Queer Up North 2008

A cornucopia of queer cinema as part of the annual Queer International festival.

for further details visit the festival website: www.queerupnorth.com

Previously in this season

Angel

Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig and sets up to avenge her. Part of our…

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Without You I’m Nothing

The original film version of Sandra Bernhard's outrageous broadway show. Berhard will be in conversation with Tim Teeman before the screening.

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The Living End

A movie critic and raunchy hustler, both HIV-positive, take to the road after a cop is killed in this New Queer cinema classic.

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Spider Lilies

When Jade, a web-cam girl visits Takeko's tattoo studio she becomes entranced by the image of a spider lily and with the tatooist herself.

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Savage Grace

A Key film of the New Queer Cinema. The story of an infamous true crime, the 1972 murder of an American socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland…

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East/ West

A fascinating documentary insight into the attempts to mount a Gay Pride march in Moscow that takes us into the lives of the organisers and…

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The Beirut Apartment

A snapshot of queer life in urban Lebanon.

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Derek

A tribute to the late, great Derek Jarman by his friend Isaac Julien.

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Triple X Selects – The Best of Lezsploitation

Culled from over 20 Lezploitation films by cult-film expert Michelle Johnston, TRIPLE X SELECTS is guaranteed to make you howl with laughter at Swedish wildcats,…

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B. Ruby Rich & Richard Dyer

Author Richard Dyer and influential film critic and cultural theorist B. Ruby Rich will look back at key moments in queer cinema and ahead to…

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Television Ate My Family: The Story of Lance Loud

This programme tells the story of Lance Loud, who featured in the world first reality TV show. Flamboyantly witty, Lance was the first openly gay…

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Sandra Bernhard in Conversation with Tim Teemann

Sandra Bernhard will be in conversation with Tim Teeman, discussing her career and answering audience questions before a showing of the 1990 film version of…

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