Sunday, March 28, 12:30 PM

Gerry Rogers, Canada, 2008, 77 min.
Sponsored by The LGBT Community Center of St. Louis

Ferron is an icon of women's music - a folk-rock singer songwriter often compared to Bob Dylan for her intricate lyrics backed by guitar-driven melodies. Back in the day, Ferron gave the movement serious musical cred with her melancholy ballads, and at times caused controversy by including men in her band. Girl on a Road picks up Ferron as she reunites with her band and hits the road after a ten-year absence. The film documents the kick-off Vancouver concert, celebrating Ferron in performance and in backstage interviews.

Sunday, March 28, 2:15 PM

Paige Williams, U.S., 2009, 63 min.
Sponsored by Show Me No Hate

Growing up a lesbian in the south, documentary filmmaker Paige Williams endured her share of intolerance. After coming out to her Baptist family as a senior in high school, her parents formed Mississippi's only ex-gay ministry to help those conflicted between their sexual desire and religion chose the path that they believe God intended. Ten years later, Williams and her partner are expecting a child, prompting her to address the lingering contention between her lifestyle and her parents' beliefs. Mississippi Queen provides a personal look into the world of ex-gay ministries while also assembling candid testimonies from ex-gays who explain the reasons why they abandoned their homosexual lives. Williams looks beyond the controversial subject matter to offer an intimate, balanced account of the people these ex-gay ministries have helped and the ones who've been hurt by them.

Click [here] for the official film website and trailer

Shown with short subject "Heartland Transport" (Cody Stokes, U.S., 2009, 8 min.) On April 3, 2009, the Iowa Supreme court unanimously upheld the ruling holding that there was no governmental interest in denying citizens marriage licenses based on their sexual orientation. Immediately following, Ed Reggi and Scott Emanuel chartered a bus taking seventeen same sex couples to Iowa to be legally married.

Sunday, March 28, 4:30 PM

Wendy Jo Carlton, U.S., 2009, 86 min.
Underwritten by Dennis Gorg

Hannah (Sharon Gless) and Rachel grew up as little girls in the same small Midwest town, where traditional gender expectations eventually challenge their deep love for one another. Hannah becomes an adventurous, unapologetic lesbian and Rachel a strong but quiet homemaker. Weaving back and forth between past and present, the film reveals how the women maintained their love affair despite a marriage, a world war, infidelities, and family denial.

Co-star Jacqui Jackson (Greta) and Executive producer Tracy Baim will attend the screening and a post-show Q&A.

Sunday, March 28, 7:00 PM

Casper Andreas & Fred M. Caruso, U.S. 2009, 90 min.
Sponsored by Coffee Cartel

Paul and Eddie have just begun previews for the new Off-Broadway musical "Adam and Steve Just the Way God Made 'Em." Their lives strangely mirror the characters they are playing. Paul is looking for the perfect man and Eddie is dealing with how his sexuality and faith can mix. Paul is done dating and just wants to be a slut like the sexy chorus boys. Eddie has yet to tell his parents that he's gay. But after musical numbers with scantly clad tap dancing angels, a retelling of Genesis, tele-evangelists, a camp that attempts to turn gay kids straight, and a bunch of showtunes, everyone realizes that life gets better once they accept who they really are.

Sunday, March 28, 9:15 PM

Haim Tabakman, Israel, 2009, 91 min., Hebrew with English subtitles
Sponsored by Jason Jay Evans

Winner of the John Schlesinger Award for Outstanding First Feature at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Eyes Wide Open addresses one man's conflict between his religious beliefs and his sexual desire. Aaron (Zohar Shtrauss of the upcoming Lebanon) is an Orthodox Jewish husband and father of four in Jerusalem, making a living as a butcher. To his surprise, he finds himself attracted to Ezri (Ran Danker of The Band's Visit), a handsome twenty-two year-old student. Plagued by guilt and fear, Aaron must decide whether to pursue his feelings, which aren't accepted by the community, or to repress them and continue his life as he had before meeting Ezri.

Monday, March 29, 7:00 PM

Ella Lemhagen, Sweden, 2008, 98 min. Swedish with English subtitles
Underwritten by Dennis Gorg

Goran and Sven have been cleared for adoption and they have a possibility to adopt a Swedish orphan, Patrik 1,5. But when Patrik arrives he turns out to be someone else, not the little boy they were expecting. A comma had been misplaced, and instead comes a 15-year-old homophobic with a criminal past.

