The rest of the distinctive lineup will be presented virtually, including
Summer of Soul, part music, part historical record film on the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival;
Spark Brothers, about the underrated, criminally ignored yet influential 50-year-old rock band; and
Dear Mr. Brody, profiling Michael Brody, the hippie millionaire who in 1970 announced a $25 million giveaway to anyone in need, as his bid to promote world peace. As usual, the festival is offering a few LGBTQ films, all of which are worth seeking out.
Military tale
The star of this lot is
Surviving the Silence, already a candidate for one of the best queer documentaries of the year. In 1992, decorated Army Nurse Colonel Pat Thompson, just two years away from retirement, was asked to preside over the military review board that would dismiss Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer for admitting she was a lesbian. This assignment caused Thompson personal agony since she too was a (closeted) lesbian having lived privately
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Authoritarian Regimes and Femisnist Resistance is a conversation among four women who analyze the effects of authoritarian regimes in India, Brazil and the USA and how feminine resistance is reacting to these regimes. Host Radhika Balakrishnan, faculty director of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University is joined by Rosamond S. King Ph.D, Director of the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College; Connecticut College’s Binalakshmi Nepram and Maria Luisa Mendonca Ph.D, a visiting scholar in the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) to discuss the issues.