AIMEE & JAGUAR  (German w/English subtitles, NR, 1999, 126 min, 35mm) Based on Erica Fisher's award-winning book, Aimee & Jaguar confronts Germany's past through a courageous story of lesbian passion! It is the unbelievable but true story of two women who should have never met, much less fallen so deeply and dangerously in love in 1942 Berlin. Felice (Maria Schrader) is risk-taking assimilated German Jew who holds a job at a Nazi newspaper in order to pass along sensitive documents to the Jewish underground . Lilly (Juliane Kööhler) is a Nazi "super-mom" who has won a government award for producing four "racially pure" Aryan sons for the fatherland. The two eventually meet and a close bond forms between the two women and Lilly's children. At first, Felice wants to captivate and seduce the beautiful Nazi woman who claims to be able to smell out Jews. But when she gets to know Lilly, she becomes progressively more fascinated by her naive openness and naturalness. Soon enough, Lilly is unable to resist Felice's love. They call themselves Aiméée (Lilly) and Jaguar (Felice). Forming a pact of marriage, the two try desperately to forget the horror which surrounds them. And thus begins 18 months of happiness in a city that is terrorized from above by Allied bombers and below from the Gestapo. Viewer's Guide: Nudity, Violence, sexual situations and themes.

BEDROOMS AND HALLWAYS  (British, NR, 1999, 96 min, 35mm) From Rose Troche, the director of Go Fish comes this romantic comedy about Leo, (Kevin McKidd) a nice gay man who wants commitment in a relationship at almost-thirty years old. He even envies the heterosexual bonds of marriage and kids for the hope of stability they hold out. When he is dragged along to a men's support group by a friend, he finds himself drawn to the apparently straight Brendan (James Purefoy), who is breaking up with his girlfriend, Sally (Jennifer Ehle). When the two men start having an affair, it wreacks havoc on the group as they all start questioning their own sexual inclinations! People are never quite what they seem, however, and unusual pairings-off become the mainstay of this hilarious British gem. Viewer's Guide: Nudity, language, drug use, sexual situations and themes.

BEEFCAKE  (US, NR, 1999, 83 min, 35mm) In the follow-up film to his award-winning The Hanging Garden, director Thom Fitzgerald reveals the hidden world of 1950's physique magazines with Beefcake, a funny and provocative true tale of the rise and fall of men's photographer Bob Mizer. Follow the fate of Neil O'Hara (Josh Peace), who comes to Hollywood in the Fifties with movie star dreams and is soon discovered by Mizer (Daniel MacIvor), who runs the Athletic Model Guild, an agency for body-builders, and who publishes Physique Pictorial featuring their photos. The naive O'Hara is thrust into a wild world where near-naked young studs tan around the pool and flex their muscles while Mizer's mother sews "posing pouches" for them. He finds himself in an underground culture of hep-talk where guys are "sports," women are "kittens," the most wonderful things are "murder" and the best thing is to kick back and "dig it, Daddy O." But O'Hara also finds that he is in the middle of one of America's most controversial forms of entertainment and that in the 1950s, one man's passion might be another man's crime. Interwoven throughout the film are hundreds of revealing nude photos as well as interviews with real-life muscle-mag participants from the era including physique guru Jack LaLanne, Jim Lassiter and Joe D'Allesandro. Viewer's Guide: Explicit male nudity, nude stills, sensuality and mild language.

BIRTHDAY TIME  (US, NR, 2000, 16min, 16mm) From North Carolina filmmaker, Lawrence Ferber comes this charming tale about one young man's search for his sexual identity, particularly in the arms of his mother's older male houseguest! Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

BOY NEXT DOOR  (US, NR, 1998, 13 min, 16mm) See what rivalry reaps when a brother and sister fight for their hunky new neighbor! Who will win over the boy next door? Viewer's guide: Language.

BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER  (US, R, 2000, 81 minutes, 35mm) A hilarious comedy about Megan (Natasha Lyonne), a typical American teenager/cheerleader, who's suspected of being a lesbian by her friends and family. She dreams of women's thighs while her boyfriend tongue-bathes her. She even has a Melissa Etheridge poster. Naturally, mom and dad want this gayness thing nipped in the bud, so they call in "True Directions," a homosexual-rehab group run by Mary Brown (Cathy Moriarty) that resembles a detox-center crossed with a fast-food kiddie play area. Things don't work out quite as expected, especially when Megan meets the sexy Graham (Clea DuVall). Also starring Mink Stole, Julie Delpy and Dawson's Creek's Michelle Williams. Viewer's Guide: Language and mature themes.

