WIFVNE is proud to be co-presenting three films as part of this year's
WICKED QUEER: DOCS Festival
Nov. 15-22, 2024

Pumping Iron II: The Women (1985)
Saturday, November 16 at 9PM at the Brattle Theater

Long before Love Lies Bleeding, there was Pumping Iron II: The Women. This little-seen sequel to the film that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a superstar follows a group of four women as they prepare and compete in the 1983 Caesars World Cup in Las Vegas: butch Australian powerlifter (and now out lesbian) Bev Francis, the more traditionally feminine Rachel McLish, former synchronized swimmer Carla Dunlap, and Texan Lori Bowen, who hopes to win so her bodybuilder boyfriend can quit his job as a male stripper.

Tickets: $15 GA; $10 students, seniors
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Old Lesbians
part of the Doc Shorts 2024 program of five stories of how the community lifts itself up for survival, for success, and for our future.
Sunday, November 17 at 4PM at the Brattle Theater

For the last quarter century, Houston native Arden Eversmeyer journeyed across the country to record hundreds of oral “herstories” with a mostly invisible population that is rapidly disappearing. Old Lesbians honors Arden’s legacy by animating the resilient, joyful voices she preserved in the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project.
Tickets: $15 GA; $10 students, seniors
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Janis Ian (2024)
November 18 at 7PM at the Brattle

Janis Ian chronicles the singer’s epic life journey beginning with her Jewish childhood on a chicken farm in New Jersey; her youthful struggle with notoriety following her hit “Society’s Child" her ascent to fame with the single “At Seventeen.” The film also covers her release of the album Breaking Silence about her loving relationship with her wife Pat Snyder.

Tickets: $15 GA; $10 students, seniors
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