READING Pride has announced its first LGBTQ+ film festival following its march and Pride event, set to take place this weekend.
After the Love Unites Festival takes place in Kings Meadow this Saturday, September 2, the Love Unites Film Festival will see a number of screenings at Reading Biscuit Factory (RBF).
Sunday evenings will see a selection of films celebrating queer filmmakers and exploring LGBTQ+ issues screened at the independent cinema in central Reading.
At 6pm on Sunday, September 3, Reading Biscuit Factory is showing Pride, Stephen Beresford’s 2014 film exploring the LGBTQ+ activists raising money for those affected by the miners’ strikes in the mid-1980s.
The BAFTA- and Golden-Globe-nominated film stars Imelda Staunton, Bill Nighy, Dominic West, Andrew Scott, and Paddy Considine, and is directed by Matthew Warchus.
At 6pm on Sunday, September 10, A Fantastic Woman is screening, which follows the story of Marina, a transgender woman working as a waitress and nightclub singer after the death of her boyfriend.
Released in 2017, the Academy-Award-winning film was written by Sebastián Lelio and Gonzalo Maza, and also directed by Leilo, starring Daniela Vega.
It has also bagged an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film
At 6pm on Sunday, September 17, RBF will screen Handsome Devil, and Irish film which follows teenager Ned as he navigates life at an elite all-boys boarding school in Ireland.
Written and directed by John Butler, the film charts an unlikely friendship between Ned and his new roommate, Connor, starring Fionn O’Shea and Nicholas Galitzine.
And finally, the cinema will screen Tangerine from 6pm on Sunday, September 24.
The 2015 film is directed by Sean Baker, who co-wrote the feature with Chris Bergoch, and follows a transgender sex-worker, Sin-Dee, who discovers their partner and pimp is cheating on them.
After the discovery, Sin-Dee embarks on a mission to get to the bottom of the rumour, exploring the underbelly of Los Angeles.
It stars Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian, and Mickey O’Hagan.
The inaugural Love Unites Film Festival screens from 6pm every Sunday in September at Reading Biscuit Factory, central Reading.
Full details and tickets are available via: readingbiscuitfactory.co.uk
