17th Annual Human Rights Watch Film Festival presents:
Gay Chorus Deep South
In response to a wave of discriminatory anti-LGBTQ laws in the southern US and the divisive 2016 elections, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Choir embarks on a daring tour of the American Deep South. Free tickets, maximum 2 per person.
30 Years of CanQueer
This program offers up three decades of our nation's best in queer storytelling. From the political, to the deep end, this program is bound to inspire some great conversation with a dash of nostalgia.
Behind The Curtain: Todrick Hall
Behind the Curtain: Todrick Hall gives us an insider look at the inspiring man behind the computer screen.
Best of Best of the Fest
From audience awards winners to programmer's pics, Best of the Best of the Fest offers up a solid cross section of short film festival faves spanning three decades.
Changing the Game
Mack, Sarah, and Andraya have lots in common, they are all hard working Transgender teen athletes who excel in their sports.
Cowboys
With standout performances by Steve Zahn, Ann Dowd, Jillian Bell, and young trans actor Sasha Knight, Cowboys is the captivating story of a young man who knows exactly who he is, and a father who will do anything to protect that.
Crave x Inside Out Presents
The L Word: Generation Q + Work in Progress
The groundbreaking drama series, The L Word®, revolutionized a generation and this fall the highly anticipated sequel The L Word®: Generation Q debuts. This FREE screening is generously sponsored by Crave on Giving Tuesday.
CTFF Celebrating Black History presents: Rafiki
When Kena and Ziki first lock eyes, it’s a genuine coup de foudre despite the fact their families are political rivals. The young women grow close, but as they are not able to show their attraction in public — or even to their relatives and friends — they are forced to sneak small moments in private.
Dating Amber
Eddie and Amber decide to stage a relationship in order to stop everyone speculating about their sexuality.
Eddie is determined to follow in his father’s footsteps and enlist in the military...
European Union Film Festival:
Something Is Happening
Irma, a recently bereaved young widow, joins the adventurously independent Dolores, in her convertible on a roving assignment to research the writing of a gay-friendly guide to Provence.
Fluid Fundraiser for ACT
A unique, immersive, sex-positive event that fuses dance party, health and art to challenge what you know about HIV. You will leave with appreciation for how people experience HIV, and how they find support through services like ACT, whether living with HIV or at increased risk.
I Am Syd Stone
Hollywood heartthrob Syd Stone finds a connection that immediately creates drama onscreen and off.
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival | Shorts Program: Indig Love Stories
Love moves past colonial states. From self-love to kinship to community love, this collection of shorts speak volumes to acceptance, nourishment and self-determination.
Inside Out presents:
A Christmas ‘Carol’ Holiday Screening
On Friday, December 13, Inside Out is back to celebrate the season with our most beloved annual tradition, A Christmas ‘Carol’. In addition to the screening, join us for a Carol-themed photobooth, mint juleps, a Christmas Carole-oke, and the annual booing of Harvey Weinstein!
Inside Out presents:
And Then We Danced
Writer/director Levan Akin’s feature film delivers an exceptionally crafted tale of love and liberation. Goal-oriented Merab (Levan Gelbakhiani) has trained most of his life for a spot in the National Georgian Ensemble, but he’s thrown off balance with the arrival of Irakli, a naturally gifted dancer with a rebellious streak who awakens in Merab a mixture of rivalry and desire.
Inside Out presents:
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Brittany, France, 1760. Marianne (Noémie Merlant), a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), a reluctant bride-to-be fresh out of a convent. Marianne observes the young lady by day and secretly paints her by night. Intimacy and attraction grow between the two women as they share Héloïse’s first and last moments of freedom, all whilst Marianne paints the portrait that will end it all.
JAYU presents Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America
Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America follows the stories of LGBT refugees and asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East as they flee persecution in their countries of origin to seek better and safer lives in the U.S. Director Tom Shepard and subject Fred Hertz will be in attendance and joining us for a post screening Q&A!
