SPUNK SHOTS

Prodigal Sons is a doco about, and directed by, Kim Reed, as a transwoman, returning to her hometown in North America for her first post-op visit. Not that unusual until it's revealed that she's attending her high school class reunion - the school where Kim, back then a strapping lad named Paul McKerrow, embodied an ideal of American manliness as the star quarterback.

While most people assume that they possess a single and stable identity, recognizable from moment to moment, even year to year, Kim and her brothers, along with their mother Carol, are faced with questions concerning their identities and memories, pretty much on a daily basis - intensified by sibling rivalry. Here the questions of identity are focused through gender. As Kim tries to explain differences between sexuality and gender to a friend at the reunion, the ambiguities and indefinitions only begin to surface.

The film is skillfully edited to build tension as reunions are broken up by one of the brother’s aggressive behaviors. The camera brings a vivid intimacy to document complicated relationships that remain even after Kim has tried to radically reinvent her life.

Doors open at 7pm - chilled beats and soup before the film starts at 8pm. popcorn and bar open til 10pm

$10 waged / $5 concession-other