MELISSA ANDERSON | DAVID FEAR | JOSHUA ROTHKOPF

Celia the Queen: Just the idea of a documentary about the protracted, multinational funeral(s) of la reina de salsa would have me hooked; this promises an abundance of performance footage.

Charly: Pillow-lipped gamine Isild Le Besco proved to be a talented helmer with her debut featurette, Half-Price; in Charly she returns to the subject of kids without parental guidance.

Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha: Sweetback (writer-director Melvin van Peebles) returns, and he’s on the run again. Will this also be rated X by an all-white jury?

Empire II: No Wave filmmaker Amos Poe, borrowing his title from Warhol’s eight-hour mash note to the Empire State Building, assembles his own three-hour-long crush on Manhattan.

Guest of Cindy Sherman: Just how much of the reclusive artist, a master of disguise and reinvention, will we actually get to see? Directors Paul H-O and Tom Donahue promise unprecedented access.

Harvest 3000 Years: Directed by Haile Gerima, best known for 1993’s Sankofa (and a classmate of Charles Burnett’s at UCLA Film School in the ’70s), this little-seen epic about Ethiopia has been heralded as one of the greatest African films ever made.

Mister Lonely: One of the few films I’ve seen in this year’s lineup is also one of my favorites of 2008: Harmony Korine’s comeback, about a group of misfit celebrity impersonators (and daredevil nuns), is deeply strange and heartbreaking.

SqueezeBox!: What did I miss by never going to the homo and trannie rocker hot spot of Rudy Giuliani’s reign? Hopefully this doc will prove that I should have spent less time in graduate school and more time with the Toilet Boys.

Two Mothers: Lavender menace Rosa von Praunheim, best known for his 1979 gay-lib opus, Army of Lovers, tracks down his biological mütter—and guides us through the history of the Nazi occupation of Europe.

Two Timid Souls: The great French filmmaker René Clair’s 1929 silent comedy may prove to be even funnier than Baby Mama.