The third week of the SASOD film festival continues next week at the Sidewalk Café with an Academy award winning drama feature, a documentary and a comedy in honour of Fathers’ Day.
On Monday, the film Milk will be shown. Academy Award nominee Gus Van Sant directs Academy Award winner Sean Penn as gay-rights icon Harvey Milk.
Milk (1930-1978) was an activist and politician, and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in America; in 1977, he was voted to the city supervisors’ board of San Francisco.
This will be followed on Tuesday, with Bi the way, a documentary about the changing nature of sexuality and sexual identity in America today and how the next generation is redefining its sexual mores. The directors travel across the country talking mostly to young people about their new definitions of sexual identity. It is an eye-opening film, because it really begins to break down our normative dichotomous definitions of heterosexuality and homosexuality.
And on Wednesday, The Sum of Us will be screened in honour of Fathers Day. A widowed, beer-drinking ferry driver who is looking for Ms Right and his rugby-playing, beer-drinking, gay plumber son both search for love and romance. Starring Russell Crowe, this film tells the story of a father-son relationship and the difficulties they encounter as they try to intervene in each other’s lives.
All films start at 7 pm and admission is free.
