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ALL MAN: THE INTERNATIONAL MALE STORY
BRYAN DARLING + JESSE FINLEY REED
USA | 2022
Immortalized in Zoolander and Seinfeld’s “puffy shirt,” International Male was both celebrated and maligned as “that gay catalogue.” Narrator Matt Bomer chronicles how founder Gene Burkard and his team rebranded masculinity as the confidence to embrace style - no matter how outrageous - bridging the gap between masturbation material and mail-order sensation.
AMAZONES D'HIER, LESBIENNES D'AUJOURD'HUI. 40 ANS PLUS TARD
DOMINIQUE BOURQUE, JULIE VAILLANCOURT + JOHANNE COULOMBE
CANADA | 2022
Amazones d'hier, Lesbiennes d'aujourd'hui. 40 ans plus tard offers a return in images to the creation of AHLA, Amazones d'hier, Lesbiennes d'aujourd'hui, a lesbian collective at the origin of the video of the same name shot in 1979 and also the eponymous magazine published between 1982 and 2014. Based on interviews conducted in May 2021 as well as archive footage, this documentary highlights the four founding members of the collective.
BALABAN
AYSULU ONARAN
KAZAKHSTAN, BELARUS, UNITED KINGDOM + USA | 2022
Its premise arising from a 2006 incident in Kazakhstan involving tainted blood transfusions, Balaban filters this tragic event through a stylish coming-of-age thriller shot through with tumultuous romance as two Kazakh teenagers choose unethical means to fulfill their Paris fantasy.
BECOMING CHARLIE
KERSTIN POLTE + GRETA BENKELMANN
GERMANY | 2022
Becoming Charlie is about a search for identity. The discovery of their own non-binary identity catapults not only Charlie, but also Charlie's environment out of their comfort zone and shakes seemingly irrefutable truths.
THE BLUE CAFTAN
MARYAM TOUZANI
FRANCE, MOROCCO, BELGIUM + DENMARK | 2022
In Morocco’s official Oscars entry, Halim’s adoring and well-adored wife grows more ill while the need to complete a client’s lavish, “petroleum blue” caftan grows more urgent, as does Halim’s desire for the skilled apprentice who has big brown eyes only for him.
BREAKING THE ICE
CLARA STERN
AUSTRIA | 2022
When Theresa is transferred to the Dragons, Mira’s big blue eyes watch her, absorbing her. Then, what seems to be, on the surface, a hockey film becomes something quirkier and altogether more intriguing. And fortunes will rise and fall by these women’s volatile chemistry.
CAMILA COMES OUT TONIGHT
INÉS BARRIONUEVO
ARGENTINA | 2021
After an intense escape during a protest against abortion laws, Camila’s political spirit is quelled by a family move to Buenos Aires and her enrollment in a “poisonous” private school. But unexpected friendships and romantic trysts across the gender divide awaken her wild side and her commitment to bodily autonomy.
COMPULSUS
TARA THORNE
CANADA | 2022
The guy exploiting drunk women. The aggressive catcaller. The rapist who walks free. Wally takes on these Bad Men, becoming a vigilante in Halifax’s North End. Harnessing her “blind rage” and lust-fueled partnership with Lou, she undertakes a bloody mission that will rattle your sense of right and wrong.
COP SECRET (LEYNILÖGGA)
HANNES ÞÓR HALLDÓRSSON
ICELAND | 2021
Cop Secret is the type of big-budget buddy cop spoof that LGBT2SQ+ audiences aren’t afforded, with the DNA of Die Hard and the zing of Austin Powers zaniness. When Reykjavik experiences an enigmatic crime spree, a closeted “supercop” and pansexual crime fighter unite to solve the case and ignite romance.
EISMAYER
DAVID WAGNER
AUSTRIA | 2022
Based on true events and with the restraint of a hardened soldier, Eismayer follows the titular sergeant major as a brazenly out and proud “Yugo” emboldens him to temper his fearsome tyranny, if only he can release his stranglehold on the truth.
EL HOUB (THE LOVE)
SHARIFF NASR
NETHERLANDS | 2022
Wracked with guilt over abandoning his friend Soufian and caught déshabillé with his boyfriend, Karim launches an all-out emotional assault on his close-minded parents. Refusing to leave their supply closet until they deal with the truth about his sexuality, Karim convenes with the stubborn ghosts of his younger selves.
