We are excited to announce the awesome group of short films that will appear at our inaugural festival on June 19th and 20th. Due to COVID19, this year's festival will be a virtual event.
Films will be available for free streaming through this web page on June 19 and 20th. Join us! #HappyPride
Our selection of films for Summer 2021, in no particular order, are as follows:
Sex Shop (Spain) Director: Isabel Casanova
Natalia enters a sex shop ready to rent a movie to surprise
her partner. Suddenly a girl enters for whom Natalia feels a strong attraction
and can no longer get out of her head.
Advice (USA) Director: Pat Battistini
Several years after his wife's passing, a man decides to get back into the dating scene with a little help from his son's advice.
If Homophobia Ended Tomorrow (Ukraine) Director: Kristina Borhes
Conceptual artist Paul Harfleet (the man behind the Pansy
Project) plants pansies on the sites of homophobic abuse for fifteen years.
Das Kleid (The Dress) (Canada) Director: Ethan Ardalan
A grandfather lectures his grandson that dresses are only for girls and goes to take it off of him but in the midst of the altercation, the fabric tears.
Odd Bird (USA) Director: Katy Dore
As a boy, Clark always felt like the odd bird in his
conservative ranch family. To cope, he created a comic book, “The Adventures of
Odd Bird,” making himself the hero of his own story. Now 19, a publisher is
interested in his work and Clark needs to return home to get the comic
manuscript…and tell his mom his truth.
Tofu Scramble (Canada) Director: Santana Doran
This film explores the inner workings of queer sex and
the misconceptions that arise as a result of limited access to education, poor
representation and lack of communication in the life of an 18 year old girl.
Not Your Ordinary Sister (Germany) Directors: Maša Zia Lenárdič and Anja Wutej
A queer satire which addresses both the startling popularity of lesbian vampire films as well as the lack of proper representation in queer cinema on the subject of queerness within the patriarchal religious organizations.
(613) Queens (Canada) Director: Rowan O'Brien
An exploration of the Ottawa drag scene with a focus on the drag mother/daughter duo, Jasmine and Kimmy Dymond.
Unbecoming (Canada) Director: Navid Mashayekhi
We all try to be something, to become someone. Unbecoming
chronicles the life of Logan, as he fights to "unbecome" everything
he's been until now, that wasn’t really him in the first place, as we follow
his story from early childhood to a traumatic adolescence, and beyond.
Once I Dreamed (Canada) Director: Bob Woolsey
Chen is a twenty-something Chinese guy on holiday in
Vancouver when he meets a cute guy and sparks fly. Jake is a grieving
mid-thirties Canadian guy who has traveled to Beijing after the death of his
longtime partner. They experience each other's lives as dreams and reflect on
the feeling of being someone else for a short time.
Because We Were (Canada) Director: Lucas Wilson
Two men explore the ins and outs of their relationship and
come to learn that life has no guarantees.
