SUNDAY, November 11

Metro 4 Theatre, 618 State St.

10:30 am - Ladies Who Brunch
Join Queen Justine and other movie-minded minxes in the theater lobby for breakfast treats before the Women's Shorts program. Mingle and munch as you catch up on everyone’s Saturday-night adventures and fuel up for a final day of fab films.
Complimentary with Festival pass or ticket

Sponsored by: TBA

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11:30 am - Women's Shorts

Do You Have a Cat?
Meow, woof, dander, fluff—dating can be tough! when you’re a bisexual with certain sensitivities. Buffy fans: watch for a cameo by Amber Benson.
Director: Jason Sax / USA, 2011, 11 minutes

One Night (En natts forhold)
After meeting in a club, two women spend a snowy night tentatively feeling out their connection.
Director: Joséphine Adams / Sweden, 2012, 23 minutes
in Norwegian with English subtitles

The Queen of My Dreams
Bollywood fantasies get dressed up and down in a mischievous ode to self-definition.
Directors: Fawzia Mirza & Ryan Logan / USA, 2012, 3 minutes

Genderfreak
A dorky high-school rocker and a new genderqueer student can’t decide whether to be best friends or best enemies. If you love (or hate) Glee, you just might love this.
Director: Rebecca Louisell / USA, 2012, 19 minutes

Shopping
Over decades, the aisles of a grocery store assume sublime significance for a pair of shoppers.
Director: Will Kuether / Australia, 2011, 6 minutes

Tsuyako

  In an evocatively portrayed postwar Japan, a factory worker and mother is caught between tradition and liberation, duty and love. Awarded Best Short at the 2012 Frameline Film Festival.
Director: Mitsuyo Miyazaki / USA & Japan, 2011, 24 minutes
in Japanese with English subtitles

Invited Guests: Nicole Kristal of Do You Have a Cat?, Rebecca Louisell of Genderfreak

Women’s Shorts sponsored by: TBA

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1:30 pm - Call Me Kuchu

Homophobia (and worse) is rampant across the African continent and nowhere more than in Uganda, where Christian fundamentalists and proposed draconian laws have created an atmosphere of oppression for the fledgling LGBT community. When David Kato, the country’s leading gay activist, is brutally murdered in 2011—during the filming of this documentary on his work—his death resonates throughout the world and becomes a lightning rod for LGBT rights in Africa. Winner of a Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival, Call Me Kuchu is a remarkable portrait of courage and the inspiring final testimony of a true David fighting a mean-spirited Goliath.

Directors: Katherine Fairfax Wright & Malika Zouhali-Worrall / USA & Uganda, 2012, 87 minutes
in English and Luganda with English subtitles

Panel Discussion to follow screening

Panel Guests: TBA

Sponsored by:

Fund for Santa Barbara

Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara

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4:00 pm - Mosquita y Mari

In this Sundance darling, set in L.A.’s Huntington Park and shot in a vérité style, quiet, middle-class honors student Yolanda and scrappy, fiery Mari form a friendship. Yolanda helps Mari study for math; Mari introduces Yolanda to street culture, wind-in-your-hair bike rides, and secret hideaways in the urban landscape. As the bond between them deepens from affection to attraction—perhaps more clearly for one than the other—we’re witness to a vital coming-of-age story that illuminates its characters with rare honesty.

“Mosquita y Mari is neither a standard coming-out film nor a ballad of requited or unrequited love. Ms. Pineda and Ms. Troncoso give wonderfully natural performances in which they convey the impulsiveness and insecurity of adolescence.” - The New York Times

Director: Aurora Guerrero / USA, 2012, 85 minutes
in English and Spanish with English subtitles

Sponsored by: TBA

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6:30 pm - Let My People Go!
Happily ensconced in Finland with his lover, Ruben is far away from his madcap Jewish family when circumstances force him to return to their smothering embrace in Paris on the eve of Passover. None is more off the wall than his crazy mother (Almodóvar favorite Carmen Maura), but our hero also has to deal with irate in-laws and closeted community leaders. An uproarious farce with dazzling visuals and zany performances, Let My People Go! is most of all a heartwarmer packed with laughs and heaping helpings of kitschy fun.

Director: Mikael Buch / France, 2011, 86 minutes
in French and Finnish with English subtitles

Sponsored by: Mashey Bernstein

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8:30 pm - Ballroom Rules

The tango, the waltz, the cha-cha: these gay and lesbian Australians love to boogie. So they think they can dance, but can they make it to the Gay Games in Cologne, Germany, to compete against the world’s best queer ballroom dancers? Dust off your taffeta gowns and tuxedos, polish your best dancing shoes, and follow the twinkle-toed students of Dance Cats Studio as they sweat their way through heartache and joy on the road to triumph.

Directors: Nickolas Bird & Eleanor Sharpe / Australia, 2012, 77 minutes

Sponsored by:

Santa Barbara Dance Center

David Alvarez

John Fishpaw