ELEPHANT (SŁON)
KAMIL KRAWCYCKI
POLAND | 2022
When hardworking Bartek and free-spirited Dawid connect after Dawid’s return to his picturesque Polish village for his father’s funeral, their budding relationship stimulates Bartek’s drive for self-fulfilment and stirs his heart. Though something darker stirs in those who want to bridle this force of nature.
ERIN'S GUIDE TO KISSING GIRLS
JULIANNA NOTTEN
CANADA | 2022
According to Erin, there are seven steps to attaining a first kiss – from initial impression to ultimate embrace – but she will learn that there is no simple guide to navigating the gauntlet of infatuation, best friendship, and the middle school muddle in this Toronto-set, comics-splashed rom-com.
ESTHER NEWTON MADE ME GAY
JEAN CARLOMUSTO
USA | 2022
Esther Newton’s cultural anthropology work formed the cornerstone of what we now know as LGBTQ & Gender Studies. By her side, we take a time journey as emotionally and intellectually curious as Esther herself, from academia’s treacherous waters to the dog agility course where she further proves her mettle.
FRAMING AGNES
CHASE JOYNT
USA | 2022
The Agnes of lore – a young trans girl in the 50s who outsmarted her way to surgery – has been stuck in a binary between cautionary tale and folk hero, co-opted for demonization or celebration. The articulate, affecting Framing Agnes is here to try and understand and complicate that history.
GIRL PICTURE (TYTÖT TYTÖT TYTÖT)
ALLI HAAPASALO
FINLAND | 2022
Dueling storylines of female friends, one gay, one straight – commitment-phobic Mimmi and climax-chaser Rönkkö – convey the tribulations of pleasure, both sexual and emotionally enduring. And the salve of a powerful hug-it-out bond that transcends every hiccup, humiliation, and failed orgasm.
GOLDEN DELICIOUS
JASON KARMAN
CANADA | 2022
The seemingly social-media-ready Wong family is far from picture perfect. In the midst of its dissolution and his increasingly disastrous final year of high school, Jake must untangle his feelings for a sexy new neighbour, Aleks, who offers to help him “one-on-one” with more than just his basketball performance.
HEARTBEAST
AINO SUDI
FINLAND | 2022
“I’ll drag you down to hell with me,” raps Elina, prophetically, early on. Upon moving from Finland to the opulent French Riviera, she becomes fixated on Sofia, an alternatingly sweet and self-indulgently cruel ballet dancer, and the two begin a psychologically abusive relationship in this neo-noir stunner.
HORSEPLAY (LOS AGITADORES)
MARCO BERGER
ARGENTINA | 2022
A group of testosterone-pumped pals unwind for the holidays in a swanky Argentinian villa under the guise of heterosexuality, discussing the paradoxes of the universe as the paradoxes of sexuality bring them together and pull them apart in erratic, erotic, and unexpected ways.
IN FROM THE SIDE
MATT CARTER
UNITED KINGDOM | 2022
Nimbly eliding genres – a sports nailbiter, a weepy, a feel-good Christmas movie, a (very) sexy rom-com – In from the Side follows the star player of a rugby “B Squad” whose steamy affair with a cocky “A-Squad-A-hole” endangers a delicate balance of relationships on and off the field.
INTO MY NAME (NEL MIO NOME)
NICCOLÒ BASSETTI
ITALY | 2022
Four friends – Nic, Leo, Andrea and Raff – tell the stories of their gender transitions. Looking back on their childhood and youth, they share their personal memories and experiences. Even if they did not always conform to the social norms of femininity – all four were socialised as girls. Each of their gender biographies may be different, yet there are parallels.
IVIN. A.
IVIN. A.
USSR | 1990
Soldier on duty Ivin couldn’t shoot a fugitive from jail. Officers condemn him but he declares refusal to dispose of the lives of other people because of his moral views. Who is Ivin – a coward or a prisoner of his conscience? Rather he may be a typical character of late-soviet era – a hero without certain heroic qualities.
I+N@PHI x FMC/CMF x QueerTech
I+N@PHI x FMC/CMF x QueerTech
QueerTech (QT) Connect with Lowbirth Games: Queering the game industry
Gain insight on the latest gaming trends with this engaging conversation between QueerTech and the core team members from the indie game studio, Lowbirth Games.
