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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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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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During summer break, Marco enrolls in lifeguard training and becomes captivated by his opposite, Xavier. Paired for CPR and swimming drills, their connection grows, leaving Marco to decide whether to act on his feelings or let a moment of queer joy pass by.

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While trying to go viral, queer content creator Taylor accidentally archives a devastating breakup. To cope with the shame, they turn failed relationships into videos, avoid responsibility at every turn and increasingly frustrate their best friend and roommate, Monica.

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During happy hour at the only bar in town, a newlywed couple's quarrel collides with a belligerent bigot — until a strange girl by the jukebox decides that last will come early tonight.

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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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During summer break, Marco enrolls in lifeguard training and becomes captivated by his opposite, Xavier. Paired for CPR and swimming drills, their connection grows, leaving Marco to decide whether to act on his feelings or let a moment of queer joy pass by.

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