Fall is here, and so are a whole new lineup of queer films, community events, and ways to get involved with Inside Out! Here’s everything happening this October.
Run It Back: October 13 Recap
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Thanksgiving screening of Closet Monster at Paradise Theatre! We can’t wait to see you at our next — and final — screening of 2025: Carol, on December 5. Learn more about Run It Back here.
Story Money Impact: IMPACT MENTORSHIP
Story Money Impact (SMI) is offering 10 impact coaching hours to three Canadian documentary films (20–90 minutes in length) by underrepresented creators that are in the development phases of their projects, so that they can be better positioned for impact upon completion.
Deadline: October 27, 2025 by 11:59pm Pacific Time. Apply today!
Your Shame Bores Me
YOUR SHAME BORES ME is a declaration and a horny invitation. Through photography, image-making, and cultural inquiry, Christopher Sherman confronts the scripts that demand we hide. Instead, he asks: What if pleasure is the practice and horniness is the truth?
Exhibition Dates
October 9 to 18, 2025
Weekdays: 1 PM to 7 PM
Saturday: 12 PM to 6 PM
Sunday-Monday: Closed
Location
Yabu Pushelberg
55 Booth Avenue, Toronto, ON M4M 2M3
Presented by Yabu Pushelberg, his debut solo exhibition explores what comes after shame, where desire, play, and vulnerability become natural expressions of human existence. Join us from October 9 to October 18, 2025 to experience work that seduces, disrupts, and reframes how we see ourselves and one another.
Drag Bingo with imagineNATIVE
imaginenNATIVE is bringing you Drag Bingo for two fabulous evenings this October, hosted by the one and only Chelazon Leroux! Join us for a night of bingo, great food, fun prizes, a deadly drag performance, and a 50/50 draw!
Final Night
October 24, 2025, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
The Well, Wellington Event Venue
486 Front St W, Toronto, ON
$50 admission
Inside Out Alumni: AJ Dubler & Carmela Murphy
A Bird Hit My Window and Now I’m A Lesbian first screened at Inside Out 2025, by Carmela Murphy, this short film is now available to watch on YouTube!
Murphy is also working on their next film God is a Pelican that you can support on Kickstarter today! Two queer middle school girls start a religion. In stop motion.
A sneak peek of November...
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror at Hot Docs
A joyful and wild ride through the tale of the cultural juggernaut that is The Rocky Horror Picture Show, from its humble origins as a London fringe theatre play to becoming the biggest cult film of all time.
Screening November 1, 4:00PM at Hot Docs. Buy tickets here.
Blood Lines at Diaspora Film Festival
We’re excited to co-present alongside ImagineNATIVE, Blood Lines by Gail Maurice this upcoming November at Disapora Film Festival. A search for family and reconnection drives this pastoral drama, the second feature from director Gail Maurice (ROSIE, TIFF ’22). Blood Lines is a lesbian romance wrapped up in a celebration of Métis culture — with dialogue in the Michif language, which has only about 1,130 speakers in the world, including Maurice — and centres around an upcoming Métis Day festival.