Inside Out

We cover the first edition of Inside Out Film Festival’s Queer Makers’ Market.

Directed by Phillip Pike, Our Dance of Revolution is one of my top picks at this year’s Inside Out Film festival.

This documentary is a must-see for any parent or family member raising a trans kid or adolescent, and everyone else because the social and political sickness that oppresses these youth (as well as all 2SLGBTQ+ youth and adults) is one that we all must labour to heal.

I suggest the film is more about Singaram than the two women. It is his struggle we see the most of.

Ocho and Javi’s brief, intense yet tender encounter demands deeper involvement with what they mean to and for one another.

Sanita Fejzic: “This year’s Inside Out LGBT Film Festival marks the best in terms of attendance, quality of events and featured films in all genres, including long features, foreign films, shorts and documentaries.”

Playing at 1pm on Sunday, November 11, at the National Gallery of Canada as part of the Inside Out LGBT Film Festival, Caroline Berler’s one hour documentary, Dykes, Camera, Action! is a must-see for anyone interested in 1) lesbians and 2) lesbians on screen.

The Inside Out Festival is at the National Gallery of Canada from November 9-12. International and Canadian short films play November 10 and 11.

Sanita Fejzic: “This year marks the festival’s best year to date… So why keep the important things in the closet? Bring them out into the open next time, please.”

Sanita Fejzic: “All queer cinema is should be celebrated and I hope you’ll check this film out and enjoy it for what it is: a lighthearted coming out story told from an immigrant perspective.”

The Inside Out Film Festival is back in town from November 10–12, 2017 at the National Gallery of Canada.

Two films on queer love in rural settings make up part of Inside Out’s varied programming.

Dutch director Colette Bothof and acclaimed screenwriter Marjolein Bierens have created an incredible coming-of-age story of outgrowing small-town life, awakening to one’s sexuality and finding love. The cinematographer, Goert Giltay, does an incredible job with the images, the colours, and in creating a domineering visual presence of the power plant, which is a central motif […]