The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival kicks off tomorrow with a screening of Ella Lemhagen's Swedish comedy Patrik, Age 1.5, in which a gay couple discover that their newly adopted "baby" is actually a 15-year-old anti-gay juvenile delinquent.
Among the other films scheduled at the festival, which runs until May 3, are:
- Yair Hochner's quirky romantic comedy Antarctica (above, top photo), in which several gay men and a couple of lesbians try to sort out their entangled romantic lives in bustling Tel Aviv — all that while awaiting for aliens to land in the city.
- Valdis Óskarsdóttir's Icelandic comedy Country Wedding (above, lower photo), about several individuals with various personal secrets who gather for an out-of-town wedding.
- Jacqui Morris' British romantic comedy Mr. Right, which follows three London gay couples and their emotional ups and downs.
- Martin Weisz's Grimm Love (neither romantic nor a comedy), based on the real life case of cannibal Armin Meiwes.
- Gustav Hofer & Luca Ragazzi's documentary Suddenly, Last Winter, which shows the effects of organized anti-gay bigotry on a gay couple (that's Hofer and Ragazzi) who believed that their 8-year relationship would finally be recognized at the federal level after a center-left coalition became the majority in the Italian parliament in 2006 — their hopes, however, are dashed by a mix of political ineptitude and virulent anti-gay opposition led by the Catholic Church.
- Stefano Tummolini's One Day in the Life, in which a deceptively ordinary day at the beach turns out to be a life-changing experience for an Italian gay man.
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Patrik 1.5 sounds like a good story. I've seen a number of gay themed movies but that storyline is new! I am not familiar with any of these movies, I'll have to look for them at Qtrading out here in Palm Springs. Thanks for the list of new gay films I can hopefully see on video.