COMPETITION
FEATURE award winners
DOCUMENTARY award winners
SHORT FILM award winners
I+N VISIONARY AWARDS
JURY I+N 36
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ALL THE COLOURS OF THE WORLD ARE BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE
BABATUNDE APALOWO
NIGERIA | 2023
An ambitious delivery driver and the manager of a betting shop with artistic aspirations get to know one another during excursions in deeply homophobic Lagos, Nigeria. The choreography of courtship and separation manifested in this thoughtfully composed drama, the winner of the Berlinale’s Teddy Award.
ANALOGUE REVOLUTION: HOW FEMINIST MEDIA CHANGED THE WORLD
MARUSYA BOCIURKIW
CANADA | 2023
Before there was #MeToo, there was Diva: A Quarterly Journal of South Asian Women, Montreal’s G.I.V. and Dykes on Mykes Radio Show and the women-led Studio D of the NFB. The list extends into the hundreds. All Canadian, all feminist, and all trailblazing media of the late 60s to mid-90s.
ARC-EN-NOIR
ERIC PLAMONDON
CANADA | 2023
Inspired by the Beatnik era, Arc-en-noir is a poetic experience in prose. It comes from a contemporary Indigiqueer artist who allows his thoughts to speak as they come to him. Flitting between the urban and the natural, between desires and realities.
ARRÊTE AVEC TES MENSONGES (LIE WITH ME)
OLIVIER PEYON
FRANCE | 2023
Stéphane Belcourt is a “great writer of…the end of love,” stuck circling an attachment 35 years prior with virile yet reticent Thomas Andrieu. When he meets Thomas’ inquisitive son in his former region of Cognac, France, he is forced to unmask the truths behind the lies his stories tell.
CARDIFF
SARAH SMITH
UNITED KINGDOM | 2023
Perpetually single, Frederick envies his fabulous gay friend Joe, who seems to have a never-ending supply of paramours despite being happily married himself.
DANIEL LE TISSERAND (DANIEL THE WEAVER)
JULIEN CADIEUX
CANADA | 2023
Daniel, an HIV positive man, weaves his way toward his new identity in his Acadian village.
FEMME
SAM H. FREEMAN + NG CHOON PING
UNITED KINGDOM | 2023
A traumatic assault while Jules is in drag leaves him hardened. Unbeknownst to his attacker, Jules insinuates himself into his affections. And the line between the game of revenge and genuine devotion grows blurrier with every escalating tryst and personal revelation in this critically acclaimed psychosexual thriller.
FISH BOY
ERIC PLAMONDON
CANADA | 2023
Fish Boy is a lyrical meditation on faith, love, and polyamory through the eyes of an Asian American teenager. When 16-year-old Patrick (Ian Chen, Fresh Off the Boat) questions his love for God, his self-discovery manifests in his skin.
HAILEY ROSE
SANDI SOMERS
CANADA | 2023
Hailey has made an unharried life in Calgary with her non-binary partner, but is summoned home to Nova Scotia after ten years away. There, she sets off on a wild goose chase for her drowned father’s boat, dodging the wacky “blood relatives” she thought she had shaken off for good.
JE M'EXCUSE (I'M SORRY)
FRANCIS PAPILLON
CANADA | 2023
Louis, 24, moves in with his boyfriend Sam, 35, in the suburban house bought in secret by the latter.
LES CORPS ÉLECTRIQUES (ELECTRIC BODIES)
ANTOINE JANOT
FRANCE | 2020
In a future where human memory is recorded on cards and biomechanical bodies are replaced by biological ones, one can change their appearance according to their mood - as long as they can afford it. However, people who can not continue to rent their expensive bodies are forced to abandon them. This is what threatens Emma Beaufort.
LESBIENNES, QUELLE HISTOIRE ?
MARIE LABORY
FRANCE | 2023
In this light-hearted documentary devoted exclusively to the history of lesbianism, French director Marie Labory shines the spotlight on the greatest lesbian personalities of the 20th and 21st centuries in Europe and looks back in pictures at the major events of these periods, interweaving the stages of her personal trajectory in a relevant way, from the missed boy of the playground to her first pride parade in Paris.
