A showcase of the best LGBTQ+ films from around the world today.
AUDIENCE AWARDS (from Feedback Film Festival):
Best Short Film: Topless
Best Micro-Short Film: Swoletarian
Best Direction: boysick
Best Story: Bleach Burns
Best Performances: Death By Chocolate
Best Visual Design: The Kiss of Judas
Best Music Video: Good Stuff
boysick, 26min., France
Directed by Maël CARADEC
Milàn has a broken heart since his breakup with Gaëtan. In denial, Milàn makes one last attempt by following him on a dating app.
https://www.instagram.com/maelcrdc/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/boysick-audience-feedback
TOPLESS, 9min., USA
Directed by Eric Bravo
A day-in-the-life of a character who desperately wants to chop off their breasts but is terrified to examine why.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/topless-audience-feedback
Bleach Burns, 10min., USA
Directed by Perry Feder
With yearbook photo day fast approaching, a teenage girl pressured to maintain a perfect image becomes obsessed with a blue-haired classmate who threatens everything she’s been taught to suppress.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/bleach-burns-audience-feedback
SWOLETARIAN, 2min., Canada
Directed by Kimmortal
Swoletarian is a gay anthem for queer and trans people to blast while working out. Salute the pride flag and get swole to this queer, Marxist weight lifting song.
https://instagram.com/kimmortaltheartist
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/swoletarian-audience-feedback
Death By Chocolate, 12min., USA
Directed by Marc Erdahi
When a glamorous chanteuse, the ex-mistress of the husband of a lonely Southern wife share a candlelight dinner, the lines of their relationship blurs between comfort and betrayal. What is told is a seductive tale of longing, manipulation, and the dangerous cost of getting exactly what you want. How far would you go to get what you can’t have?
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https://www.instagram.com/marcisanartist
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/death-by-chocolate-audience-feedback
The Kiss of Judas, 14min., Canada
Directed by Daniel Mikla
Late on a winter night in Durham Region, three reluctant criminals are faced with a choice. One member of their group, Trent, has taken things farther than planned, and his partners must decide where they draw the line. Feeling betrayed by the man he loves, Linden struggles with own moral compass and the safety of Gabby, the reason they’re here in the first place. He ultimately decides Trent’s actions are unforgivable and severs the group with his own act of betrayal.
https://wildsound.vhx.tv/videos/the-kiss-of-judas-audience-feedback
GOOD STUFF, 3min., Hong Kong
Directed by Edwin Lai
Good Stuff is the lead single from Joya’s third EP, “What If It All Works Out?”, written just before her daughter arrived, when the world felt paralysing. The song is the moment of deciding to turn toward the small things instead, choosing hope and love as an act of rebellion against a world that encourages us to feel numb.
https://instagram.com/sheisjoya
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/good-stuff-audience-feedback
LGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival 