The Brattle Theatre

We are pleased to welcome pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer back to the festival with her latest films A Horse is Not a Metaphor and The Diving Women of Jeju-Do.
Note: Unfortunately Barbara Hammer will not be able to join us for this screening of her two latest films. The film screening will proceed as planned.
Co-presented by: Queer Asian Pacific-Islander Alliance
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Join us for our afternoon panel discussion exploring queer filmmaking and its history with those who make it and program it. Moderated by David Pendleton, formerly of the UCLA Film and Television Archives and current Programmer at the Harvard Film Archive, the panel will bring together filmmakers Faith Trimel, director of Family, Jesse Rosen, director of Art of Being Straight, and Jeannie Simms, director of Readymaids along with Boston LGBT Film Festival founder George Mansour to discuss what it means to be making queer films today and how both the processes and industry have changed over the years. As the Boston LGBT Film Festival reaches its twenty-fifth year we look back and examine how queer films, their distribution and even their subject matter have shifted. Queer media is present in our culture in a manner never before experienced, what does this mean for us as makers and consumers? Please join us for a look back and a look forward. . Tickets for this program are $5. More info

Imaginative and intelligent, this programme of shorts represents the voice of a new generation of Québecois LGBT directors. Growing up in an isolated cultural environment - both within Canada and the francophone world at large – experiences of living as Québecois and queer are unique and ripe for remarkable image-making. With signature styles that reflect a myriad of unique perspectives and positions, these are directors to watch. Curated by Katharine Setzer, Director of Programming, image+nation, Montréal International LGBT Film Festival. More info

CineMental brings back the short experimental program Channeling. Curated by Chicago-based artists Ethan White and Latham Zearfoss Channeling is a program of experimental moving image work that summons the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future. If we imagine the technologies of film and video as occult mediums rather than technological ones, then perhaps we can make a kind of spiritual contact with the emotional and physical realities that are often invisible (ghostly) in everyday life. In this sense, both the camera and the ghost stories it captures can serve as powerful instruments in the act of queer worldmaking.
Please join us for this special screening of truly experimental and groundbreaking work by emerging queer filmmakers. More info

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