LOVE, BARBARA
BYRDIE O'CONNOR
USA | 2022
The legendary pioneering lesbian filmmaker, Barbara Hammer is seen through the lens of her partner for over 30 years, Florrie Burke.
MY ANIMAL
JACQUELINE CASTEL
CANADA | 2023
There are chains on Heather’s bed and locks on her door. And when the moon and her heart swells, the most frightful thing is her feelings. Shot in Timmins, Ontario, this hot-blooded tale of love and lycanthropy imagines what a young woman is capable of once she’s gotten a taste.
NORWEGIAN DREAM
LEIV IGOR DEVOLD
NORWAY | 2023
The promise of a steady paycheque lures 19-year-old Robert from Poland to a fish factory on the harsh Scandinavian coast. There, an intimate friendship with his boss’ savvy, creative son has him questioning his allegiances as the dual straitjackets of the closet and company exploitation continue to bind him.
POLARIZED
SHAMIM SARIF
CANADA | 2022
Reeling from her father’s cancer diagnosis and the collapse of her family’s farm after three generations, Lisa lashes out in racist anger at her new Palestinian boss, Dalia. The confrontation mirrors conflicts that rive Stonewall, Manitoba, which come to a head when prejudice softens to passion between Lisa and Dalia.
SHEE
LIA CAMPBELL
IRLANDE | 2023
Living together in Nairobi, when couple Shee and Magnus discover they’re pregnant, they must decide what the best decision for their future is.
SHIDEH
NAZANIN VAHED
IRAN | 2020
A young barber boy interested in one of his clients decides to reveal this interest and faces challenges along the way.
SILVER HAZE
SACHA POLAK
NETHERLANDS + UNITED KINGDOM | 2023
“What’s more important, justice or answers?” For fifteen years, this slippery question has plagued Franky in the wake of a fire that burned her body, impacting her relationships and self-image. When a suicidal patient finds beauty in her scars, she burns with passion, as darker impulses also gain kindling.
THE CUTEST AND FUNNIEST ANIMALS IN THE WORLD (OS ANIMAIS MAIS FOFOS E ENGRAÇADOS DO MUNDO)
RENATO SIRCILLI
BRAZIL | 2023
Jorge is 70 years old and is one of the most capricious and dedicated janitors at the Paradise Motel, except for a single detail: he secretly records the audio of the room guests. Selling these audios to Alberto earns him an extra income as well as affection, even though he no longer remembers what his own pleasure sounds like.
THE TREE
IDA HANSEN ELDØEN
NORWAY | 2023
Low and hungover, Rebecca finds herself fighting off her ex-girlfriend Vivian, who has turned up to claim the apple tree they had planted in Rebecca’s backyard.
TERROR/FORMING
RYLAN FRIDAY
CANADA | 2022
Set over the course of one evening, Parker and his boyfriend, Darren, find themselves detoured on their trip to Parker's late kokum's cabin. The men make a disturbing discovery which creates tension within the pair's already unhealthy relationship.
VENUS ENVY: THE HOUSE OF VENUS STORY
MICHAEL VENUS
CANADA | 2023
Mix music, outrageous fashion and performances, and cutting-edge video techniques in a queer, subversive blender and what do you get? The House of Venus: Canada’s own internationally renowned fellowship of multidisciplinary artists who spread joy and opened up gender long before the current discourse.
WHO I AM NOT
TUNDE SKOVRAN
ROMANIA + GERMANY + SOUTH AFRICA + USA | 2023
Two of the approximately 150 million people with intersex traits in the world, the extraordinary central subjects—a beauty queen who embraces femininity and an activist employing gender-neutral pronouns—reveal divergent experiences of their bodies while their economic circumstances reveal two distinct sides of contemporary South Africa.
YOUSSOU + MALEK
SIMON FRENAY
FRANCE | 2023
Youssou and Malek are in love but they now have to say goodbye. Tomorrow, Youssou is flying off to the other side of the world, leaving Malek behind in the neighborhood where they grew up. They promised each other to meet at the top of the hill for their last sunset together.