Film Categories: LGBTQ

  • Every Other Day of the Week

    “Every Other Day of the Week” wonders, plays with and ponders the where of dykedom today.

  • Cairo Calling

    Ahmed’s tranquil life in Montreal goes into a tailspin when his meddling mother visits from Cairo with a single purpose in mind… Selected screenings: Out Takes Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, New Zealand, 2005; Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival, 2005; Hamburg Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival, 2005, Pink Apple Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Switzerland, 2005 Audience Award at the 2005 Fresno Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. Audience Award at the 2005 Montreal Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

  • Fidanzata, La

    Just as Lolo, a gay Italian-Secondo, is getting ready to spend a romantic evening with his lover, his Italian Nonna makes an unexpected appearance. Un homosexuel d’origine italienne, Lolo, s’apprête à passer la soirée avec son amant. Or, voice que Mémé passe à l’improviste et met Lolo dans une situation épineuse.

  • Queers on the Verge: Experimental Works for Educational Environments

    Available for purchase in the CFMDC Shop: https://www.cfmdc.org/shop. This compilation brings together challenging and innovative film and video works that explore lesbian/gay/bi/trans culture by both Queer pioneers and emerging makers. It covers a broad range of subject matter including gender and sexual identity, social dynamics, coming out, the impact of AIDS, and Queer youth culture. “Queers on the Verge… is an excellent compilation of short subjects featuring contemporary gay, lesbian, and transgender themes. This DVD is highly recommended and will be a great catalyst for discussion in high school and colleges, not just to gay audiences. It should be accessible…

  • Bahar

    Bahar is a 52-minute documentary about a Turkish transsexual, who has lived through many periods of tumultuous times, each of these chapters a fragment of her life marked by a different name she has chosen to call herself after abandoning her original name of Mustafa: Ayla (Aura), Ülkü (Ideal) and Bahar (Spring). The film was shot in Turkey with interviews conducted around the time of Bahar’s much-desired facial surgery. Having a sex change operation is surprisingly easy in Turkey. But the bill a transsexual has to pay is to be cast away from an ordinary life and suffer from the…

  • Surrender

    Stop! In the name of love where did our love go? My world is empty without you – you are everything and everything is you. You keep me hanging on upside down. Remember me? It’s my turn. I’m still waiting. I’m gonna make you love me. I’m coming out. I hear a symphony. Doobedood’ndoobe, doobedood’ndoobe, doobedood’ndoo. A film about the pressures of modern love.

  • What Remains Human

    When the ashes of her long-estranged father show up in the mail, Rebecca enlists the help of her siblings to find a suitable dumpsite for his sooty cremains. This black comedy, shot in the dead of winter in Saskatchewan, is an unusual look at the loss of rites of passages in our secular culture. The film’s quiet metaphor – how parental behavior leaves its smudgy mark on us all despite our most frantic efforts to rid ourselves of the legacy – creates a purposeful and layered theme not typically found in comedic films “What Remains Human is a queer absurdist…

  • Zero Degrees of Separation

    “George Orwell, in his wildest dreams, could not imagine a place like this.” EZRA, ZERO DEGREES OF SEPARATION Described by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz as a film “bursting with concern about identities – sexual, national, political, generational, cultural, class, ethnic and more,” Elle Flanders’ feature -length documentary “Zero Degrees of Separation” breaks from the sensationalistic media coverage of violence in the Middle East by examining the current conflict through the eyes of two mixed Palestinian and Israeli gay couples. Courageous and outspoken, their relationships are as complex and volatile as the politically charged world around them. Selim, a Palestinian, and…

  • Une Petite Mort

    If you set him free can he still be loved?

  • Flamingo

    In “Flamingo” an old lady tells the filmmaker about her life as they ride a Las Vegas bus: her arrival in the city in 1960, her career as a casino cashier and her recent personal tragedies. Her story is retold over Kodachrome Super 8 images of neon signs along the Las Vegas strip.