The 11th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival runs from Friday, November 8, through Sunday, November 17, at Chicago Filmmakers, 1229 W. Belmont; the Music Box, 3733 N. Southport; and Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark. Tickets ($4 for most matinees, $6 for most evening shows) go on sale a half hour before the first show; advance tickets can be purchased before the day of the show at Chicago Filmmakers. Festival passes are $55 (good for all screenings) and $25 good for six screenings, not including opening-night films, which cost $8 each and include a reception). For further information call 281-1981 or 281-8788.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9
MY FATHER IS COMING A comedy by Monika Treut (The Virgin Machine) bout the complications encountered by a German lesbian (Shelly Kaestner) working as a waitress in New York’s East Village who has to hide her job and pretend to have a husband when her father (Alfred Edel) visits from Bavaria; he winds up having some offbeat adventures of his own. (Music Box, 7:00)
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NIGHTHAWKS The first English feature to come from the gay community, Ron Peck and Paul Hallam’s independent film about the double life of a gay schoolteacher studiously avoids sensationalism, and reaches its dramatic climax when the hero has a frank discussion about himself with his 14-year-old students (1978). (Music Box, 1:00)
SHORT FILMS See Critic’s Choice. (Music Box, 5:15)
QUEST FOR LOVE Helena Noguiera’s South African feature, based to some degree on Gertrude Stein’s novel Q.E.D., concerns the sexual awakening of a woman (Jana Cilliers) recently released from prison (1989). (Music Box, 7:00)
