Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

465 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA
Phone: 617-369-3306

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has been home to the festival for nearly twenty years. We are pleased to continue this partnership with another great series of films at the MFA this year.

Please note that the West Wing entrance of the MFA is now closed.

Please enter the Museum and purchase or pick up tickets at either the Fenway entrance or the Huntington entrance.

Signs and festival volunteers will be available to direct you to the Remis Auditorium, where the films are held.

Due to construction, parking is especially limited near the MFA this year. Please consider taking the Green Line to screenings at the MFA.

Programs

Women's Opening Night

May 6, 2009 - 7:00pm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Join us for our Women's Opening Night film as we present Shamim Sarif's I Can't Think Straight.
The film will be preceded by a special dance performance from Mesma S. Belsare. Mesma is a Boston-based dancer, choreographer, actor, visual artist and educator. She is trained in classical Bharatanatyam dance style and performs both nationally and internationally.
Reception follows at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
Tickets for this program are $15 general/$12 members, students, and seniors. More info

Men's Opening Night

May 7, 2009 - 7:00pm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Join us for our Men's Opening Night Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as we present Nick Oceano's Pedro.
Special guest actor DaJuan Johnson (pictured, back), who plays the role of Sean Sasser, Pedro Zamora's partner and fellow AIDS activist.
Reception follows at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Tickets for this program are $15 general admission, $12 MFA members and students.
Co-presented by: AIDS Action Committee/Bayard Rustin Breakfast
Co-presented by: The MALE Center
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QWOC shorts

May 8, 2009 - 6:00pm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Shorts programs are always popular in the festival, so this year we've expanded the offerings with this collection of shorts by or about queer women of color. Special thanks to Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project.
Co-presented by: Boston Dyke March
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"Family" with Director Faith Trimel

May 8, 2009 - 8:00pm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Faith Trimel joins us for a screening of her new film "Family".
Co-presented by: Provincetown Women of Color Weekend
Co-presented by: QWOC+ Boston
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A Place to Live with a Discussion of LGBT Elder Housing Issues

May 9, 2009 - 11:00am, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The screening of A Place to Live will be followed by a frank discussion of housing and other issues confronting LGBT elders in the Boston area. Tickets for this program are $7/$6.
Co-presented by: Stonewall Communities
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Antarctica

May 13, 2009 - 7:45pm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Co-presented by: Keshet
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Women's Shorts

May 14, 2009 - 6:00pm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Our annual collection of shorts about dyke life - funny, sexy, serious, or silly.
Co-presented by: Boston Gay Women's Meetup Group
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Men's Shorts

May 15, 2009 - 6:00pm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Our annual collection of shorts about gay life - funny, sexy, serious, or silly. Life as a gay man isn't always easy but a great wig and good friends makes it a little bit easier to deal with. Once again we bring you the best in men's short films to make you realise that being short isn't a bad thing.
Co-presented by JP Men's Group
Co-presented by Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project
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Baby Love

May 15, 2009 - 8:00pm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Please join us after the screening at Gaslight Brasserie, 560 Harrison Ave as Gaslight & Grey Goose welcome the viewers of Baby Love/Comme Les Autres with a complimentary cocktail with your film ticket stub. Dinner reservations will receive Amuse Bouche for the table. -always free parking-dining until 1.30am-

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Still Black

May 16, 2009 - 2:30pm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Co-presented by: Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition
Co-presented by: Men of Color Creating Change
Co-presented by: The Transgender Rights Project of GLAD
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Fig Trees

May 16, 2009 - 4:15pm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

OMG/HaHaHa

May 16, 2009 - 6:15pm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

City of Borders

May 17, 2009 - 1:00pm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Please note this program is in the MFA's Riley Seminar Room, not the Remis Auditorium


Co-presented by: Keshet
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Steam

May 17, 2009 - 5:00pm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Co-presented by: Roxbury Film Festival
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Closing Night

May 17, 2009 - 7:30pm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
We celebrate the close of another great festival with H.P. Mendoza's (composer and co-star of Colma! The Musical) directorial debut, the hilarious new musical Fruit Fly.
Tickets for this program are $12/$10.
Co-presented by: Queer Asian Pacific-Islander Alliance
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