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MADE AU CANADA: STORIES WE TELL

From coast to coast, Canadian queer filmmakers explore identity, desire, family, and belonging through fiction and documentary. This year’s selection moves between intimate personal stories, unconventional relationships, and reflections on queer life in Canada, offering distinct perspectives on the experiences, communities, and identities that shape our stories.

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A DECADE[MADE AU CANADA]10 minutesNOV 27 / 19:00This programme includes 8 filmsMADE AU CANADA: STORIES WE TELL81 minutes

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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COPPER COINS[MADE AU CANADA]11 minutesNOV 27 / 19:00This programme includes 8 filmsMADE AU CANADA: STORIES WE TELL81 minutes

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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GAL PALS [MADE AU CANADA]7 minutesNOV 27 / 19:00This programme includes 8 filmsMADE AU CANADA: STORIES WE TELL81 minutes

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[MADE AU CANADA]8 minutesNOV 27 / 19:00This programme includes 8 filmsMADE AU CANADA: STORIES WE TELL81 minutes

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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LES BÉCASSEAUX (SHOREBIRDS)[MADE AU CANADA]15 minutesNOV 27 / 19:00This programme includes 8 filmsMADE AU CANADA: STORIES WE TELL81 minutes

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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MARROW OF MY BONES[MADE AU CANADA]2 minutesNOV 27 / 19:00This programme includes 8 filmsMADE AU CANADA: STORIES WE TELL81 minutes

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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STARMAN[MADE AU CANADA]22 minutesNOV 27 / 19:00This programme includes 8 filmsMADE AU CANADA: STORIES WE TELL81 minutes

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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THE FRUIT MACHINE: A SPACE OPERA[MADE AU CANADA]6 minutesNOV 27 / 19:00This programme includes 8 filmsMADE AU CANADA: STORIES WE TELL81 minutes

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.