9 Greater Boston film festivals to check out this spring

Forty-year milestones call for celebration, especially when it comes to queer cinema. Boston’s Wicked Queer turns 40 this spring and will have throwback screenings, cutting-edge contemporary features and shorts, and an energy that executive director Shawn Cotter hopes will foster queer unity and action. The theme, says Cotter over a recent Zoom call, is “Power to the people: 40 years of queer agency, community joy, history and excellence.

Just as culture has evolved to be more inclusive of the LGBTQ+ experience, with landmark legislated rights, Cotter, who programs queer cinema throughout the U.S. acknowledges, “Bars are closing. Community spaces are under attack. The fact that we can gather and have a conversation and plot and plan the revolution, I think, is a great thing to do. I feel like the festival space gives us the opportunity to do that.

In other news, the Boston Israeli Film Festival, usually held in March, will go on hiatus with a plan to return next spring. The Coolidge cuts the ribbon to its new entrance, theaters and educational space in mid-March. Andhas started drawing crowds for its monthly film nights at its Braintree taproom. On Sunday, April 21, the brewery’s,” about the slow metal band Earth.

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