LV LGBTQ+ Film Series

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June 1, 7:00 p.m. - Desert Hearts with Director Donna Deitch

Located at Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas
1hr 36mins Rated R

Donna Deitch’s swooning and sensual first film, Desert Hearts, was groundbreaking upon its 1986 release: a love story about two women, produced and directed by a woman. In the 1959-set film, an adaptation of a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno to file for divorce, but winds up catching the eye of someone new, the younger free spirit Cay (Patricia Charbonneau), touching off a slow seduction that unfolds against the breathtaking desert landscape. With smoldering chemistry between its two leads, an evocative jukebox soundtrack, and vivid cinematography by Robert Elswit, Desert Hearts beautifully exudes a sense of tender yearning and emotional candor.

This screening will be followed by a live Q&A/talkback with the film's director Donna Deitch.

For more information, visit the SteelStacks film page

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July 8, 3:00-5:00 p.m. - Flee

Located at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center
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Flee by Jonas Poher Rasmussen 2021 -  Documentary, Animation, Biography, Afghanistan, Refugee, Gay

1hr 29mins Rated PG-13

Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner FLEE tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. Recounted mostly through animation to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, he tells for the first time the story of his extraordinary journey as a child refugee from Afghanistan.

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August 26, 7:00 p.m. - Born in Flames

Located at Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas
1hr 20mins Not Rated

The movie that rocked the foundations of the early Indie film world, this provocative, thrilling classic is a fantasy of female rebellion set in America ten years after a social democratic cultural revolution. When Adelaide Norris, the black radical founder of the Woman’s Army, is mysteriously killed, a diverse coalition of women – across all lines of race, class, and sexual preference – emerges to blow the System apart.

For more information, visit the SteelStacks film page

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September 2, 3:00-5:00 p.m. - I am They

Located at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center
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I am They by  Fox Fisher 2018 -  Documentary, Biography, Romance, LGBT, Nonbinary

55 mins Not Rated

The film centers around Fox and Owl who are a non binary couple. They discover different topics and challenges that non binary people face; from legal issues to language, from marriage to hate speech. The film also explores issues and topics faced by older non binary people, non binary youth, non binary people of colour and non binary people from across Europe.

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November 4, 3:00-5:00 p.m. - The Way He Looks

Located at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center
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The Way He Looks by Daniel Ribeiro 2014 - Drama, Romance, YA, Gay, Ability, Latino

1h 36m Not Rated

THE WAY HE LOOKS is a fun and tender story about friendship and the complications of young love. Leo is a blind teenager who’s fed up with his overprotective mother and the bullies at school. Looking to assert his independence, he decides to study abroad to the dismay of his best friend, Giovana. When Gabriel, the new kid in town, teams with Leo on a school project, new feelings blossom in him that make him reconsider his plans. Meanwhile, Giovana grows jealous of this new found companionship as tensions mount between her and Leo.

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