Tuesday, September 12
Designates films with no queer-content, but the filmmaker(s) identify as LGBT
9:30 AM Royal Ontario Museum
Patterns 2 (in shorts program)
Director: Jamie Travis
(British Columbia, 14min)
A feast of Chinese food, teacups, and paper airplanes.
9:30 AM Royal Ontario Museum
Patterns 3 (in shorts program)
Director: Jamie Travis
(British Columbia, 20min)
A relationship unfolds in split-screen song and dance.
2:15 PM Paramount 1
Shortbus
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Cast: Sook-Kin Lee, Lindsay Beamish, Paul Dawson
(USA, 2006, 102 min, Color 35mm)
From the director of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, New Yorkers mingle at an underground salon infamous for its music and public sex. The explicit sex scenes are unsimulated.
7:30 PM Varsity 7
Cloudbreaker (in shorts program)
Director: Adam Garnet Jones
(Ontario, 15 minutes)
A young boy runs away from home.
9:15 PM Paramount 4
Four Minutes
Director: Chris Kraus
(Germany, 2006, 112 min, Colour, 35mm)
80-yr-old Traude teaches music at a women's prison where she meets Jenny, a piano prodigy.