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Milwaukee Film’s GenreQueer program is presenting over 20 films and events throughout June focused on LGBTQ+ cinema.

The film explores life inside The Villages, America’s largest retirement community and self-described “Disney World for Retirees” in Central Florida.

Shot on 16-millimeter film in black and white, the documentary 'Joychild' shares the story of an eight-year-old recalling the memory of when they came out as transgender.

In 1992, PBS's Frontline began tracking the lives of two Milwaukee families dealing with issues of losing industrial jobs — the Neumanns and the Stanleys. The filmmakers returned to Milwaukee several times to catch up with the families and see how they were doing years and decades after this life-altering disruption.

In a modern twist, Cowboys by writer and director Anna Kerrigan takes viewers to rural Montana, where Joe, an 11-year-old transgender kid, struggles to live authentically in his home environment.

The Women and the Sea features Gloria, a woman who preserves the legacy of symbolic graves for those lost at sea, and Julieta, the only woman in all male fishing crew who goes out into the dangerous conditions to make a living.

A new documentary from filmmaker Joe Brown follows Rod Coronado and his group, Wolf Patrol, during their work to monitor hunting practices that threaten wolves and to promote wolf preservation in Wisconsin.

Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust is a documentary about the difficult and complex history of the valley of Payahuunadü, or Owens Valley, in California and the people who continue to fight for the land to this day.

A new documentary, When Claude Got Shot, showing at the Milwaukee Film Festival documents the wide ranging and damaging effects gun violence has on people across Milwaukee.

Milwaukee native Charlie Tennessen farms a less than five acre homestead and grows long forgotten varieties of wheat. He hopes his passion rubs off on others.