The 16th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival runs from Friday, November 8, through Sunday, November 17, at the Music Box, 3733 N. Southport, and at the Halsted Street Cafe, 3641 N. Halsted. Advance tickets can be purchased half an hour before the first show of the day. Tickets are $5 for shows before 6 pm, $7 for shows after 6; discount passes are also available. For more information call 773-384-0048 or 773-384-5533.

Late Bloomers

Intimacies

Five recent short works from the U.S. and Great Britain. (Halsted Street Cafe, 4:00)

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Everything Relative

Two English films. Duncan Roy’s thriller Jackson: My Life, Your Fault (1995) and Ross Crookshank’s On Earth as It Is in Heaven, a narrative about religious repression and erotic fantasies. (Music Box, 9:00)