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Sunday...
21st September
Reaching For The Moon 
Tomboy 
Ten year old Laure isn’t like most girls. She prefers football to dolls
and sweaters to dresses. When Laure, her parents and little sister
Jeanne move to a new neighbourhood, family life remains much
the same. That is, until local girl Lisa mistakes Laure to be a boy.
Indulging in this exciting new identity, Laure becomes Michael, and
so begins a summer of long sunny afternoons, playground games
and first kisses. Yet with the school term fast approaching, and with
suspicions arising amongst friends and family, Laure must face up to
an uncertain future.
Tomboy is a beautifully directed, superbly acted and sharply
observed study of emerging female sexuality that’s by turns
funny, thought provoking, suspenseful and heart-breaking.
Highly recommended. - 4 stars - Viewlondon.co.uk
Director: Celine Sciamma
Cert: U - French
Cast: Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana
Sunday Afternoon:
Time: 4.00pm
Tickets:£5.00/Conc:£3.50
SHORT - Hold On Tight
Dir. Anna Rodgers, Ireland English 13mins 2011(U)
Holding hands or kissing in public isn’t for everyone. When it
comes to same sex relationships, showing your love outside
of the home is sometimes a complicated personal choice. This
acclaimed documentary moves between the public and private
spaces in which lesbian and gay couples live, and explores
small gestures of human connectedness.
SHORT - James Dean
Dir. Lucy Asten Elliott (UK) 8mins 2011 (15)
A family tries its best to get out of their driveway for a holiday
break, but one of their daughters has decided it’s finally time to
bring out the ‘real’ her in this London Lesbian and Gay favourite.
Stud Life
JJ is a Black Lesbian Stud. Together with her best friend, Seb, a
white gay pretty boy, they work as wedding snappers. Their clients
are wide, weird and wonderful. JJ and Seb are both looking for love
but in the wrong places. So, when JJ falls in love with the beautiful
and mysterious Elle, JJ and Seb’s friendship is tested for the first
time as JJ has to choose between her hot new lover and her best
friend.
Seb rejects the flirtatious advances of their local drug dealer
Smack Jack as Seb is too busy lusting after a straight-acting man,
Manchester Joe, who he found on Gaydar. London-set Stud Life is a
sexy, young and cool gay romance taking a unique look at a slice of
British urban life.
Director: Campbell X
Cert: 15 - UK English
Cast: T’Nia Miller, Kyle Treslove
Set at the height of 1950s glamour, this audience award winning
drama recounts the extraordinary relationship between Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (played by Miranda Otto, Lord
of the Rings) and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares (the
beautifully handsome Gloria Pires). In search of inspiration, Bishop
leaves America having accepted the invitation of an old college friend
to stay with her on her sprawling country estate in Brazil. But she
never counted on meeting the love of her life - her friend’s partner.
At first, the fiery personalities of the two women collide and lead to
passion-fuelled debates, but animosity quickly turns to attraction,
then desire. From Oscar® nominated director Bruno Barreto,
REACHING FOR THE MOON is an intimate portrait of two
remarkable artists as they discover the most incredible love.
Sunday Evening:
Director: Bruno Barreto
Time: 8.00pm
Cert: 15 tbc - English
Tickets:£5.00/Conc:£3.50
Cast: Glória Pires, Miranda Otto
Sunday Evening:
Time: 6.00pm
Tickets:£5.00/Conc:£3.50
SHORT - For Dorian 
- 6.30pm
Dir. (18) Canada English 16mins 2012
For Dorian aspires to deal with a sensitive and vastly under-represented issue: the sexual awakening of teenagers with visible
disabilities. Told from the moving perspective of a devoted father
of a boy with Down Syndrome, it challenges the ways in which
the disabled are frequently asexualised.
Any Day Now  - 7.00pm
September 18th—22nd
at Kardomah 94
Positive cinema for LGBT+ friends
TM
Special thanks to:
© 2014 Hull LGBT+ Community Pride
Tickets & info from: www.prideinhull.co.uk
Festival Partners:
Monday...
