LGBT Film Festival: Conversations on Faith

LGBT FILM FESTIVAL: CONVERSATIONS ON FAITH Join The LGBT Center of Central PA at Midtown Cinema for an LGBT film festival focusing on matters of faith. We are able to present this festival with support from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Harrisburg Jewish Film Festival, and Midtown Cinema. SUNDAY, JULY 13 **7:00 - CALL ME MALCOLM **7:15 - LOVE FREE OR DIE 7:30 - OUT IN THE DARK MONDAY, JULY 14 6:30 - CALL ME MALCOLM 7:00 - LOVE FREE OR DIE **7:30 - OUT IN THE DARK TUESDAY, JULY 15 4:30 - CALL ME MALCOLM 5:00 - LOVE FREE OR DIE **5:30 - THE WISE KIDS 7:00 - THE NEW BLACK **7:30 - OUT IN THE DARK **A talk-back session will be held following these screenings. CALL ME MALCOLM is a documentary feature about a seminary student and his struggle with faith, love and gender identity. www.callmemalcolm.com LOVE FREE OR DIE is about a man whose two defining passions are in direct conflict: his love for God and for his partner Mark. Gene Robinson is the first openly gay person to become a bishop in the historic traditions of Christendom. His consecration in 2003, to which he wore a bullet-proof vest, caused an international stir. The film follows Robinson from small-town churches in the New Hampshire North Country to Washington’s Lincoln Memorial to London’s Lambeth Palace, as he calls for all to stand for equality – inspiring bishops, priests and ordinary folk to come out from the shadows and change history. www.lovefreeordiemovie.com THE NEW BLACK is a documentary that tells the story of how the African-American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights. The film documents activists, families and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage and examines homophobia in the black community’s institutional pillar—the black church and reveals the Christian right wing’s strategy of exploiting this phenomenon in order to pursue an anti-gay political agenda. www.newblackfilm.com OUT IN THE DARK is as much of a political and societal commentary as it is an original romantic story. Compelling and intimate, Michael Mayer’s taut first feature follows a border-crossing relationship between an Israeli lawyer and an increasingly desperate Palestinian student. Nimer, an ambitious Palestinian student in the West Bank, dreams of a better life abroad. One fateful night in Tel Aviv, he meets Roy, an Israeli lawyer, and the two fall in love. As their relationship deepens, they are both confronted with the harsh realities of a Palestinian society that refuses to accept Nimer for his sexual identity, and an Israeli society that rejects him for his nationality. When Nimerʼs close friend is caught hiding illegally in Tel Aviv and sent back to the West Bank, where he is brutally murdered, Nimer is forced to choose between the life he thought he wanted and his love for Roy. www.outinthedarkthemovie.com THE WISE KIDS is a vivid, dynamic Southern coming-of-age drama, takes place in the transitional space between high school and college, when life seems to be all questions and no answers, and the future is scarily wide open. Set in and around a Charleston, SC Baptist church, weaving through this ensemble piece are three main characters - Brea, an introspective pastor's daughter experiencing debilitating doubt, the hyperactive Laura, Brea's best friend and a devout believer, and Tim, the open-hearted son of a single father, confronting his homosexuality for the first time. Tensions and buried feelings abound, as colleges are chosen and adults behave badly, as Brea, Laura and Tim attempt to hang onto what they have, all the while yearning to break free. www.thewisekids.com