CHUTNEY POPCORN  (US, NR, 1999, 91 min, 35mm) A timely lesbian comedy that explores American life, Indian culture and the true meaning of family. Reena is a young woman in New York City balancing the pressures of her disapproving yet close-knit family, while trying to persuade her commitment-phobic girlfriend to move in with her. When Sarita (Reena's perfect and very married sister) discovers that she cannot have children, Reena volunteers to be artificially inseminated by Sarita's husband. Though initially excited by the chance to have a family, Sarita calls off the arrangement-just as Reena discovers that she has indeed become pregnant! The story takes Reena, her girlfriend and their loved ones on a roller coaster ride through pregnancy, birth and everything in between! Viewer's Guide: Language and sexuality.

CRIMINAL LOVERS  (French w/English subtitles, NR, 2000, 90 min, 35mm) From the director of Sitcom comes this haunting and terrifying homoerotic retelling of the Hansel & Gretel fairy tale. Once upon a time in the suburbs, there lived a beautiful teenage girl named Alice (Natacha Regnier, The Dreamlife of Angels). One day, she decides to kill Said, a handsome yet cocky classmate, but she can't possibly do it alone. So Alice manipulates her naive and equally-beautiful boyfriend Luc (Jeremie Renier) into committing cold-blooded crime as proof of his love. It wasn't as easy as Alice thought. Murder can be messy and tiresome. Even worse, when Alice and Luc go to the forest to dispose of Said's body, they became lost. Poor, young teens! Cold, hungry and alone! And everyone knows that the woods are filled with traps for careless young rabbits. Luckily, they stumble onto a quaint little cabin inhabited by a lone woodsman. They soon discover life is not a fairy tale. Viewer's Guide: Language, bondage, nudity, sexual situations, explicit violence.

CRUSH  (US, NR, 2000, 27 min, 16mm) It's summer in rural Illinois when 12 year-old Tina strikes becomes smitten with 16 year-old Robbie. Unknown to her, Robbie's got a crush of his own! When Tina discovers his secret, she's forced to make some dramatic and ultimately hilarious decisions, resulting in a milestone summer for both of them. Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

THE DEAL  (US, NR, 2000, 10 min, 35mm When an aspiring actress meets a successful lesbian producer, they realize each has something the other wants. The actress takes the producer home to discuss her potential, but just what exactly is the deal each think they are making? Viewer's Guide: Mature themes.

JOHNNIE GREYEYES  (Canadian, NR, 2000, 80 min, Video) Raised in a family displaced by addiction and abuse, Johnnie has spent most of her life in jail. By the time she reaches her early 30s, she serving time in a maximum security prison. Within those confines, though, she meets and falls in love with Lana, a lifer with a strong will and a confrontational nature. Johnnie also maintains strong ties with her dispirited mother Leona and her troubled younger brother Daytona. To heal herself and those she loves, Johnnie must journey through her own history and pain to resolve the past and find a sense of spiritual purpose. Gail Maurice as Johnnie and Columpa C. Bobb as Lana bring beauty and grace to this groundbreaking Canadian film about love between two First Nations women. Viewer's Guide: Nudity, violence, language, drug use, sexual situations and themes.

JOURNEY TO A HATE-FREE MILLENNIUM  (US, NR, 2000, 16mm) A powerful documentary about the effects of hate crimes on the communities and families of the victims. Included are the stories of Matthew Shepherd and Robert Byrd, Jr. Millennium is the first film to be authorized by the parents of Matthew Shephard. Viewer's Guide: Violence, language and adult themes.

JUST ONE TIME  (US, NR, 2000, 92 min, 35mm) A full-length feature comedy based on the hilarious short film that debuted at the NCGLFF in 1998! Anthony (Lane Janger) is a firefighter engaged to the woman of his dreams, straight-laced lawyer, Amy (Joelle Carter). There's just one problem: He can't help fantasizing about his beloved with another woman. When Amy innocently asks if Anthony would be willing to reciprocate the fantasy for her, he accepts the deal in the hopes that she will live out his fantasy just one time. Enter Victor (Guillermo Diaz), the gay neighbor who makes no secret of his crush on Anthony. Now, Anthony must devise a scheme to avoid having sex with Victor and still appear to uphold his end of the bargain. Meanwhile, Amy seeks to satisfy her own curiosity in the embrace of a charming lesbian furniture restorer named Michelle (Jennifer Esposito). As the wedding date looms near, things spin out of control. Can Anthony and Amy's relationship endure the fantasy? Just one time may, in fact, be one time too many! Viewer's Guide: Brief nudity, language and sexual situations.

