Irish filmmaker Cara Holmes returns to the New York screen with her latest documentary “Lesbian Lines,” which has its North American premiere at DOC NYC this Saturday, Nov. 14, 6.45 p.m. at Village East by Angelika.
When living openly often meant losing family, employment, or community, underground lesbian helplines across Ireland offered women something radical: someone who would listen. Drawing from handwritten call logs, archival material, dramatic recreations, and the memories of former volunteers, Lesbian Lines resurrects a network of care forged amid profound social repression.
Holmes, whose previous work includes “Notes from Sheepland,” about County Wexford farmer and artist Orla Barry, will take part in a Q&A after the premiere screening.