I+N@PHI x FMC/CMF x ROSIE
I+N@PHI x FMC/CMF x ROSIE
Join Maurice and actor/co-producer Mélanie Bray for a conversation about their creative journey; Gail’s inspiration behind the film, adapting a short to feature length film, reflecting Indigenous sensibilities through script and character building.
I+N@PHI x FMC/CMF x Sugar Highs
I+N@PHI x FMC/CMF x Sugar Highs
Join director Thom Fitzgerald (Hanging Gardens) and actors Samuel Davison and Joey Beni to get the inside scoop on the making of this upcoming Canadian gem!
I+N@PHI x FMC/CMF x This Place
I+N@PHI x FMC/CMF x This Place
Join V. T. Nayani in conversation on her script inspiration and the responsibility of representing nuanced, complicated family histories and migration.
I+N@PHI x FMC/CMF x Y’a une étoile. Queerer up l’Acadie
I+N@PHI x FMC/CMF x Y’a une étoile. Queerer up l’Acadie
Join Charlie Boudreau in conversation with Julien Cadieux to discuss his creative journey and the importance of producing Acadian queer stories - of which there exist few - within the (Franco) Canadian cultural landscape.
JOYLAND
SAIM SADIQ
PAKISTAN | 2022
The first Pakistani film officially selected for Cannes and Pakistan’s 2022 Oscars entry, Saim Sadiq’s feisty drama extends empathy to each complicated member of Haider’s fractious family and the trans woman he falls for as he trips his way into an erotic dance group, and into love.
LES MEILLEURES
MARION DESSEIGNE-RAVEL
FRANCE | 2021
In this Juliet & Juliet tale of instant chemistry, a vibrant, close-knit community in the Parisian district of Goutte d’Or comes apart at the seams when two women from vying friend groups defy their besties to explore their affections.
LONESOME
CRAIG BOREHAM
AUSTRALIA | 2022
Writer-director Craig Boreham’s dark romance is a knockout film devoid of pretensions. Both deeply hot and deeply daring. Its “corn-fed” protagonist, Casey, hitchhiking to Sydney to escape a violent past and ending up in the bed and fickle heart of Tib, the two becoming ardent, unpredictable lovers.
LOVING HIGHSMITH
EVA VITIJA
SWITZERLAND + GERMANY | 2022
Acclaimed writer Patricia Highsmith, who wrote the first lesbian novel with a happy ending, shrugged off conventions the way she shrugged off genres. Framed by her unpublished diaries, unparalleled prose, and interviewed intimates, she can be seen as “the forever seeking,” an avid traveller who accumulated accolades and impassioned affairs.
MAMA BEARS
DARESHA KYI
GERMANY | 2022
Following a trans girl, a gay man, and a lesbian mother, this emotional triptych chronicles evangelical Christian “Mama Bears” fighting for their children’s rights and wrestling with their conflicted souls as the movement gains members and sprouts local chapters across the U.S. one glitter-dusted hug at a time.
MY EMPTINESS AND I (MI VACIO Y YO)
ADRIAN SILVESTRE
SPAIN | 2022
“Love is in the air,” but… Raphäelle Perez, a French trans woman living in Barcelona, feels shut out. Between medical interrogations and dates that end badly even when men treat her as something more than “alien,” Raphi is desperate for belonging and willing to explore her limits to find it.
MY FATHER IS MY MOTHER'S BROTHER
VADYM ILKOV
UKRAINE | 2018
A queer singer/artist becomes a father to his five-year-old niece when his sister's mental health deteriorates, and finds himself awkwardly balancing fairy tales and playtime with his nightlife and underground art.
MY NAME IS ANDREA
PRATIBHA PARMAR
USA | 2022
At a time when women’s rights are under threat and porn proliferates, little remains as prescient or as powerful as Andrea Dworkin’s life and words, dramatized here by a variety of award-winning personages to put the near-universal experience of women’s violation on trial. And to shake up your worldview.
NELLY & NADINE
MAGNUS GERTTEN
SWEDEN, BELGIUM + NORWAY | 2022
This is the love story of two war heroes begun in the most horrible of circumstances, but with the happiest of endings. The love story of a globe-trotting opera singer suddenly arrested in Paris by the statue of Molière and her “Butterfly,” the daughter of a Chinese ambassador to Spain.
