Shorts: BOLD
May 28, 2025
6:45 PM
TIFF Lightbox Cinema 2
This series of shorts takes you on a mesmerizing exploration of the Black queer experience. It's a testament to the power of storytelling to illuminate the human condition in all its complexity and beauty. From laughter to tears, from cultural exploration to personal revelations, these films invite us to connect, reflect, and celebrate the diversity of experiences within the Black community.
Content Advisory: Our shorts programs feature a wide variety of themes. If you have any concerns about what might be depicted in this program please contact us at programming@insideout.ca.
Caribbean Queen
Follow the journey of Q, a young Caribbean boy, who wants to become the Queen of the West Indian Day Carnival Parade.
Director(s): Sekiya Dorsett
Country: United States
Year: 2024
Duration: 22 mins
YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIKE ME
A woman struggling with societal norms and her insecurities as a masc-presenting Caribbean woman.
Director(s): Safiyah Chiniere
Country: United States
Year: 2024
Duration: 10 mins
Newbies
Two broken strangers wrestling with their queer identities meet on the subway just after midnight. A poetic journey through their night reveals how they got here, and what broke them.
Director(s): Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence, Megan Trufant Tillman
Country: United States
Year: 2025
Duration: 18 mins
Ancestor / Dédé
Examining the divine female figure in West African sculpture through an exploration of the director/animator’s Bété ancestry, drawing upon the spiritual iconography of the Bété people.
Director(s): Yasmine Djedje-Fisher-Azoume
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2025
Duration: 4 mins
If We Met Now
If We Met Now has a transgender man confront his cisgender boyfriend's disapproval toward a gender affirming procedure.
Director(s): Halen King
Country: Canada
Year: 2024
Duration: 9 mins
All My Niggas Surround Me And I'm Surrounded By All My Niggas
On a Sunday morning, Jai, converses with older and younger versions of themself, exploring the transcendence of the Queer Black experience.
Director(s): Jai Stephenson
Country: United States
Year: 2024
Duration: 17 mins
Munchies
After lighting up and getting the munchies, a group of vulgar teenage girls stumble into a botched robbery at their local convenience store.
Director(s): Brittany Alexia Young
Country: United States
Year: 2024
Duration: 12 mins
May 28, 2025
6:45 PM
TIFF Lightbox Cinema 2