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Wicked Queer Film Festival
April 2, 2023 - April 9, 2023
Wicked Queer: Boston’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival (formerly the Boston LGBT Film Festival) was founded in 1984 by film programmer George Mansour. Wicked Queer is the 4th longest running LGBTQ+ Film Festival in North America and is an all volunteer organization. Our mission is to build community and to celebrate Queer storytelling and filmmaking through the uplifting of voices and stories not yet heard and to present and preserve the vibrancy of our histories.
Wicked Trans: People Living
April 2, 3:30 PM – Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center
These words are the first you hear in this year’s Trans program; “I don’t want to tell this fin’ story any more – this fin’ Trans trauma. We know that story. It’s always there. Like, where’s the story of the people who are really living life?” – Lisa Stephen Friday. Here is a set of short films about people living life.
Tickets: https://www.wickedqueer.org/events/wicked-trans-people-living
A Place of Our Own
April 7, 7:00 PM – Brattle Theatre
Laila and Roshni, two Trans women, are looking for a house after they are evicted from the place they rented. It soon becomes evident that their search for a home is also their ongoing search for a place in this society that wants to keep them away in a section that cannot be the centre. As the search for a home continues, we realise it transcends physical spaces and biological bonds. New friendships blossom and help comes from unexpected quarters.
Tickets: https://www.wickedqueer.org/events/a-place-of-our-own
Joyland
April 8, 2:30 PM – MFA, Boston
The youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque, and he quickly becomes infatuated with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.
Tickets: https://www.wickedqueer.org/events/joyland
Heels Over Wheels
April 9, 5:00 PM – Brattle Theatre
A family of Drag Queens and a Transgender woman travel by motorhome to Murcia, a region in rural Spain, to show their support to a kid who suffered a homophobic attack at his school.
Tickets: https://www.wickedqueer.org/events/heels-over-wheels
Mutt
April 8, 7:00 PM – Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center
Within the space of 24 hours, Feña is swept through the extremes of human emotion when people who seemed to disappear when he transitioned are suddenly back in his life.
