Film Forum

A 30-film series exploring the eccentric, enduring, and genre-encompassing history of the Lesbian image in cinema. This swoon-worthy celebration of the sapphic canon—groundbreaking, cult favorite, or under-seen selections from the silent era to present day—includes films by Dorothy Arzner, Chantal Akerman, Ulrike Ottinger, Cheryl Dunye, Lizzie Borden, Yvonne Rainer, Nouchka van Brakel, Céline Sciamma, John Waters, Pedro Almodóvar, and many others.

Including MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM, BORN IN FLAMES, DESERT HEARTS,
 THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE, CAGED, THE WATERMELON WOMAN, PARIAH,
MADAME X: AN ABSOLUTE RULER, SHAKEDOWN and much more.

Programmed by Andrea Torres and Emily Greenberg.

SAPPH-O-RAMA is adapted from the hit July 2000 Film Forum series of the same name (programmed by Bruce Goldstein and Michael Sayers), which spotlighted Lesbian cult movies and included 10 of the 30 titles now being presented.

Special thanks to Michael Sayers, Melissa Anderson, Jenni Olson and Désirée Yael Vester (Lesbian Herstory Archives).

Presented with support from the R.G. Rifkind Foundation Endowment for Queer Cinema and the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film.

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Reviews

“SAPPH-O-RAMA shows that lesbian cinema extends far beyond a niche category. The thirty films on view range from the silent era to recent releases, and include international selections… Hollywood’s golden age… and American independent cinema.”
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Films in this Series