Film Categories: comedy

  • Dating Sucks: A Genderqueer Misadventure

    An animated documentary web-series about the successes, failures, and incredible confusion trying to date as a genderqueer/trans person.

  • Fireland (The Sloko Valley Fire)

    A young man seeks to find adventure, love and work, leaves for the Yukon, finding all three and more as he matures and finds his calling.

  • Elizabeth Taylor Sometimes

    Using a monologue format to humorously explore the nature of celebrity and the relationship we have to images on television, “Elizabeth Taylor Sometimes” features an excellent performance from Davey (who also wrote the piece) and is assuredly directed by Strutt.

  • The Alicorn

    The film takes the form of a three-tiered hallucination: a dream within a dream within a dream. A pharaoh time travels from the future to ancient Egypt and dreams of a medieval tavern where people are suffering from the Black Plague. In the tavern, on the brink of death, an old crone tells her life story. The woman’s story, narrated in old English song, alludes to her salvation by the appearance of an alicorn borne by her younger sister. Themes of women’s stories, power, and transgression are woven throughout the narrative.

  • Elle-vis

    Elle-vis: A Woman…Impersonating a Man…Impersonating a Legend Collectively written, produced and directed by a trio of young Toronto filmmakers, “Elle-vis” is an irreverent and offbeat half-hour comedy about a renowned Elvis impersonator who is barred from performing by the all-powerful Elvis Impersonators Union after a lurid tabloid newspaper reveals the slanderous fact that he is… a woman. On the evening of her comback performance, Angela becomes the reluctant centre of a storm of controversy and protest. Outside the nightclub where she is to perform, a crowd of ardent feminists and loyal fans clash with an angry mob of union supporters,…

  • Gaysian

    When a gay Asian man notices that many gay men are taking a ‘no-Asian’ stance, he tries a group he previously avoided – rice queens, men ONLY attracted to Asians. Gaysian is a comedy that explores how we all bring prejudices into the bedroom, and sometimes learn we were wrong…or not.

  • Little Devil

    A troublesome, disabled fag hag absconds to London to find love and opportunity. But life deals her some unexpected twists when she winds up peddling drugs to the queer community and forms an unorthodox relationship with a washed-up gay male escort. On its surface, Little Devil is designed to be an entertaining, but controversial comedy-drama with some crazy and off-the-wall characters trying to get by, and ultimately find happiness, in a troubled and often unfair world. But scratch beneath the surface and it is a film that has a lot to say about perceptions of sex and disability while opening…

  • Mindtease

    The accidental reveal of a burlesque dancer’s “true” identity leads to a moment of self-questioning for the audience, and for one voyeur in particular, some deeper self-exploration.

  • Bakersfield,Earth

    Guy tries to join an anti-evolution protest group because he thinks his alien race created humans.

  • Scenesters

    A group of friends play a party game where they give each other clues to guess the titles of queer films.