Polari has selected three exceptional films from this year’s Fringe! festival that you do not want to miss…

Satan’s Angel [UK Premiere]
Dir: Joshua Dragotta
Fri April 12, 22:45pm • Hackney Picture House
USA: 72 min • Breaking Glass Pictures  • 2012
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Satan’s Angel is a legend among burlesque dancers. Her legacy is filled with San Francisco counter-culture, Las Vegas stage door Johnnies, and a sexuality she refused to closet. Angel has amassed four decades worth of fascinating, colourful, and riveting stories as she’s traveled the globe performing the art of burlesque. This unique film documents her love for the craft & preservation of burlesque as well as her love for her life partner Vic.

deepsouth 
Dir: Lisa Biagiotti
Sat April 13, 13:30pm • Rio Cinema
USA: 72 min • Royal Red Studios  • 2012
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Beneath layers of history, poverty and now soaring HIV infections, four Americans redefine traditional Southern values to create their own solutions to survive. deepsouth is a documentary about the new American South, and the people who inhabit its most quiet corners. Josh, a college student, seeks the support of an underground gay family hours away from his suffocating Mississippi Delta hometown. With no funds and few resources, Monica and Tammy try to unite reluctant participants at their annual HIV retreat in rural Louisiana. Kathie, an Alabama activist, spends 120 days a year on the road fighting a bureaucracy that continues to ignore the South. deepsouth is a powerful, moving and inspiring documentary.

Let My People Go!
Dir: Mikael Buch
Sat April 13, 16:00pm • Hackney Picture House
France: 96 min • Les Films Pelléas  • 2011
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A fusion of gay romantic comedy, Jewish family drama and French bedroom farce, Let My People Go! follows the travails and daydreams of the lovelorn Ruben, a French-Jewish gay mailman living in fairytale Finland (where he got his MA in “Comparative Sauna Cultures”) with his gorgeous Nordic boyfriend. But just before Passover, a series of mishaps and a lovers’ quarrel exile the heartbroken Ruben back to Paris and his zany family.