22nd September
(Los Angeles, California, 1978. When singer, Rudy Donatello (Tony
Award winner, Alan Cumming) meets ambitious lawyer, Paul Fliger
(Garret Dillahunt), little do they know they are about to embark on
the biggest and most important journey of their lives. When Rudy’s
neighbour is arrested and sent to jail, the couple take in her teenage
son, Marco (Isaac Leyva) and they quickly become the family
that Marco has always wanted. But when their alternative living
arrangements are exposed, the family become subject to prejudice
from everyone around them. The pair then becomes embroiled in a
fight against a biased legal system to keep the child they have come
to love as their own.
Winner of numerous international audience awards and
inspired by a touching true story, Any Day Now is an emotional
drama, which resonates on a universal level and reminds us of
the importance of never giving up.
Friday Evening:
Director: Travis Fine
Time: 7.00pm
Cert: 15 - US English
Cast: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt Tickets:£5.00/Conc:£3.50
Thursday 18th September - 7.30pm
Friday 19th September - 6.00pm
Saturday 20th September - 2.00pm
North Sea Texas 
Pim lives in a small town on the Belgian coast, together with his
single mother Yvette, a local accordion starlet. It’s an ordinary
existence which Pim brightens up by dreaming of princesses, beauty
queens and handsome Gino, the boy next door. But when hunky
traveller Zoltan blows through town, Pim’s life takes an exciting and
unexpected turn. Cult director Bavo Defurne, whose short films, love
letters to the male form and soaked with lush visuals, have garnered
fans from across the globe - drawing comparisons to Pierre et Gilles,
Herbert List, Dreyer and Eisenstein.
“A poignantly rendered coming-of-ager... delicately captures
the ecstasy of first love” - Variety
Director: Bavo Defurne
Saturday Afternoon:
Cert: 15 tbc - Flemish
Time: 2.00pm
Cast: Jelle Florizoone, Mathias Vergels Tickets:£5.00/Conc:£3.50
Launch Evening Special in association with (HICP) Hull
Independent Cinema Project. We are proud to kick off this
year’s festival with the award-winning;
Stranger By The Lake 
Summer time. A cruising spot for gay men seeking nameless sexual
encounters, is tucked away on the shores of a picturesque secluded
lake in rural France. Franck is an attractive young male who falls in
love with Michel, a striking, extremely potent but lethally dangerous
man. Franck has witnessed this first hand, but his desire for Michel
knows no bounds, this is a relationship he must have – at any cost.
STRANGER BY THE LAKE is a tense thriller set against the secluded
back drop of, what becomes inevitably, the most dangerous lake in
France... A provocative and accomplished effort by France’s bad boy
auteur, STRANGER BY THE LAKE is Alain Guiraudie’s steamy mix
of the comic and the tragic, winning Best Director at the 2013 Cannes
Film Festival, becoming one of the year’s most distinguished breakout
successes.
****Winner Best Director, Cannes Un Certain Regard 2013
Director: Alain Guiraudie
Cert: 18
Cast: Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe
Paou Patrick d’Assumçao
French
I Am Divine 
Saturday 20th September - 4.00pm
“WHO WANTS TO DIE FOR ART?!”
The ultimate outsider turned underground royalty, I Am Divine is a
biographical portrait that charts the legendary icon’s rise to infamy as
a cult superstar.
Featuring rare movie footage, live performances and brand new
interviews with John Waters, Ricki Lake, Mink Stole, Tab Hunter and
Divine’s mother in addition to many more of Divine’s friends and
colleagues. This is the definitive biography honouring Divine in a way
Time: 7.30pm
Tickets:£4.00
Director: Jeffrey Schwarz
Friday Evening:
Cast: Ricki Lake, John Waters, Divine Time: 6.00pm
Cert: 18 - US English
Tickets:£5.00/Conc:£3.50
Friday 19th September - 8.00pm
Friday SHORT Selection - appx. 7.30pm
A Stable For Disabled Horses
Dir. Fabio Youniss -13mins 2012 - (18tbc) English
When Kanoute decides to move back to Norway his
best friend, Benny throws him a surprise party – a party
just for two. It soon becomes apparent that Benny has
a secret that he has to get off his chest before Kanoute
leaves, but is it a secret Kanoute wants to hear?
