Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award:
Best Short Film: PINK
Best Romance Film: WHAT ARE WE?
Best Micro-Short: CRAVE
Best Direction: 12 ANGRY LESBIANS
Best Drama Film: ATLS
Best Comedy Film: LEAVE ON HIGH
Individual Film Awards:
Best Screenplay: Eileen Hanley (WHAT ARE WE?)
Best Music: Lydia Kaye (CRAVE)
Best Overall Performances (12 ANGRY LESBIANS)
Best Cinematography: Jed Darlington Roberts (PINK)
Best Editor: Enrico Ferri (ATLS)
Best Production: Andrew Slane, Javier Ortega (LEAVE ON HIGH)
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WHAT ARE WE?, 15min., USA
Directed by Eileen Hanley
Jess and Kayley, two platonic queer bffs with benefits and unfortunately both bottoms, have a threesome with the top of their dreams and define their unorthodox relationship.
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CRAVE, 5min., UK
Directed by Lois Norman
Late at night, her bed still warm from her lover leaving, a painter dips her brush into her own imperfect past & parts of her: a lost truth drips through…
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12 ANGRY LESBIANS, 22min,. Canada
Directed by Patrice Leung
A comedic riff on ’12 Angry Men’ set in the early 1990s, featuring a group of lesbians stuck in their team’s annual softball meeting. This short film explores the diversity within ‘diversity’, and its tortuous need for democracy to triumph at all costs.
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PINK, 22min., UK
Directed by Yassa Khan
PINK is based on the true story of Yassa Khan, who in 2001 spent a fleeting 24 hours with his bank robbing father, Hassan Khan. Hassan, who had just been released from a twelve year prison sentence, takes his son Yassa on a whirlwind journey into his criminal way of life. As the pair get to know each other again in the most unexpected of circumstances, they go on an emotional journey through crime, pain, and the past. Culminating in Yassa coming out to his father as being gay, which shows Yassa who his father really is and in turn who he is.
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ATLS, 11min., Canada
Directed by Mishka Balilty
In a dystopian future where a powerful elite class prolongs their lives by exploiting young women for their babies’ organs, two women, find themselves on the run from their oppressors. Desperate to escape a fate of forced impregnation and organ extraction, they flee to a remote cabin. Their refuge becomes a sanctuary where they share their dreams and fears, finding solace in each other’s company. However, their fleeting happiness is overshadowed by the ever-looming threat of capture. Their love story, which began in desperation and hope, culminates in a tragic and devastating finale. ATLS is a powerful exploration of love, freedom, and the inescapable shadows of a world that seeks to tear them apart.
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LEAVE ON HIGH, 13min., USA
Directed by Javier Ortega, Andrew Slane
A case of bedbugs puts a lifelong friendship to the test, as two friends discover that feelings hidden in the dark have a way of crawling to the surface.
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LGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival 