Program 16: Chedeng and Apple

Rae Red and Fatrick Tabada / Subtitled, Narrative Feature, Sunday, Oct. 7 / Philippines / 2017 / 87 mins

Chedeng (Gloria Diaz) has spent her life being a good woman: a good wife, a good mother, everything that was expected of her. But in the wake of her husband’s death, she decides it’s time to do something just for her: come out of the closet and go in search of the ex-girlfriend she hurt decades ago. It’s a big deal, to be sure, but just as she’s ready to head out, she gets a panicked phone call from her best friend Apple (Elizabeth Oropesa).

Program 17: Retablo

Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio L. / Subtitled, Narrative Feature, Sunday, Oct. 7 / Germany, Norway, Peru / 2017 / 101 mins

Taking its name from the intricate, handmade altarpieces created by its protagonists, Retablo is a beautiful, heartfelt story of love and redemption.

Program 18: Eva + Candela (¿Cómo te llamas?)

Ruth Caudeli / Subtitled, Narrative Feature, Sunday, Oct. 7 / Colombia / 2018 / 84 mins

Eva + Candela (also known by the title, What’s Your Name?) takes us on an amazing journey through the inception, rise, decline, and fall of a lesbian relationship. It’s beautiful, sexy, heart-wrenching and most of all, utterly relatable.

Precedes: Eva – Candela (Eva menos Candela)

Program 19: Cola de Mono

Alberto Fuguet / Subtitled, ImageOut There! Series, Narrative Feature, Sunday, Oct. 7 / Chile / 2018 / 102 mins

For many, Christmas Eve is full of warm family gatherings and joyful festivities. But for Borja and his older brother Vicente, Christmas Eve 1986 would instead be an indelible night of life-changing sexual discovery.

Program 21: A Moment In The Reeds

Mikko Makela / ASL Interpreted, Subtitled, Narrative Feature, Monday, Oct. 8 / Finland, UK / 2017 / 104 mins

Returning home to Finland after studying literature at grad school in Paris, Leevi finds himself back in a country he was more than happy to leave behind. But he’s agreed to help with renovations on his family’s lakeside cottage before his father Juoko (Mika Melender) prepares to sell it. Knowing Leevi’s not much for manual labor, his father has taken the liberty of hiring some additional help.

Program 22: 1985

Yen Tan / ASL Interpreted, Narrative Feature, Tuesday, Oct. 9 / USA / 2018 / 85 mins

Adrian, a gay man in his twenties, is returning home to spend Christmas 1985 with his family in Fort Worth, Texas. He lives openly in New York, but is not out to anyone back home, making the time spent with his ultra-conservative family particularly onerous.

Program 23: Good Manners (As boas maneiras)

Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas / Subtitled, ImageOut There! Series, Narrative Feature, Tuesday, Oct. 9 / Brazil, France / 2017 / 135 mins

There’s often at least a hint of horror to the most enduring fairy tales. They captivate and entertain us, luring us with fantastical and outlandish stories before digging into questions of real-world morality. It’s much the same with the atmospheric fable Good Manners, a haunting tale of love and motherhood that delicately weaves in themes of race, class, and social inequality.

Program 24: Buddies

Arthur J. Bressan Jr. / Narrative Feature, Tuesday, Oct. 9 / USA / 1985 / 81 mins

David is a 25-year-old gay man from New York City. He loves his job and his boyfriend, Steve. His parents accepted him when he came out. But as a terrifying new disease begins to ravage New York’s gay community, David feels he has to help in whatever way he can. He volunteers through the Gay Center to be a “buddy” to an AIDS patient.

Program 25: Riot

Jeffrey Walker / ASL Interpreted, Narrative Feature, Wednesday, Oct. 10 / Australia / 2018 / 105 mins

As many people know, the modern gay pride parade has its roots in protest marches of the 1970s. Throughout the 70s, the queer community in cities around the world would hold solidarity marches to mark the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. These marches only started becoming festive events after the community in Sydney, Australia decided to turn their march into a “gay Mardi Gras” in 1978. But what most people don’t know is the incredible price this first group of revelers would have to pay. Riot is their story.

Program 26: Mapplethorpe

Ondi Timoner / ASL Interpreted, Narrative Feature, Wednesday, Oct. 10 / USA / 2018 / 102 mins

Anchored by a brilliant performance from Matt Smith (Doctor Who and The Crown), Mapplethorpe chronicles the life of iconoclastic queer artist Robert Mapplethorpe through the height of his career, sadly cut short by his death from AIDS-related complications in 1989 at the age of 42.