2005

Attack Of The Bride Monster

Directors: Leslie Belt & Vicky Boone

Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the rise and fall of same sex marriage, this film challenges all lovers to pop this question, “Just because we can get married, do we really have to?”

USA 2005

17-minutes

Drag Rock Movie

Director: Jennifer Markowitz

This macho rock singer has only one take…

CANADA 2005

2-minutes

Enraged By A Picture

Director: Zanele Muholi

Photographer Muholi celebrates her exhibition in Johannesburg, which causes a stir and provokes an outcry on a subject that is particularly taboo: being black and, in this case, being a lesbian.

SOUTH AFRICA 2005

15-minutes

High Heels On Wheels

Directors: Leslie Sloan & Donna Cassyd

A fast-paced look at a fast-paced sport which was once one of the only outlets for female professional athletes… roller derby in the 40s, 50s and 60s.

USA 2005

5-minutes

Hung

Director: Guinevere Turner

Living in a world that seems rife with phallic symbols, five lesbian friends take a teaspoon each of a concoction from Prague that will give them, for only one day, a penis.

USA 2005

12-minutes

In My Shoes: Stories Of Youth With LGBT Families

Director: Jen Gilomen

In a time when LGBT families are debated and attacked in the media, courts and Congress, from school houses to state houses across the country, five young people give you a chance to walk in their shoes – to hear their views on marriage, making change, and what it means to be a family.

USA 2005

31-minutes

The Piper

Director: Abbe Robinson

Tired of an infestation of cockroaches in her house but unwilling to kill them, Amy drunkenly wishes for the Pied Piper to come and whisk them away.

UK 2005

10-minutes

Rape For Who I Am

Director: Lovinsa Kavuma

Homosexuality is one of Africa’s last great taboos. In South Africa, homophobia is being ‘expressed’ through targeted rape of black lesbians. Four extraordinary women expose harrowing experiences and the struggles of African lesbians.

SOUTH AFRICA 2005

27-minutes

What I Love About Dying

Director: Silas Howard

A staple in the San Francisco spoken word scene, Kris Kovick was known for speaking her mind so it came as no surprise that when diagnosed with cancer she was as outspoken about her illness as she had been about everything else in her life.

USA 2005

11-minutes

Wrong Bathroom

Director: Shani Heckman

A short comical documentary about a serious subject, Wrong Bathroom looks a trans individuals and their fears and anxieties about using public washrooms.

USA 2005

9-minutes

Brooklyn’s Bridge To Jordan

Director: Tina Mabry

After losing her life partner in a car accident, a woman with a buried secret must not only fight to keep the couples’ estranged teenage son from her partner’s intolerant brother, but rebuild her and the son’s troubled relationship.

USA 2005

20-minutes

Damage

Director: Allie Sultan

An awkward high-school student finds hope in the most unlikely of places even amidst the cruelty and chaos of suburban high school life.

USA 2005

10-minutes

Day One: A Period Piece

Director: Pam Dora & Dara Sklar

A sexy magazine executive’s plans for the perfect first date are thrown into a tailspin when she wakes up with an expected visitor.

USA 2005

15-minutes

Dani & Alice

Director: Roberta Marie Munroe

The last five hours of this relationship reveal both its love and its tragedy, as a passionate lesbian affair turns volatile with a shocking fit of violence.

CANADA/USA 2005

12-minutes

The D Word

Directors: Cherien Dabis, Noelle Brower & Maggie Burkle

In this spoof of that other series, a group of young queer friends and family stumble through work and sex lives while living in remarkably smaller apartments than their L.A. counterparts.

USA 2005

56-minutes

Floored By Love

Director: Desiree Lim

A heartwarming family comedy takes us into the homes of a lesbian couple contemplating marriage and a blended family struggling to keep the affection of their newly out gay son.

CANADA 2005

50-minutes

If The Shoe Fits

Director: Robin Solowka

Boots, babes, k.d. lang: how could you go wrong?

CANADA 2005

6-minutes

The Lost Tribe

Director: Rachel Landers

A hilarious and highly-charged chronicle of one-of-a-kind, ex-Mormon, lesbian Sue Ann Post who has molded a career in Australia as an award-winning comedian from the lurid and toxic brews of tales from her childhood.

AUSTRALIA 2005

56-minutes

Raising The Roof

Directors: Veronica Selver & Francoise Flamant

This documentary traces an amazing group of entrepreneurial women who traded their graduation caps and gowns for hard hats and overalls in the 1970s. They made headlines here and in Europe, and transformed buildings, carpentry, the trades and gender expectations.

USA 2005

30-minutes

The Sexy Stuff

Director: Phyllis Christopher

This short is a moving gallery of photographic images form Phyllis’ Carpenter’s body of work documenting the lesbian sexual revolution in San Francisco during the 1990s.

USA 2005

6-minutes

Solo

Director: Martha Newbigging

A single ventures into a bar and finds a groove all her own in this animated short.

CANADA 2005

4-minutes

Who’s The Top?

Director: Jennie Livingston

Does love fall apart because the sex stops working or does the sex stop working because love falls apart?

USA 2005

22-minutes

Tai Chi For Tipplers

Directors: Karen Rutter & Jenny Radloff

This hilarious self-help film uses secret ancient teachings to assist lesbians from all walks of life in coping with the rigours and stresses of their daily activism and angst.

SOUTH AFRICA 2005

8-minutes

Social Conflict Management

Director: Dagny Thompson

A helpful narrator teaches three queer youth how to deal with difficult social situations they might encounter out in the big wide world they are about to enter.

CAN 2005

8-minutes