The Silver Images Film Festival, sponsored by the Chicago-based documentary production and distribution company Terra Nova Films, concludes on Friday and Saturday, May 19 and 20, at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton. Tickets are $5, $3 for seniors (62 and over). For further information call 281-4114 or 881-8491.

Shorts Program I

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Three 1994 videos under the heading “Gay and Lesbian Issues”: Ronit Bezalel’s Canadian When Shirley Met Florence, Vickie Seitchik’s Queer Son, and Jeff Benzow’s Clyde’s Strange Love. Bezalel and Benzow will answer questions after the screening. (9:15)

Shorts Program II

See Critic’s Choice. (1:15)

Chicago’s Very Own: Local Productions 1

Three videos: Kriv Stenders’s Motherland (1994) from Australia, Christine Kulcheski’s Stories Inside (1994) from Canada, and Maria Luiza Aboim and Stephen Olsson’s John Collier, Jr.: A Visual Journey (1993) from the U.S. (5:30)