The 12th Annual OUT at the Movies International Film Festival
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2
PORTER BYRUM WELCOME CENTER AT WFU
1580 Wake Forest Rd, Winston-Salem, NC 27106
FESTIVAL PREVIEW NIGHT: SELECTED ORIGINAL SHORTS
7:00PM | 70 MIN
Help kick off our 12th annual festival with an invigorating evening of original OUT at the Movies short films that focus on LGBTQ+ culture in Winston-Salem and abroad, a panel discussion, and a complimentary post-screening reception with food, beer, and wine.
FREE TO ATTEND – NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3
UNCSA ACE THEATRE COMPLEX
1640 Hollywood Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27127
OPENING NIGHT SCREENING: FOUR MOTHERS
7:00PM | 89 MIN | NARRATIVE
Edward, a novelist saddled with caring for his elderly mother, finally finds himself on the brink of literary success. With pressure to go on a U.S. book tour mounting, the last thing that Edward needs is his friends jetting off to Spain for an impromptu Pride holiday, leaving their mothers on his doorstep! Over a chaotic weekend, he has to juggle his burgeoning career with the care of four eccentric, combative, and wildly different ladies.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4
ALL SCREENINGS AT UNCSA ACE THEATRE COMPLEX
1640 Hollywood Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27127
JANIS IAN: BREAKING SILENCE
12:00PM | 114 MINUTES | DOC
In 1965, Janis Ian, a 14-year-old singer-songwriter from New Jersey, wrote “Society’s Child” about an interracial relationship. Recorded and released a year later, the song launched Ian’s career, but its subject matter ignited controversy, even resulting in death threats…
SHORTS PROGRAM 1: NONFICTION/BOLD STATEMENTS
12:15PM | 101 MINS | DOC
Distinct documentary visions that invite and challenge.
SCRIPTED: DEVELOPING YOUR SHORT FILM
12:30PM | 120 MINS | WORKSHOP
An exciting workshop where we will dive into the early stages of ideating, developing, and screenwriting your short film. With a panel of industry professionals, and lots of opportunity for audience/panel interaction!
MIDAS MAN
2:15PM | 112 MIN | NARRATIVE
On a cold night in 1961, a young record store owner walked into Liverpool’s Cavern Club and discovered the greatest pop act the music world would ever see. So begins the story of Brian Epstein, the man who found The Beatles…
ODD FISH
2:45PM | 104 MINS | NARRATIVE
Childhood friends Hjalti and Björn run a seafood restaurant in their hometown during the summer. They dream of keeping the restaurant open year-round…
SHORTS PROGRAM 2: ARTFUL/DRAMATIC/NEW DIMENSIONS
3:00PM | 99 MINS | NARRATIVE
Perspectives on (dis)connection and (re)connection via transportive film worlds.
NO CLOSET SPACE: THE HISTORY OF GAY KEY WEST
4:30PM | 108 MIN | DOC
An insightful and often hilarious journey through the LGBTQ+ history of Key West — an island unlike any other. Through rare footage and unforgettable personal stories, the film celebrates the misfits, creatives, and rule-breakers who helped revitalize the island…
SISTERS
5:30PM | 88 MINS | NARRATIVE
A comedy about chosen family. Sisters follows best friends Lou and Esther, who often bond about wishing they grew up with a sister. But when Lou’s father unexpectedly dies and she learns she has a very real, very chic half sister, her and Esther’s co-dependent bliss is rudely interrupted…
ACCIDENTAL FRIENDS
7:00PM | 94 MINS | NARRATIVE
Pietro, a rough and passionate Roma football fan, is suddenly dumped by his girlfriend Lolly, who is fed up with being second to football and his friends. Omero, a serious, and refined young gay man, is also left by his partner Andy, who proposes to him in a public flash mob, putting him on the spot. Omero, now alone in a house that is too big and financially burdensome, is forced to find a roommate…
ROW OF LIFE
7:15pm | 80 MIN | DOC
Row of Life follows renowned ocean rower, Marine Corps veteran, three-time Paralympian, and fourteen Guinness World Record holder Angela Madsen in her attempted solo and unassisted row across the Pacific Ocean, 2400 miles from Los Angeles to Hawaii. A poetic story of bravery, resilience, and love between Angela and her wife, Deb, as they support each other’s dreams while separated by a vast ocean…
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5
ALL SCREENINGS AT UNCSA ACE THEATRE COMPLEX
1640 Hollywood Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27127
BEAUTIFUL EVENING, BEAUTIFUL DAY
12:00PM | 131 MIN | NARRATIVE
Four close friends, Lovro, Nenad, Stevan, and Ivan, fought against the Ustashas and Nazis by joining the partisans in WWII. Sixteen years later, they became renowned filmmakers. In 1957, in Communist Yugoslavia, their sexual orientation raised suspicion…
SHORTS PROGRAM 3: CONFRONTATIONS/ CONSEQUENCES
12:15PM | 89 MINS | NARRATIVE
Evocative takes on old patterns and (possible) new potential.
FALLEN FRUIT
12:45PM | 87 MINS | NARRATIVE
A 20-something-year-old who begrudgingly moves back to his childhood home in Miami from New York after a breakup. Blinded by his optimism of returning to New York after the Summer, Alex underestimates the inevitable hurricane that is adulthood…
THE LIBRARIANS
2:45PM | 92 MIN | DOC
As an unprecedented wave of book banning largely addressing race and LGBT issues is sparked in Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting for intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy…
UNSPOKEN
4:30PM | 91 MINS | NARRATIVE
When a closeted, religious teenager finds a love letter from before the Holocaust written to his grandfather by another man, he discovers that he might not be alone…
SHORTS PROGRAM 4: PERSONAL/SOCIETY/IDENTITY
4:45PM | 80 MINS | NARRATIVE
Affecting comedic and dramatic tales in which the intimate, unavoidably, meets the social.
ONLY GOOD THINGS
2:30PM | 104 MIN | NARRATIVE
In 1984 rural Brazil, a solitary farmer’s life changes when he helps an injured motorcyclist who crashes near his property. Their unexpected connection leads to a profound romance that challenges both men’s worlds…
SALLY
6:45PM | 103 MINS | DOC
Sally Ride became the first American woman to blast off into space, but beneath her unflappable composure, she carried a secret. Revealing the romance and sacrifices of their 27 years together, Sally’s life partner, Tam O’Shaughnessy, tells the full story for the first time of this complicated and iconic astronaut…
PLAINCLOTHES
6:45PM | 95 MINS | NARRATIVE
At his mother’s New Year’s Eve party Lucas, a young police officer, loses a letter no one was ever meant to read. Amid the backdrop of the suffocating family party, the search for the letter unlocks memories of a past he’s tried to forget: months earlier, while working undercover in a mall bathroom, Lucas arrested men by seducing them…