Genres: narrative

  • Snailfingers

    On her immigration flight to Canada, Lailey, a young Iranian woman, encounters Snailfingers, an ancient aboriginal water-spirit. When Lailey and Snailfingers make contact, their stories become intertwined and unfold simultaneously. The drama chronicles a slice from the lives of Lailey and her sister Parvaneh, attending ESL school. Here Lailey meets Claire, the teacher’s assistant, a disillusioned lesbian of colour who represents the Sapphic voice. The secular lives of the three women are juxtaposed with Snailfingers’ spiritual existence. A poetic narrative presents glimpses of Snailfingers as she embarks on a healing quest. Several montages featuring water as the quintessential Yin element…

  • Time Being, The

    Few feelings can match the sadly delectable heart-swelling pain of desire, the palpable electricity of a first tentative touch, or the endless circular recriminations of actions taken or merely contemplated. “The Time Being” is a visually sumptuous, evocative contemporary drama that follows a young artist’s journey to come to terms with the loss of love after secretly assisting his partner’s euthanasia.

  • Rude Girls & Green Bananas

    A black comedy about the trials and tribulations of party-going through the eyes of a woman remembering a traumatic childhood birthday party. Seven-year-old Brenda, longing to be cool and popular, shows up at Camilla Brown’s 8th birthday party. She is greeted by ridicule and taunting, not only at the hands of the other children, but also Mrs. Brown, Camilla’s mom. A twist in the story may lead the viewer to wonder whether the fear of parties we have as children ever really ends. Do we all still have a seven-year-old lurking inside us?

  • Hi I’m Steve

    Dissatisfied with his sex life, Steve decides he’ll give gay telephone dating a try. Although he never seems to find the right person, he does discover a new fetish at the core of his sexual being.

  • Quickest Way to a Man’s Heart

    In the dark hours before dawn, Yorgi brings home a disco queen in boogie woogie platforms and a sequin gown. She’s a pushy bottom but he’s a comfortable top. There’s something wrong, though, she’s a little too resistant. Is she a priss queen? Did someone spill ice down her g-string? Or is she an imposter? When the truth comes out, Benny and Yorgi have a lot more to say to each other than just “Swordfish”!

  • Ani

    A tongue-in-cheek story about how one girl came out the wrong way.

  • Tolerance

    At a Toronto vigil to commemorate the life of slain Wyoming student, Matthew Sheppard, a gay man reflects on his own tragic experience.

  • Where’s your humanity if you don’t burn your food?

    Bedridden and deathly, Nolan’s own psychic life becomes active against itself. Disturbing the calm of his sexlessness, the possibility of a quiet and pleasant convalescence is forced into retreat by the stubbornly recurrent vision of a scene of fecundity, appetite, and in effect Nolan’s own rape.

  • Seeing the Literature in Racitot

    A game of cat and mouse between two refined or gentlemanly perverts. Racitot seeks out the details of Hugo’s sex-play as Hugo artfully dodges and counters his interrogator by means of “the tease.”

  • One’s Exigency

    A certain immeasurable moment in which one’s consciousness involuntarily recedes from its object of focus to get lost and caught up in the tyrannies of distraction.