Shropshire LGBT Film Festival
Short Film: (Saturday Morning Shorts – 10:15 17th Oct 2015-Old Market Hall). BULLS focuses on a current taboo within sport, homosexuality players. The short film explain the reason as to why gay men moved from ‘traditional’ rugby leagues in favour of gay rugby tournaments.
Short Film: (Sunday Morning Shorts – 11:00 18th Oct 2015 – The Hive). A refugee is taken into custody at an open border crossing. During the interrogation, he admits to being gay and is subjected to an absurd entry examination, a so-called “phallometric test”… The story is based on facts.
Short Film: (Saturday Morning Shorts – 10:15 17th Oct 2015-Old Market Hall). The Female Masculinity Appreciation Society is a sort of gentlemen’s club for queer women and those who love them. Follow Cookie and Foxy Ven in their quest to reach the arm- wrestling finals, discover the reason behind Rubyyy’s ginger moustache and judge for yourself the standards in Dapper wear.
Short Film: (Saturday Morning Shorts – 10:15 17th Oct 2015-Old Market Hall). Meet FINN! A devoted SINK THE PINK fan. He explains what identifying as QUEER means, how SINK THE PINK has helped shape his identity and why it’s such a big part of his social calendar…
Short Film: (Saturday Morning Shorts – 10:15 17th Oct 2015-Old Market Hall). Meet JONO! What’s the difference between DRAG and TRANNY? What’s the unique inspiration behind his look? And what does being a drag queen actually feel like? He’ll exlain it all…
Short Film: (Saturday Morning Shorts – 10:15 17th Oct 2015-Old Market Hall). Following the death of his wife, a depressed father discovers that his son is gay and confronts him with explosive consequences.
Short Film: (Saturday Morning Shorts – 10:15 17th Oct 2015 Old Market Hall). A warm and fuzzy interview of two people in love.
Short Film: (Saturday Morning Shorts – 10:15 17th Oct 2015-Old Market Hall). Trevor’s life has become a void, following the passing of his wife and long term companion, Doris. A chance encounter in the park with a mysterious stranger equally troubled by his own past jarringly reawakens him, and forces both men to once again start to live.
Absolutely nothing to do with Shropshire Rainbow Film Festival, but great to see another film with LGBTQ characters showing at a local cinema without our involvement. A mysterious fainting epidemic develops amongst the pupils of a strict English girls school. Using the phenomena as a catalyst to confront the authority figures around her, schoolgirl Lydia forces old secrets to rise to the surface and finds herself facing a truth she never expected.
