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A Filipino mother's obsession with her teenaged son becoming famous turns into delusion when she sneaks into his play rehearsal.

A Catholic school boy, trying to understand his own budding sexuality, looks to the animal kingdom for answers.

Our favourite childhood toys spark powerful nostalgic feelings. When explored further, these feelings can have great influence over our lives by bringing us joy in an increasingly complex world.

The injustice of the Japanese internment is explored through the story of Kyuichi Nomoto, one of the first Japanese Canadians to graduate from UBC, who suffered a breakdown deep in the BC Interior.

A woman sweeps the street and the fish seller opens the trunk of her car. A neighbor, from his window, watches the workers breaking the stones that formed Casa Bonjardim.

A neglected six-year-old girl struggles to cope with her mother's depression, uncovering a secret from her mother's past.

The Happy Place is a service that rents out rooms connected to a virtual realm that can be customized to any which way the user desires. A young girl frequently visits The Happy Place in order to live out her fantasy – a vast, beautiful world where she has friends who love and cherish her.

A foray into the singular world of forest encampments where, for work, women and men from here and elsewhere meet. It is through the eyes of women who have chosen to work there that we will discover these micro-societies that are formed over the sivicultural seasons.

A prostitute befriends an old woman who is the complete opposite of him. This friendship deeply transforms the young man, but she keeps a serious secret that will upset their relationship.

After being told by her assignment partner, Ben, to “think more like a man”, a flustered investigative journalism student, Maggie Thompson, imagines herself as the male protagonist of a 1970s cop show working on their project in real-time.

A family of dysfunctional puppets!

The speculative tale of Canadian outsider musician Lewis and the belated discovery of his 1983 album "L'Amour". A love story composed in myth and song.

Moving Day tells the story of the people who were left outside – quite literally – during a global pandemic. With the rise of Covid-19, shelters closed, jobs were lost, and homelessness in "Victoria B.C." (unceded L'kwungen Territories), swelled. A community formed in the city’s biggest park and as they learn of an ambitious plan to house everyone by March 31, 2021, uncertainty in the park, and in their lives mounts.

A purple and orange fluid spreads in volutes in the maritime estuary of the St. Lawrence. Between visual ballet and lyrical flights, Release plunges us into an enigmatic and sensory experience.

A young journalist receives an immersive introduction to the erotic art of shibari, a non-monogamous couple has their dynamic tested by the arrival of an uninvited guest, and a sleeping stranger on a train sends ripples through the relationship of the man and woman who find her. An anthology of female-focused shorts exploring six new flavours of love and desire.

All across the globe, Chinatowns are under threat of disappearing – and along with them, the rich history of a community who fought from the margins for a place to belong. Big Fight in Little Chinatown documents the collective fight to save Chinatowns across North America.

It’s 1982, Greg and a group of his friends go on a treasure hunt after finding a map hidden in a garage sale item.

A short film by Bryce Hodgson.

Inner Sounds is a short film about a man who lost his will to live because he lost the one thing he loves.

An eviction notice sends a tenant on a downward spiral, as he imagines the challenges he's about to face.

A couple of tenants pay a visit to their landlords to discuss the annual increasing of the rent,

Vivre is an exploration of life, from birth to death, through three different lifestyles, three different ages, and three different people. Charles-Alban, Julie, and Emmanuel take us into their daily lives and share their vision of existence.

On the night of their anniversary, Natasha and Alex come home to find their power disconnected. The evening begins to unravel, revealing a disturbing undercurrent.

After being transported into a 19th century Edo painting, a university student discovers everyday sustainable practices from history to bring home to modern Japan.

A young man relies on his passion for music and dance to escape his daily problems and to ensure his general wellbeing. As he gets challenged by some bullies at school, his passion ends up giving him the confidence and rhythm to embrace his true self, beat his fears and overcome his bullies with style.

On a country road, a couple gone for a ride on a scooter find themselves immobilized after running out of gas. While waiting for their friend Lolo, a philosophical discussion ensues.

Newfoundland’s Duo Concertante perform the Juno-nominated classical composition “Coeur À Coeur” by Canada’s Alice Ping Yee Ho. This piece is conceived as an imaginary conversation between two voices: exchanging inner thoughts, and it pairs beautifully with the footage of northern gannets at Cape St. Mary’s.

In 2021, aspiring chef Phelokazi Ndlwana was stabbed to death because she fought back against her rapist. She was targeted specifically because she was a proud black lesbian, beloved in her home community of Khayelitsha Township, South Africa, and the latest victim in a national epidemic of homophobic violence. Funeka Soldaat and her activist group Free Gender in Khayelitsha took the police to court, alleging incompetence and corruption in Phelokazi's case. Ndodana-Breen and Greyson have crafted an operatic cine-poem inspired by Phelokazi's story, featuring vocals by mezzo-soprano Chantelle Grant.

Once upon a time in the Gay Village is a montage of photos and music telling the story of the founding of Le Parc de l’Espoir, the AIDS memorial park in the heart of Montreal’s Gay Village.

A sun worshipper’s commitment grows desperate when he catches a sunflower turning towards him.

