Shropshire LGBT Film Festival
Short Film: (Saturday 7th October, 14:00). Part of the UK Short Film Programme – Ari, a sophisticated and urbane Gay man, moves into a care home and encounters Beau, the beautiful, heterosexual, illiterate former thief who is now his Carer. Their unlikely meeting changes the future for both of them.
Short Film: (Saturday 7th October, 14:00). Part of the UK Short Film Programme – Growing up in 1950s England in an intolerant and uninformed world, young Chris Winters struggles to fit into the gender roles dictated by wider society.
Short Film: (Sunday 8th October, 13:30). Part of the International Short Film Programme – A son and his traditional Irish father struggle to find common ground after the son starts questioning his gender identity in rural Ireland.
Short Film: (Saturday 7th October, 14:00). Part of the UK Short Film Programme – Amanda awakes from a one-night stand with woman she can’t get away from quickly enough. Her gay friend Nick calls telling her his mother is paying a surprise visit, bringing her Victorian values with her. Will Amanda play along and bury her pride by pretending to be his girlfriend?
Short Film: (Saturday 7th October, 14:00). Part of the UK Short Film Programme – Rita is about to kick the bucket, but before she does she’s got one last job to do: drag her granddaughter out of the closet.
Short Film: (Saturday 7th October, 14:00). Part of the UK Short Film Programme – It’s the early 90’s and Andrew, who lives on an East-London council estate, has become obsessed with his neighbour Jo.
Short Film: (Saturday 7th October, 14:00). Part of the UK Short Film Programme – George Montague is fighting for an apology over his arrest in 1974 under anti gay laws. This is his story….
Feature Film: (Saturday 8th October, 18:30). Theo and Hugo encounter each other in a sex club, where their overwhelming desire creates an unexpected intimacy.
Feature Film: (Sunday 8th October, 15:30). Signature Move is a hilarious and heartfelt look at modern families and the complexities of love in its many forms. Zaynab is a thirty-something Pakistani, Muslim, lesbian lawyer living in Chicago who begins a new romance with Alma, a confident and vivacious Mexican-American woman.
Feature Film: (Sunday 8th October, 11:00). 17 year-old Sangaile, is fascinated by stunt planes. Afraid of heights, she has never dared to even enter in one of the cockpits. At a summer aeronautical show, nearby her parents’ lakeside villa, she meets Auste – a local girl of her age, who unlike Sangaile, lives her life to the full with creativity and dare.
