Pride Month 2025: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Director: John Cameron Mitchell Run Time: 95 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2001
Starring: John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Rob Campbell, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski
Country: United States, Canada
Language: English
Co-curated by Columbus icon Nina West and Gateway Film Foundation CEO Chris Hamel, the Film Center is proud to present our 2025 Pride Month Program!
About the film:
Winner of Best Director and the Audience Award at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an “internationally ignored” but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a “beautiful gender of one.”
“It’s Rocky Horror for a new millennium; a post-punk odyssey of love and longing filled with wit and surprisingly poignant observations on the human condition.”
—Sara Michelle Fetters for MovieFreak.com
About the filmmaker:
John Cameron Mitchell is a writer, director, and actor known for his sensational feature debut, Hedwig and Angry Inch (2001). The feature won multiple prizes at film festivals, including the Audience Award and Directing Award at Sundance and the Teddy Award for Best Feature Film at Berlin. He is also known for Shortbus (2006) and Rabbit Hole (2010).
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