Amplifying queer and trans voices, two outstanding, award-winning Canadian episodics that push the boundaries and limits of the form through music and humour.
La cinéaste de Tendrement (Dearly) vous parle de son film...
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Panel Queerment Québec
La cinéaste de Tendrement (Dearly) vous parle de son film...
Le cinéaste de Bizarre (Bizarroïde) vous parle de son film...
In this programme:
HOW TO FAIL AS A POPSTAR
VIVEK SHRAYA | CANADA | 2023 | 73 MIN | ENGLISH
Vivek, a queer brown boy from Edmonton, tries, and fails, to achieve pop stardom, told from the perspective of the now 40-something trans femme artist that boy became. What happens when a star isn’t born? An adaptation of Vivek Shraya’s hit play and subsequent book, How To Fail as a Popstar answers this question with hilarity, vulnerability, a healthy dose of imagination, and of course, music.
Perpetually disturbed by the world around them, two twenty-somethings navigate their lives as underdogs in Toronto’s queer community. As a chubby gay man and misanthropic trans girl, they don’t exactly adhere to the “ideal gay image,” While the pair have their share of grievances with fellow queers AND society at large this jaded and judgmental duo aren’t completely innocent either…
2Spirit and Indigiqueer perspectives and experiences. These proud and loud voices use both narrative and documentary strategies to share their stories, their spaces and their realities.
QUEERMENT QUÉBEC
Our annual celebration of Québécois queer content; unique perspectives proving Quebec is truly a hotbed of queer storytelling talent.
MADE AU CANADA
Canadian queer stories from coast to coast to coast. These rich, humour-filled narratives and affecting documentary reflections tease out a myriad of Canadian queer identi(ties).
DOCUMENTS
When we talk to each other, we talk to ourselves. An exploration of queer lives and living; sometimes painful, sometimes joyful, always complicated and ALWAYS real.
A QUESTION OF GENDER
Fresh, bold trans, non-binary and intersex identities thriving in their truths; challenging gender norms along the way.
ENCOUNTERS / AMOUR
Encounters can be fraught with apprehension, with anticipation, with that butterflies-in-the-stomach feeling. Or a combination of all three! These provocative, yet heart-affirming tales offer up all the feels.