Welcome to another semester with the Other Film Club!

 

 

All of our films are shown

Sundays at FIVE (2 hours earlier!)

for FREE!

 

 

The Women Make Movies Film Festival
 

 

 

March 11

Boy I Am

Boy I Am is a documentary that breaks down the barrier of gender and promotes dialogue about transgender issues by looking at the experiences of three young transitioning FTMs in New York City--Nicco, Norie and Keegan--as they go through major junctures in their transitions, as well as through the voices of lesbians, activists and theorists who raise and address the questions that many people have but few openly discuss.

Love, Honor, and Disobey
Domestic violence in all forms - from physical abuse to forced marriages to honor killings - continues to be frighteningly common worldwide and accepted as "normal" within too many societies. Getting to the heart of current multicultural debates, the film reveals the issues of domestic violence in Britain's black and ethnic minority communities through the eyes of the Southall Black Sisters, a small group of women who have been working to combat abuse for many years.

 

April 8

I Was a Teenage Feminist
I WAS A TEENAGE FEMINIST is a personal journey into a powerful, political movement that once sparked passionate response and social revolution, but now routinely evokes discomfort, indifference and even disdain. Armed with a video camera, an inquiring mind, and an irreverent sense of humor, filmmaker Therese Shechter crisscrosses both the continent and her own psyche in the hope of reconnecting to the power and sense of purpose that feminism gave her as a teenager in the 1970s.

Buoyant
Julie Wyman’s ebullient experimental documentary intertwines the story of the Padded Lilies, a troupe of fat synchronized swimmers, Archimedes, the Greek mathematician obsessed with floating bodies, and the inventor of the "Drystroke Swimulator" to investigate, proclaim and celebrate the fact that fat floats! Giddy and irreverent, moving fluidly between color and black and white, video and film, handheld and locked-down camera styles, Buoyant draws attention to its own surface and leaves us with the exuberant possibility of a fat body that literally and culturally rises, like cream, to the top.

 

 

April 15

God Sleeps in Rwanda
This film relates the stories of five women who survived the Rwandan genocide. The women tell their stories in their own words, and their experiences are hard to watch without crying. Yet there's nothing self-pitying in their words, and they go on as best as they can. In the years since the genocide, one of the young girls has devoted herself to caring for her siblings. At the film's end, she reflects, "I don't think my parents would be happy to see me (spending her young life raising her brothers and sisters). But I think they would be proud."

Sisters in Law

In a little town in Cameroon, there have been no convictions in spousal abuse cases for 17 years. But two women determined to change their community are making progress that could change the world. This fascinating, often hilarious doc follows the work of State Prosecutor Vera Ngassa and Court President Beatrice Ntuba as they help women fight often-difficult cases of abuse, despite pressures from family and their community to remain silent.
 

 

 

 

April 29

I Had an Abortion

1.3 million women get abortions each year in the U.S. alone. For most it is a secret. The debate itself is loud and paralyzing while the voices of the women who get abortions are submerged. "Speak Out: I Had an Abortion," directed by Gillian Aldrich and co-produced by Aldrich and Jennifer Baumgardner, documents the stories of 11 women ranging in age from 21 to 85. The film cuts across race, religion, region, class, sexuality, and politics--demonstrating that abortion affects all women.

The Lost Tribe

While ex-Mormon-lesbian-atheist Sue-Ann Post has carved out a name for herself as a stand-up comic in Australia, she has been estranged from her family ever since she decided to abandon her Mormon upbringing. When she publicly demanded to be excommunicated from the Mormon church on a national TV, she got what she asked for—leaving her completely ostracized from her Mormon community. This engaging doc follows Post as she journeys to Salt Lake City where she has been invited to speak at the Affirmation Conference—an annual gathering of gay and lesbian Mormons and ex-Mormons who are trying to reconcile their faith with their homosexuality. Post finds herself struggling with her emotions that she had buried long ago, while realizing that she has finally found her own lost tribe.