8 LGBTQ2+ Feature Films, Celebrating Diversity & Championing Love at Calgary Film Fest

12 days, nearly 200 films, endless fun PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU) Screening Sept 27 at 7PM and Sept 29 at 6PM Céline Sciamma won Best Screenplay and the Queer Palme at the Cannes Film Festival for this sensuous tale about a painter and her subject. In the late 19th century, Marianne is called to a remote island off the coast of France, where she is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse. Having just left the convent, Héloïse is a reluctant bride to be and has refused to sit for the portrait. This forces Marianne to work in disguise - pretending to be the lady's maid by day, while secretly working on the portrait by night. As the two circle one another with an intense curiosity, they form a bond that will challenge the world around them. https://www.calgaryfilm.com/films/2019/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire/ CUNNINGHAM (3D) - Documentary Screening Sept 22 at 3:15PM and Sept 25 at 6PM Celebrating the centennial of the famed choreographer Merce Cunningham’s birth, this stunning 3D film blends biography with beautiful re-staging of his dances. Over the span of his seven-decade career, the distinguished American artist Merce Cunningham created 180 repertory dances and more than 700 events that combined intense physicality with intellectual rigor. Focused on Cunningham’s early years...