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#GAYBOY2020
A gay dating app horror. Without a sturdy self-esteem, 20-something June mourns his life after putting all his worth in one man.
| Program Category: | GenreQueer | Release Year: | 2020 | Runtime: | 9 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | United States | Original Language: | English | | Pre-header: | Fiction | | Director: | Noah Causey | Producer: | Noah Causey | | Elan Nelson | Screenwriter: | Noah Causey | Cinematographer: | William Christensen |
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(-)Ship: A Visual Poem
A black boy learns contradicting lessons of manhood and masculinity on the day of his cousin's funeral.
| Program Category: | Black Lens | | GenreQueer | Release Year: | 2020 | Runtime: | 13 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | United States | Original Language: | English | | Pre-header: | Fiction | | Director: | Terrance Daye | Producer: | Chester Algernal Gordon | | Terrance Daye | | KarynRose Bruyning | Screenwriter: | Terrance Daye |
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100 Years of Music: Trudy and the LA Phil
Gertrude “Trudy” Lehrer was born in Austria in 1919. She left Vienna as a teenager, a refugee from Hitler on the eve of World War II. For a century, Trudy has built her life around two things: family and music.
| Program Category: | Rated K: For Kids | Release Year: | 2020 | Runtime: | 4 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | United States | Original Language: | English | Film Sponsor: | United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County | | Pre-header: | Documentary | | Director: | Jamie Thalman | | Julien Lasseur | Producer: | Jamie Thalman | | Scott Arenstein | Editor: | Jamie Thalman |
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3feet
3feet is the adventurous journey of Gonzalo, an imaginative and tenacious 10-year old facing the most difficult task of his life: get to school with clean shoes in order to prevent being separated from his best friend (his football), until the end of the year.
| Program Category: | Rated K: For Kids | Release Year: | 2019 | Runtime: | 14 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | Colombia | Original Language: | Spanish | Subtitles: | English | Website: | https://vimeo.com/gisellegeney | Film Sponsor: | United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County | | Pre-header: | Fiction | | Director: | Giselle Geney | Producer: | Natalia Bernal Castillo | Screenwriter: | Giselle Geney | Cinematographer: | Andrés Arizmendy | Editor: | Manuel Monslave |
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A Better You
“A Better You” tells the story Douglas (O’Meallaigh) a shy, introverted man looking for love in a dystopian steampunk world. After winning tickets to the city’s Dance Extravaganza Douglas invests in a better you, a carbon clone of himself with artificial personality customization to help him win the girl of his dreams, Olga (Mamalis).
| Program Category: | Shorter Is Better | Release Year: | 2019 | Runtime: | 16 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | Ireland | Original Language: | English | | Pre-header: | Fiction | | Director: | Eamonn Murphy | Producer: | Quintin Ahern | Screenwriter: | Eamonn Murphy |
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A Galaxy Sits in the Cracks
“A Galaxy Sits in the Cracks” is a short, experimental documentary in six parts exploring the ways black communities in Chicago, Detroit, and Durham, NC use the concept of Afrofuturism as a tool to inspire young people, organize politically and economically, and reimagine the spaces around them.
| Program Category: | Black Lens | Release Year: | 2020 | Runtime: | 18 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | United States | Original Language: | English | Website: | https://www.galaxyinthecracks.com/ | | Pre-header: | Documentary | | Director: | Amber Love |
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A Lynx in the Town (Un lynx dans la ville)
A curious lynx leaves its forest, attracted by the lights of the nearby town.
| Program Category: | Rated K: For Kids | Release Year: | 2019 | Runtime: | 7 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | France | | Switzerland | Original Language: | No Dialogue | | Pre-header: | Animation | | Director: | Nina Bisiarina | Producer: | Reginald de Guillebon | Screenwriter: | Nina Bisiarina |
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A Portrait of Frances, Enclosed
A polaroid flashes, it’s 1978 and Frances, twelve years old, drops a risqué photo of herself and a love letter into an envelope to slip under the door of her crush. But when an older friend suggests she may be coming on too strong, Frances tries desperately to undo what she did.
