2008 Film Schedule

Schedule at a Glance...

Get your tickets now! The box office is open every day of the festival at the Main Art Theatre starting one hour before the first film of the day. Buying your tickets in advance online is highly suggested. See you at the film festival!

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Thursday, November 13 2008

7:00 PM

$25.00

Tru Loved - Opening Night Special Event (Details)

When her two moms uproot her from the comfortable trappings of a San Francisco upbringing for a generic Southern California suburb, high school sophomore Tru despairs...more information

Friday, November 14 2008

1:00 PM

FREE FILM!

The Believers

Built around the world's first transgender gospel choir, the film portrays the choir's dilemma - how to reconcile their gender identity with the widespread belief that changing one's gender goes against the word of God... more information

3:00 PM

FREE FILM!

Gay USA

Gay USA is a US documentary released in 1978 and directed by Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. The documentary focuses on the gay rights movement. Comprised of footage shot at a number of gay pride events around the United States in 1977, the film captures a time just as the gay rights movement began facing...more information

5:00 PM

$9.00

Ruby Blue

Bob Hoskins and Josiane Balasko (who also starred as the butch dyke who seduces housewife Victoria Abril in French Twist) deliver commanding performances as a depressed English widower and a transgender, transplanted Frenchwoman...more information

7:30 PM

$10.00

Boy Shorts!

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9:45 PM

$9.00

CIAO

Hidden within every ending is the seed of a new beginning. When Mark dies suddenly, his best friend Jeff is left to tie up the loose ends and is surprised to discover that Mark was cultivating an intimate online relationship with a man from Italy...more information

11:30 PM

$9.00

The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror

Arty lipstick lesbians, a couple of sweater queens, some coffee-house dykes, a sugar daddy, a drag diva, Mr. Leather and a fag hag all join their evangelical Republican host, her closeted daughter and a half redneck/half maggot mutant ...more information

Saturday, November 15 2008

12:00 PM

$9.00, Kids Free!

Children's Matinee

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2:00 PM

$9.00

Chris & Don: A Love Story

Writer Christopher Isherwood and artist Don Bachardy met in 1952 and, despite a 30-year age difference, fell in love. Framed by Bachardy's intimate and revelatory recollections, this beautifully reflective tribute to their 34-year love affair ..more information

4:30 PM

$9.00

Ask Not

Ask Not is a rare and compelling documentary film that explores the effects of the US military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gay and lesbian soldiers and service members...more information

7:00 PM

$9.00

The World Unseen - Festival Centerpiece!

In 1950's South Africa, apartheid is just beginning.

Free-spirited Amina has broken all the rules of her own conventional Indian community in South Africa by running a café, a safe haven of laughter, music and home-cooked food; a 'grey area' for those who fall outside the strict 'black and white' rules of the apartheid-led government...more information

9:30 PM

$9.00

Were The World Mine - Festival Centerpiece!

If you had a love-potion, who would you make fall madly in love with you? Timothy, prone to escaping his dismal high school reality through dazzling musical daydreams, gets to answer that question in a very real way. more information

Midnight

$10.00

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Let's do the Time Warp again! The audience participation cult classic returns to Reel Pride for a special midnight showing...more information

Sunday, November 16 2008

10:30 AM

$20.00

A Jihad for Love - Brunch and a Movie Special Event (Details)

Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma has traveled the world to uncover the lives and struggles of his faith's most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay Muslims...more information

2:00 PM

$9.00

Call Me Troy

When Troy Perry, a young married minister, finally accepts his homosexuality, he thinks that his relationship with God is over. But just when he thinks he's lost everything, he finds his calling and founds a new Christian denomination ...more information

4:15 PM

$9.00

The Universe Of Keith Haring

The Universe of Keith Haring by director Christina Clausen is an intimate portrait of world-renowned artist Keith Haring whose mantra was that "Art is for everyone!" The film is a thorough and intimate exploration of the background and career of one of the most popular and significant artists of the 20th century...more information

6:30 PM

$9.00

Ready? OK!

As a harried single mother in Normal Heights, USA, Andrea is having a tough time of it. Although her son Joshua is a smart, happy and enthusiastic ten-year-old, she worries that he's on the wrong track...more information

8:30 PM

$9.00

XXY

XXY is a portrait of Alex, a 15-year-old coping with an extended puberty made more complicated by the presence of an extra chromosome and, according to her mother, a few extra parts. Born intersex, Alex has been brought up female...more information



  
  
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