With three days left for the 20th annual Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival (aGLIFF), the festival organizers have decided to offer up several free screenings to the public.

"One of the issues we've talked a lot about this year is how to make the festival as inclusive and affordable as possible," said Lucas Schaefer, Executive Director of aGLIFF. "We want everyone who wants to attend to be able to attend as many of our events as possible."

The list of screenings is after the jump; all are first-come, first-served.

[aGLIFF Schedule]

Sadie Benning's "It Wasn't Love" and "Flat Is Beautiful"
Thursday, October 4
2pm @ Arbor

Flat is Beautiful is an experimental live-action cartoon using masks, animation, subtitles, drawings, and dramatic scenes to investigate the psychic life of an androgynous eleven-year-old girl. Growing up in a working class neighborhood with her single mother and gay roommate, Taylor confronts the loneliness of living between masculine and feminine in a culture obsessed with defining gender difference. Shifting between black and white film and grainy pixelvision video, Flat is Beautiful explores the internal and external worlds of sad people.

Todd Haynes' "Poison"
Thursday, October 4
2:15pm @ Arbor

Based on the writings of French author Jean Genet, Todd Haynes' Poison was a three-part exploration of AIDS-era alienation, death, homosexuality, and persecution told in turn as a vox-pop documentary, '50s sci-fi horror fantasy, and gay love story. Its provocative, unsettling nature, explicit depictions of male homosexuality, and the fact that it received $25,000 worth of funding from the National Endowment for the Arts made the film a target of a campaign being waged by the right-wing American Family Association's Reverend Donald Wildmon against federally-funded art. If anything, the publicity generated by the controversy helped the film, and Poison gave a strong showing on the art house circuit and became touted as one of the seminal works of the new queer cinema. It also won the 1991 Sundance Festival's Grand Jury Prize, an honor that fully established its director as a talent to be taken seriously.

"The Year of Paper"
Thursday, October 4
5pm @ Arbor

When officials began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2004, this country went to war over a word. How different is a "gay marriage" from a heterosexual one? The Year of Paper chronicles the newlywed year of three couples - lesbian, heterosexual and gay. In experiencing their everyday lives, we see the human faces behind this contentious issue. Directors Nikki Parker & Kelly Rouse will be in attendance.

"Drag: Not Just Men In Heels"
Thursday, October 4
5:15pm @ Arbor

An up close and personal look at some of San Francisco's iconic female impersonators, drag queens and a drag king rock band called Wood, Amir Jaffer's Drag - Not Just Men In Heels focuses on the different facets of contemporary Drag Culture in San Francisco. While entertaining with dazzling and hilarious performances, Jaffer's film does away with many misconceptions about one of the most fascinating subcultures in the LGBT community and sheds light on the people underneath the clothes and makeup. Director Amir Jaffer will be in attendance

"OUTSide Communities" (Shorts Program)
Friday, October 5
4:30pm @ Arbor

Queer Streets: A 40-minute documentary about the reality of life on the street for gay homeless young people in New York City. Follow the lives of seven gay, lesbian and trans youths for one summer as they deal with poverty, drugs, sex work and daily life in the youth shelter system. Directors Sarah Feightner and Brooke Sopelsa will be in attendance.

In the Fire (En el Fuego): Transphobia is an every day day problem around the world and in a religious and conservative city like lima, peru where their transgender citizens are not protected by any law it can be downright dangerous. Director Dante Alencastre will be in attendance.

Habana Libre (Free Havana): Five Cubans speak out about the homophobia that exists in Cuba today, and in favor of freedom of sexual preference.