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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

WE’RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD’S FAIR

2021 / USA / Jane Schoenbrun

Thu, Jun 17:00pm

A teenage girl becomes immersed in an online role-playing game, digitally documenting the strange changes that take place from her attic bedroom.

DRESSED IN BLUE

1983 / Spain / Antonio Giménez Rico

Thu, Jun 87:00pm

Antonio Giménez-Rico’s landmark 1983 documentary explores the lives and loves of a group of six transgender women living in Madrid in the years following Spain’s transition to democracy

TANGERINE

2015 / USA / Sean Baker

Thu, Jun 157:00pm

After hearing that her boyfriend/pimp cheated on her while she was in jail, a transgender sex worker and her best friend set out to find him and teach him and his new lover a lesson.

SEÑORITA

2011 / Philippines / Isabel Sandoval

Wed, Jun 217:00pm

A transgender woman tries to leave sex work by taking care of a friend’s son and joining a mayoral campaign, but she’s hindered by an old client who controls the opposition’s campaign.

BY HOOK OR BY CROOK

2001 / USA / Harry Dodge +

Thu, Jun 297:00pm

Two butch transmasc grifters join forces to stay afloat in San Francisco.

Previous Screenings

THE WEDDING BANQUET

1993 / Taiwan + / Ang Lee

Wai-Tung, happily in a relationship with his boyfriend Simon, agrees to marry his tenant, Wei-Wei, in a plot to procure her green card and appease his traditional Taiwanese parents.

THE WATERMELON WOMAN

1996 / USA / Cheryl Dunye

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

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.