DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week.
Reel Affirmations Film Festival
Reel Affirmations has become one of the area’s biggest and highest profile film festivals, bringing the best of LGBT cinema to D.C. every year for nearly two decades. For this year’s 19th iteration, the festival is using the Shakespeare Theatre’s Harman Center for the Arts as the main base of operations, with other screenings at the usual venues of the AFI, the Goethe Institut, and the DCJCC, as well as a few other scattered venues around town.
Tonight’s opening night film is An Englishman in New York, in which John Hurt (pictured) plays the English writer and gay icon Quentin Crisp.
View the festival trailer.
Opens tonight at The Shakespeare Theatre’s Harman Center for the Arts, and continues through October 24 at a number of venues in town. See the schedule for details and for instructions on how to purchase tickets.
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Twenty-seven European embassies and a dozen other local cultural institutions have collaborated to bring the city the Kids Euro Festival, which features over a hundred kids’ events, including reading workshops, puppet shows, storytelling, and other performances. There are also eight film programs scheduled over the course of the festival, with children’s movies from Austria, Finland, Denmark and others.
The festival as a whole starts today and runs through the 24th, with the first film programs starting on Sunday. See the schedule for details. All events are free.
