1991

Reed, Peter

1991

Set in three periods (1950, 1970, and 1990), Paper Cranes investigates aspects of male bonding while examining the cultural notions of honorable death.

Grode, Leigh B.

1991

Docudrama about the search for the fate of lesbians in Nazi concentration camps. Fictional scenes of a lesbian love story are well balanced with Grode's personal account of her search and the stories she found.

Zwickler, Phil

1991

Treut, Monika

1991

My Father is Coming recounts the quirky assimilation of a German girl into New York's East Village culture. It's the story of Vicky, a waitress and frustrated actress, who despite a German accent, a series of disastrous auditions, and a checkered love life, still dreams of starring roles and a fulfilling sexual relationship. Vicky's life is complicated by the visit of her Bavarian father, who thinks his daughter is enjoying a successful career and marriage in New York. But Vicky's attempts to hide the truth and her deceptions soon take second stage to her father's New York adventures. She slips into an affair with Lisa, her lesbian Puerto Rican friend, and meets a handsome stranger with an unusual secret. In some ways My Father is Coming is a tale of cultures clashing and the immigrant experience, but in many others it is about sex and the body. For both Vicky and her father, New York becomes an escape from the intellectual traditions of the fatherland into a world where appetites and sensory experiences take precedence.

Hidalgo de la Riva, Osa

1991

Ardill, Susan

1991

A documentary that looks at marriage in the lesbian and gay community. Produced for Britain's 1991 "Out" series on Channel Four, Love and Marriage is a discussion of the issues raised by the push for domestic partnership laws in Britain, the U.S. and Denmark. The spirited dialogue asks the questions: Would such laws be a truly radical initiative, or a complete sellout to the notion of equality with heterosexuals? Are lesbian and gay couples lucky to be free of the burden of marriage? What hidden legal pitfalls are being created for lesbians and gays with a "second class" of marriage?

Ardill, Susan

1991

A documentary that looks at marriage in the lesbian and gay community. Produced for Britain's 1991 "Out" series on Channel Four, Love and Marriage is a discussion of the issues raised by the push for domestic partnership laws in Britain, the U.S. and Denmark. The spirited dialogue asks the questions: Would such laws be a truly radical initiative, or a complete sellout to the notion of equality with heterosexuals? Are lesbian and gay couples lucky to be free of the burden of marriage? What hidden legal pitfalls are being created for lesbians and gays with a "second class" of marriage?

Serikbayeva, Zhanna

1991

Sporting a mise-en-scene replete with actual women prisoners performing from the prisons of Kazakhstan in which they live, Life is a Woman is a narrative film that reads as a campy merger of exposé cinema vérité and lesbian prison psychodramas of the 1970's.The film opens with the line - "The sentence is not merely intended to punish the crime, it's purpose is to correct and reform the convicted." Indeed the rough editing and too dark lighting of Life is a Woman successfully frames a sexy prison aesthetic that includes many of the usual accouterments of lesbian prison drama. It features the cheating ways of hardened butches and the vicious fights of tough jealous femmes, sadistic guards and masochistic prisoners, steamy showers and romantic bar-bound dances.The story is of the pretty Madina who, as we learn from flashbacks, has been imprisoned for the murder of her boyfriend's enemy. After she snitches on a cell-mate, Madina is transferred to another prison. Soon after her arrival, Madina discovers that her boyfriend has married a high fashion model and she quickly becomes involved with the butch Monk - dormitory leader and heroin pusher. Monk immediately spurns Madina for another woman which starts a chain of betrayal and despair. Ultimately, the film ends when Monk is taken away for the attempted murder of her new lover and Madina is granted an unexpected pardon.

Ritschel-Cederbaum, Sherry

1991

A great new product commercial.