Program 37: Safe Space

Next Generation Series, Shorts Program, Sunday, Oct. 14 / 94 mins

These LGBTQ youth stories are for the young and the not so young alike.

In This Program: Are We Good Parents?, Darío, The Boy Who Wanted To Fly (El niño que quería volar), Something About Alex (Anders), Timmy Slays The Talent Show, Mrs. McCutcheon

Program 38: My Best Friend (Mi mejor amigo)

Martin Deus / Subtitled, Next Generation Series, Narrative Feature, Sunday, Oct. 14 / Argentina / 2018 / 90 mins

Lorenzo is a classic bookworm: quiet, crazy skinny, the last kid to get picked for soccer, his face stuck in the pages of a science fiction novel. But he also has an intensity and a sense of responsibility which goes beyond the typical teenager. Protected by loving parents, Lorenzo seems at peace, if a little lonely, growing up in a small city in Argentina.

Program 39: Cherry Grove Stories

Michael Fisher / ASL Interpreted, Documentary Feature, Sunday, Oct. 14 / USA / 2017 / 77 mins

Fire Island, now famous for being a gay mecca each summer, used to be a quiet unheralded vacation spot. But in the 1950s, a cluster of gay and lesbian owned cottages popped up in the island’s tiny hamlet of Cherry Grove. Soon Cherry Grove would develop into our country’s first gay haven: a place where LGBT people could escape the oppression of day-to-day life and simply be themselves. In Cherry Grove Stories, long-time residents and vacationers tell the tales of one of our very first safe spaces.

Program 40: My Big Gay Italian Wedding (Puoi baciare lo sposo)

Alessandro Genovesi / Subtitled, Narrative Feature, Sunday, Oct. 14 / Italy / 2018 / 86 mins

Antonio is about to get married to his fiance Paulo, the man of his dreams. But first he has to work up the courage to tell his parents that he’s gay. His father doesn’t take the news well, but Mom comes around quickly. She offers her blessing on the upcoming nuptials with three conditions. They must get married in Civita, the picturesque mountaintop village where Antonio’s father is mayor. Then Paolo must get his estranged mother, who disowned him when he came out to her several years earlier, to attend the wedding. Finally, the wedding must be planned by her favorite reality show wedding planner, Enzo Miccio.