2SLGBTQI+

In The Closet Ajahnis Charley | 2026 | 66 min. Yes, they’re in a literal closet, but these non-binary artists are anything but closeted. Ajahnis Charley hosts a hilarious and intimate docu-series that isn’t afraid to wear its heart on its drop sleeves.
Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance Noam Gonick | 2025 | 96 min. Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance spotlights the activism that sparked the rise of Canada’s 2SLGBTQI+ movement.
A Mother Apart Laurie Townshend | 2024 | 89 min. Powerhouse Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin re-imagines the essential art of mothering—decades after having been abandoned by her own mother.
Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story Michael Mabbott & Lucah Rosenberg-Lee | 2024 | 99 min. Trans soul singer Jackie Shane blazed an extraordinary trail. Forty years after vanishing from public view, this 20th century icon finally gets her second act.
Unarchived Hayley Gray & Elad Tzadok | 2022 | 84 min. In community archives across British Columbia, local knowledge keepers are fighting for a more inclusive history, exemplified by the BC Gay and Lesbian Archives, the UVic Trans Archive and more.
Someone Like Me Sean Horlor & Steve J. Adams | 2021 | 80 min. When a group of queer strangers unite to support Drake, a gay Ugandan man seeking asylum in Canada, unexpected challenges lead them down an emotional road together.
Into Light Sheona McDonald | 2021 | 19 min. Sheona McDonald’s documentary captures a season of change as a mother and child navigate the complexities of gender identity together.
Woman Dress Theo Jean Cuthand | 2019 | 6 min. Pre-contact, a Two Spirit person named Woman Dress travels the Plains, gathering and sharing stories.
Beauty Christina Willings | 2018 | 23 min. Christina Willings’ documentary Beauty explores the lives of five gender-creative kids, each uniquely engaged in shaping their ideas of what it means to be fully human.
Love, Scott Laura Marie Wayne | 2018 | 75 min. Following the journey of a young gay musician who is attacked and paralyzed from the waist down, Love, Scott is an intimate and visually evocative window into queer experience.
My Prairie Home Chelsea McMullan | 2013 | 96 min. Set against majestic images of the infinite expanses of the Canadian Prairies, the film features indie signer Rae Spoon crooning about their queer and musical coming of age.
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives Aerlyn Weissman & Lynne Fernie | 1992 | 84 min. Nine women paint a portrait of lesbian sexuality against a backdrop of tabloid headlines, book covers and dramatizations from lesbian pulp novels.
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