Monday, March 29, 9:15 PM

Casper Andreas & Fred M. Caruso, U.S. 2009, 90 min.
Sponsored by Coffee Cartel

Paul and Eddie have just begun previews for the new Off-Broadway musical "Adam and Steve Just the Way God Made 'Em." Their lives strangely mirror the characters they are playing. Paul is looking for the perfect man and Eddie is dealing with how his sexuality and faith can mix. Paul is done dating and just wants to be a slut like the sexy chorus boys. Eddie has yet to tell his parents that he's gay. But after musical numbers with scantly clad tap dancing angels, a retelling of Genesis, tele-evangelists, a camp that attempts to turn gay kids straight, and a bunch of showtunes, everyone realizes that life gets better once they accept who they really are.

Tuesday, March 30, 7:00 PM

J.C. Calciano, U.S., 2010, 93 min.
Sponsored by West End Tan

With a popular blog and a Carrie Bradshaw-esque magazine column, Blaine should have better luck with men, but in a city as image-conscious as Los Angeles, his old-fashioned romantic beliefs and Average Joe looks haven't gotten him far. His luck appears to change, however, when he meets a sweet, new-to-L.A. musician online. After several nights of chatting on the computer and over the phone, they decide to meet, but Blaine quickly realizes that he'd accidentally been chatting under his hunky go-go dancer roommate's profile. You've Got Mail meets Eating Out in this charming gay screwball comedy with a modern twist -- a glimpse at how technological advancements have affected the dating world.

Tuesday, March 30, 9:15 PM

Enrique Buchichio, Uruguay, 2009, 92 min., Spanish with English subtitles
Sponsored by Growing American Youth

Two former primary school classmates, now in their mid-twenties, initiate a friendship after running into one another by chance on the street. Leo has just been dumped by his girlfriend and has taken to cruising for men online instead of focusing on his thesis. Like Leo, Caro has her priorities on hold, spending most of her days in bed popping anti-depressants. With Leo unwilling to address his sexual confusion and Caro unable to speak of what's ailing her, they spend their time together listening to music in Leo's rented room, providing one another with an escape from their seemingly overwhelming loneliness. First-time director Enrique Buchichio fascinatingly captures the frustration that comes with being in one's mid-twenties and explores the ways in which people's fear of rejection keeps them from exposing their true selves.

Shown with short subject "I'm Gay" (Cyra K. Polizzi & Christopher Weiher, U.S., 2009, 4 min) Told from the perspective of the wonderfully imaginative protagonist and that of his loving parents, this short film celebrates the excitement, apprehension, sense of community and embracing of gay stereotypes that often accompany those two little words, "I'm gay."

Wednesday, March 31, 7:00 PM

Leanne Pooley, New Zealand, 2009, 84 min.
Underwritten by Cindy Walker

The Topp Twins are New Zealand's well-loved musical and comic duo. Twin sisters with their own primetime TV Series and Movie they are truly original entertainers and one of the few NZ acts which can undoubtedly be called a cultural institution. Fun, disarming and musically provocative, the Topp Twins are New Zealand's finest lesbian country and western singers and the country's greatest export since rack of lamb and the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.

Wednesday, March 31, 9:15 PM

Ellen Seidler & Megan Siler, U.S., 2009, 76 min.
Sponsored by ALIVE Magazine

Substituting Berlin for San Francisco, And Then Came Lola updates Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run into a buoyant lesbian romantic comedy. Lola, a commitment-phobic photographer, must race against the clock to retrieve a set of photographs for her girlfriend Casey, who is meeting with a business client for a make-or-break contract. Perpetually late, Lola has three chances to make it to the meeting in time, but with unsympathetic meter maids, bitter ex-girlfriends and angry lesbians with angrier dogs in her way, will Lola be able to save both her career and her relationship?

Shown with short subjects: "Allison, My Love" (Richard Paro, U.S., 2009, 2 min.) When an intimate moment is interrupted, three passionate people are affected by a simple slip of the tongue.

"So-Called Living" (Cyra K. Polizzi, U.S., 2009, 5 min.) This parody of the cult 90s TV series "My So-Called Life" is a lighthearted short about those transitional times in adulthood when all the awkward angst-filled longing of adolescence comes rushing back.