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Pride at FilmScene

A year-round partnership between FilmScene and Iowa City Pride showcases queer cinema's past, present and future with monthly screenings.

Upcoming Screenings

THE WATERMELON WOMAN

1996 / USA / Cheryl Dunye

Thu, Apr 207:00pm

An aspiring Black lesbian filmmaker researches an obscure 1940s black actress billed as the Watermelon Woman.

Previous Screenings

FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES

1969 / Japan / Toshio Matsumoto

A loose adaptation of Oedipus Rex set in the underground gay culture of 1960s Tokyo.

PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE

2019 / France / Céline Sciamma

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

THE BIRDCAGE

1996 / USA / Mike Nichols

A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée’s right-wing moralistic parents.

CAROL

2015 / United Kingdom + / Todd Haynes

An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.

HAPPY TOGETHER

1997 / Hong Kong + / Wong Kar-Wai

Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung are a couple traveling through Argentina and locked in a turbulent cycle of infatuation and destructive jealousy as they break up, make up, and fall apart again and again.