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Visually poetic, this video diary explores the artists reunion with his family and his culture after years of separation.

An anxious and overzealous drag queen attempts to perform a lip sync of Tammy Wynette's Stand By Your Man, out takes and all. The videotape raises many questions on the desirability and exoticism of transvestites. It is also an homage to songstress Wynette, the queen of tragedies.

Latin Queens: Unfinished Stories of Our Lives focuses on Toronto’s Latino gay community and their harrowing experiences in the countries they once called home. While the interviewees (many of them transgender) are vocal about the stability they feel in living in Canada, many continue to live in fear of deportation as a result of their sexuality. At the centre of this film is the heart wrenching story of William Granados, whose claim for refugee status is being denied on the grounds that Immigration Canada feels his homosexuality is a fabrication.

Domestic disputes abound with this campy, sometimes zany account of two men who get entangled in their own lies -- and all for the sake of avoiding housework!

This video, edited initially in a 48 hour turnaround, became a fundraiser and helped save a human being. The story is of a Mexican transsexual woman's struggle to immigrate to Canada, in order to live her life with dignity and be with those she loves. This video has been described as instrumental in helping to secure her safe passage back to Canada.

A therapist and her client have the same dream. For both women, its is moment of celluloid synchronicity.

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.

Based on the homophobic antics of Roseanne Skoke, former MP for Central Nova in NS, this humourous video examines the somewhat unexpected implications of her obsession.

Two lesbian butch brothers live a predictable life: they do the same tasks repeatedly, day after day. However, when the night comes, their lives are anything but ordinary.

An homage to the girls who do it faster, higher and lovelier.

Home just stinks in this canny piece of homemade animation.

“I think being in the lesbian community means being in a very tiny room with the same five people, four of whom you absolutely despise.”

Toilet Mouth is a dirty room with a view. It locates obsession between attraction and repulsion.

Based on texts from Saxena's friend and set in Moosejaw during winter, this is a story about two friends and a pet fish. Bindi the Fish is one story in a series of four, in a half hour animated special entitled “Chocolate is an Indian Word”, produced in Saskatchewan

A prototype for a specialty channel dedicated exclusively to bondage. BTV takes us on a sexy ride through B-action movies and Hollywood blockbusters to celebrate the joy of being all tied up.

A historical, cultural look at transsexuality among the Lakota People. Dr. Napewastewiñ Schützer is a Blackfoot/Lakota woman with a doctorate in psychology, specializing in transsexuality. She is know in her culture as winkte, a gender-crosser.

Two-Spirited director Michelle Sylliboy asks another Two-Spirited woman to express her views on the land Issue.

This wonderfully sensuous and meditative work questions the conventional cross-cultural dilemma around sexual/cultural allegiances by highlighting the pleasures and richness of both forms of traditions, South Asian and North American.

Three video-diary segments in which a transsexual prostitute recounts different circumstances that lead her to practice unsafe sex with clients.

Andy Fabo's short video on his diagnosis with AIDS.

Writhe in agony as you learn the horrible truth about Prince Albert.

Blowing Bubbles does a great job of twisting and magnifying the issues of street life, safer sex and discrimination from the perspective of someone living with HIV/AIDS in somewhat surreal and harsh ways.

A familiar lesbian love triangle, drawn in broad strokes and sensuous fantasy.

A poignant articulation of introspection and alienation, over a crisply edited montage.

A girl with a bad habit of falling for older women befriends a boy lover. This video is an examination of relationships between adults and teenagers. It involves ice cream trucks and bowie knives.

Delta Don is in each one of us; while we yearn for that perfect longtime companion, we usually settle for less. Delta Don, however, has the staying power of a good 70's pop tune. In spite of all odds, he inspires us to push harder, even if that takes us to the truck stops and rest areas along the I-75 in Georgia and Tennessee. A bittersweet, hummable comedy.

Upon confirmation that the Canadian national magazine McLean's is going to include her in an article about queer people, Liz van Berkel realizes the urgency of coming out to her parents.

The mystical world of "whishlers", or pixies who grant wishes, becomes a metaphor for heaven to a man coming to terms with a life with AIDS.

Messy lives. Messy relationship. Messy sock drawers. This short and sweet animation will show you how to tidy it all up in less than one minute.

A short experimental film playing with notions of manipulation.

One lesbian's meditation on desire, fisting, and safe sex.

Tragic lesbian love songs and lipstick falling through the sky; as seen through the eyes of Queenie Quintessential.

