RAINBOW FILM FESTIVAL FRI 12 - SUN 14 OCTOBER
Open to everyone, the Festival explores, through comedy, documentaries and entertaining films, LGBT lives and experiences in different cultures around the world.
Cloudburst
Wish Me Away
Together for more than thirty years, Stella and Dot are separated when Dot’s prudish and controlling granddaughter places her in a nursing home. When Stella arrives to bust her out, the pair set off on a hilarious road trip to Canada.
The story of Country Music star Chely Wright, who risked her career and personal relationships when she became the first to come out as gay in Nashville.
Thom Fitzgerald (2011) USA/CAN 1h 33m Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker Accompanied by The L Project’s ‘It Does Get Better’ music video
Call Me Kuchu David Kato - Uganda’s first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat a new bill which threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death while combatting vicious persecution in their daily lives. Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall (2012) USA/UGA 1h 27m David Kato Kisule, Naome Ruzindana, Stosh Mugisha Followed by Q&A with Bisi Alimi, the Africa Director of Kaleidoscope
Hannah Free (15) After growing up in the same small Midwest town, Hannah and Rachel maintain their lifelong love affair despite a marriage, a world war, infidelities, and family denial. Wendy Jo Carlton (2009) USA 1h 26m Sharon Gless, Maureen Gallagher
Weekend (18) Just before closing time Russell picks up Glen. And so begins a weekend - in bars and in bedrooms, getting drunk and taking drugs, telling stories and having sex. Andrew Haigh (2011) UK 1h 36m Tom Cullen, Chris New, Laura Freeman
Bobbie Birleffi, Beverly Kopf (2011) USA 1h 36m Chely Wright, Jennifer Archer
Romeos (15) When 20-year-old Lukas arrives in Cologne, and meets hunky neighbourhood catch Fabio, a heated attraction between the two boys develops - until Fabio discovers the secret of Lukas’s identity. Will love conquer all? In German with English subtitles Sabine Bernardi (2011) GER 1h 33m Rick Okon, Maximilian Befort
Summer Storm (15) Tobi and Achim are convinced that they will be friends for life. But when Achim finds himself a girlfriend, Tobi is sceptical of their relationship and a storm breaks that is more than meteorological. In German with English subtitles Marco Kreuzpaintner (2004) GER 1h 38m Robert Stadlober, Kostja Ullmann
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