NICHOLE
GABRIEL SAVIGNAC + GUENIÈVRE SANDRÉ
CANADA | 2022
Nichole is a web series of fiction in six episodes of ten minutes each featuring Nichole. Originally from the Saguenay region, now established in Montreal, the self-proclaimed "rising star" is looking for fame and recognition in an attempt to break into the international music scene.
PAT ROCCO DARED
BOB CHRISTIE + MORRIS CHAPDELAINE
CANADA | 2022
Pat Rocco’s films of the 60s featured plenty of nudity, as this no-holds-barred documentary can attest, yet they transcended pornography, offering groundbreaking glimpses of gay men exploring self-affirming, romantic, and erotic lives everywhere from the L.A. freeway to Disneyland. A vision as utopic as this personal history is comprehensive.
PETIT MAL
RUTH CAUDELI
COLOMBIA | 2022
A seizure, the pain of absence, an altered state of consciousness – Ruth Caudeli’s semi-autobiographical Petit Mal expresses each of its title’s meanings, deconstructing what happens romantically and psychically when a throuple’s central pillar must leave temporarily, forcing the remaining women to reflect on what binds them.
PHANTOM PROJECT (PROYECTO FANTASMA)
ROBERTO DOVERIS
CHILE | 2022
An ex-roommate owes Pablo two months’ rent, he misses his “hilarious” YouTuber ex-boyfriend, and the dog he’s been saddled with keeps knocking over things in his apartment. Or so he thinks. A ghost is about to teach Pablo a lesson in connection – how it’s achieved and the ways it dissolves.
PRIVATE DESERT (DESERTO PARTICULAR)
ALI MURITIBA
BRAZIL | 2021
Fleeing the backlash of a violent outburst, Daniel drives 2,000 miles across Brazil through sweltering temps to locate the love of his life. But there’s a catch: he’s never met her, she has cut off all contact, and she isn’t exactly the “Sara” she says she is.
ROSIE
GAIL MAURICE
CANADA | 2022
A film about family, love and misfits, Métis writer/director/actor Gail Maurice’s debut feature takes us to the fringes of 1980s Montreal as seen through the eyes of a sweet, suddenly orphaned Indigenous girl and her newly chosen family.
SEXFLUENCING
MATUS KRAJNAK
UNITED KINGDOM | 2021
A queer Eastern European vlogger is taking on the London dating scene one awful fling at a time. Sexfluencing is an auteur romantic comedy web-series about the dating experience of Milan, a London-based bisexual vlogger.
SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS
SERHII PARAJANOV
UkrSSR | 1964
Two Hutsul families have been bitter enemies for many years. In the atmosphere of anger and revenge, pure and true love is born between Ivan and Marichka belonging to warring families.
SIRENS
RITA BAGHDADI
USA | 2022
Shery and Lilas met in the middle of a riot. A fitting start for these revolutionary co-founders of the thrash metal quintet Slave to Sirens – the first all-female band of its kind in Lebanon. Women capturing the discontent of their country as their own lives fracture and attractions sear.
STOP-ZEMLIA
KATERYNA GORNOSTAI
UKRAINE | 2021
“They say when you get goosebumps, your soul touches your body.” Introvert Masha sees herself as an outsider unless she's hanging out with her two best friends, Yana and Senia. While trying to navigate through her last year of school, Masha falls in love in a way that forces her out of her comfort zone.
THIS PLACE
V. T. NAYANI
CANADA | 2022
Canadian director V.T. Nayani’s feature debut, starring Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs (Reservation Dogs) and Priya Guns, is a queer love story about two young women - one Iranian and Kanienʼkehá꞉ka, the other Tamil - living in Toronto and dealing with difficult family legacies.
THREE TIDY TIGERS TIED A TIE TIGHTER
GUSTAVO VINAGRE
BRAZIL | 2022
Three queer youths meander a surreal, near-future São Paulo. As the city drifts into a pandemic-fueled forgetfulness, they face realities both personal and political – a devastating death, an HIV diagnosis, the systemic scourge of “craptalism” – and find comfort in the body as it is, in all its eroticism and incontinence.
TRAMPS!
KEVIN HEGGE
CANADA | 2022
In the get-rich-quick 80s, a group of misfits labeled the New Romantics navigated the sweaty clubs and crumbling squats of the London underworld, innocent of practicalities. Building friendships from pills and trysts. Shaking the world awake one “radical drag” performance or fashion revolution at a time.
