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<span style="font-family:impact"> <span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:100%">LEEDS QUEER FILM FESTIVAL</span>
14-16 October <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">
34 Hanover Square, Leeds, LS3 1AW </span> (Click here for map)

<span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:100%">Films Showing!....</span></span>
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FRIDAY
7pm Venus Boyz (2002)
(103mins. Dir: Gabrielle Baur)
Shot over a period of several years, this intimate documentary looks
at masculinity as a performance, subversive technique or existential
necessity. Following a range of drag kings – some more convincing
than others - through an exploration of the nature of gender,
performance, empowerment and social role-playing.

9pm Beautiful Boxer (2004)
(114mins. Dir: Ekachai Uekrongtham)
A compelling and detailed Thai feature based on a true story,
Beautiful Boxer concerns a Thai boxer identifying as a transsexual
woman. Discovering an ability for boxing, Nong Toom imagines a
way out of the confines of the male sex. Yet the ultimate goal
driving Nong Toom eventually becomes incompatible with a
boxing career and more changes are forced.

SATURDAY

12.30pm Bending the Equator (2003)
(25mins. Dir: Emily Kingan)
Short documentary on Brazilian feminist band Dominatrix and Portland
hardcore duo The Haggard on their joint US tour. Great footage from
Emily Kingan, guitarist for The Haggard. Â*

1.30pm Jubilee (1977)
(100mins. Dir: Derek Jarman)
Hailed as the first ever punk film. Elizabeth 1 transported to a future
of English society now in chaos. Â*Buckingham Palace has become a
punk recording studio run by an insane megalomaniac, and a group
of punk girls pass the time with acts of violence, sex and murder.

4pm Pink Panthers: Politically Erect (2005)
(45mins Dir: various)
Highlights from the compilation of shorts on queer rebellion put together
by two Canadian queer groups, Les Pantheres Roses and Les Lucioles.

5.30 Open Session
Free space for queer filmmakers to show their short films...

7pm tea time

8.30pm -John Waters Double Bill-
A Dirty Shame (2004)
( 89mins.)
Sylvia Stickles is a grumpy, repressed, middle-aged mother, working
in the family convenience store with her husband and mother-in-law,
whilst trying to stamp out her daughter’s exhibitionist tendencies.

10pm Pink Flamingos (1972)
(108mins.)
“Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! Advocate cannibalism!
Eat shit! Filth is my politics! Filth is my life!�
Hysterical extremism from the master of trash.

12am Trans porn
whatever

SUNDAY

1.30pm Fucking Amal/Show Me Love (1998)
(89mins. Dir: Lukas Moodysson)
Swedish feature about two girls finding each other. Excellent dialogue
and acting that perfectly captures teenage angst, cruelty and rebellion.

3.30pm Ma Vie En Rose (1997)
(88mins. Dir: Alain Berliner)
A charming mix of fantasy and realism in this story about 7 year old Ludovic,
who holds the unwavering belief that she's been mistakenly been born into
boy's body. Ludo’s loss of innocence and trauma is ultimately given a hopeful slant.

5.30pm Orlando (1992)
(90mins. Dir: Sally Potter)
Adapted from Virginia Woolf’s classic novel, this beautifully shot and
elegant film follows the life of innocent, passionate young aristocrat
Orlando. In a journey that covers 400 years of English history,
Orlando’s quest for love and fulfilment - first as a man, then as
a woman- addresses issues of gender and identity with great
wit and style. Featuring a fantastic central performance from
Tilda Swinton, and costumes that you can only dream of...

7.30pm tea time

8.30pm A:Gender (2004)
(120mins. Joey Hateley)
A fantastic, absorbing one-person show by Joey Hateley about female
masculinity. Exploring trans and alternative gender identities through a
mixture of experimental theatre, movement, photography, video and
queer performance, A:Gender is funny, challenging and astute.</span>[/quote]</span>