Shorts: 24 Flames Per Second
May 24, 2025
12:30 PM
TIFF Lightbox Cinema 3
Like the Saturday morning cartoon lineup from your childhood only much weirder and much, much gayer. 24 Flames Per Second delivers love stories, bird funerals, high stakes video games, produce-based erotica, and some light drug use. Not recommended for children but ideal for the young at heart.
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.
A Bird Hit My Window and Now I'm a Lesbian
After a mysterious girl shows up at Gray's doorstep holding the corpse of a bird that just cracked her window, an impromptu bird funeral changes the way Gray views herself and her lesbian identity.
Director(s): AJ Dubler, Carmela Marie Murphy
Country: United States
Year: 2024
Duration: 8 mins
HOMUNCULUS
HOMUNCULUS displays the wandering of a man on a quest for other men.
Director(s): Bonheur Suprême
Country: France, Italy
Year: 2025
Duration: 18 mins
Carrotica
A teenage boy is writing an explicit gay erotica in secret in his bedroom and his mother is falling in love with a carrot. They’re doing okay…
Director(s): Daniel Sterlin-Altman
Country: Canada
Year: 2024
Duration: 14 mins
Stoned for Christmas
A multimedia whirlwind and a love letter to weed, Stoned for Christmas follows the adventures of one cannabis courier delivering at Christmas time.
Director(s): Morgan Young
Country: United States
Year: 2024
Duration: 15 mins
27
Alice is 27 years old today and even though she is suffocating under her parents’ roof, she still finds a way to live in her dreams and escape her dreary everyday life.
Director(s): Flóra Anna Buda
Country: France, Hungary
Year: 2024
Duration: 11 mins
PIETRA
In daydreaming about unlikely relationships, the flower —as delicate as it is revolutionary— represents an act of love amidst the suffocation and embrace of a classic Portuguese
neighbourhood.
Director(s): Cynthia Levitan
Country: Portugal
Year: 2024
Duration: 13 mins
The Eating of an Orange
A juicy and surreal exploration of convention and sexuality told through slugs, rituals, and the eating of an orange.
Director(s): May Kindred-Boothby
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2024
Duration: 8 mins
Two Black Boys in Paradise
A movingly tender animation, based on Dean Atta’s eponymous poem, sees two boys on a journey of self-acceptance and love— for each other and themselves.
Director(s): Baz Sells
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2024
Duration: 9 mins
May 24, 2025
12:30 PM
TIFF Lightbox Cinema 3