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Welcome
to the 14th year of Outlook at Cork Film Festival. Once
againwe bring you the best in new features, documentaries
and shorts. We hope you all enjoy this year’s programme!
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Eating Out
Q. Allan Brocka
USA | 2004 | 90mins | Beta | Colour |
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This campy screwball comedy is a lighthearted and hilarously
sexy feast for the heart and eyes. Caleb just wants to
meet a nice girl. He goes to a party with his gay best
friend Kyle and spies Gwen. Kyle explains to Caleb that
Gwen only seems to like gay boys and he convinces Caleb
he must pretend to be gay to get Gwen's attention. "Simply
one of the funniest, sexiest gay films in a really long
time" – The Advocate |
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D.E.B.S.
Angela Robinson
USA | 2004 | 91mins | 35mm | Colour |
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A bubbly, sexy, fun-filled send-up of genres as diverse
as teen flicks, spy movies and action thrillers. To the
outside world, the D.E.B.S. look like pictureperfect,
well-schooled young women. But really they are America’s
first line of defence. Their arch enemy is Lucy in the
Sky, a sexy, diamond-bejewelled bank robber. Amy, the
poster girl D.E.B., is captured by Lucy. D.E.B.S. mount
a rescue mission, unaware that Amy is having an illicit
affair with Lucy and has staged her own kidnapping so
they can be together.
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Strange
Fruit
Kyle Schickner
USA | 2004 | 118mins | DVD | Colour |
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Set in contemporary rural Louisiana, a successful gay
African-American lawyer, returns to his home town to investigate
the murder of his also-gay childhood friend, Kelvin. Amidst
the sultry beauty of the bayou, he finds himself having
to confront the racism and homophobia he left in the first
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A Fine
Day, A Hairdresser…
Un Beau Jour, Un Coiffeur…
Gilles Bindi
France | 2004 | 13mins | Beta |
Colour | Subtitled
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How can a young, shy philosophy teacher, approach a lively,
animated hairdresser?
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Falling
Angels
Michael Kinirons
Ireland | 2004 | 15mins| Beta | Colour |
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A poignant look at budding friendship, sexual confusion
and personal acceptance.
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Kissing
Tigers
Embrasser Les Tigres
Lussi-Modeste Teddy
France | 2004 | 20mins | 35mm | Colour | Subtitled
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In the Grenoble gypsy community, a young boxing champion
learns about masculinity from his gay elder brother.
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Styx
Falk Ulbrich
Germany | 2003 |23mins | 35mm |
Colour | Subtitled |
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Mark works on a big ferryboat on Lake Constance, he has
the length of one journey to convince boyfriend Adrien
not to leave him forever. |
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| Documentaries |
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Blue Skin Flammend'
Herz
Andrea Schuler, Oliver Ruts
Germany, Switzerland | 2004 | 92mins | 35mm| Colour
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Blue Skin is the loveable, sometimes tragic, sometimes
very funny account of how three very different men first
met, why they find it hard to get on nowadays and whether
there's any hope of making up. And through their stories,
we catch a glimpse of one the world's most beautiful addictions:
tattooing.
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Derek Jarman:
Life As Art
Andy Kimpton-Nye
UK | 2004 | 60mins | Beta | Colour |
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Derek Jarman was a hugely talented painter and writer,
and one of Britain’s most innovative and controversial
independent filmmakers. Fusing a radical queer sensibility
with a love of artifice and rewriting history, British
filmmake Derek Jarman's films defied every convention.
He mashed past and future, theatre and painting, performance
art and visual abstraction. This revealing and insightful
portrait highlights his accomplishments as a filmmaker
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Hidden
Maja Borg
Scotland | 2003 | 28mins | Beta |
Colour |
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Using examples from her and her flatmate’s own lives,
Maja Borg explores the different issues; political, religious
and family, that most young lesbians have to face. |
In Good Conscience
Barbara Rick
USA | 2004| 82mins | Beta | Colour |
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For over 30 years, Sister Jeannine Gramick, in the name
of God, has taken on rabid protesters, public scrutiny
and the Roman Catholic Church on behalf of gays and lesbians.
We follow this unlikely rebel to Rome as she dares to
approach those who command her silence.
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Man Made – The Story
Of Two
Men And A Baby
Emma Crimmings
Australia | 2003 | 52mins | Beta | Colour
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Tony and Lee are an upwardly mobile gay male Melbourne
couple. Legally prevented in Australia from adopting a
baby, accessing IVF facilities, or entering into a commercial
surrogacy arrangement, Tony and Lee’s determination
to become parents took them to USA. Crimmings calmly and
delicately explores the ethical and emotional minefield
of commercial surrogacy.
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The Other Side
Of Aids
Robin Scovill
USA | 2003 | 86mins | Beta | Colour |
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Cogent and thought-provoking, Robin Scovill’s documentary
contends that the mainstream scientific community has
never established direct proof of the HIV/AIDS connection,
the film offers numerous pieces of evidence pointing to
the possibility of another cause for the disease.
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Tying The Knot
Jim de Seve
USA | 2003 | 82mins | Beta | Colour |
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Tying the Knot digs deeply into the meaning of marriage
today. From an historical trip to the Middle Ages, to
gay hippies storming the Manhattan marriage bureau in
1971, this eye-opening exploration of the embattled institution
looks at rights, privilege and love as gay activists and
right-wing politicos lock horns in the fight for marriage.
Best Documentary, San Francisco International Lesbian
& Gay Film Festival
“A tremendous, accomplished
work…a must see.”–Lawrence Ferber, Philadelphia
Gay & Lesbian Film Festival |
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Styx
Falk Ulbrich
Germany | 2003 | 23mins | 35mm |
Colour | Subtitled |
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Mark works on a big ferryboat on Lake Constance, he has
the length of one journey to convince boyfriend Adrien
not to leave him forever. |
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