2011 – 20 Years And Still Reeling

After Lunch

Director: Rodrigo Diaz Diaz

Two friends recount their recent dreams while their husbands watch soccer.

BRA 2010

10-minutes
Ontario Premiere

It Gets Better

Director: Rebecca Drysdale

A music video inspired by the It Gets Better campaign for LGBTQ kids everywhere.

USA 2010

6-minutes
Canadian Premiere

Kaden Later

Director: Harriet Storm

For Kaden, a trans guy in his thirties, top surgery have him the body he wanted. As he and his girlfriend Monika plan their wedding, he must figure out how he fits into society, not as female or male, but in a space in between.

USA 2009

9-minutes

Ms. Thing

Director: Karen X Tulchinsky

A bizarre tale of a single gal finding satisfaction.

CAN 2010

7-minutes

Lesbian National Parks & Services Presents: Endangered Species

Director: Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan

The Marxist Feminist, the Lesbian Separatist and the Bull-Dykus Americanus are featured in this parody of nature education.

CAN 2009

7-minutes

Calling Card

Director: Jennifer Hatton

The percussive palms of butch and femme hands are a Calling Card for desire.

USA 2010

4-minutes
Canadian Premiere

Cried Suicide

Director: Lauren Palmigiano

Heartbroken over an ex, Jay is desperate for attention and fakes a suicide attempt. When she returns home with her best friend Jen, they are visited by their well-meaning friends.

USA 2010

14-minutes

Dogboganning

Director: Christina Zeidler & Gillian Frise

Xtreme sports pushed to the limit in the “4 dog/2 person” luge competition.

CAN 1998

5-minutes

… a blast from the past

Do Not Bend

Director: Pierre Portelli & Darren Bonhomme

Sometimes even a monster home in the suburbs isn’t big enough to contain the baggage of one complicated couple.

CAN 2007

7-minutes

Door Prize

Director: Zsa Zsa Gershick

The story of a trans, two-spirit, butch-boi lesbian for whom public restrooms are an adventure. A restaurant. A necktie. A line at the Ladies Room. Peeing should never be so problematic.

USA 2009

7-minutes
Ontario Premiere

Butch Tits

Director: Jen Crothers

Butch women discuss the sometimes-complicated relationship they have with their breasts.

CAN 2010

4-minutes
Ontario Premiere

Edie & Thea – A Very Long Engagement

Director: Greta Olafsdottir & Susan Muska

Edie & Thea reminisce, painting a kaleidoscopic picture of pre-Stonewall gay life: the bars and the parties, as well as estranged families and the constant fear of exposure.

USA 2009

67-minutes

Fresh Air Therapy

Director: Christoph Scheermann

Petra and Kerstin are sitting with their therapist – the lights go off. The therapist leaves. The ladies stay. They came to let off some steam. So they do. Alone in the dark and in a quite untherapeutic way.

GER 2010

6-minutes

From Russia In Love

Director: Nancy Nicol

When a Russian court threw out their request to marry in Russia, Irina Shipitko and Irina Fedotova-Fet traveled to Toronto, Canada.

CAN 2009

10-minutes
Canadian Premiere

Hens & Chicks

Director: Becky Lane

Hanna, raised by two moms, never thought about the logistics of it. Her friend Marco explains the process of chicks and eggs, which has Hanna asking, “Who’s my rooster?”

USA 2010

15-minutes

I Never Danced The Way Girls Were Supposed To

Director: Dawn Suggs

What makaes black lesbians so special? Suggs takes a fresh and funny approach to explore this and other questions.

USA 1992

8-minutes

… a blast from the past

Is Your Wife A Secret Lesbians?

Director: Szu Burgess

Explorations of what women are up to when their husbands are out.

USA 2002

9-minutes

… a blast from the past

Chained

Director: Betsy Kalin

A look at the history of the pocket chain and the trend’s perpetual popularity amongst the lesbian community.

USA 2010

14-minutes
Ontario Premiere

Rally

Director: Toby Sax

After two men are attacked for being ‘faggots’, a rally is held to confront hate; while addressing the underreporting of gay-bi-trans phobic hate crimes in the city of London Ontario.

CAN 2010

9-minutes

The Real Anne Lister

Director: Matthew Hill

The real dirt on Ann Lister. Meet the biographer who spent decades cracking the code of Lister’s journals, which reveal her sexual conquests and the struggles she faced as a randy woman of the early 1800s.

UK 2010

60-minutes

Repodyke

Director: Tucker C. Doherty

After a sudden break-up, Laura hires Repodyke, the lesbian repossession experts, to retrieve her vacuum cleaner.

CAN 2003

3.5-minutes

… a blast from the past

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

Director: James Kent

Anne Lister recognizes that her sexual exploits are the subject of gossip. The true life and loves of an incredible 19th century woman, as recorded in her coded diaries.

UK 2009

90-minutes

Tech Support

Director: Erik Gernand

A sexy comedic short about a young woman dumped by her girlfriend who gets extra special attention when a lonely romantic answers her tech support call.

USA 2010

9-minutes
Ontario Premiere

Third Gender

Director: Katie Shannon & Caroline H. Le.

Spoken word artist, Kit Yan talks about gender and its fluid nature.

USA

4-minutes
Canadian Premiere

Traditional Indigenous Values

Director: Ruth Villasenor

This short documentary exposes the contemporary outcomes of homophobia imposed on native communities through colonization.

USA 2009

8-minutes
Canadian Premiere

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls

Director: Leanne Pooley

The film offers a look into the lives of the world’s only comedic, country singing, dancing, and yodeling, lesbian twin sisters – Jools and Lynda Topp.

NZ 2009

84-minutes

We’re Talking Vulva

Director: Shawna Dempsey

At long last, everything you’ve always wanted to know about ‘down there’ but were afraid to ask.

CAN 1990

5-minutes

… a blast from the past

An Honest Lesbian Relationship

Director: DeAnne Smith

Two cartoon characters discuss their upcoming lesbian relationship.

USA

5-minutes