The Three Graces dial a fantasy, and get the wrong number.

In this sci-fi tale of conquest and empowerment, sex-toys become beacons for a new species of colonizers.

Short smartass video exploring the vast territories of sexuality between hetero and homo, that also serves to confront "biphobic bullshit".

Shot entirely in the Northwest Territories, four women take a road trip to a drive-in, Northern style.

A dyke mother questions a recent trend of romanticizing motherhood and family within lesbian relationships - and does not bother to soften her vehement opinions. A fast, hard rant.

Rice queens, muscle queens, bananas and other afflictions. GOM is a funny, funky, experimental take on what it is to be Asian and gay.

A video poem about one woman's longing and desire for another whom she is shy to approach. The use of multiple layering of images, intense colour saturation, close-ups and a lush nature setting with flowering plants and insects create a tactile and sensuous visual poem.

A bold portrait of an emotional ponderance about sex, trust, and power.

Each month, a different boyfriend of your choice arrives in the mail. Pop him into your VCR and enjoy your "date".

This feature documentary paints an engaging portrait of Oumar, an auto mechanic from Burkina Faso. Always ready to lend a helping hand, Oumar has become a vital, central part of his community, in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood. People tend to gather round as he works, and talk often turns to weighty issues: feminism, polygamy, politics, religion. In eight months’ time, he is due to return for a visit with his family after six years away, so he is searching for hundreds of presents to take with him. Back home, when you leave the nest, it’s to look for wealth. Otherwise, failure awaits…

The film uses body movement and gesture to express a woman's struggle with and emergence from the effects of child abuse on her sense of self and sexuality.

The Story of A is several stories that evolve in the same video, parallel universes that echo without ever crossing. The story of Andrew, the travel diary, the thought of Edmond Jabès are all elements of the game ... I use autobiographical traces (the "scanner", the Super 8) to talk about a trace more wide; the existential trace of the desert of Jabès and the desert of the 90s; our youth devastated by AIDS, my deserted life of her youth. The video also speaks of the gaze, of this changing consciousness and of what can open, even in the face of an apparently fatal outcome. - Esther Valiquette

Arising from the earth, a body discovers its nakedness. A suit of armour becomes a metaphor for the trappings of identity. Pixilated to produce the effect of a human marionette, accompanied by a good-natured verse.

Cupid gets beaten at his own game.

This feature documentary profiles an Aboriginal community coming to terms with a legacy of sexual abuse, incest and family violence. The film follows the Ditidaht First Nation over a seven-year period, after a respected elder is found guilty of sexual assault. Award-winning filmmaker Maurice Bulbulian records the community's stories, becoming a part of their healing process. With the hope and courage of participants, the powerful interviews in this film play a key role in helping the community overcome the cycle of abuse. The continuing, devastating effects of the residential school system are also revealed; in this system, physical, emotional and sexual abuse were all too often routine.

A young man has lost his will to live. He feels trapped, like a mouse in a cage endlessly spinning his wheel. His prison is an internal one.

Documentary by Claudette Picard, who practices medicine in countries at war under the banner of Doctors Without Borders. She is found in Liberia, in a small town devastated by the civil war that has long ravaged this African country. Using few words of English, her comforting presence and all too rare medicines, sometimes she manages the impossible.

Artist Bill Lishman a.k.a. "Father Goose", teaches a flock of Canada geese an old 400-mile migration route from Ontario to Virginia, using his ultralight aircraft. The true story of the feature film "Fly Away Home".

A young girl unleashes 15 years of secrets when she tampers with her mother's trunk.

Alone. In an empty space. Dancing and then laughing? Having fun passing and re-passing time. Compressing, stretching, wringing out space and time. Discover the charge of a rather banal reality. Enter the folds of reality. Seeing between the lines.

This short film tells of two rugged journeys: that, autobiographical, of a young woman who learns she is harboring the AIDS virus; and that of the ancient Minoan civilization, wiped out by the greatest cataclysm in history. Today, the world is held hostage by a killer disease that is stealthier than a volcano, but it exacts the same price. Now, as then, some profound questions exist: How does humanity define itself? How do we measure our passage on this planet?

Experimental short film.

Portrays a teen identity crisis in the idiom of the modern satiric grotesque, intended to provoke discussion. It deals with discrimination and the problem of social identity, as seen most strongly among adolescents. Facial features were animated by digital 2D warping. Faces also appear to turn sideways in pseudo-3D.