Genres: narrative

  • Below the Belt

    Two 17-year-old girls fall in love and grapple with the enormity of their feelings. Totally absorbed in each other, one makes the astonishing discovery that her mother, who she always believed to be happily married to her father, is having an affair of her own.

  • Slip

    A therapist and her client have the same dream. For both women, its is moment of celluloid synchronicity.

  • Every Hour on the Hour

    A short physical comedy about four extreme characters living in a four-story manor. On the top floor, a fiery 10-year-old tap dancer practices her loudest and most annoying routine. Find out how her neighbours are affected in this hilarious short film about patience, revenge, chaos and relationships.

  • Book of Knives

    “Book of Knives” is based on seven psychiatric case histories dating from 1905 up to the present. These stories are linked through the interrogation of a modern day woman, Iris, who has murdered her plastic surgeon. “Book of Knives” is a short history of women, technology & madness in the twentieth century, and calls into question both the ethics and methodologies of western scientific enquiry.

  • Out and About

    A Canadian road movie that gets stuck at the American border. Alerted by four men’s flamboyance, fashion sense and ethnicity, border guards interrogate the travelers. As the questioning develops, the setting becomes increasingly surreal. The room becomes a dungeon and the main characters transform themselves from simple, everyday faggots, to raging Drag Queens. The immigration officers take on the roles of Dominator and Dominatrix. In this fantastic state, the dominating duo begins to torture the foursome in order to extract “Queer Academy” confessions.

  • Switch

    Set in 1949 Toronto, this film tells the story of Isabelle, a telephone operator who is leading a double life. She is having a clandestine affair with another operator, Alice, while her boyfriend Ricky is secretly making plans to elope with her to Niagara Falls. “Switch” is a camp forties-style thriller in which the desires of a lusty femme fatale lead to double-crossing, broken hearts and murder.

  • Silence (Il Silenzio), The

    Lisa, Steven and Linus are in love with the same person, Ian. They live on three different floors of the same building. They all have the same furniture, the same blankets on the bed, and the same carpets. The “silence” is a metaphor for loveliness.

  • Chloe

    “Unfortunately, not a lot of research has been done on woman-to-woman transmission,” says the Planned Parenthood Counselor. Chloe is a lesbian who discovers that her ex-girlfriend’s ex-lover has tested HIV positive. Chloe is faced with the realization that though she knows the facts about AIDS, she never thought it posed a threat to her. This frightening scenario serves as a wake-up call to lesbians who haven’t thought enough about female-to-female HIV transmission.

  • All Broke Down

    This film follows a loose narrative thread dealing with the torture of a 16-year-old runaway, leading into the darkest moments of self-realization for its three main characters. Each grapples with the reality that they have perpetuated the cycle of violence that has permeated their own lives. The film deals with how violence can seem to empower us, yet defeat us at the same time. The work exists to stress the importance of understanding this empty, desperate, territory of humanity – to acknowledge the strength of violence as a stone that may cause us to stumble if we do not keep…

  • One Small Step

    Set in South Carolina on the eve of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon walk, “One Small Step” is a dramatic comedy about a rambunctious 8-year-old tomboy, Ernestine “Teen” Miller. Taught by her parents that she can be anything she wants to be, Teen learns that there is one exception to this rule when she announces to her mother that she is determined to “marry” the neighbour girl. Told from the point of view of an extremely creative and self -confident young girl, the film is a visual mixture of Teen’s real family interactions juxtaposed against her fanciful daydream life. Teen’s…