A LUV TALE  (US, NR, 1999, 45 min, 16mm) Winner! 1999 Hollywood Black Film Festival's Audience Choice Award. A new romantic comedy from director Sidra Smith about two African-American women who meet and fall in love! Candice Montgomery is editor-in-chief of Meridian Magazine, where she's being overworked and neglected by her boss/bpyfriend of 12 years. After one of her most stressful days, she attends a photo shoot for her company and meets photographer Taylor James. Taylor is looking forward to a job that will enable her to travel abroad, until the two develop a friendship that will change both their lives. MC Lyte makes a special appearance Aklia, Taylor's overly-controlling best friend since childhood, who has some problems with Candice's new-found love. Things get even more complicated when a supermodel who's too pretty for her own good starts interfering. Viewer's Guide: Language, and sexual situations.

THE NIGHT LARRY KRAMER KISSED ME  (US, NR, 2000, 89min, 35mm) OPENING NIGHT FILM! In 1992, the original stage production of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me debuted Off-Broadway in New York to standing room only audiences and critical acclaim. Now from director Tim Kirkman (Dear Jesse) comes this hilarious film adaptation based on the longest running one-man show in New York Theatre history. In the spirit of Spalding Gray and Sandra Bernhard, Larry Kramer is Obie Award Winner David Drake's semi-autobiographical story of an urban gay man's journey of self discovery. Through a series of seven monologues, Drake explores the sexual, spiritual and political yearnings at the heart of gay America. From his own eight year-old self to "Swim Team Tim" to the real flesh behind the anonymous stats in personal ads, Drake recaptures the in-your-face spirit of the stage play and invites the audience to celebrate their own individuality. Viewer's Guide: Nudity and Language.

PARAGRAPH 175  (US, NR, 2000, 81 min, 16mm) WINNER: Best Documentary Film, 2000 Sundance Film Festival and 2000 Berlin Film Festival! From the Academy-award winning directors of The Times of Harvey Milk and The Celluloid Closet (Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman) comes this internationally acclaimed documentary that brings to attention the hidden history of gay persecution during World War II. Narrated by Rupert Everett, Paragraph 175 explores a time in history when pink triangles were the physical emblem used by the Nazis to identify homosexuals. Remarkable interviews with survivors, many of whom are now in their 90s, are interwoven with extensive archival footage used to background Germany's turn-of-the-century proto-gay rights movement, including Hitler's initial "don't ask, don't tell" policy and his later switch to brutal "party cleansing" of all sexual "degenerates". "Powerful emotions! The elegance and restraint of the filmmaking makes the impact all the more devastating!"-David Ansen, Newsweek. Viewer's Guide: Accounts of war atrocities, adult themes and violence.

PINK NARCISSUS  (US, NR, 1971, 71 min, 35mm) NEWLY REMASTERED PRINT! Loved for its imaginative eroticism in 1971, this legendary erotic art film stands as a landmark at the juncture of the gay underground tradition and the porno industry. Seven years in the making, this dreamy surrealist film has been praised for its untarnished poetry and entrancing performance by teenage male beauty Bobby Kendall. While Hollywood was grappling with the gloss of gay life, Pink Narcissus set about scraping at the nitty-gritty. It's all here: caballeros and bike boys, striptease and tearoom sex. Pink Narcissus delves beyond the surface of gay fantasy and finds an expansive two-way mirror underneath. Controversy surrounding the original production caused the director Jim Bidgood to go uncredited until 1984. Viewer's Guide: Nudity and explicit sexual situations.

PSYCHO BEACH PARTY  (US, R, 2000, 95 min, 35mm) A hilarious spoof of 60's horror-and beach-blanket films with a very Y2K gay sensibility! Based on the stage play by Charles Busch (The Vampire Lesbians of Sodom), Party features some of TV's hottest stars, including Dharma and Greg's Thomas Gibson, Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Nicholas Brendon and Sabrina, The Teenage Witch's Beth Broderick. When a psycho starts butchering her teenaged friends, young and naive Florence Forest (Lauren Ambrose) joins forces with the local beach gang to unmask the killer. But poor Florence hasn't counted on being nicknamed "Chicklet," nor matching wits with the first female homicide detective in the LA sheriff's department named Captain Monica Stark (Charles Busch), nor falling in love with a beach bum called the Great Kanaka (Gibson), nor hiding aging B-movie actress Bettina Barnes from the studio, nor discovering an S&M dominatrix named Ann Bowman, who happens to be Florence's own kinky alter ego! And what about the rented beach house where a kid named Larry Elkins killed his entire family a few years back? And what of Kanaka's number-one disciple, Starcat (Brendon)? One thing's for sure! The big end-of-the-summer luau will still take place...even if there's no one alive to attend! Viewer's Guide: language, mild violence and brief nudity.

