Utah Queer Film Festival Year-Round
UQFF Year-Round features seasonal programming at Utah Film Center, spotlighting bold, beautiful, and boundary-pushing LGBTQIA+ films.
This next two screenings:
Wed, March 18, 7 p.m., Utah Film Center
Salomé
Salomé is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Charles Bryant and Alla Nazimova. It is an adaptation of the 1891 Oscar Wilde play of the same name. The play itself is a loose retelling of the biblical story of King Herod and his execution of John the Baptist (here, as in Wilde’s play, called Jokanaan) at the request of Herod’s stepdaughter, Salomé, whom he lusts after.
Salomé is often called one of the first art films to be made in the United States. The highly stylized costumes, exaggerated acting, minimal sets, and absence of all but the most necessary props make for a screen image much more focused on atmosphere and on conveying a sense of the characters’ individual, heightened desires than on conventional plot development.
Featuring a presentation by Connell O’Donovan and The Mildred Berryman Institute For LGBTIQ2S+ Utah History.
Wed, April 15, 7 p.m., Utah Film Center
Sanctuary
Sanctuary is a feature-length documentary that exposes the plight of LGBTQIA+ individuals within modern faith systems, told through the eyes of a visionary architect whose passion project becomes a lifeline. As doctrine collides with identity, a sacred space rises from rejection, offering refuge and hope. Alongside his journey, scholars and spiritual leaders from a variety of religious traditions share how they are transforming their institutions to welcome the marginalized and reimagine what it means to belong.
Featuring a Q&A with Co-Directors, Autumn McAlpin and Vienna Boyes, and “Sanctuary” architect Doug Staker.
