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“The Talk” showcases the experiences of three LGBTQ+ youth learning about sex health under an inadequate Canadian sex-ed curriculum. Each subject opens up about their knowledge surrounding sexual health, gender identity, the not so honest information they were taught in their classrooms and its impact on their self-image.

A queer stop-motion animation live-action hybrid film following four women in a surrealist parallel narrative unconstricted to heteronormative space and time.

Excoriación

Locked out of the school art room, a creative non-binary teen named Frog grapples with anxiety as they seek a new place to eat lunch. Imagination blurs with reality in this hybrid work of live action and animation about finding a place to belong.

For 18-year-old Finnish–Kosovan Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his life, he’s wearing makeup in public. Luckily his best friend Rai, a young woman on the spectrum of autism, is there to ferociously support him through the voyage.

Wooden Mirror is a 12 minute animated fantasy story where our protagonist Ambo (means both in Spanish/Italian) as a male teenager rejects the violent tradition of his role. His attempt to go against his destiny as a man will put him in the difficult situation of making his first decisions as an adult, debating between his love for his father and his dreams.

Aria gives birth to a son Leo. The happy event turns into a nightmare, when she becomes aware of how different he is as he shoots Prickly branches from his body.

Manly Feelings is a short film by Chris Blom, about the difficulty that many men face while experiencing, expressing, and sharing the difficult emotion of sadness. The film lingers in this place of difficulty through interviews with men, supported by metaphorical imagery.

Apocalypse YASSS: Two Girls, One Rapture

With the aim of finding Desire, so-and-so performs a ritual to go down in the depths of himself.

A chat with various people who identify as queer and feel connected to the LGBTQ+ community. Together, these personal interviews touch upon a bigger question: what exactly is queer happiness?

"Video by Bill Etra, early to mid 1970s, perhaps at the WNET TV Lab?"

Lo specchio di Lorenzo

Three young queer people share their experiences on what it’s like to deviate from the straight cis-norm. Throughout the film, painful experiences make room for a more positive perspective, such as the overwhelming sense of connection with millions of other queer individuals worldwide or the freedom that arises as one can relinquish certain expectations. This so-called ‘queer-joy’ is being discovered, providing inspiring and moving insights.

A wind strike, a splash of water and an accomplice look. Will they be enough to change the life of a child?

In private, everything is pink; Silent DJ Jolene is getting ready for a date to meet Theo. She is rehearsing and being her joyful self. Suddenly, this happy tune gets disrupted by her neighbour Camile, who calls her “Miss Odd”.

A girl tries to get an online prescription.

"Daisy's Final Goodbye" is an evocative animated tale based on a true story. It chronicles the heart-wrenching journey of Steven, a PTSD-afflicted veteran, as he grapples with the profound loss of his devoted service dog, Daisy. The weight of this farewell is almost unbearable. As a poignant homage, filmmaker Steven Long crafts this narrative five years after Daisy's departure, celebrating not just her unwavering bond, but also honoring the countless canines who've embraced us as kin.

Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.

While non-binary representations are rare, Lou talks about their relationship to gender, clothes, and other markers.