After Lunch
Director: Rodrigo Diaz Diaz
Two friends recount their recent dreams while their husbands watch soccer.
BRA 2010
10-minutes
Ontario Premiere
2011 – 20 Years And Still Reeling
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