2SLGBTQI+

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...
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 | 1 h 24 m. In community archives across British Columbia, local knowledge keepers are fighting for a more inclusive history, through the BC Gay and Lesbian Archives, at the Trans Archive at the University of...
Someone Like Me Sean Horlor et Steve J. Adams | 2021 | 80 min. When a queer group of strangers unite to support Drake, a gay Ugandan man seeking asylum in Canada, unexpected challenges lead them down an emotional road together in search of personal freedom.
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...
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.
Shannon Amen Chris Dainty |2019 | 15 min. Shannon Amen unearths the passionate and pained expressions of a young woman overwhelmed by guilt and anxiety as she struggles to reconcile her sexual identity with her religious faith. A loving elegy to a friend...
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, set against a stunning score by...
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.

 

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