Genres: queer

  • Don’t You Worry, It Will Probably Pass

    “Are you there? A girl who is attracted to both boys and girls?” “Don’t You Worry, It Will Probably Pass” is an unencumbered look at three girls who responded to this ad in an internet chat room. This was the same classified ad the filmmaker, Cecilia Neant-Falk, had placed in a magazine some 15 years earlier when she too was a lonely and confused teenager. Using the internet this time, she begins her exploration of the coming out experience for a new generation of queer girls. From the overwhelming response to her ad, she found three young women, My, Natalie…

  • Las Amigas Bonitas

    A girl escapes from her own private hell to the grocery store. Selected screenings & awards: Bettye Nowlin Award for Excellence in Filmmaking, Cinematexas International Film Festival, 2002; Mix Festival NYC; Frameline; San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Film Festival; Outfest; Slamdance; Berlin Lesbian Film Festival; London Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

  • Straight Sex

    When two old friends, a gay man and a lesbian, decide to conceive a child the “old-fashioned way,” things get complicated.

  • Styx

    Mark works on a ferryboat. One night his boyfriend Adrien drives aboard, only to tell him that he is leaving the lake forever. The trip across the dark lake turns into a desperate fight for their love and their incompatible dreams. German with English sub-titles.

  • Coolie Gyal

    In this coming-out story, an honest and sincere letter is read from a daughter to her parents. A familial montage is incorporated with a heartfelt narrative filled with the expectations and anxieties of a young woman.

  • original message

    Travelling home by train, Petra reflects on a long-distance relationship with a woman she loves. Through the text of her lover’s email messages, the entire course of a relationship is revealed. Italian, French and Spanish sub-titled versions available.

  • Listen

    A daughter’s “coming out” to her mother falls on deaf ears. Sometimes people just don’t want to listen. Awards: Best Canadian Female Short Award & Audience Choice Award for Best Short, Inside Out Festival, Toronto, 2004; Best Short Film for the 2005 Brussels Lesbian & Gay Film Festival; First Prize Animation, Planet Out Short Movie Awards 2005 Also available on QUEERS ON THE VERGE.

  • Manifesto for Love

    An old pop song. A public declaration. The glimpse of someone caught for a moment in the sunlight. The risking of everything in an unavoidable adventure. How do we know the meaning of love? “Manifesto for Love” is an experiment in shape, music, vision and words to try to find a new expression of love.

  • Daddy-O

    A father sounds off about his love for fishing, fatherhood and his gay daughter on a weekend fishing trip together.

  • Drama

    What are friends NOT for? A stunning, self-delusional fairweather friend reveals her best intentions, but destructive consequences, while housesitting for a week.