| Program Category: | Shorter Is Better | Release Year: | 2019 | Runtime: | 12 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | United States | Original Language: | English | | Pre-header: | Fiction | | Director: | Katie Schiller | | Jacob Levy | Producer: | Kieran Altmann | | Lucy Licht |
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A Storybook Ending
When a black man accidentally kills a white cop in self-defense, the cover-up sets off a chain reaction of deceit, blackmail, and murder.
| Program Category: | Black Lens | Release Year: | 2020 | Runtime: | 18 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | United States | Original Language: | English | | Pre-header: | Fiction | | Director: | Lanre Olabisi | Screenwriter: | Lanre Olabisi |
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About Endlessness (Om det oändliga)
Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson (*A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence*) returns in peak form. *About Endlessness* follows a series of vignettes in which an unseen narrator observes the absurdity and humor of everyday life. But of course, this is Roy Andersson, so it is the driest, darkest humor money can buy. Some scenes drift into fantasy, while others are mundane and quotidian, but as a whole you get a stunning portrait of the human experience.
| Program Category: | Worldviews | Release Year: | 2019 | Runtime: | 76 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | Sweden | | Germany | | Norway | Original Language: | Swedish | Subtitles: | English | Website: | http://www.magpictures.com/aboutendlessness/ | | Pre-header: | Fiction | | Director: | Roy Andersson | Producer: | Johan Carlsson | | Pernilla Sandström | | Philippe Bober | Screenwriter: | Roy Andersson | Cinematographer: | Gergely Pálos |
Thu, Oct 15, 2020 4:00 PM
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Accents
An ode to her mother’s Puerto Rican accent and a reclaiming of her voice, by poet Denice Frohman.
| Program Category: | Rated K: For Kids | Release Year: | 2019 | Runtime: | 3 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | Australia | Original Language: | English | | Spanish | Subtitles: | English | Website: | https://www.robertinozambrano.com/ted-ed-accents1 | | Pre-header: | Animation | | Director: | Robertino Zambrano | Screenwriter: | Denice Frohman |
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Aggie
Emmy-nominated director Catherine Gund turns the lens on her own mother, art collector and philanthropist Agnes "Aggie" Gund. Through her dogged support of emerging artists - especially women and people of color - Aggie demonstrates the potential for collectors and benefactors to seek social justice, while also advocating vociferously for everyone to have access to the arts regardless of background. Inspiring and intimate, this portrait of a vanguard figure is not to be missed.
| Program Category: | Art & Artists | | Documentary Festival Favorites | Release Year: | 2020 | Runtime: | 92 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | United States | Original Language: | English | Website: | https://strandreleasing.com/films/aggie/#:~:text=Aggie%20is%20a%20feature%2Dlength | | Agnes%20%E2%80%9CAggie%E2%80%9D%20Gund's%20life. | Film Sponsor: | Judith McGregor and Richard Gallun | | Pre-header: | Documentary | | Director: | Catherine Gund | Producer: | Catherine Gund | | Tanya Selvaratnam | Cinematographer: | Catherine Gund | | Rachel Lears | | Karen Song | Editor: | Gil Seltzer |
Thu, Oct 15, 2020 4:00 PM
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Ahead of the Curve
This entertaining and informative documentary tells the history of Curve, the best-selling lesbian lifestyle magazine ever published. Following the pioneering exploits of its founder, Franco Stevens, *Ahead of the Curve* charts the groundbreaking cultural impact that Curve had on lesbian politics and visibility. Curve broke new ground in centering the diversity of the lesbian experience, drawing attention to problems that persist to this day. Featuring appearances by lesbian royalty Melissa Etheridge and Lea DeLaria.
| Program Category: | GenreQueer | | Documentary Festival Favorites | Release Year: | 2020 | Runtime: | 95 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | United States | Original Language: | English | Website: | https://curvemagmovie.com/ | | Pre-header: | Documentary | | Director: | Jen Rainin | Producer: | Rivkah Beth Medow | Cinematographer: | Svetlana Cvetko | | Clare Major | Editor: | Jessica Congdon |
Thu, Oct 15, 2020 4:00 PM
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Ailín on the Moon (Ailin en la luna)
A mother and daughter’s love is orbited by joys and challenges.
