Film Categories: LGBTQ

  • Hi I’m Steve

    Dissatisfied with his sex life, Steve decides he’ll give gay telephone dating a try. Although he never seems to find the right person, he does discover a new fetish at the core of his sexual being.

  • Electrical Discharge

    This is the shocking short coming-out film made by Harmsen and Woodbury for the 1999 SPLICE THIS! Super 8 film festival. It involves grown men shuffling up an electrical charge on an acrylic carpet and says more about being a homo than we would normally care to admit.

  • Ani

    A tongue-in-cheek story about how one girl came out the wrong way.

  • Tolerance

    At a Toronto vigil to commemorate the life of slain Wyoming student, Matthew Sheppard, a gay man reflects on his own tragic experience.

  • Latin Queens: Unfinished Stories of Our Lives

    Latino drag queens fleeing persecution in South America struggle for survival in the gay community in Toronto. There is little legal protection for homosexuals in many Latin American countries. Several gays, transgendered persons, and drag queens featured in this documentary were subject to police brutality in their countries and have been granted refugee status in Canada on the basis of their sexual orientation.

  • Forbidden Fruit: Unfinished Stories of Our Lives

    A moving and entertaining video documentary on the gay community in Toronto, as seen through the life stories and performances of female impersonators/drag queens from the 1940s to the present.

  • Dizzy

    All of us have experienced times in our lives when the world seems to spin too fast and out of control. Shot in Toronto and Berlin, this film is a love story that tries to make sense of our fragile alignment in the modern world. At the airport on his way to Australia, Adam watches and worries about the check-in lady as she falls ill to some silent and mysterious nausea. Her dizziness triggers a string of memories connected to events in his life. Structured as a series of interwoven vignettes, this film traces the intercontinental wanderings of a modern…

  • KAIN UND ABEL – eine Moritat | CAIN AND ABEL – A Moral

    We are shown how God sows the seeds of discord and divides mankind into good and evil. –What hast thou done? The voice of my brother’s blood is crying to you from the ground. “A queerly provocative retelling of the Bible story about a man’s bloodlust for his brother.” – MIX New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film & Video Festival, 1995 “‘Cain and Abel: A Moral’ (1994) retells the story of the Bible’s most notorious brothers, questioning the roles of discord and resistance (and featuring an extraordinary birth scene not to be missed!), all in a style that hovers…

  • TRANSIT: Adventures of a Boy in the Big City

    A young Berliner reflects on how the radical changes to Berlin’s architecture and flow influences the emergence of his transgenderism. Ati walks through the city and shows the locations and spaces which help shape his daily life. Cruising in the Tiergarten, going shopping for suits or hardware, getting ready to dance foxtrot in Cafe Fatale, Berlin’s “queer carousel,” on Sunday night. A portrait of a thoughtful boy confronting the incompletion of both his body and his city.

  • Minus

    “Minus” is a hand-processed, uncut, singular stream of movements. To take away: either to leave remnants of light or to leave remnants of rhythms. Entirely hand-processed and unscathed by the blades of the splicer. This is Chong’s first 16mm film. Inspired by Ritchie Hawkin’s Concept albums.