It’s perhaps too wintery to qualify as Edenic, but Sam and Cora have seemingly carved out a largely idyllic existence for themselves in a cabin in the hills of Gatineau. However, the tree-planter/taxidermist and server/poet find their routine disrupted when they’re visited by Nadia, one of Sam’s dearest friends.

A day of playing hooky to play video games turns into a miniaturized cat-astrophe

A cinematic and intimate collision of drag, queer history, and performance art, a musical and genre bending irreverent documentary that follows trans icon Oliv Howe as she prepares for the 40th anniversary of her coronation.

This documentary film is about the video game Shenmue. It tells the story of the games history, its fans, and how it impacted the gaming industry.

In a community that is based on celebrating your uniqueness, and love of all things geek, why is the Little Boys Club so determined to keep women out?

Suck at home and out of work during a pandemic, a fantasy novelist receives an assignment to write a love story for a movie studio in just a week.

With five exes in the audience, DeAnne Smith talks dating, break-ups, 4000 unread emails, and confronts their relationship history head-on in this hilarious new half-hour stand-up special.

A flame is looking for friendship, but he might be too hot to handle.

Live recording of the musical theater adaptation of the Chinese novel with the same name.

With his charisma, his energy, his integrity - but also his faults - René Lévesque left an indelible mark in the collective imagination of Quebecers: that of a hero of a people. But how can we measure his legacy, 35 years after his death and 100 years after his birth? From Montreal to New Carlisle, L'Actualité journalist Guillaume Bourgault-Côté crosses Quebec to meet certain relatives, colleagues, experts and artists who rubbed shoulders with the man, literally and figuratively. Together, they try to identify what remains of René Lévesque. By traveling through Quebec, we will better understand the legacy left by René Lévesque 100 years after his birth, 35 years after his death: his role in the sovereignist movement, the development of public and economic policies, but also the strength of his personality, which still today arouses a feeling of deep attachment among the Quebec population, regardless of political allegiances. (Translated from French.)

When the Nazis murdered Faye Schulman’s family, she survived because she could operate a camera. She later joined the resistance and became one of the only known Jewish partisan photographers of WWII.

Em and Jay, respectively a woman film director and her lead actress, both with an ailing career, embark on a journey between Montreal, Canada and Durham, North Carolina, where a short film of theirs is being presented at the North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. They drive a Jeep and pull a pop tent, and decide to shoot a film along the way. Nothing much happens except that they develop a beautiful friendship and debunk quite a few taboos.

Plastic dolls dance in the sky to a pop song. In a posthuman world, the perfect body is made of orange-yellow plastic in a factory in China. This figure without gender exists in a virtual space where illness, death and aesthetics are only absurd concepts. In 3-D animations, the film ponders on capitalism, virtuality and the human body.

When Emma, ​​a young waitress in a small town restaurant, suspects a young girl is in danger, her buried demons resurface.

A neglected wife finds hope in a friendly stranger, a single mother finds love in the most unfortunate of places, and a shy young wallflower gets a little closer to knowing what she wants by trying what she doesn't. A collection of five tender stories that show us, no matter where you are, Love is Never Far.

Winter is in full swing. With her mother by her side, Laurence is en route to her grandma’s funeral to pay her last respects. But her mind is elsewhere; Laurence is expecting someone.

The Hidden Cameras burst onto the music scene in the early 2000s boasting an irresistible combination of pop and queer sensibilities. Music Is My Boyfriend chronicles the early days of Joel Gibb’s mighty band as they gather steam in their native Toronto. Combining interviews with original members, behind-the-scenes session footage and rarely-seen 16mm film of two legendary live church shows, the film is both a mash note to a beloved band and a time capsule of the raucous, vivacious queer underground scene from which they emerged.

Growing up in a blue-collar Hamilton neighbourhood filled with factory workers and nuclear families, Tom Wilson knew he was different. His dad George was a blind war veteran—stoic and reserved—and his mother Bunny a very private and protective housewife. Tom learned to express himself through music, successfully getting a record deal and achieving fame and its trappings with his 90s band Junkhouse and later Blackie and the Rodeo Kings. Through all his achievements, his parents kept a secret from their son, one he would not uncover until they both died. After years of hard living, revelations about his family led him on a path to connect with his true identity. Based on his memoir, Beautiful Scars shares Tom's remarkable gifts as an artist and storyteller as he learns about his Mohawk heritage and embarks on a healing journey that reflects on his past and present self.

Siméon Malec, host on Pakueshikan FM radio, receives Marie-Soleil Bellefleur on the air to discuss new regulations concerning salmon nets. To their great dismay, the duo is constantly interrupted by increasingly worrying calls... It seems that a lion has been seen in the community!

Jackie, a lonely, immortal, vegan vampire is tired of spending her undeath shunned from society. She starts a support group uniting vegans and vampires of the world.

Rossi and Company explores the history of a 112- year-old Italian American gift shop in New York City's Little Italy, and the struggle its 72-year-old proprietor is having to keep its storied doors open.

"as the blood falls, i ask who it belongs to; is it mine, as it seeps from my body, or yours?"