Jump, Darling
One of the recent success stories to come out of Inside Out’s LGBTQ Finance Forum (2017) and Telefilm’s Talent to Watch program (2018), Jump, Darling is an offbeat family drama set in the heart of Eastern Ontario.
King Ester and Q&A with Director Dui Jarrod
This series tells the story of Ester, a trans woman struggling to find her path in New Orleans during the week before Hurricane Katrina
Knocking
When Molly moves into a new apartment after a tragic accident, a strange noise from upstairs begins to unnerve her.
Little Girl
Award-winning filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz follows the family for a year, capturing with insightful and delicate, subtle camerawork, a year in the life of a family who are setting an example for trans youth and for families around the world.
Local Heroes
At the heart of Inside Out has always been the annual Local Heroes (formerly Hogtown Homos) screening. So many familiar names, chosen family members, and even a few former staff members are featured in this celebration of our top drawer talent in our own backyard.
National Canadian Film Day: Fire Song
When a teenaged girl commits suicide in a remote Northern Ontario Aboriginal community, it's up to her brother Shane to take care of their family.
No Ordinary Man
Billy Tipton, the influential jazz musician, became more of a sensation when, upon his death, it was revealed that he was a trans man and the late-20th century world was unable to accept his identity....
No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics
appearing only in gay newspapers and gay bookstores, to create a fascinating window into everything from the AIDS crisis and workplace discrimination, to the search for love and a good haircut.
Northern Lights Refuge Fundraiser: Beyto
Adapted from a novel by Swiss-Kurdish writer Yusuf Yesilöz, Beyto, which won the Prix du Public audience award at Switzerland’s Solothurn Film Festival, wrestles with the tension between cultures, and between a family’s sense of honour and a person’s need to be true to themselves.
Paradise presents:
God’s Own Country
Johnny begrudgingly tends to his family’s land in rural England, coping with his resentment and loneliness with drunken evenings and meaningless, secret sex with other young men. When a cool and collected Romanian farmhand arrives on the scene, Johnny is initially irked, but also attracted by his quiet confidence.
Picton Drive-In: Sweetheart & Beyto
Double Feature: Sweetheart and Beyto, preceded by Pitoc e icinakosian.
Pitch, Please!
Pitch, Please! will see competitors from across the globe present a short two-minute pitch to a virtual jury and audience, with one winner taking home a $5,000 prize.
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (Portrait of a Lady on Fire)
Marianne is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young lady who has just left the convent. Intimacy and attraction grow between the two women as they share Héloïse’s first and last moments of freedom, all whilst Marianne paints the portrait that will end it all.
Queerly Beloved:
Bound
Double crosses and genre twists abound in this neo-noir mob caper from the Wachowski Sisters.
Queerly Beloved:
Desert Hearts
This bold and beautiful tale of a budding romance on a ranch for women getting Reno divorces was named one of the best lesbian films of all time.
Queerly Beloved:
Different from the Others
A violinist falls in love with his student in this courageous silent film: the first to feature openly gay characters.
Queerly Beloved:
Drunktown’s Finest
Trans filmmaker Sydney Freeland’s trailblazing drama about three interconnected characters on unique paths to self-discovery.
Queerly Beloved:
Fox and His Friends
Prodigious filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder casts himself as the titular Fox, whose sudden lottery win makes him a target for his bougie boyfriend.
Queerly Beloved:
Knife+Heart + Equation to an Unknown
An exclusive double bill of what is considered to be the best French gay porn ever made (1980), and the 2018 Cannes Competition wild card entry.
Queerly Beloved:
Moonlight
A groundbreaking exploration of a young Black man’s search for identity in a rough Miami neighbourhood.
Queerly Beloved:
Olivia
Olivia arrives at a new finishing school and is caught in the middle of an emotional turf war between two headmistresses.
Queerly Beloved:
Paris is Burning
A landmark documentary and cultural time capsule about the influential Harlem drag ball scene.