TROIS NUITS PAR SEMAINE
FLORENT GOUËLOU
FRANCE | 2022
Deep into an 8-year heterosexual relationship, Baptiste is given license to explore his sudden, all-consuming attraction to Cookie Kunty, a vision in and out of drag, the same throaty purr. Brought into Cookie’s swirling, bejewelled world, Baptiste examines his preconceived notions of masculinity and uncovers the performer underneath Cookie’s performance.
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS
JUAN FELIPE ZULETA
USA | 2022
Winona was fifteen when they took her. In three days, they’re coming again – to Canada. Enough time to steal a car to reach the abduction site. Though that car comes with one major, sharp-tongued condition: Peter, a down-on-his-luck misanthrope with his own reasons for sneaking into the Great White North.
WHEN TIME GOT LOUDER
CONNIE COCCHIA
CANADA | 2022
Enriched by raw, gutting mother-daughter performances from Lost’s Elizabeth Mitchell and The Hunger Games’ Willow Shields, Connie Cocchia’s first feature captures one family’s growing pains. Abbie moves away from her brother who has autism and is non-verbal to attend university and is pulled between the elation of a new adventure and their inseparable connection.
YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER
SARAH WATTS + MARK SLUTSKY
CANADA | 2022
It’s the early 90s and Jaime, a transplant from Thunder Bay to Saguenay, is an ordinary teenager sneaking joints in cassette cases. That ordinariness, though, puts her at odds with the Jehovah’s Witness community in which she’s immersed, including with Marike, whose affections toe the line between love and conversion.
INDIGIQUEER / VOIX AUTOCHTONES
63 minutes
2Spirit and Indigiqueer perspectives and experiences. These proud and loud voices use both narrative and documentary strategies to share their stories, their spaces and their realities.
QUEERMENT QUÉBEC
61 minutes
Our annual celebration of Québécois queer content; unique perspectives proving Quebec is truly a hotbed of queer storytelling talent.
MADE AU CANADA
104 minutes
Canadian queer stories from coast to coast to coast. These rich, humour-filled narratives and affecting documentary reflections tease out a myriad of Canadian queer identi(ties).
FRANCE EN COURTS
70 minutes
In partnership with the Consulat général de France à Québec, a selection of the best and brightest queer French shorts of the year.
SHORT FILM FEST 2022 WINNERS
145 minutes
A stellar programme of IMAGE+NATION. COURT QUEER SHORT FILM FEST winners - narratives and docs, comedies and dramas. The cream of the crop from I+N FCQSFF 03 all in one place!
BECOMINGS
86 minutes
A driven boxer, a conflicted Reverend and embracing the glorious beast within through dance, these are explorations and evolutions all striving towards a similar goal: becoming one's full, TRUE self.
ENCOUNTERS / AMOURS
95 minutes
Encounters can be fraught with apprehension, with anticipation, with that butterflies-in-the-stomach feeling. Or a combination of all three! These provocative, yet heart-affirming tales offer up all the feels.
DECLARATIONS
91 minutes
Queer in your face with NO apologies. These are declarations: bold gestures, attestations and political actions in very powerful forms.
FUTUR/E/S QUEER UTOPIAS
70 minutes
Let’s imagine a queer utopia! These are poignant predictions of futur/e queer spaces and future-casting queer stories that envoke both hope and caution.
DOCUMENTS
73 minutes
When we talk to each other, we talk to ourselves. An exploration of queer lives and living; sometimes painful, sometimes joyful, always complicated and ALWAYS real.
FAMILY FUN FOR EVERYONE
42 minutes
Fun-filled shorts made especially for queers and their kids. Suitable for all ages, these colourful, characterful animations and feel-good comedies entertain both the kids and the kid in you.
IRANIAN SHORTS
102 minutes
In support of current protests and the incessant struggle by Iranian women (and men) for a secular, democratic Iran, a programme of shorts directed by - and centrally focused upon - women and women’s lives. These shorts illustrate the struggles Iranian women go through to access their freedom and agency in a repressive, oppressive society.
QUEER FIGHTERS (КВІР-БОРЦІ)
96 minutes
Queer Fighters is a selection of shorts depicting both the history of queer people in Ukraine and their current life, struggles, and aspirations, including during full-scale war with Russia.