Genres: narrative

  • Nine Lives (The Eternal Moment of Now)

    A house cat dreams of her past lives.

  • Story of the Fish Girl, The

    “The Story of the Fish Girl” is a fantastical tale, told in the style of the silent cinema, about a young woman’s desire to escape her repressive existence, and discover independence and meaning in her life. Her transformation into a fish leads her on a journey of self-realization through the sewers of New York. Passive and naive, the fish girl swims without direction, unable to realize her goal of personal and spiritual fulfillment in the patriachal/animal world of the sewer system. The use of colour through hand-tinting techniques, superimposed over the B&W narrative, creates a visual space full of energy…

  • Love Is Love

    Jake and Sabrina, two heterosexuals, struggle find love in a world where they just don’t fit in. Follow this comedic yet poignant look at how life might be if the world was predominately gay and straight people were the “queer” ones.

  • Getting Lucky

    A story-starved filmmaker wakes up in the most dangerous neighborhood in New Orleans with a hot stranger he doesn’t remember meeting. As he begins to try to put together the events of the previous evening, events start to turn more sinister.

  • Oh, You Pretty Things

    Told in a collage of sound and vision, “Oh you pretty things” chronicles the enchantment and disintegration of a relationship built on very different and questionable drives. Recounted through the experiences of two nameless characters in metropolitan New York, the minimal dialogue, ambient moods, engaging narration and sweeping music that make up “Oh, you pretty things” allow the observer to interpret the unique synergy of couples and the varying perception each person has to a shared situation. The ensuing emotional complexity ultimately asks the question: What is love?

  • Portrait of a Couple

    A few days before moving to Spain, Ryan learns that he might be HIV positive. This situation will force him to deal with his boyfriend and his worse fear: loneliness. “Portrait of a couple” talks about the lack of trust between two lovers in a difficult moment. The dilemma is approached through the fear we all share of being sick and dying alone. The movie addresses the topic of a gay couple learning about their HIV status, from a particularly different perspective, not in a condescending or victimizing way, but allowing human nature to surface with all its flaws and…

  • Congratulations Daisy Graham

    Seventy-year-old Daisy Graham is having a hard day. No one in her small town wants to let her forget about the big ceremony tomorrow, a ceremony at the local high school in her honour. But Daisy has more important things to think about than some ceremony – she’s dug out her old rifle, now all she needs is a box of bullets. Jury Prize, Best Female Short, Philadelphia Int’l Gay & Lesbian Film Festival World Premiere at 2007 Toronto International Film Festival Special Jury Mention at Image+Nation, Montreal “A subtle and touching portrait” – Barrett Hooper, NOW Magazine

  • Gesture

    As for the two films made with Hidalgo, Ariganello assumes a role more traditionally defined as “cinematographer,” and his aptitude for composition, lighting and camera movement is skillfully in display throughout. Both works with Hidalgo are to “the real” what the films with Gehman are to “the fantastical,” and are keenly aware of the cinematic traditions from which they emerge. Each draws extensively, in style and structure, from neo-realism and observational documentary, while the function of Hidalgo’s narrator in Gesture operates to construct a story of a not-so-distant future-present, not unlike in Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962). — James Missen

  • Tranzploitation

    “Tranzploitation” is a trans-comedy. A trannedy! Or perhaps just a hot tranny mess. The story follows Kaleb as he fights discrimination (the anti-trans fats police), exploits his new trans-man identity (hello cheaper haircuts!) and makes the personal decision to get the surgery he needs (Botox, of course). Don’t miss the cameo by Amy Ray of Indigo Girls fame!

  • Dinx

    A dissatisfied bar waiter in a men’s burlesque club is thrown back in time to relive a day from his childhood – in short-shorts. Selected Screenings: Worldwide Short Film Festival, 2008 (Toronto, Canada); Inside Out Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 2008 (Toronto, Canada); Mix Festival Milano, 2009 (Italy)