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In the Closet (available for programming starting June 15 2026)
Ajahnis Charley |2026 | 6 episodes. Criterion Closet meets Queer Eye in this hilarious and honest series that investigates the relationship between the clothing in our closets and our gender identity.
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. A Mother Apart accompanies powerhouse Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin as she re-imagines the essential art of mothering—having been abandoned by her own...
Inkwo for When the Starving Return
Amanda Strong |2024 | 19 min. Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine (Inkwo) to protect their community from an unburied swarm of terrifying creatures.
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.
k.d. lang: songs & silence
Laura O'Grady |2023 |5 min. k.d. lang shares her perspective on preferring silence and listening to making noise as one of the 2023 recipients of the GGPAA for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.
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.
Sometimes I Wish I Was On a Desert Island
Eli Jean Tahchi |2020 | 10 min| in English and Arab with English subtitles. As the world learns to live again in the midst of the pandemic, for many Arabic-speaking LGBTQ+ people living in Montreal, this is just a period of time like any...
Themes
- Celebrate French, in March
- National Indigenous History Month
- PRIDE Celebrations
- TD Summer Reading Club (NFB film selection)
- Art, Music, Literature
- Animated films
- International Women’s Day Suggestions
- Black History Month suggestions
- International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (March 21)
- Teen Zone
- Climate Change
- Truth and Reconciliation
- Youth
- Short documentaries (for discussions or compilations)