The 22nd annual ftival returns wh entertag and provotive feature films, documentari and shorts highlightg the gay, lbian and transgendred experience.
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PTSBURGH LBIAN & GAY FILM SOCIETY
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THE PTSBURGH INTERNATNAL LBIAN AND GAY FILM FTIVAL
Of urse you remember Slutty Summer, Casper Andreas' bchy-funny o to wag tabl New York's Gayborhood that screened at PILGFF 2004? Set a lively Tel Aviv neighborhood, this drama om Eytan Fox (Yossi and Jagger) prob the difficulti faced by two gay lovers, one an Israeli Jew, the other a Paltian.
A teen-age boy explor his burgeong sexualy agast the backdrop of his small Atralian town and the homophobic surfg subculture om which he draws his inty. This engagg drama skillfully rporat immigratn, globalizatn and social class, pl genr polics and homophobia, to s love-triangle narrative, which begs when vatng lovers Anna and Mara return to Italy wh a stowaway. THE GAY BED AND BREAKFAST OF TERROR.