22nd connecticut
gay and lesbian
film festival
Saturday 5/30 - 7:30 p.m.
Chef's Special
Dir. Nacho G. Velilla, 2008, Spain, 111 min
(In Spanish with English subtitles)
Chef Maxi (Camára) has plenty on his plate. Between running a high-end restaurant, keeping it in the black and corralling his unpredictable staff, who could begrudge him a foul-mouthed outburst, or two, or several? His best gal pal and next door neighbor Alex (Dueñas) is desperate to find a good man while sous-chef Ramiro can't put his hard-partying days behind him. Add to the mix an unexpected reunion with two estranged children and a blossoming gay romance with a closeted international athlete, and you've got one troubled gourmet. Now the Michelin Guide food critic is coming to review his restaurant and it whips Maxi into such a frenzy the he must learn to juggle the new dynamics his children and lover bring to the table, with over-the-top, hilarious results.
Join us for the Closing Night Party after the film
PROGRAM
The Back Room
Greg Ivan Smith, 2008, USA, 16 min
Errol is at the end of a very long week as manager of his bookstore. As he closes his shop, a stranger bursts in with an intriguing query: to find the artist whose painting so deeply moved him recently in Florence, Italy. The stranger has just one clue, the painter's name written phonetically as "Jack Car-roo-see". Is there something about that name? As the man's story unfolds and the search begins, the two strangers uncover astonishing connections to the painting and each other that neither could have predicted.
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Shorts Program: Friends & Lovers
Astoria, Queens
Kyle Coker, 2009, USA, 21 min
Inspired by the Wizard of Oz, four Kansas City misfits navigate their lives in the scary, yet exciting Emerald City of New York. World premiere.
Kali Ma
Soman Chainani, 2007, India, 14 min
(In English and Hindi with English subtitles)
When a suburban Indian mother finds out her son is the victim of a vicious bully, she delivers her own brand of vigilante justice. Starring popular Bollywood star Kamini Khanna (Monsoon Wedding), and the follow-up to director Soman Chainani’s acclaimed 2006 short “Davy & Stu”, “Kali Ma” plunges us into a battle of mythic proportions, where we discover the secrets that divide mothers and sons and the love that binds them together.
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Ticket Info
$15 General Admission
$12 Students/Seniors
