Mom’s Apple Pie: The Heart of the Lesbian Mother’s Custody Movement
Feature Film: (Saturday 17th October, 13:00 – The Old Market Hall Cinema). Heroic resistance, pain and heartbreak of forgotten 1970’s lesbian custody battles.
Category: The 2015 Film Festival Programme
Raising Hell
Feature Film: (Saturday 17th October, 13:00 – The Old Market Hall Cinema). Featuring the children of lesbian and gay parents talking about friends and family.
Something Real
Short Film: (Saturday 17th October, 16:30 – The Old Market Hall Cinema). A celebrity packed short with a musical twist about the bar scene in Weho. A first collaboration between acclaimed director Guy Shalem, Tony award winning composer and lyricists Jeff Marx (Avenue Q) and 5-time Grammy-award winning producer, composer, and lyricist, Mervyn Warren.
Dirty Talk
Short Film: (Saturday 17th October, 16:30 – The Old Market Hall Cinema). A recently-single but conservative English teacher, tells his best friend Zach (about a one-night stand with a hot Latin man who pushes his limits in the bedroom.
For 80 Days
Feature Film: (Sunday 18th October, 16:30 – The Old Market Hall Cinema). Where is the thin line that separates friendship from desire? After more than 50 years without seeing each other, two 70 year old women from the Basque Country dare to cross that line.
Boy Meets Girl
Feature Film: (Sunday 18th October, 18:30 – The Old Market Hall Cinema). A groundbreaking coming of age romantic comedy, the film explores how falling in love transcends gender and how important it is to live a courageous life without fear standing in the way of your dreams.
Charlie
Short Film: (Sunday Morning Shorts – 11:00 18th Oct 2015 – The Hive). No one ever listened to charlie, until he stopped talking. ‘charlie’ is the story of a young man who goes hysterically mute when choosing to leave his abusive past behind. It’s Christmas Eve as he stumbles upon the Sanderson family who take him in as their own.
Victim
Feature Film: (Sunday 18th October, 13:30 – The Old Market Hall Cinema). In 1960s London, barrister Melville Farr’s life is near perfect, with a loving marriage and successful career. However, when blackmailers link Farr to a young gay man, everything Farr has worked for is threatened.
APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOUR
Feature Film: (Saturday 17th October, 20:00 – The Old Market Hall Cinema). For Shirin, being part of a perfect family isn’t easy. Acceptance eludes her from all sides: her family doesn’t know she’s bisexual, and her ex-girlfriend, Maxine, can’t understand why she doesn’t tell them.
The Way He Looks
Feature Film: (Friday 16th October, 20:00 – The Old Market Hall Cinema). Leonardo and Giovana are best friends. Like all teenagers they yearn for more independence and, being blind, Leonardo even more so. They dream of going abroad and of experiencing love’s first kiss. Gabriel, the new boy at school, becomes fast friends with them both, but ultimately three becomes a crowd.
