ABDULLAH QURESHI | CANADA | 2020 | 9 MIN | V.O.A. / ENGLISH
Employing a fictional and experimental narrative structure, Cruising considers the practice from a mythological and queer perspective with visuals drawing upon the memories, encounters, and select characters from the paintings of the Pakistani artist, Anwar Saeed (b. 1955).
A few fragments from the story of a lonely young man looking for love...
Green Thoughts
Somewhere in the world there is a remote island. In a lodge by the sea, a Chinese writer immersing herself in writing encounters a Japanese girl who is in a melancholic mood.
Broken Relationship
Broken Relationship moves through a kaleidoscope of colour and pixels to fragments of embraced bodies.
COVID Summer
Shot on super8 film using single frame photography, COVID Summer condenses all the anxiety, insanity and stir crazy sexual tension of the COVID-19 summer...
Trade Center
The voices of five gay men who cruised for sex at the World Trade Center in the 1980s and 1990s haunt the sanitized Freedom Tower campus.
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In the year 2090, a robotics engineer tries to bring her fallen lover back to life.
Between Us
Kei longs for a “normal” life in rural Japan. But for a transgender man who is jobless in his own hometown, getting to normal is one steep climb...
Noor & Leyla
Noor and Layla are breaking up. Is it the end of the road for these two Muslim women… or is it the beginning?
Shea, by Nasra
A family displaced by greed searches for a new home in a foreign place. As they explore, they discover pieces of themselves...
Riverside Queerness
Riverside Queerness reveals hard moments in the Prairies' shadowed queer history. Three storytellers navigate muddy waters in the deep rivers of Manitoba's subconscious...