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Memories of a Penitent Heart

HEAL, in collaboration with the University of Iowa Libraries and the LGBTQ Advocates student group, is hosting a screening of the film “Memories of a Penitent Heart” in acknowledgment of World AIDS day .“Combining a wealth of recently discovered home movies, video, and written documents with artfully shot contemporary interviews and vérité footage. The film charts the director's excavation of the buried family conflict around her uncle Miguel’s death, and her search for Miguel’s partner Robert a generation later. After two years of dead ends, Robert turns up: but he’s not the same man. He’s reinvented himself as Father Aquin, a Franciscan monk with twenty-five years of pent-up grief and bitterness. This is a story about the mistakes of the past and the second chances of the present."