Program 12: The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

David France / Next Generation Series, Documentary Feature, Sunday, Oct. 8 / USA / 2017 / 105 mins

On July 6, 1992, Marsha P. Johnson’s body was discovered in the Hudson River near Christopher Street. Police quickly closed the case, ruling her death a suicide, but those closest to her said she would never have taken her own life. So what really happened? That’s what Victoria Cruz hopes to find out.

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 14: Speak Your Truth

Kris Erickson / Documentary Feature, Special Guests, Sunday, Oct. 8 / USA / 2017 / 84 mins

The average lesbian coming-out stories tend to look very similar: we were in our teens or maybe our early twenties. We fell for our best friend or had a crush on a teacher. We had to tell our parents. Our best friends. Our siblings. We’d felt that way for a long time, time, but finally decided to act on it and be who we are.

Preceded by: A Circle of Diamonds

Program 15: Hello and Goodbye

Shorts Program, Special Guests, Sunday, Oct. 8 / 96 mins

These dramatic shorts show the rollercoaster of emotions that comes with connecting with another person.

In This Program: Please Hold, TommyTeen18, Marz, Sunset, Visitor, Scar Tissue, Sisak

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).

Program 17: Alaska is a Drag

Shaz Bennett / Narrative Feature, Sunday, Oct. 8 / USA / 2017 / 83 mins

Alaska is a Drag takes us to an outlying fishing village in Alaska where Leo (Martin L. Washington), a hot, young aspiring drag queen with some super smooth moves and a captivating smile, dreams of stardom. The only problem is that he’s stuck working in a cannery and is conspicuously gay in a world where being different is hardly a virtue.

Program 18: Screwed

Nils-Erik Ekblom / Subtitled, Narrative Feature, Sunday, Oct. 8 / Finland / 2017 / 97 mins

Seventeen-year-old Miku is about to embark on a dreadfully dull summer. With his parents away at the family cottage, Miku’s older brother Sebu has blitzed into town just long enough to destroy the house with an epic party. But when Sebu disappears and leaves Miku to take the fall for the rager, their parents force Miku to return to the cottage with them for the rest of the summer. Mom is so angry that not only does she take Miku’s phone away, she throws it into traffic. Now Miku is sequestered at the cottage with a very angry mother, a narcoleptic father, and no phone. Miku is screwed... but everything changes when attractive neighbor boy Elias boats into his life.

Program 19: Bad Girl

Fin Edquist / ImageOut There! Series, Narrative Feature, Sunday, Oct. 8 / Australia / 2016 / 87 mins

This taut thriller will have you on the edge of your seat, heart racing and holding your breath as you take in its unexpected twists and reversals of fortune. Sara West (Ash vs. Evil Dead) stars as the self-professed bad girl Amy Anderson, a teen whose drug use and rebellious acting out have previously landed her in a youth corrections facility. Amy’s adoptive parents (Felicity Price and Benjamin Winspear) have moved from the city to a model home in rural Australia in hopes of keeping Amy clean. All this is much to Amy’s displeasure, but unbeknownst to them, she’s already made plans to run away. When those plans fall apart, local girl Chloe (Samara Weaving) literally pulls her off a bridge railing, and the two become nearly inseparable.