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Katoomba MGFF'09 Highlights

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20:00 - Fri 12th of June 2009 to 22:00 - Sun 14th of June 2009
Highlight's from the 2009 Mardi Gras Film Festival in the Blue Mountains!

June 12 - 14, The Edge Cinema
225 Great Western Highway,
Katoomba

Tickets available from the cinema box office
Advance phone bookings attract a $2.50 booking fee
ph: 02 4782 8900
edgecinema.com.au

 Patrik !,5 Patrik, age 1.5
Friday June 12, 8pm

Swedish gay couple Sven and Goran are happily married, and dream of adopting a child and moving to a perfect home in the suburbs. There is just one problem – an unfortunate typo at the adoption agency puts a comma in the wrong place and instead of a baby boy aged 1.5, they are sent a homophobic 15 year old street kid. Exceptionally well put together, this is a smart and very funny film that won this year's audience award at the Mardi Gras Film Festival.
 
 T with T Tango with a Twist (plus Talk Derby to Me)
Saturday June 13, 4pm

A wonderful Aussie documentary about how learning the Argentine tango transforms the lives of four Sydney gay and lesbian amateur dancers. Throwing caution to the wind, they travel to Buenos Aires on a whirlwind tango tour. Funny, poignant and inspiring, Tango with a Twist explores the dance from a same sex perspective and illustrates how learning the steps can transform your life.
screens with Talk Derby to Me meet the women bringing back Roller Derby, gone are the days of big hair and lycra, it's now about wild exhibitionism, fish-nets and mini-skirts and ultimately the body count.
 
I Can't Think Straight I Can't Think Straight
Saturday June 13, 8pm
This charming romance pits star-crossed lovers against cross-cultural confusion. When London-based Jordanian, Tala, meets British Indian, Leyla, it’s love at first sight. Apart from neither of the women having had a same-sex relationship before, there are traditional Indian parents and a Palestinian wedding for the couple to contend with, and they soon fall apart. All is not lost, however, as their friends hatch a plot to get them back together...
 
Were the World Mine Were the World Mine
Sunday June 14, 4pm
Timothy is the gay guy in an all-boys high school, taunted by the football team, yet mysteriously defended by the hunky class jock, Jonathan. He escapes the classroom into a musical fantasy world where lessons become chorus lines, and bullies become ballet dancers. When A Midsummer Night’s Dream is chosen as the school play, he discovers how to make Puck’s magic love potion, and sets out to turn the whole town gay and Jonathan into his adoring boyfriend.
 
 Boystown Boystown (Chuecatown)
Sunday June 14, 8pm
A queer murder romp that's equal parts hysterical, thrilling and sexy. Madrid's Chueca is the latest downtown district to be transofrmed into real-estate paradise by scores of gay men flocking to the area. The only problem is, Chueca is populated by little old ladies who refuse to sell up and move on. Mysterious and sexy real estate agent Victor takes matters into his own hands, systematically killing off the grannies and instating queer couples in their place.
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