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The third floor of The Center on Halsted was transformed in to a movie theater for The Little Queer Film Festival Saturday, Feb. 2. The large space constantly buzzed from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. with interested moviegoers purchasing tickets and making their way into the black box theater. FM rock and excited chatter pulsated throughout the space while moviegoers tried to find a seat for any of the three exclusive shows that day. With a documentary set in Uganda, and two dramas from Sweden and Iran, the festival was themed “International LGBTQA Struggle.”
The event kicked off with “Call Me Kuchu,” a film that did not leave a single dry eye in the room. The film centered on the lives of members of the LGBTQA community in Uganda and the discriminatory laws and hate culture directed at the group.
The documentary exposed the inhumane opinions first expressed by the west toward the LGBTQA community that later spread east to Africa and stained their views of the community. “Call Me