Film Categories: LGBTQ

  • Housesitter, The

    Two neurotic dykes describe in hilarious detail how to take care of their 3 cats.

  • Pineapple

    The film explores a triangular relationship between three women that explodes into violence when the woman controlling the relationship doesn’t get her way. It also explores the reality that to possess or control someone is not the same as loving them. Laura is a woman who desperately wants to possess her lover, but is insecure and unable to fully love her. In beginning Laura and Carrie are a happy couple, but as Laura has an affair with Cat, the relationship becomes unstable. Unable to control Carrie, Laura turns to physical and emotional abuse as her way of keeping Carrie under…

  • Lez Be Friends

    After making a short film about her best friend Abbey’s struggle to accept her sexual orientation, Lily is assumed to be the true subject of the film. While Abbey, the film’s star, becomes a legend in the lesbian community, Lily is trapped in a netherworld between hetrosexuality and homosexuality, continually trying to set the record straight.

  • lesbianfilm

    “lesbianfilm” is a hilarious performative documentary (mockumentary) that puts the spotlight on all the hype, PR, collaboration, love and bickering that goes into the making of an independent feature film. In the great homosexual tradition, “lesbianfilm” employs camp and humour to achieve a political aim. With tape rolling, the lesbianfilm collective askes the question: “Do you support lesbianfilm?” At the end of the day, the group has managed to debunk identity politics, pitch the festival programmers, and secure numerous donations from unsuspecting patrons of the arts – of props, wardrobe, a location and various in-kind service for the fictional project.…

  • Since Then

    After the love has gone, the mundane routines of everyday become the hope for a brighter tomorrow.

  • Passing Through

    “Passing Through” is haunted by a song about love and marriage that can’t be fully recalled – or completely forgotten. In this beautifully hand-processed film nothing seems to fit properly. The streets of a small, Ontario town become associative paths for memory when desire stretches the seams of expectation.

  • Still Here

    Made for the filmmaker’s uncle, a painter and a gay man who died violently in 2001, this silent, hand-processed film marks an enduring presence with bold brush strokes. When the body is absent the shadows remain. “Still Here” consists of a series of spontaneous, single-take performances that have been edited in-camera. It is at once a eulogy and an act of defiance against the crime that ended Davis Buller’s life.

  • Bye

    If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, you’re going to get what you deserve. Based on a time in the director’s past and his pet fish, this short piece looks at the point in his life when having the beautiful boyfriend just wasn’t enough.

  • Chutzpah!

    An animated film about lesbian gossip.

  • Phone Comes to Jammu, A

    When her relatives in India finally gets a phone, a young woman contemplates how this “new” technology will narrow or widen the gap between her lesbian diasporic self and her relatives overseas. Does easy access guarantee closeness?