Film Categories: LGBTQ

  • Warm

    Wrik Mead’s dreamy “Warm” suggests the comfort of an embrace as a pixillated naked body flailing against a crumbling ruin… is released from the anguish of containment by another man’s touch.

  • We’re Talking Vulva

    A five-foot, six-inch rappin’ vulva, in an unexpected parody of the music video genre, leads the viewer on a complete description of female genitalia.

  • What Isabelle Wants

    Utilizing human pixillation, Isabelle’s demand to nurture conjures a variety of sensations… perverse, kitsch, sweet witch voodoo?

  • Winter Kept Us Warm

    “Winter Kept Us Warm” is English Canada’s first gay film. The story of a campus friendship between two young men that grows into something more, this film played to festival acclaim around the world in 1965. “‘Winter Kept Us Warm’ was made on a shoestring at the University of Toronto by Secter, [then] a 22- year-old English major from Winnipeg. It wasn’t easy. After Student Council money launched the filming of Secter’s script of an ‘ambiguous’ (as they used to say in the sixties) male friendship in a campus residence, finishing grants were predictably refused by the Canada Council, the…

  • Yearbook

    The length of a pop song, because it’s about the insidious way pop music begins to describe the moments of four lives. Romping through high school in four kilts and kisses, these girls truncate a feature film into the length of a pop song. Starring Janine Fung, Louise Liliefeldt, Nicole Pena and Christina Zeidler.

  • Belly, Femur. Femur, Belly

    A chance meeting between the supercool, worldly wise Belly and the awkward, heart-broken Femur becomes an afternoon roam around the city. Their day culminates into what would seem to be a simple gesture to most but proves pivotal for these two. Written and directed by Laura Cowell, who plays both roles. An homage to the “Parent Trap”? Or taking the notion of random crushes to a more complicated level?

  • Stargaze

    Toronto, 1952. 18-year-old Derek undergoes painful aversion therapy designed to “cure” his homosexuality. After the quiet literal shock of his first session, he leaves the hospital, finding refuge beneath the artificial skies of a planetarium. Eventually, he flees Toronto altogether, heading back to his small-town home. His doctor quickly finds him and threatens to notify the police if Derek doesn’t return. So again, Derek escapes, this time to the Peterborough Exhibition (which has advertised their own planetarium), in the hope of recreating the wonder and transportation he felt earlier.

  • MURDER and murder

    Mildred is a professor who has lived as a lesbian for as long as she can remember. Doris, a mother of grown children, is taking classes and is falling in love with a woman for the first time. From different backgrounds and circumstances, Mildred and Doris try to carve out a life together. The film investigates the pleasures, uncertainties and ambiguities of late-life emotional attachment and lesbian identity within the confines of a culture that glorifies youth and heterosexual romance. The story is haunted by the ghosts of Doris’ mother Jenny and an 18-year-old Mildred. Running parallel is a commentary…

  • Offering, The

    This is a film about the progression and the passing of life. Without dialogue and music, the story centres on the evolution of love and friendship between a Japanese monk and the young novice who has come into his life, from their initial encounter to their final parting. In rejecting his own faith and drowning in self-doubts, the novice leaves his life of unfulfilled potentials. The passing of life is demarcated by the progression of seasons. The only force that propels the narrative forward is the poetic seasonal variations in nature. The passing of life, in this life, in this…

  • Lisa Lisa

    Have you ever dated a woman named Lisa? Is it possible that more dykes are named Lisa than any other name? Find out what 22 women in Chicago had to say about it.