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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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Fleeing from their biggest heist gone wrong, Anna and Ruth, outlaws and lovers, must find solace in each other when unable to outrun their grim consequences: Ruth's fatal wound and the authorities determined to hang them.

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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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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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Fleeing from their biggest heist gone wrong, Anna and Ruth, outlaws and lovers, must find solace in each other when unable to outrun their grim consequences: Ruth's fatal wound and the authorities determined to hang them.

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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.