Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival 2008

Heartbreaking and inspiring, ANOTHER WOMAN journeys across both familial and gender barriers with emotional ease. It’s TRANSAMERICA meets Desperate Housewives but without porn sideshows or slapstick. After a decade away, Léa (Nathalie Mann), formerly Nicolas, returns to Paris and rediscovers a family she once felt forced to abandon. None of them recognize her, since during that time Nicolas transitioned to her current gender. Now a woman and a stranger, Léa decides to be honest about her true identity and to try to reclaim parental privileges she once forsook. Mann (of Patrice Leconte’s RIDICULE) is a revelation, while French television star Micky Sébastian is fantastic as Léa’s former wife Anne. ANOTHER WOMAN is a harrowing and unforgettable saga of struggle and resilience. Director Jérôme Foulon crafts an honest and empowering tale which resonates long after the final credits roll.

Special guest Casper Andreas (director of Between Love and Goodbye) will be in attendance. Love makes the world go round. At least that’s what Marcel and Kyle believe, until they suddenly discover that love can alternatively flip the world upside-down. When certain elements are set into motion, they tend to stay in motion. If tampered with, they can spin out of control. Marcel and Kyle are in love at first sight, and even though they can’t legally marry, they will find a way to make it work. French Marcel marries their lesbian friend Sarah so he can stay in the USA with Kyle. Together they can overcome any obstacle, hurdle any barrier. Together they cannot be stopped. Enter Kyle’s sister April, a former prostitute. She needs a place to crash, but for how long? Taking a quick dislike to Marcel, April methodically drips poison into their happiness. But where Marcel sees a conniving woman with a not-so-hidden agenda, Kyle only sees his sister - in need. And how do you choose between family and the love of your life? Why should you have to? Love isn’t pure after it’s been tainted. Our perfect couple falls headlong into possessiveness, jealousy and rage; trapped in the tangled emotions found in that space between love and goodbye. Just how far will one of them go to put a stop to the madness?

It's been two years since quick-witted Jay McCarroll was anointed the winner of Project Runway's first season. Eleven Minutes catches up with Jay as he pulls together his first collection in preparation for New York Fashion Week. The designer is a blast to watch, fresh and joyous despite stress, uncertainty and tremendous pressure. At the end of the day Jay is doing what he loves, but the realization of a dream is often not as exciting or glamorous as the dreaming itself. We watch Jay transform from a one-man DIY operation into a mass-producing, Chinese out-sourcing business machine. Eleven Minutes captures that special moment in time before things get jaded and blasé. A hilarious and irreverent look at the creative process and the friction between commerce and art, fame and talent, reality-TV and actuality. -Angie Driscoll

A job interview becomes more intriguing when a woman discovers that last night's tryst was with her potentially new boss's wife.

Please note: tickets are not available online but can be purchased at the box office on the day of the screening. A lesbian mother's contentious relationship with her rebellious daughter collides with her dedication to reproductive rights and the clinic that her late partner started in this gripping tale of parental love, loss and redemption. In this touching story that hits right at the heart, Finn Jefferies is a brilliant fertility doctor who struggles to balance raising her unruly daughter, Zelly, as a single parent and running the abortion clinic that her beloved deceased partner, Nancy, started. Finn valiantly stretches herself thin to devote herself to both, but when the uncontrollable pressure mounts, she rides off on her motorcycle or cozies up to her young new lover. Zelly is not the easiest 11-year-old to bring up, calling her lesbian mom the "evil stepfather," smoking pot, cutting classes and stealing magazines from the local gay book store. This cheeky, pre-teen rebel is having difficulty growing up while dealing with the loss of her biological mother. The two are on a crash course for an eruption, and when a pro-life fanatic attempts to kill Finn, mother and daughter are pushed to the brink! Can the fertility doctor give up the last thing left of her partner's work and recognize that she has another living and breathing embodiment of her adored Nancy? Will she -- for once -- be responsible outside of test tubes and medical procedures? Can Zelly accept Nancy's love for her? This sweet and endearing film explores the real world family values of two women trying to connect and overcome the wounds of tragic loss. -- Kelly Burkhardt, Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

This homage to Beyonce’s “Get Me Bodied,” is about 1997 Universal ShowQueen Keisha, aka Justice For All. She showcases her entertaining and diva skills with help from Hawaii’s finest gender illusionists. In the end, perception is reality.

A college student goes home to help out on the farm over the summer and experiences the unexpected. WINNER Audience Award for Best Short - Fire Island Film Festival

A small-town bookstore becomes the stage for a chaotic and comedic girl meets girl drama where our heroin and her budding hormones just wants to meet the chick of her dreams. Simple right? Tragedy and hilarity ensue as our girl makes her way through the incomprehensibility of young romance.

A visual study of a young jogger who is shown a series of inkblot paintings that propel him into a collection of stories and memories centered on childhood, questions of sexuality and an enigmatic girl. The film is structured around eight of these painting each paired with a single word. It is based on a similar structure in which filmmaker Su Friedrich built her film 'Sink or Swim' around. In this, she took words starting with the backwards alphabet, (Z)ygote, (Y)Chromosome, (X)Chromosome, (W)itness, etc. This lead the film into a relationship with her father that after viewing was completely real and understandable, but indescribable. 'The Lonely Lights...' is the study of a character that has no discernable arch or event in which changes him dramatically, but rather a series of experiences that has created a person from nothing. The form of cinema is false, but this character is real. It works with the theme, 'who we are is who we were.'