Desire Lines
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Desire Lines

Desire Lines

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Cinema Nova - Cinema 8
Wheelchair
Open Captioned
Allocated Seating
Unclassified 18+
81 Mins | USA

The cinematic form is no more bound by a binary than gender, as autoethnographic artist, academic and filmmaker Jules Rosskam (Transparent) adeptly underlines with his exhilaratingly sexy and smart hybrid docufiction film Desire Lines. The fictional component centres on Iranian-American transman Ahmad (Aden Hakimi) and follows his tentative exploration of transmasculine history via a meet-cute with younger trans man Kieran (Theo Germaine) in Chicago’s LGBTQI+ archive. But when the pandemic crashes the party, closing the city’s bathhouses with echoes of the HIV/AIDS crisis, a time slip of sorts opens a documentary door to real-life heroes, in new interviews and archival footage including author and activist Lou Sullivan, the pioneering transmasc hero.


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Cinema Nova - Cinema 8

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