Outlook Lesbian and Gay Programme

This is the 15th year of the Outlook Programme at the Cork Film Festival. The programme brings the best in lesbian and gay features, documentaries and shorts to the screen.

Features
Le Clan (FR) Directed by Gael Morel
This film tells the story of Marc, a beautiful young man who is involved in a violent homoerotic subculture. Marc asks his brother Christophe who is just out of prison to help him and avenge a terrible insult to him by local tough guys. Meanwhile their younger brother Olivier is sad, lonely and obsessed by their dead mother.

Mango Kiss (USA) Directed by Sascha Rice
Winner of Best Lesbian Film in the Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival. This outlines how Lou, a shy lesbian, world is turned upside down when she falls in love with her best friend Sassafrass, a fearless lesbian. Lou's dream of perfect love takes a detour when they are swept away into San Francisco's hip lesbian scene.

Documentaries
Pursuit of Happiness (USA) by Geoff Callanis an emotionally charged film that puts a face on American citizens who strive for marriage equality.

Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family(USA) by Susan Kaplan tells the story of three New Yorkers who decide to get married and have children with one and other

Zero Degrees of Separation(CAN) by Elle Flanders is the unique journey through the complex lives of Israeli and Palestinian gays and lesbians in interethnic relationships

The Education of Shelby Knox (USA) outlines the difficulty Shelby Knox faces when she tries to reconcile her newfound radical political beliefs with her conservative religious views

Shorts
8 Shorts will be screened in the men programme and nine shorts will be screened in the women's programme

Tribute to Queer Screen
2005 is the 15th year of the Outlook programme at Cork and to celebrate this milestone the Cork Film Festival will host a special focus on Queerscreen, the organisers of Sydney's annual Mardi Gras Film Festival. Queer Screen is a membership based community organization which is committed to screening films by, for and about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people. Queerscreen's programmer David Pearce will be in Cork for the screening of the Queerscreen programme.