COPPER COINS

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Half-Naked is a light-hearted comedy about a trans man who must summon his courage when undertaking his first experience shirtless in public.

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In the heat of August, thousands of sandpipers pause their migration in the Bay of Fundy. Nearby, Tom's quiet country life is interrupted by Nancy, a friend he hasn't seen in months. Under watchful hawks and rural masculinity, the two trans friends recharge together.

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Set in 1990, _Starman_ follows Bowie Madison, a hot-headed young Black woman one year into her Canadian Air Force service. After fighting another trainee, memories of the previous year resurface, forcing Bowie to remember why she enlisted in the first place.

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A queer little space alien crashes to Earth and looks to television for survival advice, finding a guide to twentieth-century conformity. Her journey unfolds alongside the true history of Canada's "Fruit Machine," developed in the 1960s to identify homosexuality.

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Blending Super 8, 16mm film, digital animation, and personal reflection, A decade revisits the artist's life through the 1980s. Moving between punk rebellion, gay discos, friendship, and loss, it becomes a poetic elegy to a transformative era.

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Combining digital effects, frame-by-frame animation and hand-processed 16mm film, this experimental self-portrait explores hybridity, embodiment and otherness. A love letter to queerness and connection, it imagines nature and the body as entangled forces that contaminate and transform one another.

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Janet insists she is completely over any romantic feelings for Anna, making their plan to become roommates perfectly reasonable. Her childhood friends remain unconvinced, however, turning a visit home into an increasingly awkward examination of sapphic friendship, desire, and denial.

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Half-Naked is a light-hearted comedy about a trans man who must summon his courage when undertaking his first experience shirtless in public.

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Set in 1990, _Starman_ follows Bowie Madison, a hot-headed young Black woman one year into her Canadian Air Force service. After fighting another trainee, memories of the previous year resurface, forcing Bowie to remember why she enlisted in the first place.

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Millions celebrate Pride, but fewer know how it began. Through interviews with participants in the Stonewall Uprising and organizers of the first Pride march, the film revisits the resistance, struggles, and hopes that helped launch the modern LGBTQ+ liberation movement.

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In the heat of August, thousands of sandpipers pause their migration in the Bay of Fundy. Nearby, Tom's quiet country life is interrupted by Nancy, a friend he hasn't seen in months. Under watchful hawks and rural masculinity, the two trans friends recharge together.

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Muna, a timid nonbinary teen who communes with spirits through dreams, is haunted by their recently deceased father and decides never to sleep again. Overwhelmed by grief and gendered funeral rituals, a visit from an estranged relative leads them toward self-discovery.

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Merging Super 8 and hand-inked 16mm, _Marked_ observes two shirtless men embracing and dancing. Their bodies become alternately visible and obscured, reflecting on how queer intimacy is shaped, celebrated, erased and scarred by the society surrounding it.

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Blending Super 8, 16mm film, digital animation, and personal reflection, A decade revisits the artist's life through the 1980s. Moving between punk rebellion, gay discos, friendship, and loss, it becomes a poetic elegy to a transformative era.

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A queer little space alien crashes to Earth and looks to television for survival advice, finding a guide to twentieth-century conformity. Her journey unfolds alongside the true history of Canada's "Fruit Machine," developed in the 1960s to identify homosexuality.

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Janet insists she is completely over any romantic feelings for Anna, making their plan to become roommates perfectly reasonable. Her childhood friends remain unconvinced, however, turning a visit home into an increasingly awkward examination of sapphic friendship, desire, and denial.

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Legendary Julie d'Aubigny Maupin retells her own extraordinary life. A queer, gender-nonconforming seventeenth-century opera singer, skilled sword fighter and duellist, she revisits the sensational—and sometimes uncertain—stories that have shaped her enduring legend.