THE full run-down of films being shown during Manchester's 4th Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.

Friday 20

1.00pm The Event. Uncompromising AIDS drama starring Olympia Dukakis and Sarah Polley. Directed by Thom Fitzgerald (The Hanging Garden/ Beefcake).
3.30pm The Event
6.00pm The Event
8.15pm Twisted + Seafood: On-the-road video diary from DJ/ journalist/ singer Stuart Who? Plus short.
9.00pm The Event

Saturday 21

1.00pm Twisted + Seafood
3.30pm Good Boys. Selection of gay shorts.
6.00pm The Event
8.15pm Twisted + Seafood
9.00pm Goldfish Memory. Spotlight on Dublin's Queer scene.

Sunday 22

1.00pm Bad Education. Almodovar's most recent outing.
3.30pm The Event
6.00pm Good Boys
8.15pm Good Boys
9.00pm Bad Education

Monday 23

1.00pm Good Boys
3.30pm The Hunger. David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve are the blood fiends in this 1983 horror directed by Tony Scott.
6.00pm Caravagio. Biopic of the famous master by Derek Jarman. With Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Tilda Swinton.
8.15pm The Hunger
9.00pm Good Boys

Tuesday 24

1.00pm Caravagio
3.30pm Mambo Italiano. A young Italian breaks free of the family way and finds love with a policeman in this Canadian drama.
6.00pm Labyrinth Of Passion. A rock singer finds love with the son of a Middle East potentate in this 1982 offering from Pedro Almodovar. Incest, rape, orgies, drag queens and drugs complete the picture.
8.15pm Caravagio
9.00pm Mango Kiss. First time director Sascha Rice explores open relatinships and S&M in this energetic rom com. With Daniele Ferraro, Michelle Wolff.

Wednesday 25

1.00pm Mango Kiss
3.30pm Mango Kiss
6.00pm Mango Kiss
8.15pm Mango Kiss
9.00pm Benzina. At a remote petrol station, a girl kills her girlfriend's lover and the two set off down the highway.

Thursday 26

1.00pm Benzina
3.30pm Labyrinth Of Passion
6.00pm Monster. Oscar winner Charlize Theron stars as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in this explosive drama.
8.15pm Merci Dr Rey. A convoluted tale of operatic divas, neurotic actresses, rent boys, dead bodies, bumbling cops, family secrets, and hash brownies from the Merchant Ivory team.
9.00pm Labyrinth Of Passion

Friday 27

1.00pm Drole De Felix. When his mother dies, a man finds old letters from the father he's never met and decides to track him down.
3.30pm Benzina
6.00pm Gallant Girls. Late 80s, where were you? Prior to the fall of Communism and the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, men and women, gay and straight, worked to bring about change in society through direct political action.
8.15pm Drole De Felix
9.00pm My Son The Bride. Groundbreaking drama from South Africa.

Saturday 28

1.00pm The Raspberry Reich. Canadian indie hero Bruce Labruce's latest offering is about a terrorist group loosely based on the Baader Meinhof gang of 70s Germany, who try and bring on the revolution through boy-on-boy action.
3.30pm Gallant Girls
6.00pm The Raspberry Reich
8.15pm The Raspberry Reich
9.00pm Gallant Girls

Sunday 29

1.00pm Good Girls. Programme of lesbian shorts.
3.30pm The Raspberry Reich
6.00pm Gallant Girls
8.15pm Good Girls
9.00pm Mango Kiss

All screenings are at the Filmworks, The Printworks, Withy Grove. For more information, call 08700 102 030.

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