Film Categories: LGBTQ

  • Hate

    Using his own lumpy body as a template, artist RM Vaughan explores differing reactions by various audiences to the blunt reality of having a non-commodifiable body in the age of supermodels. Alternately scathing and self-deprecating, “Hate” dishes out (and takes) some unhappy truths about “beauty” and art.

  • Rx

    A young gay man in a tiny Toronto apartment experiences a nervous breakdown, causing him to obsessively arrange and re-arrange his large knick-knack collection. Based on a true story, “Rx” is a bittersweet, funny chronicle of a mind turned frantic by fear, worry and novelty paperweights.

  • Coming Out at Work Is Hard to Do

    When you’re in the closet at work, “coming out” is always a drama. But no one expects it to be like the jaw-dropping experience recounted in this short, sharp and funny tale. Coming out at work is indeed hard to do. Awards: HBO Audience Award for Best Female Short, Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, USA

  • Closet Case

    “In this quintessential ‘coming out’ film, a grinding rhythm leads us through a passage of closed doors, as a man struggles to break free from his literal and social confinement.” – Images Festival of Independent Film & Video catalogue, 1995

  • Gloriously Free

    “Gloriously Free” is one of the first documentaries to explore the world of gay immigration, and the desperate search of five young men to find welcoming arms outside their countries of birth – where persecution and hatred of alternative lifestyles may lead to torture or death. What they find is Canada, leading the world as the safest haven for persecuted gays and lesbians. “Gloriously Free” is a powerful profile of gay immigrants to Canada. Among them are Al-Hussein from Jordan; Julian, blackmailed and blacklisted in his homeland of Mexico and a resident of Canada for three years; Bruno, who immigrated…

  • you wash my skin with sunshine

    With few childhood memories of her mother’s affection, Mullen mines old home movies for evidence. When she doesn’t find exactly what she’s looking for, she sets out to create a new family movie of her own, starring her surprisingly willing mother. A reflection on memory, loss, reconciliation and love.

  • Venice for Homosexuals

    A voyeuristic Venetian promotional film for the traveling male homosexual. Shots of hotties spied along Venice’s famed canals are accompanied by a piece of vintage Venetian opera.

  • Canadian Landscape

    A tongue-in-cheek meditation on the Canadian iconographic obsession with landscape. A (literally) washed-up drag queen on the shores of Newfoundland finds herself trapped in a vicious circle.

  • Hollywood Forever

    Using the Hollywood Forever cemetary as a backdrop (the cemetary that figures prominently in Kenneth Anger’s “Hollywood Babylon”), the filmmaker recounts his visit to Outfest, LA’s big queer film fest. Pigeons sit on grandiose monuments, flying down to snack, as Hollings talks about the perks of visiting an LA film festival as an experimental filmmaker – especially the free drinks and all-you-can-eat buffets.

  • Brian and Lazzio

    “Brian and Lazzio” playfully explores the awkward and funny development of a college romance between two young men.