Here's our guide to the best of the HIV films featured in this year's London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
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his April, the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival will celebrate its
sixteenth year. The festival opens on 3 April at the Odeon West End and
runs for two weeks at the South Bank's National Film Theatre until the
closing night special performance on 17 April, again at the Odeon.
The opening and closing films are bound to attract attention. Brian Cox
gives a splendid performance in 'L.I.E.' the much-touted debut opener
by Michael Cuesta, which tells a 'Rites
L.I.E.
of Passage'-type tale about the relationship between two young boys
growing up and an older gay man (Cox).
Courtney Love, Lili Taylor and a course in computers bring to life the
closing escapade, 'Julie Johnson', which promises more lesbian sex than
Sex and The City. The festival tours a record 39 towns and cities across
the UK and Ireland for the rest of the summer months.
Festival organiser Stewart Turnbull explains why this year the festival
is particularly
promoting its HIV and Aids films and documentaries:
