Film Categories: LGBTQ

  • The Touch

    A styling babe finds out that sometimes what you touch can really take you there.

  • Rich

    A woman of the world finds herself lost, and lost, and lost again.

  • Touch

    “Touch” is an uncompromising work about emotional scarring, the cycle of abuse, and the perverse nature of desire. In a poetic and highly stylized treatment, the film details the tragic journey of a physically and psychologically abused teenaged boy from early childhood trauma through to adolescent dysfunction. Composed in three articulate sections (Captivity, Liberation, Withdrawal), “Touch” is a disturbing tale of a young boy who is held captive for a period of years. When he is mysteriously set free after this long period of deprivation, he is found, hospitalized, psychoanalyzed and treated, but he is unable to adapt to the…

  • Sweet Boy

    “Sweet Boy” reveals an imaginative lesbian world where erotic fantasies bring sexual healing. Filmmaker Karen Everett’s thoughtful, stylized and highly personal memoir focuses on the psychological and spiritual dynamics of Mommy/Boy role-play in dyke relationships. Sexy ageplay with a maternal femme catalyzes a wild, energetic boy in Everett’s psyche. Beautifully shot, this compelling Jungian autobiography dramatizes the filmmaker’s inner struggle, sexual adventures and lesson in mothering herself.

  • Rodeo Rhododendron

    A queer, multi-layered, romantic film about cowboys that mixes TV footage of the Calgary Stampede (re-filmed on Super 8), still photos, and footage of rhododendrons and cowboy go-go dancers.

  • Toronto Gay Pride

    A tongue-in-cheek look at Toronto’s annual Gay Pride March and the city of Toronto’s gay tourism promotion.

  • Divas

    The 17-minute short about the lives of black female impersonators in Toronto that became the 81-minute feature “Divas: Love Me Forever.”

  • Hyacinthus

    Hyacinthus was the enemenos (beloved youth) of Apollo. He was accidentally killed while out hunting with the god and from his blood grew the Hyacinth flower. This film was shot in a Jeep park outside of Toronto.

  • Soul Boys, The

    “The Soul Boys” is a primer for a big movie about two very little guys, looking for a place to shake it in the city.

  • Once

    “Once” is a film about language, loss, and the construction of memory through language. Through voiceovers and fragmented footage, the characters in “Once” tell how they have come to study language in an attempt to relocate themselves at particular junctures in their lives. They describe their desire to learn Yiddish, a language they have speculative connections to or memories of. Their distance from the language and its intrinsic power to link them to an identity seems to increase their appetites for this language lost. Yiddish, it appears, while providing the elements of language, also represents a loss for, and only…