The Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival returns for its 28th year

Sunday, October 20

Lesbiana: A Parallel Revolution

The feminist movement has had a lot of spin-off campaigns, and one of them was spearheaded by lesbian feminists, many of whom created intentional, women-only communities cultivated around the globe. Myriam Fougère’s documentary revisits the women of that era, pairing their reflections with archival footage that resurrects the memory of this parallel revolution.

Lesbiana: A Parallel Revolution screens at 11 a.m. Admission is free. The film will be preceded by Superdyke, a 20 minute short from 1975 about a tribe of Amazons taking over San Francisco.

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Bwakaw

Bwakaw starts in the most serious of places: an elderly gay man named Rene, out of the closet only recently, living alone with nothing but his coffin (on-sale at a closing funeral parlor) and his loyal dog Bwakaw to keep him company. Yet this film blossoms into an affirmation of life, with Bwakaw and a new romantic attraction helping Rene shed his cantankerous demeanor and embrace the future.

Bwakaw, in English and Tagalog with English subtitles, will screen at 1 p.m. The screening is free with a photo of an animal companion to share.

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Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth

Alice Walker is one of America’s most celebrated writers, best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple but also for a string of novels, poetry and human rights efforts over the past 40-plus years. Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth paints a multifaceted portrait of its subject, opening with her childhood as a sharecropper’s daughter and building to the global stage she now finds herself a part of, through interviews with fellow writers and activists including Gloria Steinem, Jewelle Gomez and Howard Zinn.

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth screens at 3 p.m. Planned Parenthood will host a discussion/reception after the film.

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Rogue: An Evening of Trans* Shorts

As has become tradition at the festival, the third shorts program gathers trans*-focused films from both the USA and the world. Four of the films screening this year: Undress Me, a Swedish film, about a transwoman who brings a man home after a night out, that examines how identities can be formed by others’ perceptions; She Gone Rogue (above), an experimental, Alice-in-Wonderland-esque adventure through trans-feminine archetypes; Body Dialectic, a short doc about trans* activist Kris Grey/Justin Credible; and Akin, about an Orthodox Jewish mother and her transgender son trying to navigate their relationship.

Rogue screens at 5 p.m.

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Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?

Arvin Chen’s latest film has quite the cast of characters: an optometrist increasingly drawn to the handsome male stranger who walks into his shop, his second child-seeking wife, his serially married sister and his sister’s now-set aside fiance. It’s the sort of film that could be dark melodrama, but instead Chen tosses in a dash of whimsy – even including musical numbers – that makes this film anything but a formulaic option.

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?, in Mandarin and Min Yan with English subtitles, screens at 7 p.m.

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