2023 Damn These Heels Queer Film Festival
An “oasis in the desert,” Damn These Heels Queer Film Festival has been pushing boundaries for 20 years! Come celebrate the Festival’s 20th anniversary with us! In person October 12-15, 2023 at the Rose Wagner Theater in downtown Salt Lake City with limited films screening online on October 15-22. For 20 years, Damn These Heels […]
THE SURROGATE
Writer-director Jeremy Hersh conjures a timely ethical drama with vibrant millennial energy in The Surrogate. Star and lead actress Jasmine Batchelor plays the over accommodating, Brooklynite, web designer Jess whose life is completely changed when she is enlisted as a surrogate mother for her two best gay male friends, Josh and Aaron (Chris Perfetti and […]
Anne+
Anne is in the middle of moving when she encounters her ex-girlfriend on the street in Amsterdam. As she spends the weekend making her move, she also unpacks her past relationships. Living on her own, she is left only with thoughts of all the women involved in her arrival at the present.With a restraint that […]
HOLY TRINITY Available only July 18
Please note: We have switched to a new file from the distributor which should take care of any audio issues. If you have any questions please email [email protected], director, and lead Molly Hewitt renders a glittering, zany, hilarious yet thoughtful debut feature in Holy Trinity. Set in an alternate universe of ubiquitous glamour and unruly […]
MAKING SWEET TEA
Making Sweet Tea documents the scholar and playwright E. Patrick Johnson as he journeys through the country to reconnect with the six black gay men whose stories he captured within his book, and later brought to life on stage, “Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South — An Oral History”.As a black gay man […]
EMA
Decorated writer and director Pablo Larrain (Jackie, Neruda) constructs an unwieldy, bombastic, and deliciously dark masterpiece in Ema. The film has an undeniable rhythm: punctuated with electrifying dance sequences, anchored in a thumping, reggaeton-centric score, and filled with a wild abandon that is all at once exhilarating and frightening. Set in Valparaíso, Chile, the film […]
VARIAÇÕES: GUARDIAN ANGEL
The eccentric rock star Antonio Variações is a queer icon few have heard of. Like his stage name Variações or “variations”, Antonio combined his many different inspirations and in doing so revolutionized contemporary music in his homeland of Portugal.Inspired by the traditional and popular sounds of his country, the film takes a detailed look into […]
DOG VALLEY
The 1988 kidnapping, rape and murder of 28-year-old gay Southern Utah University student Gordon Church equals in brutality the better-known Matthew Shepard killing in Wyoming ten years later. While the earlier crime occurred at a time before social media might have given it instant national notoriety, Church’s violent death at the hands of young parolees […]
UNSOUND
Noah is a restless musician who spontaneously quits his current gig to go back home to Australia. Wandering around his hometown one night, he meets Finn, a trans man who helps run a center for the local deaf community. Noah offers to make music for the club night at the center, and this offer sets […]
BREAKING FAST
Based on writer-director Mike Mosallam’s popular short of the same name, Breaking Fast is a story of dialogue across difference, set against the bright lights and lively bars of West Hollywood. Mo (Haaz Sleiman), a gay man and practicing Muslim, and Kal (Michael Cassidy), an American from a military family, connect in a tale told […]