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The Wings (Vingarne) (Sweden, 1916, 69 min.) New restoration – Adapted from Herman Bang’s infamous story of love between a master sculptor and his apprentice, this film features gay, Jewish director Mauritz Stiller in a frame story meeting Nils Asther, the stunningly handsome young actor that he was having an affair with at the time. In the main story, the painter falls for his young apprentice, who spurns him for a femme fatale. The painter is so upset that he dies in front of his masterwork, a sculpture of the young man being embraced by an eagle, a la Zeus’s famous kidnapping of young Ganymede. 

Different from the Others (Anders als die Andern) (Germany, 1919, 50 min.) New restoration – The first gay activist film ever made, released during the pause on censorship during the Weimar republic, featuring sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld. A violinist and his student fall for each other, but the violinist is blackmailed and commits suicide. Features a lecture by Hirschfeld about naturalness of homosexuality and ends with his rousing speech calling for “Justice through knowledge!”