving a fresh spin on the usual romantic love story, Signature Move follows Zaynab (co-writer Fawzia Mirza), a Pakistani lesbian lawyer (say that three times fast!) living in Chicago with her aging mother, Parveen (Shabana Azmi). Their relationship is very superficial. They talk and cohabitate, but Zaynab doesn’t talk about who she really is with her mother, mostly because her mother is a traditional Pakistani woman who still expects her to marry a man, going so far as to scan the street for potential suitors ... with binoculars while sitting in her living room.

Preceded by: Happenstance

Program 09: Beach Rats

Eliza Hittman / ASL Interpreted, Narrative Feature, Saturday, Oct. 7 / USA / 2017 / 95 mins

An intimate and intoxicating coming-of-age tale, Beach Rats is about the sometimes reckless stops we make on the path toward self-discovery. It’s this desperate journey that has 19-year-old Brooklynite Frankie choosing to lead a double life.

Program 10: Extra Terrestrials

Carla Cavina / Subtitled, Narrative Feature, Saturday, Oct. 7 / Puerto Rico, Venezuela / 2017 / 110 mins

The Diaz family is well known in Puerto Rico. A leader in the business of poultry farming, it’s run with an iron fist by Arcadio, the conservative and authoritative patriarch. But between new government regulations and some underhanded moves by the competition, Arcadio’s business is facing trouble.

Program 11: Tom of Finland

Dome Karukoski / ASL Interpreted, Subtitled, Spotlight Feature, Narrative Feature, Saturday, Oct. 7 / Finland / 2017 / 115 mins

Is there any example of queer art more iconic than the beefy biker studs, moustachioed police officers, and randy cowpokes of Touko Laaksonen? Better known by his nom de “peen” Tom of Finland, the influential artist is now the subject of this crowd-pleasing biopic, following the life of the man responsible for images that have fueled generations of gay men’s filthy fantasies.

Program 13: Like Foam

Roberto Pérez Toledo / Subtitled, Narrative Feature, Sunday, Oct. 8 / Spain / 2016 / 93 mins

Desperate times require desperate measures. When Gus attempts to cheer up his friend Milo on his birthday, it goes disastrously wrong. Milo has been confined to a wheelchair following an accident, and Gus’s attempt to reintroduce him to the gay club scene backfires horribly, making Milo even more bitter than ever.

Program 16: The Ring Thing

William Sullivan / Narrative Feature, Sunday, Oct. 8 / USA / 2017 / 120 mins

Sarah (Sarah Wharton), a documentary filmmaker, is going through her divorced parents’ things when she finds her mother’s old wedding ring. On the beach in Provincetown, she pulls it out of her pocket to show her girlfriend, Kristen (Nicole Pursell), who mistakenly thinks Sarah is proposing. Whoops. So begins The Ring Thing, an interesting amalgamation of documentary interviews and the narrative story of Sarah and Kristen (you may remember both actresses from That’s Not Us, ImageOut 2015).