Shorts Programmes

QUEERMENT QUÉBECShort

Axis, an anxious enby, faces a supernatural surge of fears during a late-night walk home alone.

QUEERMENT QUÉBECCOMPETITIONShort

Betty, driven by fear of rejection, lives isolated at home among her miniature figurines. When she meets a woman she can’t stop thinking about, she faces a difficult choice: remain in her safe, private world or step outside and risk vulnerability for a real connection.

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“It is not about rebuilding the mythical place called home but about perpetually deferring the homecoming itself.” – Moyra Davey. In a living room, two people slow dancing become a landscape for (re)connection. A Slow Dance attempts to materialize the monolithic gesture that is longing, one that takes its roots in lifelong household transgressions and collective myths

QUEERMENT QUÉBECCOMPETITIONShort

When her childhood best friend falls in love, nostalgic teenager Dodo struggles to let go of the past and goes to increasingly dangerous lengths to secure her affections, threatening to spoil their idyllic lakeside holiday.

QUEERMENT QUÉBECCOMPETITIONShort

A dancer struggles to break free from the hold of his choreographer, now drawn to another. This silent film explores power, inspiration, and replacement within the LGBTQ+ dance community through body language and music.

QUEERMENT QUÉBECShort

I am near-sighted. When I see a potentially beautiful boy at a distance, I perceive him as perfectly beautiful. Gradually, as he approaches, he begins to accumulate defects which detract from his overall beauty; sometimes to the point where he ceases to be attractive at all.

QUEERMENT QUÉBECShort

One is the Loneliest Number places a universal hero in the shoes of the heartbroken. Céline, Jon, Britney and Stevie couldn’t have said it better!

QUEERMENT QUÉBECShort

Set around a single dining table, a son struggles to reclaim his sense of normalcy as his mother’s delusions tighten their grip. Through quiet tension and buried longing, this intimate psychological drama exposes the fragile warfare of a mother-son relationship trapped between love, denial, and control.

QUEERMENT QUÉBECShort

A portrait of the legendary Madame Simone, shot in the early nineties by an undergraduate student.

QUEERMENT QUÉBECShort

A trans woman dies on the operating table during facial feminization surgery, but death is no match for a determined transsexual.

QUEERMENT QUÉBECShort

Twitch is an ode to overcoming dark energies that lie within; confronting fear and the journey to self-acceptance.

QUEERMENT QUÉBECShort

Two lesbian twin brothers play out a prescribed sleep-work-play existence. But, when evening comes...

QUEERMENT QUÉBECCOMPETITIONShort

A 'sissy devil' explores the depths of internet intelligence by conducting an 'advanced search' on an outdated search engine. Meanwhile, a female artist sketches her destiny.

QUEERMENT QUÉBECShort

This watercolor animation of childlike creatures, poppies, and dismembered legs—collaged from Nothing Ever Happened—reflects on loss. Set to Rae Spoon’s Love is a Hunter, it explores how love can be transformative yet threatening, evoking a childhood shaped by hiding from violence, pain, and the fragility of affection.

QUEERMENT QUÉBECShort

A poetic exploration of Black womanhood, race, place, and identity, delving into the double-voiced discourses of a particular Black literary tradition concerning the complexities faced by enslaved people learning their captor’s language.

QUEERMENT QUÉBECShort

Another spectacular output from Montreal’s DJ Frigid.

QUEERMENT QUÉBECShort

Johanie, the single mother of a dysfunctional family, grows wary when Ian and his dog move into the neighborhood. The back alley between them becomes the stage for a rivalry where prejudice, fascination, and frustration subtly intertwine with the sound of barking.

QUEERMENT QUÉBECShort

I am near-sighted. When I see a potentially beautiful boy at a distance, I perceive him as perfectly beautiful. Gradually, as he approaches, he begins to accumulate defects which detract from his overall beauty; sometimes to the point where he ceases to be attractive at all.

QUEERMENT QUÉBECShort

Part of the My Heart series initiated by Nik Forrest, Annie Martin and Nelson Henricks, a reflection on gender, delving into childhood memory, gender fluctuation and a love of late 70s rock stars.

QUEERMENT QUÉBECShort

One is the Loneliest Number places a universal hero in the shoes of the heartbroken. Céline, Jon, Britney and Stevie couldn’t have said it better!

QUEERMENT QUÉBECShort

A portrait of the legendary Madame Simone, shot in the early nineties by an undergraduate student.

QUEERMENT QUÉBECShort

Twitch is an ode to overcoming dark energies that lie within; confronting fear and the journey to self-acceptance.