Not all queer features are, or should be, about mooning over some cute girl or boy. Gay and lesbian characters can also occasionally find themselves running for their lives! These features, hailing from four countries, find their heroes and heroines fleeing danger, tracking criminals, facing life-or-death questions and acting out their queer fatal attractions in fast-paced scenarios with widely-varying outcomes.

BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO THIRST
DATE	TIME	LOCATION	PROGRAM #
TUESDAY, JULY 13	9:30PM	DGA 2	65

DIR: Carl Jorgen Kionig, 1998, Norway, 118 min.

Based on a series of crime novels by Norwegian author Anne Holt (Norway's former Minister of Justice), this suspenceful, violent genre thriller follows the work of ladycop Hanne Wilhelmsen, a beautiful and intelligent lesbian police detective. Opening with an intense crosscutting of three very different acts of sex — including Hanne and her partner; Hanne’s coworker, Hakon, and his seemingly illicit lover; and a brutal rape which Hanne and Hakon will be compelled to investigate — BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO THIRST instantly plunges the viewer into a thick soup of mystery, sensuality and vulnerability. Hanne and Hakon have been investigating a serial killer on the loose in Oslo, uncovering the connections among several missing women whose bodies have mysteriously disappeared. When three seemingly distinct investigations culminate, more than one surprise is disclosed in this mystery thriller. IN NORWEGIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

VIOLENT AND SEXUAL SITUATIONS

LOLA AND BILLY THE KID
DATE	TIME	LOCATION	PROGRAM #
TUESDAY, JULY 13	7:00PM	DGA 1	61

DIR: Kutlug Ataman, 1998, Germany, 35 mm, 93 min.

Set in a world of macho hustler tops and effeminate drag bottoms, LOLA AND BILIDIKID offers a rare glimpse into a Turkish emigre subculture in which intolerance, fear and self-loathing are the subtext for this powerful gay coming-of-age story. Sixteen-year-old Murat cruises Berlin's parks, a voyeur to gay sex concealed by trees and shadows. He is torn between the need to experience this taboo and his Muslim family's hopes that he will be the golden boy who will allow them to escape the ghetto. Tormented by memories of a long-lost brother, Murat is shocked to discover that this brother is now Lola, a transvestite in Berlin's seamy underworld. When Lola is mysteriously killed, Murat goes underground in a desparate search to vindicate his brother's death and their shared queer identity. Director Kutlug Altman effectively explores the right to be different within a culture driven by assimilation and offers the hope that we all can survive tragedy and overcome shame.

IN GERMAN & TURKISH W/ENGLISH SUBTITILES.

NUDITY AND SEXUAL SITUATIONS

BLIND FAITH
DATE	TIME	LOCATION	PROGRAM #
TUESDAY, JULY 13	7:00PM	DGA 2	62

DIR: Ernest Dickerson, 1998, USA, 35mm, 118 min.

BLIND FAITH is a deeply moving emotional thriller that portrays a black family in crisis at the dawn of the civil rights movement.

It is 1957. Charles Williams (Charles Dutton) is a police officer and religious family man who runs a tightly principled household. He maintains close ties with his brother, John, a top-notch criminal lawyer, and a hostile relationship with his little brother, Eddie, a successful saxophonist living in Greenwich Village. For the most part, the Williams' are the model of an upwardly mobile 1950s Black American family until one night, out of the blue, Charles receives a call with unbelievable news — his clean-cut son Charlie is in police custody, charged with murdering an Irish boy. When Uncle John takes on the case of defending his nephew, more than a few family skeletons are revealed are revealed in this tight-knit thriller.

In collaboration with: Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund.

EXCUSE ME DUCKIE, BUT LUCAS LOVED ME
DATE	TIME	LOCATION	PROGRAM #
TUESDAY, JULY 13	9:45PM	DGA 1	67

DIRS: Felix Sabroso and Dunia Ayaso, 1998, Spain, 35 mm, 92 min.

Riotously funny and zany beyond belief, this madcap comic thriller from Spain delivers when three flatmates, short on funds and unable to pay the rent, decide to interview for a fourth. Throwing caution to the wind, they forego the formality of the interview when they feast their eyes upon the stunningly handsome and well-built Lucas. The real trouble begins when Lucas is found, half naked, with a complete set of kitchen knives buried in his chest. While recounting the events to a repressed inspector, the three original flatmates volley back and forth blaming one another for the departure of the adored Lucas and then dispute over which of the three Lucas liked best. In a series of flashbacks, each recounts his own version of courting Lucas, certain that his love for Lucas was reciprocated. But when police inspector Clara probes deeper, it becomes abundantly clear that Lucas was an enigma as dark and mysterious as his sultry eyes.

IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES.