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| | Suggestions for your programming |
| From Toronto's Gay Pride in June, to Montreal's Gay Pride in August, passing through Halifax's and Vancouver's Gay Pride in July and on into early August, Pride lasts all summer long.
To request any of the suggested films below for
your library screenings, please contact us at: libraries@nfb.ca.
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| | | | Short Film Pride selections (45 min) |
| Into Light - NFB (19 min)
When a child
reveals who they truly are on the inside, how does a parent set aside their own
expectations to help them become their most authentic self? Set against the
Northern landscape of Yellowknife, Into Light captures a season
of change as a mother and child navigate the complexities of gender identity
together.
Woman Dress - NFB (6 min)
A Two Spirit
person named Woman Dress travels the Plains, gathering and sharing stories.
Featuring archival images and dramatized re-enactments, this film shares a
Cuthand family oral story, honouring and respecting Woman Dress without
imposing colonial binaries on them. The filmmaker, Theo Jean Cuthand, a trans
man, is of Plains Cree and Scots descent, a member of Little Pine First Nation,
and currently resides in Toronto, Canada.
I Am Gay - NFB (10 min)
After working
abroad for five years, filmmaker Ajahnis Charley returns home to Oshawa,
Ontario, in the age of quarantine. In addition to reuniting with his family, he
returns with a mission to share some deep personal truths. Surprising
conversations ensue with his mother and three siblings creating, in this
humorous and heart-wrenching story about our need to seek love and acceptance
within our own families.
A Short Film About Tegan & Sara - NFB (4 min)
In this joyful portrait, filmmaker Ann Marie Fleming animates the
formative days and musical career of Calgary-born identical twins Tegan and
Sara Quin. Their remarkable journey over the past 20 years has often
intersected with notions of identity—as artists, as individuals, as sisters, as
queer women, and as leading activists in the LGBTQ community. Their musical
progression parallels and amplifies their commitment to bringing the marginal
to the mainstream.
FIVE@50 - Handmade Mountain by Michèle Pearson
Clarke - NFB (6
min)
In Handmade
Mountain, Michèle Pearson Clarke explores the emotional
fallout of being both early to gay marriage and early to gay divorce. Fifteen
years after same-sex marriage became legal, she and friends reflect on its
personal and political meaning in this experimental film.
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| | | SOMEONE LIKE ME
Sean Horlor, Steve J. Adams | 2021 | 80 min
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| Someone Like
Me follows the parallel journeys of Drake, a gay asylum seeker from
Uganda, and a group of strangers from Vancouver's queer community who are
tasked with supporting his resettlement in Canada. Together, they embark on a
year-long quest for personal freedom.
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| | | UNARCHIVED
Hayley Gray, Elad Tzadok | 2022 | 85 min
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| In community archives across British Columbia, local knowledge keepers are hand-fashioning a more inclusive history. Through a collage of personal interviews, archival footage and deeply rooted memories, the past, present and future come together, fighting for a space where everyone is seen and everyone belongs. History is what we all make of it
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| | | | LOVE, SCOTT |
| While walking
on the street one night in a small town in Canada, Scott Jones, a gay musician,
is attacked and paralyzed from the waist down; what follows is a brave and
fragile journey of healing and the transformation of a young man's life. From
the first raw moments in the hospital to a disquieting trip back to the place
he was attacked, Scott is constantly faced with the choice of losing himself in
waves of grief or embracing love over fear. Filmed over three years by Laura Marie Wayne, Scott's, close friend, Love, Scott
is an intimate and visually evocative window into queer experience, set against
a stunning score by Sigur Rós.
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| | LISTENING FOR SOMETHING... ADRIENNE RICH AND DIONNE BRAND IN CONVERSATION |
| In this film
through conversation and poetry two poets meet for the telling and the
listening. Adrienne Rich is a distinguished American feminist poet, and author
of numerous books of prose, poetry, essays and speeches. Dionne Brand is a
Trinidadian-Canadian femininst poet, writer and filmmaker. Incisive and
inquisitive, the two women meet to discuss the world as they each see it.
Claiming any subject, they talk about events as they see them, analytic,
contemplative, honest and open ended.
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| | | Florence François
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| | Programming Agent, NFB |
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| | | NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA |
| | P.O. Box 6100, Station Centre-ville, Montreal (Quebec) H3C 3H5 |
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