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  • Review: King Cobra

    By on October 20, 2016

    Sunday, Oct. 16 5 p.m. GALA’s Tivoli Theatre Originally, this year’s festival was set to close with Check It, a new documentary about D.C. African-American...

  • Strike a Pose

    By on October 20, 2016

    Sunday, Oct. 16 3 p.m. GALA’s Tivoli Theatre One of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time, Madonna: Truth or Dare sealed the megastar’s pioneering pro-gay...

  • Suicide Kale

    By on October 20, 2016

    Sunday, Oct. 16 1 p.m. GALA’s Tivoli Theatre Meeting a partner’s friends in the early days of a relationship is a daunting prospect at the...

  • Seducing Mr. Bluefrog: #NSFW

    By on October 20, 2016

    Saturday, Oct. 15 11 p.m. GALA’s Tivoli Theatre Once upon a time, Hendrik Schäfer, a thirtysomething Berlin filmmaker, started chatting online with a fit, fortysomething...

  • The and Hugo

    By on October 20, 2016

    Saturday, Oct. 15 9 p.m. GALA’s Tivoli Theatre Alfred Hitchcock once remarked that drama was nothing more than everyday life with the dull bits cut...

  • Shorts: Swipe Right

    By on October 20, 2016

    Saturday, Oct. 15 7 p.m. GALA’s Tivoli Theatre Things in this hodgepodge of shorts get off to an esoteric note with Intrinsic Moral Evil (),...

  • Free CeCe!

    By on October 20, 2016

    Saturday, Oct. 15 5 p.m. GALA’s Tivoli Theatre While much progress remains to be made, trans issues finally seem to be seeping into the public...

  • Spectrum Shorts: Gender, Identity and Aging

    By on October 20, 2016

    Saturday, Oct. 15 1 p.m. GALA’s Tivoli Theatre It seems a little heavy-handed to start with something called Dawn (), but this British short is...

  • Loev

    By on October 20, 2016

    Friday, Oct. 14 9 p.m. GALA’s Tivoli Theatre This is both a warning and a full-throated recommendation: Loev is probably not what you expect. Not...

  • Shorts: So Long, Farewell…

    By on October 20, 2016

    Saturday, Oct. 15 3 p.m. GALA’s Tivoli Theatre Things don’t end particularly well in any of the seven short films in this mixed program —...

  • AWOL

    By on October 20, 2016

    AWOL Friday, Oct. 14 7 p.m. GALA’s Tivoli Theatre A beautifully shot Rust Belt love story, Deb Shoval’s AWOL delivers on a notoriously hard-to-keep promise:...

  • Retake

    By on October 19, 2016

    Thursday, Oct. 13 7 p.m. HRC Building Opening this year’s Reel Affirmations festival is a movie that initially bursts with potential. Retake pulsates with mystery,...

  • October Surprise: Reel Affirmations 2016 closes with “King Cobra”

    By on October 6, 2016

    Reel Affirmations returns to its fall berth, with a just-announced closing film sure to generate buzz: King Cobra