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QUEERMENT QUÉBEC 2

Celebrating its 25 year anniversary, I+N's annual celebration of amazing Québécois queer content; unique perspectives proving (for two and a half decades!) Quebec is truly a hotbed of queer storytelling talent.

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Brothers[QUEERMENT QUÉBEC]6 minutesThis programme includes 12 filmsQUEERMENT QUÉBEC 282 minutes

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

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Handsome Devil[QUEERMENT QUÉBEC]4 minutesThis programme includes 12 filmsQUEERMENT QUÉBEC 282 minutes

A 'sissy devil' explores the depths of internet intelligence by conducting an 'advanced search' on an outdated search engine.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.

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Love is a Hunter [QUEERMENT QUÉBEC]3 minutesThis programme includes 12 filmsQUEERMENT QUÉBEC 282 minutes

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.

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Mercy[QUEERMENT QUÉBEC]16 minutesThis programme includes 12 filmsQUEERMENT QUÉBEC 282 minutes

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.

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Metal Heart[QUEERMENT QUÉBEC]3 minutesThis programme includes 12 filmsQUEERMENT QUÉBEC 282 minutes

Another spectacular output from Montreal’s DJ Frigid.

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Molosse (Mad Dog)[QUEERMENT QUÉBEC]25 minutesThis programme includes 12 filmsQUEERMENT QUÉBEC 282 minutes

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.

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My Heart the Optometrist[QUEERMENT QUÉBEC]1 minutesThis programme includes 12 filmsQUEERMENT QUÉBEC 282 minutes

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.

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My Heart the Rockstar[QUEERMENT QUÉBEC]1 minutesThis programme includes 12 filmsQUEERMENT QUÉBEC 282 minutes

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.

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One is the Loneliest Number[QUEERMENT QUÉBEC]2 minutesThis programme includes 12 filmsQUEERMENT QUÉBEC 282 minutes

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!

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Queer Alien Invades Earth : a Portrait of Legendary Madame Simone[QUEERMENT QUÉBEC]5 minutesThis programme includes 12 filmsQUEERMENT QUÉBEC 282 minutes

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

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Twitch[QUEERMENT QUÉBEC]5 minutesThis programme includes 12 filmsQUEERMENT QUÉBEC 282 minutes

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

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Walk Me Home[A QUESTION OF GENDER]11 minutesThis programme includes 12 filmsQUEERMENT QUÉBEC 282 minutes

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