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2006 Film Festival Line-up
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Unveiled (Angelina Maccarone, Germany/Austria 2004, 97 min) The harrowing tale of Fariba who while seeking asylum from Iran for a lesbian affair is forced to take on the identity of a man in order to survive in a small German village. At first Fariba’s survival seems assured, but the strain of maintaining her male disguise in the cramped refugee quarters means a single mistake could blow her cover. To pay for forged documents, she takes an illegal job in a sauerkraut factory, where she must navigate the macho nationalism of her co-workers as well as the attraction of a local woman, Anne, stationed near her on the factory floor. “…at its center is an extraordinary performance by Ms. Tabatabai as Fariba, a young woman whose expectations have been lowered by a lifetime of systematic mistreatment but who still holds out hope for the possibility of both justice and love.” The New York Times www.unveiledthemovie.com Click here to watch the trailer |
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Dyke City (Sonja Mills, Canada 2003, 32 min) A hilarious short about a group of under-employed “queerdos” brought together by their mutual disenfranchisement. |
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Kathleen’s Closet (Sheila Jordan, Canada 2005, 13 min) A nurse, Janet, bursts into the last days of Kathleen’s life, and recreates from the old woman’s closet a memory of a time when she loved well and deeply the mysterious “N”. www.kathleenscloset.ca |
