Film Categories: LGBTQ

  • Basement Girl, The

    Abandoned by her lover, a young woman finds comfort and safety in her basement apartment. Mundane routines, a diet of junk food and the warmth of the television insulate her from the pain and betrayal of her ill-fated relationship. Eventually, The Basement Girl emerges – transformed and ready to “make it on her own.” “The Basement Girl” breaks new cinematic territory by employing multiple formats from traditional 16 mm film to toy cameras including a modified Nintendo Game Boy digital camera and the Intel Mattel computer microscope. “Midi Onodera’s latest film is a witty and wonderful meditation on how women…

  • They Only Come Out At Night

    Will has put his life on hold to nurse Gertrude, his dying mother, who only wishes to die with dignity, and soon. At odds with his sister Cathie due to her conservative religious beliefs, Will’s closely proscribed life is suddenly changed when he encounters Victor. Victor, a vampire, helps fulfill Gertrude’s wish, only to become emotionally entangled with Will. When Will is attacked by Cathie and her goons, Victor must act to save Will in the only way he can, but has he done the right thing?

  • Game On

    “Game On” examines the glory of competition, the tension between opponents, the strategies of the game, the sweat of the players, the taste of victory. Shot on Super 8 with music by Kids on TV.

  • Pursuit of Happyness, The

    This film explores the work and travels of John and Frank Navin, two gay brothers from Chicago, who create modern easy-listening music under the moniker The Aluminum Group. The film documents a music tour of Northern Italy where their musical past and future meet. With Cynthia Plaster Caster.

  • Cracker Barrel My Ass

    One mistificata version, but divertentissima – and one scratching taken in turn – of the history (true) of one chain American of restaurants that has decided to fire all the dependent gay or such suspiciones.

  • Changing Evan

    Is my daughter Evan like a puzzle? Just when I think everything is going well, either a germ will attack or a new emotion will surface. I hear that children change every week. When I was making this film, my daughter was invaded by the chicken pox virus. I was convinced that I must finish this film as quickly as possible because her health was directly linked to its completion. Honourable mention by the Canadian Film Centre at the 2006 Ottawa International Animation Festival.

  • In Cairo

    Exploring the reasons why people travel, RM Vaughan recounts his journey to Egypt in a series of slow, reverse dissolves that show the narrator standing, like a classic tourist, before the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx.

  • JO FM

    ‘JO FM’ is a film about a radio DJ who is kidnapped by an obsessed fan. Tina wants Star to make her one last tape, one tape to remind her of the way radio, society and her life once were. ‘JO FM’ is a film about two women coming to terms with their perceived roles in the world. What motivates Tina, the obsessed fan, to kidnap Star, the idolized DJ, is that Star represents the way radio once served Tina. Tina doesn’t understand why market place value has replaced public interest. Ultimately, ‘JO FM’ is about the shape of today’s…

  • Succubus

    Lilith, a cat-rescuing entrepreneur, and Athena, a genetic engineer, are desperately trying to have a baby together. Their attempts to conceive with the help of science have failed, so Lilith takes matters into her own hands, and uses her unique skill set to steal some very special sperm. That task turns out to be an easy one compared to convincing Athena it’s a good idea!

  • we two boys together clinging

    “we two boys together clinging” juxtaposes Elsie Wayne’s tirade in Parliament against gay marriage, with her repetitious, assumptive use of “we,” to Walt Whitman’s poem in which the personal is the political: “no law less than ourselves owning”, to question the interface of the law, personal freedom and moral judgement.