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Premieres Monday, Nov. 1, 2021 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown after the death of his young niece. Decades of home movies and ethereal narration reflect on struggles with grief and addiction as Madsen examines family, faith, and trans identity. Ultimately, the film asks more questions than it answers, and like the relentless Michigan seasons, the only sure things are time and change.
The 2021 Rendezvous With Madness Festival talks about, and celebrates, the strength it takes to come through difficult times.
Berlinale: Teddy Awards Lineup Offers a Surprising Cross-Section of New Queer Cinema Guy Lodge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Now in its 35th year, the Teddy Awards are among the Berlinale’s most affectionately regarded institutions. Presented annually to standout LGBTQ-themed titles across the festival’s entire lineup, they have a looser, hipper, more inclusive reputation than other Berlin prizes: fittingly, they’re annually presented not at an exclusive black-tie affair, but a publicly accessible ceremony followed by an almighty dance-’til-dawn party. Yet the Teddys’ prestige ...