****Official Selection:
Iris Prize Film Festival,
East End Film Festival, Cornwall Film Festival
Bruno & Earlene Go To Vegas
Headstrong Earlene (And Then Came Lola star, Ashleigh Sumner)
meets the handsome and mysterious Bruno (Boys on Film star, Miles
Szanto) at Venice Beach. These outsiders quickly become friends
and when Bruno’s latest scam goes wrong, it forces them to go on
the run. On their journey, they meet a sexually confused car-jacker,
a pair of Scottish ex-strippers and a tap-dancing drag queen, all of
whom settle into a little place deep within the Nevada desert. This
gaggle of runaways and rebels teach Bruno and Earlene that it is not
about the destination, but the getting there that counts.
An exciting debut feature from queer filmmaker Simon Savory, Bruno
& Earlene Go To Vegas is a road movie like never before.
Friday Evening:
Director: Simon Savory
Time: 8.00pm
Cert: 15 tbc - US English
Cast: Miles Szanto, Ashleigh Sumner, Tickets:£5.00/Conc:£3.50
Saturday SHORTS
What You Looking At?
Dir. Faryal – 10 mins (18) UK English
Two very different people in the London borough of Lambeth - a
drag queen (Michael Twaits) and a woman in a burka. Only in a
lift would they ever cross each another’s path. But these two have
more in common than they first thought.
Spooners 
Dir. Bryan Horch – 14 mins (15) US English
In this hilarious, inventive and pleasingly whimsical comedy, a gay
couple’s ridiculous quest for a comfortable mattress transforms
into a journey of acceptance and public openness with their
sexuality.
XXY 
Saturday 20th September - 6.00pm
Alex is a 15-year-old with a secret. What she hides is something
that has driven her family to the windswept outer-reaches of the
Uruguayan shoreline. Her father, Kraken wants what is best for his
daughter, yet knows she cannot go on living the life she leads. For
Alex is intersexual, yet all she wants is to be left alone, to be herself.
An old family friend, who is also a plastic surgeon, is invited to stay
at their isolated cabin, along with his teenage son. As Alex realises
the disturbing ramifications of the visit, she develops a relationship
with Álvaro that is far from conventional…
Highly acclaimed and the subject of much debate, XXY is the intimate coming-of-age portrayal of a teenager torn between the love of
her parents, her own personal desires, and the daunting, inevitable
path into adulthood.
“Unusual and emotionally charged coming-of-ager” - Metro
Director: Lucía Puenzo
Cert: 15- Uruguay Spanish
Cast: Inés Efron, Ricardo Darín
Friday Evening:
Time: 4.00pm
Tickets:£5.00/Conc:£3.50
Saturday 20th September - 8.00pm
Weekend 
On a Friday night after hanging out with his straight mates, Russell
heads out to a nightclub, alone and on the pull. Just before closing
time he picks up Glen. And so begins a weekend – in bars and in
bedrooms, getting drunk and taking drugs, telling stories and having
sex – that will resonate throughout their lives.
“A deftly-played and beautifully-paced little romance”
- The Guardian
Director: Andrew Haigh
Cert: 18 - UK English
Cast: Tom Cullen, Chris New
Friday Evening:
Time: 8.00pm
Tickets:£5.00/Conc:£3.50
I Am Happiness On Earth
Emiliano films intimate moments with a group of male dancers,
recording their defined, tight bodies in strong, energetic movements
and soon forms an impassioned relationship with one of his subjects.
Although the relationship is emotional, erotic and intense, Emiliano
finds it impossible to remain faithful and enters into a series of sexual
encounters with handsome street hustlers.
Directed by Julian Hernandez, one of Mexico’s most famous directors (Broken Sky, Raging Sun Raging Sky), I AM HAPPINESS ON
EARTH is a tale of a man struggling with the line between his sexually charged reality and this equally arousing cinematic creations. His
boldly poetic romance compares with such films as Fellini’s 8 1/2,
exploring the connections between sex, love and creativity.
Friday Evening:
Director: Julián Hernández
Time: 6.00pm
Cert: 15tbc - Mexico Spanish
Cast: Hugo Catalán, Gabino Rodríguez Tickets:£5.00/Conc:£3.50