| Program Category: | Rated K: For Kids | Release Year: | 2018 | Runtime: | 5 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | Argentina | Original Language: | Spanish | Subtitles: | English | | Pre-header: | Fiction | | Animation | | Director: | Claudia Ruiz | Producer: | Claudia Ruiz | Screenwriter: | Claudia Ruiz | | Malena Martinez | Cinematographer: | Marcos Martinez |
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Akashinga: The Brave Ones
An all-female anti-poaching unit pushes a group of new recruits to the limit as they attempt to protect the elephants of their homeland.
| Program Category: | Shorter Is Better | Release Year: | 2020 | Runtime: | 13 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | United States | Original Language: | English | | Shona | Subtitles: | English | | Pre-header: | Documentary | | Director: | Maria Wilhelm | Producer: | Kim Butts | | Drew Pulley | | Maria Wilhelm | | James Cameron |
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Alice Júnior
An effervescent teen comedy from Brazil about a transgender high schooler looking for her first kiss. Alice’s world is turned upside down when she relocates from the big city to a small town for her father’s work. Trapped in a conservative school that rejects her identity, Alice must find a new community of queers and allies hiding in plain sight. *Alice Júnior* explodes with the style of TikToks and YouTube videos and celebrates the power of community. WISCONSIN ONLY
| Program Category: | GenreQueer | | Worldviews | Release Year: | 2019 | Runtime: | 87 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | Brazil | Original Language: | Portuguese | Subtitles: | English | | Pre-header: | Fiction | | Director: | Gil Baroni |
Thu, Oct 15, 2020 4:00 PM
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Alice Street
At the intersection of Alice and 14th Streets in the heart of downtown Oakland, California, tension is brewing between real estate developers and artists around the best present and future uses of a coveted historic space. Following the proposal, creation, and final result of a mural, this documentary shows how art can work as a tool for grassroots activism and underscores the power of coalition-building to disrupt the displacing forces of privilege.
| Program Category: | Art & Artists | Release Year: | 2020 | Runtime: | 67 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | United States | Original Language: | English | | Cantonese | Subtitles: | English | Website: | http://www.alicestreetfilm.com | Film Sponsor: | Beth Jaworski and Mark Blumenberg | | Pre-header: | Documentary | | Director: | Spencer Wilkinson | Screenwriter: | Eric Arnold |
Thu, Oct 15, 2020 4:00 PM
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America's Socialist Experiment
Narrated and produced by Mike Gousha, local documentarian Steve Boettcher explores how Milwaukee, of all places, elected so many socialist leaders throughout its history - and how their strong commitments to environmental responsibility, public health, and ending political corruption have endured. Through archival materials and interviews with local historians (John Gurda? check), family members of these leaders, and more, this documentary weaves a compelling history of Milwaukee's unique political fabric.
| Program Category: | Cream City Cinema | Release Year: | 2020 | Runtime: | 57 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | United States | Original Language: | English | Website: | http://socialismfilm.com | Film Sponsor: | Madeleine and David Lubar | | Pre-header: | Documentary | | Director: | Steve Boettcher | Screenwriter: | Mike Trinklein | | Lynn Sprangers | | Michael Gousha |
Thu, Oct 15, 2020 4:00 PM
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And yet we are not super-heroes (On est pas près d'être des super héros)
When you’re a child, there’s a fragile moment where the boundary between fantasy and reality is shattered. Hear testimonials from children between these two worlds.
| Program Category: | Rated K: For Kids | Release Year: | 2020 | Runtime: | 12 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | Belgium | | France | | Portugal | Original Language: | French | Subtitles: | English | Website: | https://vimeo.com/liabertels | | Pre-header: | Animation | | Documentary | | Director: | Lia Bertels | Producer: | Thierry Zamparutti | | Vanessa Ventura | | Nuno Amorim | | Serge Kestemont | | Claire Beffa | Screenwriter: | Lia Bertels | Editor: | María José Fuentes |
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Average Happiness
During a PowerPoint presentation, statistical diagrams are breaking free from the strait-jacket of their coordinates. A trip into the sensual world of statistics begins. Pie charts are melting, arrow diagrams twisting, scatter plots, bar graphs and stock market curves join in a collective climax.
| Program Category: | Shorter Is Better | Release Year: | 2019 | Runtime: | 7 | Event Type: | Streaming | Country of Origin: | Switzerland | Original Language: | English | | Pre-header: | Fiction | | Animation | | Director: | Maja Gehrig |
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