September 24 – October 4, 2020
Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
Join us Virtually for Reeling 2020!
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Sublet – Just added!
A New York Times travel writer comes to Tel Aviv after suffering a tragedy. The energy of the city and his relationship with a younger man brings him back to life.
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Minyan – Just added!
In 1980s Brooklyn, A Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcilable until he befriends two closeted men in his grandfather’s senior housing complex.
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Breaking Fast – Opening Night Film
During the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, heartbroken doctor Mo finds himself breaking fast every night with Kal, a non-Muslim man that may lead Mo to happiness in America.
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A Skeleton in the Closet
A young man returns home for the first time since coming out of the closet and is given the chance to reconnect with his family amidst grappling with an existential crisis.
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Are We Lost Forever
An on-again off-again relationship gets the final nail in the coffin one morning when one man finally works up the courage to reveal his love has fizzled out for good. Despite the breakup, fate keeps finding ways to bring the men back together.
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Cicada
CICADA follows Ben, a young bisexual man, as he comes out to the world and develops an intense relationship with Sam, a man of color struggling with deep wounds of his own.
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Cocoon
A shy fourteen-year-old girl jumps head-first into a life-changing first love in the sweltering Berlin summertime.
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Dramarama
Gene attempts to come out to his high school drama friends as they close out their last summer together with a final murder mystery party.
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Drawn Back Home
Long-lost friends Eric and Drew test the boundaries of love and friendship when they see each other for the first time in years.
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Ema
After a shocking incident upends her family life and marriage to a tempestuous choreographer, Ema, a reggaeton dancer, sets out on an odyssey of personal liberation, in this incendiary drama about art, desire, and the modern family from acclaimed director Pablo Larraín (JACKIE, NERUDA).
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Family Members
Two siblings journey to a small town in coastal Argentina after their mother's mysterious death, only to be stranded and forced to deal with their shared grief.
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Give or Take
When a disillusioned New Yorker's father dies, he finds himself in Cape Cod with his father’s temperamental live-in boyfriend, forced to navigate how to remember the man they both loved.
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Goodbye Mother
A man brings his boyfriend along to visit his childhood home of Vietnam with a tough decision between coming out as gay or succumbing to familial expectations weighing on his shoulders.
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No Hard Feelings
A young man finds love while sentenced to 120 hours of community service at a refugee detention center.
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Single Street
SINGLE STREET is a funny feel-good comedy about an unexpected friendship between a heart surgeon and gay artist.
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T11 Incomplete
A visiting home health aide and recovering alcoholic, strives to rebuild her broken life, only to have it fall apart once again when she falls in love with her young, paraplegic patient then betrays her trust.
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Tahara
An innocent kissing exercise between best friends Carrie and Hannah turns Carrie’s world inside out while the best friends find themselves distracted by the teenage complications of lust, social status, and wavering faith.
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Stone | Fruit
STONE | FRUIT follows two sexually confident and complex gay men struggling to end a marriage while salvaging a friendship. But with wine. And nature hikes. And a threesome.
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The Strong Ones
In the hostile landscape of Southern Chile, two young men from differing backgrounds share a passionate and forbidden romance.
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These Thems
THESE THEMS is a web series about four queer friends in New York City trying to find love and messing up along the way.
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Tu Me Manques
After the suicide of a young closeted Bolivian man, two people–his father and his boyfriend–cope with the tragedy in their own unique ways.
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Binge watch the entire festival with an all-access pass!
EXPLORE REAL LIFE STORIES OF STRUGGLE & CELEBRATION
Ahead of the Curve – Closing Night Film
AHEAD OF THE CURVE draws a portrait of the history and future of the best-selling lesbian magazine ever published, Curve magazine.
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Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story
Obsessed with sci-fi and technology and living in near isolation, Glenn Copeland wrote and self-released the ahead-of-its-time record Keyboard Fantasies in 1986, in Huntsville, Ontario. Emerging from years in isolation to an enraptured crowd, a time-traveling, transgender musical genius finally finds his place in the world.
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Galore
What brought popular Dutch drag queen Lady Galore her fame is also what is keeping the man behind Galore, Sander den Baas, from living a healthy life. Gastric bypass surgery will help him regain a healthy weight. But what will remain of Lady Galore?
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Gracefully
A father of six and a former drag performer struggles to make peace with the loss of his career after the 1979 Iranian revolution.
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Lulu en el Jardín
Told in several parts – from childhood to adulthood – LULU EN EL JARDÍN is about a queer son retracing his lesbian mother’s story across the city of Chicago through intimate conversations with her.
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Pier Kids
Black, queer, and homeless, an ensemble cast of LGBTQ youth search for a home to call their own on New York City's historic Christopher Street Pier.
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Taiwan Equals Love
Through an intimate look at the lives of three sets of partners from Taiwan, TAIWAN EQUALS LOVE charts the culturally specific yet universally understood complexities of equal rights to marriage/adoption or child-rearing for LGBTQ+ peoples.
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The Capote Tapes
Iconic gay writer Truman Capote, hot off the heels of massive literary success, falls into a downward spiral of all-consuming elite aspirations, alcoholism, and prescription drug abuse, leaving behind the fragmented saga of his unpublished supposed-masterpiece: "Answered Prayers."
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The Many Lives of Kojin
Filmmaker Diako Yazdani, an Iranian Kurd and refugee living in Paris, travels to Iraq with his 23-year-old gay best friend Kojin to confront a Kurdish society resolute in their negation of and violent prejudice against homosexuality.
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The Whistle
THE WHISTLE tells the story of how lesbian youth in 1970s and '80s Albuquerque used a whistle to find community and acceptance.
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Join us for a panel with Sarah Clark, Casting Director of Compass Casting!
DISCOVER UP-AND-COMING TALENT IN THESE SHORTS
Come as You Are
Streaming September 29–October 2 Join us for the Virtual Live Q&A on September 30 at 6:30PM with Nicholas Downs (Director), Joe Gartski...
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End of the World as You Know It
Streaming September 25–28 Join us for the Virtual Live Q&A on Saturday, September 26 at 2:30PM with with...
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Enduring Love
Streaming October 2 – 5 Join us for a Virtual Live Q&A on Saturday, October 3 at 4:00PM CST with cast...
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In Your Own Time
Streaming October 3 – October 6 Join us for the Virtual Live Q&A on Sunday, October 4 at...
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Lonely Beautiful Boys
Streaming October 1–4 Join us for the Virtual Live Q&A Friday, 10/2 at 6:00PM with Aleksei Borovikov (Director), Naures...
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Recuérdame (Remember Me)
Streaming September 28–October 1 Join us for a Virtual Live Q&A on Tuesday, September 29 at 7:00PM CST with cast...
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Streaming October 1–4 Something’s “off” with some of the characters in these creepy and dark tales of temptation,...
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Who Do You Trust?
Streaming September 30–October 3 Join us for a Virtual Live Q&A on Thursday, October 1 at 7:00PM CST with cast and...
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