Films
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Sit Still
Vincent René-Lortie
United States, Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
Alone in a vacant school, we follow seven-year-old Adeline on an intimate and exhaustive journey of self-expression as she navigates her emotions through Krump.
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Solemates
Mike Feswick & James Rathbone
Canada (Ontario), Fiction
Solemates is the story of a love triangle between a shoe store owner, a customer, and an old pair of shoes. When Andrew walks into William’s store to replace his own worn old pair of brogues, interest is piqued. Tension builds between the two men as Andrew tries on a new pair of shoes, and with that, questions of intention appear.
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The Archivists
Igor Drljaca
Canada (Ontario), Fiction
In a dystopian future, a trio of musicians discover a degraded vinyl record and attempt to reimagine one of its songs.
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The Eating of an Orange
May Kindred-Boothby
United Kingdom, Animation
Short & Queer Award winning film offered by MainFilm.
The film follows a woman who lives in a world of intense conformity. In the grounds of a large manor house, her and the other identical
inhabitants eat the same, move the same, look the same. They spend their time doing strange synchronised dances around the bubble-gum pink, walled grounds. But everything changes when she gets given an orange by a strange figure. She has never seen an orange.
In the exploration of this new and exciting discovery, she gets transported into another realm. In this forested world full of lichens and copulating slugs she discovers sexuality. But how can she balance this with the world she knows?
The film follows a woman who lives in a world of intense conformity. In the grounds of a large manor house, her and the other identical
inhabitants eat the same, move the same, look the same. They spend their time doing strange synchronised dances around the bubble-gum pink, walled grounds. But everything changes when she gets given an orange by a strange figure. She has never seen an orange.
In the exploration of this new and exciting discovery, she gets transported into another realm. In this forested world full of lichens and copulating slugs she discovers sexuality. But how can she balance this with the world she knows?
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Tout ce qui gronde
Ève Saint-Louis
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
On a dark winter evening, in 2001, siblings from two families gather to go tobogganing. Among them, fifteen-year-old Cléo is going through a rough patch and losing her bearings. What starts off as a regular outing will, in the end, be turning her life around.
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Two of Hearts
Mashie Alam
Canada (Ontario), Fiction
Faced with an uncomfortable dilemma, a brother and sister engage in a battle of wits.
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Un trou dans la poitrine
Alexandra Myotte & Jean-Sébastien Hamel
Canada (Quebec), Animation
In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees reality into a fantastical world. During a scorching summer day, the two children will have to burst the abscess of their relationship so as not to lose each other.
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World at Stake
Susanna Flock & Adrian Jonas Haim & Jona Kleinlein
Austria, Experimentation
Shot in sports video games, the film "A World At Stake" turns the ordering principles of victory and defeat upside down and negotiates social roles between individual sovereignty and collective passivity. In the face of catastrophe, a feeling of political powerlessness remains.
Nothing less than the world is at stake.
Nothing less than the world is at stake.
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Wâhkôhtowin | All My Relations
Barry Bilinsky
Unceded territories Amiskwaciwâskahikan, Animation
The power of stories, told over many nights, over many years, through all the languages across the world, are encapsulated in an intimate story between a grandmother and her children’s children on a clear winter night in the teepee. This short is exhibited at the Indigenous Peoples Experience cultural centre in Fort Edmonton Park.
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You can't get what you want but you can get me
Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh
Finland, Netherlands, Experimentation
A unique slideshow documenting two long-haired trans men falling madly in love. Over the course of one year, the artist couple Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh gathered photographs from real-life events such as their first kiss, meeting each other's parents, long-distance thirst traps, a beach wedding, and top surgery and its subsequent recovery. A sweet and steamy celebration of T4T love with life and art all tangled up.