Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Morgan Mason, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, Charles Bronson

Co-hosted by filmmaker/writer/programmer Caroline Golum

Laura (Elizabeth Taylor) just wants her son Danny (Morgan Mason) to grow up freely without religious influence or conventional restrictions. Raising him on her own in a beautiful cliff-side home in Big Sur, where she paints and occasionally trysts with Cos (Charles Bronson, smoldering), she is forced to put Danny in the hands of Dr. Edward Hewitt (Richard Burton) at boarding school. Though Dr. Hewitt is married, he is drawn in by the passionate and wild worldview of Laura, and the two get dangerously close.

A beautiful (Cinemascope!) movie from director Vincente Minnelli, The Sandpiper handles infidelity in a surprising way, and has wonderful playful moments (especially involving Liz posing for a nude sculpture).

Starring: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lola Petticrew, Arinzé Kene

A mother (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, in a profoundly moving performance) and her teenage daughter (Lola Petticrew) must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird. From debut filmmaker Daina O. Pusić, Tuesday is a heart-rending fairy tale about the echoes of loss and finding resilience in the unexpected.

Starring: Jenna Ortega, Monica Bellucci, Winona Ryder, Michael Keaton, Willem Dafoe, Justin Theroux, Catherine O’Hara

Beetlejuice is back! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened. With trouble brewing in both realms, it’s only a matter of time until someone says Beetlejuice’s name three times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem.

Starring: Sara Montpetit, Félix-Antoine Bénard

The Future of Film is Female presents a special preview screening of HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON, the debut feature film by Ariane Louis-Seize. This screening includes a Q&A with Louis-Seize.

Sasha is a young vampire with a very serious problem: she’s too sensitive to kill! Frustrated by their daughter’s empathy for humans, Sasha’s parents decide to cut off her blood supply to force her to learn how to hunt… or starve! Just as she decides to reject her vampire instincts and embrace a final death, she meets a lonely teenager named Paul who is willing to give his life to save hers, on the condition that she help to fulfill his final wishes before day breaks.

The QUEER FUTURES series centers joy and connection to radically imagine future visions of queer life. Four short films explore fat beauty and liberation, gender-affirming healthcare, nonbinary siblinghood in ballroom culture, and the anonymous connections of a decades-old LGBTQ hotline.

QUEER FUTURES
How to Carry Water (dir. Sasha Wortzel)
The Script (dirs. Brit Fryer & Noah Schamus)
MnM (dir. Twiggy Pucci Garçon)
The Callers (dir. Lindsey Dryden)

Starring: Zoe Ziegler, Julianne Nicholson, Luke Philip Bosco, June Walker Grossman, Abby Harri, Elias Koteas, Will Patton

In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker captures a child’s experience of time passing, and the ineffability of a daughter falling out of love with her mother, in this singularly sublime film debut.

Starring: Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Leisha Hailey, Wilson Cruz

Join The Future of Film is Female for a special screening of the Sichel Sisters queer riot grrrl classic ALL OVER ME. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

Hell’s Kitchen, 1996. Teenage best friends Claude (Alison Folland) and Ellen (Tara Subkoff) spend their days in Claude’s stuffy apartment, idly dreaming of starting a band. While Ellen explores drugs, sex, and dating bad men, an older out gay man moves into the apartment downstairs, and Claude gets a glimpse of what life could be like. As their friendship dissolves over the course of a sweaty, riot grrrl filled summer, Claude falls for a bubbly pink-haired musician (played by Leisha Hailey, nearly 10 years before becoming The L Word’s Alice). Winner of the Teddy Award at the 1997 Berlinale, All Over Me is full of an ache and longing familiar to any queer teen who has fallen for their bad-for-them best friend.

Screening before ALL OVER ME:
MONSTER COOKIE (2023)
Written and directed by John e Kilberg. 11 min.
Frankie wants to pay their rent, go to work, and be a good roommate but is hijacked by their love for weed.

New York Premiere

The Lesbian Bar Project is an Emmy & GLAAD Media award-winning docu series that celebrates Lesbian+ queer bars from around the world.

Join us for an exclusive screening of Season 2 of the series. The Lesbian Bar Project: FLINTA documents the complex and triumphant stories of the FLINTA communities in Cologne & Berlin; a reflection of where the queer community is headed internationally. Despite Lesbian Bars disappearing in Germany, there’s a growing FLINTA movement that epitomizes the evolution of queer culture. Featuring Boize Bar owner Payman Neziri, comedian Ricarda Hofmann, human rights activist Anbid Zaman, politician Tessa Ganserer, and party collectives Bebex and Girls Town.

Starring: Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Allan Kolman, Susan Petrie, Barbara Steele

After a scientist living in a posh apartment complex slaughters a teen girl and kills himself, investigators discover that the murderer had been carrying on experiments involving deadly parasites. Roger St. Luc (Paul Hampton), a doctor living in the building, and his aide, Nurse Forsythe (Lynn Lowry), then realize that the parasites are on the loose, attacking fellow tenants. And those who become hosts turn into erotically obsessed maniacs who pass the bugs on through violent sex.

Starring: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy, Barbara Jo Allen

Filled with jealousy, the evil witch Maleficent (Eleanor Audley) curses Princess Aurora (Mary Costa) to die on her 16th birthday. Thanks to Aurora’s guardian fairies (Verna Felton, Barbara Jo Allen, Barbara Luddy), she only falls into a deep sleep that can be ended with a kiss from her betrothed, Prince Phillip (Bill Shirley). To prevent Phillip from rescuing Aurora, Maleficent kidnaps and imprisons him. The good fairies are the last hope to free Phillip so that he can awaken Aurora.