Film Categories: LGBTQ

  • Dawn of the Drag King Zombies

    A playful take on camp and genre (silent/zombie/gangster), four Drag Kings go from cool to walking dead in 7 minutes. Shot on video during a road trip in Italy, most of the scenes are in beautiful Venice. “Dawn of the Drag King Zombies” was made with an improvised, collective process.

  • DAS OVO (Ovo – das Video) | THE OVO (Ovo – the Video)

    “It’s not about how a drag queen moves, it’s what she sets in motion.” – Ovo Maltine, 1966-2005 Christoph Josten was Ovo Maltine. She died on February 8, 2005 at Berlin’s Auguste Viktoria hospital, eleven week after suddenly being diagnosed with lymphatic cancer. She had lived with the HIV virus for 13 year. “Ovo (the egg)” – read one obituary – “lay down in Berlin’s nest of queens and brooded on a number of political projects: a hotline for gay victims of assault, Act Up, AIDS benefit events, the legalisation of marijuana, the recognition of prostitution as a profession, transgender…

  • Blue Box Blues (Staging a Photo Shoot)

    How long does the twinkling of an eye last? What all happens in a moment? Slap in a snap – a document of directing and a video on the half-life of still photos.

  • Crossing the Line

    They are preparing for the big one – the Coming Out Ball. And just how far will they go? This short is a turn-of-the-century crime story exploring the outer limits of the debutant psyche.

  • Butch or Consequences

    Louise, an old-school butch, falls in love with a pretend TV lesbian and in her desperate need to be with her she participates in a fictional make-over show, Inside Out: Deviant Dyke to Diva. Louise, reveals her new marriage approved look to her local dyke march when suddenly it all starts to go wrong, or, some would say, it all gets right.

  • Begging for Change

    Two universes unfold from a coin toss in award-winning writer-director J.T. Tepnapa’s dramatic short about redemption and desperation. In the first scenario, a homeless teen (Brandon Michael) rejects the aid of a handsome jogger (Damon Preston) only to continue to live another day on the streets. In the second, the flip of a coin leads him into the arms of that same jogger. Will either path lead him home?

  • Doctor’s Daughter or The Secret and the Lie, The

    “The Doctor’s Daughter or The Secret and the Lie” is the docu-dramatization of the beginning and the end of a six-year relationship between two young women. The film moves back and forth between Trinidad in 1991 and Toronto in 1996. Nicki (Janine Fung) visits her friend Regan (Gillian Frise) in Trinidad. Nicki falls in love with Regan but Regan is engaged to Howard (Richard Bolai). Nicki and Regan sleep together anyway. Six years later Regan returns to Toronto and moves in with Nicki. That’s when it gets hard to tell whose life is a lie and who’s living the lie.…

  • (panacea)

    Two lovers – a sailor and an artist – made of different fabrics (one skin, one pleather) spend their last afternoon together.

  • sonntag morgen (sunday morning)

    “sonntag morgen” tells the story of a split up – of two women, two lovers. A song of the same title provides the pace, the lyrics, the dialogue.

  • Artist Spotlight Series: Wrik Mead

    Available for purchase in the CFMDC Shop: https://www.cfmdc.org/shop. Wrik Mead, Canada’s prolific poet-priest of pervert pixilation, has accumulated an impressive body of animated shorts in his twenty-year career. Known for his play with texture, light and colour, Mead’s films weave queer fantasies, parables, and even documentary, while exploring the relationship between stigma, shame, and sexuality. Study guide includes an essay by Tom Waugh, Concordia University. 1) What Isabelle Wants 2) Warm 3) Haven 4) Homebelly 5) Closet Case 6) frostbite 7) guise 8) stage fright 9) camp 10) Hand Job 11) Manipulator