RICK & STEVE, THE HAPPIEST GAY COUPLE IN ALL THE WORLD  (US, NR, 2000, 8 min, 16mm) Come follow the adventures of America's newest sitcom demographic! Although America's gay sweethearts (Rick & Steve) and America's lesbian darlings (Kirsten & Dana) don't get along, they decide to have a baby together. Steve is jealous that the lesbians prefer Rick's sperm, so he comes up with an alternate plan, with the help of Pussy the Cat! Viewer's Guide: Mature theme

SET ME FREE  (French w/English subtitles, NR, 1999, 91 min, 35mm) Director Lea Pool strikes universal chords with this moving exploration of a 13 year-old girl who seeks refuge from her problems at home in the local movie theatre. The year is 1963, and the film happens to be Jean Luc Godard's Vivre Sa Vie. Hannah is captivated by Anna Karina's performance in the starring role, and she is soon returning to see the film again and again. But is the sultry prostitute portrayed by Karina an appropriate role model for a girl on the brink of womanhood? Things get even more complicated when Hannah becomes obsessed with her schoolteacher, who resembles Karina, and then discovers her growing attraction to one of her girlfriends! Viewer's Guide: Nudity, language, drug use, sexual situations and themes.

SHAME NO MORE: COPING WITH HETEROSEXUALITY  (US, NR, 2000, 12min, 16mm, B&W) Imagine if the world was inhabited by gay people and heterosexuality was frowned upon? Now imagine yourself in a 1950s classroom watching this delightful "training film" that tells the story of a "nice gay boy gone bad!" A hilarious spoof in the tradition of Reefer Madness! Viewer's Guide: Nothing Objectionable.

SHOW ME LOVE  (Swedish w/English subtitles, NR, 1999, 89 min, 35mm) Winner: 1999 Berlin International Film Festival, Best Feature Film! This charming and sympathetic lesbian drama about first love outgrossed Titanic to become the most successful film in Swedish history! Blond, bored Elin (Alexandra Dahlströöm) is the beauty every boy wants to date. Brunette, bookish Agnes (Rebecca Liljeberg) is the school untouchable, who moved to town more than a year ago but still has few friends because students whisper she's a lesbian. One day at a party, a friend bets Elin she won't kiss Agnes, yet she does, sending the wrong message to Agnes, who doesn't know about the bet. Although Agnes is shattered to discover the truth about that kiss, it is Elin's sense of herself that is even more deeply threatened. She begins to believe her attraction to Agnes wasn't just play-acting. In a small town where homosexuality is considered a disease, Agnes and Elin's predicament is suddenly fraught with peril and suspicion...yet wonderful romance. Viewer's Guide: Mild language.

SITCOM  (French w/English subtitles, NR, 1988, 85 min, 35mm) From the director of Criminal Lovers comes this decidedly different yet outrageous French farce that shatters the veneer of the bourgeoisie and humorously challenges the family values of a standard sitcom. A conventional family lives in apparent harmony until one day the father brings home a pet rat. As each member of the family comes in contact with the rodent, all of their repressed sexual and psychological desires are exposed to the light and acted upon! Not for the squeamish. Viewer's Guide: Nudity, language, drug use, sexual situations and themes.

TRADITIONAL FAMILY VAMPIRES  (US, NR, 2000, 24 min, 16mm) A laugh-out-loud wild comedy about a family of right-wing conservative vampires who go door-to-door sucking the blood of just about anybody...until they meet one particularly "unsavory" character! Special Appearance by adult film star Cole Tucker. Viewer's Guide: Mild cartoon violence.

TWISTED  (US, NR, 1999, 100 min, 35mm) A modern-day twist on Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist,set among the denizens of seediest New York City. Lee is a ten year-old orphan boy who sings on street corners to earn money. Angel is a part-time hustler who works as a bartender and dreams of becoming a famous musician. When a brutal murder unites the two men, they soon find themselves unwitting pawns in a larger and more frightening arena of drug dealers, pimps and thieves. From darkened bedrooms of the criminal underworld to the bright stage lights of Broadway, Twisted takes the viewer on an incredible journey of love, loyalty and redemption. Starring William Hickey, Anthony Crivello and Billy Porter. Viewer's Guide: Nudity, language and mature themes.