Reel Affirmations: The Nation's LGBT Film Festival 2008

$35 includes Brunch at Alero and a screening of The World Unseen
Heat up your Sunday with a sizzling party at Alero with visiting filmmakers and hundreds of women from the DC area! Featuring luscious food and libations from the Alero kitchen, the Women Filmmakers Brunch has grown into a destination event not to be missed!
Every year, we try to shake things up a bit– and this year we’ve added a live DJ to keep it exciting! Stay tuned to reelgoesround.blogspot.com to see who our DJ is, and don’t forget – buy tickets early. This event sells out every year!

After the film, check out the sultry The World Unseen – a steamy film based on Shamin Sarif’s novel of the same name.
In the pressure cooker of apartheid South Africa, two women meet and their worlds are turned upside down. Miriam is a traditional Indian mother - hardworking and self-effacing, and struggling to regain the passion she once felt. Free-spirited Amina breaks all the rules by driving a taxi and setting up a cafe with a local black man. In the face of outraged disapproval, their friendship flourishes, and soon turns into a relationship that neither can turn her back on. But the price, for Miriam, is the discovery of impossible truths about her marriage. In a system that divides white from black, black from Asian and the women from men, what chance is there for an unexpected love to survive?


Winner:
Audience Award, Best Film, Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Copper Award, Best Director/World Cinema, Phoenix Film Festival
Rosebud Award, Best Flm, Verzaubet Int’l. Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

Shamin Sarif, SOUTH AFRICA, 2007, 94 mins.