Genres: narrative
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Moustache
Sometimes it doesn’t pay to change your true self for the person you love. Selected Awards (2005): Best Narrative Short Film, Cinekink Film Festival, New York, USA; Ursula Award for Best Transgender Short, Hamburg International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Germany; Audience Award Winner, Palm Springs International Film Festival, USA; Best Female Short, Pike’s Peak Lavender Film Festival, Colorado, USA; Best Foreign Film, Créteil International Film Festival, Paris, France; Best Screenplay, Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival.
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Donnie & Clyde
Two ex-prisoners are forced to go on the run in this dark and humourous re-telling of “Bonnie and Clyde”.
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Dyke City
Francis, self-proclaimed King of Dyke City, receives a late-night visit from her long-time friend Jill, who has just been kicked out of her apartment by her girlfriend. Oh the drama! Though Francis is always ready with helpful (i.e. useless) advice, and often has wonderful (i.e. terrible) ideas, Jill turns to her other friends Izzy and Amy for moral support. Hilarity ensues when they all find themselves together in the same room, trying to agree on something, anything…
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Hitch Cock
Susan would like to cordially invite you to a dinner party to help celebrate her perfect, married life with Steve. Unfortunately, it may not be as perfect as she thinks, as Steve realizes he likes the “COCK au Vin” a little too much. A comedy where not everything is as it seems. “This zany homage/spoof… throws in every Hitchcock pun imaginable. It is deeply silly, full of corny jokes and very, very rude! And even though it’s complete overkill, it will make you laugh.” – www.shadowsonthewall.co.uk Selected screenings: London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 2005; Frameline San Francisco Lesbian &…
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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
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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.
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The Passion of Rita Camilleri
“The Passion of Rita Camilleri” is a 24- minute cinematic vision seen through a child’s eyes. Rita is eight years old, a Maltese Canadian and a Roman Catholic. She is able to see Jesus fly, her sister’s brassiere turn into wings, and a local mutt become a demonic beast. Lonely and insecure, she becomes even more lonely when her best friend Diane dies in a house fire. During and after the funeral, Rita is filled with awe and questions until Diane appears at her window as an angel. Rita is still alone but not as lonely. With the reassurance of…
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Broken
This short film stars Tara Spencer Nairn (New Waterford Girl, Corner Gas etc.) as Allie. Allie is an independent girl who was in a relationship that cut too deep into her world. She finds herself in unfamiliar emotional territory and reacts by running away. Danny (Benjamin Rouse) her ex, can’t understand why all has fallen apart. He has also found himself in unfamiliar emotional territory but is driven to fight through this landscape regardless of the danger he faces within himself. Danny is lost in the chaos of love retracted and in this moment of desperation he is willing to…
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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…
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Happy Birthday Hannah
An irreverent look at diapers and dolls, ‘Happy Birthday Hannah’ is a delightfully funny animated short about Suzy, a rag doll who celebrates her owner’s birthday by painting her room.
