Lesbian Film Festival – Sat., Feb. 11

Cloudburst – Sat., March 3, 7 pm - Watch Clip Below

The Perfect Family – Sat., May 5, 7 pm

Lesbian Film Festival

Sat., Feb. 11
Wright Hall
Smith College
Northampton

SHOW I:
KISS ME
Encore screening!
5:15 pm- 7:00 pm
(synopsis below)

SHOW II:
Best Lesbian Shorts:
Love & Friendship
7:20 pm – 8:40 pm

T’Aint Nobody’s Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s
Fascinating look at the lesbian lives of the First Ladies of Blues including Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Ethel Waters.
Vintage photos, footage, and music recordings. Narrated by Jewel Gomez.

Getting To Know You: A funny, sweet, satirical comedy on dating and the search for true love. Tenny dates all the wrong women in search of Ms. Right. Will she ever listen to
her sister’s advice? TV actor Dana Delany (star of “Body of Proof”) and Michelle Bonilla (star of “Bones”) co-star.

What Hot Guy: A fun peek into Susan’s life-changing three minutes. She wakes up from a night of partying to find her world a very different place – for the better.

Hi Maya: A charming story about two women who reunite in France after 50 years apart and the sparks still fly! An audience favorite from our shorts fest.

Dancing to Happiness: A delightful love story that is cleverly styled as a lesbian fairy tale. The love of salsa dancing brings two women together from opposite ends of the corporate ladder. Fun dance scenes. An audience favorite from our shorts fest. (Easy to read subtitles)

Show 1:

KISS ME (encore screening – back by popular demand)
Saturday, February 11, 5:15 pm – 7:00 pm
Wright Hall, Smith College, Northampton

The new lesbian hit film from Sweden! (107 min. / easy subtitles)

Synopsis: Love can blossom at the most inopportune moments—and that’s what happens to soon-to-be stepsisters, Mia and Frida,
two thirty-something professionals who meet at the engagement party of Frida’s mother
and Mia’s father. Mia, who has not visited her father in years, surprises everyone by
bringing along her new fiance, Tim. Yet, as Mia and Frida spend time together, they
both feel a strong sexual attraction to each other that catches both of them off guard.

Film director Alexandra-Therese Keining fashions an intriguing, captivating love story with beautiful cinematography and a impressive cast of talented, seasoned actors. Even the subtitles are easy on the eyes!

CLOUDBURST New England Premiere!

Starring Academy Award-Winning Actress Olympia Dukakis

Saturday, March 3, 7 pm – One Night Only
Academy of Music Theatre, Northampton

Cloudburst tells the powerful, poignant story of an older lesbian couple in a thirty year relationship
escaping out of a nursing home to get married in Canada so that family members cannot separate them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOZk–X2uJU&feature=player_embedded

Blending both comedy and drama, Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis is superb in her role as Stella, the gruff, lovable, cowboy hat wearing lesbian who is passionately devoted to her blind partner Dot (Brenda Fricker). This exquisite film has it all: a beautiful love story, a daring road trip, laugh out loud humor, and an unforgettable journey of the heart for both the characters and the audience. This is a film you will always remember.

THE PERFECT FAMILY Western Mass Premiere!

Starring Academy Award-Winning Actress Kathleen Turner

Saturday, May 5, 7 pm – One Night Only
Northampton High School Theater, Northampton

The Perfect Family is a hilarious, poignant comedy about family, acceptance, and the healing power of love. Suburban mother and
devout Catholic Eileen Cleary (Kathleen Turner) has always kept up appearances. When she runs for Catholic Woman of the Year
at her local parish—an award she has coveted for years—her final test is introducing her family to the
bishop for his seal of approval. Now she must finally face the nonconformist family she has been glossing over for years.
Her out lesbian daughter is about to marry her life partner, her unhappily married son is cheating on his wife, and Eileen’s own marriage to a recovered alcoholic is pulling at the seams. In her best screen performance since Serial Mom, Turner shines as a mother trying to reconcile her view of her faith with her love for her family.