Queerly Beloved:
Shortbus
John Cameron Mitchell’s explicit, sex-positive coming-of-self dramedy stars Toronto’s own Sook-Yin Lee, set in post 9/11 Manhattan.
Queerly Beloved:
Tangerine
A day in the friendship of two trans women combing LA for a disloyal boyfriend, trying to make it to a singing engagement on time, handling the dangers of sex work--all on Christmas Eve.
Queerly Beloved:
The Queen
Director Frank Simon takes us behind the scenes of the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Contest, and captures the days and decisions leading up to the NYC-set pageant.
Queerly Beloved:
The Watermelon Woman
An aspiring Black lesbian filmmaker researches an obscure 1930s Black actress in this cult favourite.
Queerly Beloved:
The Wedding Banquet
A fake marriage to appease visiting Taiwanese parents is the centrepiece of Ang Lee’s under-seen comedy of manners.
Queerly Beloved:
Tomboy
Upon arriving in a new neighbourhood, tomboy Laure is mistaken for a boy and takes the opportunity to explore.
Queerly Beloved:
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
An inspiring documentary about enigmatic songwriter Arthur Russell, followed by a live performance of cover songs.
Queerly Beloved:
Zero Patience
This legendary “AIDS musical” brings camp, pop tunes and a discerning lens to the myth of Patient Zero.
Regent Park Film Festival:
Our Dance of Revolution / Haus
Our Dance of Revolution tells the story of how Black queer folks in Toronto faced every adversity, from invisibility to police brutality, and over a four-decade span rose up to become a vibrant, triple-snap-fierce community.
Shine True
FREE - Shine True is a documentary series celebrating the trans and gender non-conforming community.
Summerland
Jessica Swale’s rapturous feature debut is a heartfelt rumination on the power of love, set against a beautifully-shot Kent coastline.
Supernova
Sam and Tusker are traveling across England in their old RV to visit friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker was diagnosed with dementia two years ago, their time together is the most important thing they have.
The Gospel According to André
In tribute to the iconic André Leon Talley, we stan in offering this entertaining and insightful look into André's life and career, for free (by donation) across Canada for the month of February.
The Obituary of Tunde Johnson
Tunde Johnson, an African-American teen, is stuck in a Groundhog Day nightmare, waking up to experience the same day over and over again—the day he dies at the hands of Los Angeles police officers.
The Tranz Form
FREE - A docuseries on trans people of colour exploring the spectrum of their experiences.
TIFF BoomBox: Heroes Vs. Villains
Good and evil collide on October 31 at TIFF Bell Lightbox, where heroes face off against villains and Cirque du Soleil dazzles with an exclusive, one-night-only performance.
TIFF presents Five @ 50: An Intimate Look at Contemporary LGBTQ2+ Lives and Identities
Fifty years after the passing of Bill C-150, which partially decriminalized homosexuality in Canada, this world premiere event presents short films by five acclaimed Canadian artists who share their unique reflections on LGBTQ2+ lives and identities today.
Toronto South African Film Festival: Kanarie
Set in 1985 against a backdrop of apartheid, religion, and war, Kanarie follows a teen boy, Johan Niemand, who has always been bullied in his small town for his flair for British new wave music and love of Boy George...
Transkids
Filmmaker Hilla Medalia spent four years filming and interviewing four Israeli teenagers undergoing gender transformation.
Two of Us (Deux)
A heartbreakingly beautiful tale, and a romance rarely seen onscreen, Two of Us proves that love, no matter the obstacles, is worth fighting for.
Un couteau dans le cœur (Knife + Heart)
Paris 1979. On the eve of the AIDS epidemic, a gay porn producer is on the hunt for a masked murderer who has been slaying her actors one by one.
Woubi Cheri
Woubi Chéri explores the love life of a few homosexuals in Ivory Coast. The Woubi and the Yossis tell their stories and tell us about their daily life through humour, emotion, revolt and tradition.
You Don’t Nomi
You Don't Nomi traces the redemptive journey of Showgirls, from notorious flop to cult classic, and maybe even masterpiece.
